Block · one region of the page, as the scanner read it. It may hold a whole story, part of one, several, or an advertisement; stitching blocks into articles is the next step. Text is supplied OCR.
Page 11 · column 1 of 7 · from the scan, no model involved
•£■*•*** <■,
Of The Garden
i By Miss Mary Elisabeth Hit* I (This talk was given by Mis* Bite at the meeting of the Flint Bill Garden Club Wednesday, November 15.) " ’ ■
■ 1^ would not attempt to tell you Wise garden club ladies how to plant a bulb or what manner of culture to use to' make it grow best; I only know that what the garden needs most is, God's sunehine and Bis rain. v When 1 was in
Bicmuond, ,lj Went down, to my favorite haunt, the State library and fhexje t:>, - found many books on gardens of iall time. So the idea came to me io give you a very, condensed general idea of gardens from the beginning of time. ‘ M Ever since Adam and Eve were Ixpelled from the Garden of Sdeft. their descendants have been try-.-, tng to recreate Gardens of Edem. (or themselves. * The first gardens of which anything is known are the gardens of Egypt and Babylon.. .. j The plan of these gardens must be symbolic. In the symbolism of numbers four is the munflber of Creation—the rfrer* that went out ' ef Eden - was divided into- four beads, there are four corners of the earth, four! winds <of Heaven, . (our seasons of the year. ,These early gardens which are said to' Save been exceeding magnificent, Were divided into four parts by' •' fivers, whose source wag in the (enter of the garden. This plan is ** ‘Shown fe Persian garden cafpetft"* ffany iwaterfowl floated on the
frface of these waters, making !
most charming spectacle.-1. Shade-; trees were also a dominating feature of these gardens. I quote “We look down on the. flowers of our gardens, but they, look up .to be; • bold the beauty of 'the trees.** Water hM ever been a symbol" of^ beauty,"rest and perpetual freshness, a .picture, of., this b a .solitary tree with' a 'fountain beneath.--; •
; ‘4
M C
41.0%