Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-09-30
BEAUTIFYING
THE HOME GROUNDS
Bed of Cannas or Border of
Caladiums Should Be Given
Some Bonemeal.
(By L. NJ. B~ENNINGToN.1

(By L. NJ. BENNINGTON.)
II you want your bed of cannas or
border Of caladiums to make a grand
tropical showing from now to frost,
give them a frost-like covering of
.bopemeal; then stir the soil, water
thoroughly. and mulch with lawn clip
pings. Do this towards the end of
this month and be sure to remoye the
fading flowers.
Copy nature by sowing seeds of
perannials as they ripen. Provide
some sort Of shade for the iced bed.
A screen made Of lath or ono Of I'M
bleached muslin will answer.
The robustgrowing plants will need
Bome sort Of support. Let the sup
ports be painted green or oiled to
bring out the grain Of the wood, and
You will find them more pleasing than
rough sticks and far moro satisfac,
tory. Drive the stakes fast into the
earth a little lower than the plants,
30 that they are inconspicuous.
The plants needing supports are
such hardy perennials as Delphiniuma.
giant foxglove and s~napdragons. Do
not overlook giving stakes Il the
NhAAAooI Sool1ODi a . dnO
glodioli.
To maintain continuous blooming
from now until frost, a few perennials
must be observed. Make a habit of
cutting flowers freely, and remove all
the fading blossoms, and nature will
reward you with a lavish hand.
After this month, allow the chrysan-
themums to grow according to their
own will-that is stop pinching them
back.
Profitable Dreams.
Authors and musicians are not the
only dreamers of profitable dreams.
st. Augustine records that q disciple
Of his, having to lecture on Cicero's
rhetorical books, was bafhed by a GER
tain passage. He slept, and in a dream
his master, who was really far away
and unconscious of the whole thing,
appeared to him and expounded the
passage. In 1893 Herr Hilprecht, pro-
lessor Of Assyriology In the University
Of Pennsylvania, was worried over
two small fragments Of agate found
at Babylon, Of which he had received
drawings. In his dream a tall, thin
Assyrian priest told him they "be-
longed together" being portions Of
an inscribed votive cylinder which had
been cut up to make earrings for the
statue Of q god. The professor found
next day that the fragments did at
and make o continuous inscription.
First Engllshman Photographed.
Lord Avebury, who passed away the
other day at the rope old age of seven
ty-nine, the Sir John Lubbock, who
wrote "The Pleasures of Life" and
numerous scientific books, was the
very first person in England to have
his photograph taken.
1t happened in this way. Daguerre,
the French Photographic pioneer, came
over from France in order to protect
bis invention by a British patent, and
he paid Lord Avebury's father O visit.
Mr.. Lubbock was interested in all
things new, and wished to see an ex.
ample or the process of making sun.
pictures. Lord Avebury, who was
then a tiny fellow, was playing in tho
garden. Daguerre got him to pose, and
In this way he became the first person
photographed In England.
Work With PIps.
Grow the pigs from the start. Don't
fatten them, but grow them, put on
the muscle, form and bone. Build the
frame, the fat can go on later. A fat
little pig is In poor condition to grow.
You want them smooth, mellow,
stretchy, and you will then build a
good form.
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