The Coleman Democrat-Voice (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 104, No. 18, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 11, 1984 Page: 9 of 18
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COLEMAN DEMOCRAT-VOICE
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Wallflowers Brighten
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Winter Landscapes
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Courthouse Squares
When people think of wall-
flowers, they usually remember
•their “Old Maid" aunt or the
brainy girl in high school w ho wore
braces and had no dates. But in
botanical circles, the wallflower is
an attractive and fragrant plant that
will add a splash of colorful beauty
to winter landscapes.
Wallflowers have erect spikes
of showy and good-smelling flower-
ets with two pairs of opposite pet-
drained soil of average fertility, originated, need full sun but will
Drainage is most important because tolerate light shade,
wallflowers prefer a moist but not
soggy soil. The seed will germinate
in five to seven days when the
ground temperatures range from 55
to 65 degrees F.
If summer lingers long into
fall, it’s better to plant your seed in
flats where you can keep the germi-
nation temperatures at the pre-
ferred settings. When the seedlings
als. F.ach spike may display 10 to 30 show two leaves, plant them in 2-
such blossoms. They come in many
vibrant colors, including brown,
copper, gold, yellow, apricot, red
and even purple.
The wallflower is a perennial
but can be treated as a hardy annual
in Texas. Start your plants as soon
as the weather turns cool. They
cannot take hot weather and dry
winds. You can either plant seed or
bedding plants.
Sow the seeds outdoors in well-
inch pots. As soon as the nights
turn cool, set the seedlings out
where you want them to grow. They
need a month or more of cool
weather to harden off before freez-
ing weather arrives. Wallflowers are
very cold-hardy and with adequate
moisture they’ll bloom in late win-
ter through early spring.
Wallflowers, so named because
they were often planted against
stone walls in Ireland where they
Even though they’re well-
suited to the climate, wallflowers
aren’t too well known in Texas, so
seeds and bedding plants can be
hard to find. You may want to
order your seed. Suppliers that
carry wallflowers include George
W. Park Seed Co., Greenwood, SC
29646 and Thompson and Morgan,
Box 100, Farmington, NJ 07727.
(58&ENER;
POBox 9005 Dept BR
Waco, TX 76714
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THAT BOAT MUST HAVE BEEN
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Landscape Notes
From Here And There
The following is presented by the
Texas Agricultural Extension Ser-
vice, Texas A&M University Sys-
tem.
PLAN YOUR LANDSCAPE FOR
EASY CARE, by Dwight S. Hall,
Landscape Horticulturist, Dverton,
Texas.
The downfall of most home land-
scapes is the lack of maintenance. It
is practically impossible to maintain
an attractive landscape without a
few hours of care each week. Yet,
too often the homeowner will tend
to plant and forget, thinking that
everything will somehow turn out
looking okay.
Good landscapes don’t just hap-
pen. Leaving our landscapes to
Mother Nature's care doesn't usual-
ly work out, particularly in Texas
where summer alone can take a
scorching toll. Plants basically are
like pets - they must be fed,
watered, groomed and occasionally
treated for insects or disease -
otherwise they die, or at best live an
unhealthy life.
Becoming a “Saturday Slave” to
your landscape is not necessary.
The trick is in the planning. If
possible, plan your landscape in
advance mentally or on paper - and
be sure to have definite purpose and
place be every plant, tree, shrub or
srTeature you use. Plant with
other’
minimum maintenance in mind.
Here are some do’s and don'ts to
consider in establishing a minimum-
maintenance landscape:
•Do avoid a scattered arrange-
ment of flower beds and shrubs. A
cluttered yard with many beds and
shrubs will require a lot of hand
edging and clipping. That in itself
can become a maintenance night-
foundation plants so close to the
house that they can't be maintain-
ed.
•Do select your plants carefully,
considering their ultimate size
(height and width), and plant ac-
cordingly.
•Don’t use large, fast-growing
shrubs which will require constant
pruning. Consider, instead, some of
the easy-care, dwarf-type plants to
fill your basic landscape needs.
•Do consider the use of native
plants since they are obviously
adapted to our climate and soil and
usually have few insect and disease
problems.
