Evening Star Newspaper, November 16, 1929, Page 21

REAL ESTATE. THE . EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, 1 ). € \TURDAY, NOV L LR 16, 1929. REAL ESTA o 3 21 THE HOM:: GARDENER Practical and Seasonal Hints for the Amateur for Beautifying Surroundings of the Home. PLANTS AT REST ’ ‘The seed, the dormant plant and the Testing tuber have little attraction to BY J. B. WELLINGTON. the average person as compared with the active growing plants, but are, how- ever, no less important and truly even more marvelous. Without these benefi- cent provisions of nature to carry plants T Daffodils in the Spring are the first: conspicuous show of color and yellow chrysanthemums are a feature of tne closing days in late Autumn. Gas as a means of hastening the col- oring of tomatoes, oranges and bananas has come into considerable use in recent | | vears. It is interesting to note that the | Department of Agriculture finds that gas-ripened tomatoes _contain s vitamins and nutrients than do fruits ripened on the vine. This is a further | argument toward reserving a place in! the home garden for a few tomaw plants. Flower growers and botanists inter- ested in cactus culture will be interested in Circular No. 66 of the U. S. De- | partment of Agriculture. This paper was prepared in greater part by Dr. David Griffiths, well known bulb au thority, and who at one time spemt | VAGANCY SURVEY PLANTO BE URGED Department of Commerce to| Advocate National Proposal. Apartment vacancy surveys as con- tructures larger and taller than those | in New York today, he believes. ARCHITECT SAYS CITIES Watch Your Carpet. CAN’T OVERBUILD HOUSES New York Tendency, He Believes, Is Being Followed Through- out United States. Overbuilding is a definitely groundless fear, as far as the average healthy American city is concerned, declares Harvey Wiley Corbett, noted New York | architect and authority on skyscraper construction. Citles of the second or third rank in the future may have 4 New York,’ peated, in a lesser degree, throughou the Nation. tracts business from all over the world, | so the various centers of population throughout the country will continue to | draw from their tributary territories. | Commercial enterprises which achieve | success in these sections find that they must be represented in the population | centers. | business efficiency is furthered by con- | Don't start a stair carpet and stop “The process which is going on in!it before the end of the stairs. In the he explains, “is being re- | dark one may feel for it on the last 3 t | few treads and stumble for lack of it. Just as New York at- BUSINESS i PROPERTY LEASES “It is also being demonstrated that | . k, “ o . We Specialize in | 1ation to current demand, 1s a com- | paratively new development in i3 centration in given areas, thought the | medium of taller buildings. Not only | is the larger building unit operated to better advantage than a number of | dustry. Washington was a lecder in |scattered small ones, but the tran: Finding the Right Location o CONSULT MR. BRENT through the Winter, gardening in the temperate zones would be an impossi- bility. Each seed contains a rudimen- tary plant and, in most cases, sufficient food to supply the necessary substancc needed for early growth. What is even more wonderful is the fact that most species of seeds are.so constructed that they cannot resume growth at once, but must actually pass through a rest period which prevents them from start- ing into growth in late Autumn or in warm days of Winter. Many cultivated lants have lost this resting quality, ut all native planis which propa themselves by seed possess it strongly. In many trees, the resting peiiod of tha buds passes in Midwinter or thereabout, depending thereafter on attual cold to hold the trees in check. The underlying principles controlling rost in seeds, bulbs and planis are not yet understood nor may they ever be fully understood. Chemists have traced certain changes of starches to sugars and observed increased enzymatic activ- ity with the breaking of the rest period, but have not been able to fathom the | underlying causes governing these changes. Fortunately for the home gardener, seed growing and tuber and root stor- age has developed into a major indus- try. We can allow our-plants to die in the Autumn with full confidence that fresh new supplies may be easily ob. tained in the Spring. In the old day each gardener had to carefully gather seeds and cuttings and treasure them through the Winter season. | uUpP The time has come when most home gardeners are preparing to lay away | their tools and call the gardening year | : complete. ‘There is really little more | that can be done except to clear up old plant rubbish. such as flowering | stems and weeds. Such material may easily harbor insects and disease spores and does not look well at the best. Probably the best way to handle waste lant, material is to burn it, although urying deeply in the sofl will serve the same purpose. There is much to| be said for a clean up program, which | calls for the composting of leaves or even their burning, where composting is out of the question. Leaves do not | add fertility to the garden until they | are rotted and, in the meanwhile, are | The color is usually bright crimson, | even detrimental by making free use of available plant food in the process of | appearance. The interior of the fruit is | of young plants at the base of each old their decomposition. A clean garden can | normally filled with seeds enveloped | plant. be almost attractive even in Winter, (with a bright pinkish pulp with abun- | not only possible but wholly desirable but a garden full of cornstalks, bean | poles, dahlia stalks and the like is|pulp is used as a basis of & refreshing | the young sister plants. ahlicess-looking at its best. And when the possibility of harboring pests over | Winter % considered, cleaning up is| both a and an esthetic meas- ure. Garden tools &M deserve some at- tentton. If cleaned of soll and wiped with an oiled cloth on metal surfaces, tools will not rust even though stored in a shed or other similar location. A practical feature is that if put away carefully, they will be on hand for Spring use. The large purchase of gar- 1flpn n;gh :nluu ing ;nfi’ b":-ced. n [ & failure to care o et ::;iy SCALE INSECTS Scale insects aro simply sucking in- kel‘:t& "hl.l‘chh very wisely provide them- selves & WAX covering as a protec- tion from weather and predacious in- mnild Summer sprays, thus leaving the <dormant period of Winter and early Spring as the only vulnerable season. ).Al this time sprays of sufficient corro- sive or softening properties may be wafely -mm to loosen the scale and | :es‘t:oy heunderlm insect or eggs, i®s it may be. There