Evening Star Newspaper, October 12, 1935, Page 25

REA VIRGINIA REALTY BOOM PREDICTED Wilbur C. Hall Cites Many Advantages of the Old Dominion. By tha Associated Press. LYNCHBURG, Va. October 12— Virginia is on the threshold of “one of the greatest real estate develop- ments the Unpited States has ever seen,” Chairman Wilbur C. Hall of the State Conservation and Develop- ment Commission told the Virginia Real Estate Association in an address here today. “And it is coming soon,” the con- servation head declared. sons for this statement are so str it.” Virginia is possessed of the factors which have led to real estate develop- ment in other sections, including proximity to large centers of popula- tion, an excellent road system. good transportation, climatic advantages, fertile soils and desirable water fronts, Mr. Hall pointed out. Behind Other States. “Virginia is behind the other East- ern States in real estate development and far behind them in prices,” the State official told the real estate men. *That is, real estate prices in Vir- ginia, quality for quality, are much below the prices in the other States of the East. Such a condition of affairs cannot last. The American public must soon become aware of the unique real estate opportunities in Virginia and take advantage of them.” As a result of improved roads in the State, the speaker said. “thousands of the finest house sites in the United States” are now available along the banks of rivers in Central Virginia, on the northern neck, on Chesaprake Bay and the seashore; in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Shenandoah Valley and the Southwest Virginia mountains; and in the “country of the hunter and the thoroughbred” com- prising Fauquier, Loudoun. Fairfax, Orange, Albemarle and Clarke Coun- ties. Colonial Homes Available. “The rea- ong la few days by placing them in the ave no hesitation in making | refrigerator and removing them the e | evening before the show to a re- | the garden may be protected from L ESTATE. THE EVENING HE following hints, prepared by case of cover crops, such as Winter W. H. Youngman of the Po-|rye and in preparation of new lawns tomac Rose Society, should|where one hopes for growth during help prospective exhibitors in | October and early November. the forthcoming rose show to be held | Some materials, such as bone meal, and K streets: | newed growth and, hence, it is well to | 1. Cut roses the night before the apply bone meal to roses, shrubbery, show, hoiding them overnignt in a |peonies, iris and perennials in the deep vase or pail of water in a cool |border. Stable manure is also rela- | place. 2. When placing roses at the | tively slow in decomposition and can | show. clip a little wood from the base be applied in late Autumn without | of the stem. 3. Roses may be held on | serious loss of nutrient value. he bush for a few days by simply | Late Fall Spraying. tving the buds loosely with soft yarn. | QCALE insects on Japanese quince, 4. Buds may be held in condition for cotoneaster, double ceptacle of cool water. 5. Blooms n October 17 in the auditorium of the |are so slowly available that their use | | Y. W. C. A. Building at Seventeenth 'in the Fall does not stimulate re- | STAR, WASHINGTON, first in Spring and concentrates the heat where most effective. The dis- advantage of hame propagation is that one has to wait a year or two longer for flowering age than if well rooted plants are purchased. It is a strange fact that apples, peaches and pears of the common hor- ticultural varieties do not root at all readily from cuttings and efforts in | this direction may be expected to he fruitless. Privet cuttings are often planted right side up in the row where the hedge is desired and never moved. Winter Vegetables. CERTAIN of the vegetables are suf- ficiently hardy to endure the Winter out of doors without protec- tion. Parsnips and salsify are bien- nial or two-year plants, which may be left in the soil all Winter and dug whenever the soil is not frozen too deeply. In fact, both of these vegetables are sweeter and more desirable after slight freeing has occurred. Spinach and kale are frequently sown about this season or flowering | & little earlier and allowed to stand | cherry and other deciduous ornamental | Over Winter, with the object of making and fruit trees are difficult to control | @irly Spring growth. Cabbage plants at the best and it is often desirable | are often set out in late Fall, usually to spray infested plants twice during | O the sunny side of soil ridges, with the dormant season, once shortly after | ® View to an early Spring crop. Beets frost by covering the plants rir.h‘the leaves fall and again in the Spring | 8nd onions frequently survive local | cheese cloth or burlap not in con-|pefore the buds greatly expand. There | Winters, but there is no object in| tact with the flowers. 6. Roses should | are two general types of spray material | 80 handling these crops except in | be from one-half to three-quarters|for combating scale insects—namely, the case of certain types of onions open at the time of judging. Buds |lime-sulphur mixture and spraymg‘ do not qualify. oils. Both are effective, but the lime | This show is open to all local home |sulphur has certain advantages since gardeners and is a worthy place to|it controls also various rungous‘ which are grown for their tender blanched bulbs in very early Spring. ‘There is thus not a single month in the entire 12 that the vegetable | display the late flower of the season. | | Clean Up Time. | A 'S PLANTS are killed by frost or die back to the soil from natural maturity, the tops should be cut of? | at the soil and raked into heaps for! drying and burning. On many spe- | cies, the leaves are spotted with dis- | ease, and, if left all Winter to rot