Show GARDENING G. FOR FUN AND BEAUTY BEAUTT UTY WE AMERICANS CANS are are a busy bunch We find time however to enjoy ourselves Yet as a nation we have not found much fun in keeping flower gardens It is not that we do not enjoy the pleasure that beautiful gardens give It If our flower bill could be compared with that of other nations it would doubtless appear that that Americans s spend many times what other othel nations nations na na- na- na Hons do for flowers Yet for the most part we are not a people devoted devoted devoted de de- de- de voted to cultivating plants that shall shaU bloom in gardens about our homes Perhaps we have not the time We have hae become specialists in our work And we have crown grown to think of the florist as ns one who shall shaU supply allour all allour allour our needs in this direction And if It we have a flower garden that calls caUs for tor a gardener Seldom do we find men with a hobby for cultivating flowers If any gardening Is done It is more often to provide something something something some some- thing to eat Yet is the utility of cabbages and onions morp necessary to the body than is the sight and the breath of flowers to the refreshment of our spirits Since the first gard garden n was planted men have found pleasure of the purest purest purest pur pur- est kind in tending lending and admiring the blossoms A house bouse without a to touch cn of or verdure about it is not lovely The handiwork of man is not complete complete com com- without the touch of ot heaven that the grass the flowers and the tree give Perhaps we are not yet rooted firmly enough In the soil soli to garden I finely Maybe we have not yet sensed sensed sensed sens sens sens- ed the delight of training clusters on trellises and of playing around in the fashion of a gardener And we scarcely miss the which a flower garden could express about the j the home |