Evening Star Newspaper, June 21, 1931, Page 44

THE HOME GARDENER Practical and Seasonal Hints for the Amateur for Beautifying Surround.ingl of the Home. PLANT MARKERS One problem that gardeners have never solved is that of the best marker for labeling plants, especially herbaceous | plants that die back to the ground each ! Autumn. Tree marking has been quite) weil sclved, starped 2luminum labels| attached with copper wire or brass nails having proved very satisfactory. These labels may be fastened to wooden stakes and thus used for marking small plants, but the troubl> comes wn:n the stake, rots off at the base and is knocked over | and perhaps moved out of place. Som of the members of the Takoma Hortl. cultural Club use a “I" shape ga! vanized labzl, the upright arm of which is thrust into the soil and the cross, arm for writing upon. Such a label| has much in its favor; it does not deca: mor readily rust, it is relatively inten- | spicuous and when not in use takes up relatively little space for storage. | Labeling piants does not especially | interest the home owner with a few £pecies or varieties of plants, but for the | gardener to whom variety testing is | rather a hobby, correct and permansnt | labeling is of great concern. It is very | easy, indeed, to let a name slip out of | the mind and is altogether exasperating. i Hence many gardeners are willing 10 | 80 to considerable trouble and expense | to mark their plants clearly and' durably. | | THE CHERRIES | | ‘This has been a fine crop year for | cherriss, both sweet and sour varieties, and goes to show that more cherries might very well be grown by local home gardeners. A considerable poition of | the sweet cherries grown in the coun- try appears to consist of seedlings which have probably been distributed by birds. | It is unfortunate that some of the finer | varieties should not replace these small | BY.J. W. WELLINGTON. The two small trees in the foreground are crape myrtles as grown in the Scuthern States. In this vicinity, crape myrtle is handled as a shrub, receiving a severe cutting back each Spring. Certainly from the viewpoint of the small | place it is more desirable to treat this species as a shrub. Photo by courtesy cf Extension Service, Department of Agriculture. Nothing attracts greater along the country roads at this season than the fragrance of the wild honey- suckle. The whole countryside seems permeated with the delightful odor. It attention | for tomatoes and sweet corn and at the same time not too warm for pe: Jettuce and cabbages. If moisturs con- ditions continue as favorable as they have been all Spring, this will be & splendid season for vegetables. How many gardeners grow Swiss chard? It is a very satisfactory crop for those who like spinach snd beei leaves. The fruited and rather mediocre seedlings. | i g strangs fact, but neiertheless {rue, | Plants may be kept producing ail Sum- ‘Take for example the solid meated var- | that this plant is not a native to North |mer if only a few of the outer leaves | feties, such as Bing and Lambert, that America, but was introduced from East- | are taken off at a time. Now it | €rs in the outer suburbs who also keep | These large (is so much at home here that no one | poultry, will find that chard is highly | come in great quantities from Oregon, | ‘Washington and Idaho. fruited cherries deserve a thorough trial in our home orchards. These two should not be planted singly or paired by themselves because their pollen is nei- ther self-fertile nor cross-fertile. Here is where the many seedlings now pres- ent will likely be of material help in supplying pollen for these better varie- ties. Windsor and Schmidt are two dark red cherries that have been tried in the East and found very desirable. Napoleon is a fine yellowish red cherry, but like Bing and Lambert requires cross-pollination. Gov. Wood is an- other good yellowish red cherry and Coe and Florence are good early varie- tizs of the same type, but are rather soft fleshed. Among sour cherries, Montmorency | ranks supreme both commercially and | for home gardens, but may be paired | with early Richmond for an earlier ripening variety. Pollination presents no problem with sour cherries, which is certainly a help. Sour cherries are less susceptible to brown rot and not S0 desired by birds as are the sweet cherrles, so it is small wonder that they are planted in preference to the sweet varieties, although the difference in eating quality rests entirely with the sweets. One factor that has been unfavorable to sweet cherry planting is the diffi- Em in getting trees to live. The large ern Asia for ornamental uses. would ever guess that it is a visitor or |relished by the birds and helps greatly perhaps better, an immigrant, because | (0 keep them producing during the | it is certainly here to stay. This honey- | SuTmer. suckle is