Evening Star Newspaper, May 7, 1933, Page 24

THE HOME GARDENER Practical and Scasonal Hints for the Amateur for Beantifying Surroundings of the Home. | DAHLIA PROPAGATION The dahlia has come to be recognized in this locality as a desirable late Au- tumn plant, but of little value in Sum- mer because of its inability to cope with dry soil and heat. Hence many grow- ers do not plant their tubers until after June 1, so that they will not reach flowering until after cool weather re- turns. This delayed planting makes it necessary to watch th2 old roots rather carefully that they do not sprout too badly. It is advisable to remove the roots from their Winter packing and ta spread them out shallowly in a cool, dry location, thus decreasing opportu- nity for decay and heating. Observation will show buds starting at the base of the old stem and not on the tubers themselves, hence in cut- ting apart the old clump it b:comes necessary to leave attached to each tuber a plece of the old stem with a bud. Some growers have learned how to cut the clumps apart in Autumn with considerable safety, but for the amateur it is almost necessary to wait until the buds develop in Spring. The size of the tuber seems to make little difference in the siza of the new plaot In fact, valuable new varieties are often increased by cuttings of the rew green sthoots. The dahlia pos- sesscs a strong capacity for growth once the new roots contact the soi! and soon develops into a vigorous plant if given | abundant nutrients and moisture. The inadvisability of replanting the wholq clump even though available is based on the fact that such send up s-veral shoots which compete with one another to the extent that none attains high| qQuality. PERENNIALS FROM SEED Splendid gardens of perennials can| be grown from seed at a very material | saving. The only drawback is that one | | who knows that they not onl BY J. W. WELLINGTON. clally so if a wheel hoe is used. Straight rows in the ves:uble garden are & delight to the skilled gardener, y look neater, but ere an aid in cuitivation, espe- 3 This gurdener is using the tip of the hoe | handle to open furrows for a small seeded crop, such as beets or ca (Photegraph by Courtesy of the United States Department of rrots. Agriculture.) GARDEN NOTE Irls will soon be in its glory again | in local gardens. It is one of our most satisfactory perennials because of its simple cultural needs and ease of prop- agation. Those interested in its culture might very well secure a copy of Farm- ers’ Bulletin No. 1406, written by B. Y. Morrison and published by the| United States Department of Agricul- must wait until the second year in most | cases to reap the harvest of bloom. Canterbury bells, delphiniums, Orifental oppies, sweet William, gaillardia, holly- | Bocks, primulas and pyrethrums are among the desirable species that may be secured in this inexpenaive manner. It is advisable to plant the seed in Midsummer and to set out the small plants in their permanent position in | Autumn. However, unless one has fa- cilities for abundant watering, Summer is usually too dry in this region to get the seeds started. and it seems more advisable to sow the seed about the middle of May or in early June in this Jocality. Perennisls grow rather slowly the first year at the best and cannot be expected to attain flowering size. A mnovel way of increasing \olu.- hl);‘ lantings is to secure seed. One of Durlarge seed companies offers seed of Lilium concolor. L. auratum, L. longi- florum, L. henryi, L. aurstum, L. specio- sum magnificum, L. Wilmottiae and the ' Shelburne hybrid, with recammenda- tions that they can be grown in the home garden. ~Several local gardeners have grown the regal lily from seed, and have increased the tiger lily by sowing the little bulbils produced in the axis of the leaf. Many of the species of iris, such s Iris gracilepes. I. brac- teata. I graminea. I tenax and I xiphioides, may also be propagated from seed. | If one wishes to grow woody plants | such as mountain laurel. azalea calen- | dulacea. azalea vaseyi, holly and cer- tain rhododendrons, it is possible to produce them from seed if grown in| Totted leaf mold or untreated peat moss. ; I FENCE COVER | There are several plants that are very useful for covering unsightly fences or ut least for concealing them from view. For an anunual, the castor oil bean, Ricinus, makes a rapld grewth when sown about the time lima beans can be safely planted. Hollyhocks are excellent but require two years' growth Yrom seed before attaining useful size. Warfous annual vines, such as the scar- | let runner bean and cobmes and even the lima bean make satisfactory cov- ers if given wire support. For a permanent cover, where one is also Interested in fruit, the ordinary | ‘varieties of grape, such as Niagara and | Concord, make & dense mass of folluge and at the same time rrward the | gardener with delicious fruit. For the | rural fence, the