Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-14

Some Of the plants we mean to set
out every year. but never do, are lilies.
cannas and hollyhocks.
What are better for the home garden
than these? But we find ourselves going
along year after year without planting
them.
Most people have some such favorite
trio which they solemnly swear to them
selves each Spring that they will grow,
but which Summer catches them with
out.
One gardener will take an oath with
himself that he will have plenty OF iris
next season. but he does not put 1t out.
Many pine for gladioli. but instead
OF planting the bulbs in the Spring,
wait for Autumn to make the same old
resolve.
Well, this Is not as bad as 1t sounds.
Part of the garden ever must be In
the mind. To have all OF 1t on the
earth would not do at all.
Just how much Of gardening must
remain mental Is personal problem
which no one can solve for you.
We are not sure but that one OF the
very finest rewards Of amateur garden
ing lies in anticipation Of flowers never
realized. Are not these the most beau
tiful of all?
Recently we wrote about the gar
den hiatus" speaking solely from our
own experience and that of other strict
amateurs.
We were not surprised when we were
notified by many readers that there was
not the slightest bit Of floral hiatus in
their own garden, and that we should
come around and see for ourself.
One lady noted some IS different
flowers in her garden. We have nc
| doubt that we would have been enter
tanned and instructed by a sight OF that
| Towering garden. But in ours not even
the faith1nl zinnias had come into
, much bloom, as yet. so we stayed away
We always have a bigger garden In huI
head than any place else. AS young
ster we never ate one fourth as much
ice cream as we thought We should
There never has been q President OF
the United States who did not dream
greater things for his country than he
was ever able to do.
To travel hopefully, as Stevenson put
it. is enough, perhaps. In the matter
OF gardens it can make not the slight
est difference whether one has one oil
a hundred things in bloom at any one
time. II one is determined to take the
whole matter in q philosophical frame
OF mind.
This is the time of year for instance
| when thousands of amateurs who
started out SO energetically in March
! TO rake the grass, and to sow seed and
to play smash In general, begin to tire
at last Of this unwonted activity. and
! to Slacken up on account of the heat
The heat is just as good an excuse
as any. and perhaps better than most
The truth is that city heat is city heat
even in the subuIbS-and that the
| sun of Summer is the sun of Summer
without the cooling breezes which
give mountain and shore resorts then
prestige during the Heated term, the
city and environs are not precisely the
most comfortable places in the world
in the hot sun.
can garden before breakfast. That is
the coolest time of the day, the one
best suited, from the standpoint OF
temperature, for physical labor
Yet to many home lovers 1t Is also
the most distaSteful time to be In the
garden.
The grass is so wet that ones shoe.
become dripping. and plants have q
oiSagreeable habit of shaking their &C
cum!ated dew down the back of ones
neck.
II one is so incautious as to kneel
down. as a gardener often does, without
thinking, one finds clothing soaked
through.