Nation: CULTIVATING THE AMERICAN GARDEN

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It was much the same all over. In Greenfield, Iowa, seven-year-old Craig Baudler made the paper for running his collection of salamanders up to 16. In Chicago, where a year ago this week the confrontation of cops and youthful demonstrators polarized the nation, the talk in blue-collar saloons and on the commuter trains was of the Cubs and Ken Holtzman's no-hitter against the Atlanta Braves. Atlanta's Mayor Ivan Allen casually headed for a ranch in Wyoming where he can get in touch with his city hall only by a horseback canter out of the woods to a telephone. In Los Angeles, the fizz and even the anti-fuzz had gone out of this month's Watts Festival, the annual community commemoration of the 1965 riots that were the first of the recent major race riots; everybody in Southern California was at the beach. "We've had a pretty good summer," said Patrolman Nick Giordano as he handed out an occasional ticket for jaywalking in Manhattan's Union Square. "Quiet. I only hope to God it will stay that way."