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pottery, jewelry — all have some touch of Horticulture. Bailey says, "Rob 

 the race of the art suggestions that it has had from plants and you rob it of 

 its architecture and its decorations." 



In music we find the "Last Rose of Summer," MacDowell's "To a Wild 

 Rose," Tschaikowsky's "Waltz of the Flowers." Most of such music is soft, 

 warm, tender, or sweet. In poetry there are Wordsworth's daffodils in "I 

 Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," Tennyson's "Flower in the Crannied Wall," 

 the Mother Goose rhymes of childhood, Stevenson's A Child's Garden of 

 Verses, and the sentiments of James Whitcomb Riley. One of the most beauti- 

 ful passages in literature is "Consider the lilies of the field, how they toil not, 

 neither do they spin; yet I say unto you that even Solomon in all his glory 

 was not arrayed like one of these." 



In triumph we give the laurel wreath, or in modern usage, "Orchids to 

 you" — a combination of the highest phylogenetic form and the ultimate in 

 modernity! In sorrow, we give the funeral wreath and the floral tribute. In 

 affection we offer flowers — ". . . a rose by any other name would smell as 

 sweet." 



And if you will analyze, you will see that Horticulture is associated mostly 

 with the senses of sight, smell, taste, and touch — seldom with sound. It is 

 entwined with the tender, with affection, with pleasure, with harmony, with 

 refinement, with lovely form, pleasing flavors, colors, and aromas, and with 

 beauty. It is touched by ease, luxury, home, and children. Conflict, bustle, 

 clash of personalities, noise, and confusion have no place in horticultural 

 terminology. 



It is because of some of these values, associated with healing, that medicine 

 turns to Horticulture. The nervous tensions of modern living are eased by 

 the creative and muscular outlets of gardening. The cures that have been 

 effected and the maladies that have been prevented are uncounted. "Horti- 

 cultural therapy" is a branch of occupational therapy that is developing 

 rapidly. 



On the social side, gardening is the safety valve of society. Better than 

 standing armies and regimented recreation is the outlet of the garden. One 

 may garden as little and as inexpensively as he likes, or as much and as 

 extravagantly as he likes. With the drift to the cities, the country is found 

 in the backyard garden and is carried indoors in house plants and window 

 boxes. When grandmother can no longer tend her garden, she is found seated 

 lovingly and shawl-covered in a rocking chair next to the window in which 

 are growing the plants that she loved best. Plants and gardens anchor society. 

 A geranium growing in the yard signals a home of warmth, permanence, and 

 hospitality. 



Gardening means health, stability, and happiness. The 20 million Victory 

 Gardens did more for America than produce food. The support which industry 

 has given to the garden movement indicates the value it has found in garden- 



