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Go'ra of smith
It won% rte long now.
In a few weeks, perhaps ]ess,
in most of Canada the last snow
will be gone, the soil warbling up
and soon ready for the first seeds
and plants.,
But the wise gardener while
waiting for this necessary,
warmth will get a lot of pleasure
as well as value out of planning
bis operations in advance.
For this planning a good Ca-
nadian seed catalogue is invalu-
able. And Canadian is used in
.no narrow sense because these
catalogues are especially pre-
pared with Canadian climate
and other conditions in mind.
There are all sorts of flowers,
vegetables and fruits that will do
well in the southern states, or in
England or France. But they
would only he a disappointment
in this country. Only varieties
suitable and tested for our cli-
mate, for our shorter but rapid
growing season, for our soils, are
listed in the Canadian seed cata-
logue.
Basic Information
In addition to the pictures
which are actual photographs,.
the seed catalogue tells us pre-
cisely when, where and which to
plant. It informs of the hardi-
ness and special likes in the way
Of soil and location of each flow-
er or vegetable. We then know
which will be best and most -sat-
isfactory for our particular gar-
den, _It also tells us the colour
of the bloom in the case of flow-
ers and the days to maturity for
the various vegetables. This
again is vital information in
planning. Heights are also given
ofmost plants so that we won't
have some big flowers hiding
little ones or try to grow great
bushy annuals like the bigger
salvia, zinnias and marigolds in
little teeny beds. With the in-
formation of the seed catalogue
before us we can go ahead and
plan and dream a perfect garden
even if it is still 10 below out-
side:
Why Lawn Seed Mixtures
Grass is just grass to a lot of
people but for a good lawn it
must be very much more than
that. To stay green all summer,
to resist drought, crowd out
weeds, • to stand traffic, to re-
main fine and velvety, we need
not one variety of grass but sev-
eral. That is why lawn seed
comes in mixtures.
In these mixtures there will be
some quick growing hardy varie-
ties tomake a showing early in
the spring. Then there will be
later growing sorts to fill in and
provide colour and fineness after
Ma early varieties have died
down and are resting. There is
also a percentage of long living
or permanent grasses that will
take over and continue the col-
our and texture for years. If
only one variety of grass was
sown then at some season of the
year it would start to mature, set
seed and lose its colour.
For special purposes, there are
different mixtures. If the loca-
tion is very shady it is useless to
sow grasses that must have plen-
ty of sunshine. So we use mix-
tures especially adapted to grow-
ing in shade. For bowling and
putting greens, for damp loca-
tions or very high, it is also ad-
visable to get mixtures or varie-
ties especially suitable.
THANKS. FOR THE MEMORY
In Jefferson City, Mo., when
Circuit Judge Sam C. Blair vis-
ited the state penitentiary, the
prison band honored him with
the tune, You Send Me.
B RD SEEDY—"Shouldn't have put the tux away without moth'
balls", this emperor penguin might wellbe thinking. Actually,
he's moulting at his new home in Portland, Ore. The warm
weather in the city isn't at all to the liking of the bird and his
forlorn companions who are among the survivors of a shipment
of 63. Most of the others succumbed to a rare disease en route.
Number Thirteen
Lucky, Unlucky?
Snow was falling heavily and
r
the wind. was bitterly cold as the
ecstatically happy' young couple
of Irish newlyweds 'arrived in
a taxi at their honeymoon hotel
in New York, Nothing seemed
able to mar their complete ahp-
piness. They were both twenty-
five and rapturously in love,
The auburn -haired bride look-
ed radiant in green as she waited
in the foyer while he made ar-
rangements about their luggage.
For, unlike some girls, she was
not a bit superstitious about
wearing her favorite colour. It
had always been her .boast that
she was only superstitious of one
thing: the number thirteen,
which had always been an un-
ulcky one in her family.
The shock came when they •
reached the door leading to their
suite: number 13.
The pretty young bride's face
clouded,
"Darling," she exclaimed; "we
can't possibly start our honey-.
moon in room 13. I feel it's a bad
omen.'
Her husband hated making a
fuss. But he realized she was in
deadly earnest, so he sent a bell
boy with a message to the hotel
manager, who took prompt ac-
tion. The hotel was pretty full.
but there was one other small
suite vacant: No. 58, Would that
do? It certainly would, said the
- bridegroom gratefully.
And what a wonderful honey-
moon they had. They toured
New York by car, went dancing,
enjoyed shows and returned to
their newly bought home with-
out giving another thought to
number thirteen.
