AMONG 
WHEN THE WHOLE COUNTRY “GARDENS FINELY” 
T HAS long been said, and aptly, that gardening is a social 
activity, notwithstanding that gardening is a thing in 
which the individual may work alone and in seclusion; for 
there is with it an introduction to a craft fellowship, the 
like of which is not met in any other hobby or avocation 
of the human animal. 
A ND now a nation-wide celebration in the things belonging 
to and branching out from the garden has been formally 
launched under the direction of the General Federation of 
Womens’ Clubs, a movement which is designed to carry the 
inspiration of the garden to every community and club group 
throughout the United States. That such a national concentra¬ 
tion of energy and cooperative interest in the garden and all 
that it means, not only from the point of view of utility but also 
of esthetics and civics, should have been launched at all is an 
arresting testimony to the present-day widespread and ever ex¬ 
tending garden interest in our country. This National Garden 
Week, April 22-28, is an event that is underlaid with much sig¬ 
nificance and many possibilities of national betterment, for the 
community that is possessed of the greatest number of well-kept 
gardens boasts on its roll the greatest proportion of solid and 
stable citizens. 
The country as a whole has arrived at the stage when the 
people lean to “garden finely,” and of all human activities there 
is none other that is so keyed up to graceful and interesting 
association with one’s fellows in an interpretation of the ways 
and methods of nature. Well indeed was it said four hundred 
years ago that “art itself is nature,” and hence it has such an 
appealing hold on those who once get an introduction to its 
allurements. 
N ATIONAL GARDEN WEEK adopted by the General 
Federation of Women’s Clubs at the suggestion of The 
Garden Magazine, looks for the simultaneous concentration 
on the affairs of the garden during this one selected week. All 
communities are not in one climatic region, but garden affairs 
can be talked about even when they cannot be practised, and 
sometimes the interchange of ideas and the note of reminiscence 
have a value and stimulating effect that bear good fruit. The 
generally adaptable programme which has been accepted looks 
for a coordination of thoughts and activities on each day of the 
selected week beginning in the churches on April 22. Each 
community will, of course, select those topics which best fit 
its own conditions and possibilities. To the nurserymen, the 
seedsmen, to the civic authorities, even to the dilettante and 
the litterateur the appeal comes with force. In song and story, 
in folk lore, and in art, the garden with its flowers and fruits 
has been sung of old. 
It is suggested that each community take the skeleton pro¬ 
gramme, filling in with such features as may be possible from 
local association and talent. All associated organizations can 
be invited to cooperate in this as in other national week move¬ 
ments, and once started, let National Garden Week be an annual 
stimulus when the minds of the whole community shall turn 
instructively to that greatest and purest of human pleasures. 
Let each individual Garden Magazine reader or group of 
readers at once organize as a Community Committee to start 
the preliminaries in such activities, for, representing the keenest 
gardening minds, their individual cooperation will be doubly 
welcomed in the concerted movements of the local units of the 
federated clubs. 
Some Things You Can Do for National Garden Week 
Ask your Board of Trade, Commerce, School or Health Board to 
help you. Get your local banks or largest business houses to offer prizes 
for gardens or beauty spots. 
Ask some local club to offer free seeds to children. Get your florist 
to offer surplus plants and roots; and write to the Federal Dept, of 
Agriculture at Washington for bulletins on flowers, gardens, soils, etc. 
Write to the Commissioner of Education at Washington for bulle¬ 
tins on School Gardens. 
Get in touch with your nearest State Agricultural College. If you 
do not know the address of this institution, write to The Garden Mag¬ 
azine and you will at once be put in touch with it. 
Ask the College to send you a canning demonstrator to teach you 
how to can the surplus vegetables of your garden. These workers will 
come to you without charge. 
Get your local newspaper to aid you in arousing interest in your 
work. Get public-spirited citizens to take up this matter with you. 
There is no community without men and women vitally concerned 
in the things that are for the good of that community; get them in¬ 
terested ! 
Get speakers to give talks. Arrange flower shows, pageants, parades. 
Change your waste places into beauty spots, clean up the rubbish 
piles. This is of interest to every fire commissioner and home owner. 
If you desire to earnestly and purposefully conduct a Garden Week 
in your town, there are many aids that you can have for the asking. 
Get your own town to adopt some flower as its own and then stress 
the cultivation of this. 
A NAME, AND SOME HISTORY 
HOUGH a Rose by any other name may smell as sweet, 
there is a palpable question as to whether a given Rose by 
any other name would sell as well. At all events an appropriate 
or a convenient name is a desirable handle for a Rose, or any 
other thing for that matter, to become truly familiar. 
Does any one doubt the soundness of the commercial instinct 
that caused Crimson Rambler, for example, to appear in the place 
of The Engineer? Under its more fitting name that Rose became 
a monument to its introducer (Turner) and a beacon light in 
modern Rose culture. Names mean much, indeed, and are often 
worth real money, which fact leads to a race for priority in at¬ 
taching the name of some popular star or idol of the hour to 
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