The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-18

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ly been filled up before it was filed in.
with old debris. consisting of all sorts OF
wearing apparel and trash of every de-
scription-pieces of board wire. cans and
I'm not exaggerating when | tell YOU that
ON day | pulled out a pair of perfectly
good oyeralls. a rainy day skirt, and sey-
eral feet of rubber hose. As We had TO
dig only four feet deep for a garden I'm
afraid those things didn't go all the way
through to China although | sent them
in that direction"
What an awful foundation for a gar
den,' | remarked.
'Oh, there was plenty of rock-half
rotted that might have come from an an
tedeluvian mine," said Mr. Joblots, "anl
all the cast off material that the builders
had discarded when they'd finished the
house. Those are things, though, that
YOU expect when you buy property that
way. But that didn't discourage me in
the least | was there to have garden
and have one l would even If in my dig
gipgs about | discovered buried beneath
the earth, an upright piano or a Chippen-
dale sideboard."
"Of course, the first year,, Mr.. Joblots
told me, Il didn't have a ghost of a show
to have a garden. l had to prepare the
ground and do lot of preiniinaries and
peas, which the cows enjoyed, and a lit
tie bed of lettuce, which was my only
real pleasures of that summer, the pet
rabbits next door made way with in short
order. The radishes and beets didn't
grow and If I'd been the onions that shot
up I'd have been ashamed to have shown
my face, but onions will do most any
thing. At the end of the first summer l
was almost ready to give up. I dug up
all the things that We're left, and bought
several wagon loads of fertilizer. and sat
back all winter and calmly waited for
spring to come.
And then?' I interrupted.
MY clothes were soaked In perspira-
ton from the first day of April up to the
last day of October" Mr.. Joblots told me
Il had the time of my life. I got a boy
to help me work and plant the garden
who knew all about such things, and
when one of my friends came out one
Sunday to see me, and after looking the
situation over, told me | was an idiot to
try to raise Lima beans on solid rock
promptly got a spade and turned up d
lot of rich, black dirt, and showed hin
how beautifully they were sprouting.
told him / mean to grow vegetables right
through that sub-strata of stuff-that
heterogeneous conglomeration of every
body's debris, and right through rock,
slate, tin and all. At least / thought |
had dependable foundation to hold the
plants down"
what else did you plant besides beans
and peas?" | asked, very much amused
at Mr.. Joblots' story of the garden which
seemed quite too original to lose by a
premature ending.
I'D rather tell you how much / spent
on Implements said he.
"All right" I agreed. Il want all the
documents in Evidence"
II bought So worth of tools'' said MIR.
Joblots, proudly consisting of hoe,
rake. a mattock, steel fork, com
bination digging and forlSing tool, and
dwarf set of garden tools. | almost
forgot the pick handle. | found old
pick in the debris, and only had to buy
handle for it. l got all the seed
needed for 110, and potato and onion sets
were only so cents more. The hired boy
required another investment of So a week,
and with his astuteness / planted on the
little lot four grape vines to begin with
and 10 rows of lima beans; a so foot row
of early peas and 30 foot row of late
peas; 30 foot row of snap beans; three
hills of watermelons, bed of beets, tur-
nips, radishes. and bed of onions; four
50 foot rows of potatoes and bed of
parsley 10 feet square,"
"A 10 foot bed of parsley" | gasped.
That's enough parsley TO season all the
soup and salad in the world"
81 sold every sprig that l raised that
summer" said Mr.. Joblots. 1T was the
best money making Investment | had. This
summer l will have that same bed of
parsley, and I'm also going to have some-
thing | didn't have last summer-two rows
Of sweet corn the entire length of the
lot. I have lettuce planted in the frames
that / made for my wife's violets and the
violets have been transplanted to a shell
tered spot elsewhere. Another thing I'm
going to have is a celery bed. Celery
grows in muck, you know, and I'm raking
all muck down to one end of the garden
and fixing things so that all the drain
age of the garden will go that way.
What's that-I'm a muckraker? Yes, cer-
tainly / am And mud singer, too, il
YOU will You ought to have seen me
singing it around getting ready to plant
Strawberries Besides all this, I'm going
to have some fine cantelopes and egg
plant"
That's some garden" I said slangily.
II never heard of such a crazy quilt COM
binatlon on such little piece of ground. :"
II haven't told you all yet" said Mr..
Joblots. We've got 30 chrysanthemum
plants and lots of roses, and nasturtiums
by the wholesale. which by the way hap
pen to be the only things that ever came
tlp out of 81 varieties OF seed that Uncle
Sam sent me. Come out and see us ana
witness for yourself what an Up 10 date
farmer can do on 80 by 80 feet in the
suburbs Mrs Joblots will be glad to
give you any other Information that you
want"
I'm going to get Mrs. JobIots side OF
that garden story. I dare say IT will be
quite different, especially about that part
concerning how Mr.. Jobiots gets UP at
5 O'Clock In the morning to watch the
celery sprout and Digs up the corn to see
how much it has grown since yesterday.
BROWNE CLASHES
WITH M'KINLEY
Springfield. H.. April 17.-Lee O'NeD
Browne. member Of the lower house
of the Illinois legislature. DrsclDitated an
other clash with Speaker Mckinley to-