The Forfar Directory and Yearbook 1905 . GARDENING FOR THE MONTH. In the kitchen garden in the beginning andend of the month sow peas and beans, andtransplant to the bottom of a south wall afew of the peas sown in November for afirst crop. Plant chives, shallots, and horse-radish, and early ash-leaved potatoes. Inthe last week sow red cabbages and strawberries about the end of this month. Before the buds are much swelledprune apricots, peaches, nectarines andplums, and also apples, pears, cherries,gooseberries, currants and raspberries be-fore the end of the month. In the lastweek
The Forfar Directory and Yearbook 1905 . GARDENING FOR THE MONTH. In the kitchen garden in the beginning andend of the month sow peas and beans, andtransplant to the bottom of a south wall afew of the peas sown in November for afirst crop. Plant chives, shallots, and horse-radish, and early ash-leaved potatoes. Inthe last week sow red cabbages and strawberries about the end of this month. Before the buds are much swelledprune apricots, peaches, nectarines andplums, and also apples, pears, cherries,gooseberries, currants and raspberries be-fore the end of the month. In the lastweek sow mignonette and hardy annualsin a warm border for wall-trees from east wind. ^qS 2nd IVEonth*] DHvc thy business, let not that drive thee^ [28 Days*. THE TRIAL OF WHITAKER WRIGHT THE TRIAL OF WHITAKERWRIGHT. The career of Whitaker Wright, who forsome years played a leading part as theKing of Stock Exchange gambling, cameto a tragic close on the 26th of January,1004. After a careful trial in the KingsBench Court he was convicted and sen-tenced to seven years penal less than an hour after hearing hissentence he expired, a post-mortem ex-amination showing that he had term-inated his career by taking cyanide ofpotassium. THE MAKING OF MATCHES The story is told against the Scotsmanthat he only uses his own matches whenhe has ascertained that all his fellow-travellers have none ; but when it is notedthat one hundred gross of boxes ofinatches can be made for a labour costof 13s. 6d., it seems remarkable that anyEnglish fellow-traveller should not have abox! Here the introduction of machinemethods has decreased the cost of manu-facture to one-eighth the cost in 1844. In the machine process machines are UTedto cut the wood into
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