How To Design |
Your Garden
A Garden needs design as mucch as a
Houae need* it.
Although well-designed gardens are
becoming numerous most home own
ers are content with the layout of
their hon e grounds which was given
them by the subdivider. That is, they
•ccept the sidewalks, back fence and
aide boundaries as sufficient delinea
tion of their garden area and proceed
to plant little or much within this'
area without further attempt at de
•ign.
In some cases there is resistance to
the idea of designing, a feeling that
outdoors calls for informality and
that any interference with haphazard
arrangement is stiff and pretentious.
It may be so, indeed, but on the other (
hand, a really beautiful expression of
the feeling of informality in a garden
calls for a degree of deingning skill 1
much greater than formality and stiff
ness require.
A house might be built without de
sign. The windows might be of vary
ing sizes and placed without consid
eration of balance. The rooms might
i
be of irregular shapes and the con- 1
tour ofthe roof unstudied. Such a
house would not be any more “in
formal” than perhaps a majority of
our home grounds Yet few would
consent to live in it. The revolt
against haphazard gardens is not so ,
cert., in, perhaps, because of the beau
ty of the materials of which a gar
den is made.
Nature always designs. Every plant
is a beautiful thing, complying with
the laws of composition. It is only
in the arrangement of these things of
beauty that the usual garden violates
these laws. The gardener who not
only makes a bad arrangement but
uses his pruning knife to destroy the
natural beauty of his plants and j
shrubs is fortunately becoming less
nun erous.
The most conspicuous examples of
bad arrangements nre to be found in
trees. It is impossible to overlook or
disguise a badly planted tree. After
a few years a mistake in tree plant
ing is difficult to correct. Nothing!
gives more beauty to the home than j
well-placed trees or detracts more!
than badly placed trees.
The first object in planting trees is
to create a picture by framing the
house and giving it background Tall
trees should not be planted in front
of the house where they will screen
the vie w unless it is desired to hide
aome portion of the building. A sec- j
ondarv object in tree planting is to J
provide shade.
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LOCAL BUSINESS <
MEN INTERESTED
much more ahead of all other towns 1
for niny miles around. The best way 1
to depress the depression is for folks j !
to find something to do and stop! <
grumbling. And you might say that 1 1
we have a dependable line of fertiliz-ll
ers for town gardens or farms and
treat folks right on them.”
CIVE A THOUGHT TO
THE PROPER VINES
There is much beauty in vines prop
erly chosen and well placed A little
thought regarding the purpose for
which each vine is planted will en
able you to choose the proper one.
The vines which cling to brick and
masonry have little growths along
their stems which become fastened to
the wall. Such vines as Boston ivy,
English ivy. and climbing eyonomous
bob ng i: this g- n. C her types of
vines grown against walls must have
artificial support.
Many vines have a particular value
in their flowers, such s climbing
roses, wisteria and clematis. These
are all adapted to lattice and trellis.
Vines with a climbing habit and heavy
foliage have their place in screening
and completely covering large spaces.
The Virginia creeper, Dutchman’s
pipe, clematis, bittersweet and honey
suckle are examples. They make ex
cellent coverings for pergolas.
Sometimes it i<» fruiting qualities
that are desired The bittersweet?
matrmony vines, climbing roses and j
Others have attractive fruits for pick
ing or for winter color and interest.
As important as the choice of vines,
is their proper placing. Vines on
bouses should enhance the architec
ture and not obliterate it from view.
The outside chimney usually seems
cold and unattractive without the j
companionship of a vine.
NEW INI,FT
BOON TO FISHERMEN
Elizabeth City.—That the new inlet
cut in Dare County is a boon to flsh-j
ermen that might with the expendi
turo of r> few ‘'-.-.snd dollars, be
the om'r : "n o<- C'-v e r Gilbert. Eliza-j
beth City sportsman and merchant.
Mr Gilbert expresses the belief
that the sinking of a few worthless
TITR RECORD, Xebulon. Wakr M. C„ april 8,1932.
iships off the bar, and the anchor-
I ing of the banks to prevelit shifting
j sand, would effectively prevent clos-(
ing of the inlet.
“The abundance of shade in Dare
county waters since; the opening of
the 1932 “New Ilet,” said Mr. Gil
b< rt, "would seem conclusively to
prove that the arguments of the fish
emicn which led the State, under
tli# leadership of Governor Cameron
Morirson, to attempt the opening of
this inlet were sound.”
“Now that nature has done a big
ger and better job than the State
i was able to do, should not both State
j and Federal governments co-operate
.to aid nature in keeping the inlet
open?” asks Mr. Gilbert.
