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...Autumn by a force of men under Commissioner Wheeler, who scoured the countryside near El Portal, Calif. Some 8.000,000 bugs had been netted and stored. The reason: A ladybug is capable of eating in a season several thousand of the Aphis (green plant lice) which annually menace vineyards, peach and apricot orchards, and truck gardens in Mercer County...
Largest exhibit of the main floor was the Georgian garden of Florist Scheepers. Here were pink blossoming peach trees, dogwood, lilac and tulips, a brick-lined lily pool, and on the iron trellised porch of a white brick Georgian house with peacock blue blinds, Macaw Toto in his cage. A brilliant example of the art of landscape architecture was not Mr. Scheepers' only contribution to the show. From his greenhouses came two new flowers never before exhibited in the U. S., the Sweet Glad and the Glory...
Every year the Hearstpapers, largest consumers of newsprint in the world, use approximately 465,000 tons of white, green, pink and peach colored paper. Last year hard-hitting President Archibald Robertson Graustein of International Paper Co. (subsidiary of International Paper & Power Co.) got the contract to supply Hearst with newsprint for five years at $55.20 per ton. Later he fought-and bested-the premiers of Quebec and Ontario when they tried to up the price to $60 (TIME, Dec. 9 et seq.). But the position of a U. S. paper company in Canada is not an easy one. More- over...
...Bartender's Guide ("1887) carries this Philadelphia recipe for Fish House rum punch: ? pt. lemon juice; ¾ lb. white sugar dissolved in sufficient water: ½ pt. cognac; ¼ pt. peach brandy; ¼ pt. Jamaica rum; 2½ pt. cold water...
Miss Mary Plummer of Boston, pretty as a peach blossom, could not resist her fascinatingly brown-bearded French and riding master. They were married at City Hall, Manhattan, though she had wept for a religious wedding. At No. 212 West Twelfth Street (the dingy brick building still stands) she bore him the present Mme. Jacquemaire. Then he took her back to Paris?on the dread eve of 1870?where she bore him Michael and "Le Petit Pierre," now a businessman in Lima, Peru, where he raged last week at the slowness with which bulletins trickled in about his father...