Evening star., 1932-10-03

The beauty Of the Autumn garden
| Is not floral.
Even in grounds where many bright
| flowers still nod on healthy stems the
real beauty lies in another direction.
Change is the secret.
The charm of change!
In q world where stability Is only a
| dream Of man, change still lies at the
heart Of things.
Civilization Is mankind's attempt tC
| set up stable states where all Is move
ment.
When q certain appearance Of per-
! manence is achieved, mankind rests
satisfied with having done the best II
| can.
In the meantime Nature goes right
our feet.
Whether we like it or not. life Is
movement, and change: the movement
creates the change, and the change
results In new motion.
There is nothing still or permanent
and there cannot be. This is a neces-
sary lesson, If We ever learn 1t.
The very changes of the Autumn
landscape prove it. in little. No doubt
some such thoughts as these lie at the
bottom Of the popular impression that
Fall is the melancholy season.
Like most popular beliefs, there Is
some truth in it.
Physically speaking, however, there
is nothing particularly sad in Autumn
especially SO early as this.
The changes already wrought are
subtle.
They do not shout at one.S
AS yet there are no particular amounts
- -; 6n t,n Nr q I'M
ing yellows in great masses
ton mark.
1t makes itself felt to the careful
observer through plain prose without
artifice or exaggeration.
There is not much change In the
appearance of lawns and shrubs as yet
| but there is some. In places slight
brownish touches have appeared in the
grass, equivalent to the appearance
wrought by certain diseases Of Summer
This time, however, the brown Is nc
disease, but simply part OF the change
which early october ushers in.
Slackening of growth is one OF the
most manifest signs Of the turn in The
season. Now the grass blades have
stopped growing at the rate Of the pas'
| six or seven months.
More than half o year they grew, te
| find themselves cut down regularly, a!
often as once week or perhaps ever
oftener, in some instances, where
| meticulous gardeners insisted on let
| ting no grass grow beneath their feet
Now the grass no longer reaches .
full stand every seven to ten days. II
is possible to 'let the grass go for two
weeks, three weeks at time.
Along with this lessened growth Of
| the good blades there are springing uI
in a great many lawns great crops o.
wild onions.
give an unusual appearance-part o!
Autumn's display-to grass everywhere
They constitute change which many
would not stop to notice, as a distinct
change, and yet which actually make.
an impression on the eye.
The very landscape is changed, ir
some way or other-so much many
passersby would note, although they
might not go SO far as to say, There
1t Is the wild onion!"
Scores of these minor alterations are
taking place every day. The onion.
may be taken as good examples of the
type When the lawn mower stops anc
cooler weather sets in they come t
life again. sending up their bright
green shafts
The best way for the gardener to gel
even with them Is to keep - moving
the grass at regular intervals although
these may be as far apart as four week,
or more.
Even if the cutter runs mostly over
grass too short to be cut. the bright
onion blades will be chopped down
The few which escape may be decapi-
tated with the hand
The first fall of leaves has occurred
On many trees this annual loosenine
has just begun, with only scattering
vote cast down now and then.
On some trees, however, notably the
saSSafras leaves already have put on
their Autumn tints, much to the de-
light of the observing eye.