Walnut stock experiments and beer bottle currents
A speaker discusses Juglans rupestris as stock for Persian walnuts and notes cross pollination risks. The article also reports on testing ocean currents by releasing corked beer bottles from the Moravian, with one bottle found near Praia Branca in Portugal and a request to forward details to Captain Simpson in London.
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Dahlia bed pattern inspires winter garden design
A description of a circular flower bed pattern named after a dahlia shape. The petals use three alternanthera varieties Red Brilliantissima Green Aurea wvana and black Prospect Park, with echeveria forming the carpet and abutilon crassula as dividers. Black Beauty vas and variegated Arundo donax and Penuisetum longisulum provide stamens and pistils.
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Philadelphia
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Japanese rock garden design benefits
The passage highlights advantages of adopting the Japanese approach to rock decorated gardens. It cites advantages such as low cost, rapid results, durability, and the ability to overcome grading difficulties.
Poinsettias Fall Resting for Spring Bloom
horticultural note advises laying poinsettias on their sides in a cool house until mid April and keeping frames ventilated on sunny days while preserving warmth for rose heating and hawthorn display early in spring.
Lost Girl's Cleverness Inspires City Policeman
In a rain soaked New York night, Officer Michael Flaherty of West Thirtieth Street Station comforts a foreign‑dressed seven year old girl found at Fourth Avenue and Thirty‑second Street. Langue experts from Willemse to Sergeant McGowan try to identify her mother and father while a crowd of officers keep watch. The girl, later identified as Jennie Lippon of Brooklyn, cannot provide a current address.
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Elk Farm on Black Mountain Colorado Attracts Attention
Denver News reports W H Pigg established an elk farm about eighteen miles from Freshwater on Black Mountain. He transported twenty three elk from Wyoming in box cars to his fenced acres, planning to breed for meat hides and horn souvenirs while deer will also be raised.
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Grand Island Fireman Poell Receives Gold Life Saving Medal
George Poell, a St. Joseph and Grand Island railroad fireman, saved a two and a half year old boy named Paul Ussary from a train on June 26. He was dragged 800 feet, losing his right foot and sustaining serious injuries, but survived and earned the first gold life saving medal under a new congress act.
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Leopard Skin Auto Coats From Paris Arrive
Paris reports introduce leopard skin motor coats as a fashion in fur. The coats use spotted skin for striking yet becoming wraps, praised for shedding snow and rain and resisting dust and microbes. Some society women plan to bring leopard skin coats back to America.
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Russian outbreak report cites drop in worker drunkenness
Reports from across Russia claim that since the revolution began drunkenness among workmen and peasants has decreased. This voluntary social improvement is noted as a public morale indicator during upheaval.
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