sMAY"i " 13 i 1951 Strange But True

37 P. ll. MacArthur

sign in front of the New Eng- land Telephone Company's bulld- mg in unoolnvills Center, Maine: -hoursservicelaun.-dp.ln. ,sign infront of I one arm lunch "in Kitchener. Ontario: Joe keeps this place. this place keeps Joe. V.-More synthetic fibres creep -into bed covers as wool prices soar. .Wall Street Journal.

Vancouver census 1011 (city gllly) shows 7,418 persons born the Jafartlme Provinces. Quebec 3,lli9. Ontario 22.910. Prairie Pro- vinces 30.090. Ua 5- A- 12.336. Eur- ope 15.000, China and Japan H.758 -quite a competitive city.

'I'he city has also a religious pop- lmion of EH91. made up 0! different churches or rather de- nominations. The city proper has :24 churches lnclus" U missions.

vancouv has a potential wat-

cr supply for a city the size oil

London. This amazing feeder cniirely free of impurities and re- quires no purification or filtra- lion systems; and the high pres- sure tunnel which carries Van- vouver's water nmply under I-'eist Narrows. is ayunlque achieve- -ment in engineering.

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cilarlos Goodyear, of rubber '.iame, was once imprisoned for -food to keep his kids from starv ling, and buried one of his chil- fdren on charity. At that time his -neighbors said he was crazy.

Wiliam Murdock was laushed at iby sir Walter Scott and sir

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perennials have grown large and -can be divided. A splendid way to let a large number of perennials is to (row them from seed at small cost. I have written about. this method so many times it may be- come wearisome to some readers.

I The seed should be sown early in May and then the plants will be a good size to transplant to

ternber and they will .following year. These ,nre easily grown: Delphinium Orientals Poppies. Iceland Pop- ;pies. Lupinu. Thalictrum, Violas. -Nelleta. Arabis. Aubretia Iberis ,VeronicI. and in Blennials, Sweet rwillism. Forget-Me-Not, (Myoc- Iotis) in the catalogue, Canterbury

perennials

”IBells. Floxgiove, I-Iollyhock. and:

Ifragrant Wallflower. Pinks of many varieties are easy to grow land the foliage is excellent so with their delicious fragrance they are grown every year in this ,zarden so now- there are a great ,many plants. Coltanbine is also a ifavorite of mine and it is easy to get a collection of them from segd. I Perennial Phlox is one of the

9” very best plants for the hardy 5-:'

,border as it blooms in August and ysetpicmber and is fragrant and -long-lasting. Iriser are lovely EITIY Dlants. They are hardy and multiply very fast. Pennies are a .must in a perennial border and -these three plants mentioned can- ,not be grown from seed by ama- lteurs, so they must be ordered as plants.

I in shrubs, my favorites are:

ll-lumphrey Davy when he talked gym mu In hudy Ind xmgg

Tof lighting London by means of icoal gas conveyed to buildings by - pipes, but Scott lived to use gas to "light his castle at Abbottsford.

'. women called Elias I-Iowe a fool and a dreamer when he was work- Ilng on his machine that has prov-

led a blessing to millfons of their'

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It was the dreaming I: ussmsn who made Paris most beautiful city on earth.

It was the toil and the dreams of our pioneer parents who made Prince Edward Island the beauti- ful place it is today.

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Baron the

I A Paris hatter. named Marteli.'

knew the history of the customers whose heads he fitted to bats. How did he do it? By being able to read heads as a general rule. The hat- ier scanned to think that heads that were irregular in shape were usually the best and. the large sizes always ouldistanced the smaller ones. Martell was what one might call a phronologist hat- ter.

You never saw a daisy trying to ape a sunflower, or a rose trying to be like a lily. But some men are so afraid of being original that they become imitators of others.

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In bye gone days in this island it used to be a law that all pedd- iers' wagons be marked with the owner's name.

The Isis Marshal Cameron once accosted a. paddle in Charlotte: town whose name had been eras- vd from the wagon by some small boys.

