Evening Star Newspaper, May 11, 1935, Page 23

REAL ESTATE. FAIRFAX BUILDING BARES PROSPERITY Highest Figures in History of County Reported for Four-Month Period. Special Dispatch to The Star. FAIRFAX, Va., May 11.—With home building probably at the highest point in the history of Fairfax County and real estate transfers for the first four months of the year up 159 from the comparable period in 1934, a re- turning prosperity for the county is foreseen by many. . Although the county has no build- {ng permit ordinance that requires the listing of new construction work or repairs with any governmental de- partment, an official in the office of James U. Kincheloe, commissioner of revenue, who has been assessing in the county for more than 20 years, has declared construction work is now at the highest peak he has ever seen it, with no indications there will be an abatement any time soon. Records Show Increase. For the first four months of 1934, 668 deeds, deeds of trust and contracts were recorded in the office of the| county clerk, and for the same period this year the total reached 827, higher than any recent year. Starting with | 163 recordations in January, the num- | ber has steadily climbed each month, with 170 for February, 240 for March | Wnd 254 for April. § While new homes are going up in every part of the county, the greatest activity is shown in the Belle Haven section, near Alexandria; Fort Buffalo, near Falls Church, and in the vicin- ity of Groveton and Franconia. At . Fort Buffalo, 20 new houses are under corstruction. with approximately the same number in and near Belle Haven. Larger Type Homes. Departing from the tendency of the past several years in building smaller homes, many of ‘the new ones are of & larger type and will probably range in price from $7,500 to $15.000, ac-| cording to tentative figures from the office of the commissioner of reve- nue. Much of the latest building activ- ity has been attributed to a desire of many persons living in the city to move to the country and own thei: own homes, where living conditions | are more reasonable. The Federal| Housing Administration, through its| loans and publicity on home owner- #hip and desirable improvements, has also been credited with a large part in the building program. other tiny bulbous plants are often driven from the lawn by | failure to recognize the fact that their foliage is vital to their future welfare after the time of flowering has passed. Too often the lawn mower cuts away the foliage while it is still vigorously | 'CROCUSES, snowdrops, scillas and green and supplying food to the bulbs. In consequence, there is a gradual | weakening of the plants, and shortly | they disappear. Forget-me-nots occur in many dif- | ferent species with different times of | blooming. It is possible to have these tiny flowers of brilliant blue im the garden from early Spring to Autumn. | tained from treatment of Some kinds spread so rapidly that they become weeds, but others are | more restricted in habit. Some live | only one year, but seed so freely that | there is no difficulty in maintaining | the stock. Narcissus rarely has stayed so long n flower as it did this year, due to the protracted period of cold, wet , Atiractive Cape Cod Cottage Sold THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, The above cottage, at 4714 Morgan drive, Chevy Chase, Md, has been sold to an undisclosed person by Realty Associates. The home was built by Robert L. Saunders. The Home Gafdener Practical and Seasonal Hints for the Amateur for Beautifying the Surroundings of the Home. that they will turn yellow and remain dwarfed on Hmed soil. Such are the rhododen- the laurels, the blueberries, certain of the lilies and various less commonly grown garden Through centuries of adaptation the species have developed an ability to thrive in acid soils and cannot toler- ate alkaline soils such as promoted by lime. Obviously, it is a mistake to try to grow these acid loving species in limed garden soil. Woods earth, such as found in nearby forested areas, is ERTAIN plants have such a < strong liking for acid soils drons, | generally strongly acid and if sup- plied to rhododendrons and the like will insure their good growth. The | type of fertilizer used may also modify the soil acidity and hence, for acid loving plants, one should use acid promoting materials, such as ammo- nium sulphate. Fortunately, local soils are generally acid and, unless one has limed, he may expect to grow rhododendrons and their like rather successfully. Peat moss incorporated with the soil will tend to make it even more acid. So alsu will woods earth. Some years ago the American Horticultural So- ciety published a pamphlet on the value of aluminum sulphate for in: creasing the acidity of the soil, indi cating that marked success was ob- the sur: rounding soil with this chemical. Per- haps one important lesson to be learned from this discussion is that while lime is very useful in the garden, it cannot be applied at random to all inhabitants of the garden. Reliable Shrubs. HEN all is said and done the average home owner could do 4 far worse than plant some of plants. | sirable in gardening as well as other lines of tivity, but it is well