Identifier: forfardirectoryy1900unse (find matches)
Title: The Forfar Directory and Yearbook 1900
Year: 1899 (1890s)
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Publisher: W. Shepherd, Castle St, Forfar
Contributing Library: Angus Council
Digitizing Sponsor: National Library of Scotland

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-fence, but gloried in hiscowardly deed. GAEDENING FOR THE MONTH. HoF, and thin out turnips. Sow winter and springspinach in the beginning and end of the month.P>egin to earth up first-planted celery and leeks.Plant out broccoli, savoys, curly kale, and Brus-sels sprouts. A few coleworts may still be planted.Caterpillars should be looked for and destroyed.Savoys and cabbage, which are particularly sub-ject to their attacks, should be sprinkled withlime on dewy mornings. In dry weather, goose-berry and currant bushes should be netted over to .«ave the ripening fruit till late in the autumn.Destroy wasps nests, and take all necessarysteps to save the fruit on the walls from insects.Pick off dead leaves and reduce stray growths.All bands tied round buds and grafts should nowbe loosened and removed where they are nolonger required. According to some, it is betterto pot auriculas now than in May. Carefullyattend to carnations and picotees, and waterthem till they have taken fresh root.
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ASSASSINATION OF THE EMPRESS OF AUSTRIA. All Professions have to be Studied. ^m that lady?something.Second Beggar : Why didnt you tackleShe might have given you I let her go because Iunderstand my business better than you do. Inever ask a woman for anything when she isalone ; but when two women are together youcan get money from both, because each one isafraid the other will think her stingy if she re-fuses. This profession has to be studied just likeany other, if you expect to make it a success. Going Shopping Let all people going shopping lay to heart thisaxiom: Never buy a thing simply because itis cheap. Oh, but it is sure to come in some time. Perhaps it may, sooner or later, probablylater ; and meanwhile it will be laid aside, get-ting dingy and out of date, and when a use comesfor it its freshness is gone, and jou wish youhad never bought it. Some members of the shopping world havewonderful notions of economy. They will walklong distances to save a few pence in their pur-chases

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