generally seen in the common white and yellow flowered form, but now and then a pink-flowered plant|is not the least reason to think that| may be observed along the roadsides. The pink probably arises now and then as a mutant or sport from the common white. From the home gardener's standpoint. this trailing honeysuckle had far better be left along the counstryside. Intro- duced into the garden, it becomes a most persistent citizen. Every stem that lies on the ground roots readily at the | nodes, and before long one has a fight on his hands to eradicate the plant. This trailing honeysuckle is one of thoee beautiful plants that had better be ad- mired at a distance. In Virginia, the honeysuckle became such a pest in t sod-managed orchards that the Agri-| cultural Experiment Station ran a series of experiments on its control and some years ago published a bulletin on the results of the study. Certain sprays were found that gave fairly good con- trol of this plant pest. After all, the botanist who described a weed as a plant out of place was not far from the | truth. | honeysuckle should not be is in the home garden or along its fences. And one place that the wild | To datz bean beetles do not seem to have put in their appearance, but there they will not arrive. One can poison Mexican tean beetles with magnesium arsenate or kill them with pyrethrum preparations, several of which are now sold under trade names. For the home garden there 1s much to be said for the pyrethrum materials, chiefly that such are non-poisonous to humans. Not that there is much danger from mag- nesium arsenate, as very little material will be found on the beans proper; but nevertheless the use of so-called plant | poisons such as pyrethrum removes all hazard. Another troublesome insect, the asparagus beetle, can do & lot of he | Injury to the young follage in a day or s0. This pest strips all the green layer from the leaves and stems and thereby kills the plant. Dusting with arsenate of lead powder alone or mixed half and half with hydrated lime wlil save the asparagus from this pest. Advocates of mulches and scraping have much to say for these systems of | culture but nothing will start young plants into growth any more rapidly than tillage, not deep tillage but keep- | ing the surface broken, especially near th2 plants. Tillage hastens the de- composition of manures in the soil and Thos> garden- | and offset by lying sufficient Bitrehts e PANSIES FROM SEED is time that seed was being pur- m for next Spring’s p-a-y e{:g good pansy seed costs rather high, but if one wan!: large flowers with fine colors it &u{?‘ well to buy good stock. The col ime is a good piace to sow pansy seed, in fact to because here the plants can be pro- tected from the intense sun and can be more easily watered without suffer- injury from heavy downpours. y seed germinates rather slowly and the little plants grow slowly at first so that very shortly now seed may be sown to advantage, GARDEN ITEMS Coreopsis, pyrethrum, hardy pinks and other herbaceous perennials are mighty efficlent flowering plants, but need a certaln amount of care to be really worth while. All these plants will practically destroy themselves by crowding if not separated every two or three years. The golden flowered coreopsis is a conspicuous feature in many gardens at the present time and helps very nicelv to fill in between .the really Spring flowers and the Sum- mer annuals. Brown rot is taking a heavy toll of the sweet cherry crop where any frult has been left by the rapacious robins and catbirds. The rather moist weather has been very favorable to the development of brown rot and mildews. Brown rot is controllable by spraying cherries immediaitely after the shucks fall and perhaps egain 10 days later if weather is moist with a mixture made up of one quart’ of commercial lquid lime sulphur and three ounces of powdered lead arsenate to 50 quarts of water. Of course, it is rather late to be discuseing the control of brown rot on cherries, but it is well to know that there is a remedy. Lead arsenate should always be made into a thin raste ore it is added to the mixture. If lead arsenate is not used in combi- | nations with lime sulphur or Bordeaux | mixture, a small amount of hydrated |lime should be added to neutralize any soluable arsenic that mey be pres- | ent and which may injure the foliage. Newly set plants which tend to turn yellow and make but little growth | chould be fertilized with a little ni-| trate of soda or ammonium sulphate or sow any kind of perennial flower seed |Tnig THE GARDEN CLUBS The Takoma Horticultural Club, un- der the leadership of Winn T. Sim- mons, 518 Aspen street, is now making u» its Spring bulb order. This co- operative purchase actually saves the membership several hundreds of dollars each year and, what is perhaps even more important, stimulates