Evening star., 1931-06-20

!. have been spent to gain tangible re-
suits, to realize as he perhaps never
has before that money viii 60 ~ long
way in creating q perfect garden. ~ e.
What the average homo owner sholtld
do, We believe, is to wonder at the truly
good results which he may secure with
such an infinitestnaliy smaller budget,
and 10 little labor Let him not feel
that he works 20 much for such q
little result, but that his little re-
suit Is Q large result, In the face Of
the patience which gardening takes,
and In view Of the small amount OF
money which he has TO spend upon ms
hobby.
one Of the real joys Of sardenfnE Is
the realization that the MnafIeGt plant
may be 4 thing Of beauty, and. that
quantity, after all, must give way to
quality, and does, in the grounds where
loving care must make up for q defl-
cheney in other respects 80.
It 10 nothing to lament about; there
fore, this lack OF quick results. or OVER
wheiming gains. The main point is to
do what you do the best you know how,
and let Nature DO the rest. which she
will do, II you give her half . chance,
and do not prod her all the time.
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Hurry-up methods have no place In
the garden. They cannot even be
wedged In, as most amateurs have dis
covered to their own beneflt.
i That Is Yhy gardening - most en-
loved by 3otterihg souls, those who,
either by natural bent, as We call It, or
distinct triumph Of their reasoning
powers, have come to the concms1qn
that the leisurely way Of life is better
than the hurTyins. madigaintent-on-
I. .&..~, ..aktaA aAWf ~
A garden Is O potterer,s paradise. He
is no omaRician, and he knows It. with
him Immediate results do seldom BIOS
som. and ne has q deep suspicion that
| thew do, not for other people, either,
that they only think they do, ana call
loudly to others to see what they see.
The Joke Of the matter Is thatSsome
times they induce others to see great
| flowers. ~ -
You scanrot hurry up the plants in
| their growth, although you may neip
them q great deal, by various expeol-
ents, and thus think that you are hurry
ing them. But you are not. Tney are
| taking their time Just the same, 70 plos-
| aom when they please; before they
were not doing what they should have
! done: what you did was to put them IN
A position TO do their natural best.
| Gardens naturally seem to have stand
stiII moments, sometimes extending over
days. These are periods OF growth
hesitation, as 1t were. Cold mornings
will hold plants back; lack Of moisture
will stunt their growth; even too much
moisture will induce q clogged state.
The fault lies not In growing things.
| but in human impatience, which would
demand that the very daisies Of the
| field know about US, the gardeners. and
Weld q bit to our iicessant clamor tor
speed.
If we do not get the results which we
sometimes think we should get from
our hours spent in the garden, 1t may
| be because our expectations have been
| too great, TO begin with, and our phi
| losphy faulty, In the end.
We should stop examining our plants
day by day, and try TO forget the facts
| of growth for q time Every one knows
| how different the yard looks when he
| comes back from q vacation; but II he
| had been there day by day for the
same period of time he would have no.
ticed no particular change.
We expect too much of our gardens,
az we do Of ourselves and our friends:
we have given In to the hue and cry
| of what futuFity may call silly age;
we need the stabilizing thoughts Of the
| timeless thinkers, and their motionless,
basic sanity.