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Show iti IMAGINE 180 ACRES OF SUN FLOWERS t In the June Woman's Homo Companion Com-panion Frank A. Waugh writing about "Tho Flowers In Nature's Garden" Gar-den" says in part: "Thero aro two or threo practical gardening lessons which tho wild flowers in tho Holds h&vo long been trying to teach us and which aro too frequently missed. Ono is tho lesson of liberality. Naturo Is profuse. It h when daisies and buttercups ccu.r a whole meadow that they begin io ba ttuly worth while. A quarter section sec-tion of sunflowers, as I have seo'i them In Kansas when the owner of the land was running for tho legislature, legis-lature, Is a glorious sight. One ot tns more strictly magnificent floral displays dis-plays I ever saw was ln a wide avairp ln Canada. Here there wero dozens of acres thickly set with blossoming orchids. OrchldB, mind you I Acres ot orchids! And every blossom more splendid than tho hothouse orchid which Algernon send to Gwendolyn for the theatro party, "Frequently I see in man made gardens a single plant of some sort peony, phlox or even golden glow and it always looks to mo both stingy stin-gy and ridiculous. Were It tt nurseryman's nurs-eryman's collection of samples the single plants might be Justified, like the Bwatches of dress goods samples which Frederlka has sent out from tho department stores when she conspires con-spires toward a now dress. Should she sew the samples together and let that bo her gown sho would b following ln her dressmaking the sumo prlnclplo which somo folks follow fol-low In their gardening." |