"Is that your wegonl'f bellowed the city Marshal.

"Of course it's my wagon," said the driver. ”Why? What's wrong with it?”

"I observe," said the Marshal, "that your name is obliterated."

"You're wrong," smiled the driv- or. "My name's Dunigln and I don't care who knows it."

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Whatever we acquire or real value we must pay for. The things that others do for ll are but de- lusions. Every one of us. whether we realize it or not. are personal

rant. Phlladelphus (Mock:-Orange) is very showy and it is covered Iwith berries in the rail and the vbirds love them; other good shrubs are: Barberry, grand in the late summer with scarlet berries, and the Viburnums in many varieties that we call the snowball.

In the preparation of the per- lenniai border see that there is

sood drainage as this is most im-

P0"-I-M'. then manure with some ibarnysrd fertiliwr. oow manure Lg

best. but all kinds have been used fin this garden with good effect.

I hope that some of this infor- mation will be helpful to those who have asked for it. I am amazed at the number who are planning and longing for a garden in the coun- try and the town and in spite of some who try to explain that it 13 a difficult thing to garden, it real- iv is easy if you wish hard enough, and there are a few general ruleg that must be observed... Plant firmly, and do not allow plants to dry out before -planting, if they look wilted, water well and now is the time to plantl

my debtors to the world. The day of our birth civilization pened an ac. t with us. How can anyone dare say that the world owes him a living when he njoyg all that he has got from t generations who went throixh all kind of mi. vations to llliilduce the comforts and conveniences which are ours todly. He is thief who pulls out the ripe plums stored up by past generations and refuses to WI! Invthim beck-in exchange. No stream flows into or out or Little Maniiou Lake, suntg,-he. wan. lllornling an interior basin, it has through the ages. sccumulat. ed a store of mineral salts. It was here long before the advent of the white man, that Indians brought their sick and wounded in the be- lief that the lake,water possessed healing powers. Today, this is the chief source of Little Manitou's attraction, the water being so buoyant that even the non-swimmer may float with- out fear.

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' For the main plantings it is not advisable to plant or set out too soon. with moderately tender .-things little is in be gained by lplnntlng until both the soil and air zhave started to turn warm and

T their permanent borders in Sep-I g 1-- I bloom melspring has really arrived. Eu t is

advice. of course. does not apply 'to very hardy flowers and" vege- Itables nor to most nursery stock. igrass seed. etc. And it does not apply rigidly to a few. extra early rows of almost anything in the -vegetable line.

Ellen's man

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In tune with the ever mounting cost of living, a concern of both seller and buyer, we noted the Iprice had advanced several hun- Idrecliold since our buyings of Ithese began . . . James reckoned ,lt was Just as well the bridge was out today, since more than one I of household gadgets 'was obliged to turn back at lane's end.

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Slim seeds of Bachelor's Buttons came to light today in a cup- board-cleaning. a promise of graceful additions to summer bou- quets - delightful blue shades to ,comiplc-ment August's yellows. it 'is of interest to note that flower- seeds sown in a new garden in the community the last day of March, of this strange and lovely spring on The Island are now growing thriftily - having been given protection to tide them over the one night of frost since then. And new day by day the woodlands take on richer hues. and along pastures and meadows Nature spills her new green with lavish hand. And here along the fields. one may catch sight of "a farmer at his fencing or "at the manure," and there in a pre-crop- ping endeavour others ferry grey- clad logs to the mill. Borne to us on the wind of day the old famil- lar ring of the swing there now shades in with our other spring sounds.

0 And "Oh dear!" James slglls as favoring his back he sinks in the old armchair. And "Oh dear!" we echo. of our joints that saw ser- vice at the spring-cleaning t0dIY- Until tomorrow - Diary - Good-night.. . . . . . .