climbing honeysuckle ffers a cheap and effective cover aut one would not care to introduce this Jvigorous specles Into the urban Brounds. It is too vigorous and ccm- petitive. Climbing roses are good fence | covers but are difficult to handle be- | cause of their thorns. Cool nights and an excess of cold fains have delayed the progress of local | vegetable gardens except for some of Uhe hardiest species such as spinach, = and radishes. It is now so late hat when it does warm up all vege- tables, including the Summer types, such as sweet corn, tomatoes and beans of various kinds may be safely planted. This is really one of the rare seasons when one would be just about s far wiong if all planting had been delayed tntil now. Since the quality of most vegetables Is closely tied up with a rapid growth, it is well to provide a liberal supply | of plant food in the soil before plent- | Generally speaking the needs of the plants are best satisfed by the use | ©f an all around fertilizer, that is, one :mtunlnq the three principal elements, itrogen, phosphorous and potash. Such ‘materials are commonly known a gnixed fertilizer or sometimes simpl ‘tommercial fertilizer. For vegetables, | ® 5-8-4 mixture is none too concen- | rated when used at the rate of one | und per 40 square feet of soil. How- | ever, when the material is applied in the row the rate should be reduced by one-half to prevent too great concen- tration near the seed which should never be sown directly with the fer- | tilizer on account of a hasard to tne | germinating plantlet. A little sofl | drawn in the furrow below the seed will overcome this danger. | The question may arise concerning| the use of the new concentrated forms of fertilizer. So far as has been deter- mined, these are equally as useful as the usual mixtures when used in equiv- alent amounts. This simply means that here fertilizer test« 20 per cent of | 5 -sixth as much will do the work of a material testing only 5 r cent nitrogen. The use of high- t fertilizers may be rendered simpler by mixing with it a considerable quan- tity of dry soil or sand. Withal the vcommon mixed materials contain a | large proportion of inert substance in #ach uait, Concerning the planning wvegetable den, it is alwa ble to plant the tall-growing crops, such as sweet corn, pole beans and staked tomatoes, in one portion of the garden, and the low-growing specles, such as beets, carrots and parsnips, in ® group. This gives the low plants a place in the sun, 80 to speak, and al- ways gives the whole garden a better appearance. If one has only a small space available, radishes and lettuce | may be sown between the beans or beets, but as a rule this concentration is not desirable because it adds to the | difficulty of tilling the sofl and keeping down the weeds. In many gardens vegetable-growing wifl agein assume ,major importance this year, and as usual may be ex- § to grower who spends a reasonable amount of time 'c.nd care on this enterprise. : 4 | thedral avenue; ture. The roses and other flowers which are later to win prizes in local flower shows are now in the process of devel- opment and care should be given that insects and discases are not allowed to take their toll. The aphlids can be eesily removed with tobacco exwracts or pyre- | thrum soap and the black leaf spot | checked with sulphur arsenate dust or | with bordeaux mixture. The sulphur | dust may be made at home by thor- | cughly mixing nine parts of dusting sul- phur with one part of powdered arse- nuete of lead, or may be purchased in prepared form from various seed houses. | Ants constitute a serious pest in many | lawns and gardens and can be (‘l'ldh' cated if one locates the nests and pours | therein a (ablespoontul or so of carbon | bisuiphide. A hole should be opened | into the nest, the liquid poured in and | the opening then closed with soil. Neither the white nor the sweet po- tato are commonly grown from !ted.‘ and in this respect differ from most of the vegetables. The plants of sweet potato offered in the store have been pulled from roots which were bedded | in sand in hot beds or much further | South. The new climbing rose, Blage, a cross belween the well kuown varieties Paul Scarlet Ciimber and Gruss an Teplitz, is rapidly becoming popular because of its attractive scarlet color, ever-bloom- ing habit and vigorous growth. It ap- |dr pears destined to replace its worthy Paul Scarlet parent because of its freer flowering habiis. Blaze and the new | everblooming sport of Dr. W. Van| Fleet, known as Dawn, seem destined o of the way for an entire new of climbers. Probably some of our local garden club members took advantage of the | Tecent tour of old Virginia gardens. In these old-time gardens, there is much to be learned, especially in the way of establishing permanent plantings that will endure the test of time. - Introducing a, new subject in local garden club discussions, that.of viola culture, W. A. Wheeler