Evening star., 1933-08-16
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

rivers and the pools of the world are
full of them.
No one can claim to look with inter-
est on life, If he persistently limits his
interest to just few chosen interests
of his own. This is one way, of course,
but we do not think it the best way.
1t leaves too much out.
1t will not do to look alphabetically
at anything, to dismiss 1t with few
polite words. One misses, when one
dismisSes.
Just because one has no particular
interest in it, why, that is the very
reason. of all reasons, why one ought to
be interested in it!
What any one person knows. in such
a great universe, is pathetically little.
1t is narrow. compared with the width
of the world, or even the possibilities
Of thought.
Intelligence is thing of which man
ought to be proud and mostly is, but
too often he stultifies it. in his own
brain. by bodily rejecting too much as
Of no concern to him.
He sees something, but he does not
see it, because he does not want to
see it. feeling that 1t has no particular
concern for him. Thus we have the
two sorts of observers, those who look
with interest, because everything is in
teresting, rightly viewed, and those who
look without interest, being vastly self
centered.
In the garden, the real observer will
see the old vine at its true value. How
neatly 1t clasps the tree trunk. climbing
upward! No other plant in the world
does it.
There are vines which climb by
twining. and others which send out
little feelers to attach themselves to
the surfaces over which they travel to
reach the heights to which they aspire.
Those which twine must have some
thing TO twine around. those which send
out feelers ought to have surfaces on
which to get grip, Not every vine
Will do for every situation, or even
tevery material.
| Those who aspire to use vines prop
erly must make study of them. es-
pecially in regard to their methods of
holding on, and Of travelling. It is a
waste of time and Of plant material to
put the wrong type Of vine in the wrong
place
The few essentials of ordinary cul-
/ ture, however are easily learned; the
important thing is TO make the best
selection of situation. For most of our
easiy grown vines are messy, and moth
ing else, if grown in the wrong place.
To be at its best even the best of
vines must be on a support which
plainly demands some such covering.
! That is why no one need worry about
the plainness of his fencing
If fence is simple. bare by itself
1t veritably cries aloud to be covered
with good vines.
1t is the given opportunity.
| A certain tree trunk may demand a
vine, but only the eye of the artist
sees 1t. This is Just another place
where the eye of the artist comes in
handy After the effect is achieved, all
will call it good-even those who or
dinarily do not see what they look at
but it requires that one have the artists
eye to see the picture. in the garden or
on canvas. before it exists
| Vines never should be planted so
they interfere with necessary walking.
any more than tables and the like
should be placed at the foot Of stairs,
II they in any degree narrow the width
OF them or give sense of restriction.
With these few restrictions. the proper
use Of vine materials depends mostly
on common sense and such artistic
sense as the gardener possesses.