June 19. 1920 



HORTICULTURE 



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Ihe I'oroiui Cliemical Co.. of .Milwau- 

 kee. Wis., is to be highly prized by all 

 Kardeners who possess it, as offering 

 I hem important first aid in dealing 

 with garden difficulties of all sorts. 



some afternoon and look over the site 

 and building to see tor themselves how 

 beautiful is the country about there, 

 and how necessary is the proper fur- 

 nishing of the house. 



More and more are women showing 

 an interest in horticultural matters 

 from a professional viewpoint. The 

 various horticultural schools for 

 women are being w^ell attended, and 

 some of the agricultural colleges are 

 now providing for women students. 

 .At a recent meeting of the Worcester 

 Garden Club. Mrs. Crocker, of Brook- 

 line, made an appeal for the interest 

 and support of Worcester women in 

 the new dormitory for women at 

 Massachusetts Agricultural college. 

 The legislature, it seems, ha.'^ granted 

 an appropriation much smaller than 

 that asked for and equal only to build- 

 ing a very modest dormitory for the 

 housing of 98 students. The equip- 

 ment for the building must be furn- 

 ished by funds raised among people in- 

 .terested in the project of training 

 women in farming and dairying, Mrs. 

 Crocker's appeal was forcefully and in- 

 terestingly made, and her charming 

 personality lent pleasantness to the 

 usually unpleasant task of asking for 

 money. Her suggestion was that 

 Worcester women who are fond of 

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DROWSY FLOWERS. 

 The South .African flowers which 

 are opening their eyes at Hillcrest 

 this summer are drowsy or sleepy 

 flowers. They shut up at night and 

 do not fully wake unless it is a bright, 

 sunny day. The blue daisies or 

 diaries have a peculiar way of going 

 to sleep. They roll up their blue rays 

 close to the yellow disk so that earl.\ 

 in the morning all that one sees is the 

 yellow centre, then as the sun comes 

 out they spread their rays. Some of 

 the Charles have blue disks, some 

 yellow. The iceplant or mesembry- 

 anthemums. the seeds of which were 

 sent us, vary much in color, pink with 

 a white eye. buff, white, salmon-color 

 and crimson. The diinorphotheca are 

 a pure white, larger than an oxeyed 

 daisy or white weed, and with a dark 

 plum centre. They also close together 

 at night, but do not curve back their 

 rays like the charies. The senecis 

 elegans or ragwort does not close its 

 aster-colored flowers but holds them 

 open in pretty, loose codymbs. It is a 

 flower which teases one in the garden 

 as to the color of the vase in which 



it coiild most becomingly lie placed. 

 should it be a soft cream or a dull 

 gray or green best to set off its 

 charms. Like the Cercis or Judas 

 tree it needs its especial setting. 



These flowers of the sunshine we 

 are told grow in a climate where the 

 winters are like those of central or 

 southern California, with very little 

 or any frost. The letter from which 

 this account of the climate was writ- 

 ten was dated Mulders Vlei. Cape 

 Province. South .Africa, April 2nd, 

 lUL'ii, and continue i. ".My garden is 

 now quite gay with autumn roses, 

 zinnias and verbenas. Chrysanthe- 

 mums are now about to blossom. The 

 native flowers or annuals must soon 

 be planted." 



•Inst now I saw two boys on their 

 w^ay to the aviation field looking at 

 my garden. I called their attention to 

 the mesembryanthemums and told 

 them that those flowers went to sleep 

 in .Africa and that they had waked up 

 in Weston. How^ little conscious they 

 had been of the time they went to 

 seed and rose again in Weston. 



.M. R. Ca.se. 



Hillcrest Gardens. 



.Tune 13th, 1920. 



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