Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-18

A dry season takes the measure o
the gardener The way q place look
| during such drought as the presen
speaks louder than words of the car
given it.
1t is during dry weather that tn,
small garden comes into its own. To-
then Il can be given the attention
which is impossible on q large estate
Water. the salvation Of grass ant
| flowers, may be put on Artificially 4
a yard Is small. but 1t becomes another
matter entirely on the extensive place
Lawns on many larger places arr
Literally burning up on account of thu
lack of water. AS week after weei
goes by without even a drop, owner;
of such gardens must be content Il
watch their work turn to failure.
Here the small place owner has the
advantage. He is in position to give
the care which the season demands
without undue sacrifice of time Oh
money.
He finds possible, in short, what the
other finds impossible.
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Another advantage of the smaller
place is that 1t often suff1ces for the
amateur.
Perhaps that is not putting II
strongly enough. The big place more
than Sufflces-it Is so large that the
home owner, who is not a trained
agriculturist simply will not work at 1t
For the best in gardening, one must
dc it himself. To turn the work over
to some one else is to lose its finest
charms.
In the matter of the extent Of
grounds one cares to take care OF
every one must be law to himself.
What seems tiresome to one will moi
prove so to another. The man who
willingly mows the lawn of the little
lot may find a larger one too much
for his patience. Not always Is it q
shrinking from physical labor.
Perhaps there is no more positive
proof OF the depth to which the
Biblical injunction chat man must
eat his bread by the sweat of his
brow, has sunk into the human con-
seriousness, than the readiness OF prac-
tically every one to brand the next
as laxy, =.
Parents call their children lazy II
they do not hop and jump at their beck
and call. Associates call fellow work
ers lazy whose philosophy of life and
living differs from their own.
On every hand most human beings
at the heads, often unoffending, of
those whose natures are different from
that to which they have been accus-
toned.
Perhaps the old sense Of inferiority
which society through the ages has i'm
posed on the majority of men makes
most people delight in calling others
lazy, They thus And certain and easy
superiority at no more trouble than the
mere uttering of name.
The wise amateur gardener will find
out early Just about how much land he
wishes to take care of, and will there
after not exceed his limitation. He will
impose this limitation upon him.
self, not only to make sure that his
garden gets the care It should have,
but even more to make certain that he
does not bite of more than he can
chew.
The anxious gardener-and most
amateurs are that-often has grandiose
ideas OF what he would like to have.
He dreams in terms of acres. When
he gets in possession of his coveted
land, however, he learns that an acre
is quite tract Of land. Two acres Is
a veritAble farm.
Standing at the front Of his domain,
looking back to the far stretches, he
sees that the ore-man superintendence
OF all that ground Is q task far beyond
his physical and mental capabilities.
He has other things to DO. He f1nds
that his land, with its fArAreachinE ex-