Evening Star Newspaper, July 27, 1935, Page 20

rB8-3% TWO-FOLD OBJECT OFF.H A ISTOLD Must Avoid Fund Hazard, Yet Aid Building in All Locations. With operative builders responsible for approximately 80 per cent of the residential construction in the coun- | - REAL ESTATE. try, new financing facilities are now provided for such bullding develop- | ment through the provisions of the national housing act, according to| Acting Federal Housing Administrator Stewart McDonald. | The relation of the housing act| to operative builders is of two-fold importance. the acting administrator pointed out. It fulfills its obligation to promote new construction, thereby reviving the operative bullding pro- fession, and at the same time sets up standards and mortgage regulations to eliminate activity bv such operators who, in the past, often indulged in gross speculation. Two Factors Balance. +The Housing Administration,” said M¢t. McDonald, “in insuring mortgages must hazard funds paid to it as in- surance premiums. It has, however, the further obligation of promoting new construction in all suitable loca- tions for all classes for which ade- quate provision has not been made. While it must, therefore, on the one hand hold out all reasonable help to those who seek to fulfill the need for housing. it has on the other the responsibility of avoiding the hazards arising from speculative financing. overbuilding, waste of land utilization, extravagant utilities and shoddy con- struction - | “With these objectives in mind, the Housing Administration seeks to en- courage that type of operative builder who looks upon the production of homes as a manufacturing and mer- chandising process of high social sig- nificance and who, preferably, assumes the responsibility for the product, from the plotting and development of the land to the disposal of completed dwelling units. Seeks Waste Elimination. “It seeks to encourage the creation of dwellings, the stability of which will be assured by the protection af- forded against inharmonious land uses, by thoughtful group planning. and by sound, attractive, economical huilding. It desires to see the elimi- nation of waste in housing production by organized construction and by the installation of streets and utilities of & character suitable to calculable de- mands of planned neighborhoods.” Mortgage insurance as provided by the national housing act is available to operative builders with the follow- ing provisions: No mortgage may ex- ceed $16.000 in principal amount: no mortgage may exceed 80 per cent of appraised value of the property; none may have a maturity to exceed 20 vears, Such mortgages may be placed on detached, semi-detached or row- type one to four family dwellings sub- Ject to the following limitations: Each dwelling must be on & separate plot. of land, must be capable of being separately owned, and must be financed as a separate unit. ALEXANDRIAN TO BUILD HOMES IN HYBLA VALLEY New Development to Permit Owners to Enjoy Some Measure of Life in Country. A new development of homes, with Jots large enough to permit the owner some measure of life in the v, will be started shortly by V. Ward Boswell, Alexandria real estate | man, in Hybla Valley. three miles south of Alexandria on the Washing- ton-Richmond Highway. This development will differ from the usual subdiviision in that each home site will contain an acre or & half acre of ground, enabling the| owner to raise chickens, his own | vegetables and fruits and yet be Tea- sonably close to the heart of the city. | The development will be highly re- stricted and streets will be laid out so as to make an attractive community. Boswell sald there are approximately 200 of the large lots included in the development. He plans to begin the | erection of several five and seven room brick houses as soon as the work of subdividing the property is completed. BARROW OPENS OF.FICE Samuel Wheeler Barrow, who for 12 years has been associated with the firm of H. R. Howenstein Co. and until recently employed by the C. H. Hillegeist Co., announced today that he is opening his own offide at 827 Pourteenth street. He stated that his office will specialize in investment property sales and exchanges. M Dr. Willlam J. G office of Paul T, Stone, Inc., builder, THE EVEL\’INTG STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C. SATURDAY, JULY 27. 1935 The house contains six rooms, two baths, and finished recreation room. New Chevy Chase Home Sold Thomas recently bought this home at 3335 Quesada street, Chevy Chase, from the —Star Staff Photo. ANY home gardeners raise their own rose plants from cuttings taken from their own or neighbors' plants. Are these plants as desirable as those grown by a nurseryman by budding or grafting on understocks? This question has been debated in garden clubs and in garden papers for sev- eral years. but never comes to & com- plete solution, partly because there is something to be said on both sides of the argument. In favor of own- rooted roses, it may be said that their primary cost is lower and they can not send up wild suckers from the base, because the roots are, of course, the same as the top. Too, a few va- rieties do not unite strongly with the usual commercial understocks. In favor of grafted and budded plants, it may be safely said that they make larger plants more rapidly than do cuttings, because the roots are already one vear old at the time of grafting. The understocks