Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-17
AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT
A Garden In the Adirondack, Where
the Flowers Grow Where They
VIII and the Trees Invite
Worship
BY SARAH ID. LOWRIE
T AM always awcd by thSwom who c

4 TO cOntrOl their gnfd'hS' u St'I'S "
mo they must be almost supcrbulnan:
Sometimes think il is n defense reaction
on their part because they can no longer
claim to be able TO control their children
sometimes wonder il children having
their own way about the home mean the
world-are not very much like the plants in
one s garden. Ry kind Of instinct they
pick out the odd places that they do because
they grow best there and in spite Of oil the
arranging the kind and thoughttl gardener
may do In order to accommodate them In
we'll protected spot. they only straggle lup
for him, and grow Justify on the perilous edge
of nowhere with nothing apparent to thrive
upon but air and sunlight when no ono
thwnrts them from growing where the!
please.
IN MY particular garden in tho Adiron-
dacks I never even pretended to bring
the flowers up in orderly ranks or think that
| could say to one, 'Go there. or to an
other, Come here" because owing to the
nature Of the ground--the lay Of the land. to
put 1t exactly-and to certain inaccuracJ
in the matter Of mathematical Details ten.
dency to rather guess than know on the part
Of the chore boy who dug the first sods. and
to lazy following of suit on my part. there
are no two lines in that garden that are
parallel. there Is no way OF guessing its cen,
ter, no corner that Is squared either in wall
or path or bed no part that corresponds with
another part in pattern. ! have no color
scheme. no gradatiou of border plants from
tall to short, and I have never found n
precedent in any garden treats" for the way
,;nos 80 NJ sroM ~. -, oni ,n.rlo or Gov
,bo o,,S th,. 81 ~ W. ollinn o,.o. Tho rino.
iess arhor a' 'o'N u "''i'"s o'' wv
T HAVE a sort Of triumph in the thought
i that I never really tried to be cxacting
a.I .Lnt ins nat pa ~ ,mu. ,osnoa ttn.
g. s .a, dno', ,LonI tny .''' $50 $500 80; u,II;
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breaking every precedent creates a precedent.
And just as ! am not responsible for whnt
thrves In my garden. so also ] am not ac'
countable for the visitors who come there
birds, butterflies, animals or folks.
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or II. me brook mas cut IT'S way nowadays
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n",wtrn h, IN" LOVE- ,"Irs'ts -, as u ssrpeu Is
way oa'N u"'''S'ou"u u ''S 'ocAs emanuel
DERHAPS it was foolhardy to make n
garden on n trail, especially on nm Adj
irondack trail. which by tradition belongs 70
all who walk no matter what meek tax.
nayer holds the title deeds. Yet for puttinp
Il on that particular trail ! had the opnro.
hatiOn of the only Adirondack guide I evnr
knew who from his soul worshined bosutv
He was a genius for that originality. II for
nothing else, for he was the exception to all
his world I'm his attitude toward Nature
Later. when he was discovered bv more So
phistiratcd folk through the medium Of
charles dudley Warmers .In tho Wilder.
ness" Old Mountain Phelps may have dis.
covered himself n little too much for his own
end His wife summed him up as Cor
merry, and he was pernikcty, shrewd, crit-
cal, cgotistical. grimly avcrse to razor OF
soap. not in the least natures gentleman,
but a most passionate Worshiper of Ma
lures self.
TT WAS to Old Phelps that I confessed
i my choice Of a garden site. and although
in thus making that spot mine ] in n sense
trespasscd on what had long been his spir-
itually he gave me his shrill blessing. "If
I had tho doing Of il would put 1t thar. on
that south slopo by the brook with the maple
tree beyond. was his verdict.
thing that always turned vine red in Au.
gust. 1t was Old Phelps special joy.
think he regarded it as an incarnation of
all that was WorShlpaoe Tor MIN IN the
universe; lie was not as reVerent IN the
little village rnurch as nc was standing on
that green Dank petore that splendid tree
ana woe 10 'nu Psrson u" guided TO thst
spot VINO was Tlpald or oven careless in the
presence ne Wr"tG ana caused 10 DO
printed poem on Inc Tree, and TOR years
was wont 7" Orlng groups or chosen friends
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