Evening star., 1937-04-30
saying that no gardening should be done

at all.
Efforts to work soil, or do any other
operations on rainy day, are generally
time and energy wasted. Not only are
they unpleasant tasks, in the rain, but
neither dirt nor plant tissue is in con-
dition to stand handling.
Above ALL do not rush into the yard
to put seeds into the ground when it is
raining. Most Of the seeds will be
washed away before nightfall, If the
rain is really heavy one.
The ability to enjoy rainy day de-
pends somewhat upon Imagination as
well as upon some relish for gardening
and its plant children. We have pointed
out how even the beginning gardener
finds something pleasant about a very
rainy day. He may wake in the night
and be surprised to find himself well
pleased. Before he got interested in
growing things he would have resented
the heavy fall Of water, now he is glad
to hear 1t, and hopes it keeps up all
night!
The person not interested is not lost,
so far as a rainy day is concerned. He
may still find it helpful, giving him a
quiet day, with nothing to listen to
except the falling water and his own
thoughts.
So much, of course for the rainy dav
at home, especially Sunday.
Week days, with plodding through the
wet, and those stubby little umbrellas
always threatening to send a fine drip
down ones spine, are different matters.
On these days too the gardener has
the advantage, because he is interested
as he goes along in seeing what the
water is doing for other peoples gardens,
and for the city'S trees and shrubs and
grass plots.
He thinks of sitting down once he gets
to office and writing the following letter
to the editor:
Dear Sir: I find your paper indis-
pensible, especially on a rainy day I
use it as pad to keep people from
dripping their old wet coats, their UNI
brellas and even their hats upon me. 1
find that the first section, neatly spread
out over the knees, achieves more than
you claim for it, and as for the second
section, I use it generally as a buffer
for my left shoulder, and believe it even
more efficient than the first. The whole
paper is better than anything I have
ever tried Tor the purpose. Cordially
yours, "TEMPLETON JONES'"
X Il
Getting downtown in the wet with un-
diminished good humor is an achieve
ment OF which any suburbanite may be
proud.
There goes fellow with so much
pep ardor and get-up-and-go about
him that he fairly hurls himself down
his front steps and is off at run down
the road.
We had seen him run on fair davs
and had envied his ability there at, but
this running in the rain was something
new.
There was a good eighth of a mile
to go, and he was there long before the
laggards.
AS it SO often happens, however, he
really gained nothing except good spirits,
because he had to wait several minutes,
which gave the laggards sufficient time
to catch up with him. knowledge is
power, they say.
knowing the schedules, especially on
rainy day, is well worth anybodys
while. Then one may walk along more
le1surely, permitting the beauty OF the
landscape to sink into the soul and the
wetness Of the falling rain into the tails
OF ones topcoat to be dried and warmed
through the simple process of sitting
upon them for seven miles and thirty
minutes.