Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1905-04-27

would willingly accept q japanese ii the
coolic class as = next door nci~hbor.
There are already hundreds o: American
fnat.it- in this state VIC are compelled
- accept them. They buy or rent what
were once attractive homes and make Il
wreck of thcm. Every ycsti-c ii rJ.ral
beauty disappears. The buildings 60 to
rain: the debris Of old wagons and ma
chimes occupy the front yards and road
sides, and decrcpit old ''ai,lates" painful
" drag the pl0ws and the farm wagons
where there were once sleek and we'll
fed horses, driven by thriving American
citizens. That is what We are coming to.
Ii the Japanese come in, white men will
get CUT
This Is not a very bright picture for
the "Golden State" the "Land Of Sun
shine" Not very good advertising mat
ter for the state. The legislature Of
California has passed rt solutions memo
riaIizing congress to restrict the further
immigration OF japanese; doubtless the
national government viii do something
along that line to relieve the present
Iy California.
Az "aastorner" passing along hy a
California vineyard in winter or early
spring is likely to inquire, ",Shat are
those old dead stubby looking things
out there?" Grapevino9, my friend.
Come along here in August and Sep
tember and you will see what these old
stubs are for. Before coming here eX-
pected to see great trellises Of grapes as
l have seen in Michigan and elsewhere
only much larger grapes. But not 50;
grapes are not trellised at all in Cali
fornia, or at least seltjOn-only for arhor
purposes-but instead, are cut down
within T. to * inches Of the ground cv
cry winter. 1t is the European grapes
that are grown here, almost exclusively
and they don't seem to be adapted to ar
/ boTs so well as the American grapes.
. Besides the fruit is better protected from
the hot rays OF the sun when the clusters
are near or on the ground. You Will
find some OF the finest, largest clusters
Of grapes lying flat on the dry ground.
The earliest grapes commence r,Den-
ing here in July and there are grapes
until near Christmas. Some varieties,
ESPECIALLY the Muskats, bear two and
sometimes three crops during the sea-
son. Gou may often see welI-curcd raj
sens and and half grown grapes on the
same vine. This IS 4 paradise Tor grapes
even # it is a. hard, dry, unrroduct;ye
looking soil,
sec a lew cf the Lucret.a (tancg
dewberry grown here and the way hey
are trained, mink an IDEAL on. They
= are planted in straight rows, say > OF $
feet apart, and about ! feet apart Il the
row; STAKES are driven up along the row
about two rods apart with holes bored
: thru them Is or 20 inches above the
I ground and an ordinary smooth, fence
wire is drawn thru the holes and stTctch-
ID tight. Each season as soon as the
vines are done bearing, tha old plants
are cut of and removed from the patch,
s,u& lc new canes arc trained around
the ~jrcs. The F'L0gan berry, cross
between 4 blackberry and red raspberry
" are trained the same way, except two
! wires are used instead of one. | tried
l the Lucretia dewberry at Marble Hill
and they do well, ripening before the
, dry weather comes on, but, using no trel-
; lis, l got the weeds, crab grass and
with them.
The Golden poppy is a wild flower and
grows in great pTofusion along the by
: ways and highways over most OF Califor-
2 MIA. Here it grows magnificently, and
blooms some all the winter, but during
= March it blooms most profusely. Cali
G fornia has adopted it as a state flower.
4 have Just been out along the wayside
2 and gathered three large boquets. Wish
. could hand you one Of them! but /
: can't. So l give our neighbors two and
: keep one. These fragile and beautiful
l flowers arc all a bright, golden yellow,
and do not vary in color like the "tamc'
/ flowers. An old gentleman here sug-
: gests they would grow in Missouri.
may send you some plants or seeds
l later on.
LLIiC Is ttHOlHtI VIII uONcl5 bltIt III
l color and somewhat resembles larl1spur
} but smaller and the individual flowers
are near the shape of sweet peas. very
fragrant, but the odoT is not very pleas
ant. These flowers grow here in great
profusion.
Some OF the "tarne'' flowers that are
= ANIMALS in Missouri become percnnlals
; in this state. For instance the verbena
; which blooms more or less during the
whole year. There is a sweet pea that
t lives out on a trellis or a fence all winter
l and blooms in March and later-not fra
/ grant, but beautiful. The geraneums
2 live out doors all the time and make
great bushes. Even the Gala lilly stays
t out in yards all the time and is in bloom
y in March, altho during heavy frosts thru
7 December and January it seems to be
1 badly damaged, as soon as the weather
$ moderates, it revives and commences
? growing and blooming.
' On March %, we visited the Lybeck
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