Evening Star Newspaper, June 1, 1930, Page 38

THE HOME GARDENER Practical and Seasonal Hints for the Amateur for Beautifying Surroundings of the Home. ORIENTAL PEACH MOTH DAMAGE In recent vears much damage has | been done to peach trees and peach fruits by the so-called Oriental peach | moth, which was introduced into the | United States about 15 years ago and | has since spread over the eastern half | of the country. The manifestations of the trouble dead _terminals of BY J. W. WELLING' TON. e young shoots and large borings in the Tipe fruits. One gnight think that entomologists would have a comparatively easy time in developing ways and means of con- trol, but curious habits of the insect have so far baffled every effort. In the first place, the eggs are laid continuous- throughout the Summer so that there is a steady influx of worms. It would be necessary to spray every few | days to kill a large percentage of the eggs and such a program is obviously | impractical. In the second place, the | g worm has the curious habit of | iting off the outer bark or skin with- | out eating it. Hence any poison on| the outer surface is not effective. One | entomologist coated peaches with ar- | senic and despite this many of the| worms entered the fruit without injury | to_themselves. | Some success was secured by culti- wating the soil under the trees about a week before the peaches bloomed, but since part of the Wintering larvae were | on the tree and part on the soil only al results were secured. To date, | for controlling this pest lies in | natural enemies, such as smaller insects which prey on the Oriental peach moth. Investigators noticed that .in-| was greatest the second year after the moth appeared in any given local- | ity and that the damage gradually les- sened thereafter. Meanwhile entomologists are work- | ing constantly to discover some effec- tive spray. Some day a satisfactory | means of control will likely be devel-| oped and then the Oriental peach moth may be listed with the conguered pesl.s‘ such as San Jose scale, the Colorado to beetle, and so forth. Until that m the home gardener will have to | more or less accept wormy peaches as | & necessary evil. G FRUIT Where plums and peaches set very thickly on the tree it pays to thin out the frult to stand four to six inches apart. This year frost did more or less thinning of its own accord and hand thinning may not be at all necessary. Plums in particular have a tendency o overbear one year and rest the next. The Japanese plums, such as Burbank, may set a crop so dense that fruits crowd each other all along the limbs, Such a condition means small fruit of Jow sugar content, also more wormy and decayed fruit. And what is more seri= ous, such heavy fruiting hurts the tree. Some records taken at the Canadiap ex- periment station showed that plum trees, the fruit of which was thinned, were much more resistant to Winter cold than unthinned trees. And again at the Michigan station measurements of the leaves and shoots of thinned and unthinned plum trees showed much stronger growth on thinned trees. ‘There is no doubt that thinning of | heavy fruit crops pays and nowhere | could the work be more profitable than | in the home grdzn where the direct | outlay for thinning would’ be little. | Thinning may be done at almost any | stage up to the time the stone or pit hardens, but preferably after the heavy, natural drop which is commonly called the June drop. GIRDLING OF FRUIT TREES DESCRIBED Tomato plants supported by a wire trellis and pruned to one main stem. Such a system of culture is ideal for the home garden, since more early fruit is secured and the fruit Is cleaner and brighter colored. Furthermore, the plants occupy considerably less area. —Photograph by courtesy of Department of Agriculture. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON., D. C = ey branches, Paul's Scarlet holds its color well and the flowers are extremely du- rable as compared with such quickly maturing kinds as Christine Wright and Climbing American Beauty. One fine climbing rose plant can do more to make a home attractive than almost | any other plant. Tulip follage is now ripening and | it will pay to dig the bulbs and lay them away in a dry, cool, dark place until September. Meanwhile their place may be taken by annuals such as salvia and zinnias, but before re- planting the soil should be spaded and fertilized with ground bone or other good fertilizer. Need of ample fer- tilizer is especially keen under a sys- tem of double cropping. Narclssus bulbs, on the other hand, should not be moved every year, mot until they begin to crowd themselves, about once every three or four years for the more vigorous varieties such as Emperor. The June or May beetle is not gen- erally considered a harmful garden in- sect, but is nevertheless’ The May beetle does its evil work under the soil, eating roots of strawberry plants, grass, etc., and thus hides the fact that it is a pest. The only hazard of the full grown flying form is that it lays the eggs for future generations. As a rule, the May beetle is bothersome only in freshly turned sod land and in the older gardens does little damage. Edwin C. Powell, president, was the | principal speaker at the May meeting of the Takoma Horticultural Club, held Monday evening at the Takoma Park branch of the Public Library. Mr. Powell discussed the vwarious types of bulbs that may be imported from Hol- 1and® gardens, seeking to create