The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-18
Patches Around Birmingham
By MRS. J. B. REID.

, The soil in and around the city is very productive. Vegetables and flowers can be grown to perfection in this red clay foundation, and the women are paying
 greater attention to their flower yards
 and potted plants than for many years,
 and many are making quite nice pin money.
 There is no reason for a drone in the
 community when climate and earth hold
 out so much to them from the application of the spade and hoe. handled with even small amount of energy. sR We note a very fourishing garden on Twenty-first street. near Sixth avenue, north, right in the heart of the city, and 1t is worked between suns, so system ] aticaly that few weeds are to be seen and
 no tired workmen to be observed by passersby.
 So often in planting beans, the dwarf kind are preferred to save the sticking the frame for the runners, but this gar interested in gardening-the vines are den has given an idea to all who are climbing on a network of cords, and the
 This garden, right on the highway of the city, is interesting to watch, and really ornamental to the vacant lot at the old home of the McLaughlins.
 1 Yesterday The Age-Herald received a bit of information about wonderful bean.
 not of the kind of the one of Jack. the l Giant Killer" whose vine made almost a pathway to the skies. But for the enor-
 mity of the bean-think of a vegetable bean 37 inches long on an ordinary vine. | not a freak, either, of the snap bean va- ], riety, though it's direct lineage is not cer- 1 tain. We suggested the Valentine kind, ! but we think this is specially an Ala l bama brand. raised In Ensley. and 1t is l one of many. This bean is the property Inf I af
 north, and he thinks enough of the speci- | men to preserve it in alcohol. It Is not coarse and tough, but of a kind whose seed will be worth perpetuty.
 | By these processes the best seed are propagated and they claim their name
 from environment and fancy. Who knows but what The Dean Bean will be a l species valuable to future growers? 1 Some years ago there was advertise ment in a floral magazine of a wonder l fully beautiful datura. A lady in the city ordered the root and planted it with great care cultivated it and watched it's branches put out The bud was equally as anxiously awaited. When 1t bloomed ] forth there was one famous "jmson weed" in it's purple majesty. Somebody l had grown it and cultivated it as an or namental plant
 | Referring to the weed known as "jimson weed we find that it always had some
 ancestral claim, a native of Jamestown, Va, whose falling bloom developed a
 thorn apple which was known as poison 1 ous. But any child who ever grew upon an Alabama farm and played with the 1 lightning bug" recalls its hiding place | in that purple cone-shaped bloom of the
 weed that almost took possession of the l field.
 | Birmingham is getting so full of inter- estng patches and there is so much en- thusiasm over outdoor work that another | year will find 1t green with things good
 and beautiful. It takes time to create a sentiment and then it takes application. Don't value your work by the time you
 have spent on 1t, but by how you have spent the time"