The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-23
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By HELEN KENDALL
 Order Spring Bulbs Now

About the farthest things from l ones thoughts on hot August aft ernoon are the cool fresh blooms of 1 spring-the dafftd dils crocuses, snowdrops, tulips and hyacinths. Yet now Is the time to order your bulbs | if you wish to be sure of your masses of spring loveliness next April. If l you wait until the time for planting l these bulbs-September October or l even Noyember-you will find that the stocks Cf many nurserymen are exhausted. Last year I wanted to | have among my crocusses a mass of | blue grape hyaclnth and scilla, but my order was returned to me un- | fiE d with tho notation supply ex- | hausted."
 l Many inexperienced gardeners i plant their bulbs very much too late. It Is of course possible to put them in any time before heavy frost, and they sometimes do well enough; but | 1t is much safer to put them in earlier and give the roots a chance to establish their connection with the soil in readiness to begin early in the spring.
 The garden book, which is my in- fallible guide, advises me that bulbs should be planted in general by Sep tember 15. The bulbs of candidum l lilies (the earliest blooming lily) l should be in the ground by Septem- [ Der 10. (Other lilies may be planted as late as October 25 Or even early in the spring) September Is is the proper date for putting in snow drops. crocuses, scillas, narcissus, daffodils and jonquils Tulips and l hyaclnths should not be planted until | October.
 Don't plant bulbs in stiff rows, but in little groups of say five or six. Keep these five or six all the same kind and color, even if you put near them another group of a har- monizing color and kind. One tulip | carries no conviction in the garden you must have enough to make a It, tie mass of color.
 The best time to plan just where | you will plant your bulbs is in spring itself, the time they bloom. 1 make a diagram or keep notes of just how want my garden to look next spring; then in August or even earlier I enter my order so that I shall get exactly the combinations I have worked out, and get them in time. At least, that's what I am going to do this year.
 THE JAY-WALKERESS
 If there Is one characteristic at titude of which we Americans ought to rid ourselves as quickly as possi- ble, it Is the habit of saying:
 "Oh, let's take a chance"
 Taking chance is what is to
 
 tragedies the county over-chancing a grade sklmming ahead and passing another car too closely. The trick of taking a chance" in getting across a crowded thoroughfare with out waiting for the traffic cops signal (known in New York city and probably elsewhere as jay walkz ing") is responsible for the long lists of street accidents printed from year to year.
 Not long ago. standing on 8 cor ner of the curb waiting for the signal for a change of traffic, I noticed near me an impatient little woman who grasped a small boy by the hand. She was fretting and fuming, muttering to herself that she's "been standing there ten minutes at least" which was far from true, and glar- ing at the officer who stood clamly ing the center of the street. Finally, she gave the little boy a yank, looked defiantly about her and started across, lodging between cars and narrowly escaping being hit by one.
 Suddenly the traffic officer spied her and strode towards her, clutching her by the arm. For one moment, be- fore stearing her safely to the op- posite pavement. he looked sternly down at her and gave her a piece of his mind"
 You're a walkeress. and you ought to be arrested" he announced, irately. Tt isn't so much your risk ing your own life the world wouldn't mises much!-but you are risking your child's life, and what's more, you are teaching him to be jay-walker. If you want to try this trick of takin ga chance again, don't try 1t on this corner"
 And he landed her on the curb in safety-a humiliated, thoroughly as- named and frightened woman!