Brunswick Between Bookends
By Eugene Fallon
LUSTY WIN'D FOR CARO
LINA. By Inglls Fletcher.
Bnbbs-Merrill Co., New York.
509 pp.
Here's an historical ramance
literally woven about Brunswick
County and its environs includ
ing Wilmington. It is a tried and
true formulae by a real profes
sional weaver of magic, but Mrs.
Fletcher needs no introduction in
this column.
The book itself was written
while its author lived at Claren
don Plantation, which, Mrs. Flet
cher writes, “ was the locale for
a portion of Lusty Wind."
Lusty Wind, published during
World War II. was the third in a
series of novels about Colonial
North Carolina: the first two be
ing “Raleigh's Eden" and “Men
of Albemarle", and whereas the
last-named probably exceeded
Lusty Wind in sales, its locale was
a few miles too far north along
this coast to excite the interest
of Brunswick citizens a notori
ously clannish group of readers.
Outside of its pertinent locale,
the book can scarcely fail to in
terest any reader—what with its
pirates, bold seafarers; its haugh
ty ladies, like Don Quixote’s Dul
cinea “the fairest of the fair”.
The winds indeed are lusty and
perfumed alike: there is an al
mighty striving, a love affair or
two, sea-pursuits and the bagging
of the bloodthirsty Stede Bonnet,
right at the mouth of the Cape
Fear River opposite Southport.
The author writes with charm
of a charming land and never
succumbs to that odious wading
through magnolias waist-high,
which characterizes so many
novels with a Deep South theme
Mrs. Fletcher rather flings a rec
rose—vigorous and scarlet, as ol
blood and action—instead of an ^
anaemic lily. In other words Mrs.
Fletcher’s South is always be
lievable—and always well read.
To the author's credit is the
fact that she is a product of the
prairie country—Galesburg, 111.—
where blows never the jessamine
or nary a magnolia bud; a land
which has given the world Carl
Sandburg, Vachel Lindsay and
Edgar Lee Masters. A fugitive
! from ice and blizzards, Mrs.
Fletcher not only adopted East
ern North Carolina many years
ago, but has managed to capture
its peculiar appeal and present
! it to millions of readers. The
writer is proud of the fact that
he possesses a speaking acquaint
ance with the lady. Carolina has
need of many such expatriates.
If you haven’t already read
Lusty Wind, and would like a
corking good yarn set in such
settlements as Charles Town, Old
Brunswick, etc., you cannot go
wrong with this tale of Brunswick
between 1718 and 1725.
The romantic, Southern novel,
here highly recommended, is avail
able at the Southport Public Li
brary.
Garden Time
By M. E. GARDNER
if. C. State College
This is a good seasop for get
| ting the pruning chores behind
! you. Practically all tr ees and
| shrubs may be pruned yow—ex
! cept the early blooming, shrubs,
i which should not be pruned until
j after they flower next spring.
Prune with a purpose rather
than butcher with a vengeance.
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jrapes pruned now will not bleed
is badly as if pruned later in the
winter or early spring. Old peach
and apple trees may be pruned
rather heavily if they have been
neglected.
Perhaps some evergreen shrubs
Slave gotten unruly and need at
tention—ligustrum, Burfordi hol
lies and others. If they have been
neglected, don't try to correct all
at once but rather gradually over
a yfear or two. If you ever let
pyracantha get out of hand you
are in trouble unless it has plen
ty of room and needs little or no
pruning. Keep these plants shap
3d to suit your notion as they
>l'OW.
Someone asked the other day
about the best time to prune
crepe myrtles. Now. if they need
it. Usually this plant is pruned
very little.
This is planting time, too. for
all trees and shrubs. Fruit trees
and grape vines will have naked
roots, so don’t let them dry out
before planting.
For these types, dig a hole
plenty large enough to prevent
crowding of the roots, deep
enough so that the plant is set
3lightly deeper than it stood in
the nursery row, and wide enough
for your feet.
When digging separate top and
sub-soil so that the top soil can
t>e placed around the roots, cover
roots thoroughly and shake tree
gently up and down to settle the
soil. Add more soil and pack with
your feet. Continue this operation
until within about four inches of
the top of the hole, then throw
in loose soil.
Equal volume of peat mixed
with the top soil is a good prae
:ice.
Shrubs that are balled and bur
apped can be planted any time
luring the year, as can nursery
stock in cans.
Be sure not to work soil when
it is wet. If plants are received
when soil is wet or frozen, put
them in a protected place and
cover the roots or ball with old
sawdust.
A reminder. Azaleas and ca
mellias will not tolerate deep
slanting. For these plants, leave
the top of the ball of dirt around
the roots even with the soil sur
face. Use equal volumes of peat
and soil to fill the hole and mulch
with pine straw.
Bald Head
Continued Frojn Page 1
flared war on- Imperial Germany.
There are only three houses
left on Bald Head today, those
and the abandoned coast guard -
station, only one of the houses is
fit for habitation. Reese Swan’s i
duties as caretaker is to keep
hunters from burning down the I
forests and depleting the numer
ous small game. It is lonely
enough—gas lanterns for Uhimin- j
ation; gas cook stove, gas re-'
frigerator; gasoline-powered wa-!
ter pump. But Reese is a son of 1
Bald Head; was practically raised
on the island.
Ask for Swans, father and son,
and they'll tell you Bald Head
Island is a completely enchanted
bit of North Carolina. If the ru
mors materialize, loneliness will
dwell no longer on an island four
miles out from Southport, and i
Myrtle Beach will have a rival
worthy of its steel.
Waterfront
Continued From Page 1
slowed down off the Southport
city dock long enough for a small
boat to come over the aide and
let a man come ashore. Once
more we sought a natural ex
planation, and said that it prob
ably was a pilot being let off
here.
But Monday afternoon the
truth was out. The Gerig came
into the river and moored off the
Wells Dock at the foot of At
lantic Avenue. It made us con
scious again of what a shame it:
is that here in Southport we have ;
no dock where a vessel of this i
size can tie up so the crew can j
come ashore.
Then sometime after midnight l
Monday we were awakened with i
staccato blasts from a boat whis- I
tie, and we thought a freighter j
oi a tanker must be headed for1
shore. In our sleepy stupor, we1
finally figured out that the whistle i
probably was that of the Gerig,
and that some trouble was being
experienced in collecting the crew
for returning to work after being
anchored off Southport for sever
al hours.
Of course, Tuesday morning the
whistle alarm was explained when
Chief Burt Briquette of Oak Is
land Coast Guard Station report
ed the rescue of a man from the
river before day. No body ever
would have known what happened
to him had it not been for the
fact that the Gerig had spent the
night in the river where the look
out spotted the man as he was
being swept out to sea and gave
the alarm.
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