It was not until the following
spring that it suddenly occurred
to the newlyweds that the digits
of room 58, the hotel suite they
hod stayed in, total thirteen
when added together!
"Well, I neverl" smiled the
girl. "Perhaps thirteen does not
bring bad luck after all!"
"Fancy ever thinking that it
does," replied her husband, kiss-
ing her tenderly.
But the fact remains that com-
paratively few large hotels in
the United States today have a
room 13. Many leave 13 . out al-
together. Some call it 12a. There
are some very large hotels where
AIMING HIGH—Little Eric Edwards seems to indicate that his
future is going "'thataway" into the wild blue yonder of jet
travel, Eric's 'horse 15 a CJ -805 jet engine. The engine, pro-
duced by ,General Electric, will power the new Convair 880
passenger airliners.
the problem is solved very sim-
ply by starting the numbers at
101 and. progressing a hundred
to each floor.
The manager of a small Lon-
don hotel told me that he has a
room 13 because he has found
that a lot of people, especially
Scots, consider it to be their
lucky number. "We even get re-
quests for it," he said.
That thirteen can cause bad
luck is one of the commonest
superstitions, in the world.. It
exists throughout Europe, espe-
cially in France,' where there is
hardly a town or a city where
you can find a house numbered
13.
When it was officially decided
to renumber the houses in one
English village street, the num-
ber 13 was placed on 'the door
of a certain woman. She pro-
tested strongly and when the
authorities ignored her protest
she took the matter to the High
Court.
Evidencewas given by house
agents that there was no doubt
that number thirteen was dam-
aging to the Woman's property.
They said it was almost impos-
sible to let a house numbered 13.
So the woman won her case.
But there was a dramatic sequel
the following day. She died sud-
denly' from a heart attack .. .
Incidentally, . there was one
High•Court judge who believed
in the thirteen superstition.
When he was practising at the
Bar it was known that he would
never accept any brief marked
tihrteen guineas. A. solicitor who
knew of this one sent him a
brief marked "Twelve and an-
other." It was sent back to him,
The producer of a popular
seaside show decided to .try to
dodge number thirteen. 'Know-
ing how superstitious stage folk
are, he decided to call it the
fourteenth annual production,
although it was really the thir-
teenth. It made no difference.
First the pavilion where the
company performed was burned
down, all the props were de-
stroyed and 'many of the per-
sonal belongings of the cast lost.
The show went on in a smaller
hall.
Then a woman star in the
show slipped and hurt her arm
so badly that she could appear
again. Next, another star was
taken ill with gastric trouble,
and yet another lost his voice.
Others in the company were in-
capacitated by minor mishaps.
And the show manager collapsed
on the verge of a nervous break-
down.
Uneasily, the cast realized that
the show's band numbered
thirteen, that the principals num-
bered thirteen, thirteen songs
were featured . .. and the show
had reached its thirteenth week!
Sailorsdon't like the number
thirteen. The departure of a new
45,000 -ton tanker on speed trials
from Hamburg was delayed re-
cently because its captain and
crew though that Friday the
13th was a bad clay on which to
leave.
Students of superstition have
called this fear of Friday the
lath, triskedekaphobia - for
reasons best knownto them-
selves. On Friday, December
13th, 1957, one London woman
confessed that she was so afraid.
thot some ill would befall her
that she 'decided'. to remain in.
bed all day rather than "run the
risk of venturing out of doors.?
After an explosion in a fire-
works manufacturing firm in
South America, in which eight
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employees were killed, the pro-
prietor said that the number 13 .
appeared to have dominated the
tragedy. The company's street
number was. 13, • :the explosion
occurred on the 13th of the -
month ' and the number of em-
ployees had been increased from
eleven to 13 that very day..
But there are 'many instances
when it can be claimed by the
superstitious- that thirteen is an
extremely lucky number. A
Berkshire widow who died some
years ago had' the reputation -of
being thehappiest and most con-
tented person in, the village,
where 'she had lived for many
-years. She left a fortune of -
£13,000.
f£13,000.
She was born on the 13th of
the month, lived at a house num-
bered thirteen and had thirteen
children who, like herself, lived
happy lives unclouded by mis-
fortune of. any kind.
Sir Hall Caine, the novelist,
used.to point out that. 13 seemed,
to be a lucky number for him.
Four of his most successful
novels were - published • on the
13th of the month, one of these
dates being also a Friday.
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