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About Mt. Scott herald. (Lents, Multnomah Co., Or.) 1914-1923 | View Entire Issue (April 2, 1920)
Remiiida for our Easter IHlea. hut there Is reason to believe tlint before long plentiful supplies of them will be grown In southern Florida and Cali fornia. Incidental to experiments In thia direction a number of valuable new varieties have recently been cre ated l»y the government plant bureau. The Illy of the valley la regarded as an emblem of purity and modesty. It 1.« a native of temperate lutltude« In Europe and Asia, and In the garden la one of the earliest of spring flower*, Nearly all of the lilies of this kind grown In thia country are raise«I ftotn “pipa"—root shoots—Imported from Germany. Holland and France. where they are produced by the million for export. On arriving In the United States they are put Into refrigerators, or otherwise kept cold, so an to sus pend their vitality—the object being to force them Into bloom as they are required for market. In this way gardeners are ennhl-.sl to offer the blossom for sale the year around. mt. Scott Herald Published Every Friday at IsnU Station. Portland, Oregon J. S. UPDIKE • C. W. SMITH - Proprietor Mana**r Entered as second-class mall mat ter February 14, 1014, at the poet- eTftce at Dante. Oregon, under act of Ceagreaa. March >. 1(70. Bubacrtptlon prie« |1.00 a year itti Nlnety-aaoond Straet Phones: Tabor 7114, Which Is the real Raster lUyl Is It th* lUy of the valley, "the pretty pond lily," the majestic calls MICKIE SAYS or th* modest modern flowers thst all men ad EMRS \MUMST IM a UJUH.Ç mire and most men buy lu •OKAq SAtVtft BftkOS IKl celebration of the greatest of religions CMPPtMO T s >4O'R festivals? Tusrtn Nftaos u OMG' st Moeocv To what kind of flower did Jesus re «ô'UCE A IMHOOe AdouX fer when tn th* Sermon on the Mouut HV44ELP V» TMEM ME ÔOE« OFF he spoke of the “lilies of the field." «AKD MJE \MCMQ-r PRiMT which, though they neither tolled nor spun, outdid Klug Solomon In the ÔOTT* P\JT STUFF IK» TUE beauty of their raiment paper X iMtWBOW ie It has been popularly supposed that IMTSRSSTEO 04 ER \U¿O the Illy of the valley was the one «OON BE *U. OUT* tOCU 'M meant That such was the rase, how SOSSCAiSERS ’M XXOMEN 'Kt ever, seems unlikely if only for the reason that this plant does not grow In th* fields. It Is peculiarly an In habitant of carefully cultivated gar dens, producing Its bell-like blossoms In shady corners. Not at all probable does it seem that Jesus may have bad in mind the calls Illy, which, having originated tn Ethi opia. was familiarly known tn Palestine at the period tn which the Savior lived. The Egyptians used the roots of th* prolific plant as a table vegetable. These roots look somewhat like Irish potatoes, and In th* swamp the calla grows so thickly that the yield of a single flooded area is enormous. Call* Not Tru* Lily. Botanlrally speaking, however, the calls Is not a lily. Tulip« are truer lilies, and so likewise are the leek, the garlic and the asparagus. But the calls Is an “arum” and Is related to MKM0RIAL8 TO MINE 8WEEPERS. the “tack-ln-the-pulplt,” as well as the A replica of the memorial to ths “elephant’s ear plant," commonly Dover mine sweeping and drifting pa grown as an ornamental. trol which is to be erected on Shake Lilies have always had sacred as speare Cliff in Kent, England, is to sociation. Hack In the dim ages of the be put up tn the United States, and past, when th* pyramids were build there will be still another in France, ing. the Egyptian priests chose the for the fund raised by the mayor of lotus, a member of the lily family, as Dover Is sufficient for both the origi the symbol of tbelr religion. It was nal shaft 100 feet high and the two regarded as an emblem of the Nile, svmbollzing the creation of the world copies, so It has been announced. And from the waters. In India Buddha Is the Dover patrol Is quite worthy of fabled to have made his entrance into memorials In three countries, for, the world seated on a lotus blossom. throughout the war. It not only held In Catholic countries the lily is the Straits of Dover, thus preventing sacred to the Virgin Mary, because It the enemy from reaching England, but is a symbol of purity. The angels also safeguarded the passage of troops painted by th* old masters frequently and supplies from Englsnd and Amer carry lilies In tbelr hands. And legend ica to France. And both the United tells that, when the disciples looked States and France co-operated In into the tomb of Jesus after the res- urrectlon, it was filled with lilies, maintaining the patrol which has a The lilies that appear In the paint- remarkable record of accomplishment, Ings of Murillo and other old masters having dally swept more than 600 are not callas. They are of the fa miles of sea free from German mines, miliar Easter Illy type, and are easily and having safeguarded the passage recognizable as the Madonna or an across the straits of more than 8.000,- nunciation Illy—the latter name be 000 aoldlers, to say ntAhlng of sup ing given them because of the belief plies and munitions of war, says Chris that the angel of ¿he Annunciation ap tian Science Monitor. One proposal peared t* the Virgin Mary with these lilies in his hands. la that the American replica of the This kind of Illy, sometimes called memorial shall be placed either at the St. Joseph's Illy, was widely cultivated battery in New York city or at some in Europe In early historic times. It point on Long Island whence It can seems to have originated In Palestine be seen by all who pass Into or oat or somewhere about that region, and bo may well have been the flower to of the harbor. which Jesus referred. Under cultiva The world war has been the cause tion It grows in fields, which at the •f many evils, but It has done at least time of blossoming are a veritable sen of bloom. one good thing for the United States Real Easter Flower. in helping It to attain Ita chemical ln- This, however, is not exactly the dependence. In that connection the modern Easter Illy. The latter, though advances made in the manufacture of nearly