Evening star., 1932-05-18

! deners to do much about their trees,
especially In the way OF feeding.
1t Is probably true that II lawns are
fertilized heavily, as they should be,
some Of the plant food will f1nd It's
way down to the roots Of the trees. AS
for watering, that seems such a huge
task, when one contemplates the vast
root spread. that the home owner in
time comes to feel that trees can pretty
well take care of themselves.
Fortunately for him many Of them
can. and do; they get along remarkably
we'll without human attention. II this
were not so. most of the trees one sees
growing on private grounds would have
been dead long ago.
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Most garden fussiness, II this mental
disease may be so called, has TO do
with the smaller plants, such as the
ANIMALS and perennials.
Many a man or woman inclined to
normally sane attitude. nevertheless
will worry and stew around over few
asters, for instance. which may be suf-
ferlng from what is graphically called
the yellows"
We have seen home gardeners spend
more time attempting to pull a dozen
or so sick plants through than they
would have put upon all the rest OF
the garden together.
Despite their care, the plants fiowered
poorly. The best thing to have done
in the first place was to yank the all
ing plants out and forget them.
One of the first steps the ailing gar
dener-and he who worries too much
is such-must make to insure his own
health of mind. as well as the health
Of his plants, is to become familiar
with the sorts and varieties which do
well with minimum of care.
This is common sense in one OF its
best aspects. II one gardens merely
for pleasure, there is no sense in at
tempting to grow things with which
one does not have success. Success,
with flowers or vegetables, means good
plants good flowers, good eats"
There are too many good things
which do grow with little trouble for
the average home owner to monkey
care.
The first rule, then, in overcoming
garden worry. is to weed out such
plants as do not do we'll for one.
No matter how fine a certain flower
may grow for some one else, if it does
not do well for you, why spend time
and labor over 1t?
This is a happy sort OF running away.
or, rather, retreat from difficulties
which one no longer cares to meet
In the garden one may settle these
small affairs to suit ones self. Hap
PLY no tyrant has arisen as yet to
command the world to grow certain
products.
In the small sphere of the home gar
den one does as one pleases, when one
pleaSeS, the way one pleaSeS. Let us no
longer spend so much time over insec
ticides that we forget the health in this
glorious sunshine, which pours down
over the garden.
The cut worms have buried beneath
the soil for the day, and the antiseptic
ultraviolet rays cannot get at them?
That is true and so We are reminded
once more that common sense largely
prevails here
1t is possible to dig around the
plants, in the morning, and to un-
earth the villains where they lie, and
at the same time not give their pes
tiferous efforts more attention or time
than they demand.
If the gardener were called away
for a month, and the flowers permit
ted to grow wild, the chances are 10
to l that on his return he would be
astoniShed at the luxuriant growths
which nature had achieved, once his
bustling. fussy contrivings had been
withdrawn. Cut worms might have
devoured 10 plants, but the two left
had SO much room to grow in that
they far surpassed anything he had
before. Home gardeners must think of
insects. of diseases, of fertilizers and
the rest. but they must never let these
aspects of gardening overshadow either
the garden or their own minds.