are literally hundreds of kinds jof scale insects, but only a few are (Teally & menace to the gardener. The San Jose is probably the most danger- ous scale insect in this locality and occurs commonly on cherries, plums, imes actually covering the entire sur- Hace of young wood with encrustation g properties, and | is probably the safest material for the n m: ‘Trees or prayed thoroughly at this season and again in early March may be cleaned of injurious scale insects and put in a position to resume normal, 'vigorous growth. Lime sulphur may be pur- chased from suburban hardware siores or from large seed houses in the city. ‘The packages are carefully labeled, with siirections relative to dilution. ducted for the past several years by the Washington Operative Association have attracted the atten- tion of the Department of Commerce, which is planning to promote national- Iy a suggested plan for dstermining vacancies. Two experts of the building and hous- several years studying the cacti of our | Southwest. GARDEN CLUBS Co-operative purchasers in the Ta- koma Horticultural Club bulb order have been busy of late getting their bulbs into the ground and have been favorea with good weather and easily worked sofl. Literally thousands of tulip ana other Spring flowering bulbs are addea each year to local gardens through the liberal provisions of this money-saving order. 'If the club rendered its mem- bers no other service it would ampiy repay for membership dues in this one Commerce have been assigned to make a personal study of the methods fcl- lowed by the local operative builders in thelr annual apartment vacancy survey, now being made. Robinson Newcomb, economist, and J. R. Riggleman, senior economist, of the Federal bureau, have accompenied Builders' | ing division of the Department of | Rufus S. Lusk, sccretary of the local | |1s & highly esteemed fruit. Harvest time. | for, a worthy reward for the industry of the gardener. partment of Agriculture. Some of the products of the home garden that is well cared purchase alone. This year the managw= ment of this sizable order has been under the direction of L. W. Kepharc of 226 Maple avenue, Takoma Park. L. M. Clarke was re-elected president of fhe Woodridge Garden Club at the regular meeting held November 4, an | honor well deserved and guaranteeing ‘nnnther successful year for this wide- awake club. Other officers include A. | L. Foster, vice president; Miss Flor- | ence E. Tinker, recording secretary; A. R. Hester, corresponding secretary, and a t c Photo by courtesy De- E markets as means of transportation and handling are improved. Among these are the pomegranate, not new by | any means, but rarely as numerous as the present season, when they have been offered freely and at reasonable prices In the old world the pomegranate has been cultivated since ancient times and In_this country the pomegranate is more or less of a curlosity and may always remain such on account of the many other more useful fruits, such as the apple, orange, banana, pear and grape. Tt pomegranate is, according to Bailey “Cyclopedia of Hortlculture,” grown commercially in Florida, 'Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia and other southern states and_survives out of doors as far North as the thirty-fifth degree of lati- tude except in certain extreme Winters. Farther north the pomegranate is grown as a greenhouse plant, there be- ing certain highly ornamental varieties useful only as show plants. The fruits of the pomegranate vary greatly in size according to variety, reaching the dimension of medium sized grapefruit in certain Asfatic kinds. giving the fruits & distinctly handsome dant juice. In the South the crushed acid drink called granadine, after the Latin name of the pomegranate, Punica granatum. H. 1. Goddard, treasurer. | "May the writer of this column take this opportunity of thanking those gar- builders property management offices of real estate concerns to see association, in visiting key local re gathered here in this su It s understood the Federal experts plan to incorporate ideas gathered from the local operators in proposing a na- ional method for the making of va- ancy surveys. The proposal is to foster a suggested uniform method of making such surveys. Vacancy surveys of comprehensive cope, with emphasis upon accuracy, made to show actual conditions as fo overbuilding _or underbuilding in_re- Tl den club peopie who have during the past year contributed information col | cerning the activities of their organi- 7ations? The garden clubs are doing an important service in spreading the gospel of better gardens and better gar- | Relative to stamped aluminum labels, {a friendly reader informs us that he has | located a place on Pennsylvania avenue | where there is a stamping machine and | dening practice among home owners, | that labels may be printed at the cost | especially among those to whom gar- | of & penny each. Fastened to the plant | dening is an_entirely new avocation. with copper wire, these aluminum labels | That this service is appreciated is evi- are extremely durable and easily read.|denced in the rapid increase in the This gardener has solved his labcl prob- | number of such clubs and the increased lem and wishes to pass on the informa- membership of those already estab- | tion to others. lished. | With a real killing frost on Novem-| Prof. D. V. Lumsden of the Depart- | ber 10, the growing season for almost | ment of Agriculture will present a lan- | all plants came to a close even in the | tern slide lecture on chrysanthemums | | more protected localities about the city. |before the National Capital Dahlia and Roses seem to have endured the cold | Iris Society at its regular meeting No- and also chrysanthemums of most vari- | vember 20 at the Carlton Hotel. Prof. eties, but it cannot be for very long even | Lumsden is one of the most popular for these hardier plants. | gardening lecturers in this section and Chrysanthemums are now sending up | may be counted on for an entertaining small plants from the rootstock. ~As |and instructive discussion, The hour is soon as the old tops have ceased flow- (8 p.m. ering they should be cut back to the | Following the lecture the nominating glound. Or if the new growth is en- ' committee, consisting of H. P. Simpson, dangered by careless walkers part of | Mrs. George Rutley, Mrs. J. E. Willett, the old stems may be left as a protec- | J. H. Kesecker and Dr. W. S. Benedict, tion. Some of the prolific varieties of | Will present its report and election of chrysanthemums produce several dozens | officers will take place. The present officers are Mrs. Edna Reinohl, presi- dent, and Mrs. M. L. Payne, secretary. Miss Laura A. 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