The Hull Times 05-26-11 Edition

16 THE HULL TIMES, Thursday, May 26, 2011 www.hulltimes.com
Hull
100 Years ago this week
Compiled from The Hull Beacon
by John J. Galluzzo
May 26, 1911
• Ephraim Lombard and family of
Boston are occupying their cottage on
Highland avenue, Hull Hill. They are
among the longest summer residents
here. Mrs. Lombard was at one time
considered by yachtsmen one of the
most expert yachtswomen on the coast,
with few peers among the opposite sex.
Of late years however, she has given up
the sport to some extent.
• Wedding invitations are out for Lawrence
Worcester and Miss Vogel.
• Henry Gardner Galloway and family
of Boston have arrived at the John Boyle
O’Reilly cottage, which was purchased
off the O’Reilly heirs.
• The son of Jacob Smith, who is on
the boats, is a great favorite. He holds
a regular reception on the Boston wharf
upon the arrival and departure of the
boat. The ladies old and young and
pretty, he has a kindly word for all and
remains a bachelor.
• Repairs on the old yacht club here are
completed, making it practically a new
landing. It is used during the summer
by the Nantasket steamboat company
expressly for the accommodation of the
residents of Hull Hill. The government
boats will make it a landing the yearround.
• J.J. Souther will continue as host committee
of one at the Hull station of the
Boston yacht club. He will make the
clubhouse his home this season.
• The Village improvement Society is
doing a good work.
• The Hull athletic club is having baseball
suits made at Horace Partridge firm,
Boston. The boys expect to play their
first game Decoration day against the
All-Stars of Roxbury. The games will
be played at the Park playground, Hull.
• In the near future Hull must have a
town hall and the Selectmen have made
an automobile trip to several towns only
to find them much more expensive than
they had planned.
• John Mitchell, our well-known coal
and lumber dealer, has a new building
at Waveland. It has a private office that
is better than any office along the coast,
and it is facing the bay and the outlook is
fine. The room is spacious and is finished
in Mission with a mantle clock in marble
and coal cemented together. The desk
and couch finish a most attractive office.
The ceiling was done by A. C. Ross of
Boston, who has made the ceilings in
the large buildings of Boston and does
that class of work wonderfully well. The
gentleman’s daughter lives near the office
and he wanted to show how well he
could do that class of work. Mr. Mitchell
may well feel proud of his new building.
• The lifesaving crew disband at 12
o’clock, May 31, and come together
August 1.
• It is said that freak house will cost
$30,000 by the time it is finished. ∞
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New Sprouts | By The Hull Garden Club
Submitted by Helen Weiser
Growing flowers in containers – window
boxes, pots, hanging baskets – has
several things in its favor. For one, there
is more effect per plant. A few marigolds
in a garden bed are apt to look sparse,
but the same number of plants growing
in window boxes can look bountiful and
complete. Window boxes placed above
ground often enjoy more sunlight than
on the ground below. Pots and hanging
baskets have the added virtue of portability;
they can be moved to spots where
conditions are right.
Best of all, container culture brings
gardening to people who have no more
space than a balcony or window ledge
several stories up.
There are more good things to say
about container gardening than bad,
but there is an important drawback: increased
maintenance. There is a limited
amount of soil and, because the sides of
container are exposed to the air and hot
sun, the soil dries out and loses nutritive
supply very fast, so they need water and
fertilizer more regularly than plants in a
garden bed.
Here are a few tips for success:
• Soil. Rather than mix your own
[one part peat moss or compost, one part
garden soil, and one part builder’s sand],
you may use packaged soil, but make
sure it is not entirely soil-less. It needs
at least one-third-part soil to help hold
moisture. Add a slow-release fertilize
so the plants are given gradual doses of
nutrient as they develop.
• Selecting plants: The best plants for
container gardens are annuals. The most
popular is petunia, even though they do
become leggy and ragged-looking by
midsummer. They will revive and come
back if cut back after they get rangy.
Other good choices are ageratum,
coleus, browallia, lobelia, and sweet alyssum.
Still others are geraniums, dwarf
marigolds, dusty miller, wax begonias,
impatiens, verbenas, vincas, and dwarf
zinnias. Hanging baskets do best with
three to five matching individual specimens
to give it a full look. Impatiens are
good as well as Million Bells petunias.
Large pots or window boxes do well
with geranium, dusty miller, and lobelia.
In large pots or tubs you can even put in
bell pepper, parsley, or rosemary in the
center, surrounded by cascading lobelias.
Don’t add too many flowers or they
will overwhelm the vegetables.
Planting: Place an inch of drainage
material, such as gravel or clay shards
from broken clay pots, in the container
bottom. Next put in the soil, to about an
inch or two below the top and then set
in the plants. Finish up by tamping soil
to about an inch below the rim of the
container.
Care: Containers need frequent
watering, especially in midsummer. In
spring, seedlings are small; do not overwater.
The best gauge all season long is
to water when the top half- to one inch
of soil dries out.
Be sure the soil mass is completely
moistened and don’t stop until the water
comes out the bottom. Fertilize every
other week with solution of water and
water-soluble fertilizer. If you have
used the packaged soil you will have to
water carefully as these mixes tend to
pull away from the sides of the container
when they become dry and water runs
right out along these spaces without
penetrating to the roots.
Visit our club, www.hullgardenclub.
com, for more gardening information. ∞
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