The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-07-30
HOW YOU COULD INHERIT
A FINE FLOWER GARDEN

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A FINE FLOWER GARDEN
Nearly everybody likes flowers, Of
at least they say they do, and we are
now prepared to tell you how to gt
about 1t to inherit a nice flower gar
| den already in bloom. The recipe
has been tried and it works, and il
it had not been thoroly tested We
would not have the nerve to rec
| ommend it to you.
Some Like Flowers
Some folks like flowers so vel
that they remark about it when
flowers come into view. Others like
them well enough to buy plants
seeds and bulbs and set them out
in waste places where nothing but
a horned toad could survive Some
people like cut flowers we'll enough
to pay good mosey for them done
up in soft white sheet of paper.
Some like them we'll enough to ac-
cept seeds and bulbs as gifts, but
not well enough to set them out in
springtime where the soil has first
been made mellow and moist.
Some people like them we'll
enough to set them out and keep
right on caring for them until the
hot weather. comes on, and then let
them dry up and die or smother in
hard ground or perish for want of
nourishment.
There are some people, a very
few, who will do any amount of
work and bestow any amount of
care to get flowers if somebody will
only tell them just how to do it, and
then they sometimes forget and stir
in baking powder when they ought
to use soda or they make some SINH
lar mistake.
There are very few queer in
dividuals who seem to understand
plant language and they just go
about it easily and everything they
set out or plant flourishes, and that
'discourages other people who say, II
don't seem to have any luck with
flowers"
Now what the editor has in mind
is to explain how you can have luck
with flowers and have all the flowers
you want when you want them and
right where you want them. The
county government has tried it and
failed about fifty-fifty, the city park
has tried it and failed on some large
percentage not exactly measured,
and hundreds of people all over the
county have tried it and failed worse
than fifty-fifty, so now take our re-
cipe and luck pure and simple.
OUR RECIPE FOR FLOWERS
Flowers can be inherited best
where there is deep soil well pulver-
ized and very rich in plant food. A
place that has been manured for
many years is good place to in
herit flowers, but any good soil that
is soft and moist is mighty good
place to look for an Inheritance of
flowers. The best way for this pa
per to show just how to inherit
flowers is to tell you how friend
of ours schemed to fix her inheri-
tance, and mind, you, it worked.
How She Did 1t
A little over a year ago, in the
spring of 1919, when DR.. Hoover
and his family moved to the asylum
cottage, that new building on the
right ~of the road as you drive up
to the front of the institution, Mrs.
Hoover declared that the place was
so barren she must take on the job
of raising some flowers, but you
know that takes time and work and
lots of worry, according to how bad
you feel about it. But she wired to
Sagehurst and asked Mrs. Trego how
she was fixed for flower seeds and
roots and bulbs to give to the state,
and Mrs. Trego told her to come
down with dray or truck and a
man who liked to dig. Well, they
arrived, but of course they did not
take a dray.
Planning and Digging
After much careful inspection of
roots and vines, they mined out two
punches Of golden glow about the
size of bushel basket, and when
Mrs. Hoover got it home she split
it up into 1875 blocks to set out. II
you want to know what golden glow
does when it has chance to manip-
ulate sun and soil and moisture,
drive out to the nut college and take
look. The flower garden is most
ly between the cottage and the main
buildings. The cottage is the new
large building, colonial style, that
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