Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-10
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hundreds of dollars worth os
vegetables were lost to Harrishurg
householders because the people of
me city We're honest this summer
ana falI. Thanks to the energy of
iiahy 1oiks last spring and in the
carly summer the earth Welded IT'S
- case IN the autumn and all
hihds of foodstuffs can be seen on
'ne iots of Harrisburg going to
maste because work was NOT fol
o"eu up, even to the extent of
sa'serlnS what nature returned for
seeulng and wedding. 1t is n rather
..teiiiaTkable e fact that the peonIe Of
Ills CITY who were so busy with war
' GO uens % IN 1917 and 1918 should be
tbo,, ~ eiess about gathering what
80 Iau soWed in 1919. And IL
in, 80 " pear out the remark of Shir-
uys H Watts' who had charge of the
Con,,Ssh Sal uehs Tor the Chamber of
stances wherein gardens were r,i%-
gu were few and the n.nnor IN
Witch they were watched in Tho two
bieVtous years had n good effect
10 10 shoWn before in this coIun,r
oa were hundreds of acres of wnr
saruehs continued this veat. and
,nuSh ,4e care was given to then, nm
@ uIitil tate summer. And then for
soiIie M reason, as can be seen in r,any
iat 20 Vi Ihe city the gardens were
to re- go These are good days for
ohias hHs walks and more than one
oo9ect lesson can be obtained Inv
and ntS .he cabbages, corn stalks
foo1 t. ways that earth returns
are GO, a' nave been neglected. There
not been banked up and which ore
green as the weeds which have hoon
an about them. The owners ~
lhese gardens and the peonIo wbo
WORKED them did not go to tho
erouple or harvesting and the gem
dI Pupllc, trained, let us saw. to
iespectlnS gardens, passed them by.
And the remarkable thing about this
attitude on the part of the persons
VINO started and worked the gar
1ehs' is that by some attention
they could have put money into
,helr pockets. Probably, in the
language of a business man who
n9ticed the waste in the gardens
wnlen WI We're so promising, "it's part
OF the let down"
1 @A>'N 10 dllOIHeF interesting
fact about harvesting. within five
miles of Harrisburg there are corn
helds which have not been gone
| over. The corn is still on the stalk.
corn Is now selling for the highest
price known in generation. There
is a big demand for it. And vet
| lapor to tear off the ears and load
them into wagon is so hard to oh
| tain that instances are known where
owners of farms have been letting
their own work go so that thew
could help get in the corn. The
| county is said by the Farm Bureau
folks to have n banner crop. And
maybe some of it will be going to
waste.
w. Kent Gilbert, of Camp Hill,
mas harvested q wonderful crop of
| chrysanthemums this year-most of
them of the pink and yellow va
| rieties. The flowers on which Mr..
Gilbert specializes are all grown
outdoors, but they are as large and
exquisite in form and color as the
hothouse grown blossoms and much
harder. Some that he brought to
the city this year We're eight to ten
inches in diameter and had stems
1--WE to six feet in length. He found
an easy market for his surplus at
good prices. Mr.. Gilbert is an in
door worker and finds his recreation
and exercise in his flower beds.
Some of my friends go fishing. 9TH
ers play golf-I raise flowers" he
says.
H. Bower, of 1917 Derry street, who
grows the handsomest dahlias ever
seen in Harrisburg. Mr. Bower,
like Mr.. Gilbert, takes his ex-
| ercise in his flower beds. and
| some of the dahlias he raises are not
only as big as the largest of chrys-
! anthemums, but they closely re-
semble those flowers in general ap-
| pearance. Others look like roses
poppies or peonies in form, size and
color. Mr.. Bower has some of the
rarest varieties grown in the United
States and his lawn is riot of color
and beauty when they are in bloom.
Hundreds of people go to see this
| display, which is rapidly approach
| ing the best seen in any Central
! Pennsylvania garden.
President B. NJ. Nead's plan to
stimulate interest in the life Of Har-
risburg in the days gone by and the
influence of this city upon State af-
fairs by a series of addresses by
prominent residents at the monthly
meetings of the Dauphin County
Hist orical Society will be launched
on Thursday evening, when Spencer
G. Gilbert and A. Carson Stamm will
speak. They are men known to
every one in Harrisburg and by con-
senting to speak they have given an
impetus to the work of the society.