September 18, 1920 



HORTICULTURE 



231 



George Watson^s 

 Corner 



"Too in jonr sm&ll comer and me 

 in mine." 



F'lank A. Ross had a birthday on 

 the 8th inst., and the Inquirer com- 

 plimented him by putting his picture 

 In the paper. We join our contempor- 

 ary in wishing him many happy re- 

 turns. We never thought Frank had 

 so big a forehead; but he laughed at 

 our remark, and said, "Go to — ! The 

 camera don't lie." 



Howard M. Earl ot the Jerome B. 

 Rice Co. was at Hamlin, N. Y. on the 

 6th inst. en route tor Detroit. He ex- 

 pects to be in Philadelphia again 

 about the 20th inst. 



There's Jersey beetles around! 

 Ergo-Jersey must be quarantined. All 

 business must stop. Fruit and vege- 

 tables and flowers and all other delec- 

 table products of bounteous Mother 

 Nature must go to waste — because we 

 are fighting the beetle. Quarantine. 

 That's the only cry! Even fighting the 

 Germans wasn't quite so serious. We 

 could still go on sowing and cultivat- 

 ing; harvesting and marketing — in 

 fact we had to — to keep the boys at 

 the front in fighting trim. But beetles 

 and gypsy moths and things like that! 

 Quarantine. That's the only cure. 

 Talk about Bolshevism. It's not half 

 as crazy as this quarantine craze. 

 They, the Bolsheviks, are only crazy 

 for their own bunch. Quarantine, ac- 

 cording to the way Washington works 

 it, is simple lunacy — and will in time 

 bring the country to the verge of 

 absolute Anarchy. Common sense and 

 moderation seems to have vanished 

 entirely from the minds of officialdom. 

 They are rushing to a tall. The only 

 cure seems to be — Abolition lor the 

 present Oligarchy! It seems to be 

 entirely independent of party control, 

 or the voice of the people. An abso- 

 lute monarchy in a democratic 

 country! 



When you maol a flower grower 

 these early September days and ask 

 him about roses or other flowers — 

 you ask him what he's growing, and 

 so on. All you get out of him is a dis- 

 sertation on coal. My Lord! What 

 are we going to do about coal. The 

 getting of it. Awful! The price ot it. 

 Worse! Coal. Nothing but coal, coal, 

 coal. However, the fever will pass in 

 a month or two, as it always has, and 

 tiien we'll get some sense out of him 



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besides his "saying 

 Very unpoetic! 



it witli coal.' 



Speakini:. however, in a more seri- 

 ous vein about the coal situation, here 

 is an interesting clipping from a daily 

 parer which covers a phase of the sit- 

 uation we seldom hear of and which is 

 worth thinking oyer: 



"It is to be hoped that the Govern- 

 ment will take prompt notice of the 

 fact brought out by the disgruntled 

 .'7iine workers that the anthracite op- 

 erators raised the price of coal on 

 April 1 in anticipation of the recent 

 reise in wages, and that they will 

 have, after paying the wage award, 

 about $22,000,000 in surplus proBts, 



