Show Garfield's Young Floriculturists Thrill As New Blooms Brighten School Rooms A f fi F i 4 i p i c cL L 4 i i I t I I t 4 4 o Y NTY n Juvenile Horticulturists Active at G School School Elaine Elaine Cannon left watering cring Jenny Lee Nelson center shows a bloom and Katherine Vo Woodruff druff 4 B By MAUD CHEGWIDDEN Telegram Garden Editor More than plants in 1 pots varying from four inches to huge tubs make the hallways at the Garfield Garfield Garield Gar Gar- field school 1838 Fifteenth East street bright with greenery and often oHen with gay blooms ms These plants have been gathered by children and teachers alike Under under under un un- der the supervision of the principal Miss bliss Eva M. M Brewer who is a flower lover of the first water Not Noton on only is every window in the long fong hallway filled but plants stand in all the classroom windows on the teachers teachers' desks on tables and pedestals pedestals als in the corridors and in every corner which has light and sun sun- shine hine Watch Vatch Blooms Come The children at the school delight In n watching for new blossoms to open and the day the accompanying accompany- accompany ing ng photograph was taken a large hibiscus flower pale pink and waxen in appearance was the cener center center cen- cen ter er of or attention Besides the exotic hibiscus there were weri geraniums and begonias also in flower with sev sev- era eral pots of or bright daffodils daffodil and and other spring bulbs Foliage plants which were present in profusion Included in included In- In eluded the asparagus fern Boston fern palms In variety umbrella plant and so on Many tall 1311 oleanders will flower in summer at their appointed time and a number of or cacti in different sorts also flower occasionally One of the handsomest plants in this large collection is a very big old or screw pine There are arc also other hibiscus plants one with an unusually large bloom In a deep rich red but these are arc not flowering at present Shelves Help Display An interesting feature of or the plant display is the tho modernistic series of shelves designed to fit on any window sill and to hold far more plants plant on their varying tiers than can be accommodated in the theon theone theone on one window shelf Mr John Cannon Cannon Cannon Can Can- non a patron of the school made these shelves for Miss Brewer His daughter Elaine along with Katherine Katherine Katherine Kath Kath- erine Woodruff and Jenny Lee Nelson Nelson Nel Nel- son were taking their turn at watering watering watering wa wa- wa- wa the plants the day the tho picture picture pic plc- ture was taken |