to proceed slowly, especially in selection of materials for the permanent plant- | ings, such as screen the foundations | of the home. Blank spaces due to| the killing of tender species are a source of disappointment to any home owner. Insects. ITH the warmer weather, insect life gains momentum and the gardener’s problems become | naturally more acute. Unfortunately, | different types of insects vary so | greatly in their structure and feeding habits that no one spraying or dusting material will control them all. The aphids now appearing on the tender foliage of roses and other garden| | plants cannot, for example, be checked by a spraying of a stomach poison, such as arsenate of lead, because they feed by drawing out the plant’s sap, | which is not reached by the lead. Nicotine and pyrethrum compounds kill aphids readily, simply by contact | with their bodies, and are, therefore, | very effective in their control. Con- | centrated forms of nicotine and py- | rethrum, prepared under different | trade names, may be secured from | the garden supply stores. These two materials are practically useless for | leaf-eating insects. Arsenate of lead and Paris green are the effective incesticides for con- | trolling leaf eaters. Other insects,| such as -cutworms, present still other | difficulties, for even though a young | cabbage or tomato plant were covered | © | with poison it is likely that the cut- | worm, because of its rapid work, would | | destroy the plant before it was poi- | soned. Insect workers have developed | a poison mash for distribution near | |the plants in early evening. This | weather. which acted much as if the | 4,0 g standard shrubs, such as the | mash, sweetened Wwith sugar or mo- blooms had been placed in cool stor- age. Even in ordinary years there is} a long spread from golden spur to| the latest poets. The unusual season | caused lots of worry to the garden | club exhibitors. With the rapid increase in white ants or termites it scarcely pays to purchase wooden posts for the garden fence or grape arbor, but it is much better to use galvanized iron posts set in a mass of coarse concrete to give them stability and permanence Although many home gardens boast | & grape vine or two, few home gar- | deners give the crop any serious at- tention other than pruning. As a| result the fruit is often disappointing because of worms and rots. One or | two sprayings in early Spring would | do much to insure worthwhile crops | pf grapes. A combination spray of | bordeaux mixture and arsenate of lead | applied as the young shoots emerge | is highly effective in killing the young 1 worms before they enter the berries. | A second spray of the same materials should follow the dropping of the | flower caps. Spray materials ready | for diluting with water may be pur- | chased from garden supply stores. Bordeaux contains copper for destro; ing spores of disease and the arsenate ©of lead, arsenic for destroying the tiny worms. Applied so early in the growth | period, there is plenty of opportunity | for rain to wash off the spray residues before ripening time. ! Although one usually thinks of or- chids as the delicate flowers of the | greenhouse, there are several species | growing in the wilds. For example, | the pink lady slipper or moccasin fower is a true orchid and there are | several less showy species. The lady slipper, like the trailing arbutus, suf- fers from too eager flower gatherers. . Steel Companies Merged. Large steel companies of Japan are merging to promote business with Manchuria. 4 You cannot thrive on an o artificial o 5 = chemical diet. { Neither can the plants in your lawn and garden continue to thrive { solely on chemical stimulants. All soils need the life-giving humus { and natural plant food elements ! supplied by manure. Do like the | practical gardener and florist ! does —make your soil rich and { fertile with manure. If you want i & thick, velvety lawn and beauti- | ful flowers, feed them with Wiz- ard Super Quality Sheep Manure. {Wisard will not burn i . sting and economical. Wiza: | The Pulverized M, Co., Chicago spireas. the wiegelias, the deutizias and the mock oranges. These species are truly beautiful and suffer chiefly because they are too easily grown. In other words, because they are too common. However, a well grown plant of Van Houtte spirea, with its pen- | 1asses and poisoned with a little | Paris green, is very attractive to cut- | worms and, in most cases, destroys | them before they reach the young | garden plants. In years of severe droughts red spiders do a great deal of harm to, —Star Staff Photo. enemies of their own that help greatly in suppression. For instance, certain lady beetles feed on aphids. Other insects lay their eggs in larger forms. This so-called biological con- | trol explains why certain harmful in- sects rarely reach epidemic propor- tions. Garden Tools. OME gardeners buy too many dif- ferent tools, while others fail to | take advantage of the labor-saving devices that may be found in many | of the larger supply stores. A wheel | hoe or cultivator is a very helpful | tool for use in the large suburban | garden, particularly where vegetables are grown as well as flowers. Wheel hoes are relatively inexpensive and enable the gardener to cover a much larger area with much less effort than is possible with an old-fashioned hoe, Many times local soils are in prime condition for tillage only for a few hours. With effective tools, one can | take full advantage of favorable op- portunities. Weeds, as any veteran gerdener know re easy to control when just germinating and frequent tillage at that stage will not only control weeds most effectively, but | actually reduce the hard labor con- | nected with hand weeding. 