air over a horizontal wire. If the seed is thoroughly dried before frost, 
freezing will not hurt it. However, during the winter, it is desirable to 
get it shelled ready for spring planting. 
When sheUing discard all undesirable tip and butt end seeds. 
Place the best ears in one lot and the poor ones in another. Shell them 
off and use the desirable seed for your regular plantings and save the 
second-grade seed for chicken feed. 
Home grown sweet corn seed will come up well even under adverse 
conditions. 
It retains its vitality two or possibly three years. 
Mrs. N. C. McPherson. 
Short Hills Garden Club. 
Carpe Diem 
If this were my last day I'm almost sure 
I'd spend it working in my garden. I 
Would dig around my Kttle plants and try 
To make them happy, so they would endure 
Long after me. Then I would hide secure 
Where my green arbor shades me from the sky, 
And watch how bird and bee and butterfly 
Came hovering to every flowery lure. 
Then, as I rested, 'haps a friend or two, 
Lovers of flowers, would come, and we would walk 
About my little garden-paths, and talk 
Of peaceful times, when all the world seemed true. 
This may be my last day, for all I know: 
What a temptation just to spend it so! 
Anchusa. 
Reprinted from The Chicago Tribune. 
Flowers and the War 
Since America's entry into the war, much has been written about 
the state of mind in which our men will find themselves wheUi.they 
return in peace, the excitement, the danger, the hardships over. 
Some think they will with difl&culty return to a normal and gen- 
erally uneventful Hfe. One writer has it that we can so little imagine 
their experiences and they can so little describe them that we shall 
henceforth walk together as strangers; live with ghosts, the outward 
semblance only left of the men who marched away. 
