, 1924-04-09

10 make America the garden nation
OF the world. Now is the time
when thought turns to the great out
o%f-doors, and gardeners are giving
their closest attention to seed cat
alloys. shifting little numbered piec-
es of ape about as they decide
to substitute hollyhock for cosmos or
mingonette for heliatrope. Since
no week in the year would syn
chronize with the actual making of
a garden in all localities, the or
CARNATIONS are making up their pro
grams now and actually will carry
them out during the week of April
goth to 26th. President Coolidge
and Herbert Hoover, Secretary of
Commerce, have given their approval
to the plans for the week.
Flower gardening is pre-eminent-
ly a woman's occupation and diver
sion. Rust and blight, cutworms
and weeds, afford the element of
sport so attractive to us all. With
work. in the garden, cares and wor-
~ cease. If one can snatch a few
minutes in the early morning out
among the flowers, life takes on a
new aspect, thought is improved,
care is vanished. and you get near
er to nature as God intended. The
garden made by ones own hands
Is always the best garden, because
1t is part of ones self. A garden
made by another may interest, but
II is another persons individuality.
Many a n has had more pleasure
from a plant in his own window
than a%nother's whole garden.
In planning a garden it is well
to plant both pereniels and ANIMALS.
ANIMALS possess a great advantage
over p~ereniels in the fact that they
appeal strongly to the desire for ex-
pertinent. The seeds are sown every
year and there is sufficient element
of uncertainty in the results to
make the effort interesting; While
our pereniels are always there like
old friends to greet us.
Individuality is one of the most
marked of American characteristics.
Hence in making a place, whether it
be big or little, the taste and in
dividuality of the owner will gener-
ally direct his efforts, and no hard
or set rules can be given; every one
has individual tastes in flowers and
vines.
In starting a garden the first
question is where and what to plant.
what is beautiful in one place would
be ridiculous in another. / mean
by this, one might plant hollyhock
of sunflowers in the front yard,
where a colony of daisies or some
thing would be much better.
The relation of house to grounds
must always be born in mind. My
idea here is that the grounds that
would be desirable for a small
bungalow would hardly be suitable
for a large farmhouse or a colonial
house, and simplicity in grounds
must correspond wit hthat of the
house.
Perplexities assail a gardener on
every side. Many books are to be
had on this subject, but little can
be derived from them, as one writer
will say this or that plant should
have sun, another that it will do
better in the had One advocates
a rich soil, another a light, sandy
soil, so after all gardening, as in
all else in life, experience is the
best teacher.
1t should not be necessary to
urge a home owner to put a little
effort and a reasonable amount of
expense into identifying his resi-
dence grounds, for the benefits are
too apparent. A well kept lawn
and beautiful flowers are as much
to be desired as good pictures or
tasteful interior decorations.
Love of flowers and all things
green and growing, is with some
men and women a passion, so
strong that it often seems to be a
sort of primal instinct coming
down through generation after
generation, from the first man who
was put into a garden to dress it
n keep it. Like the love of mu-
sic, books and pictures, the live of
gardening comes with the ripen-
ing of the home life. The love of
gardens as of any other beautiful
and refining thing must increase to
the end of time. |
Nothing plays a greater part in
identifying the city than flowers.
Flowers always appeal. In war time
the growing of flowers was admit
ted to be IN industry essential to
the well being of the public. Like
the poor, the appeal of flowers is
always with us.
Every one instinctively loves
flowers, and it would be well to
keep in mind when the thousands
of tourists visit our city this sum-