A GOOD WIFE LOVES FLOWERS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 47, 11 March 1937, Page 4

A GOOD WIFE LOVES FLOWERS

"Whenever you see flowers in the windows of a home you may be sure a beauty loving person lives there," says a writer in the Christian Science Monitor. Some one who rejoices in colour an din graeefulness of line and delicaey of pattera. She may not be able to aff ord the pietures, wall coverings and furniture she would like, but she can have flowers, which cost little or nothing if she grows them herself, to gratify her desire for the beautiful and- the ai'tistic. A place may be ever so small and humble, but it will have about it an air of refinement and r graeiousness if there are growing plants in elean and shining windows.' ' "The love of flowers is universal," the arfcicle continues. "Rich people can. indulge it by filling their rooms with a succession of cut flowers from hot houses, a delightful way to be able to do. But most of us, espeeially in the country, have to be contented with garden flowers in tihe summer and potted plants and bulbs iiL our windows in the winter. But after all, perhaps we approeiate them the more because we fend amd care for them. There is so much pleasure to be gained in watching them develop and seeing the buds unfold into blossoma, Flowers are like children — they need sunshine and fresh air and attention, and love. Disciplining, too. And the seed pods and withered ; flowers mnst not be allowed to collect on the plants. A sucessful f lower grow/er must be generous, for the more a plant is cut back for slips or tylooms the better it grows. But then, I never did see a real flowcr ^ lo-v/ter who was inean or stingy or close in any way. If you want to get aigood wife just piek out a girl who likes to grow flowem."