The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 20, 1931, Page 2

COMING INTO BEING AN WIZARD'S GARDEN Widow and Several Experts! Classifying Hybrids as Far as Possible ODD FLOWERS ARE GROWING Voluminous Books Left by Im- aginative Genius Leave Only a Few Clues Santa Rosa, Calif, May 20.—‘(NEA) —Six years after the death of Luther Burbank, famed plant wizard who Bave the world thousands of hybrid Plants, flowers and fruits, botanists and plant specialists are still trying ‘® solve his “garden of puzzles.” Strange, outlandish plants, created ‘n the fertile imagination of the wizard, are coming into being in the gardens. Plants and shrubs which a year ago seemed,to be destined to grow into one type of plant or shrub today are showing entirely alien characteristics. The widow of the famous plant breeder, with the help of the Stark brothers of Louisiana, Mo., and old John Bertino, Burbank’s faithful gardener, is carrying on his work. But although they have made much prog- Tess in classifying the plant “freaks,” there are thousands which still re- main puzzles. H “Surprises are in store for us every time we go into the gardens,” Mrs. Burbank says. “Even the horticul- turists can't as yet name some of the strange flowers and fruits and plants which are growing in the gardens. Many Surprises in Plants | “It is really a garden of puzzles. | “Plants; which early in spring we|{ feel sure will be small shrubs, blossom into eight and ten-foot giants! It's uncanny. In everything we can still see the hand of Luther Burbank at work, but whither he was tending we do not know. “Horticulturists carrying on the ex- periments are working blindly inj many cases, hoping something in the growing plants will show what was intended by the master who has gone.” Mrs. Burbank pointed to a pink- flowered, odorless, spear-shaped plant, as tall as herself. i “That was. a tiny little thing this spring,” she said. “Look at it now! I don’t know what it is, neither do the Stark brothers. University of} California professors have failed to Six years after the death of Luther Burbank, his widow is found aiding in carrying on his experiments. sK TRIBUNE, WED At left she is shown with one of the strange plants which science has failed to classify. At right she is shown with Burbank’s 14-year-old dog, “Bonita.” Insect is John Bertino, faithful gardener of the late plant wizard. riding in an automobile belonging is|| Paul Lutz, Jamestown, They were; turned over to Texas authorities and | will be returned to North Dakota if | their extradition is granted. | Sheriff Oscar J. Nygaard of Stuts- man county plans to leave to return | the boys after receipt of the requisi- t:on papers from the governor's office. | '| News of Interest | in N. D. Towns (By The Associated Press) Fessenden.—Six hundred boys and girls participated in the annual Wells county play day hete. Fessenden won) the high school boys’ cup wtih Har- | vey and Heaton close behind while | Harvey secured the high school gir! cup over Fessenden, Heaton Hurdsfield. Girls in the grade of Harvey took the trophy of that division while the grade boys’ cup| went to Fessenden. | and | schools | Glen Ullin. — Annual baccalau- erate services will be held at Glen Ullin high school May 22. Rev. classify it. We are waiting, hoping that it will show some kinship with | some other known plant of the flower kingdom.” Follow Burbank's Notes | _ Carrington. — Although the wearer! On the Sebastopol experimental |W&S & long way from the beach, if garden acres, the horticulturalists are ;She was looking for it, beach p:jamas gathering everything that Burbank /made their appearance on Carrington experimented with. Wherever possi- | Streets, creating quite a furore. ble experiments are being continued in the manner intended by Burbank according to the notes left in his voluminous books. But where no records of these ex- periments are available, the expert- mental plants are being gathered into iz one section of the garden and allowed field so that members may be to grow in an effort to determine} taught with greater safety. what Burbank intended them to be. ' Rows upon rows of these hybrids,| Turtle Lake. — Turtle Lake high “orphans of the garden,” may b¢/school defeated Coleharbor high by| found in the gardens. 