Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 115, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1915 — Making Gardens. [ARTICLE]

Making Gardens.

A Chicago man has given SI,OOO to buy seed for gardens to be made in the vacant lots of the city. There is help to a noble municipal enterprise. There is nothing that will so enhance the beauty of a city as well-made gardens. A garden is the workshop of the soul. It not only awakens the better natures of men, but it crowns the table with vegetable delights that make good blood where greater spirits dwell. There is nothing that reflects more joy than a well-made garden. It conduces to good citisenship. It drives away selfishness, meanness, grief, disappointment and fills the heart with beautiful impulses. Every vacant lot given over to waste is wasted opportunity, and indicates a lack of true enterprise in the citizenship. There ought to be an organization in every city to make the vacant spots blossom as the rose. Talk about education —here is a chance for the best that can be had.