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once more take up the plough, thorn have been over forty wara ΟΥ invasions. Five-the Gran the Chaco, Spain, Ethiopia and two wars in China-were major disasters,

WHERE THERE ARE NO MISUNDERSTANDINGS.

The

Staurse

are falling

Wood.

Leaves in Polygon

G

unknown

soldier-Krown

They started with a small stock There is also one red rose that of shrubs, trees and herbaceous EORGE ALBERT bring up in a strange country there

refuses to stop flowering. It will plants. Out of this they have pro-

Christmas, CBITY on until

saya pagated the million und more plants PLAYER when I first is little time for moplag.

She prefers the open English grate Player. It is called Kirsten Poulsen that all the gardens. Nature has saw him was busily for cooking, but the circular orna a grand rose. It blooms in an nourished exceedingly in this soll.

barder alongside the sweeping up russet brown mental stove is gond to sit around herbaceous

In the evening when Player returns headstone of a soldier of the great leaves that persistently blew from his gardening and the children war-an into his garden from Poly- return with their satchels and Eng- Unto God. lish books. It is no over-estimation to state gon Wood. that at least twenty million people

As all gardeners know, this is have lost their lives as a direct or one of the most irksome tasks indirect"result" of war "since the in-the-gardening-calendar... war that was to end wary.

They floated into his domain It is too early to assume that the on a damp autumn breeze. 1914-18 war is repeating itself.

Those three eucalyptus bushes are

is a lonely sort of life. It has its ctiquette, which Player explained: "People come to 'GOTOW. exact these Memorial Gardens PLAYER knows the

number of his bushes and There is an unwritten law that we THERE is plenty to keep TH

George Albert Player busy plants. There are two or three to must not approach visitors. When in the daytime. Now it is the leaves each headstone-2,000 rose bushes, they come we moke ourselves scarce that take up hours of toll each day. 1,500 shrubs, 1,000 arabis of various in the garden offler or toolshed. We

quired. Then there is the gross to be telm- colours, carpet plants, and three are there to give information if re- "Some of the gardens are so big med. Player reckons that each time eucalyptus bushes. he cuts the grass he walks a distance of 24 miles behind his motor mower

a great responsibility. They were, that it is hard for, the vialtor to and Tila is not as bad as old Palmer, sent over from Australia so that the any particular headstone. Then we. Twenty years ago Polygon

hend gardener at Tyne Cot, near garden aight have a homely atmos- produce our register, a sort of guide The differences between to-day Wood was just one scar in a the Passchendaele Ridge, who has to phere for some of its residents. Re- to the dead.

But ports on their growth have to be sent "From the windows of the office cover a distance of 32 miles. and 25 years age are striking. Sopock-marked countryside.

back to Australia at frequent inter- I have seen hundreds come and go. Tyne Cot is a much bigger plot of

On the headstones are the Some come again and again. I have far only four European nations

Blackened tree stumps stood land, being in the heart of Passchen- vals.

names of many Australians.

watched them age. Thero aro involved as against nine in the

In the spring there are the roses

This is only a small garden. The couple, probably man and wife, who death.

the first week of August, 1914. There up among the other debris of dacle.

to prune. In

summer

The British grave. They are both getting white- half a million plants. is no certainty that others will not

How it ever came to life again blooms have to be picked. This gardeners of Belgium have to tend come each year and stand before a

Karden must always

be kept neat gardeners of Belgium and France haired now. The man come in. Indeed, it will be more

must be a mystery to the horti- because you never know who will have to care for one and a half mil- beat.

"Families: come too. The children difficult for most nations to stay culturists. But here it is in its pay a visit. It may be a mourner, flon plants. This is exclusive of

the British gardens in Germany who came as toddlers are growing

In out if the war gOCH on

many fading autumn glory, adding to it may be a famous politician.

are 141,770 ́ ́ headstones There are few blooms now except There months. But alrendy Italy, which the many tasks that this Eng for a great mass of blood-red ber- France and 571,098 in the two coun- up. They gaze at the bendstones of many had counted in the lists, has lish gardener in a foreign land berts berries climbing a bank at the tries, not counting the large common brothers. The boys now have reach~ 620 gardeners ed the age when they may become

soldiers or sailors.. foot of a memorial to the 5th Aus- gråves. There stood nside. Russia appears has to perform.

Lke George Albert Player. tralian Divilon.

"I should' ilke to talk to them and determined to stay out, as does the

hear all the news of England. Per- haps some come from my native United States.

Wiltshire. But the rule is right. Some of them want to pray by the headstones, und people do not like to know that they are watched.

For over 16 years now George Albert Player has had charge of this garden of 3% acres. .

A second striking difference is the tribute paid to publie opinion in the efforts of all belligerents to justify

EVERY morning at an

early hour he wheels h and explain their entry into war. Some of thene efforts have heen his bicycle out of the front gate designed cynically to mislead. Some of his green-shuttered house in have been mendacious and the main street of Passchen-] logical as to influence only thosedacie. A man from Wiltshire, who have no other sources of he would prefer the leafy lanes Information. But the efforts them-

of England to the flat dreariness selves are testimony to the power

of Flanders, especially now that of mobilized morality.

To-day the public's information ja the stunted willows are shed- immensely greater. For months ding their leaves.

and years struggle has been visibly Although only 10 years old his working up to a climax. Nows-shoulders are drooped the legacy of papers and radio have given people his labours on the soil. But his fage all over the world a front-row seat. has the tan of the open air, and his Is that why so far this has been manner is breezy, as befits an ex- a war without enthusiasm. above naval man, even though marooneri

in a foreign country. hate 7

There has been too a great sense of regret. There are other ideas:

About the same time that Player le pedalling up the muddy road to Polygon three of the younger Players,

a conviction that war is not good, including George and Albert, set out enough as a way to settle national for their English school in Ypres to been to disputes and a revived vision of do their lessons. These very Eng-

Hsh children have never Internationallen

England.

If there wore a few people be-

In Ypres they will sit at desks foro 1914 who had an idea of a

with the children of other English langue of nations to enforce peace, gardeners: thoro aro millóns to-day who look i

They leave behind Mrs. Albert forward to some form of federn-1

Player with the two youngest Pinyers tion...

hanging about her skirts, while she These ideas will have to bo in busies herselt round a monumental)..

Mrs. Player

also from cluded in the war aims of the Belgian stove.

buxom, pink checked, nations-eventually their peace Wiltshire little homesick at times

-but with Dve young children tol

alms.----

dead

де

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

to

"You'll have to put kim on a diet-try health bread and mineral water.”

Ex

La Litle

❝ow do we amuse our-

“How

selves?

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"We have our gardeners' club. Saturday nights we play billards among ourselves in an estaminet in Passchendaele. Occasionally we go to the pictures in Ypres. But we find it hard to follow the pictures because we do not understand the lingo."

Sald Mrs. Player: "It is not a bad. fe. The Belgian people are very friendly. The children are learning a bit of French and Flemish which may be good for them lates

"On Sunday we all pul on our best clothes and go to watch the football matches in Passchendaele.. But it is not like Wiltshire. One day maybe we shall go back to the open grate and the Wiltshire lanes,"

Georgo Albert Player, whose life. and duties I have attempted to de- serbe, is typical of the 520 British.. gardeners in France and Belgum Why is this colony of British gar-

·wives and their deners with their children eking out an existence in strange lands?

Perhaps because on June 20, 1014, the Archduke Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated in the streets of Sernjevo.

Harold

Pemberton

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