Evening star., 1925-07-26
This and That
By Charles E. Tracei0eH.

Recently in this column I enum-
Grated some of the virtues OF the
garden, among them naming patience
as one of the best.
AS Summer wears on one is more
impressed than ever with the fact that
patience is one of the necessary Vir-
tues of gardening.
Without patience Nature herself
could accomplish nothing, for she is
unwearied in doing good, II given
plenty of time.
Unlike the magician, who will pro-
duce a rabbit out of an empty hat in
the twinkling of an eye, Nature takes
weeks, even months, to bring forth
small flower, or the fower-spike of
the Gladiolus.
This is part Of the Great Plan, and
until the gardener can learn to make
himself one with this design, he Will
not wholly enter into the spirit OF the
garden, nor begin to get from his
work the basic satisfactions.
These basic satisfactions include the
enjoyment of beauty, freedom from,
hurry and worry, appreciative wonder
and intelligent discrimination.
All are the result of patience, for
without this cardinal virtue nothing
comes to life in the garden. Patience
carries with 1t, too, that wonder
worker, Hope, lacking which nothing
here below amounts to much.
If one have Patience, he will also
have Hope.
Does this seem a great deal to get
out of the dirt, the rain and the air.
Truly the Creator works In mys.
terious WAYS His wonders to perform
Out of such unlike things He brings
forth glorious colors. triumphs OF
form, beauties that strike the be-
holder with emotions that surprise
even himself.
II this were not so the garden would
not have the infinite possibilities II
now holds for those who approach II
with their minds as well as with their
hands.
good title of a good book by Henry T
| Finck, showing the necessity OF doing
more than merely dig with trowel in
gardening.
One may bring into his garden MOI
only the necessary physical work, time
and money but also must bring, II he
| is to get the most out of 1t, all the
qualities of heart and mind which he
possesses.
If he does not do 50 he is apt to be
a stranger in his own plot OF ground
| Many there are who ranlble around
| in their own gardens much as spec
tators do at circus, seeing every
thing from the "biood-sweatfng Be
hemoth" to the bearded lady, without
| taking away with them any definite
impression of anything.
There were so many things to see
| and such unusual things, that nj
time was left for intelligent considera
ton, real appreciation, honest wonder
but all was hurry and scurry ant
amazed confusion.
Too many people so approach theil
gardens, and so leave them, missing
every opportunity to use their hearts
and minds on their flowers, as well a:
their muscles.
| H*
Have patience, then, in your owl
garden, Do not even allow the chill
dren to hurry you.
| Take time to stand and wonder.
Day after day goes by, and weel
after week, before the gdadiolu
Shoots its flower stalk.
| When 1t does, however, 1t Is no
long until the buds show their color
and but a short time, then, until tn
flowers begin to expand.
| This is the patience of the garden
a virtue which sinks deep into tn
heart OF the gardener, enabling hin
later, In the other affairs of life. b
have IL on tap, al it were, as tn
loccasion demands.
II effort In ether Tines does no
result in similar beauties he does no
worry, but simply feels that the bios
'somins time ~ postponed.