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Article: Henry Mitchell, This Bud's for You
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- June 12, 1994
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Henry Mitchell's children are going out into the world. They -
all 215 of them - are the slender bright green seedlings of the
many-hued bearded irises crowded into the neutral strip between the
sidewalk and the curb in front of Henry's American University Park
house in Northwest Washington.
Henry and a sizable contingent of neighbors put the irises in
two autumns ago, digging out the grass, installing boards to define
their 6-by-12 bed, putting down sharp sand and horse-manured soil
from the pile behind his garage and mulching the whole thing over
with straw. Henry recorded the project in an October 1992 Earthman
column, and Susan Davis's illustration showed various neighbors -
they ...
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