selected because of their inherent vigor, make larger and stronger Toot systems. which are better able to take up more | water and minerals. Certain varie- ties which grow weakly on their own roots are greatly stepped up in vigor | when placed on strong understocks. As a detriment, the gardener must constantly watch for root suckers which, if permitted to grow, willdraw the strength which should go to the improved variety and ultimately re- place it. Some concrete evidence in favor of | budded roses was secured some years ago by the United States Department of Agriculture at Arlington Farm, Virginia. Seven varieties of well- known garden roses were grown on their own roots and on various un- derstocks. On the best understock the vield of blossoms was almost twice that of the cutting grown plants. Practically spesking, these records indicate that grafted plants are well worth while, but when it comes to a question of cutting plants or not, of course the verdict favors the cuttings, | and it is certain that they will always be grown by amateur gardeners. There is a certain fascination in growing one’s own plants that only the true gardener can describe. The Abelia. UMMER flowering shrubs are all too rare, but they do, for the most part, compensate for the scarcity in num- bers by singularly long blooming periods. Buddleia, Rose of Sharon, crepe myrtle and abelia all remain in bloom for several weeks. The abelia, | for example, flowers almost conmtinu- | ously from June to November. The flowers are mnot notably conspicuous but are dainty and attractive in their white flushed pink hue. It seems | strange that the species name should | be grandifiors, for the flowers are any- | thing but large. Abelia has gained | rapidly in popularity in the Washing- ton area, and may be seen in many | of the public parks as well as in pri- | vate gardens. The foliage has a red- | dish cast that adds to its attractiveness. Rehder, in Bailey's Bncyclopedia of Horticulture, states tbhat propagation is usually by softwbod |cuttings placed under glass in Summer, but that cut- tings of mature wood®may be taken in Iate Fall. Seed are said to be rare, but when sown in Spring will develop into sturdy plants fthat will reach blooming age in aboug three years, China Asters. 'l‘HANKs to pllnl.br"dru working jointly with plant disease special- ists, this fine group of Summer an- nuals is staging a come back after be- ing downed by twogvery serious dis- eases, namely, asterfyvellows and aster wilt. Not so many years ago the China aster was one of the mainstays of the Summer garden and the beautiful white, pink, red and purple flowers were highly esteemed both in the gar- den and for decoration in the home. Gradually it became almost impossible to grow good asters. particularly in old garden solls; the piants becdme stunted and turned yellow about the time flowering commenced. The yellows disease is conceded the most serious enemy of the asger. It is caused by a virus, one of (those organisms too small to be seen}through the micro- scope but, nevertheless. dreadfully de- structive to animal and plant life. The aster yellows virus has now been found in many fweeds and in 20-odd garden flowers, jincluding pyrethrum, Shasta daisy, |gdillardia, marigold, coreopsis, phlox,imignonette and sweet alyssum. These: other plants do not suffer as severely as the China aster but are reserwoirs of infection from which the gray aster leafhopper draws the infection amd carries it to the China aster. Cbntrol is at once obvi- ous but difficult. That is, astors should be isolated from other garden plants, and this has fbeen actually accom- plished by growing plants in cheese- cloth cages. /In the open garden, some good may be done by repeated spraying of aster plants with nicotine | sulphate or pyrethrum preparations, which repel the leaf hoppers. The second (disease, wilt, caused by a soil-inhabiting fungus, is not so insidious. It/ can be controlled by planting clean) seed in clean soll, but, better yet, plant breeders have d veloped varieties which are sufficiently resistant to grow vigorously in infested soil. These strains are now being offered for smle by seedmen, and it would seem that the wilt disease may 6425 33rd Street N.W. [ leaves. It is difficult to believe that in very stiff clays, such as constitute many of the local gardens, that eul- tivation has no specific value aside from weed control. The gardener that practices shallow tillage is cer- tainly doing no harm, and until the merit of the scraping practice is more universally tested, the writer believes that cultivation is still the best pro- cedure to follow. New Books. "OLD ROSES,” by Mrs. Prederick Love Keays, describes and dis- cusses from a historical and botanical viewpoint various of the roses which adorned the old-time garden. “Every- man’s Garden,” by Max Schling, pre- sents in narrative style the different steps in the development and im- provement of a small suburban place. Interspersed is a wealth of cultural information that is of more than pass- ing value because of the author's emi- nent knowledge of ornamental horti- culture. Garden Notes. 