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Jane Davidson, settling down at her Brucefield home after
a year in India, scrapes algae from the bottom of her swimming
pool. "We don't have a boat or a snowmobile or a colour TV"
Jane says, "the pool is our 'twin of relaxation. We used to
sit out here' and discuss where the. pool would go ten years
before it was built". The pool was put -in in 1970, the summer
before her husband, Malcolm, was killed. ,(Staff Phofor'
Matthew Davidson, 6, shows off his bike at -his home at
R.R.1, Brucefield. Matthew has just returned with mother,
two of, his three sisters and his brother Andrew from a year
in Kurseong, India. Matthew favours his own bike for trans-
portation over the jeeps and trains he rode in India.
(Staff Photo) ,
- In the spring the gardener's
hear turns to things of beauty,
but if nt your dreams to
co e true, you need to plan now.
Some of you will be getting
ready to re-seed your lawn to
'fill in those bare spots, or may-
be even maliing a new lawn.
Others, happy with their
present results, will be ensur-
ing a fine lawn early next spring
by spreading a fertilizer de-
signed to promote root rather
than surface growth. I favor
a fertilizer low in nitrogen. •
Then there's the planting of
spring bulbs, perhaps the easiest
way of producing instant floWer
beauty. SO let's take a lOok-
see at what'S going on.
BULBS
Spring flowering bulbs include
daffodils, tulips, hYacintri, bulb
iris and crocuses. Some that
afe smaller and not so well
known are scillas, glory-of-the-
snow, grape hyacinths and snow-
drops.
A few, points to remember:
-Get to know types, colors,
and sizes of bulbs, and the place
they grow the best. Choose
colors that harmonize with the
rest of your garden. If in doubt
ask your nurseryman.
- Ice sure bulbs axe-
seased, -431-seased--bulbi
-Make sure bulbs afire not
diseased. Diseased bulbs look
moldy, discolored, or soft and
-rotted.
-Buy, the specific 'colors or
varieties you want in your garden.
Inexpensive packaged mixtures
often contain lob many of one
color.
What about food for bulbs?
Each bulb has sufficient plant
food stored in it to make it
grow. However, I prefer to use
some extra food to compensate
for the little that may be in the
soil in your planting area, so
I use bonemeal. Spread it over
the soil and work it in so that
the basal roots can reach •it.
"This method is used just as you
are preparing the beds for
planting.
On the established beds, add
bonemeal in the fall, and gently
cultivate it into the soil to a
depth of two or three inches.
Then, as the bonemeal breaks
down, in the spring, it becomes .
available to the roots of the bulbs
and -they are happy to grow for
you.
PLANTING
Nearly all bulbs do better in
sandy loam, .which drains better.
That why it is a good idea
in a poorly draining soil to place
sand in the bottom of the planting
hole. This helps drainage and
also keeps bulbs from decaying.
Planting times during Sep-
tember and October vary with
the area. However, local bulb
distributors usually make a point
of advertising the most suitable
time for your particular location.
Protective mulches are only
necessary in very cold sections
and where open beds and borders"'
are used. Straw applied to a
depth of 3-4 inches is the best
material to use. Remove it
before plants are more thap 1
inch high. Of all the Spring
flowering bulbs, tulips are the
most easily winter-injured.
Many gardeners get the wrong
impression when they read about
the small or minor bulbs, Some
feel it meaos bulbs of lesser
importance in the garden. No-
thing could be farther from the
truth. Size of flower is not the
real importance in spring beauty,
in your garden. Take, for
example, the 'delicate formation
and bright colors of the small
"miniature" bulbs. They have
their own beauty and' charm.
WHERE TO PLANT
The base of trees is a good
place to plant some of your
favorite colors. They will get
enough light around a tree, be-
cause when the bulbs start to
produce, your tree will be with-
out- its foliage and this will -allow
for sufficient light, air and mois-
ture to get to the bulbs.
• Then as they finish their
flowering, the buds start to break
on the trees, so yOu've then got
beauty where you want it.
Along hedges is a good spot
for some of the dwarf bulbs.
If you are growing a number
of trees on your property, then
use some of the naturalizing daf-
fodils. They'll multiply and then
in a few years the area wilL,
be a blanket of yellow..
Spring flowering bulbs must
have time to develop roots before
winter, plant them not later than
mid-October, but again take your
direction from the local bulb
salesman. Usually about that
time, the ground freezes, but
they'll be in the ground and
starting to root for the following
spring's beauty.
If bulbs are planted in a
southern exposure, near a
building or wall, they will bloom
earlier than bulbs planted in
a n orthern exposure.
I like to plant them in clumps
of five or seven of a variety,
when I place them in their own
beds.
well as teaching at St. Alphon-
sus, she'worked with the school's .
chicken club, a groujaft'of boys
who ,kept laying hens pn the.
school's roof and sold their eggs
to hotels and families in town.
Jane studied the Nepali lang-
iiage along with the mothers of
children in the Headstart pro-
gram who were learning to read,
write and do, simple arithmetic
for the first time. "-By educat-
ing the mothers, we are reach-
ing, whole familiesleThe women
got 'a chance far an hour and a
half a day to get out of, in some
cases, tiny little ..hov.els„and un-
load a bit on.their friends. They
had little other chance to,;, get
away from their prettydesperate
daily lives."
