THE GARDEN MAGAZINE AvcustT, 1906 
A Cheerful View 
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A Serious Situation 
Situation I. 
Crippled by bone tuberculosis, strapped to a board 
night and day. 
Joe smiles because he is being wonderfully cured at ESR 
Sea Breeze, by the outdoor salt air treatment, the first | Flower Seeds for Summer 
American temporary hospital for such cases. Sowing 
: HE best time to sow seeds of biennials 
Situation II. and perennials is from the middle of 
4,500 such children in New York, 60,000 in the | July to the middle of August. 
United States, only gg at Sea Breeze. Five-year-old The seeds may be sown in the open ground, 
Max speaks for all, ‘‘I don’t want to get dead and be an where the plants are to grow, but I prefer 
angel, I want to play first.” to sow them in a coldframe, because here 
Joe smiles again because the large permanent hospital much better care in the way of watering and 
is already planned, to save many more from a life of shading can be given. 
pain and uselessness. For soil, any good garden loam may be 
used, but a prepared seed soil will be better. 
Situation III. 
Of the $250,000 needed for this hospital $35,000 
remains to be raised at once, or the sums already 
pledged may be lost. 
Joe’s smile is a hurry call to you for a part of this 
$35,000. The money can’t wait, Joe can’t wait, the 
crippled children tortured in the tenements can’t wait. 
Situation IV. 
Sea Breeze is also the place where the Association is 
trying to provide Fresh Air for 20,000 others, many of 
whom are sick or at the breaking point, with no escape 
from dark, foul tenements and stifling streets. 
Buy happiness for them, with strength and new 
courage, by sending to Sea Breeze for a week 
Some overworked mother with four children, $10.00 
A teething baby and ‘‘little mother”’ of ten, 5.00 
An underfed shop girl earning $3.00 per week, 2.50 
An aged woman fighting for self-support, 2.50 
A day party of 400, for one glorious day, 100.00 
Leave happiness behind, it will catch up. Send 2 cents 
for Happiness Calendar. 
IIurry check or pledge to R. S. Minturn, Treasurer, 
Room 208, No. 105 East 22d Street, New York City. 
New York Association for Improving 
the Condition of the Poor 
Oriental poppy (Papaver orientale). The flowers are 
R. Fulton Cutting, Pres. _ red, orange, salmon or pale pink and sometimes as 
much as 6 inches across 
1843-1906 
work a 2-inch dressing of well decayed horse 
See == aan a manure, and enough sand to make your soil 
porous. The amount will depend upon 
er rr nee ------------ | the condition of the soil. 
Make the surface smooth and level with 
a rake, and take out any stones and lumps 
Contributions may be sent in through THE GARDEN MAGAZINE there may be in the top inch of soil. 
p e In order that the seeds may be planted 
by ates this blank: at a uniform depth I always use a marker, 
which may be made as follows: To a piece 
Enclosed find $_ SS Seas Breeze of r-inch board, 4 inches wide, and as long 
as the frame is wide, tack down the middle 
a +inch square strip. This marker is 
SURO eee #o pressed into the soil until the board touches 
the surface of the soil, and then carefully 
Address ee = ay removed. This leaves a clean drill +-inch 
wide and deep, in which to drop the seeds. 
Do not sow the seeds too thick—} of an 
