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Show PARPEN IN A DAnnCL. Jllnt.tore MrnKbrrry r.trli Urine Culll-mm Culll-mm vsled tiy rt.lwller. Out near Uarfleid park thcro live a family the members ot which will shortly enjoy eating straw berrlc grown In what Is prnbahly tho most , original garden tn nil Chicago. Tho hottrss, a southern woman, finds It hard to bellcte that fruit that I (hipped (hip-ped a long dlslnnre can possibly be fit for human use. llefore her marriage to a Chicago man the had been accustomed accus-tomed In her southern home tn eating treahly picked fruit the greater part of the year She Uvea In n flat, but determined latt year that before turn-mcr turn-mcr wa over she ihould have fresh strawberries grown under her own eyes. Accordingly she decided to form n garden In a barrel An empty sugar barrel wa perforated by a series ot holes an Inch nnd a quarter In diameter, diam-eter, the hole being five Inches apart and tho circular rowa being nt a dlttance dlt-tance of six Indies from eorh other. The barrel waa then filled with alternate alter-nate layer of gratrl and sand loam, with a thin Iacr ot fertilizer sandwiched sand-wiched between them. The gnrdener then Inserted through tho nugcr boles tho roots of her straw berry plant and rooted them alto, ns mnny as possible. In the earth of (ho open (op ot the barrel, bar-rel, Tho course of time found her barrel one mass of luscious fruit Tbe same experiment I now In prore ot being carried out |
