Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1916 — Know Your Garden Flowers. [ARTICLE]

Know Your Garden Flowers.

The true way to enjoy flowers is to get on intimate terms with them. Know them by name, know their characteristics. Learn to love them and make them a part of your life. Then the flowers breathe their secretß, and you learn little by little that they are living things—boon companions and friends. Those who work with flowers know of other things than seeds and bulbs—hope and faith and love; strength, inspiration and happiness. They gather in more than the blushing flowers themselves. They gather health and wealth and nature’? revealed secrets. How natural It is. then, that those who work with flowers should be big and strong and good and kind. They are very close to the heart of life —and nature.