the plant- ing of bulbs throughout the suburb. year hyacinths have been greatly reduced in price and it is to be ho) will be planted in greater quantity. The bulbs are Kurchued from a Hol- land firm, which packs each individual order separately, thus reducing the chances of mixtures to a minimum and at the same time giving each member first class bulbs. Other local clubs, in- cluding the Montgomery Suburban Garden Club and the Woodridge Gar- den Club, carry on a similar service for the members, thus offering a strong inducement to<home owners to affiliate With their lectures, shows and co-op- erative buying, the garden clubs are rendering very useful service, a fact that is best evidenced in the rapidly increasing membership in those clubs ! which are not restricted. At the last mesting of the Takoma Horticultural Club, a total of 14 new members were voted in. This is not mushroom growth since this club is over 10 years old. It would almost seem that each suburban community about the city could very advan sly support a garden club. ‘The ttsville Horticultural Soclety won the second leg of The Evening Star ufghy this Spring in the face of rather stiff competition from clubs with much larger membership, but it is safe to say that the fight for possession will be renewed even more earnestly than ever next Spring, since one more win would give Hyattsville permanent pos- |session. ‘This trophy seems to have well fulfilled its purpose in stimulating | competition and incidentally finer |shows. And as for the trophy itself, it is well worthy of the effort. The Community Garden Club of "Crape Myrtle, 75¢ Blue Spruce, 2 ft., reduced to $5 Blue Spruce, 1 ft., $1 Barberry, 7 for $1 7 Blue Spruce for $1 (seedlings) MARYLAND NURSERY Edmonston (East Hyattsville) Open_Week Da: undays after 1:30 Chrysanthemums HARDY even a high-grade mixed material. However, none of these substances | | should be brought in touch with leaves | or stems. | The Madonna lly is now in full | bloom or completing bloom in local | |gardens. The flowers are pure snow | | white, very fragrant and borne on long | stems, and it is no wonder that this| fl‘ncm ranks very high as a garden | | This is the best time of the whole | | year to move and plant iris, and never | | before have superb varieties been as| | reasonably priced as at present. | | The old foliage of the tulips, narcis- | sus and hyacinths should be gathered up and destroyed or else added to the | | compost heap, where it may thoroughly |decay. It is rather inviting disease to | let the leaves lie and rot where they |fall and furthermore altogether un- | sightly. | One garden writer ridicules the pres- | ent-day tendency toward rock gardens, a few Alpine weeds scattered thereon, or | romething to that effect, and_suggests | that the fad will soon pass. This may | be true in many cases where the effort has been rather feeble, but there are many wonderful rock ' gardens about | the city that will endure as long es the rest of the garden. | ‘Washington, midway between | speaking of them as piles of rock with | EXHIRITION g FLANTS §1.25 FOR (N LR ot (2% S Flowers measure inches in diameter. FLOWER SHOW PRIZE WINNERS PLANT JUNE BLOOM THIS FALL 1 Glory of Seven Oaks 1 Old Lavender (Lavend: 1 Quaker Maid (White) 1 Indian Summer_(Bronze) 1 Autumn Glow (Rosy-Red) 1 Unaka (Lavender-Pink) 1 Honey Dew. 1 Bunglow (Golden Yellow) Planting directions with each order. v (Yellow) ler) The FISCHER NURSERIES Evergreen Dept. 11 EASTON, PA. Add 25¢ for Packing and Postage Tree Surgery ped | €T, which each con(iu Rockville was entertaified 'T. Elmore of Alta Vista and ery. - As was the display was held on Mrs. clous u judges, aft- a tour of the rden and pool as follows: ret Lancaster, president Na- tional Capital Federation of Garden Clubs, discussed rock plants and gar- dening with those who elected to join this pa~ticular group; Prof. David Lums- Effa Blanche Lingerie Exclusive with Jellefl’s . . . panties, dance se and chemises, gowns and pajamas. $3 to $16.50 - Jellef’'s Grey Shops— Second Floor the S ‘question —_— Experts declare that the unopened parachute found recently by fishermen on the beach at Marina Pisa, Italy, be- longed to the machine in which Col. Maddaiena, the famous Italian fiyer, who, with two cowmpariions, crashed to his death on March 19. THE NeEW Heffs 1216-1220 F Street N.W. ARLINGTON PLANS 0.K’D L $51,807 Improvements to Include Administration Building. Quartermaster Gen. De Witt, who has Jurisdiction over the Arlington National Cemetery, has approved for con- . structi the E lon on rueru'fg’?:fmld 3 ‘cottage” for the superintendent, a helux plant, greenhouse and ting lou“lueut of t.')l.:O'l'Tut contract for construetion cottage has been given 1o Keenun'n Graves, Charlottesville, Va., whose bid was $11,937. The contract for con- struction of the other structures went T. Turner of tbis cit; ol $39,870. g b Lentheric Eau de Cologne For that refreshing dash of Ce on & warm day, this cool, lovely lo- tion. $1 and $1.50 Jelleg’s Toilet Goods Section—Street Floor These are the Dresses that are selling so freely in our Salon Gown Shop Here one gets today the fashions of the moment for going away, for roof din- ‘ing, for spectator sports wear, for dancing in such materials as one would scarcely have dreamed of before at any- thing like these prices! A Jacket Frock for little women For town wear, this crepe shantung . . . yellow with a stunning twig print in black .