Evening Star Newspaper, March 9, 1929, Page 20

REAL ESTATE. THE EVENING THE HOME GARDENER Practical and Seasonal Hints for the Amateur for Beantifying Surroundings of the Home. TBY J. B. WELLINGTON. STAR, WASHINGTON, further injury is well past. Some of the very late Autumn canes of certain rather tender varieties may be found to have been killed to the ground and should be cut off at the base. Other canes may show only a few inches of injury. One need not worry that in cutting Pierce, Club, L. M. A. H. Englebrecht, secretary, ‘Woodridge Garden secretary; president; Mrs, Clarke, DR. SCHMITT SPEAKS Dr. Waldo Schmitt of the Smithson- SATURDAY. MARCH 9, 1929. ‘mg reviews of two new garden books, “The Lila by Susan D. McKelvey, and “Peonies,” a manual issued by the American Peony Society. Gardeners and their friends should keep in mind the illustrated lecture to be given Tuesday evening, March 12, 8:15 p.m., in the auditorium of the Interior Building, Nineteenth and F REAL ESTATE. In the Rock Creek back the rose canes he is cutting off all the blooms, because the rose flowers on PRU new shoots and not directly on last season’s growth. Prof. Mulford urged that cuts be made a half inch or so Practically every home place that hasv above the strong bud, preferably a bud #gufficient open ground for planting any- | B ;".,,',{" :Il:tyer :;deeglc . ::?e"d ‘2’0"‘,?;,23 $hing other than ornamentals has n[‘ ; O S B L least cne grape vine. The majority| I e R Deed €] y as well as pruning. Prof. ul- Rt stme ey wre Oy TS ford said at Woodridge that rotted cow ‘when it comes to the matter of pruning. T Ao WaS Dear ot e the 1oRe. Tn "This situation is due largely to a lack | liew of this materlax,dsggep ‘manure, of knowledge of the need of pruning| poultry manure, groun ne, or even and of the simple principles of pruning | il Dbl Al e and furthermore the manner in which | . ian Institution was the principal speak- | streets morthwest. This lecture, “The nm o o5 the Pntuncy maciing S the “Ta- | Gardens of France.” given in English by Envu' O ent koma Horticultural Club, giving an ex- | Mme. La Mare of Prance, has attracted tremely interesting lantern slide lec- |favorable notice in the several large | ture_on the Juan Fernandez Islands, | American cities where presented. No the Robinson Crusoe Islands of fiction. | charge is made, the expenses being car- The plants of these islands, according |ried by the National Capital Federation to Dr. Schmitt, closely resemble |of Garden Clubs, the American Horti- those of New Zealand and Aus- |cultural Society and several of the local tralia and show little connection | garden clubs who take this means of with South America, which is much |furthering the gardening movement in nearer geographically. A curlouslthis community. feature of the Juan Fernandez flora is RS S the large size attained by herbacious plants due to the fact that freezing | never occurs to stop growth. In ad- | dition to the major talk, B. Y. Mor- | rison and L. W. Kephart gave interest- G THE GRAPE A charming home, in a neighborhood of outstanding refinement and character. 3005 Albemarle Street Just East of Connecticut Avenue The lot—75x150 feet—is handsomely and elaborately landscaped—and with the com- panion residences a high-class community is The Board of Education approved plans to offer engineering courses at the College of the City of Detroit next || Fall. to advantage. One cannot expect large, fine flowersfrom pruning alone. grapes are usually grown in the city, on trellises and arbors, greatly increases the_difficulties of pruning. The most important fact in grape Pruning is to bear in mind that the| Truit is carried on new shoots which develop from wood grown last year. “The wood of last year is easily dis- tinguished by its bright vigorous ap- pearance and smooth bark. A certain amount of this young wood must be re- tained if one is to have fruit. Investi- gators in grape culture h: established the fact that 40 to 50 buds st year's wood are enough e vine. This becomes vhen one considers that one of these buds is capable of developing into a shoot carrying three or fc bunches or clusters of grape: i to say, the average home gard this scemingly severe treatment. In- stead the vine may be left with 200 or 300 buds. Competition for food and water becomes very keen and unless conditions are exccllent the gardener gets many more clusters but of small, uneven size and of uneven ripening. The most generally preferred type of training the grape vine in this region is the four-arm Kniffen system, as illustrated. The Kniffen commercial vine way by being the most productive and also