The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-17
In New York
BY PAUL HARRISON

New York--Spring planting has started on the roof-top terrace of an old skyscraper on lover Broad way, and the law firm of\Joseph L.. Greenberg scarcely can get any att torneying done in the fine flush of all this vernaI activity.
 It is the farthest south of all Manhattan's gardens-in-the-sky. fertile mesa 27 floors above the barren canyons of the financial district. While ritzy penthouse dweliers uptown are content with formal boxed hedges and a few flowers, MT Greenberg grows a great variety of Towering shrubs, and even vegetables He is espe- cially proud on a valuable Japan csc Prayer Tree, and is planning several new beds for climbing vines and ordinary blooms such as petunias.
 The office looks right out on the large terrace, and it, in turn, over- looks the Hudson river and the l upper bay. Very impressive, as the big liners majestically plough along below and small harbor craft skitter about like water bugs. The garden looks so unlike g. law office annex that Greenberg has settled some of his most difficult cases there. Other times he sits among the verdure and reads long docu- ments oddly called briefs.
 Now and then his secretary will put down her trOwcl and
 take some dictatiOn.
 A Growing Business
 I like to talk about MT Green barg's garden because 1t is q thing so anomalous, so utterly foreign to the spirit of the laws hard majesty and might. The New York bar knows Greenberg as a scrap per. In his office, surrounded by frowning shelves of Blackstone, ct al, he'll fight like any tough attorney, jabbing with technicali- ties and clouting with precedents. Out in his garden. though, he is a misty eyed sentimentalist who writes a bit of verse now and then, and tempers his law with agrarian philosophies.
 He told me about a man who was emhroiled in a bitter battle with his, wife over property ,divi- | SlOII anu SJ 6GPaL&NAViA 0Nss1SAAfSN>N' | The fellow, Greenberg's clteflt, was oyerworked, overwrought, and al- most apoplectic when he's get to | talking about his domestic quarrel one balny afternoon the attorney led him into the garden, parked him in a deck chair near some | fragrant wisteria, and left to eat tend a brief conference. When he | returned the client was asleep, and he slept for three hours. After that he listened to Greenberg chat about | the garden--about the human per- spectivcs which can be cultivated along with flowers; about the grateful responsiveness of growing | things to patient care; about how 1 dreary, soul-stifled, nerve-shattered must be the lives of New Workers whose horizons are only as wide as a city street.
 The man said: "Let me sit out here a little longer don't bother to stay that's kipd | of nice sunset :" | Greenberg scuttled into his office, thumbed his nose at Black stone ct al, and grinned. The cll- l ent came in after awhile and said: "Name your fee and forget about the case. I'm going back to her. l It was two years later that
 tie attorney heard from him,
 and mOmentarily was sad
 dencd. when the voice on the
 other, end of the line said: 'I
 want your help again."
 'Serious troubIc?" asked
 Greenberg.
 "PIenty trouble! Listen
 how the devil do you get rid or
 aphids on rose blshes?V
 Getting Down to Earth
 There are other stories, almos' as gushy, about the part that tht garden -in- -the-sky has played 1T peoples lives. Among Greenberg'i clients were two grim old partners who came to him for help in tht prosecution of g defaulting cash. fer. Partial restitution had beer made, and the entire amount could
 be returned in year or two. Bui the partners thought the ypunf man ought to be punished.
 The attorney fell to chattint about his flowers again. Hs thought up somes fairly relevan little homilies about stems beint
 bruised and plants uprooted. Al | the sun was dipping into the New
 Jersey hills he swung the conver
 sation back to the law case. Int
 senior partner looked at the juriol partner, and the latter shook hii
 head. The senior partner sais
 never mind: they reckoned thel
 wouldn't prosecute.
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