'RUMPET vines, with their orange- red flowers, may be observed at this season in bloom on fences or old walls in the open country. This species, stated in Bailey's Encyclopedi, of Horticulture to be native from Pennsylvania south to Florida, has been introduced into gardens and re- cently a new variety, named Mme. Galen, with showy salmon-red blooms, has been offered by the trade. Like many other native plants, the trumpet vine is singularly free from disease and insect pests and makes a good | cover for arbors. One garden author suggests that hollyhocks be sown in situ rather than being transplanted. The plants develop a top root which interferes with easy moving. Nitrate of soda is usually applied to the soll in crystalline form, but, | for quicker results, it is altogether feasible to dissolve some of the ma- terial in water and apply this solu- tion. A rounded tablespoonful to 2 | gallons of water makes an effective and one big obstacle to successful aster production will be removed. Green Manures, ’I‘HE suburban gardener, with suffi- clent available ground that it is | | | not necessary to plant the same area | | | soon be considlered a matter of history | This home was sold before com- pletion to Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Judson. N N N 2 The best of construction and materials in our homes. and have every modern convenience and improvement. are used fully insulated to garden each year, may save himself considerable outlay for fertilizers and at the same time improve his sofl even better than it is possible with fertil- izer alone by alternating one-half or one-third of the area to green manure crops each year. The terms green manure, soiling crops and cover crops are used more or less interchangeably and refer to a crop grown for spading or turning under the soil. If so han- dled while still green, the green mat- ter will rot quickly in moist soil and add greatly to its productivity. The most effective green manure crops are the legumes, such as crimson clover, cowpeas and soy beans, because these plants release more nitrogen upon decaying. Crimson clover. is an ex- cellent plant for the purpose because, if planted at this season, it develops some growth and lives through the Winter to attain full development in early Spring. On sloping ground, crimson clover aids in reducing erosion | of soil. Cowpeas and soy beans make ! a rank growth if sown in June, but are killed by the first frosts. Among non-legumes, Winter rye or Winter wheat make good covers for sowing in September. Oats is a good Summer cover crop plant. It is well to use commercial fertilizer in connection with cover crops as such promote ranker growth and more material to turn under. It is really surprising how well the 0il can be kept in a productive state with a combination of cover crops and commercial fertilizer materials. Such & system of soil improvement has ad- vantages over animal manures in that it does not introduce weed seeds nor soil-borne diseases into the garden area. Value of Cultivation. TWENTY years ago it would have been considered almost heresy to have asserted that cultivation is a use- less operation except as it destroys weeds. Yet today one can present definite experimental proof that such is more or less the truth. Cornell Uni- versity ran some very careful experi- ments over several vears with vegeta- bles and found that simply scraping the soil to the extent of eradicating the weeds was for most crops just as | effective as cultivation. Those gar. deners who were brought up in earlier | years will have difficulty in saccepting | this new doctrine. Weeds use water and soil foods and are therefore in direct competition with the garden crops. No one would contend in their favor but it is different with cultiva- tion. This operation breaks the hard surface or crust of soil and must aid in admitting air to the roots which need oxygen just as much as do the They are nutrient solution and will force porch box and basket plants into a rich green growth if used occasionally in place of water, NEW FIRM IS FORMED Special Dispateh to The Star ’ BALTIMORE, July 27.—The Bernard Housing Corp. of Bethesda, has been incorporated to deal in lands, tene- ments, with & capital stock of 8.000 shares, par value, $25 each. Louis W. Bernard of Bethesda, Joe L. Clark of Baltimore and Joseph N. Starkey of Rockville, are the incorporators. Walter A. Neel of Washington and J. Guy Neel of Silver Spring, William H. Pace of Rockville, have incorporated the Maryland Lawvers' Title Corp. of Rockville to abstraet records, ete. The capital stock consists of 1,000 shares common stock of no par value. CONVENTION’S PLANS Clarence F. Domohoe Is Chair- man of Committee for D. C. Group. ‘The annusl convention of the N&- tional Association of Real Estate Boards will be held in Atlentic City beginning Monday, October 21. Con- vention headquarters will be in the Chalfonte-Haddon Hall Hotels, Clar- ence F. Donohoe has been named chairman of the Atlantic City Con- | vention Committee for the Washing- ton Real Estate Board. According to reports from national headquarters the convention program is being built around the present prob- lems of the individual business firms, which is the problem of finding new business under the new conditions. | The convention will deal with what | leaders are doing to fit the real estate | assets of the country to their best use | in view of new possibilities. Realtors | | at this meeting will explore new financ- | iIng methods, weigh new technology in | | home building and look into the ques- | tion of how better distribution might | be effected in regard to new home | bullding materials and supplies. 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