The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-03

Altho he has attained the age at
which most men-those who reach it
at all-are compelled, or at least are
content, to spend their time in an easy
chair, Mr.. Tiffany plants and culti-
Yates his almost-an-acre garden with
out any assistance and pays no at
tention to union hours. He rises early,
IS out in his garden when the sun is
beating straight down, and the cool
of the evening often finds him gather
ing up the odds and ends of which
there are plenty in a garden.
With ali this, he still has time to
read widely, and is well informed on
current topics.
Mr.. Tiffany came west four years
ago in November, with his daughter
and her husband. At that time trees
and unsightly shrubbery on the west
side of Washburn campus shut off the
beautiful part of the campus from the
inhabitants of the Seely home. and it
was to get rid of this eyesore that Mr..
Tiffany began clearing off the space
that now yields food for himself and
family. He cut down trees, grubbed
up stumps and pulled up and burned
the weeds and underbrush. It was
big Job, but he worked at it nethodi-
caIiy, planting garden seeds in the
ground from which he had jsst pulled
thistles.
At the end of the first year Mr..
Tiffany started his garden. on a much
smaller scale than it is now. The
land is well described as a miniature
gulch- It is rolling and does not look
as II 1t would produce vegetables. but
the soil is rich and Mr.. Tiffany's sue
cess with it is nothing short of re
markable- With each year, more
weeds and underbrush were pulled
out. and more garden was planted,
until now Mr.. Tiffany has about an
acre in seed.
Selling From Garden.
The aged gardener expects
bumper" crop this year. Already he
has sold forty pounds OF peas this
spring. and now he is selling beans.
Soon his sweet corn will be ripe-it is
already tasseled and silked. His corn
field is an eighth of IN acre in size
and covers a knoll.
Mr.. Tiffany has 500 tomato plants in
the ground. Last year he sold seven
bushels of tomatoes at cents a
pound. One Of his vines had thirty
four tomatoes on it at one time and
one tomato weighed 171z ounces. The
tomato patch is right along the road.
but not one of his tomatoes were
stolen last year, Mr.. Tiffany said.
It is Mr. Tiffany's claim that he has
more onions than anybody in the
township He transplanted 1000 of
them this year.
Last year he raised 1900 cabbages
and sold 500 of them. He has 100
strawberry plants in this year.
In addition, the old gardener raises
potatoes, peas, wax beans Ia pound OF
which he boasts he can pick in ten
minutes), squashes. cucumbers musk
melons, watermelons, lettuce and
beetS.
Mr.. Tiffany sold $40 worth of vege-
tables in 1919. over the amount used
by his family on the table and for
canning.
His Hollyhocl Patch.
But It is Mr. Tiffany's hollyhock
= acts
passers- by. From the road, they look
beautiful. but II IS not until one has
had their history explained to him by
the planter that their wonderful quail
iry is realized. From the seeds of a
blood red flower. Mr.. Tiffany has
raised hollyhocks of varied hues and
kinds. On the side of a bank opposite
the Seely home are now blood red
hollyhocks. pink hollyhocks, rose-col-
ored hollyhocks and pure white holly
hoeks-all from the same seed Ana
Eerv Is another unusual fact about