Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-11-06

quaint and dainty enough Tor
Brownie to use. Country children Oft
en collect the tiny acorns and tiny pine
cones and gid them to hang on the
Christmas tree. They mike as effec-
tive ornaments as the gay tribes that
come from city shops for the same pur-
pose. i
Apron Is Woman's Pocket.
Between gathering nuts, branches of
maple leaves, Your handful of gem
tians and ladies. tresses, not to men
ton hunting up the earth star, the
time flies quickly. It's lucky you
didn't stop to take off your apron, it's
so handy to carry things in. The
country woman,s apron will hold as
much as . boys pockets, and that is
saying Il good deal You will find
room in its eapacious Bingham depths
fer a dozen BALDWIN apples as you
mike a bee line for home. For you
know real country life is a blending
OF practieil and beautiful things. The
country woman thinks an apple pie
h Il practical thing. the country man
THINKS it's beautiful thing; perhaps
It's both
Yotr vegetable garden has a way
Of getting decidedly weedy this time
% year; i'll the rush Of bigger things
It is3apt to be neglected, If you are
a bird lover you will find the weeds
| ht,Ve ~ tfss.s s'wfe1i you find time &c
go out and see What Is left t. cat in
The garden you'll find a Heck of birds
having Il feast ON the weed seed. This
seems tn be the season of indefinite
colored birds, even the gaily colored
9oldfnch, that darling of the cDGntry
womaths garden, has changed his gold
and black raiment for a suit that
blends il with the calGring Of the
sparruWs. Only his friendliness and
notes betray him Down at the end
Of the garden is a maple tree whose
leaves are Il harlequin combination
half SCARLET and half green. Here the
birds love TO gather and chatter by
the hour. Perhaps it is one of the
stations where they gather before go
ing south. What a blessing that some
of them stay up by us through the
winter. 1t would be long and dreary
indeed if they should all leave us. =.
Garden Truck Not All Gone.
There are a few things besides birds
and weeds in the garden-swiss chard,
crisp and green, just the thing to go
With boiled ham for dinner; actually
q handful of sweet peas, head of
lettuce that must have obiigigly
sewed Itself, and last, but ta. no means
least, yiolets i'll .bloonk two rows of
t'em right IN the middle. af the vege-
table sarden where they itavea thrivet
all through The long. hot summer and
f,,t1 IL.
I'll ready to, be tucked in the colo
framc for. winter. , Suchla wave oil
| fragrance greets YOU as YOU near theil
| particular spot in the garden. WIKI
doesn't love violets2 And it is so easy
| ta raise them if YOU are only willing
To do q little @ork With them Any.
| enc With Il cold flame can have VIC.
| let's t. cheer the long DAYS of winter
bat you must start them in the spring
so the raising of them belongs to an.
other story.
Get Winter Bulbs Started.
| 1t Is not too late. however, to start
| your winter bulbs. First and easiest
to grow aree the paper white narcis-
sus and Chinese sacred lilies. These
| have only to he put in shallow bowls
er vases of water. Prop them up with
| pebbles tsome of those pretty ones you
| brought from the seashore are just
| the thing, so that the base of the bulb
| touches the water, set them in the
dark for a week or two to form root
growth and then bring them to the
| light. They win bloom we'll before
| Christmas, and by preparing them d
dishful at a time You can have a sue
cession of poses for your table far
more interesting than the usual ferr
dish. White Roman hyacnths ported
and set in a dark place till the roots
are well formed and then brought tC
the light are almost sure to bloom
| Your winter garden would not be COM
plete without "daffys." Princeps is q
good standard variety of the single
trumpet, and Van Sions for double
ones; both belong to the sure-t bloom
class. And for tulips there is nothins
Iovelier than Murillo, four or five
| bulbs Of these planted iii one of those
| low, round bulb pots Will bring JOY
to you some bleak February day. The
| blossoms are double and a creamy
white when they first open, Their
change within a day or two to ar
exquisite blush pink. The secret OF
, bringing these tulips into bloom Is
; to leave them in the dark till late IT
the season and not bring them into
the light until February or March
For fragrance have a pot of freesias