35 points with its garnered 64 points Faithful Gardener C: on in a dual track meet here. | At Santa Rosa, at the gardens in vm ie Eh " which Burbank made his home, only Serine eae ernie alee we denn Bethe Pormalas ve oor tee postoffice here, has resigned and the planting, thinning, water! an ss 2 Pye meat of the flowers and| as retired on a pension. shrubs. It is almost entirely a gar- den of flowers. The old Burbank home, a white two-story frame dwelling, reminis- cent of the New England from which Burbank came, and in, which Bur- bank resided for many years with his mother, has been restored by Mrs. Burbank and is now occupied by her. “Bonita,” Burbank's faithful fox ter- rier, which was with him when he : lookout for perpetrators of four teal i rae her. “he: aag. As 4 robberies near Carrington and Father John Slag, pastor of St. Mary's cathedral, Bismarck, will deliver a sermon. Mohall.—A new airplane of the biplane type has been purchased by the Mohall Aero club. The club, of which one of the mem- bers is a licensed pilot, is locking for a more convenient landi Linton.—Harry L. Kyes, secretary of the National Merchants i and Walter D. Powell, secre: North Dakota Retail Merchants’ asso- jciation, addressed 4 one-day institute {Tuesday at a meeting of Emmons’ county retailers. Courtenay.—Authorities of Fos- ter and Griggs counties are or: the | Seale for valuing your hand the same 1s’ | 2dditional point each for the ace, king | or queen if it heads a five-card suit; | queen and three small diamonds and ‘of the missing high honors, or if you —A Series Explaining the Contract Bridge System— By WM. E. McKENNEY Secretary American Bridge League In our previous article we took up original no trump bids of one under the McKenney system of contract count is 24; e. g. if partner opens with a bid of one no trump first hand, he shows a count of at least 13, there- fore you must have a count of nine to raise him to two no trump, or a bidding. Today we will discuss when} count of 11 to raise him to three no and how to support partner's origin-| trump, while if he bid no trump al no trump. ; fourth hand, assuming of course that SUPPORTING ORIGINAL | there had been no intervening bids, he NO TRUMP BID OF ONE shows a count of at least 15, there- In assisting original no trump bids| fore you would need only seven to ot one by partner, you use the pitch| Taise him to two no trump and nine to raise him to three no trump. When partner has opened with an original one no trump and your hand contains one and one-half to two quick tricks, you should endeavor to support partner’s no trump, with no intervening bid, even though you must shade the count slightly. The reason for this is that if you hold two aces, or a side ace and a side as the onginal bidder, except that the supporting hand is. allowed one e. g. if your hand contained the ace, your partner bid an original one no uu would count four for the lamonds and two for the queen of diamonds, and in addition you would be ailowed one point for the ace of diamonds and one point for the queen of diamonds as they king, undoubtedly these are partner's weak spots and if he could bid no trump with these missing high cards, you may have just what he needs to head a five-card suit, giving you a} produce a game. total count in the diamond suit of | Holding two and one-half quick eight points in support of partner’s| tricks and no good biddable four or original no trump bid. five-card mafor suit, you should take The reason this additional point is}partner to three no trump, even given for each of the three top hon- | though the count has to be shaded a crs if they had a five-card suit is be- | point or two. cause partner is very apt to hold one! When a hand containing two and {one-half quick tricks with no good hold all three, that will be his weak | biddable suit is opposite an original spot and this suit is quickly establish- | no trump hand, game will result in a ed for four or perhaps five tricks. great majority of cases. In original one no trump bids, you} If partner opens with an original will note that a different total count | one no trump and the opponents put. ‘+s required for each of the four dif-/in a suit bid, not only are you re- ferent positions. You will support | quired to have sufficient count, but partner's original one no trump to} you must also have the opponents’ {wo no trump when the combined | suit stopped in order to raise part- count of the two hands totals 22, and | ner’s no trump. to three no trump when the saaibveie|| ‘Copyright, 1931, NEA Service, Inc.) class of 13 nurses who