Show area i s sv sue r rr v r a ad d a aR R w i it t MRS BESSIE MARKEY admires the luscious raspberries In her bounteous fruit garden n and orchid at East 1st North Bessie Markey Has lIas Prolific Fruit Garden The old nursery rhyme asks How does docs your garden grow and nd Mrs Bessie Dessie Markey of East 1st North could reply The fruit Is coming so fast I cab cah hardly keep up with It Certainly Mrs Markey whose birthday Is rapidly ap preaching has one of the tha most prolific and varied fruit gar garr dens In the Vernal area HER HEALTH Is good enough also that she is able to do the work herself with just the assis assis- assistance tance of a boy to combat some of the weeds Among the many bushes load load- loaded ed down with luscious fruit are both red and black currants and even wild ones Blackberries and raspberries wave long branches in the summer breeze and are arc heavy with wilh tasty desserts des des- desserts These bushes dont don't give up their offerings without a struggle struggle gle however and Mrs Mark Mark- Markey's Markey's eys ey's arms bear mute testimony to the deep scratches that the bramble bushes can Inflect Af Af- Af After ter harvest time too there Is plenty of pruning work to be bedone bedone done to ensure that next years year's crop also Is a bumper one A LITTLE EASIER to pick are the peaches apricots and I plums from the several several trees that form a background to the bushes The famous big squa squash h from Washington State onions and other vegetables can also be found in Mrs Markey's garden One unusual Item is a grape grapevine grapevine vine that somehow manages to survive Vernal's long and severe se- se severe vere winters and last year I had a pan of grapes from it Mrs Markey disclosed This ardent gardener had one problem though that she con con- confided confided to The Vernal Express I 1 wish the people who own the vacant lot next door would cut their weeds The sleds seeds blow over on my garden and make my work a lot harder She pointed to the adjacent lot where the welds weeds were more than six feet high It did seem seema seema a shame hame |