comparatively easy to follow from year to year. In this case one chooses four thrifty new canes each year, se- lecting among those that are nearest to the main trunk of the vine. Each of the four canes is cut back to 10 or 12 buds in length. Every three or four years the old main upright trunk should be renewed by encouraging the devel- opment of one of the new shoots which frequently appear at the ground level. Without such renewal the young fruit- ing wood gets further and further away from the root and, since the nutriments are forced to pas through old, rather in- active tissue, production suffers. Mun- son system of grape training, illustrated by the accompanying view taken in the garden of C. H. Hansen, Capitol View, Md,, is also popular in this vicinity. The Munson trellis consists of two overhead ‘wires supported on the crossarms of up- right posts. Pruning on arbors is rather difficult to accomplish. Here the short spur method of pruning, in which the young canes are cut back to two or three buds, is often used to advantage. The total number of buds per plant should be 40 or 50, as for the long cane pruning. Some plan of renewing the old stems from the base must bepracticed if one ‘wishes to maintain high yields and good quality. Newly planted grapes should be cut back to one or two buds. Such treat- ment will result in one or two strong canes, one of which may be selected at the beginning of the second year as the permanent main trunk. Side branches, if there be any at this time, may be saved as future arms. The Maryland station found that a whole year could be saved in the development of the grape vine by handling the young vine in this way rather than clipping it back again severely at the beginning of em is used in most the second year as was formerly prac- | fruit ticed. Good grape varieties for this vicinity Include Niagara (white), Concord (blue), Caco (red). Worden (blue) and th:flli t (red). led the last variety are so urged on At of its superb quality. PRUNING YOU? FRUIT TREES ‘The young fruit tree up to the time It has borne fruit should be spared from the knife and saw in every way pos- sible. This doesn't mean no pruning, but it does mean that pruning should be simply that needed to keep the tree shapely and from becoming a thicket of branches. Recent results at the Penn- sylvania and Maryland stations with the apple and peach suggest that this little prunning program should com- mence from the day the trees are re- ceived from the nursery for planting. Trees one year from time of grafting or budding are now preferred for plant- | ing by crehardists in place of the two and three ‘year and even older aged trees whith were once eagerly sought. These young trees come from the nur~ #ery with most of their roots intact and obviously are easier to re-establish than older trees. But more important yet, the grower is free to shape his tree at the desired height and in any desired arrangement because these one-year-old trees are usually unbranched with buds instead of branches. By selecting three or four buds at different levels and ar- Tanged around the main stem so as to give a well balanced tree, the grower can dx't;rminde !th future type of tree. e undesire uds are sim nfiT;\r cut off. ST he greatest acset in this new type of early pruning is that the young t}x?c)e goes ahead without check and com- mences fruiting a year or so earlier than the trec cut severely in the first and second seasons. Some corrective pruning, the removal of a cross limb here and there, is required, but severe Pruning of roots or top at any time up to fruiting is to be deplored. Semi-de- tached 6 fine rooms Full tiled bath Built-in tub Built-in shower Big English porch Big sleeping porch Big breakfast porch Oak floors through- out Daylight kitchens One-piece sink Built-in refrigerator Quality gas range Textone walls Wood-burning fireplace Handsome electric fixtures Cedar-lined closets Paved streets Paved alleys Exhibit Home pretty well | ards and has won its | Those .who have not ! Upper: The Mumson system of train- ing grapevines. Lower left: A grape- | vine trimmed in the common four-cane Kniffen system. Lower right: A rose plant trimmed to produce long-stemmed and large blooms, the kind much sought for cutting. PRUNING THE OLD FRUIT TREES The pruning of the mature fruit tree is altogether a different proposition from that of handling the young non- fruiting tree. With the development of old fruiting wood and spurs, the vigor- ous growth necessary to satisfactory production is often checked. In certaif plums, especially the Japanese type, the trees will literally become a mass of fruit spurs