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July 16, 1975

NEW MOUNT JOY ROTARY OFFICERS
Asst. Secretary Jay Clarence Greider, outgoing President Al Newlin, incoming President
Carl Hallgren, Secretary Dr. Richard Bryson, Treasurer Joseph Shaeffer
Some problems
by Ralph Miller
It has been with some
reluctance that I have been
forced to admit to myself
that my wife is right, I leave
something to be desired as a
gardener. But she bolsters
me somewhat by telling me I
do grow excellent weeds.
In defense of my garden-
ing(an 11 foot by 16 foot
vegetable plot and two
slightly larger flower bor-
ders), | have been saying
that I got a rather late start
this past Spring, for various
reasons.
Weather was my first
defense, and it is true that
this Spring was contrary
with rain and cool tempera-
tures strechted out for
rather longish periods. But I
did turn all the beds over
except where the perennials
were growing. The onions,
radishes, lettuce and toma-
toes seemed to come on
without difficulty, but as to
bush beans,
summer squash and zucchi-
ni, some never made it. I
blame it on the rabbits, but I
couldn’t swear to it in a
court of law. There was
circumstantial evidence with
the summer squash and
zucchini since the first
plants seemed to be contin-
uously nibbled away; how-
ever, the second batch
planted apparently are go-
ing to mature and, hopeful-
~ ly, to produce something for
the cook pot. It may be the
clover which exists in big
patches throughout the
yard, that lured the rabbits
away from the garden.
As for the rabbits, I'd like
to see them in the cook pot
too, but that dosen’t seem to
. be in the cards. You have
probably read recently a-
bout the trouble Elizabeth-
town has been having with
rabbits. It unquestionably
must be a branch of the
family from here. I have
counted at least four young
and three adults hanging
around the yard. The young
ones don’t seem as smart as
the adults who put a much
greater distance between
in
threaten them. The young
just sit and wait until I am
three or four feet away and
then just hop a yard or two
when I tell them to beat it,
or else they find a conveni-
ent bush and keep circling
on the opposite side from
me. They seem reluctant to
leave, so morning after
morning, afternoon after
afternoon, evening after
evening, I am distracted
from other tasks to take a
few minutes exercise trying
to evict rabbits. Whatever
success I may think I have is
questionable since, given a
few minutes of free time,
they are back in no time at
all. Perhaps’ they never left!
At any rate, I am now
convinced that at most they
wait outside the edge of the
yard until they see me leave.
The rain, birds, or some
unseen forces of nature
must also have been at work
in transforming my neatly
designed flower beds into
the jungle it is. I was
prepared to have petunias
scattered hither and yon (I
haven’t planted any for
three years but they keep
coming up); larkspur grow-
ing in every imaginable
spot, and forget-me-nots
rearing their pretty blue
heads in different places,
but I wasn’t prepared for
migrating marigolds, nas-
turtiums, lavender, pearl
balsam, Peruvian four-o-
clocks, and gloriosa daisies.
Throw in about 5 varieties of
Cruciferae (Mustard fami-
ly), several Composite fami-
ly members, and assorted
members of the Pulse, Mint,
Goosefoot, Amaranth and
Buckwheat families, not to
mention numerous grasses
and sedges, and you can
readily see confusion begin
to grow. Especially when
doubt begins to creep in as
to whether something about
to be uprooted is really a
weed, or perhaps, a mis-
placed flower. This really is
where my wife gets the idea
I like to grow weeds.
Actually, in the right
places weeds can look as if
they were properly placed.
.=.me - and. them when: -1.- -Treacle; mustard; "as a 2}
gardening
medium sized, slender plant
with alternating bluish-
green, lance-shaped leaves,
topped by small clusters of
tiny, bright yellow flowers,
is appealing and even added
to the appearance of the
white cleomes. However, it
popped up everywhere.
This was just the opposite
for another tall, handsome
plant. When I first saw the
dark green plant with
alternate wing -tipped
leaves growing in the bed
designated for hollyhocks, it
looked as if they had been
deliberately planted there,
making a neat and compact
patch of plants just the right
height set over against the
giant anchusa and coreop-
sis. I was beginning to doubt
myself but the small purple
composite flower heads be-
gan to appear I knew I had
been tricked again. All the
books on botany said it was
Cirsium arvense (Canada
thistle), as I had surmised.
When I read in Britton and
Brown’s Illustrated Flora of
the Northeastern United
States and Adjacent Canada
that it was ‘‘a noxious weed
of fields and waste places”’,
I knew 1 didn’t have a
garden anymore.

BIRTHS
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen L.
Mohr, (Mary Ann Hallgren)
Box 103, Bainbridge, a
daughter at General Hospi-
tal, July 4.
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce W.
Hardy Jr., (Bonnie Hess),
Box 179 R. D. 1, Bainbridge,
a daughter at Osteopathic
Hospital, July 2.
Mr. and Mrs. Leon Good,
(Elaine Wenger), R. D. 2
Mount Joy, a daughter at
Lancaster General Hospital,
June 29.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Robinson, (Donna Fetter-
hoff), R. D. 1, Mount Joy, a
son at General Hospital,
June 29.
Mr. and Mrs. Vincent A.
* Cellucci (Mary Jo Shope), 17
S. Pine St., Marietta, a son
at General Hospital. July 10.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Ober-
holtzer, (Shirely Bender) 56
W. Main St., Mount Joy,
twins - a son and a
daughter, at St. Joseph's
Hospital, Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth E.
Betz, (Carl Peters), R. D. 2,
Mount Joy, a son at General
Hospital. July 11.
Rev. and Mrs. Dennis
Kuhns, (Joyce Eberly), a
daughter at Meadville Gen-
eral Hospital, July 7. Mrs.
Kuhns is formerly of Mount
Joy.
Mr. & Mrs. David Santi-
ago, (Robyn Bright) R.D. #1
Marietta, a daughter at
Columbia Hospital. July 12.
DID YOU HEAR....
Kitty Shank’s screams
could be heard all over
Marietta when she went into
her back kitchen and found
she was being visited by a
black rat snake almost 6 feet
long.
Paul Raber came to her
rescue and captured the
critter. Paul says it is one of
the largest specimens he
has ever seen—and that it
probably just wanted to get
in out of the rain.

KENNY SMITH

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