Show I IN THE GARDENIN GARDEN GARDENIN GARDENIN IN SPRING Take down your Oxford Book of English Verse and read read A garden Is a lovesome thing thIng- God Wot This is 15 a good lood time of ot year yeu to read again those Unes lines by Thomas Edward Crowne Drowne Do you know the rest of o them them them- Rose plot Fringed pool grot Not God In ill gardens when the eve la is cool Nay NaT but I have a sign very sure God Coil walks In mine It being spring the Ume time has come to think seriously of gardens It I one is to have one that will be bea bea bea a spot Old professionals need no en encouraging word from stray newspaper news newspaper p paper p r paragraphs like this But If It you have not tried a gar gar- garden gar gar- garden garden den or ha have e had little experience with them read what a contrIbutor writes t to this column out of a JIm lim limited In ar L but UH u Ba b ear ear- L UH u b den planning Pussy willows are now ready to pick and bring into the tito house There the catkins In la the warmth wilt come out I Keep them In a pottery vase until the stalks have healthy roots then plant th them m In Inthe inthe inthe the garden near the spouting at tho place where the spouting i reaches the earth In five years ou will have a great pussy wil wll willow low low bush from which you can If I you feel fed so disposed disposed- dIsposed sell pussy willows to the florists to augment your flower nO seed fund You will have havo pussy willows In two 1 years I probably but In five you will have havea haveIt It a burgeoning bush It may be that you do not know about a lovely blue the love that grows and blooms easily If It you have cosmos plant mourning bride In your your garden With cosmos It makes the loveliest 10 of ot house bou bouquets QUla Its color is chiefly a pur pur- purplish purplish carmine The mourning bride is Ja an an an- annual annual nual One of ot the loveliest of blue perennials to plant is the blue nu flax Each morning in the sum sum- summet summer mer met the patch of it is covered with the heavenly blue haze haxe It grows easily and spreads gener gener- generously generously These of ot course are only a few ot of the garden possibilities whIch any old gardener can ea can multiply miny many times over The great thing thine Is to make a beginning |