When we have made our lovely and beloved gardens, and need 
not hoe and water, plant and transplant all of the time, let us try to 
use them. It is a hot day, and weeding is hard work, but the rest of 
that French lesson will learn itself: the trees will be arbors, and the 
"grand del" will be the ceiling of our outdoor room. Some more 
borders clipped, and we may write that letter to the publishers whom 
we expect to have, or our far-off friends, asleep on the other side of the 
world, may read us into their hearts again, when a letter has traveled 
so far. A darning basket may occupy one for hours on end, but, while 
we stick' that needle in and pull it out, the whole joyful universe is 
with us. 
On pleasant afternoons there may be chairs and fruits, sandwiches 
and tea, war talk and drama talk, and bouquets to carry home, but 
the real Garden Living will not hold many people at once. We 
Americans have not the voices for it; true musicians and the noiseless 
creatures of the Earth are those best suited to companionship in the 
outdoor world. 
Even in Winter time, on a sunny day when the eaves are dripping, 
we may take refuge in a garden sheltered by the warmth of ever- 
greens and look down the brown walks, pleasantly sighing with the 
Greek voice of a thousand years ago, "Ah me, the mallows dead in 
the garden drear!" M. CD. Anderson, 
The Garden Club of Michigan. 
Tulip Economy 
This spring while the gardens blazed with tulips, it occurred to me 
that there was much unnecessary discussion of varieties in May- 
flowering, Breeder, and Darwin Tulips. There are so many pinks, 
so many mauves, so many yellows and buffs and deep, dark reddish 
purples, but, after all, how slight the variations are and does it pay 
in a comparitively small garden to buy new and unusual varieties 
when the old ones are really best and the new ones expensive only be- 
cause they are new? 
For instance, there is no bright pink so clear and fresh as Clara 
Butt. Others are newer, but when Clara can be had for from Si.oo 
to $2.75 a hundred why pay $10.00 for something that is, possibly, 
just as good? 
Dream, with its charming blue centre, is by far the loveliest of the 
mauves. It costs from $2.50 to $4.00 a hundred. If you long to spend 
$30.00 for a good mauve tulip, pray do, but depend upon it, you will 
like Dream better. 
