THE FLOWER GARDEN AS A FACTOR 

 IN HOME-MAKING 



HE hope of America is in the homes of Amer- 

 ica. Whatever will lead to the betterment of 

 our home life is to be sought after. 



The garden of the world is California, 

 and the ideal home may be made here. I am 

 fearful at times, however, that home-makers, and this means 

 especially the women, for they are the home -keepers 

 of the land, fail to appreciate the very large influence 

 that the garden, and especially the flower garden, has on the 

 life of the family and of the community. 



I believe that nine out of ten people that come to Cali- 

 fornia come because of our fine climate, and they come ex- 

 pecting to live out-of-doors the greater part of each year; 

 but the same strenuous conditions that surround life elsewhere 

 are found here. Just as many hours must be put into the 

 daily grind as in New York City, if the livelihood is to be 

 made for the family. In the farming communities the men 

 of the family seem to find scope for their activities in just as 

 strenuous a manner as if they were seeding hundreds of acres 

 of Dakota farm lands, or covering early spring crops from 

 the frost in some other locality. The housewife finds that 



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