International Peace Garden, Progress Report

              The P% be Panel %
The National Home Demonstration Council of the United
States and the Federated Women's Institutes of Canada have
the financial responsibility for the grounds on each side of the
entrance roads into the Peace Garden. Tulips and early flowering
shrubbery gave early spring bloom, but it was the excellent show­ing
made by the annual bedding plants that were set out i n early
June that attracted so much attention in the latter part of the
summer. Supplementing these were Pink Lythrum from the
Morden Experimental Station, Gladioli, and later on, Autumn
Asters. Quite a number of the members of the two above or­ganizations
visited the Peace Garden during the season and
seemed quite pleased with the grounds for which they are
responsible.
The large turfed areas financed by the Junior Red Cross of
the two countries are improving each year. The surroundmg
hedge of Chinese E lm is taking shape and growing rapidly.
The Highways Branch of the Government of Manitoba made
a most valuable contribution to the Peace Panel this year by
hardsurfacing the entrance roads leading into the Peace Garden.
Thousands of visitors stop their cars at the Cairn i n order to read
the inscription and to inspect the flowers and shrubs in the
nearby Homemakers and Institute sections. These people appre­ciate
the improvement on the roads. In addition, the plantings
nearby of flowers and shrubbery now show to better advantage
and the hard surfacing gives an air of permanence.
The west end of the Peace Panel adjoining the Terrace Panel
was damaged during the construction of the masonry in the
second panel. This could not be avoided but late in the season
the damaged area was graded and top soil spread ready for
spring planting.
The Terrace Panel
It is into the Terrace Panel that the larger part of the past
three summers' work has gone. Also the greater part of the funds
have been spent in labor and materials for fhis section of the
Peace Garden. Fortunately, over ninety per cent of the stone
work in this panel is completed. There are still four more pools
to construct and four walls, but these are very small units com­pared
with the massive walls and heavy7 footings already built.
There is also the Garden House at the north end of the tipper
terrace to be built. In addition, the concrete channel leading
from the third pool into each of the lower pools w i l l have to
be constructed.
This, the third summer's program, started off with the masons
building the low wall connecting the inner circles of the two
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