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the seas from getting too broad in the bcfiin.- • * rrs ALSO THE time for planning additions to the collection. Grown from the larger shoots removed in trimming, parts of K more exhibits thrust up from the back lot waiting their turn. ■Regeneration'is coming tp others. Two wheels take shape behind a horse that once pulled a plow (the plow, Gtjs explains, died) and will become part (if a wagon for the patiently standing horse to pull. For a change of pace, two wild cherry trees afein the process of becoming a peacock and a Jolly Green Giant. Trailing the peacock may be a little delayed by the mockingbird which has nested in it, and has a very hostile attitude toward Gus' meddling. THERE’S ALSO a parking problem. With the visiting season ex-

tended so that busloads of senior citizens arrive in June and September, things get slightly crowded. As many as 12 buses have pulled up in ohe day. Gus is considering extending the driveway-to circle the house and provide a separate entrance and exit to ease the crush . One of the steamships which make up the front.hedge will have to go to accommodate the change. 'All of which, including keeping a watchful eye against f winter damage to his sculptures, is likely to keep Gbs busy until the start of another sprucing up season in the spring/ — Gus Wil^be ready.

Ed Harnett of North Cape May is contributing .editor of the Herald and Lantern, Photos by Bob Shiles. ‘ • i, : ■

PHOTOS HON'T Ho the VearVkiT privet creations justice, but still one can imagine his clipper ship riding the high seas, perhaps ready to' make port near Cape may Point wilh the lighthouse (in this superimposed picture! In the distance and the breaking surf almost at hand.

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mg several miles- to the one-room scnbolhotise, built in- IKSH, which si ill stands "The teacher got $10 a week and was the janitor, too,"

Gus recalls

SHOPPING WAS uncomplicated, with the choice bet- • ween two small stores that could be reached by walking—quite a bit ’of walking—or the R.T. Johnson general store in Erma, where I^iws Printing now stands. Johnson's was for big tickePitcms like fertilizer, seed, and dry goods Plus a later line of auto tires, when there were enough

wheels to need them

"About all we had to'buy wlas sugar and flour anyway," Gus comments. "We raised everything else we needed " That was a lime when the appropriation of $300 for road repairs created a hassle on the Township Committee Somehow, everyone got along Which wasn't loo hard, when Gus could name all his .neighbors up and down

Fishing Creek Road

One learns toleranoe' and patience working with a medium which takes seven years to take shape as the head arid trunk of an elephant; or a baseball team set in fielding positions, in Wdrld War If, with players that take 12 yearh to assume their natural

stance.

Gus learned well He may take a little time off during the hunting season—with emphasis on the lit; tie. Fall and winter are the time for majqr cosmetic surgery on his creations. Lilje restoring the aerodynamic edge to the wings of an eagle'grown overweight in the summer. Or cutting back a foot of branches to keep a 36-ft. queen of

ANOTHER EXAMPLE of how the camera can trick the eye when the subject matter is hedge sculptures: While this comes out loolflhg like a whale in the picture, it’s really a privet alligator, which would he,readily apparent "in the flesh." The mark-r in front of the creature creation notes that it took more than 20 years to grow this.

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