HAVE A GOURD ARBOR 
Would you like to have a gourd arbor with gourds hanging 
down from above, formed by the mystic hand of the natures culpture in 
the most fantastic shapes and forms imaginable? To be gazed upon in 
awe and wonderment at what Mother Nature can produce? 
As I am writing this, I am looking upon an arbor about ten 
feet high, with rows eight feet apart and joined at the top by the ends 
of the gourd vines and fastened tght to the wires above by their own 
tendrils or octopus arms. 
From above are hanging scherical and globular shapes of the 
Plebial Gourd. Like the goblings, they are swaying in the breeze that 
finds its way through the dense foliage of the gourd vine. It is a sight 
of beauty and admiration, and a real place of comfort and relaxation 
in this my arbor of gourds. 
When the sun has gone to rest is the time the gourds look 
their best, for it is then that the blossoms open, for the gourds are 
night bloomers and bloom at night except for those of the Cucurbita 
Pepo, which are yellow bloomers and bloom in the day time only. 
From the far and strange lands of Mexico, and the far lands 
of Central and South America, as well as Africa and Asia, the mis¬ 
sionary workers have used the gourds, and seeing their great value 
as household utilities and also their great ornamental value, have, 
upon coming back to this country, brought gourd seeds with them. 
It is now no longer necessary to hunt for the seeds all over the globe 
as we have in this country every gourd and gourd seeds that are 
worth-while growing, whether it be for curiosity, ornaments, food or 
utility. 
It is simple to grow gourds, I mean the real hard shell lagen- 
aria gourds. They dry hard and stay that way indefinitely, for they 
have very few pests to bother them and are such fast growers that 
they outgrow everything in their path and keep on growing sometimes 
to a length of forty feet. Their vines stretch in all directions, with fruit 
high and low and never bothered by pests. This fruit, or the gourds, 
when perfectly dry, can be cut, carved, polished, painted or decorated 
and made into hundreds of useful and ornamental articles which find 
ready market wherever they are shown and are greatly sought as 
souvenirs. 
To you, my dear reader, I will say: "Grow some Gourds for 
pleasure and profit.'' 
