Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-07-20
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The first of the Crest gardens is a
small patch cultivated at the Spencer
apartments, Morning Glory road near
Pacific venue
George Townsend has a large garden
adjoining his home, 148 w. Morning
Glory road. He has already obtained
a basket If potatoes from his plants.
In addition to his plentiful crop of tur-
nips, lettuce, cabbage, tomatoes and
onions, he has about go chickens.
Thomas Greaves at 120 East Morning
Glory road, DR.. F. T. Bridgeland at1lS
east and E. Molter at 147 west Butter
cup road and Mrs. l.. G. Fink binder at
56O1 Park Boulevard, all have small
neat gardens.
Glenn [. Folsom has one of the best
ordered gardens on the island. 1t is
situated next to his bungalow, $500
Park Boulevard, and although of med
ium size promises to yield the best of
crops.
The Wayside cottage at 1904 Park
Boulevard and Henry Bastien at 210
w. Buttercup road, have small gardens.
JOS. F. Schiller at 1902, L. D. Eisen-
hauer at 1915 and Robert Marshall at
56l2 Lake road, have small patches.
David Paul is raising a large crop of
potatoes adjoining his home, $40 Lake
road.
James Donaldson at 116 w. Laven-
dar road, has a fair sized garden.
]. Ogden Clark has a fair sized pota-
toe patch adjoining his home, 12S E..
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The Lakeview cottage at 119 west,
Louis Eldredge at 1873 west, Ernest
Aucott at III west, William Aucott at
Ill west, H. F. Savers at ia west and
H. Whilden at los west Crocus road,
all have small gardens.
Thomas Young at 10 east, Charles
Rosskam at l13 east, DIR. l.. F. Hatch
at I26 east, l.. w. Lare at 128 east
Crocus road, all have small patches.
DIR. Weiss has a fair sized garden adj
joining his home, 5906 Pacific avenue.
Mayor Philip Baker has a fair sized
garden in the rear of his home, Pacific
and Aster road. He is using irrigation
on his little farm and expects a good
crop of potatoes, lettuce, beets, squash
and cabbage.
d. Miles Rigor on east Aster road,
Councilman ]. F. James at Aster road
and railroad, Frank LeComte at 119
west Aster road, have small gardens.
III. W. Ross at 6102 Park Boulevard,
has a fair sized garden on the lake front
in the rear of his home.
James H. Hartley at 6208 Railroad
avenue and e. B. Pagan, adjoining
borough hall, have fair sized patches.
II. M. Steelman has en- extensive
garden adjoining his home at Wisteria
road and railroad. He is using irriga-
ton to hasten his crops. He has a
large variety of vegetables and is rails
ing them on a scientific basis.
Councilman James Booth at ITO west,
]. E. Werner at 100 west and E.
Arthur Baldwin at 1876 west Wisteria
road, all have fair sized gardens.
Godfrey Shmidheiser has a fair sized
patch adjoining his home, 1902 Park
Boulevard.
The home garden commission may
take lessons from Ruric Adams in util-
izing space. He has planted potatoes
along the curb alongside of his home,
at Columbine road and Park Boulevard.
He also has rare corn called black sugar
corn. 1t was sent to him from Maine
and he is giving it a successful tryout.
He also has tomatoes, beets, parsley,
lettuce and onions.
Mrs. Ellen Thompson expects ten
bushels Of potatoes from her garden ad-
joining her home at 6311 Park Boule-
ward.
Samuel Bailey at 127 west and Coun-
Gilman w. F. Campbell at lis west, r.
Richardson at Ill west and William
Ruston at 108 west Columbine road,
have fair sized gardens.
Ralph Whitley has a thriving garden
in back of his home, Fern road and
boardwalk. He has no difficulty in
raising vegetables so close to the ocean.
He has lettuce, onions, tomatoes and
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