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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1908
Page
7
A fragment discusses how kudzu vines extend seventy feet in summer and offers home garden tips. It suggests spraying currant and gooseberry bushes with white hellebore to kill pests, and mentions making a barn hole to attract swallows, implying swallows will help with early worms and vegetables.
Reading garden tips from an Easter bloom piece suggests reviving ramblers with hot soapsuds, buying matured shrubs four to five feet high for quicker bloom, and giving birds homes to aid natural pest control. It emphasizes planning now to beautify next year and finds joy in the planning process.
The article praises Savoy leaved cabbages for delicate flavor and higher quality despite lower yields. It advises using manure water as a substitute when stable manure is scarce, detailing a method of filtering water through manure in a tub to irrigate growing plants. It also notes that trees, hedges, and many shrubs should be trimmed in summer.
The writer urges readers to plan garden work over multiple years, noting pruning affects blossoms and wounds must be treated. Outside annuals, gardens are permanent, so careful planning avoids mistakes. Readers are invited to send suggestions and criticism to the department head in New York.
A saying contrasts orchard grafting with political grafting noting no relation between the two. It argues grafting improves trees and is done by honest men, while political grafting harms people and corrupts the breed. The grafter is a benefactor versus an undesirable citizen to be called a harsher name.
The speaker recalls a perfect childhood garden filled with locusts evergreens lilacs roses honeysuckles jasmine and hollyhocks. They link their love of nature to a mother’s tender care and to God, suggesting a universal gift passed from mother to child.
In planting a rose garden soil should be rich with manure or fertilizer, but plants must not sit directly in manure. A successful rose garden uses a modest number of varieties arranged for harmony with large masses in bloom throughout summer and autumn. Emphasis is on rich, rare effects over profusion, with careful selection and tasteful arrangement yielding new charm each month and nearly each day.
A discussion on the need to beautify school grounds arguing the environment shapes pupil minds more than books. The author laments neglect of plant life and landscaping as a near criminal oversight in education.
The author urges integrating landscape care into schools to educate children in gardening, plant care, and outdoor responsibility. Proposes planting trees, shrubs, and vines on school grounds, with framing and grouping to protect plants while teaching virtue, health, and beauty. Calls for Arbor Day as a model and for student street cleanliness brigades.
The article urges timely garden work from sowing to cultivation. It highlights preparation, thinning, weeding, watering, training, pruning, mowing, and pruning dead limbs as key tasks. The gardener’s trinity is preparation planting cultivation with cultivation as the greatest. Weeds worms and laziness are declared the three enemies to conquer.
The Queen praises horticulture as a healthful pastime that fosters good feeling among all classes. She notes women find harmony in gardening, calling it a constructive activity that unifies people and promotes peace and amity.
Saturday results show Detroit defeating Philadelphia 8 to 3 with Schlitzer and Vickers the battery for Philadelphia. Boston beats St Louis 7 to 3 in a linked set of National and American Association games across Toledo Louisville Columbus and Milwaukee venues with multiple innings tallies and late-game shifts.
Two cars with young women, wearing Merry Widow hats, rushed to the White House to attach tags for Washington playgrounds funds. The president had sent a five dollar tag the day before and Quentin Roosevelt had raised a large sum, but the ladies still sought his tag while he conducted important business, tagging others nearby.
Railroad commissioners from Ohio, India, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Illinois met in Chicago on June 14 to form a permanent organization and study four major railroad evils. They targeted conductors dishonesty, trespassing on rights of way, grade crossing accidents, and confusing switch signals. Committees were appointed to study each issue.
Maj. Boynton founder of the Maccabees and elected past commander remains bed bound in Toledo unable to attend sessions. His health prompted concern for a general breakdown as Michigan delegates report his continued illness and his defeat in the recent officer election.
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