. Beautiful home surroundings. Landscape gardening; Nurseries (Horticulture). V' l". >' FOR those of us who must remain at home, it is a duty to those others that we Hve sane and calm lives, that we may be able at every opportunity to render the fullest measure of service to our boys at tlie front. Calmness and sanity are products of natural living. To be effective in troublous times means that we must hold to those things of life wliich bring contentment and restora- tion of si)irit. The Maker placed Adam and Eve in a garden. Presumably it was His in- tention that a garden should furn
. Beautiful home surroundings. Landscape gardening; Nurseries (Horticulture). V' l". >' FOR those of us who must remain at home, it is a duty to those others that we Hve sane and calm lives, that we may be able at every opportunity to render the fullest measure of service to our boys at tlie front. Calmness and sanity are products of natural living. To be effective in troublous times means that we must hold to those things of life wliich bring contentment and restora- tion of si)irit. The Maker placed Adam and Eve in a garden. Presumably it was His in- tention that a garden should furnish the greatest happiness and the loveliest surroundings in this life. We who love gardens have reason to be thankful. Gardening is relaxation. The refining and soothing effects of digging in a garden are the more keenly to be appreciated in war times because of the comparison such work affords to the echoes of the cannon and the strife of war. Nature's wholesome breath is like a benediction. AVe who make gardening our hobby are glad of the broadened appreciation of our hobby brought about by the Government urging the people to plant gardens. We are proud, too, because of the liapi)iness and contentment our new-found co-workers have discovered in growing things. Because our broth- ers are "over there" is no reason why we should expect the sun to stop shin- ing, the beauties of Nature to cease nor the songs of birds to be stilled. Flower gardening k just as necessary in these war times as vegetable gardening. Flowers are food for the soul, stabilizers of llic emotions. More than ever do we need these things nou—these signs of the Mak- er's goodness and love. All of which leads up to the thought that it is correct and proper to plant Howers and grow beautiful things. God intended that flowers should give us cheerfulness. Was there ever a time when cheerfulness was more needed than in these days when so mucli is happening to unsettle our thoughts? Grow flowers! Grow m
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