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Yet there has been a tend- ency to draw away from such old standards and turn to species of doubtful hardiness, largely because of a desire for the new. The severe freezes of the past two Winters have done a lot to restore faith in the old standards. of roses, where the tendency has been away from reliable varieties to new types and varieties. Progress is de- Beautify Your _plants ready to bloom is season. 20 PETUNIAS. Rosy $1.10 n $1.10 Strong, healthy thi Morn, pink $1.10 3110 g $1.10 £1.10 $1.10 $1.10 ASTERS, 50 Beauty, Mixed. . 35 ASTERS. California Giant. Mixed - 5(Q Novelty SNAPDRAGONS 15 colors. 25 Guinea Gold AFRICAN MARIGOLDS. . 35 DAHLIA Flowering ZINNIAS. Mixed Enelish WALL 40 FLOWERS Snikes ~f Beautiful Flowers A5 SCARINSA. Mixed =110 2% Searlet Sawe 2% Afpinam DATEIES 35 DOUBLE STNCKS . American $1.10 NEW MARKET PERENNIAL GARDENS 3. 55 RANDOLPH ROAD. NEW MARKET. 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Deep tillage is of no advantage for most garden plants and, in fact, often is harmful through injury to the feeding roots. A small hand weeder with three or more teeth is very useful in the tillage of bedded plants. It takes a lot more courage and perse- verance to carry the garden through the Summer than it does to start operations in the Spring and a wise choice of implements may well be the deciding factor between ultimate success and failure. Soil Diseases, OME gardening is in some re- spects more complex than farm. ing. In the first place, the home gardener attempts to grow a much greater .number of different kinds of plants and again, by using the same soil year after year, there is & much greater upbuild of plant diseases that live in the soil. China asters and sweet peas are two of the unfortunate species. Delphinium or larkspur is another difficult species because of a disease that lives in the soll. 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MAY 11, 1935. kinds of flowers and vegetables that it 1s usually more practical, when the soll become diseased, to abandon the culture of the affected species. Un- fortunately, it seems that some of our most desirable flowers are most susceptible to soil disease organisms, Early Vegetables, OCAL gardens may be so managed L as to supply some kind of vege- table every month of the year, including Winter. Parsnips and sal- sify left in the soil in late Autumn may be dug during the Winter, and kale and spinach planted in October will furnish crops in April, before Spring-sown radishes, onions and let- tuce reach edible size. Head lettuce may be grown successfully in our lo- cality only as an early Spring crop, for once the hot weather comes in June the plants will not form solid heads. For certain success, head let- tuce should be sown in a cold frame and the plants set in the soil in late April or early May. In well fertilized soll, strong plants will grow rapidly and form nice heads. Beets, Spring- sown spinach, Swiss chard and early cabbage will help bridge over the late Spring period prior to beans and early Summer squash. Garden peas are usually successful only if rotated from one point of the garden to another, so that two or three elapse between plantings in one location. Otherwise the soil becomes surcharged with certain decay organ- isms that attack the roots and cause the plants to turn yellow prematurely. | With the exception of one or two Tom | Thumb type varieties, garden peas | | do much better when grown on chick- | en wire or on brush. Grown erect, the vines yield better and culture is | greatly facilitated. All vegetables are at their best when grown rapidly, and 13-ACRE LOT room h lave the first floor. is & maid’s room and lavatory in the The roof is siate with cooper flash- e floors are hard oak. atic—as is also the not-water. Modern gas appliances refrigeraiion Washington Gas Light co-operation DI. 6092 1, Original Price location, overlooking Chevy Detached, 4 bed- parlor, 2 fireplaces, unusually plant, 2-car garage. Wisconsin Ave. to Chevy Chase Dist. 8600 wooded landscape, and the Con- REAL ESTATE. hence one finds light supplemental applications of nitrate of soda or sul- phate of ammonia well worth while, except where the soil has been heavily manured. URBAN RESIDENTIAL TREND IS UPWARD 10-Year Slump Definitely Broken by Gain for 1935, Report Shows. in 1935 gives indication of a new up- ward trend, reversing the prolonged decline which began 10 years ago as a gradual recession from 1926 through 1929, leading to a violent contraction of construction activities between 1929 and 1931, and almost complete stagna- tion from 1932 through 1934. 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