Evening star., 1933-11-23
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES z. TRACEWELL,

Here Is q fine old lady, over whose
gray head many years have rolled. yet
she insists on raking up the leaves with
out coat or hat.
Sturdy she is, and all that, but she
would be just as wonderful with hat
on her head and a good warm cloak
around her shoulders.
And she would be q great deal fairer
to herself and her years.
4 v n r
The gathering together Of suitable
garden clothing Is something of q feat.
Shoes should be stout, but old: sweat
ers warm, but ragged.
Gardening in fine clothes Is no gar
dening at all, but merely dress parade.
The older the shoes, the better. but
they should be as near waterproof as
old shoes can be, and that Is more
water resistant than new ones, in the
ma jority of cases. Often a very old
pair OF shoes can be given a half or
whole sole. and thus be turned into the
very foundation. as 1t were, Of all gar
dening work.
The garden hat, whether for man or
woman, well may be rakish affair,
set probably at an angle, not as If the
gardener were defying the world, but
simply as an expression Of fresh air
hilarity
One need not go as far as Walt Whit
man, who cooked his hat as he pleased,
indoors or out, but only wear a hat at
rakish angle in the great outdoors. A
typical French beret is good.
Above everything else, even sooner
than fallen leaves. the old vines of the
annual type sIOuld be removed from
| their fence supports.
Nothing makes q fence look as untidy
as old vines Of this sort. They have a
way Of whitening to a color not brown,
or any shade between it and white, but
to an indefinite and particularly ugly
tinge.
Once the garden is put in good shape,
the best thing the gardener can do is
to forget 1t.
1t will be good to take a vacation.
Remember that this lapse will be only
for two months, not half a dozen, as
one Is likely to think offhand.
Forget the yard during the interim
It is true that although outside work
| may begin as early as February, the real
gardening does not start until April. So
much may be admitted, of course.
This few months rest from activities
is needed by most persons to keep their
perspective true. All work and no play
makes Jack dull boy, 1t has been said
all gardening thought and no respite
makes any amateur gardener something
Of bore
| There always are ways for the home
gardener to keep interested in his hobby
without fooling around in the cold out
doors at the time Of the year when il
should be given over entirely to the
birds.
One can read gardening books and
magazines. for one thing. One may
plan next years garden, for another. II
Is possible to build the so-called Ward
ian cases, or inclosed gardens, in glass
| bowls or rectangular aquariums. The
chief difficulty about the latter lies in
securing the proper sort of plant ma
| terial. HaphaZard selection of Just any
plants one thinks proper usually results
in failure. 1t is well to apply to some
specialists in such things, and to abide
by his or her judgment. A woman who
has the patience, for instance, to build
a garden in 20-gallon bottle. inserting
the plants with an instrument knowr
as a glass litter, surely Is an authority
on the plants to use Keep interested in
gardening. by these and similar methods
but forget the actual garden for at leas,
two months-if you can.