Evening Star Newspaper, September 29, 1928, Page 23

REAL ESTATE. THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. D. C. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER REAL ESTATE. Gardening in Washington AND ITS ENVIRONS Conducted by J. W. Wellington, Garden Editor, The Star. | SOIL FERTILITY l The purchaser of a new home is in most instances confronted with the problem of developing a garden and other plantings on poor soil, very often subsoil brought to the surface in grad- ing operaticns, The situation some- times appears hopeless, but it is by no means so. The ideal treatment would be to spread on five or six inches of well-rotted manure and have it thoroughly spaded into the first foot of surface soil. Such a treatment at this season of the year would insure a good garden next year, especially if the manure was supplemented with ground limestone at the rate of one pound to 20-0dd square feet. But manure is costly and difficult to obtain. The second best solution is to apply mixed commercial fertilizer of the bet- ter grades. This means a fertilizer con- taining 5 per cent or more of nitrogen instead of the 1 or 2 per cent usually found in cheaper priced materials. The larger dealers who suppiy comniercial vegetable growers carry these better grades of fertilizer. Applied at the rate of one pound per 25 square fect and worked into the top fi r of soil, such fertilizer w on very barren soil, a good g Winter rye, which in turn whe under in the Spring will form a very fair basis for gardening. Wirhout the fertilizer, the rye will amount to very little. Winter rye should be sow as possible now, but may be s the middle of October with fair res as soon s | sults, wn up to | | THE ASTER B ———— Mention was made last week of the | value of sodium fluosilicate as a repel- lent for the black beetle which destroys | aster blooms by eating the petals and | other flower parts. Wisconsin Horti- {culture, the monthly publication of | the Wisconsin Horticultural Society {cussed this new treatment in its Sep- tember number. “The arsenical d such as calcium arsenate, Paris green d lead arsenate would pois | beetles, but they decline to | poisoned leaves and dusting merely drives them to other feeding grounds Recently, however, it has been discos ered that sodium fluosilicate is an ef- fective treatment for this pest. “While the beetles do not eat the foliage dusted with this poison to any noticeable extent, yet it has proven to be an effective_treatment nevertheless. It has been cbserved that beetles do not eat tl |it causes an irritation which they seek to allay by | their fect through their mouths. the beetles get the poison into their stomachs, and in a well dusted area | practically complete eradication Another habit of the beetles | which aids in eradication is that of to their feet, raking imall area of the infested field. This s particularly noticcable when | beetles first enter a field. and if they |are dusted as soon as they are first | noticed they are not likely to trouble | further.” . This information was contributed by . Chambers Wisconsin State ent while the | is poison directly, | Thus | re- | warming together on a comparatively | the | | fuosilicate, as the sodium fluoride, jused in a similar way for killing | | roaches, would badly injure foliage. RASPBERRY PROPA- GATION | | It is rather strange that the red rasp- | berry and the black raspberry s have such radically different habits of propagation. The red raspberr: most gardeners know, increases sucker plants thrown up from the roo loften quite a distance from the ol tplant. The black raspberry. on the other hand, increases by rapidiy - tending the young canes at this season of year and rooting at the tips. Often | the tip will branch before reaching the | soil, in which cas more than one new plant will result. The gardener can| e the new black raspberry plants | where needed by simp the | trouble of planting the tips where de- sired just as they begin to root. Red raspberry plants, however, are not so easily controlled. and must be dug and replanted in rows. or in a very few seasons one will have a veritable | thicket A plant breeder in Ontario has de- veloped a raspberry which propagates in both the above described way red raspberry that would propa CHEVY OPPORTUNITIES 3905 OLIVER STREET Situated near Chevy Chase Circle, one vl‘lnck west n{ COnneCtiCut Ave. from cane tips only would prove a blessing in the home garden, where space is usually limited and it is often difficult to confine the plants to the original rows. With the red raspberry the plants that are offered for sale are beginning their second (or fruiting) year. It is possible, however, with a little extra care to dig up young plants the first year that they appear and reset them with good assurance of success. RESISTANT ‘ROSES l The following list of roses is offered by a Massachusetts gardener writing in | Horticulture, the official publication of the M: chusetts Horticultural So- cietv, as being conspicuously resistant {o black spot and mildew: Radiance, Madame Peon Pain. Lady Alice Stan- ley. Mrs. George Shawyer, Madame | Caroline Testout, General MacArthur, Lieut. Chaure, Chateau de C. Vougeot, | Gruss au Teplitz, Duchess ofl Welling- | ton, Harry Kirk, Mrs. Aaron Ward, ' Lady Pirrie and Mrs. A. R. Waddell. | How well this list conforms with local perience is a question, but at least it tions for thought. Ulti- plant breeders will present us ssing full immunity to 1 the interim the home CHASE A Fine gardener must utilize those varieties possessing the greatest possible resist- ance. As we have stated several times in this column, the two Radiance roses owe much of their popularity to their sturdy growing habits. The home dener” wants a rose that will survive under moderate care and not one that needs constant spraying and Gusung. The coming week will be a busy for several of the local garden clubs. On October 2 and 3 the Woodridge Garden Club holds its annual Fall hor- ticultural show in the hall of the Sher: wood Presbyterian Church, corner of Rhode Island avenue and Twenty-second street northeast, and on October 5 and 6 the National Capital Dahlia and Iris Society will stage its annual dahlia ex: hibition at the Mayflower Hotel. Flower lovers had, better make the most of these shows, for thev mark quite defi- nitely the close of the 1923 flower show | season in this locali Assistant Secretary of Agriculture R. | W. Dunlap was the speaker at the regu- - |lar meeting of the Takoma Horticui- | tained during the two day: | tural Club held Monda | Takoma Park Branc Library. His subjec of Northern Europe,” was particularly ‘lnwrrslmz because of the first-hard | | experiences and observations gained in | a recent trip through through Europe. | The dahlia exhibition to be staged by evening in the | of the Public he Agriculture one | the National Capital Dahlia and Iris | flowers will find much to interest them | Society in the garden ballroom of the | Mayflower Hotel on October 5 and 6 promises to be. according to the society's | president, James M. R. Adams, an un- | usually fine show. Growing conditions during the past week have been very | favorable to the dahlia. which thrives in the cool. bright weather of Autumn. Mr. adams announces an informal re- ception for the officers of all local gar- den clubs on the opening evening. Octo- | ber 5. An appropriate musical program has been arranged for the occasion, which will be made further interesting | Reduced $8,000! by the announcement of the winners of the gold and silver medals donated by the American Dahlia Society. Mr. Adams desires to call attention to the plant sales booth which will be main- Perennial plants of many kinds such as iris and peonies will be on sale. This dahlia show affords an unusual opportunity to see this queen of Autumn flowers at its best and a chance to| make first-hand selections for the 1929 garden. No dahlia grower should miss this show. and those who do not grow Finding a dirty bundle near the forti fications of Paris recently, Mme. Le- pouse, a ragpicker, took it home. Her 3-year-old son opened it and played n the floor with the contents. 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