Evening Star Newspaper, April 13, 1929, Page 20

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A 20-ft, brick home of unusual distinction, in a choice residential environment, just off 16th St, and convenient to 14th St. shopping center ‘and best transportation facilities. Six nicely proportioned rooms, two glass-énclosed porches, open fireplace, beamed ceiling in dining room, textone walls, tiled bath with built-in tub and shower, pantry, casement windows, wrought iron stair rail, ocak floors upstairs and down, concrete front porch, built-in garag: immense shade tree in yard, 1418 Eye St. NW. Exclusive Agents’ National 5904 || of cther varieties blooming at the same || pean kinds arz ‘more often self-fruitful. || Brighton, ot WASHINGTON, THE HOME GARDENER Practical and Seasonal Hints for the Amatcur for Beautifying Surroundings of the Home. A great many lawns look rather ragzed | ai this season, with bare spots here and there, where the crab grass died out | fast Autumn after having smothered out | the better grasses, Just what to do with | these unkempt lawns is a problem. Left | alone the returning crab grass will fill | the empty places and by early June the | surface will again be covered with a mat | of green. A better plan than to wait for the crab grass is to loogen the solf in éhcse bare spois and to sow grass seed. One can easily understand why the | park carctakers prefer to sow grass in | the Autuinn. The weather is then cool | and usually moist, annual grasses and weeds are dying down and the- young grass plants have a chance to gro vigorously and form a light sod. By ! Spring the young grasses pre sufficiently cstablished to hold their own with th: new crop of weeds. Manure is often used as a top dres ing for lawns, but is not to be rec: mended on acount of the weeds thal | variably come with it. Manure may | better be used n maiting new lawns where if, is aded deeply into th il. A vel le fertilizer for the l:}\]\'\n, a fol est: by one of Departme) 28! h of Agriculture soil fe y investigators, consists of t parts of cottonseed meal and one part | of sulphate of ammonia, this to be used at the rate of one pound per 100 square | feet of grass. “This fertilizer sho washed down to the roots with the ho or distributed before rain. Good feed- | ing may be expected to do a whole lot | toward keeping the lawn in condition, | tice; in fact, it may be harmful, sin it encourages chickweed, plantain and | other grass weeds. Suiphate of ar monia, on the other hand, encour: the growth of better grasses and courages these weeds by making the soil more acid. The crecping bent grasses are un- doubtedly going to be used in the bes lawns of the future. These are gated by the use of small piece. lor by scattering small pi surface and covering lightly with soil At Arlington Farm, Virginia, there m: be seen some fine areas of lawn de- veloped with bent grasses. The turf is literally almost like a velvet carpet and, what is more significant the bent g | sods lished, are very m In an experiment at the Mis- | sourl Botanical Garden at St. Louis | plats, embracing practically ail the lawn {grasses and mixtures available, we planted in 1922 Six years later only | 7 plats survived, 2 of which were | bent grasse: ng | orchard gr tail, sweet | vernal, Canada blue | grass, Ted top, Itallan rye, white clover | | end seven special mixtures, dead, | s conservative institution is an ar- | | dent buoster for the bent grasses, but | urges 2 modest start. Autumn is recom- | mended as the best time for planting the bent grasses. The article ends with “No stand of gross y me ‘lawn” can be ob- | { tained without the expenditure of care and money, and after once established it cannot be neglected an: | flower or vegetable gar { | FRUIT PoLLI not fruit ven though | 1 the sofl is fertile, | that the blossoms becoms | This would appear relativel in most of our norther: e and female elements are borne e same flower, but the handicap in the fact that in many of the | nown varieties commonly grown | given | own | rious | hich e to fertilize _Obvlously this | problem in the home orc variety of apple, pear or cherr peach is a fortunate exceptios being only two or three kin the hundreds grown th | self-fe | pollinate—their blooms. The J. H. Hale | variety is about the only peach that { will cause trouble to the home gardener }and for this reason should not {solected for planting unless one | Elberta or some other variety close by to_supply the needed pollen. With apples, the situation is more serious. At the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station at College Park it was found, some four or five years ago, that of 66 varieties tested only 12 were sufficiently self-fertile to factory crop of apples when grown by themselves. These 12 were: Cox Orange, Barly Harvest, Ingram, Lowell, Maiden Blush, Grimes Golden, Mother, Rome Beauty, Tompkins King, Wealthy, Yel- {low Transparent end York Imperial. It is to be seen that only two or three of the apples commonly grown in this