Long -underwear.
"We went to India as'poor as we
could," said Jane,"and still gave
stuff away -' like the sets of long
underwear my mother gave each
of usi I thought I was prepared
for what I would find in India, but
I wasn't. I saw people dumped .
off by their families in the streets
with stumps for limbs; covered
with flies." Jane went to see one
of her pupils who was hospital-
ized and found that the hospital
provided only a bed - no medi-
cine or food. For most people in
India, "if they get sick, they die."
Country people in India still
live in pre-Biblical style but Jane
says she thinks India has a fair
percentage of ordinary hard
working, middle class people
"with the same problems as the
middle class here."
When asked about what the
west can do, what India needs',
Jane said, "Trade." All the aid
that we can give still keeps India
dependent. India has a lot to sell.
But as Father Abraham Says,
trade with India would involve
sacrifice for Western countries.
Wholesale importation of Indian,-
sandles, for example, might put
people here who make sandles
out of work. And the west isn't
prepared to make these sacri-
fices. • • •
Was, crying and hanging on to their
special friends; I thought, "Why
are we leaving?", she said.
Showing you three albums of
friendly and funny pictures of the
Davidsons in India, Jane points
to one boy and sadly says, "I
think he thought right up to the
last moment that if we left, he
would be going with us!" Close
relationships. with open and loving -
peoPle leave memories that
aren't easily forgotten.
"When I 'get depressed,' con-
sole myself that its only 20 hours
away. • I'd arrive on' a. -Thursday
,and we Could. '. Jane mtiseS."
but She expects , to fit , back into
her life here and U she goes back
it will only be for a visit.' She
plans to do some writing, perhaps
a book, and some sPeaking on
her life in India-and perhaps in
spare minutes, 'experiment with
those soya beans.
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and had settled my bill; a mess-
enger came from the taller with
a shawl as a present."
_Jane his always lived a fairly
independent life and so found the
uprooting involved in moving to
India with five kids not too diffi-
cult. "I've had a funny life
really. I carry my home ih,my
head. The kids are my honie,"
she said. ,
Born in Sweden, she remem-
bers being sent to visit, with
friends and relatives at a young
age. Boarding school in Eng-
land - "Great far kids - it tea- 1 ,
ches, therwself-relia,nce and.howy,,
to get along with other people on'
their own," followed.
At 16, Jane went to France and
then to, commercial college"so
that I could earn a living." She
working in Belgium for a year
after college. The Davidsons
created their home environment
in India with a few Christmas or,-
naments, some candlesticks with
sentimental value and each other.
. Jane is happy to be back in
Brucefield but is not planning to
go back to farming. "I did that
for two cropping seasons after
Malcolm died, but it was too
hard on me. I stayed awake
nights, worrying. Can you ima-
gine someone like me, trying to
judge the corn markets?"
Jane Davidson almost stepped on a decrepit odd toad while
walking across ,the lawn at her farm home. The Davidson's
yard is alive with colour every spring when the many bulbs
plaited amongst the trees bloom. The flat green farmland
near 'Brucefield is a big change from the steep foothills of
_ the Himalayan mountains in India where Jane and her family '
Spent the last year. 11 (Staff Photo) •
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Jane and her youngest child Matthew, polish some of 'the Davidsons' collection or copper. several
of the copper pieces come from Jane's Swedish grandmother. Jane brought back a number of
tray$ and artifacts in brass from her year in India. (Staff Photo)
Plan now and get ready •
for spring garden beauty -
Keeping house
She is selling three hundred
acres but is keeping their ramb-
ling house and about ten acres
around it, including the lovely
grove of trees in front that shield
the house from the road and ex-
tremes of climate. "I think we
need change in our dives but we
also need some things that stay
the same. This houSe and this
beautiful property gives me sta-
bility."
Jane, though obviously bereft
by the death of her husband, an
outstanding man, ' manages to
make the atmosphere at her farm
gay and welcoming. "I'm not all
hung up on my husband or any-
thing like that but I want this
place still to be the kind of place
we had when he was alive. I like
to have friends around and have
them feel they can call up and
come out foi a day or a week-
end."
She likedthe communal type
life the family livedjn India,,liv-
ing in a house with friends with
whom responsibilities Tunic! be
traded and shared. The Tibetans
live communally arid there is a
tradition of large, not necessarily
related "families" in India,Jan7
says.
Chicken club
Although Jane plays down her
contributions in India, her com-
ments show concern and enthu-
siasm for the people she met. As
$4 per month
But Father Abraham, who is
"48, going on 78", mainly be-
cause he has spent 25 years in
'India, can always use donations.
"It costs $4 per month to send
a boy-to St. Alphonsus," Jane
said. It's not a residential school
and many boys attend on a work
scholarship and tend gardens or
belong to the chicken club.
Would she go back to Kurseong
and, St. Alphonsus? For a week
before the Davidsons left India
'they were feted at parties, songs
were composed by Nepali friends
in their honor (Jane has these on
tape) and they were given fare-
well garlands of flowers and white
starves to wear. When we were
actually on our way and everybody
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