Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-03-27 | Page 6 | Just Folks

Just Folks By EDOAB A. OCECT Real Gardener I'm Just a common gardener, a back yard fellow, who Can't give much time to puttering putter-ing 'round with all he has to do. The zinnias snd phlox I grow do not smount to much. Not like the friends I used te know who hsd ths magic touch. And once I said to dear eld John, whose blooms were wondrous won-drous fsir. . t I think a garden really needs more time than I can spar. Ha looked up from his weeding task to aay euch things aa these: To have a worth-while garden you must work upon your knees! Tou've got te know the plants by name and give them constant con-stant care. The flowers have feeling and they know who loves them best, I'll swear. To bring the zinnias to bloom or roses trsln te climb, Tou've got to give them loving thought and nearly ail your time. Too think that I've a magic touch which you cannot acquire, Teu could if you'd the will to leara, but all too eooa you tire! Tea merely stick the plant In soil and hope that Uey will grow. But you don't give your heart to them, and that I'm aura they knew. T have a garden worth the name you've got to love the flower And aot begrudge the work it meene or eouat the aost ia hours,"