naturally, will serve to carry over the disease spores to next year's garden. Among foliage that becomes uselesy and even hazardous is that of the peony, phlox, zinnia, asters and, in | fact, any dead plant material. Bury- | ing such refuse deeply offers another | satisfactory means of disposal, but is | | more difficult than burning. In the | case oi such plants as dahlia and | gladiolus, the bulbs of which must be | | dug and stored in a frost-free loca- tion, it is well to leave the tops until | | after digging to mark the location of | the bulbs or roots. Before storage, the | tops must be cut away. In digging | | dahlias, the stalk should be cut off an | |inch or two above ground and not broken from the roots, since, in the For new residents who desire Colo- | dahlia, the eyes or buds for next seas- nial homes—that is, those built in the | on's growth are located on the old Colonial period or at the beg basal stalk and not on the tubers the nineteenth century—N\ | proper. In disposing of tops, the pointed to the large number of such | gardener must be careful not to dis- houses to be acquired at low cost in virginia. The Conservation Commis- sion, he said, has taken photographs of 1,300 such houses and has covered only part of the State. The chairman also stressed the charm of Williamsburg. Charlottesvilie. Lexington, Salem and other college towns as attractive residential sites, and commented on the accessibility of Virginia to such travel objectives as Washington, Baltimore, delphia and New York to the nc and Charleston, S. C.: Savannah and Flor- 1da points to the South. Cites Atmosphere. Surpassing all these advantages, Mr. Hall said, “the greatest charm of Vir- ginia, its principal asset. is its atmo- sphere. There is no other State just like the Old Dominion. This back- ground of fine social tradition and high historical interest gives the State &n unique attraction. “Here is the country of great men and noble traditions, and the people of all America are every day becoming more completely conscious of it. It was the fertile mother of heroes, and something of the heroic and great still lingers here. Pointing to the work done by the commission he heads in attracting an Increasing number of tourists and home-seekers to Virginia and marking historic scenes for their information, Mr. Hdll called on the people of the State “to learn Virginia in order to teach it to the visitors from other | States. They should be able to give ! information of historic points and shrines, churches, battlefields and the other information that tourists so | eagerly seek wherever they go. | “When the depression comes to an end I predict that such a flood of | visttors will enter Virginia as was; never dreamed of hefore. We have it | in our power to make Virginia one of the most prosperous and fortunate States in the Union. It is strictly up | to us.” ——— e T. 8. Yields Tung Oil. ‘The first carload of drums of Amer- fcan-grown tung oil has just been| shipped fronh the Mississippi-Louisiana | producing area. The tung nuts \rmei grown at several points in the two! States and the oil was extracted in | Bogalusa, La. This shipment (ap- proximately 2700 gallons) is the ' Jargest yet made in this country and marks an epoch in the American tung oil industry. manufacture of paint, is obtained mostly from China. The fact that | this supply is very uncertain and | varies greatly in cost faces American | paint manufacturers with a serious | Pproblem. Preparation for Painting. When painting over varnish, first| clean the surface thoroughly, remov- | ing dirt and grease by washing care- | with soda and water. Then the gloss by rubbing with steel or sandpaper, or wiping off with tine. Furnished Sample House 4812 North Lane S bia rooms and bath, ELECTRIC HEALTH kitchen. Near transpor- tation, schools, chain stores and bank. Open Daily and Sunday To inspect: Out Wisconsin Ave. o Montgomery Lane (opposite Bethesda . Courthouse), west one-half biock, turn right te houses. J Chas shapir() t 1508 K St. N.W. NA. 4886 ’: turb markers for herbaceous peren- nials and bulbs, as it is very discour- aging to dig up plants after they are well established. Autumn Fertilizing. JITH a few exceptions, Autumn is | not a good time to apply fertil- | izers to the garden or to trees or shrubs. The fertilizer tends to pro- | mote late growth, which, in turn. ren- troubles, such as peach leaf curl. In fact, peach trees which suffered from leaf curl last Spring should be sprayed with lime sulphur this Autumn just as "~ Soon as the leaves drop. The lime sul- phur concentrate may be secured from any garden supply store, either as a powder or as a dense liquid. Direc- tions for diluting with water will be found on the packages. Scale insects are interesting and difficult pests. The insect covers it- self or its eggs with a waxy coating or scale, which prevents washing off the tree with rains and protects the pests from various enemies. So resistant is this waxy covering that Summer strength sprays are of little avail. but oils and lime sulphur in Winter strength do penetrate beneath the scale and destroy a large per cent of the insects. Without spraying, scale insects will destroy a tree or shrub in two or three years. Hardwood Cuttings. Many of the hardy shrubs and also certain fruit plants may be increased in the home garden by the simple expedient of taking 6-8 inch cuttings of the current season’s wood after the leaves have fallen and burying them in a well-drained location in the In Spring the cuttings will have formed callus at the thickest or basal end and. when set out in rows, will root readily and form new plants. garden. | As a matter of fact, this is the usual method of propagating grapes, cur- rants, gooseberries, climbing roses, forsythia. lilac, privet, weigelia