The Garden Beautiful (1924)

Intertitle reads: “It is only a tiny garden Where the sweetest roses grow...“ A woman poses in a garden with a parasol. Intertitle reads: “And every Eve who loves a garden may improve the tiniest one by adapting some of the ideas shown in these prize winning gardens“. Woman walks through gardens with very ornate plant stands and urns. A child with a parasol plays by a fountain. She pulls a water lily from the water and smells it. A young girl sits by a statue - looks like a biblical figure. Woman dangles her hand in water of small ornamental pond. Child potters around in a rockery. Next section appears to be from a stage show. Alfred Lester’s scientific “stetho-thermal“ methods are illustrated. Doddery man approaches fake plants in pots with a stethoscope. He listens to a flower through his stethoscope. He then takes the pulse of another plant and the temperature of another. Title reads: “But in “Chili Bom-Bom“ Sonnie Hale shows Hermione Baddeley this “treat-em-rough“ dance“. Sonnie thr
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