Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-04-27 | Page 4 | Clubwoman Writes Book on Gardens

Writes Book On Gardens Ga B By MAUD CHEGWIDDEN Telegram Garden Editor Those garden club members who attended the dinner given glyen for delegates delegates dele dole gates of ot tho the National Council of State Garden clubs who passed through Salt Lake City last April will remember Mrs H. H H. H Buxton corresponding secretary of at the tha national na national national na- na body There Thero has just come cometo cometo cometo to my desk a book from Mrs Buxton's Buxton's Buxton's Bux- Bux tons ton's pen The liTho Window Garden which h is as interesting as aI it is in In- formative Mrs Mr Buxton began her married life Ufe she says with one plant plant plant-a a Boston Boston Boston Bos Bos- ton fern tern When the tho fronds of that fern reached to tho the ceiling and downwards to the carpet in self self- defense she sho had to discard it and to fill its place with smaller plants Her interest increased yearly Inthe Inthe in inthe the many varieties of ot things which would thrive in the window and simultaneously her number of increased Today she is acknowledged one of ot this country's country's coun coun- i try's auth authorities on the the- homo home wIndow window window win wIn- dow garden Geraniums and begonias each rate an entire chapter In the book I Iwas Iwas Iwas was especially interested in the photograph of a begonia a huge and lovely thing which shows tiny on the leaves because a few weeks ago I saw a plant of at this same ame sort also alo with myriads of baby plants springing from the leaves in the office of at Miss May Anderson of the L. L D. D S S. Primary association Begonia is a sort of begonia a a. Brazilian species and the name com comes comes s from r m two Greek words which mean leaf crazy because of its strange habit of producing the tiny new plants on the surface of the leaves These infants if carefully detached and planted in a light soil soU soon make independent mother plants plant themselves There are many grand ideas in Mrs Buxton's Burtons book which will wW be hailed with Joy by every window gardener For Instance I have grown and havo written in this department about a a. lovely pot plant known as Star of Bethlehem but butmore butmore more correctly called caned campanula But I Idid did not know v until Mrs Buxton told me that if one cuts back this plant after blooming right to the roots and that will be beabout beabout about Christmas time every tip Up will root in sand Many most unusual house plants are aro described by the writer of this book and often otten legends are attached attached attacked at at- tacked to them which have havo persisted persisted persisted per per- through centuries Tako Take that of the basil basH for Instance Hereabouts Hereabouts Hereabouts Here Here- one seldom sees the basil If at all yet an Eastern city with witha a a. largo large arge Greek population boasts hundreds of plants of this or bas basilico III co as they call calI it A delicious fragrance arises whenever one of the leaves is 15 to touched ched ever over so lightly This plant so the story goes covered covered covered cov cov- ered tho the ground in a certain spot in inthy thy Holy Land when St. St Helena English born mother of ot tho Emperor Emperor Emperor Em Em- Constantine Constantino was searching for tho the true cross cros The fragrance arose nrose so powerfully and sweetly that Helena knew she stood on more than common ground and and lifting the carpet of basilico she ahe bade bado her helpers dig and the Cross Cros was discovered dis db- dis- dis covered That is why this plant Is cherished so much by those people who almost regard it as sacred I haven't space to recount other facts which I should like to do fro The urho Window Garden It is p published put pub b bUshed by the tho Orange Judd Publishing Publish PublishIng ing company of New York an ani should bo be in the library of ot ver yer plant lover