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If these come along and escape the frost one gets a good deal of satisfaction in boastinf, to the neighbors. if they don't come. well one is out only a few cents worth of seed and in an hour's healthy exercise. Just as soon as the mound is fit to work, one can take a chance on a few feet of lettuce. some radish, carrots, onions, spin- ach. and such things. Even a few hllls,of potatoes may be planted. Main plantings, however, of vege- tables and flowers should wait until practically all danger Oi frost has passed.

when Soil is Flt

Above, and in many garden art- icles and bulletins. appear the caution "when the sqil is fit to work". What does that mean? 1! one can walk throuzh the slider! without getting one's shoes really muddy or if when one squeezes a handful of soil it crumbles rather than packs into a hard ball, then the ground is fit to cultivate and plant. If it is wetter than this it is too soon, and with heavy soil it will do harm to work it. It is very liable to bake hard later on into lumps that will take half the sum- mer to break up.

small cost But. Vital

Too much emphasis cannot be laid on suitable seed. Suitable seed is more than lust pure, high qual- ity, graded seed. It is seed of va- rieties especially selected and for Canadian conditions. In vegetables it also means that the variety has been approved and tested officially for Canada.

As seed is the only factor in gardening over which men has ab- solute control, and as it costs a few cents a package for all that which will be needed in a normal garden for a whole year, nothing but the best should be considered.

Two Comrnonest Mistakes

Probably the two commonest mistakes are too thick and too deep in sowing flower and vegetable seed. One should remember that all these things require room, cvcn tiny things like alyssum or ra.-llsn or onions. With big things like peas, etc., it is not hard to space plant, but with tiny seeds it is more difficult and after the plants come up they should be thinned. To spread very small seed more evenly some experts mix with a little sand or fine soil and saw the mixture. The general rule for dellth is three times the dialneter. Now that does not mean getting out a ruler or calipers. It simply Bllseests that fine seed such as that 01' 001011. POPPY. portulaca and car- igg” Would be merely Pressed into e soil. larger seed like beans and D935 01' coin covered about unlnch 3"" Ilfaer such as potatoes and Rladioli. three to six inches. If planted too deep, the tiny seed ca. Milli! my not Berminate at all.

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Save It

"””"hI"8 "lit Brows mould ho mmrxn away". This would be 3 en: 5' Rood motto for any gard.

1': 0' farmer too. for that mat- twegedfhe "'3'" Who dumps all the

and cut grass into the garb- use nail is actually tossing way his soil. All garden refuse weeds 8"" CHDDIDKI. leaves, etc.,'will ml, down into excellent soil, and so gill a lot of other things if we give

gm a- little cssuudIBZ8menl,,

5115"! a corner of the garden, screened with shrubbery or some. ghing else and away from the 01139. is selected for this soil-mall. I08 business. It is technically known '5 Wmbolting. and the material a '-''-'”"P055 Mill Simply select a fair- iy well-drained spot and here dump he leaves, weeds, gr-ggg and what. .-ver is collected. Over this we iprinkis a layer of earth and the WWW is repeated each time we add s9me.refuse. If available add ionic manure and possibly a little .me and eommerc.-l fertilizer. It's I 60041 Dian to soak this pile oc- casionally with water and um um, it over once or twice to assist de. :omposition. In a few month; this Bile will break down into first- HIM. l'IBh Rnrden soil. The process can be -hastened by using some of the various patent chemicals on the market.

The Big Three

Most flowers and vegetables fall into three main classes - hardy, -semi-hardy and tender. In plant- ing we should bear in mind that U10 11113 ilroup are not afraid of frost, the second can take a little but they don't like it, the third will . be killed Just as sure as tomorrow 'if the mercury falls below 32 de.

grees.

In the first category come flow. on -and vegetables that under nor- mal conditions would seed them- selves. These are things like alys- lllm. cosmos, poppies and scores of other flowers. They are all specially listed as hardy in any good Oanad. 1!" Wed Cltllosue and are sifnilarly described on the seed packet. Am-

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ong vegetables will be lettuce, spin- ach, carrots, paranips and. of course, garden peas.