and various other species. It is the cus- tomary practice to tie the cuttings in bundles with the basal ends all in the -tion, Tung oil, used in the § ders the plant less resistant to Winter adversities, and again the nitrogen of the fertilizer mixture is lost during the Winter by leaching into the sub- soil. Since nitrogen is the costly part of the fertilizer, the loss is propor- tionately large. Phosphorous ingred- | ients tend to combine with certain soil | compounds and become unavailable | or, at least, only slowly available to plant life. In all hardy plants there is a natural tendency for vegetative development to slow down in Autumn and fo. the sap to become richer in reserve foods such as starches and sugars, which, in turn, contribute to Winter hardiness. If one applies fer- tilizer, growth is stimulated and the sugars are utilized in the wrong direc- | same direction and to bury the bundles upside down in a slightly raised situa- tion where water will not stand. 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Open Satwrday gnd Sunday Until 9 P.M. | Drive out Carroll Ave. one block béyond R. R. overpass. { turn lefi on Maple Avenue to Aouse. WM. H. SAUNDERS CO., Inc. 1519 K St. N.W. District 1018 JUST COMPLETED and Monroe Sts., Clarendon, Va. Sth (Ome block off Pershing Drive) A corner brick bome on a lot 60x135. containing 5 large rooms and bath. Modern in Every Respeet. )} onty $7,500 Built by POOLE & BAUCKMAN OPEN DAILY AND SUNDAY B. A. BOWLES CO. 1206 Wisconsin Avenue West 1414 garden cannot be made to contribute | Severe Winters, such as the| | food. | past two, cut down the output, but parsnips and salsify readily endure any low temperature possible in this region. Garden Notes. SHORTLY now, the home gardener will be closing up operations for the season. Heavy frosts in the sub- urbs killed dahbias and other tender plants nearly a week ago, but, for- tunately, there are the chrysanthe- mums and a few other sturdy species left to continue the season. Frost on ‘Dcloher 5 is earlier than average in | n. €, this vieinity and cuts in badly on the | few flower shows yet to be held. ‘The geranium is a resistant species. | Some of the older home gardeners | may remember when their mothers pulled up large geranium plants before killing frost and suspended them up side down from the cellar ceiling. ‘The plants would drop their leaves | but retain life until Spring. The cel- |lar was the cool, most cellar of the pre-furnace days. The method, though of little use in the modern heated cellar, does indicate the tremendous vitality of the geraniums. Cuttings taken before heavy frosts will root in sand or even in water and may be kept through the Winter in a box of soil placed before a sunny window in the basement. As suggested some weeks ago, Au- tumn is the best season to trans- plant peonies. It pays to prepare the isml thoroughly for the plants remain |in place for several years. This means | digging & hole somewhat larger and i deeper than is actually required to set | the roots and placing some bone meal | below the plant but not in contact with the roots. The buds, which may | be detected by their reddish color, | should be about two inches below the soil level. If possible, select a sunny | exposure for tHe peonies. Among other perennials that may be set out at this season to advantage |are the delphiniums or larkspur, co- lumbine, pyrethrum or painted daisy, bleeding heart and hardy phlox. Just to illustrate the rapid change in rose varieties, the following list of 12 roses is offered by one of the largest rose nurseries as their chaice selection: Editor McFarland, E. G. Hill, Etoile de Hollande, Golden Dawn, | Luis Brinas, Margaret McGredy, Mrs. | | Pont, Nuntius Pacelli, President Her- bert Hoover, Soeur Therese, Souvenir de Mme. C. Chabard. Mrs. du Pont, a golden yellow, won the sweepstakes prize in the Autumn rose show of the Potomac Rose Society two years ago. | Building Boom. } Chile expects its building boom to last indefinitely. - 950! Open Sunday and Daily Until 9 P.M. Inspect this and other distinctive brick homes of charm and real quality nearing completion in BRANWILL PARK A sensibly restricted community of individually designed detached Homes—among the tolling hills between beautiful Sligo Park and the Indian Spring Golf Course—within 25 minutes’ drive from downtown— on 16th Street bus line—convenient to elementary and high schools, parks, tennis courts, playgrounds, golf courses, etc. DETOUR DIRECTIONS svilte detour eorgia Avenue 0. Fi 4 lefi ‘on Flower Avenx. Fronklin dvenue and Branwui Park. g 64290 Barnahy St., in M O S S REALTY COMPANY Tower Bldg., MEtro 1776 Evenings, Shepherd 3742 Chevy Chase, D. 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September figures, however, nearly equal those for the same month last year, the total being $684,720. as com- pared with $69,120 for the correspond- g month in 1934. Absence of large Federal and mu- nicipal building projects accounts in 2 large measure for the failure of the current year to reach last year's totals. Construction so far this year, Lowever, compares favorably and in- cludes gains in construction of dwell- ings and commercial buildings, ete., initiated by private interests. All-brick center-hall Colonial in Amer University Park Open from 2 to 9 Seven rooms, two baths. Ine sulated throughout. Large landscaped lot. Ultra modern kitchen and the fAnest appointe ments of good home construce tion. Very attractively arranged recreation room and many other features that you will enjoy seeing. Make your com- parisons after seeing this beau- tiful nome. 4931 Brandywine St. N.W. Drive out Mass. Ave. to 49th, right on 49th to Brandywine, then left one-half square to house. JOS. A. 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