Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-07

The garden hiatus has now arrived
Spring blooming bulbs, shrubs and
flowers are through. and nothing much
| has come to take their place.
This leads to the thought, which we
have every year about this time, that
something ought to be done about it.
A garden is a garden, undoubtedly,
| on account of its bloom.
Without flowers, a garden is a yard.
Now yard is very nice. There are
some yards better than some gardens
You never can tell.
Ordinarily, however, a garden means
| flowers. Vegetable gardens, of course,
are the exception. Many of these are
beautiful in themselves. with their
luxuriant foliage, their vines, and some
| times blooms.
More planning Is the need of most
home gardens.
How chagrined the amateur is. when
| an acquaintance says, over the tele-
phone, Il am coming over this evening
to see your garden"
This, let it be said when one has
no flowers in bloom at the moment.
Usually 1t seems as If that is the
very time selected by ones friends to
pay visit
, II they only had come last week.
when the iris was in bloom, or when
! the peonieS nodded their great heads
on their stalks!
! Now the garden is bare, scarcely to
, be called a garden at all. in the best
sense.
The old garden standby, a success
sion of bloom. as 1t has been called.
must remain the ideal
Even the enthusiast about roses or
gladioli, or any one flower, must recog-
nize the desirability OF having a few
flowers coming into bloom one after the
other. There are many books upon this
subject. so that no one who is in earnest
in the matter will lack for help. Hortl-
cultural writer's in the magazines and
newspapers constantly use the theme,
| since 1t is a ever-ending one
Advice Is good. but after all what
! Is needed Is for every home gardener
to work the matter out for himself, in
his own way, and for the conditions
which he must meet Only a few will
possess the temperament to set to work
in cold blocd to have q succession OF
bloom the year round. or eight or nine
or ten months OF the year
From the appearance OF the FIRST cro-
Gus to the chrysanthemums is almost a
year. Counting shrubs which have col
ored banks. such as the red-twigged
dogwood, and those which develop COL
! orful berries in the Fall. the home
owner has a large and varied list OF
things which he may plant in order to
| achieve constant bloom.
\
He must work 1t out for himself, how
ever, for the best results.
Nor can he Go it overnight unless he
calls in a nursery and turns the job
over to them.
Such a plan is very expensive. OF
course, and it will deprive the home
owner Of that feeling of personal
achievement which comes when he at
tends TO such matters himself
Perhaps it would be better for most
of us. TO risk having bare spots" in the
garden than to give over this pleasant
work to some one else, even If he could
do 1t better.
AS little Of the "show-of" spirit as
poSsible-that should be an ideal. too
1t is a difficult one to achieve for the
desire to impress others is common to
humanity.
To receive the praise OF other human
beings is food and drink to man. He
baskS in it as flower in sunshine. His
ego is exalted. He purrS mentally.
The bigger they are the harder they
fall, too. 1t Is wonderful. the amount
Of plain "sppleSauce" great men can
swallow. Perhaps that is because they
know they are great.