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^Thcre Is A Season
“For everything there is a season,” said the moody author of Ecclesiastes, going on to specify among other things, “a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted.” No gardener could quibble with that. But on a simmering June day most gardeners can ask why, at this particular time the seasons so conspicuously overlap. This is ‘the time to plant and tend the seedlings. But it also is the time to pluck up the weeds which plant themselves. This is the time to cut the grass, which is growing like mad on the lawn, in the orchard, beside the path and in the lesser tended parts of the garden itself. This is the time to trim the hedge, which was so neat two weeks ago and now is a bristling mass of” eager shoots intent on— rivaling oaks and elms. This is a time to hoe and till and spray and dust and nip off dead lilaca and tie up the rose bushes and stake the peonies. This is a time!
Why does grass grow two inches overnight, just now, when it has all summer ahead? Certainly there is an answer, simple and logical and based in the solid facts of botany. Buy why, then, does that answer not apply to beans, say, or sweet corn? Besides, your gardener is not really asking for logical answers. He is pleading for time. Time to get all the jobs done.
The grapes should be sprayed again. Blackberries are in blossom. The cherry trees are loaded. Buttercups are in bloom. So is hawkweed. Clover and chickweed flourish in the lettuce bed. Iris are in flower. “For everything there is a season." How true, how true! And this seems to be it, the season for everything at once.
Election Gleanings
Rappahannock has thoroughly t enjoyed the town election in Washington. The county’s most outstanding asset — its sense of humor—has had a Roman holiday.
The stories are many and varied. With the prerogatives of all good story-tellers, the truth is' decorated to make a better tale. Facts in the stories are unessential; sometimes there is a little basis for the beginning of the narration, but the finished product often bears little resemblance to the original. The one object is to tell a better story than any other told previously.
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Mahlon Ramey reports that a telephone man in Front Royal has already stated that he is not coming to Washington after the ■women take over. “Next thing you know, they’ll want the telephone poles painted white and trimmed • with lace. No, sir, I’m staying out of that town.”
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