Show henry lenry enry Mc McLemore Lemore r JEW dEW YORK We spent last k end with ith a 8 man who has tory garden Or more u ut t h fully 1 k h h A 8 ici vicy vic vic- a y i gardent garden t f has a 8 n. n n. n a j octopus s sr r r had a 8 aire ar ire r e comte comte com com- te to hold on oner I Ier pear er t than thans h a n ns' ns s s' s garden gardens g s on 0 our u r c nd 2nd He is find ind on the theby firth r t h by Jig fig beans l the the south by golden bantam JB n on the east by turnip seas sens n and on the west by rad- rad es It He took up gardening late late late- ry rf r late Ide For 44 years or up til lil a a. few months ago the ly ii IY thing he had grown were liske s and the only growing i i ings gs he could positively iden- iden y were the rose the pine and sort of ivy that has its t in so many American Vow low well wen he talks as if had roomed with Luther Burik Burk Bur- Bur ik rik k in college and his house cluttered with almanacs gar- gar magazines agricultural re- re and enough farm enta nt to keep half the farm in ds In Iowa busy H He is il a cinch to come down split th-split shins from sprinting i me me from his office to sit on his back porch and gaze out over his farm a 8 plot of ground which lies between the garage and the run dog-run and which has every bit as much acreage as four sized good-sized card tables pushed together He grows eyed dreamy-eyed just looking at it and often speaks of the time when his boy will be big enough the boys boy's about six now to take it over Theres nothing like a farm for a 8 boy to grow up p on he says now and again as he rocks on the porch from which Manhattans Manhattan's Manhattans Manhattan's Man- Man Manhattans Manhattan's hattan's spires are visible in the distance and which shakes every minute or two as a New York bound interurban train r roars ars by His wife wl e Is inwardly afraid that her husband will become a suburban J Jeeter Lester and give up his job to just sit Bit on the steps and nd trickle what he has begun to re refer er to as The Good Earth between his fingers She has visions of a tobacco road existence and as often otten as she dares she makes mention of the hardships of farming in her con con- During our week end there w we must have looked at the garden a 8 aft good d 50 times and the first 50 looks are the hardest Nature Nature Na Na- ture is a sure but slow worker and there is little difference in the appearance of a string bean shoot at noon and a string bean shoot at 10 in the morning The same goes for radishes and corn and all the other things that come popping up out of the ground alongside the little sticks stick with tags on them But amateur gardeners do not seem to realize this They seem to feel that the things they have planted have dug around with their own hands grow an inch or two a 8 minute and that it is a great treat for others to stand around and watch the miracle There should be a law Jaw to keep this type of gardener from demanding demanding demanding de de- manding that friends look at his garden more than once a 8 day There also should be a law against an amateur gardener always saying as he shows shows' you around Its a shame you couldn't have seen the the garden when it was at its best It wa wall Cornelia Cornella Otis Skinner we believe who once wrote an article saying that she had yet yetto yetto yetto to see a flower garden at a 8 time when the own owner r thought it was wasat wasat wasat at its height She pointed out that she was always shown a garden either a 8 week too early or a week too late Victory garden owners are the same If U you could only have seen It last week before that heavy rain they say Or A A week from now you wont won't know the place be beup up up Of course every once in a 8 awhile awhile while there is an excuse for forthe the these sort of apologies Now take our own victory garden A A. week ago it had everything inthe in inthe inthe the neighborhood beat hollow Then the moths or something got in it and wed we'd be ashamed to show it to anybody until we get it back in shape But drop by in 10 days day or so and and Distributed by Syndicate Inc |