When you walk into one of the great Spring Mower Shows this month, the fragrance and the color of the flowers, the grace of the trees in full leaf, and the perfect order of the gardens make a very welcome preview of Spring.

No matter what the weather outdoors, it is Spring in full flower beyond the turnstiles. However, not one visitor in a thousand appreciates the veritable miracle that the men and women who build the shows have accomplished.

Only those who have forced plant material know the labor, the trials and tribulations and the heartaches that went into the bringing of the multitudes of different things into maturity ahead of time. Only the very few who labored on the plans for the shows and the few hundreds of artisans who built the show frameworks, know the problems that had to be solved not some day next week – but right the very minute they arose. Consider! Upon acres of dusty emptiness, which are the various halls, the show people created perfect Edens.

Natural laws were, in effect, suspended. Time and circumstance were simply ignored. Americans may not know it – but it is only here in this great nation of ours, rich with gardeners and richer still with a multitude of patrons who support the various shows, that our great Spring Shows are possible.

Elsewhere, shows are of plant material grown naturally and at little cost. In America, we dramatize gardens – and so create acres of beauty for the pleasure and profit of American gardeners.

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