Judge — April 2, 1932 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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The Man With a Hoe Mor of the robins, deeply tanned, have returned from the South. In conversation with one of them I learned that hotels in St. Augustine and Tampa gave them whole this past season. But what I'm try this—the robins are noisy Congressman suites x to unload is ack and a small, envelope — seeds — from my has planted thoughts of gardening in my mind. As one wed; long New York's streets in Spring and gli mugs of passersby, one notes a bulgy fara beam in their eyes. That beam is there because they are not native New Yorkers—because there was a day long since when they had They are recalling the thrill of a personal pea peeping up. a little garden somewhere. But, of course, a garden in New York is something only to dream about, unless you live in a pent-house surrounded by synthetic terra firma; or can inveigle Mr. Rockefelle Fifty-fourth Street Guards into let- JUDGE ting you rip up the rose bushes in his hundred-foot | park and flick a few broccoli seeds around. I should say a garden in New York as something to dream about, be- I've been thinking about and solving the problem. Now, you've scen City Workmen prepare the repairing of a few blocks of street in your neighborhood. ‘They do it something like this: the pave- ment is ripped away down to the bare ground; then the City Workmen take a Cunard Installment Plan Tour to Borneo and play pinochle for a few months. The street is closed during their absence. Am I so dumb, if I suggest that People who liv the torn-up street bust out to ware shop and buy hoes, such tools? And after the street has been properly turned and furrowed and claims staked out, that they storm a seed store and bury their purchases in the street? There's another way of having a little garden in town, too, if you live, long a street bounding Central , Which is watched pretty closely cause Some warm assemble a few friends dressed in top hats and cuta- ways—carrying hoes and rakes, rent a small uniformed brass band, get in a formation and march into Park along to the statue of Come to think of it, hy Mulrooney minions. Spring morning bani Literary and Horticulture So- * which ‘will put the police at The party then sets to work clearing shrubbery from the base of Mr. Shakespes The ground will then be dug up and furrowed. Some- one must then make a speech about flowers and Shakespeare, while seeds are planted. Who will know the packet labeled “Rhododendrons” is really turnips? After a coupla months, at midnight. you saunter over to Shakespeare and dig up the morrow’s vegetables! Open Letter D ran Harry Steven: As you may have heard, in about two weeks the baseball season GARDENING JA THE CITY/ comicbooks.com