vicinitv were capabie of fruiting satis- factarily when planted alone. Stayman Winesap and Winesap, two favorite Winter apples, were almost completely | self-sterile, Sweet cherries have been found with only one or two exceptions to be in| need of cross-pollination. The old favorite, Black Tartarian, usually bears good crops even when planted alone. Certain varieties, Bing, Lambert and Napoleon, have failed to pollinate one another and should not be planted to- gether unless Black Tartarian or some other varlety is added. The so-c\led sour or cooking cherries, Early Rich- mond. Montmorency and English Morello, have been found capable of self-pollination and may be planted as individuals in the fruit garden. Fears, much like apples, generally fail to produce crops without the presence time. The well known Bartlett pear is jlisted among the self-sterile kinds. Studies with plums show the native American and the Japanese varieties to be mostly self-sterile, while the Euro- Assummarized by Dr. Chandler in his ook, ‘“Fruit Growing,” Agen, Giant, Italian Prune, Reine Claude, Sugar, Victoria and Yellow Egg can be rated as der:ndnbly self-fruitful. Quite fortunately the varieties of grapes grown in the home garden, the Concord, Niagara, Caco, Worden, etc,, are of the type that boar fruit with their own pollen. There are, however, self-sterile grapes, notably Herbert and Lindley, but there is no need of growing these im- perfect varieties. Strawberries are of two types, self- fertile (perfect) and sclf-fruitless (im- perfect) but here again the problem is not acute because most of the every- day varieties, such as Premier (Howard 17), are of the perfect type. GARDEN PEAS, The garden pea is one of the vege- tables that deserve a place in the home vegetable garden by the sheer superior- ity of the home-grown product over that purchased in the markef. Aspara- gus, sweet corn and peas are three vegetables that lose flavor very rnpld}y‘ after being gathered and may, there- fore, very well be given more than thejr share of space in the garden. Peas s of two general types, mw. smooth-seeded and wrinkle seeded. The BY J, B. WELLINGTON, Liming the lawn is not a bengficizl prac- | [ Upper: An apple tree in full bloom, aiways an assurance of a good crop of fruit. -cissus bulbs at Bellingham, Wash. Abundant blossoms, however, are no! See text. Lower: Field production Enterprises of this size will soon restoie of n a plentiful supply of bulbs to American gardeners. —Photos by courtesy Department of Agriculture. | sown or about the time the young ants are emerging, there will be no diffeulty in getting the vines to climb, since they are provided with tendrils just for this purpose. Peas growing on wire or brush are attractive and, what is more important, bear more pods and are less subject to disease than those ing on the soil. Poultry wire has an- cther advantage—that it may be used from year to year quite indefinitely if | stored in a dry place. ed should be planted in shallow | and covered with two or threc | hes of soil. One of the large Phila- | hin sccd houses recommends the | of one pound of seed per 120 feet | ;. ‘This is about right, when one | sparrows and other pests that young pea plants. Although a legume—that is, & nitro- apid and productive growth, Fer- lizer placed immediately under the will give the best results, using ut one pound of good mixed fer- tilizer per 40 to 50 feet of row. This should be worked into the soil before planting the seed. 'y rapidly under favor- able environment and may he counted on to be pretty well gone by the 1st of July. They need cool weather and should be Sown now, as soon as pos- ble, s0 as to reach maturity before al Summer heat arrives. | THE GARDEN CLUBS. I ‘The fourteenth annual narcissus show of the Takoma Horticultural Club was held Thursday and Friday at the Ta- _FOR FARM AND GARDEN. Power and Hand Every Type P Size and P Description | ‘Wide, assortment of reliable, weil-known makes at low prices. Sce our display! We repair, rebuild, serv- ice and sharpen all models. Truek service. J, V. Hutchins & Co. 1218 CSt. N.\W. Main 866 koma Park Branch of the Public Li- brary, Despite the ravages of the hot wave, which forced many varieties through their bloom with unusual rapid- ity, there was a fine showing in most all of the 21 classes for narcissus. The Poeticus and Poetaz varieties were espe- cially attractive. The committee in charge was comprised as follows: Peter Remsen, chairman; C. A. Reed, Mrs. APRIL 1: | | | | | | R 1929, REATL ESTATE, tributed its bit to the weifare of the community by sponsoring a lantern slide lecture on lmmn?mg the home, ‘This Jecture was given at the Lyon Park Community House, no charges being assessed so that all might come and beneflt thereby, Progress was reported on the project of growing dogwood 4921 To 1435 K Street _¥OR FARM AND GARDEN. Thirtieth Place trees for community-wide distribution. Several thousands of young=irees are growing in the nursery. 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