graduated from the Mercy Hospital Training school here. Courtenay. Police believe the same persons committed all the rob- berics. oe nretareras eee tens Wiehe seen iiscy, Post Frank Protse elected Mrs. meet held here, garnering 45 points | William W. Barr, president; Mrs. A. Points collected by the other. teams|M. Greenfield, vice presideni. and are Hope 18; McVille 144; Aneta Mrs. W. Kieper, secretary; Martha 12%; Cooperstown 11; Finley 9 Last | CO treasurer. year's conference high jump and pole | é iil vault records were broken when Mac- gpeeneals sed nes faith Millan, MeVille, high, jumped 5 fect — Oo td a sae" “4 2 inches, and Ralph Melgaard, Ancta,; @mnual mecing here Gran pole vaulted 9 feet 4 inches. |e peeiee Boe Ged ore, Steers abe Fessenden.—American Legion Aux- Valley City.— Bishop O'Reilly, The Montana state game and fish Fargo, was the principal speaker (commission spends $1.27 to rear a at commencement exercises for a | pheasant at its game farm. In the front yard is the Cedar of a Lebanon, planted by zainer ie \d under which he lies buried. = fide him is the grave of Dr. Joseph OUT OUR WAY H. Shaw, Burbank’s personal physi- SRR ere iN cian and close friend. The newer Burbank home across the street is to be converted into a Burbank museum and shrine. Acom- HA AH! HOH, mittee of California citizens is spon- WHOT soring the project. i RELIEF Shafer Asks Texas To Return N. D. Boys; Governor George F. Shafer Tues- Gay requisitioned the governor of ‘Texas for the return of three James- town youths wanted by Stutsman county authorities on charges of grand larceny. The boys, Gay Murphy, Edwin Jes- sen and Merrill Ausburger, were tak- en into custody at Juarez, Mex., while STICKERS iN R . AT, yatta OH! Now, NOW UNFT A FOOT, BLT BE CAREFUL YouR KNEE DoNT BLUME SOUR NOSE: WHEN THE’ HARDEST 1S THE SOFTEST: By Williams HAAAH - SOFT! OH, 1 WAS GROUGHT UP ON CONCRETE. AN’ IM AWFUL EASY LEO — a BuT IF YOu HETCH ME OFF (TAGIN, “Tet CONCRETE HAS GONE “TO MY HEAD a NERSE BY ME- TRMILUAMS = Ste WEA stnvice, WILL BE GENERAL SOON, REVIEW SAYS Crops in Northwest Starting Under Handicap of Insuffi- cient Moisture Planting of corn will become gen- eral in Minnesota and the southern half of North Dakota with recent weather favorable for seeding, ac- cording to the Farmers Union Ter- minal association's weekly crop re- view, issued Wednesday. “Except for the southern part of Minnesota, crops in the northwest are starting under a handicap of insuf- ficient topsoil moisture and a lack of the report | Hope and other points in North Da- kota, as well as northern South Da- “The first moisture in nearly a year but soll territory from Minot to Williston. ‘Bismarck reports that moisture is in that territory and that some ¢amageé has been caused by soil blowing. Wheat seeding is virtually pleted. “Seeding of flax is becoming quite and present indications are ll be @ large acreage this igh it may not approach the all-time record totals seeded in 1930, “Much of Montana reports that soil is extremely dry, but rains at Great Falls are sufficient to give grains & “Adequate rain fall to give grains a good start and to the plants for the best tl expected in July and Al success for small grains. moderate rains in much sota, North Dakota, Sou and eastern Montana early in May. “Cool weather which prevailed un+ til about May 10 gave grains root growth to enable them to Fe gees i i erally are more other sections. Rains in the River valley of western Minnesota and eastern North Dakota started grains above ground and conditions are better than at any time this year. “Light rains have been reported from Kathryn, Forbes, Lisbon, For- Karnak, man, “38 Moure, Fessenden, need of moisture. “Comment on the crop from Rich- land, Mont., sums up the crop outlook in the entire northwest in these rds: we ‘Grain crop conditions are not very good at present, but some good rains in the next 10 or 15 days will change the picture from one of gloom to one of cheerfulness.’ ” Fawcett Publications Win Court’s Verdict Minneapolis, May 20.—(?)—A ver- dict in favor of Fawcett publications was directed in district court Tuesday in a $10,000 suit brought against the publishing bawe by George W. Bing, private detective. A Fawcett magazine published the story of the Jacob Wolf murder case at Turtle Lake, N. D., in which Wolf, his wife, his five children and the hired man, were slain. 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