The Morning examiner. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1904-1910, 1910-04-10
Spring Gardening MiCrobe
Attacks City and Suburbanite

afternoon. but Sunday Is usually given
over To the garden. and. clad in over.
alls. the suburbanitc may be seen
almost any Sunday morning In the
middle OF April dclving in the soil.
sowing the seed and laying the foun-
cation for future succulent vegetables.
MaIry man Is compelled TO hide be.
hind his house on Sunday morning
as the worthy rector goes by to his
church In order that he may not be
caught red-nanded with his spade.
Ard many time. when the spring
Is in the air. the wife goes alone 10
church while her husband remains
behind to plant the radish. the lot
tuce or the summer spinach seed or
To- stick out the onion sets. The city
man also spends his Sunday morn
ings In his little garden patch. First
ne seeds IL. and then after the seeds
begin to grow he spends his SUNDAY
mornings pulling weeds and cultlva-
ting his growing crop.
When IL comes 10 making garden
the man sows his money. of course,
according TO his space. The average
cost OF seed for a small town garden
patch is from 81 TO So The man with
a summer house spends much more.
and the institutional gardeners spend
vast sums. Take the garden out a5
,, Dunning, for example. The seed bill
there will be about $1,000 year.
Some of the rich men of Chicago pay
, 500 a month for seed of various sorts
The seed bill last year of the asylum
for the insane at Kalamazoo. Mich,
was $3 900. lt is estimated that big
institutions OF this sort usually spend
| from 81 000 TO $4,000 annually. There
are some seeds that cost only few
cents for each packet, but there arc
others that arc worth their weight In
gold Take a certain kind of double
petunia, for instance. The man who
| wants to raise this flower must pay
| $l2 for one sixty-fourth OF an ounce
| 1t is a fact that there Is hardly big
eeedhousc In the whole country that
has more than an ounce OF this seed
on hand.
Last season the United Charities OF
! Chicago looked into this matter and
the City Garden association was the
result a tract of land near the Bride
we'll was obtained, and there numer
GUS families took plots of land and
cultivated them. The results were
so encouraging that the association
Will have three tracts under cultva-
tIon this year. and the spring cam
paign Is now in full swing for these
garden tracts.
! The Bridcwell tract will be retained
and this viii accommodate about 100
families Another generous tract has
been obtained at Fifteenth street and
| Forty-eIghth avenue. and this will pro-
vide garden spots for 100 families. AZ
the corner OF Grand avenue and
Washtenaw street another piece OF
land has been gained by the assocIn-
ton, which will give 100 moro fami-
lies garden plots. The association fur
n!shes everything The land is plowed,
fertilized and made rendy for the
seed. which is also furnished The
ground Is divided into plots. an eighth
OF an acre In extent. For the use
OF a plot a family pays the associa-
ton $3.50 per year,
Squashes Run Away.
The greater part of the people who
take advantage Of these gardens are
foreigners who have been used to gar
denlng In their home countries. Eacn
nationality has its fayorite vegetable
The Irish. for example. plant more po
tatoes than anything else The Cor
mans must have their cabbage and
kale, and the Italians run to tomatoes,
(which they use in preparing their fG-
,vorlte dishes
| Last season some OF the gardeners
insisted on planting squashes on the
brldewell tract. with the result that
the vines spread all over and took
up lots of room Some OF the vines
even ran away. and Insisted on spread.
ing Into the domains of some OF the
nciehboring gardens. bungalow has
been established at this garden,
where the people find a place In which
to rest and where they can eat their
luncheons and find shelter in case o.
storm.
The people who care fer the gar
dens are the grandmothers and the
,grandfathers OF the families, as a
general thing; people who are too old
to do hard labor. One blind man.
guided by his little lame daughter,
took care Of u garden plot there last
season and raised q good crop OF veg
etables. a man with a broken arm,
who was unable to take up his usual
work farmed little patch and raised
vegetables for his table also VIII
Reed DunrOy in Chicago Reoord-Her-
aid