In the second group there is a great variety of flowers. It is at this time, when danger of serious frost has passed. that we get the first of started plants transplanted outside -- things like petunias, ainnias, etc. In the vegetable line. beans, the first corn and potatoes, the main planting of beets, carrots, etc., will go in at this period.

For the tender group-soil. as well as air. must be warm before these go outside. Of course with seed and bulbs. which will not be pushing through the surface for a tow days, one can gamble in little. but as a rule with the tender group there is nothing to be gained by rushing in ahead of time unless special protection is provided such as glass or paper caps. Among the very tender flowers are cannas, gladioli, dahlias and any other very soft, fleshy stemmed plants. The melons and souashes come in this group and so do cucumbers. peppers and pumpkins. Corn and tomatoes are also associated with warm weather and as a rule the main planting of both usually go in then. .

Dismvery

Once upon a time. as they used to say in the children's bedtime stories. only a few flowers and vegetables could be grown in much of Canada. Either the growing sea- son was too short, or the plants took too long to mature which, is saying about the same thing. But that's far from the case today. thanks to the plant breeders and others. The problem was tackled in two ways. First, plants were de- veloped that grew and matured more quickly; secondly, experts hunted all over the world, and par- tlcularly in climates similar to ours, for new species that have since been introduced here. This work is still going on and as a re- suit each year sees somthing new. we can. if we wish. add to our flower orivegetable garden. These new, quicker-growing, hardier plants permit us to extend garden- ing farther and farther north or into other areas where frost lingers late in the spring and comes early in the fall. Not many years ago one would hardly dare fry melons, squash, cucumbers. tomatoes, corn, and even less tender things. in many parts of the country, where

they are now grown successfully. Short Cats

And there is still another way to extend the range of gardening, We start seed indoors In flats or. greenhouses, and after danger of? frost is over we set the well-stark ed plants outdoors. Foralong time. most of us have been doing this' with certain flowers and vegetables like cabbage, tomatoes, peiunias. asters, etc.. but some of us have not realized that we can extend this list almost indefinitely. Mel- ons. head lettuce, beets, even a lit- tle corn, and practically every an- nual can be given this early start. In this way we can gain a fort- night in' more and have things flowering or maturing well before the first frost.

Another and still easier way to speed up is to plant the seeds in special well prepared. rich hills. then cover with some of the new wax paper caps or sheets of glass. when one would not risk such plantings before, say. May l5th in the open, with this extra cover over seeds or plants one can safely start at least two weeks earlier.

Speed's The Answer

"Why are his vegetables so much more tender than mine?" we some- times ask ourselves after trying out - the neighbour's garden. The ans- werusuauy boils down to this'."Hc grows them faster." The sooner such things as beets. carrots, cab- bage. lettuce and peas grow to eat- ing size the more tender, urisp and delicious they will be. It is the slow growing and stunted vegetables that become woody. smart garden- ers hasten growth by using the best seed of good varieties, then push- ing it by regular cultivation. water- ing if needed and '” and a little extra commercial fertilizer They also make sure that young plants have plenty of room to de velop. With such things as carrots and beets. this means an inch on: so when they first come up. then in a few weeks every other plant is re- moved and eaten in the tender. baby stage. Gardeners, looking for top quality, harvest. their veget- ables when they have reached the right stage and they pop them into the pot fast. In a matter of hours, for instance. corn and peas start to lose their fresh garden flavor as their sugars turn to

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Window Box in City Makes Garden Dreams Come True

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Do you live in a city nparilneni. but buy the garden magazines, and read the garden articles in your newspaper? Then this is written for you.

Your interest in gardening is deep seated, and you will be happier if it can be satisfied. Why not try a win- dow box garden this spring1'

This is the type of garden which everyone can grow. whether he lives in a suburb or a city. It will serve two purposes. nrst to decorate the house you live in, and what is even more important, it will satisfy to a surprising degree your desire to grow things.

To get this satisfaction. you must give serious attention to selecting the plants to grow. preparing fertile, porous soil, and if possible growing your own plants from seed. It will be an excellent beginning to con- struct your own window box. which can easily be done from the diagram herewith.