Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-07-01
Observation-Disclosures
GIVE GARDENERS EXAMPLE.
Rev. X. w. CaWthon Makes Yard High
Iy Ornamental and Profitable with
Two Hours of Labor Daily.

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Rev. K. w. Cawthon the preacher
Ehorticulturist, is furnishing near
4 gardeners and would-be gardeners a
i valuable example of the possibilities
of back-lot horticulturists.
The accomplishments of Mr.. Cav
ethon in the gardening line, when the
handicaps under which he has labored
are taken into consideration, are be-
yond the ordinary and the actual facts
read like farming on paper or on an
imaginative brain.
] Although Mr.. Cawthon hardly has a
| patch of tillable ground large enough
| to turn horse and plow around in,
he is already gathering the fruits of
! his toll and prospects look bright for
growing more products than will be
! necessary to provide for his family
this summer. In growing these pro-
ducts Mr.. Cawthon has not lost sight
of the aesthetic side but really makes
Ills gardening highly ornamental for
the First Baptist parsonage aud sur
rouLG1ngs. rs
Mr.. Cawthon takes great pride in his
gardening and he calls the scene of
his farming operations the city's dem
onstration farm" and it is doubtful ii
any piece of land in Henderson county
the same size will produce more this
year than will be grown on the parson-
age farm. 1t is a splendid example of
what intensive, gardening will do and
especially when it is remembered that
this garden is on terraces and en-
bankments made of red clay taken
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fist church building.
The green grassy lawn to the front
of the parsonage has not been con-
verified into a garden except for two
small plots formerly occupied by
hedges. A plot is found on either side
of the approach to the residence and
Is only few feet long and about five
feet wide. In each of these were
planted so never, fail strawberry
plants last fall and they are now pro-
ducing a. second crop. The plants will
be permitted to multiply to the num- |
Der of about 500 They are f1ourish1ng
and a yield of about one quart per |
plant is expected each summer.
To the right end of the house are
found bearing squash vines, caulif1ow-
er beets. lettuce, corn beans of differ
ent varieties, fruit trees, grape vines
and other garden plants with q |
sprinkle of lilies and blooming rose
bushes to add the ornamental touch. Z
All this is on a very small space OF |
ground with plots of green grass pc
tween to preserve the lawn eTects.
To the rear of the residence and
sprinkled about may be found numer-
Gus tomato vines. There were twelve
of these bushes last year and about 4U
good tomatoes were gathered .Iroiu
each bush. This year the same resuIts
are expected from 100 bushes. To the
left of the parsonage may be touna
two grape vines several feet long with
a spIendid crop of Concords and Nj
agaras. Between these vines are head=
ed cabbages, the first Of which were
cut in Nav. Laden with luscious fruit
Is a Himalaya black berry bush cling
ing TO the porch. Paintings are being
taken from this and within year or
40 there will be several bearing bushes
ON the grounds.
An ornamentation for the front lawn
on either side of the entrance are Two
nIots with a cross design. In the cen
ter is the saliva plant with four colens
around it with asters forming the
arms. bordered with alterantheras.
Along with all this intensive farm
ne are a few little unusual turns by
nature. There are the a3ters which
usually bloom in autumn but under
.hese intensive farming methods are
blooming in June and the nasturuums
are in advance Of the most OF those In
he city. Small fruit trees dot the
POUNDS here and there at convenient
places and exactly in two spots where
Mr.. Cawthon had planned to plant
peach trees they came up OF their own
accord.
Mr.. Cawthon is finding his garden
ing very profitable from q financial
standpoint and valuable for physical :
exercise between study hours. He IS
enthusiastic over the possibilities OF
many lots now covered with weeds
md much better suited to cultivation
han his. Mr.. Cawthon devotes on ar
average two, hours day to his garden
and he thinks that If the people Of tina
,ity knew how easy it 10 to cultivate
rardens many of them would do so and
thereby cause far less. drain upon their
oocketbooks for garden products. +