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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY,

SEPTEMBER 19,

1936.

M

G

ARDENING

Brown plans more pegging

out-this time for his

SUNKEN

GARDEN

Y first glimpse of Brown was of a man streaming with perspiration and bent at an angle of about forty- five degrees, pushing the roller over the gravel path.

"I've been 'all the morning," he said, "trying to get this surface free from my footprints."

"You will never do it that way, Brown,

pull slowly, with your back to the roller.

and little foot pressure is needed."

Always

11 is ensier,

He made one more journey, was convinced, and returned to me us looked over the site of the sunken garden, which I had come to talk about,

The pegs must be used again here," salci. "Accuracy in measurements is vital for a formal garden. In this particular lay-out the centre of the pool will Har with be the rentre of the formal garden, and in the middle of the lawn. The garden Ene, therefore, must be run straight down the middle of the lawn 10 the house.

"Put down another line at right-angles to this and parallel with the house wail at the required width of the terrace. This will be the base line for other We will call the central garden tine measurements,

YOU READ ALL ABOUT THIS LAST WEEK

Arranging

Summer

Flowers

PLORAL ARRANGEMENT is greatly simplifed'

with the use of a Grm mesh stand, which is capable of taking a wide variety of stems, at any

nyle.

natural

This holder is designed to give a

A and the bass line C--D. ending at points at equal grouping with freedom for display and good air! distances from the centre line, These will be two of feireniation, so that the blooms last much longer and the extreme corners of the four beds. Drive in pegs at remain beantifully fresh. these points.

Width of the Beds

I will now be an easy matter to measure along

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Why do they

run away?

IT

seems that chlidren no longer run away to escape school; they now find home conditions too difficut for them.

Schnlastic authorities say that fewer children play

Some have actually managed to support themselves for a few weeks. Innumerable boys have runaway from the office career planned for them by their parents, and have tried to find work in an engineering shop. They are trying to find work, not play, these unhappy children.

You cannot hold the adolescent child with outward displays of love-you can hold him with companionship, Few parents are ignorant of their children's needs atic desires. They usually hear these needs a dozen times a week.

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Put before your child your entire knowledge of the particular activity or profession in which he is interested and back up your words with books and authentic information. Fear must play no part in this. Children in the adolescent period are never frightened of possible

fear being made. discomforts--they only ridiculous.

Treat the boy who wants to be an airman and the the line 4-B the width of the beds, the paths, and BUT you must get your flowers before they can

heranged. Whether they are bought in truant from school each year. On the other hand the girl who wants to be a mannequin as serious people.

Give the boy full, Information of ruining schemes and probable incomes to be carned, "Now a line stretched aerosa from C through E will shops or plucked from a warden the first rule is to number of children missing between the ages of twelve-

Let the girt go to mannequin parades and learn Five you G, and a line of equal length from D, also clip off the ends of the stems before putting them and sixteen is increasing.

the normal lives these girls live out through E. will give you F; of course, at points where into a bowl or vase,

of office hours find out for her salaries, hours of work, and prospects.

the length of the pool, but before going, farther, drive

in another peg in the centre of the pool at E.

the distance F---G is equal to the length of side C-D. By this method, Brown, you may always be sure of getting opposite sides of a rectangle parallel."

"On those diagonals, too," "sold" Brown. "we shall find, 1 suppose, the points of the inner corners of

the dower beds and the corners the pool."

uf

"Exactly. All that remains

be done is to murk off the width of

Roses should have the first skin scraped for an inch or so up the stem, but care should be taken to leave the green underskin, for through this the water

is sucked up to) the flower.

Mr. Knott's Garden

the steps centrally at ebeli SideM garden is filled with thistles, dandelions, and

Lesive the marking

Off

scalloped corners until

of The you

carrying out the construction,”

"How do I set about this asked Brown

Job?"

Digging the Pool

"Dig out the soil from the 'sunk' portion frst (but not the puul yet) allowing for the width of the walling so that it can be built. Fifteen inches deep is sufficient,

that when Anished about twelve inches

walling is showing. of

50

"Don't forget the four sets of two steps. These could be cut out rough- ly in the soil, to be completed after or during the building of the wali und the laying of the paying for the top path, us these are all interlinked with the levels, Finally, the [pool should be dug, and..

shall I

know the post- "But bow tion of the pool after i have dug out the solf in the centre?" inter- rupted Brown.

"A chalk mark on the diagonal lines where the corners come will record these. Then a plumb line (a stone tied to a length of string will do) dropped down at these points will indicate the corners of the pool on the lower level when it is reached, Four pegs should then be driven in. "The pool should dug twelve inches deep and completed separate job, leaving to the inst the sowing of the grass puth which is to surround it."

fig

A. E. G.

GOODBYE CORNS!

Say millions of sufferers

after using GETS IT, the liquid corn cure. It stops the pain instantly.

GETS-IT

weeds of name unknown.

But

my heart is filled with great joy.

In my rose garden the only thing that flourishes is the green-By.

But my spirit rejoices.

"Many of the things" that"1-planted in my garden have not come up: many things have come up that I did not plant.

But I ing a song of triumph.

Both my hands are bandaged because I thought I would make a start on building my greenhouse, and'

had an accident with a piece of glair.

1

But I know a great, a wild happiness.

For yesterday afternoon my friend Vegetable Marrow Thompson ("Never grown one less than 20 ba. old man 1") came along, and as we were talking

he said:-

"Queer thing happened to me the other day: I was making a bod for my melons, and I'd got halfway through with it when suddenly remembered I'd already planted pens and beans in that particular

Dot,"

I know now the joy all the mortale must have felt that day when Homer nodded.

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Another little hint to remember is that flowers plucked from plant that bas nearly ended is flowering will not last no long theso picked from one that is just beginning to

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