interest in some of the less common forms such as the snowdrop, Winter aconite, scilla, frittilaria and chiondoxia. By virtue of the early blooming quality of the snowdrop and late blooming character of the chrysanthemum, Mr. Powell suc- ceeds in having some flower in bloom every month of the entire year. Fol- lowing the talk, Mr. Powell presented | a series of lantern slide views of bulb Apple and pear trees that are of age | plantings and of individual lily plants and refuse to bloom may be forced into | bearing by removing a ring of bnrkl‘ from the trunk at this season of the year. The bark slips easily from the of various species. The Takoma Horticultural Club rose show was held Tuesday and Wednesday at the local branch of the Public Li- wood at this time, it being simply nec- prary. The committee in charge con- to make two parallel cuts with a sharp knife and lift out the enclosed | Mrs. H 1. Houston, Mrs. H. E. Ewing, | > ¢ D 'bark. "The ring should be about | 11, W, Wamner and F' J. Hopktas. i | Members of New York Btate So one inch in width. Cutting out this bark does not cut off the water supply, but does impede the downward passage | of sugars and other materials mace in | the leaves. The theory is that follow ing girdling these sugars accumulate in | has arranged for a series of prizes to bers of the New York State Society of the top and the excess of nutriments causes part of the leaf buds to develop into flower buds. Later in the Summer the wound heals over and normal food | den bench, donated my Philip Schladt,| man of the dinner-dance committee, | movement occurs. | ‘That the treatment works is attest- | ed by its commercial use by fruit grow: ers in the case of filler trees which are slow in fruiting. By filler trees we mean those set in between the perma. nent trees with the idea of returning an early profit and then to be cut out. Many home orchards have been set too closely and also have these filler trees, ‘which, rather than being cut down im- mediately, might be girdled in an at- | tempt to grow at least one good crop. Girdling permanent trees may not be visable because of possible injury, | although it has been done without damage. | STRAWBERRY BE The question of whether to keep the strawberry bed more than one fruiting season often bothers the home gardener | who naturally dislikes to abandon an | enterprise which has represented 8o | much painstaking effort. Yet under | sisted of L. W. Kephart, chairman ppeal of the rose was attested in the fine attendance and keen interest dis- played by visitors. The Potomac Palisades Garden Club be awarded owners of the best kept yards in the community. The first prize will be & very artistic stone gar- one of the most active of the club mem bers. The polnts upon which selection | will be based are arrangement of the grounds, plantings and general care. The Potomac Palisades Club is making lans for a gladiolus show in early Autumn and, as a means of stimulating interest, distributed lists of inexpensive but desirable varieties at the flower show held Tuesda; ‘The Montgomery Suburban Garden Club, fresh from its victory at the National Capital Dahlia and Iris S8how at the Botanic Garden, staged a fine show of its own last evening at the Somerset School. The show had more than local interest, because the Ameri- can Peony Soclety *had selected the Montgomery Club as its representative in this section this year, and made awards of silver and bronze medals for best exhibits of peonies. The Mont- gomery Suburban Garden Club has made a remarkable record for itself, just a year old and containing more than 200 active members and a body of offi- cers which works unceasingly to put day, the following prizes and awards were made: The grand sweepstake prize for the greatest number of awards, Mrs. Her. man Hollereth; sweepstake prize for the greatest number of exhibits, Miss Katherine Weaver. Miss Weaver also won a blue ribbon for the best flower in the show, a huge pink rose. Mrs, Charles G. Warden won a blue | ribbon for a Radiance rose, as did Mrs. Hollereth. Mrs. Wingrove Bathon won a blue ribbon for a Red Radiance, and also another blue for a hybrid-perpet- ual pink rose, “Mrs. John Laing.” Mrs. Edmund Talcott won a red ribbon in the rose exhibit, as did also Miss Bent- ley and Mrs. J. B. Wyckoff. Mrs. William Leetch won a blue ribbon for the best arrangement of roses, Mrs. Wallace Radcliffe was the win- ner of a blue in a long spray of climb- ing roses. Mrs. L. B. Wright, president of the club, won the blue ribbon in the ar- rangement of flowers; Miss Katherine A. Dougdl the red ribbon and Mrs. T. .gmney Brown the yellow in the same ass. Miss Eva Gilbert won several prizes for iris, as did also Miss F. M. Gilbert and Miss Lucia Hollereth. In the peony class winners included Mrs. Hollereth and Mrs, Heidrick. Mrs. Thomas Bradley won a ribbon with a styrax japonica shrub. Others captur- ing awards were Mrs. Louis Mackall, Mrs. Southgate, Mrs. Balthasar Meyer, Miss Margaret Weaver and Mrs. Blake Gordon. ‘The miniature gardens. made by the school children were particularly inter- esting and prizes were awarded to Milli- cent Graef, Marjorie Nance and Angus Swink in the crder of their names. | Hugh Downing also won a first prize | for his garden and Gaston Jacobs won a red ribbon. Honorable mention was given Alta Weston, Tom Plummer, Sid- ney Boteler, Louise Gordon, Robert ‘Wood and William Williams. A display of various varieties of flowers was