A Garden Is Half Made

One Does Not Begin To Make A Garden Until He Wants A Garden. To Want A Garden Is To Be Interested In Plants, In The Winds And Rains, In Birds And Insects, In The Warm-smelling Earth.

The Department Of Home Economics Was Organized To Train A Woman In Efficiency And To Develop Her Outlook To Life. Such A Department Is A Necessity As A Means Of Developing A Society. It Stands For The Evolution Of Women's Work And Place.

A Garden Requires Patient Labor And Attention. Plants Do Not Grow Merely To Satisfy Ambitions Or To Fulfill Good Intentions. They Thrive Because Someone Expended Effort On Them.

We Accept It Because We Have Seen The Vision. We Know That We Cannot Reap The Harvest, But We Hope That We May So Well Prepare The Land And So Diligently Sow The Seed That Our Successors May Gather The Ripened Grain.

Yesterday The Twig Was Brown And Bare; To-day The Glint Of Green Is There; Tomorrow Will Be Leaflets Spare; I Know No Thing So Wondrous Fair, No Miracle So Strangely Rare. I Wonder What Will Next Be There!