Rain versus Hose
The problem why rain is obviously more effective than any watering of garden plants seems to have exercised the wonder of a great many persons. The most plausible of the theories put forward comes from a St. Leonard's rectory. " In the course of a long and busy life, in which gardening has been my chief recreation, I have often asked myself the question. . . . The answer seems to me to be that it. is due to the atmospheric conditions. . . . How delightfully fresh and lovely the garden seems on a warm summer's morning after a night of soft, refresh- ing rain.' How different is both feel and look in a hot, dry atmosphere in spite of a liberal watering over-night." After all, leaves breathe. Roots arc not everything, and the underside of leaves matters as well as the top.
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