related, is a different variety high explosives and of deleterious brought originally from Japan to Ber gases will occur readily to the mind. muda, and is known as the “lengl- Aside, however, from the military florum” or trumpet lily." In Ber point of view, the need for certain muda. through a horticultural acci chemicals used In the practical arts dent, was developed what garden began to be felt very acutely when ers call a “sport,” a subvariety re the supply was cut off soon after the markable for early blossoming, hardi commencement of the war In 1914. ness, height and the size and large Thrown on their own resources, Amer number of flowers, also for the ease ican chemists proceeded to experi with which It may be "forced” in hot ment and In a comparatively short houses. In 1875 a woman of Philadelphia, time were able not only to manufac returning from Bermuda, brought with ture dyes, but also to put to use many her two plants of this Improved stock rare materials, for the supply of and gave them to a florist of the which in ante-bellum days this coun Quaker city, who, perceiving the great try was almost wholly dependent oo value of the variety, proceeded to mul Germany and Austria. tiply the bulbs. He Introduced the Illy to public notice seven years later, giv Dutch authorities are said to have ing a small exhibit of the plants. Oth arrived at the conclusion that Bill er hortlcnltorlsts were quick to secure Hohenzollern has outstayed hts wel- specimens tor propagation, and today come and If some ardent patriot can the Lilian Harrtsll. as It Is called, Invent a scheme to Inveigle the wood holds the market exclusively. Bermuda is the original home of the sawyer over into Germany no doubt the Netherlands government would early variety. While It Is still winter In the northern part of the United be prepared to do something In States, fields of onions and potatoes quiet way to pay for the service. are carpeting the Bermudas with a green and luxt rant promise of com Some people are raising much noise ing wealth for the farmer, while here because the silver In a silver dollar la and there, even during March, fields worth Intrinsically, or as a commod of blooming lilies spread a feast for ity. more than the gold in a gold dol the eye. But to the grower of the lit lar, says Houston Post It doesn’t tle archipelago the Easter lily Is mere worry us half so much as the fact ly an Incidental crop, supplementing the onion and potato. Culture of It Is that neither will buy 40 cents worth wholly by hand. In pockets of rich soil of corned beef or two bits worth of among the rocks. butter. May Rais* Own LUI** In June the Easter illy bulbs are dug The department of agriculture esti in Bermuda and shipped to the United mates that this year the total value States, packed In sawdust or excelsior. of the country's Important crops Is They are then planted by American 114,092,740,000. That Is about »130 florists In pots, and at the proper time, per capita. We want to say that we many months later, are brought Into have been swindled out of a part of the hothouses to be forced for the Easter market. Hitherto we have ours and what we did get we bad to been obliged to depend entirely upon pay three prices for. Eternal Ufe The price of <s«l In England Is to be reduced *1.25 a ton. It looks like an bleu that Is worth iiii^rtlng. The Englishman who has begun a “war against snobbery" is attacking British humor at the source. Gen. Pershing's fame is established. People have begun to name cigars, res taurants and new towns for him. The king of Italy Is to visit this country next summer Let the king« come on. The more the merrier. During the coal crisis fresh air fiend« should be required to take their st«* dal form of revelry out of doors. How nuiny people there are who sit np nights thinking of ways to bother the life out of the poor old public! Workless days go hand In hand with coal les« «lays, hut It takes only a few such days to make a |>ayle«s pay day. — A good many people are learning for the first time that coal makes tlia’ bright light In an Incandescent lamp Mr«. Gulliks handles the made to-nieasurc Barclay corsets •-■come in and be fitted to a Bar clay. We buy, raise, and sell fur-bearing rabbits and other fur-bearing sni- mala. I-ist what you have with us, stating your lowest prices on large lot shipments. The Pur 4 Specialty Farming Co., 515-517 N. P. Ave., *2t5 Fargo, N. Dak. WANTED A girl to work at Ehrlich Jfc Bern- h.irdt, tailors, S1S4 Koster road. For Sale Two thoroughbred Riiode Is When things go wrong with him the average Individual cusses the govern land Red roosters, I year old, $3 ment, but when another does It he each, also eggs for hatching $1 fights. per setting Mrs. W. E. Bates, 1-4 mile northeast of Ramapo sta m2ti a2 Some of the shoe mnnufnctnrlnv tion. Estacada earline. companies are «aid to be preparing to cut a melon. Why not one for the For Sale public 7 It doesn't do the footpad’« victim any good to cry “help!" Any employ ment burean will tell you there I« little to be luid. In these riotous times It Is more than ever true that experience Is a dear teacher. In this re«|»ect It Is Ilk» every thing else. Strawberry plants--MarshaJ is, standard market and canning variety, 75eents per hundred,*7 per thousand. W. E. Bates, 1-4 mile northeast of Ramapo sta tion on Estacada carline. m2<5 a2 For Sale. plants Cumber- Black-cap lands, biggest and best black Wood alcohol, according to medical raspberries, i, $1 per dosen, $3 per authorities, causes blindness. That hundred, XV. E. Bates, 1 -4 mile doesn’t recommend It, exactly, as an Ramapo station, northeast of eye-opener. Estacada carline. ni2fl a2. The small boy Is perhaps grateful that the shortage of leather Is causing father to be more economical with hl« razor strop. Wanted New-and used furniture, stove« rugs, carpets, tools etc. Cadi prices paid. Economy Furniture Right here In the shortage, the an Co. L. A. Barker proprietor. nouncements of several of these can GO 15 92nd street. didacies for the presidency look like a total waRte of white paper. 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