in a few seasons. These must be thinned out by pruning. Scientific horticulturists have de- termined by experiment that fruitful- ness of a tree depends on a balance be- tween the starches and sugars made in the leaves and nitrogen compounds ob- tained from the soil. Presumably in old fruiting trees the balance is often lost, but is restored when a consider- able part of the old top is removed. Regular annual thinning out of the top is the best practice. This prevents the tree becoming so dense that sunlight cannot enter. Dense shading kills the shoots in the jn'-rior so that all the growing and fruiting wood is ultimately at the end of the branches. Old trees which have reached a stage of small fruit and thicket-like tops may be won-. derfully rejuvenated by rather drastic thinning of the top. It is better prac- tice, however, to extend remedial treat- ment over two or three scasons fol- lowed by regular annual treatment thereafter. Pruned trees are more easily sprayed and as a result the gar- dener gets not only larger, but better Owner Must Sell This Large Eight- Room Home Now English design, entrance hall, place, four delightful bedrooms, tiled bath, detached garage. street and alley. ; be appreciated. Van Ness St., 1621 K St. N.W. I 421 Marietta Place N.W. TO INSPECT car. nd Kennedy Or Geo to’ 5th, morth to Marietta Pl.. Take 14th St. io Ave. car to Longfellow, or drive out to Sth three blocks north to Mariefta east 16th St. or Georoia Ave. to Longfellow, east 10 5th, then north to Marietta Pl., or Main 8949 for automobile. phone PRICED FOR ACTION AT $13.750.00 parlor, large living room with fire- Paved Must be seen to The ideas advanced for the pruning of the rose range all the way from sug- gestions for cutting almost to the ground to no cutting at all. Both extremes are manifestly wrong. The degree of prun- ing depends somewhat on the desires of the gardener himself. If many flowers are desired pruning should be relatively light, confining the effort largely to the removal of weak and conflicting shoots. The following view, originally published in Farmers’ Bulletin No. 750, “Roses for the Home,” by F. L. Mulford, and again offered here through the courtesy of the Department of Agriculture, shows how a rosebush of the hybrid tea group (Radiance, Ophelia, etc.) should be pruned if one desires extra quality blooms with long stems. The pruning for érdinary treatment should be less severe, leaving about the same number of canes. but cutting them back less drastically. Prof. Mulford, in discussing rose pruning in connection with the Febru- ary 22 Woodridge Garden Club demon- stration, recommended March as the best month for rose pruning, particu- larly a little later, when buds are en- larging somewhat. Winter injury be- comes more evident then and danger of North Cleveland Park Inspect 3807 VAN NESS ST. N.W. SUNDAY full Open All Day Sunday Drive North on Wis. Ave. from Mass. Ave. to turn right one block to home. J. €. Douglass € Exclusive Agents Metrop. 5678 Climbing roses are best pruned after flowering, cutting out the old canes | to give place to the new. Without this treatment the new growth develops out on the old canes and soon one has a topheavy plant with long bare basat | stems. Prof. Mulford said that he had reached the conclusion that climbing roses were not well adapted for shading porches because of this need of pruning in Summer. Following is a list of garden clubs located in and near Washington. In addition there are various garden com- mittees of citizens’ assoclations which are active in promoting gardening n- terests in their communities. These committees often form the nucleus or | an independent organization, as was the case of the Woodridge Garden Club, which came into being as a develop- ment of the garden committee of the Rhode Island Avenue Citizens’ Associa- tion. ‘This list is published with the knowledge that it is altogether incom- plete, but with the hope that the clubs themselves will aid by supplying the missing _information, together with a list of officers and other timely items. Alta Vista Citizens’ Association gar- den branch, Anacostia Garden Club, Arlington County Garden Club, Alex- andria Garden Club, Aurora Heights Citizens’ Association, Aurora Hills Gar- den Club, Burleith Garden Club, Bat- tery Park Garden Club, Chevy Chase | (D. C.) Garden Club, Chevy Chase (Md.) Garden Club, Community Gar- den Club of Rockville, Md.; Edgemoor Horticultural Society, Fairfax Garden Club, Falls Church, garden branch of the Women's Club; Georgetown Garden Club, Hyattsville Horticultural Society, W. R. 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