+ . with a hip length jacket to match. A Lace Frock for women A white dinner gown of Spanish lace, with a soft cape col- lar that forms shoul- der sleeves . . . a low laced peplum and s 1l circular skirt. edged A Dance Frock for misses An enchanting frock of white mousseline de whose wide swirling skirt, brief bolero and peplum are with minute pleats. sole Sheer, Cool Black for misses A two-plece tailored chiffon, with a soft Jjabot neckline, a wide crush belt of patent leather and a full pleated skirt. B generally supplied by nur- serymen do not seem easily transplanted, but it is belleved that with younger trees and better methods of handling the trees in the storage cellars success ‘will soon be more certain. the in a way tends to decrease soil fertility North and South as concerns garden- | rapldly, but after all the intensive |ing, boasts many semi-tropical or at| garden 'is supposed to be liberally fertil- | least essentially non-hardy plants, for | ized and kept in a high state of action | example, figs, the crape myrtle, the | and the loss of fertility must be ex-' deodar cedar and trifoliate orange. | Rates as low as is consistent with first class service. Clarendor? 500 Ballston, Va. l VEGETABLE GARDEN | All kinds of plants have grown nicely during the last few weeks, warm enough We are glad to park your car while you shop with us! THE NEW elleffs 1216-1220 F Street N.W. Just had to see what we could do— and here’s the result! An Imported Print for women for misses For spectator sports, this white crepe, with the smart diagonals in fagotting, and the collar that ends in a scarf on one side. $39.50 ne More Chance! Especially lovely is this im- ported Patou print in green, with its one-sided jabot, fitted hipline and straight pleated skirt. $49.50 Jellef’s Salon Gowns—Second Floor Nothing will ever take the place of . . . White Buckskin for Sportswear $10 White buckskin remains serenely fashionable through many waves of shoe fads. It is cool, cleans easily . . . and this Summer especially is the perfect complement to an all- white costume. Taking nearly 200 coats from our own stocks to achieve this result and give you the sale that you evidently simply must have! "300 == 8$39.50 and $849.50 300 -- $25.00 and $29.50 COATS, . COATS, $ o For women., misses lQ. For women, misses ° o 2 ) and junior misses and junior misses About 100 of these coats are fur-trimmed dress coats with collars of squirrel, fitch, kid galyak and broadtail in the popular blacks and blues—furless dress coats come next in spongy woolen fabrics—the season’s smart flared models with scarf and jabot collars or collarless—silk coats lined and unlined: in black, brown, and skipper blue—and then the sports coats in black and white, blues, greens, tans and browns—all silk crepe lined and belted—and, for the first time this season, polo coats, silk lined, in tan and eggshell, single and double breasted—patch pockets and belts —and with the fashionable upstanding collars—alto- gether coats that you should make short work of. Right, for spectator oxford of buckskin, ports, a one-strap with brown or mv«yl of an For Luxurious Summer Baths . .. Elizabeth Arden’s Bath Preparations Do you know how to make your Summer bath a refreshing relaxation? Add a handful of Elizabeth Arden’s pulverized bath salts, which you may have in four fragrant odeurs . . . rose geranium, allamanda, pine and amber . . . and after you bathe, pat on a puffful of Arden dusting powder to leave your skin cool and moisture free. “The bath crystals, $5 . . . the dusting powder; $3. . Jellef's Elizabeth Ardem Section—Street Floor No need for us to say more—except that these are the smart fashions of the Spring—the coats you saw at these prices earlier. Ermine, fox, squirrel, broadtail, and kid galyak trim the dress coats of spongv wool- ens—and most of them are black—others in blue, green, tan and brown—silk coats with ermine, squir- rel and galyak—furless dress coats in smart tailored styles and sports coats in imported and domestic tweeds with the wanted black and white and brown and white predominating—also tans, blue and green mixtures—most wanted of coats—and at such a price —every coat silk lined—many with hand tailoring. Sale beginning tomorrow, Monday morning, Third Floor