Making The Home
i Grounds Fruitful
j The possibilities of combining orna
mental values with fruit production in
selecting plans for the home grounds
are being recognized more widely by
Americans than formerly. They have
long been realized in British and
1 northern European gardens, where
fruit growing is more difficult than
•, iih us, and n ripened peach is an
achievement.
To train peach and pear trees
against a southern wall, where a
, maximum of heat from the sun will
J hasten their ripening, is not necessary
lit re. But it can be done, and there
is much interest in the quaintly
pruned fruit trees, trained on es
paliers, especially in the garden too
small to harbor a full-grown tree.
But a thirty-foot garden is large
enough for one full-grown cherry,
peach, plum, pear or even apple tree;,
and there are also dwarf trees which
will do in much smaller space than
the standards. A fruit tree well cared
for will provide shade as welcome as
I that from a shade tree; and besides
j its fruit it gives glorious flowers. One
tree, easy to grow in the ornamental
' border, is the quince, which produces
i fruits most welcome at preserving
time.
Bush truits make acceptable hedges j
|to divide the vegetable from the or
namental garden. The red raspberry!
lis an ideal home garden subject; and j
j there are varieties that bear all sea-1
son. Loganberries and black rasp
berries are easily grown, though the
latter spread over considerable room
with their drooping ahbit. Blackber
lies should be used only where their
custom of sending out long suckers
will not annoy. Currants make large)
bushy shrubs which can be grown in j
mass plantings, provided they are not i
crowded. Gooseberries have a some- j
what similar habit of growth and are i
easily handled.
For a trellis, an arbor, a pergola, or
to clothe a naked fence, grapes are
unrivaled. Their blossoms are fra
grant and their fruits have great dec
orative value. The care of fruits is
not difficult, if one learns a few sim- (
pie rules about spraying and pruning.
While neglect is often hard on them
the few insects and disease enemies
are easily controlled by methods
which long experience has perfected.;
And how well they repay a little care! i
There is no enterprise in which the
gardener will take more pride than
successful growing.
WHITE GAMBLER
SLAIN BY NEGRO
Ra’eigh—Lincoln Thompson, 35-
year-old white man, was shot and al
most instantly killed last night in an
argument with Marvin W’hite. Negro,
over 25 cents as the two were en
gaged, with several other whites and
Negroes in a gambling game. White
fled the scene, near Whitaker’s Serv
ice Station on the Fayetteville high
way, leaving his automobile behind,
and officers were searching for him
jlast night.
i Acording to information obtained
by Coroner L. M Waring, Thomp
son was * hot after White had re
turned to his home, a short distance
from the -tntion, and secured two
shotgun o , coming back to the sta
llion to “even things” with Thomp
son. The station is four miles south
of Kaleigb.
Thompson, who lives on the high
way a few hundred yards from the
station, was m: rried »rd has five!
children. He was a well digger by \
trde.
j MILLIONS FOR MILK
j Raleigh.—ln spite of prices run
ning from 30 to 25 r>er cent below
those of the previ >us year. North
! Carolina dairymen sold nearly 17 mil
jlion dollars worth of milk and cream
tr creameries, cheese factories, ice
cream plants, milk receiving plants
and city consumers during the year
!1931. according to a statement by W.
JL. Clevenger, dairy manufacturing
•specialist at the North Carolina State
•College.
Best Time To
Plant Trees, Shrubs
It has been many years since land
scape improvements could be made as
economically as they can be at pres
ent. Never have conditions been
more favorable for the development
of a modern outdoor living room, the
addition of a water garden, rockery,
flowering hedge, windbreak, the re
arrangement of foundation planting,
evergreen and shrubbery groups and j
flower borders. In fact, this spring is j
your golden opportunity to realize the
maximum returns from an investment
in planting, whether large or small,
for the best varieties of trees, shrubs
evergreens, roses and other flowers
may be secured in god sizes at ex
tremely moderate prices
Os course, there never has been any
question that planting adds immeas
urably to the value of property, makes
the home more inviting, more livable,
increases its attractiveness and sal
ability. Planting done this year will
yield these satisfying returns in an
even greater degree. Present indica
tions are that in two years real estate
values will be greatly increased, and
this year’s investment in plants will
then be worth many times its value
to the property.
Right now in thousands of homes,
plans are being made to convert old
fashioned “hack yards” into modern
outdoor living rooms. For the outdoor
living room, with its blessings of fresh
air, sunshine and flowers is the dis
tinguishng mark of the modern home.
SMALLER TURKEYS IN DEMAND
The turkeys which grace Thanks
giving and Christmas boards are grad
ually growing smaller. 1 -Ten years
ago consumer.', preferred larg'' ‘ >m.
and the smaller birds (usually hens) ,
brought lower prices, but now the I
market demand is for birds weighing
an average of 10 pounds dressed. This
year the smaller turkeys have com
manded a premium of 3 or 4 cents
a pound. One of the largest
| store buyers states that, three-fourths
(of the demand in bis stores is for bids
of the demand in his stores are for
1 birds weighing from 8 to 12 rounds.