•Do use mowing strips or edges
along walks, flower beds and around
trees and shrubs. These will reduce
mowing and edging problems and
create a much neater landscape.
•Do use mulches to minimize
watering and reduce weeds in
flower and shrub beds.
Don't overfertilize. Keep plants at
minimum fertilization levels and
mowing, pruning and trimming will
be minimized.
And last but not least, don't
confuse low maintenance with no
maintenance. Plants will sooner or
later need water, fertilizer and care,
and the grass must be mowed. The
idea is to find the easiest way to do
the maintenance jobs which must be
done.
One good way to keep from
becoming that “Saturday Slave” to
your landscape is by setting aside an
evening or two during the week for
doing your landscape chores. Allow
gardening to be a joy, a time for
relaxed work outdoors.
mare.
•Do eliminate as many "frills" as
possible. A good landscape design is
based on simplicity, so use only
those things that do a definite job in
the landscape. Don’t just plant for
the sake of variety.
•Don’t try to grow grass in areas
too shady, too dry, too wet or too
steep to be mowed safely. Even St.
Augustine must be 40 percent
sunlight to do well. Don't fight a
losing battle. Use ground-cover
plants in these areas; there are
several excellent ones to select
from.
•Don't line walks and driveways
with unnecessary plantings or place
CUT FIREWOOD NOW
Firewood cut now will be dry by
the time cold weather rolls around,
says a forestry specialist with the
Texas Agricultural Extension Ser-
vice, Texas A&M University Sys-
tem. Dry firewood produces more
heat and burns easier than freshly
cut wood. Stack wood off the
ground, in an open area to allow air
circulation and cover to keep off the
rain. When buying firewood, know
the difference between a standard
cord of wood and a ”face” cord. A
standard cord is a stack 4 feet wide
by 4 feet high and 8 feet long. A face
cord is a stack 4 feet high and 8 feet
long, but the pieces are only 18 to 24
inches long, making it only one-third
to one-half a standard cord.
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Alcoholism Is No Disease
Labeling alcoholism a disease is
like blaming the devil for our sins: it
absolves us of responsibility for our
actions.
And that is the last thing the alco-
holic or any other human being needs,
according to philosophy professor
Herbert Fingarette of the University
of California, Santa Barbara.
Fingarette is the author of books
and articles on alcoholism and addic-
tion and is a member of research
groups on these subjects.
He has concluded from his exten-
sive study of the literature on alcohol-
ism that, when subjected to scien-
tific scrutiny, the disease concept
dissolves like bubbles in a glass of
champagne.
For what is seen is temporary,
but what is unseen is eternal //
Corinthians 4:18b.
•*•
How long is eternity?
Sometimes it seems our troubles
and pains go on for a never-
ending period of time. The tempta-
tion is upon us to feel like we will
have them forever, eternity.
Sometimes we become anxious to
tell someone of our good news. If
they are not available, our anxiety
creates in us a feeling of time
slapping. Each waiting moment
seems to be an eternity.
We know that neither of the
above really slows the movement of
time. It moves on. Our troubles,
pains and exciting joys from good
news all are temporary. They will
come to pass, to an end, to a change.
Real eternity will not end!
To a child in the womb, the nine
months is a temporary world.
Normal life expectancy of 80 plus
years may seem like eternity to the
life as an embryo. Yet, we all know
the embryo will exit the temporary
womb, entering another world sur-
rounding the womb.
Just as real is our exit from the
world we can see and detect with
our fleshly senses. A world sur-
rounds us which is veiled, but real.
Our time to come in it, eternity, is
just as incomprehensible to us now
as life expectancy is to an embryo.
The time in the womb is spent
preparing and developing the body
for this world. Should we not devote
our time in this world to preparing
our spirit for the real, but unseen,
spiritual world to which we exit the
body, for eternity!
Our Father, help us be prepared.
In Jesus name, Amen.
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The Coleman Democrat-Voice (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 104, No. 18, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 11, 1984, newspaper, September 11, 1984; Coleman, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth733838/m1/9/?q=%22~1%22~1&rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Coleman Public Library.