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—' There are many thinfrr to do
in the garden in June s ich as
take lip, divide and transplant
blue flag or bearded iris, jon
quils and daffodils, tulips and
Dutch iris. Also prune, stake
and tie dahlias and tomatoes —
mulch these two crops if you
want to eliminate some of the
problems of cultivation. Side
dress sw'eet corn with nitrate
of soda when it gets knee-high.
Give your lawn a topdressing of
nitrate of soda just before a
rain or watef it in with a hose.
* And while we are on the subject
of water, during the summer
heat most horticultural plants
should be supplied with appro
ximately one inch of water a
*> week either by rain or irriga
tion. The quality of vegetables
will be seriously affected unless
they receive sufficient water at
the critical periods.
It is also time in June or
early July to sow seed of toma
toes, collards and broccoli for
the fall crop. Use a wilt resist
ant variety of tomatoes such as
Homestead, Southland or Jeff
erson. Fall tomatoes will not be
successful if your soil is infest
ed with rootknot nematodes. Al-
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at Bp. m. Tuesday, June 9, at
the Pineola Presbyterian Church.
All Scouts and their parents and
friends are invited to attend.
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i Though many people plant' col
lard seed in the spring and grow j
large plants, the most tender
collards are those seeded in July |
or August. The plants are not 1
as large when cold weather I
comes but the quality is much
better. |
Green sprouting broccoli has
become very popular—espec
ially for freezing. Seed should
be planted in fate July or early
August in order tjiat the main
crop, of buds will mature before
heavy freezes occur. The plant
will withstand some frost but is
sometimes severely damaged.
DeCicco is a good variety for
North Carolina. i
DRAMA — Con. from page 3
munities in this picturesque sec
tion of the Blue Ridge Moun
tains may be arranged for at the
theatre office.
“Thunderland” dramatizes the
life of. Daniel Boone, who spent
his boyhood in the Yadkin Valley
of North Carolina and blazed
trails through the North Caro
lina mountains during the early
part of his career as a woodsman
and explorer. The story opens
with the birth t>f the great fron
tier leader, and follows his ad
ventures across the Appalachian
mountain range into the stormy
territory of Kentucky.
' Hubert Hayes jf Asheville,
author of the drama,, is a.direct
descendant of Boone. Music is by
Lamar Stringfield, Pulitzer Pri
ze-winning North Carolina com
poser whose music is. also heard
hi “The Lost Colony”.
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GREAT SAYS VITUS
Although this is pot fire
season, there is still considerable
fire danger, according to George
Vitus, district forest ranger.
Due to the dry weather and con
sistant winds, two fires broke
out last week. One of thim burn
ed over t.-iree acres of woods
I near the Mack Thompson mill at
: South Toe, all on private land.
! It was put out by the U. S. For
. est Service fire fighting crew
| consisting of M. M. Murphy,
Oscar Simmons, Bobby Simmons,
I John Griffith, Clark Griffith
and Herman Rathbone.
The other fire burned ten
acres of National Forest land
on North Fork River in the Big
Ivy section. It was put out by
the Big Ivy crew under the dir
ection of Warden John M. Allen.
The fire danger is so great
'that Mr. Vitus has all -three
look-outs in his district open:
They, are located at Green Knob
jn'Yancey County, Devils Nest
in Mitchell County and on Little
Snowball in the Big Ivy section.
According to George Vitus, for
est fires are particularly de
structive at this time Os the
year. It will not .only kill more
of'the young growth, , but will
severely damage large timber.
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The Yancey County Bookmo
bile schedule for the coming two
weeks will be:
Thursday,. June 4: Double Is
land; .Brush Creek; Tipton’s
Grocery; Long Branch; Bee
Branch; Pig Pen Road; Toledan
Mine Fork. 'S--
Friday, June 5: Elk Shoalsr'
Higgins; Little Creek; Ramsey
town; .Sioux.
Thursday, June'll: Bee Log
Postoffice; Bald Mountain.
Friday, June 12Mrs. Leona
Mumpower’s; NdWdale; Ar
buckle Road; Boonford; Win
dom; Shoal Creek. '■ ' ~
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Many Orchids May Be
. Found In This County
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By WENDELL A. HINKEY
The Pink I.ady’s-slipper is the
most beautiful wild flower, of
our area according to some folks. ,
It is certainly one of the most
interesting and one that deser
ves and needs friendship if it is
to continue^ to give pleasure,--to
the persop? who walks in- the
woods in the spring. A member
of the Orchid family, the Moc
casin-flower, as it is often called,
is most- difficult to transplant
since its soil and other require
ments are quite exacting. For
this reason it is better that the
wild flower fancier leave it in
the woods where it is growing.
Picking, too, is hard on it, even'
though the leaves are left, for
the root is tender amL 'ts often
damaged when the stem is pull
ed loose.
The orchids as a group are
among our most highly special
ized flowers having among them
several wqys of encouraging
pollenization. The Pink Lady’s
slipper forces the honey bee
that comes to gather the nectar
to help in the After
the bee has gathered her nectar
she can not get out of the slip
p r-shaped petal without going
through a small opening where
stiff hairs comb the pollen
grains out of the hairs on her
back- After passing the combing .
process, tjie bee must squeeze
-by the anthers which leave more
pollen on her back which in
turn is raked off by the hairs
rfh_the next blossom \she visits.
"For the various kinds of Moc
casin-flowers of different sizes
there are certain species of bees,
which can enter and escape from
each type, and it has been re
ported, that -some kinds, of. these
orchids are in danger of extinc
tion because the certain, type of
bee needed for its pollenization
) has become scarce through the
ie''forts of man to get rid of
bumble bee nests in hay field's
and Buch inconvenient places.
There are some kinds of bees
that resort to'violence of a kind
'when they find themselves trap
ped within the slipper and cut a
hole in the petal through which
to escape.
Other facts that iriakes the
Lady-slipper’s existence precar
ious are the difficulty with
which the seeds germinate and
the length of time it takes for
the germinating seed to develop
into a flowering plant and thus
complete the cycle. It apparent
ly varies with different condi
tions, but it may take as long as
five or six years to develop into
a plant capable of producing a
flower and hence seeds.
Among other orchids common
to Yancey County are the Yel
low Lady’s-slipper .which is sim
ilar in form to the Pink but
with a yellow flower and with
several leaves on a slender stem
rather than just two at the
base as with the pink. The Yel
low one seems to prefer a rich
er woods soil than the Pink
species which can get along in
sandier ahd drier locations
though they are often found
within a few feet of each other.
The Showy Orchis, with * a
group of two to ten purple and
white blossoms in a spike, is
another common orchid herea
bouts. This orchid, <«' like the
Lady’s-slippers, blooms in May.
Later on the Yellow-fringed
Orchid or Golden Plume exhi
bits its spikes of yellow or or
ange flowers with their fringed
lips, mostly occurring in pastur
es or open- woods.
Growing, in rather dry, often
rocky woods is a plant with
small dark green leaves with
prominent lattice-like
markings. It is an attractive
plant in its vegetative state, and
I would guess that more people
have asked me the name of it
than any two other plants, '“ft
is the Rattlesnake Plantain or
Lattice-leaves, one of our less
showy orchids whose leaves at
tract more attention than the
flowers. It blooms in July or
August with a spike of small I
whitish blossoms.
• All in all the orchids ape!
among our most interesting >
plants, worthy of our acquain- |
tance and- protection. And I I
would like to urge again that }
folks not pick them, especially
the Moccasin-flowers or
sTipper. We all enjoy them; let’s
keep them around 'for future
years.
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