Evening star., 1932-11-02

women gardeners find huge satisfaction
in the application of a pair OF scissors
to flower stems.
Flowers are charming indoors, OF
course. but most so when used with
discretion.
This reluctance should extend to the
garden itself, and most of all to those
plants which are Immediately in sight
of the house.
If one wants plenty of flowers for
the table and other interior decoration
a cut-flower garden should be estab-
lished in some part of the home prop
erty where the effects of the shears
will not be seen from the house.
This is not to say that cutting small
bouquets, within reason, is harmful
practice
The truth Is. however, that this busi-
ness of cutting blossoms for the indoors
grows upon one.
1t is a bad garden habit, and, like
most bad habits, difficult to break when
once formed The only true cure Is
never to form it.
| One of the best reasons against yank-
ing blossoms of their home stems to
| do wilt
Some of our most beautiful things in
bowls last only a day. Many remain
| fresh not over two days.
| There is something pathetic In the
common sight, vase filled with half
wilted flowers. deprived of their natural
place in life's scheme, at the same
time they cannot hold up in the close
confines Of the indoors, under coEdi-
tions for which they were never in
| tended
The chrysanthemum, however, Is one
OF the few flowers which seems to bear
charmed life after its gets into vase.
Something of the rugged spirit of Au-
tllmn resides in its stems and in its
closely placed petals. 1t Is able to sur
vive living room heat. interior dryneSS,
and a strange place, for many days, ap-
pearing all through its tenure as fresh
and crisp as when it was on its own
proper plant.
Even at the last, when Nature can
do no more for it, the cut chrysan-
themum blossoms fade into a state
which to the Japanese has a beauty
all its own. Hundreds of years ago
they greatly admired color which
they called faded white chrySanthe-
NUNS Our descriptives nearest to
the color are 'eggshell, and of
White."'
A great many gardeners would grow
more of these fine hardy flowers if they
adopted policy of filling in bare places
in the garden.
| The fine thing about the chrysanthe-
mum is that it really takes little space.
everything considered. 1t may be placed
beween shrubs, or rows of them, or with
other plants in border.
When the Summer Towering plants
are in their prime, the hardy chrysan-
themum is just moving along. 1t takes
its time, it does not hurry, it furnishes
note of placidity in a garden, the
modern garden, which all too often
seems to take on a touch Of hurry and
scurry from its owner
No gardener can hurry the chrysan-
themum. II may be done indoors. but
in the great open spaces it attends to
its wants according TO the ancient
standards
The first cold days at last speak to it
IN language 1t understands. Hurry
up. there, get move en- you, your time
has come
The chrysanthemum understands 1t
begins to look huskier, to swell out its
buds. The days grow cooler, the buds
larger, until one fine day they open, not
suddenly, but gradually. and the garden
is colorful. Then is the time to inhale
their pungent fragrance, and to collect
few blossoms for the house, but to
leave most of them in the garden, where
they belong.