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WGSSS Willis
GARDENING NUMBER
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The Carolinas, Virginia, Georgia, ld Florida.
FOUNDED 18 86, AT RALEIGIVN- C.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1914
$1 a Year; 5c. a Copy
THE PHILOSOPHY OF FLOWERS
THE grounds about the home are a part of itthe
ocuxug mai iaK.es away irom ine pne 01 lumoer
and stone -its look of barren cheerjessness
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lawns is a house only, and never
has
that air
of charm
that stately
trees, green grass
and flowers lend even
to the humblest cottage.
This issue is our gardening
number, and we do not feel that it
is unfitting here to say a word about the
part beautiful surroundings play in making
the place where we live something more than a
home in name only. Flowers and trees and grass
Nature's means of picturing her beauties to us de
lights that are as much an essential part of a
well rounded life as arethe more material
fruits of orchard and field. The time should
be when no Southern farm home would be
without a spacious, well sodded lawn, with
a few well placed trees and borders of
shrubs and flowers. A few loads of good
manure and a half day's work in sodding
the lawn will pay any farmer good divi
dends larger returns in the end, perhaps,
than an equal expenditure anywhere else
on the farm. At first these returns won't
be visible, and maybe never, in dollars and
cents; but as the years go by the sweet
satisfaction that comes from pretty
grounds grows apace, and few finer in
fluences exist for keeping warm the love
of the land in the hearts of our country
boys and girls.
FEATURES OF THIS ISSUE -
A Reading Course in Agriculture 11
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How to Grow Beans
' Rural Credits Legislation .
Setting Shade Trees . . .
Strawberry Culture . .
Sweet Potato Growing . . .
The Winter and Spring Garden
Torrens Land Titles . .
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