sent from the gardens at The Oaks, the estate of the Ambas- | sador to the Argentine, Robert Woods Bliss, but was not entered in competi- tion with the other exhibits. Judges at this show were Fur- man Lloyd Mulford, Dr. Earl B. White, Mrs. Duncan Brent of Buxton, Md.; Mrs. Floyd Harris of Aldie, V: Mrs, Clinton Ward and Miss Margaret Lan- caster. PLAN DINNER DANCE | ciety Arrange for Event June 11. | Preparation_of _plans for a dinner | | dance at the Willard Hotel Wednesday, | | June 11, is being undertaken by mem- Washington. A program of entertain. ment is_being- arranged. William A. Carr of 2551 Seventeenth street, chair- has charge of reservations. Bullfight Fan's Mistake. LIMA, Peru, May 31 (#)—A bull- | fiight fan is losing some of his enthu- siasm in a hospital. He jumped into the ring and tried to help the toreador. The | bull disliked the intrusion and expressed himself with his horns. i ‘Harrow Weald, England, has banned| | the fllumination of streets all night. | | FARM AND GARDEN. | E a e Summer [ Garden | Best Strains and | Varieties. Most | Rs)| Attractive, Blooms. 1 >} Cut Flowers All Summer 1930—PART TWO DRAMA GUILD CAST REHEARSES FOR PLAY Community Group to Present| Shakespeare's “The Tempest” at Sylvan Theater June 19-20. ‘The cast drawn by the Community Drama Guild for the presentation June 19 and 20 of Shakespeare’s play “The ‘Tempest” are in daily rehearsal under the direction of Marie Moore Forrest, executive secretary of the guild, who is being assisted by Prof. Will Hutchin: head of the School of Art in America: University. The play is to be presented at the Sylvan Theater in the Monument Grounds. ‘The Drama Guild has assembled a corps of expert players for two per- formances, each player having been chosen for his experience in Shake- spearean drama on outdoor stages. Leading drama groups will be represent- ed in the personnel, including the Arts Club, Shakespeare Society, Washington Readers’ Club, Columbia Piayers, Amer- ican and George Washington Uni- versities, the Pierce Hall Players, East Washington Community Players, The Playmakers, the Woodlothjans, and League of American Pen Women. The music for the two performances will be played by the orchestra of the United States Marine Band, under direction of Capt. Taylor Branson. Among those already chosen for the cast are Laura Barrett, Mirlam Bangs Hilton, Anne Ives, Flora McGill Keefer, Paul Alexander, H. R. Baukhage, ‘Thomas Cahill, Robert D. Chase, Denis E. Connell, Robert A. Halsted, Maurice H. Jarvis, Robert Miller, James Otis Porter, Walter Thorne, Harry Walker, Arthur White and Eldred Wilson. KNITTING V;IORK ASKED Socks and Swenters Sought for Sol- diers in Hospitals. A plea for additional volunteer workers to knit men’s socks and sweat- ers has been issued by the production department of the District of Columbia Chapter, American Red Cross, through its director, Mrs. Harry C. Barnes. In making this request, the department explains that there is a continuous de- mand for these articles of wearing ap- parel for soldiers who are still in hos- pitals. Material and directions are furnished free at the headquarters of the local chapter, 1730 E street. That Extra Pair of Glasses —may be the means of saving you the disap- pointment of delaying your vacation trip, due to an accident to your glasses. Insure yourself a pleasurable trip. Come in for a scientific eye examination before you g0 away. Have Your Eyes Examined! The ‘“Berkleigh” $5.50 —A high bridge frame— engraved or plain—with straight or curved temples. Oculist Prescriptions Filled Use Your Charge Account Street Floor. a. Penna. 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Such a system of renovation | is & compromise between a new | and retaining the old and will give much better results than simply hold- ing the old bed as it is. The most sat-| isfactory and perhaps easiest way of | all is to start an entirely new bed each April Aquilegia or columbine makes & very | satisfactory member of the perennial border. The long spurred types of this | highly variable flower are particularly attractive but appear less permanent | and vigorous than the short spurred forms. In fact.-if one starts with a stock of long spur plants and allows them to self seed, he will find that the Jong spur kinds will gradually disap- pear, giving way to ths more primitive types. The columbine blossoms in the period between the tullp and the iris and helps maintajn a succession of bloom. This is a favorable time to lift hardy primuls plants and divide them, re- setting them along the walks where they will make a fine show of color early next Spring. Seed saved from the old plants will give Jise to new and attractive colors, Paul's Scarlet Climber is a lovely deep red climbing rose and has the added value of not being a rampant Botanic _Garden, shows have been staged by the Arlington, Burleith, Georgetown, Woodridge, Potomac Pali- sades, Montgomery Suburban, Linthi- cum Heights and Takoma garden clubs, record is at hand. Such widespread ac- are greatly interested in ornamental d | gardening and in the friendly competi- tion of the garden show. At the Georgetown Garden Club flower show, held Wednesday and Thurs- " FARM AND GARDEN. Blooming and last forever. Flowers measure We ship during Ju The Entire Selection grower. It is more of a pillar type and does not present the control prob- lem that do some of the true climbers ! . 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