DON’T kill the birds that
eat your fruit buds; you
can buy fruit — but not the
songs of birds in Spring.
N.B. — They eat insects too.
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Courage is wanted to write a book about Town-gardening. Is there such a thing ? Some would say ” No ; cats, fogs, and smuts forbid.” Yet how inseparable from London is the thought of flowers ! Can we picture the West End on a summer’s day without them ? The dust-laid, freshly sprinkled squares and streets, where behind half-drawn blinds there is the fragrance of many blossoms ; the bright harness of horses jangling as they champ the bit, a knot of flowers at every bridle ; flower-sellers with baskets at all convenient corners, and along the roadway carts of Palms and growing plants bending and waving in the wind ; every man one meets has got his button-hole, and every maiden wears her posy ; even the butcher-boy holds a bud between his thumb and finger, twirling it and smelling at it as he goes.
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Along my neighborhood walk. These while roses never fail to make a show a couple of times each year.
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Los Angeles Cactus & Succulent Society Plant Show & Sale 2017 (lacactus.com)
Spent an hour or so at the show on Saturday checking out all the great vendors and plants.
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Historical Seed Catalogs: Stokes seeds for summer planting : July 15, 1918 – 43 in a series
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Until the Boys Come Home
WE AMERICANS are pledging ourselves to put forth high courage every new day, regardless of reverses, to live right all the time, which means keeping splendidly efficient, — in short, to do cur individual jobs well, regardless of difficulties. All this that we may be better men, that the Boys over the Blue Water may never question the support of the Homeland, and that Morning may not be long in coming.
You are, to a greater or less extent, connected with the production of food. Your limitations in this great work are only bounded by your equipment and your desire. (Even the shortage of workers is only changing the kind of production — never the volume. ) The matter of the size of your operation isn’t vital — it is all fine, the intensive garden rows and the extensive farm acres. It is the great whole that counts, the magnificent national spirit that is sweeping America, that Everyone will help win the war.
In a quiet, unassuming way our company has furnished seed for a million Allied Acres. Perhaps yours are among them; if so, we greet you as an old friend, hoping all goes well. Perhaps we welcome you for the first time to the friends of Windermoor ; if so, we stand at your service. To one and all we extend midsummer greetings as one American to another — sharing with you a quiet determination to play the game even to The Last Long Mile.
STOKES SEED FARMS CO. Bp FRANCIS C. STOKES,
President and General Manager
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Gardener, writer and broadcaster Alan Titchmarsh has always loved dahlias — even in the days before they gained their current huge popularity. Here are his tips on how to get it right.
Floral fireworks
What a dahlia! Ah-ha-ha!
What a failure! Ah-ha-ha!
Did you really think you could
Cultivate it? Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!I forget who penned that parody to Adele’s laughing song from Strauss the younger’s Die Fledermaus, but the words have stuck with me for years. Not only because they make me smile, but also because of their erroneous implication that dahlias are tricky.
They are not. Next to daffodil bulbs, they’re perhaps the most infallible of plants. Their contribution to the late-summer garden is inestimable.
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DON’T, if you are not
already the owner of a
garden, neglect to become one
as soon as possible ! Many are
the joys — few the sorrows —
that it brings.
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PREFACE.
This little book is written with a view of furnishing a low priced guide to school and home gardeners. It is in- tended not only for youthful gardeners, but also for those young in experience.
It has grown out of the experience of the Author in the class-room and garden with classes of both children and adults.
The Author endeavours to keep the book in clear, simple, and concise language, and it is his hope that it may prove a guideboard to success, to persons who do not know T the way, and an assurance to those in doubt.
H. D. Hemenway, Hartford , Connecticut , 1906.
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