at the recent meeling of the Takoma Horticultural Club created much interest in this rela- tively new plant--that is, new with re- spect to the new and ever blooming va- | retles but long present in our gardens | &s violets and pansies. ‘The new forms, unlike their better known relatives do not apparently mind the Sumumer sun and present & mass of color over a long period. W. R. Beattie's talk on the “Home Gard proved very helpful and was followed by many questions. ‘Ten gardens have been selected for the Palisades Garden pilgrimage, which is to take place on Saturday, May 13, from noon until 7 p.m. Tickets are available from C. A. Steves, 3127 Fifty- first plece. They include admission to all of the gardens. The gardens to be visited are those of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Stefmmer, 5319 Potomac aven: Philip Schladt, 5501 Potomac avenue: Mr. and Mrs. John Kreps, 5533 Potomac avenus Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Thring, 5517 Coi duit road; H. C. and C. W. Steves, 3127 Fifty-first street (off Cathedral avenue); Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Reed, 5028 Ca- Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Eennett.’ 5329 Conduit road; Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Lane, Conduit road: Mr. nd Mrs. Charles Sherrier, 5005 Conduit road: Miss Mary Lazenby, 2333 Ne- braska avenue. The regular monthly meeting of the Burleith Garden Club was held at the home of Mrs. Laurandi Marchetti; 1930 Thirty-eighth street, Thursday, April with the president, Mrs. C. L. ester, presidin Plans were e for a flower show to Towson’s Azaleas and Japanese Cherries Are Now in Full Bloom A visit to see this gorgeous exhibition is a lasting memory Towson Nurseries, Inc. York Road Towson, Maryland 7 Miles North of Baltimore SaysHerHusband - Lost 16 Pounds In 4 Weeks e mever found s m : rm: Wathineion, DG (December To lose fat and at the same time| ‘flln in Inlcu attractiveness and eel spirited and youthful take one-| half teaspoonful of Kruschen in a glass of hot water before breakfast every morning. A jar that lasts ¢ weeks costs but 'a trifle at eny drug store in the' | world, but be sure and get Kruschen | £alts, the SAFE way to reducs wide ‘\mup u be held late this month. An effort is being made to improve the attendance of the club. The n montizly meeting will bs with Mrs. Emily Coombs, 3803 T street Mgs. T. A. Huntley was hostess to the Washington Garden Club at & meeting {1ast Monday at her farm in Maryland. | The meeting was presided over by Mrs.| of money on & Lawrence Douglas, president. A paper n “Insects” was read by Mrs. Russell M. Kelley. Mrs. Douglas, who had re- cently visited Old Chatham in Fred- ericksburg, one of the most distin- guished and lovely of Virginia Colonial mansions, gave an interesting descrip- tion of its gardens. Mrs. T. Q. Law, chairman of the Pro- gram Commitiee, said that plans for the June meeting would be announced iater. FAIRY TALE REHEARSALS TO BE HELD THIS WEEK | Preparationé Are Being Made for Aunual Children's Festival of Community Center. Neighboorhood pre-views and final Tehearsals of the dramatizations of fairy tales to be presented in the an- nual Children's Festival of the Com- munity Center Department by boys and girls from all tectious of the city are to be held this week. The program will be staged Saturday afternocn at Central High School Audi- torium. It is designed as a demonstra- tion_of the work accomplished during the Winter by the children’s dance and na groups, and will include 14 epi- les, each one telling the siory of a ;' tale in dance and pantomime. | Each community center has arranged its own part of the program. Among the episodes to y Tale Te ill, “The “Legend of the Willow Plate” and “Legend of the Sun- flower. s hips,” prominent front and double | ichin and again feel the joy of| | living—money back if dissatisfied after the first -Advertisement. n- | Economic belligerency between coun- | tary and economic conference, are striving to effect a governmental international front against national governmental- fsm! In the explication of that para- dox lles the conference’s ultimate sig- nificance to the human race in this generation and in the next, The national governmentalism which will be attacl by the international monetary and economic conference be- *gins with tariff duties—and then goes on from there almost limit! 