Home Garden Plans Highlight Edible Beauty and Privacy
A lecture by Mrs. Wheeler H. Peckham outlines home garden ideas that blend beauty with function. She notes flowering trees like cherries and quinces, the value of garden screens, and the role of birds, with groupings of bulbs, shrubs, trees, and creepers to extend bloom from spring through late autumn.
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Wheeler H. Peckham
American Iris Society
New York Botanical Garden
Federated Garden Clubs
New York State
New York
Garden design tips for spring bulbs and borders
A speaker advises avoiding rigid row plantings in home gardens and recommends grouped plantings for bulbs like tulips and daffodils. Emphasizes selecting a few strong genera, using massed plantings, incorporating perennials and annuals for year round bloom, and saving seeds for color consistency while preserving native plants and wildflowers.
Radio to Broadcast Japanese Diet Proceedings
Tokyo reports a broadcasting plan to air the Diet proceedings to the public. The move aims to replace the prior mystery surrounding Diet sessions with direct radio coverage, pending approval by the broadcasting company.
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Tokyo
Sleepwalking incident in Australia ends with window escape
In a remarkable sleepwalking episode in Australia, Mrs. Katherine Koontz crawled out a window and crossed a clothesline spanning an alley. She then kicked out another window, waking a nearby resident and prompting a curious scene as authorities investigated the unusual entry.
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Australia
Katherine Koontz
National contest awards cash prizes for playgrounds
Asheville reports a Twelfth Recreation Congress session announcing a national contest to beautify 5006 public outdoor playgrounds in the United States and Canada. The Harmon Foundation offers three $500 prizes and thirty $50 prizes. nursery stocks supply 50 prizes. Entries due December 1, 1925.
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Asheville
N. C
Recreation Congress
United States
Canada
Harmon Foundation of
New York
Ecity
Playground and Reattor Association of America
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