If we might carry a little of this faith with us into the summer, 
perhaps it would spread kindly veils over little faults. We are too 
watchful for small mistakes, too regretful for missed perfections. Our 
eyes are blinded to successes because our minds insist upon detail. We 
let little imperfections mar fine effects. 
This year be grateful for what is good, and instead of looking 
back to last week's tulips and forward to next week's peonies, take 
infinite pleasure in this week's swelling buds and tender green leaves. 
"It is loveliness we seek; not lovely things." And the loveliness of a 
garden is hidden from her who seeks only perfect flowers. 
£be Hims anfc jpropaganfca of tbe Garden Clubs 
of Hmerica 
What are the activities that will give increasing force and perma- 
nency to the Garden Club movement? 
Gardens of pretty and harmoniously colored floral patterns with 
architectural accessories, that can be easily produced in a short time, 
with the skill, good taste and money, will not be sufficient. With all the 
beauty of the floral seasons, with such greenery as the winter may offer, 
the floral garden with its limited area will not hold the continued active 
interest of all. Gardens grow in beauty under skillful management up to 
the inevitable time of transplanting, and new varieties and new interests 
may be added each year. To many members this might be a constant 
and ever-increasing joy, but others will come to care more for the won- 
derful natural gardens of the fields and woods that the skill of man or 
woman cannot reproduce quickly, if at all. 
Such wild gardens may be as brilliant as the showiest flower 
garden. They may even be so garishly brilliant as to lead you, who are 
sensitive to color harmony, to desire to weed out the sins of color that lie 
within them. It is true, however, that the permanent gardener, Mother 
Nature, commits few sins in color composition. 
To others, green gardens, with their carpets of ferns, mosses, 
lichens, and Lycopodiums, will make the strongest appeal. In these 
the summer greens and the winter greens have infinite variety in color, 
shade, texture, and outline. Where such growth exists it is a cardinal 
sin to tear it out for the so-called improvements of common cultivation. 
There is, however, just as great an opportunity here to develop dis- 
tinctive beauty as there is in the most brilliantly colored flower garden. 
Here, however, weeding out, rather than planting in, would be the 
proper method of cultivation, for the weed here is a plant out of place, 
a plant that is attractive somewhere else, but that here destroys or im- 
pairs the beauty of the green garden. 