'home DEMONSTRATION CLUB
APPOINTS CHAIRMAN
The following chairmen of commit
tees have been appointed bv the TT ome
Demonstration club of Wakefield.
They will serve for one year Foods
and Nutrition. Mrs. W A Jhmer:
| clothing, Mesdames B. B. BußoeV T
iB. Davis; House Furnishing Mrs.
|C. H. Chamblee; Home M , r"' , " Tr !''rt,
I fication, Mesdames D S. .Tovrmr, C.
| Mrs. Lewis Liles; Club Yard TVanti-
M. Rhodes; Home Gardens Mrs. C. j
M. Rhodes; Home Poultrv. Mrs * D j
Massey; Home Dairy, Mrs -’•one
.Tones; Child Development. Mrs W. N.
Pitts; Ways and Means. Mesd-.r- P.
S. Joyner, O. H. Massov. Hea I*' 1 *'
i Welfare, Mesdames J. A. K.
joyner.
PROBABLY “APRIL FOG’ ” r U
Raleigh officers were ordo" '
'at the corner of Hargett cr>
Streets on the afternoon of
2nd., when they were promis'd that
the Lindbergh baby would ho d
to them. The message was
form of a telegram tied to U
of a bicycle at a local
flee. The police follows ’
tions; but their efforts were <
Bnew LOWER PRICES I s
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. . Refrigeratore are Guaranteed against
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emphatically than ever the ouutaod
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SEND IN YOUR ENTRY AT ONCE
Send in your entry in the Yard and
Garden Contest at once. Do not de
lay. Clip out the entry coupon in this
issue of the Record, fill out aa direct
ed and mail to the address indicated.
Interest your neighbors and get them
to enter too. You will improve the
appearance of your entire street by so
doing. Entry cards can be secured
at contest headquarters as given in
.the coupon. You have as good a
j chance as anyone else to win a prize.
I And remember: “YOU WIN IF YOU
LOSE.”
WE COMMEND THE FINE CIVIC SPIRIT OF ZEBULON
As Show n In The
YARD & GARDEN CONTEST
We are always for anything and everything that is for Zebulon’s good.
We are glad that while other cities are dead and croaking hard times, Zebulon is keeping the home fires burning.
After the job of beautifying, let’s
KEEP BUILDING ZEBULON
REMEMBER US ON GAS, OIL, GREASE, WASHING, POLISHING, TIRES, TUBES, ETC.
PHIL - ETT SERVICE STATION
Avon Privette, Prop.
Where 90 and 91 Branch Zebulon, N. C.
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FERTILIZER
FISH BRAND MORRIS GOBI) BOND ROYSTER’S
Make Your Dollars Count in Good Fertilizer this year. Fertilizer that has been tested
for years right in your neighborhood. Buy the best and rest assured that you’ll make
a good crop if anyone does. Quality Tobacco usually sells well. Quality Fertilizer
ill produce quality corn, peas, cotton, and tobacco.
;Wc carry a stock here in storage house so you can get a load when you need it in a
hurry. Sec us sure before you buy.
THE F. D. FINCH COMPANY
VEGETABLE SEEDS
FLOWER SEEDS
BULBS, PLANTS
Y >ur Jar len shou d be dan 1 ed ne n and why not use the best seeds this year, they
cost no more than ordinary seeds and you are assured of successful results.
Everything for the Garden and Farm can be had at Job P. Wyatt & Sons Seed
j • in Raleigh, including vegetable seeds, flower seeds, bulbs, plants, insecticides,
prayers, garden implements and supplies. Baby chicks and poultry supplies.
FREE
As a special jubilee year Wyatt’s are giving four packages of beautiful flower
•,ds tree with every seed order of 59c or over.
ECONOMY BEGINS WHEN YOU PLANT A GARDEN
Job P. Wyatt & Sons
Phone 1189
n r .jf rh North Carolina
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THE PREACHER AND US SEEK FOR SOLES
Only tho preacher spells it another wi; . Cut our workmanship and hon
( eat leathers spoil lo;if wear and satisfied patrons. Work done while you
wait.
Mens Best Leather Half Soles _ » - SI.OO
Men’s Cheaper Leather Half Soles -75
j Men’s Half Soles and Heels $1.25 and SI.OO
“ Ladies’ Half Soles and Heels .85
i Children's Soles from 35c to 85c
I Any kind of Harness repaired economically
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THE WEATHER’S ELECTRIC SHOE SHOP
C. B. Eddins, Manager.