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Show Wind Plays Havoc With Curbside Garden in P. G. Old Mother Nature, like fire, is a wonderful and helpful servant, ser-vant, but a cruel and destructive master. This truism came to mind on Tuesday evening when this reporter re-porter inspected the havoc wrought by Monday night's heavy windstorm at the curbside flower flow-er garden of Mr. and Mrs. Math-ew Math-ew Bezzant on East Battle Creek Drive. Mat and Cora have always been flower lovers and fruit and vegetable vege-table growers. The establishment of the new sidewalk, curb and gutter on the north side of their home and acreage was not regarded re-garded by them as an area to keep free of weeds. It wag an opportunity to plant and maintain main-tain a beautiful curbside flower garden. , Early last spring the Bezzants planted 150 choice dahlia bulbs and as many red and white petunias. pet-unias. As of, last Monday afternoon after-noon the flowers were in full bloom and a riot of color. It was worth the trip up Battle Creek Drive just to see thean. And then the wind struck. The dahlias fared far-ed woi'se than the petunias. Many of the taller and more beautiful ' ones were broken down completely complete-ly and the foliage was drying up. None escaped serious damage. A year's work of digging the bulbs in the fall, storing them during the winter, planting them in the spring and weeding and irrigating them during the long hot summer, went down the drain. "It just makes us sick," said Mat. However, hope springs eternal eter-nal in the true flower lovers breast. This writer predicts that along about a year from today, another row .of dahlias and petunias petun-ias will beautify the south side of Battle Creek Drive In front of the Bezziant property. Fortunately Fortunate-ly some people are just like that, i K.B. |
