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PAGE EIGHT Elizabethan Knot Is Garden Planned On Roanoke Island Mrs. Inglis Fletcher on One of the Active Committees When directors of the North Caro lina Garden Clubs meet in Chapel Hill August 17-18 they will consider plans for an Elizabethan Garden on Roa noke Island which are being assem bled on an international scope. Mrs Roy, of Chapel Hill, president of the Clubs, says that Mrs. J. M. Tyler, chairman of the Clubs’ Elizabethan Garden Committee, is at Wrightsville Beach doing extensive research in the English “knot” gardens of the Eliza bethan period. Assisting her is Mrs. Kennth Sprunt, of Orton. Overseas, friends of the Roanoke Island Historical Association are lending assistance. Paul Green wrote from London that he has been in specting English gardens and collect ing literature on the subject. Sir Evelyn Wrench, founder of the English-speaking Union and chair man of the Board of “1116 Specta tor,” is actively interested in the project, and has submitted a list of famous English gardens from which it may be possible to obtain seeds and cuttings. , Mrs. Inglis Fletcher and Mrs. Chas. Cannon, co-chairmen of the commit tee representing the Roanoke Island Historical Association, have called members of this committee to meet in Manteo August 17 to sign an agreement with Mrs. Tyler’s commit tee for development of the garden site north of Fort Raleigh. The develop ment will be initiated by a $9,400 fund voted by the Garden Clubs at. the 1951 convention at Wrightsville. (A “knot” garden, Mrs. Fletcher ex plains, is an English flower garden, intricate in design.) Deadline Is Near On Cotton Services Little time remains for cotton im provement groups to apply for free government classing and market news services on 1951-crop cotton; County Agent C. W. Overman of the State College Extension Service warned growers this week. Application for the Services, provid ed under the Smith-Doxey Act, must be filed on or before August 15, he said. - *kewith current market information, ob (jj Be Prepared For Emergencies ❖ A cash reserve is an important item of a well-planned budget. Unforeseen emergen cies should be anticipated and provided for by e 111 systematic saving. Build up a reserve of extra dollars in a Sav ings Account at The Bank of Edenton. Save here regularly and enjoy the feeling of securi ty that comes with having money in the bank available for any need that may arise. ❖ BUY UNITED STATES SAVINGS BONDS i n i I \ H THE BANK OF EDENTON EDENTON. NORTH CAROLINA I Safety. £or Savings Since 1894 ME MB KB FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM 8 m MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION ) ill , . .. \ • -v . ■ 'Vi.' wv ■ • • • • V . Vv. ■ . * t •' Seed Sowing in Summer Calls for Special Skill i In Hot Weather Make Seed Drill Deeper, Soak Soil Below It, and Cover Seeds With Special Porous Soil Mixture. Summer sowing of vegetable and flower seed requires a special tech nique which anyone can master in a few minutes; yet It Is awumtng how many amateur gardeners never do They are used to stirring the soli In the spring, dropping the seed In a drill, or hill, and covering It, with such a high percentage of success when they start early enough, that they never realize how careless they may become. The same methods, if used when temperatures reach 90 degrees, and rains are far apart, are likely to fail. Yet summer sowing is neces sary in order to keAp a vegetable plot bearing all season long, and also* to develop fully the opportunities for beauty in the Lower border. The chief requirements for suc cessful planting of seed in hot, dry weather are moisture, and a porous soil covering for the seed. At 90 degrees, surface soil is sure to be dried out to a depth of two inches or so. When seed is sown, without providing for moisture artificially, it simply lies dormant in the powder [ dry soil, until a rain comes, and then the seedling is usually baked to death before it rains again. If there is clay in the garden soil, the summer sun will bake it to a hard crust between showers, and the ceed sprouts may not be able to penetrate it, so they are burled alive in infancy. All this can easily be verified by any gardener who sows county agent explained, make it pos sible for a cotton fanner to know the official grade and staple length of each bale pf Jus cotton and, armed THE EDBMTON, N^C|THI^BPA^i^AUGU6T^I^SI^^ seeds in hot weather without taking due precaution, and observes care fully what happens to his seed. There is no mystery about it, and the way to success is a common sense one. To begin with you soak the soil in which seed are to be sown several inches deep. The soil is stirred' deeper than in the spring, and if the seed is to be sown in rows the drill is made deeper, two inches at least. The seed is sown on the moist soil, and covered with a special soil mixture in which there is no * clay. Peat moss mixed with sharp sand is excellent for this purpose. Peat moss can be used alone, or fine top soil can be mixed with equal parts of sand and peat moss. This special soil mixture will not bake, and will hold moisture much longer than the soil. The garden hose must be used daily, to sprinkle the surface, wetting the soil three inches deep. If watering is not easy, the moisture will be held longer by covering the seed row or bed with a mulch of dry lawn clippings, or any other practical mulching ma terial, including newspapers, boards, straw, dried leaves, etc. But If the row is shaded from the sun, the mulch must be removed as soon as the seeds sprout, as they will need the light. * Frequent sprinkling must be con tinued until the seedlings have grown roots three or four Inches long, so they penetrate to the sub soil moisture and can take care of themselves from then on. tain the best market prices for it. Grower-members of a cotton im provement group which has applied— and been approved—for the services may have their ginnetr sample each bale as it-is ginned, and submit these samples for classing- The U. S. De partment of Agriculture’s classing of. fice will prepare a card,” num bered to correspond with the sample's assigned number and noting the of ficial grade and staple length of that sample. These bards are return ed to the grower, to serve es his rec ord of each bale’s quality when mar keting or placing it under loan. Grower groups may obtain applica tions from the office of the county agent or that of the county Produc tion and Marketing Administration. Merit System Exams Begin September 15 September 15 has been announced as the date that the North Carolina Merit System Council will begin its fall examination program by giving clerical examinations in twelve ex amination centers throughout the State. Bulletins describing the posi tions for iwhich examinations will be given are ready for release and may be secured by writing to the Merit System Office, 310% East Main Street, Durham, N. C. Those persons interested in quali fying for clerical positions with the State and County agencies served by the Merit System are urged to ap ply for the examination before the closing date for receipt of applica tions, August 28.' 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