Henderson daily dispatch., 1935-03-23

Lies open VIII III blossoms -
Thus did the Irish poet Villa,
Allingham, hail the advent of Snrin {
half a century ago. Tn more famil;a,
strain, Lowell sang,
Every clOd feels a stir Of mioh+
an instinct within it that r4acbes .,,,
towers
And, cropping blindly above it for Hpht
Climbs 10 a soul in grass and flower, ),
Ihe annual return of the flowers is
regularly heralded by burst of noat-
ry some good and some bad in everv-
rrine except the sentiment that in
spires It, Most poetic of all snrir q
reading is the seed catalogue, in which
fiction and art combine TO stir the
soul Of the gardener and send him orr
into his awakening garden to nlant
in faith and await the results with
eager expectancy.
Il am densely ignorant-only inst
parelv known dahlias from mignon-
etre wrote Henry James in Nav. 1898
But d few months later he declared
The garden mania begins to stir in
my veins America, like Henry James
mas in recent years vecome garden
p
,shinc of number of magazines On
nome and garden and the increased
output of books on gardening, land
scaping. and kindred subjects. OF
The ma2abines, these are available in
rhe library, Better Homes and Gar
dens House and Garden and The
american Home.
People who are not themselves
active gardeners enjoy reading about
other peoples gardens and few books
have been more popular in the library
during recent months than Beverley
Nichols's Down the Garden PATH"
"A matched Roof and "A Village in
Valley" wherein he tells the sim
Die annals of his English cottage and
garden and the quiet village in which
they lie His friends, Cecil Roberts
mas borrowed a leaf from Nichols's
book and has written just as charm
ingly an account of his English cot
tage and garden in Gone Rustic"
Before these books became the vogue,
discriminating few were enjoying
Anne Bosworth Greene's "Dipper
Hill" which is a day-to-day chronicle
Of the birth and growth of Yer
mont garden.
\ handsome book, published in 1884
is Richardson Wright's STORY of
Gardening" which takes one down
the ages, from "the hanging gardens
of Babylon 10 the hanging gardens of
New York wiSh delightful stop~Overs
in Grecian gardens, Roman roof gar
dens, gardens in Cathay and old ia
pan, Mohammedian gardens, and
those of England and France.
The Shakespeare Garden" is an
unusual and interesting book by Es-
-her Singleton, who says in her pre-
lace II discovered long ago that there
was no adequate book on the Eliza
1ethan garden and the condition of
in Shakespeare's time.
Every Shakespeare student knows
low frequently and with what sub
IL appreciation Shakespeare speaks
# Flowers . . 1t is my hope, there
lore, that this book will help those
iesire a perfect Shakespeare garden,
besides giving Shakespeare lovers a
1ew idea of the gardens and flowers
# Shakespeare time
If a beginner wants information on
practical gardening, the library has
Kings The Beginners Garden" Mrs.
King has also written some very prac-
icsl advice on laying ont modest
garden and on the flower. for it in
The Little Garden" A similar book
: Brewster's The Little Garden for
-ittle Money"
A comprehensive book in small com
pass is Flowers for Every Garden"
~ Louise Bush-Brown. McCurdy's
Book of Garden Flowers" is another
# the same type.
OrtlOff's Garden Blue Book of
ANIMALS and Biennials" is just what
= name indicates If advice on per
'nnials is sought, it may be found
ibundantly in "A Little Book of Per
-nnials" by Hotties, Quackenbush's
Perennials of Flowerland", and Ort-
offs Perennial Garden.
The cultivation of that loveliest Of
lowers the rose, is discussed in de-
all in McFarland's THE Rose in
America" and Thomas's The Prac-
ical Book of Outdoor Rose Growing.
The latter is magnificently illustrated
WIN pictures of various roses IN
color, that look even more alluring
and certainly more natural than those
n the seed catalogues.
An equally beautiful book and one
hat is, as it's title indicates, more
comprehensive, is Garden Flowers
n Color by c. A. Stevens. This is
b picture cyclopedia of flowers, in
which advice on the cultivation of
he various flowers is interspersed
win the most gorgeous colored plates
u the flowers themselves.
If one is starting a rock garden, it
would be helpful to read The Rock
'arden Primer by Archie Thornton.
Al ;he present time, when saving
ne wild flowers and transplanting
hem to cultivated gardens are very