5 The first act of the new ultra-na- Germany the Jews. It ‘'was an arbitrary tation of im- ports of foreign vegetable fats for the manufacture of ine. It was foreign fats and to compel the eating of demestic butter. It was not accom- panied, however, by any relinquishment of endeavors to push domestic German ccmmw&diufx into (oreign countries as ex) Governmental Duplicity. In virtuslly every im t country in the world that chufi'fi?.pum, of governmental encouragement of trade with foreigners through exports and Traad with Torelgners (rotsh imports has reached now a peak ‘of tawa agreements, criminates againit im special patriotic duty to try to enlarge their exports of Canadian goods to all | At Washington | t we spend money on | ® Tariff Commission in order— | other things—to see to it that no dut- fabie foreign product shall enter our | country without being loaded with | tariff tax which ‘will deprive it of any inherent advantage which it may i | possess because of & lower foreign than | | American cost of production. At the | same time we spend large quantities Bureau of Foreign and | Domestic Commerce in order—among private energy in the invading | foreign markets with’ American goods | backed by Governmental as well as commercial super-salesmanship. Economic Aggression. | 1t 15 called tsolation. 1t is not sc- curately so called. The Japanese and | the Koreans throughout = protracted periods in the past were true isolation- ists. They permitted no imports, but they also permitted no exports. It was Policy perfectly consistent within observable in the recent history agriculture in the United States. rgarine. m!flmtodlmlnhhuwufluol“. ofimflflnn—tolddpubflcemmzh . itself and perfectly peaceful. To the and of education, there was left the | dublous houor of iuventing the idea of striving to capture the forelgn mar- ! ket and the foreign purse without allowing the foreigner to have a cor-| rezponding access to domestic pur- | | chasing power. That Idea is not | economic isolation. It is economic ag- | gression. It produces a universal| | economic war. | ‘When, at London in June, the slips of paper which contain the mappings of that war are passed about from | | hand to hand at the International | | monetary and economic conference table, the ghost of the Intergovern- | mental debts will begin to take body. | One of the most outstauding features | of those debts is that they add sup- plementary fuel to the flame of the | economic “war in which imports are { aruficlally contracted and exports are | artificially expanded through extreme governmentsl intervention. Once begun, that warfare, like all warfare, produces in each belligerent | country & mounting hostility to for- eigners and a mounting desire to erect a national econotic structure which | will stand securely unassailable far above the level of the storms of sup-| forelgn designs of conquest. | tries thereupon comes to its climax in| socialistic governmental aids and con- trols of industry and of agriculture within countries. ‘This development is spectacularly Western world, at its peak of sclence | économic conference of . The representatives of agriculture at Wash- ington, falling or neglecting to per- suade the Congress to lower whatever excessive tariff duties may ;h?n been and [fmore’ governmentalism, height | contending governmental treasuries. t should return home with a laugh of derision ||| Such | com. | posite picture of the economic inte | national belligerency and the national | | socalistic governmentalism which now | | are the sun and moon of our revolving | political planet. | Brastic Enterprise. | The international mouetary and| ¢ forelgners and wholly empty. voyages would be the ultimate is designed pre- clsely to try to take our planet into| another solar and lunar system. It fs | 8 drastic and perhaps impossible en- | tetprise. It is an enterprise which sets up an ideul directly and totally alien to | m‘ufnt prevailing practices. That | leal is the reduction of governmental- ' ism to & minimum and the restoration of free private e The ' Preparatory Commission of the International Monetary and Economic | Conference discussed in its report not | only the major questions of currencies and of tariff dutles but the question. | often thought minor, of shipping; and | it says: { “In the case of tion with direct or Indirect subsidies to na- tional mercantile marines snd premi- ums on nati ling. This has certainly contributed to- ward the creation and maintenance of & much greater tonnage than is re- quired by existing international trade. So that in many countries shipp! has become 8 burden on the national economy instead of a contribution to ! its prosperity. We agree with the meet- ing of ship owners recently held at the International Chamber of Commerce that it is impossible to return to sound | conditions in the shipping industry so | long as the uneconomic policy of gov- ernment subsidies continues.” No better proof than this quotation which world's governments = are meanwhile actually conducting their seprrate ‘national affairs. I do not at- tempt to deliver any conclusive Judg; ment between the rival merits of tl two topes, I only principally point out their contrariety.