It's Fun To Garden
By ELIZABETH MacRAE BOYKIN
Ruth is ruthless about her garden. She sprays and weeds and prunes and waters to beat the band. But her lovely flowers and vegetables are more than worth the trouble.
"But even if they weren't I'd garden," said Ruth.__``,"It's good ex- ercise for one thing, and just plain fun for another. The thing I like about gardening, though, is the good earthy way it makes me feel... Gets me down to the essentials in thinking."
ALL IN YELLOW
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Which is true enough, We are especially interested in her garden because she has done quite an unexpected thing in the colours of her flowers. She has an all yellow
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Ruth is ruthless about her
garden.
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"But there is even more method in my madness than that," she went on. "Just take a look at my house, and you'll see how yellow flowers fit it like a glove. The whole place is done in beige, dull light greens, coppers and yellows. So naturally
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remove iodine stains white goods soak in vinegar.
Rust on kitchen sinks may be re- moved by rubbing kerosene
Kerosene will cut grease, clean To it's right and proper for me to grow and disinfect a sink. A little pour- flowers that really do their duty in ed down the sink pipe will leave garden. First there are yellow the house. I use mostly clear plain the pipe free and clean. violets, forsythia, —and gorgeous crystal vases. I'm partial to a pair yellow iris, nasturtiums, marigolds, of round globes that I use more than yellow roses, zennias,, chrysanthe-anything else. But, of course, the mums. You'd be surprised how container depends on the flowers many yellow flowers there are when have cut and the place I'm going to you go in for them.
When making. fruit tarts, mix a little cornstarch with the sugar be- fore adding augar. This will make put them. I find that I need a the juice thick, and prevent it. boil- "There's method in my madness," wide variety of vases-little intimate ing over. Rutth admitted, when we exclaimed low ones and tall imposing ones,
"It look along with plenty of plain low bowls Four over her golden blooms.
as if I'm working my head off, but of medium, size.
I have
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Try some of the bulbous iris. Most of us
us are pretty well acquaint- ed with the German Siberian and an egg Japanese; but most garden folks a few thoroughly if you like the white have the idea that the bulbous. iris if you'll notice, most all my flowers pieces of pewter that I sometimes get and yolks heated in the centre; are none too hardy. You will are the easiest varieties to grow. use for my yellow flowers. And a five minutes makes the white firm always have fairly good luck with stalky and sets the yolk; 10 minutes boils them, but extra care must be taken
in their cultivation. eggs hard.
So I don't deserve all the credit for copper jug that's nice for having such a gorgeous garden.
i things."
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