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Lena Stone Criswell
THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Thirty-First Year - Number 232
Marlin, Texas, Saturday, January 30, 1932
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CAULIFLOWER HAS SECOND
GROWTH in MARLIN YARD
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Mild Winter Attested by Beans
Blooming in Same Place Until
Recently.
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Three specimens of second growth of cauliflower in the yard of Mrs. E. F.
Melburn on Live Oak street were cut today. The plants yielded last spring
and produced a second growth this winter.
"As a child I thought cauliflower grew only
in pickle bottles, but this demonstrates it can be grown successfully right here
in Marlin," Mrs. Melbern said today, "and not only that, but produce a
second growth in January."
Further attesting the mild weather
prevailing this winter, Mrs. Melburn said she had beans blooming until recently.
Her cauliflower is as fine in quality and
appearance as that shipped in here, one of them weighing three-quarters of a
pound. Cloth was tied over the cauliflower to (can't read).
Another item of interest in Mrs. Melburn's
yard is an iron plant pot, swung Indian fashion under a tripod, said to be
upwards of 100 years old. "It was over 75 years old when my aunt gave it
to me," she says.
In addition to gardening, Mrs. Melburn has
several other hobbies, including making of quilts adorned with intricate
figures, while canning of beeves and hogs is another activity in which she takes
a great deal of interest.
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