| One or the other must suffer a severe defeat at London. There the world will choose not only between more governmental- ism and less governmentalism in in- ternational monetary and economic relationships but between more Pv- ernmentalism and less goverrmentalism in the rela between citizén and citizen within each government’s purely natlonal jurisdiction. | And i intergovernmental debts which his lly caused the Confer- ence of Londen will share its fate. If at London the world chooses less gov- ernmentalism, the i.m:znvemmenul debts probably will gradually disappear in the swell of a preference for profit- able private trade. If, on the other hand, the world at London chooses the _inter- governmental debts probably will con- tinue actively to be a war cry between ARMY NEWS ‘Within the next several weeks, eight officers group five will assume new duty in the office of the Chief Signal Officer of the Army, viz: Capts. Garland C. Black, on duty at Fort Monmouth, N. J.; Louls | Cansler amd Henry L. P. King, both of Fort Leavenworth, Kans, and Lieuts. Alvin L. Pachynski, now in Panami and H. P. Roberts, on duty at Fort Monmouth, N. J. ‘The remaining officers District duties are: Capt. Willlam 8. Rumbough, ncw at Fort Bliss, will be- come a student at the Army War Col- | lege, while Capt. M. E. Gillette and Lieut. W. H. Wenstrom will both go to duty at the Signal Corps photographic lsboratory. Capt. Gillette is the second officer to receive instructicn in the FARM AND GARDEN. Spray Your Boxwood ||| Now to Control Leaf Miner _THE FORMAN & BILLER TREE EXPERT CO, Seatesen, bust Evere: Ao §% 5. postpain. £ piants Of cach §1.85 or 100 plauts of each §3 Book Free. 3ok Soke SRARTER FRON | YOUR OWN GAKDEN THIS | reme Jroy—" THE W. P 309 gtrawberry Ave Sali Dahlia Bargains Well-grown tubers in fine condition, With eye or sprout and ro broken ni . Bardara Redfcrn: large. old rose. gold. . Barbara Wear; pinkish lavender, i 'larve. bufi, oid woid, & st = s Califormian: bronzy ve, §2.25 value, for §1.00 Ra: mammoth, copper. orange, r 2 Vauderveer: e Eni Saiiny pink Eva Guadiln, e rich red. f 100 Giladiolus, mixed, names lost, $1.00 "HILKREST GARDENS 120 Clrrgll Avenue Takema Park, SHep. 1818 HY is it economical and prac- - tical to change spark plugs every 10,000 miles? What does this mean to you and your car’s performance? . Col. F. Langley Whitley, who has been on duty with the 24th In- fantry at Benning, Ga., arrived here for 10 days temporary duty in the office of the assistant chief of staff for military intelligence, prior to his em- barkation for Europe to become mili- tary attache to Yugoslavia, Rumania and Greece. Maj. Gen. Robert U. Patterson, Surgeon General of the Army, has adopted a new policy of training medi- cal officers of the Army, which will be- come effective at the beginning of the next school session at both the Army Medical Center, this city, and the Medical Fleld Service School, Carlisle Barracks, Pa. Under the old system, newly aj ited officers were sent to the professional schools located here at the Army Medical Center for a five- month course of professional train- ing, following the completion of which they were sent to Carlisle for a four~ month course in administration and fleld service. In the future all newly ppointed officers will be sent first to arlisle, where the course will be ex- - FARM AND GARDEN. tended to include Jects as aviation vary from three to eight years, the offi- cer will c'ome to Wi for the pu of une & post graduste rofessional course in order to keep imself abreast of the times in his pro- fession. The course, described as an all-around graduate professional P DR. FIELDNER TO SPEAK U. 8. Engineer Will Chemical Society. Dr. A. C. Fieldner, chief T of the experiment station division of the Bureau of Mines, will be the principal speaker at a meeting of the Chemical Soclety of Washington Thursday at 8 pm. at the University of Marylan: He will talk on “Evaluation of Chem! cal Odors and Their Use as Agents in Fuel Gases” A dinner be held at the university at 6:30 Address ~ CASH SALE Evergreens, Trees, Shrubs We Have 11, Drive out and take Million Plants on Our 600 Acres advantage of these pri. dug and wrapped in burlap ready for delivery. or over delivered in Washington and Every plant freshly Orders of $3.00 vicinity. All plants are Westcott’s fine quality, not second-grade material. Azaleas Many named varieties in bloom 40c up We also give an opportunity now to select from our seedlin colors alike). - From 12 in. to 3 ft., 40c up Americgn Arborvitae | Pink Dogwood 4.5 ft. 85¢ 4.5 ft. $1.35 Nerway Spruce m 2-3 ft. 65¢ $1.00 to $6.00 Colorado Spruce Red Bud 15-18 in. 95¢ 5-6 ft. 90c Lilacs * {3 Varieties 21/,-4 ft., 56c to 75¢ Many other varieties of evergreens, tre id shrubs are dug and ready for this special sale. WEGHNIJREEVIECQ Church, turn left on Amandale road, whigh is 1,000 feet south of traffic light. Be sure and go 13 miles on Anandale road and turn into nurseries at sign to office of Westcott Nursery Co. Office is 1,000 feet from the main road. * Phone—Falls Church Drive to Fal GUARANTEED DEPENDABLE 27 N\ L ) i SPARK PLUG Ask your dealer or service EH AMPI u N station attendant thisweek.SPARK PLUGS