The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1928-03-23

Grandma hasn't got none gan
den," asserted Rosemary positive
fy when some mention was mad,
of the garden one day. For, al
though, grandma has more thar
thirty varieties of flowers il
bloom, and to come as theil
season arrives, she has no vege
table garden, such as the chile
knows about at home. It's easier
and cheaper to get your vegetables
fresh each day from the vegetable
man who calls at your door.
Getting Weedwise
One doesn't have to know his
onions to be a gardner here, but
he does have to know his roses
and sprays and slugs and snails.
and how to tell which are flowers
and which are weeds something
l couldn't tell offhand. for | find
them %cultivating ~galiardia, a rath-
er coarse daisy with a red center,
which grows wild on the hills near
Wolf Point; while California pop
pies, which we think beautiful,
are taken as a matter of course
and treated like poor relations and
permitted to live in peace, as long
as they don't get in the way of
something else. They grow big
ger wild here than they do under
cultivation in Wolf Point, and l
wonder what they would be like
if they had a little attention paid
to them.
l went by a place n day and
noticed hundreds of iris roots
dug up and thrown in heaps along
the parking to be carried away by
the garbage man. 1t seems wrong
to throw them away and l men
toned it to my father. He said:
"Well, what would you do with
them. The roots have to be sep
arated or the plants won't do SO
we'll, and everybody has all the
iris plants they want" Another
day it was a heap of rose colored
Towering peach branches thrown
on the ground. Some heartless
tree surgeon" was amputating
the limbs of a perfectly gorgeous
tree-pruning it for it's own good
/ suppose.
Enterprising Hucksters
To return to the vegetable man,
who makes his daily rounds with
a truck piled high with vegetables
and fruits in season, one can get
nearly everything from him
green peas grown at San Jose, is
south of here, but about ten
legrees warmer at this season be-
,ause they are south of the bay.
lettuce, big heads for a nickel a
Potatoes, however, all
to come from Washington
II Oregon. The vegetable mar has
made a big hit with Rosemary,
or each day he gives her a bit of
'Littla girl lik-a banana"
lie will say one day. The next
lay perhaps he will give her an
orange or an apple. When she
his coming she will run
)ut and stand on the curb wait
ng for him.
Flower Festivals I
The fruit trees are beginning to
blossom, and the orchards are a
beautiful sight. Last week l was
to go to San Jose to attend
a luncheon given for the state
president Of the California wo-
mans club federation. A greater
part Of the way the road lay be-
tween orchards-the creamy white
of plum blossoms, the pink Of
apricots and peaches. The prunes
are not out yet, but will probably
be in full bloom within a couple
of weeks, at which time there will
be a blossom festival at Saratoga.
They are never able to set the
date Of the festival long in adj
vance, for they are not sure just
when the blossoms will be at their
best. This year it will probably
be earlier than usual. Everyone
urges me to be sure to see it. A
later there will be the fiesta
de roses at San Jose, for which
that city is making big prepare
Why Prunes are Cheap (?)
A sad thing about the prune in
dustry is that last year with a
good crop of prunes, the price
was so low that the growers could
scarcely make ends meet, and
many are not able to start work
this spring as it should be done.
Some of the growers are offering /
to pay for work with prunes in
lieu of money.
No Place For an Editors Wife
Along the highway, interspersed
with the beauties of nature, there
are a great many roadhouses.
"Lindy Lou is Calling You" was
the sign we read at intervals, and
finally we came to the Indy Lou
cabin, a sort of a sprawly shack. |
Then there are such roadhouses
as alabama Chicken Shack"
"Mammy's Log Cabin Chicken