Evening Star Newspaper, April 24, 1937, Page 28

Cc—4 REAL ESTATE. TREESNEED FOOD INHOME SETTING Nature’s Balance Upset by Buildings That Curb Root Spread. Many home owners never consider the fact that the shade and orna- mental trees of which they are so proud are in danger of going hungry, says Paul Davey, tree expert. They seem so sturdy and independent that the owner is likely to feel they can take care of themselves, and that artificial feeding is just some experts fad, Davey continued. “But stop and think. Nature in- tended trees to grow out in the open, Colonial Home in Westhaven Sold THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1837. had several examples last Summer, Feel trailers will reduce the number of new Summer cottages bullt.” But, sald another amall resort owner: “Trailers will not hurt the resort busi- ness to any extent. As a whole, they may help. We are establishing fa- cilities to accommodate trailers in our camp.” The more luxurious class of resorts can see no possible competition from “house on wheels.” Don’t think trail- ers will hurt our trade, as we cater to a class who want roomy quarters,” was a representative comment. Prevailing estimates of the number of house trailers now in service vary from 300,000 to 500,000, and antici- pate that the number will expand another 100,000 to 150,000 by the end of 1937, the report states. People living on life insurance annuities, railroad men and others retired cn pensions, school teachers, skilled and unskilled workers in seasonal occupa=- tions, and highway workers are among the social and economic groups in which house trailers are finding markets, according to the study. BUILDING WORK SPED Program in Homeland Reported Near Completion. ‘The Spring building program in Homeland of the Cafritz Construction Co. is rapidly nearing completion with 13 detached homes nearly finished. More than 60 homes have already been built and sold in Homeland, which borders Massachusetts avenue and American University. The de- velopment comprises more than 50 acres, and it planned to erect 300 homes there within the next few years W.C.& A N. REAL ESTATE. GREAT CARE ADVISED IN SETTING OF PLANTS Long Efforts of Nursing Seedlings May Be Nullified, Experts Warn. If gardeners fail to exercise the proper care in setting ycung plants in the open ground, they may nullify all their work of nursing seedlings through late Winter weeks in window boxes and hotbeds. Prepare plants to be moved by watering the soll in which they are growing 24 hours before they are to be transplanted, experts of the Ferry- Morse Seed Breeding Institute advise. The gardeners must take as much of the soil in which the plant is rooted as possible s0 that rootlets will not be torn. Chances for plants’ survival will be enhanced also if the ground in which they are set is thoroughly watered the night before transplanting. Plants must have sufficient moisture while they are becoming established. MILLER announce two newly completed Miller-Built homes of distin- guished design—in the sur- passingly beautiful Miller- Controlled communities. 3106 Foxhall Road where there is no impediment to their root spread, where there is only & natural competition for water and food, and where each year's leaves lie on the ground to decompose and return food elements to the soil, conserving moisture in the meantime. “When you put a tree into a home setting, either city or suburban, you | Just reverse the natural conditions. You want a beautiful lawn and flow- ers and shrubbery, and they must | live on the same food and water which the tree needs. The conduits for your services and the foundations | of your buildings prevent the roots | from seeking new food supplies. You | rake up the leaves and burn the | food elements nature intended to be | Teturned to the ground. “A tree has to stand always in the eame place. It cannot go foraging for food, except as far as its roots can reach. You cannot move it every year or two to richer ground. For perhaps hundreds of years, day /Zollin?woov( @ Now American Homes, adjcine ing Rock Creek Park Beach Drive and Leland Street, on bzau- tifully wooded lots, with 3 and 4 kedrcomz, 2 baths, paneled library wts[e? fltlgbts und basement lounge, mzid's 4205 49th St. toom and bath, 2-car garage, S G.E. air conditioning and electrio ‘VESTERLEIGH w| LL'AMSBURG COLON |AL Realth kitchen. Mod i .3 Away from lraf?ic, amid b'caulifully land- @ Modcl home open daily to §.5% scaped surroundings, bordering small brook. 708 Woodside Parkway Six rooms, large dressing or nursery room, 2 baths, pancled game room 23'x20" with fireplace and lavatory. Living room is 23'x14’. Oil heat with Summer-Winter hook-up. 2-car detached garage. A perfect home on beautiful }z-acre lot having most unusual landscape possibilities, Lot is 80'x290", Varyingly different in design but possessing all those con- struction and equipment fea- tures for which Miller-Built > homes are famous. Open for inspection every L VL V day, including Sunday and end night, it draws on the same |CBMPS has convinced us they are go- | per thousand families living in hotels | trailer will decrease resort business; AVERLY TA OR 7L i";or"':) e Ll restricted circle of soil for its sus-|iD& to affect the hotel business, also [and apartments.” others welcome it and are planning | 1322 K Street NAtional 1040 B ot Catota e tenance. If nature cannot renew the | tD€ renting of Summer homes fur- A number of sales of house trailers | accommodations for trailer visitors. thence through Wesley Heij hu' food su.pply you must, or the tree|Dished: this, we think, will in !um'hnve already been made to Northern “Expect trailer competition to af- =it B8y Mr. and Mrs. George S. Brock, jr., recently purchased this new Colonial-type home at 5515 Worthington drive, Westhaven, Md., from Westhaven Development Corp., developers of the com- munity. Mr. Brock is with the Veterans’ Administration. —Star Staff Photo. To Inspect—Drive out Ga. Ave. through Silver Spring to trafic light at Colesville Pike, turn right 5 squares to Woodside Parkiway, then left 3 squares to home. Price, $14,500 CHAS. L. NORRIS REALTOR 2135 Pa. Ave. N.W. Wil starve as surely as & man would, | #S0 _affect unfurnished, medium- | Summer resort proprietors, in some | fect the Summer resort business; we Spring Valley and Westerleigh, “A tree takes certain inorganic | Priced homes” says an Asheville, N.|cases to provide mobile accommoda- m°{;‘;1'h:h‘;:nf°:;““" and chemical elements from the soil in|C- Tealty concern tions for guests who want to fish sev- P g - solution. Drawn up to the leaves,| Florida real estate men generally |eral nelighboring lakes; in other cases these combine with the carbon from | Welcome the trailer as a strongly bene. | Proprietors are “boosting” the trailers W.C.& A N. the alr to make the refined food ma- | ficial influence: “I consider hc)use]cfl their wheels, piping and wiring| terials from which all tree growth | trailers to be a distinct benefit to a | them for permanent accommodations. comes, the excess water being given | Tesort city like St. Petersburg,” is a Conflicting Views Expressed. off in evaporation. Without water | WPical comment. “Trailers bring| Small cottage-resort operators ex- to carry the food elements or food | MOre people to our city; most people, | pressed conflicting views in the in- 10 be carried the tree will die. accustomed to larger quarters, will not | quiry; some began to feel trailer com- “Evidence of lack of nutrition is|live Permanently in their trailer; I|petition last year, though the 1936 found in retarded growth and sparse believe we sell more Lomes per thou- | season was a very prosperous one. or poorly colored foliage. If these sand families living in trailers, than | Some proprietors are positive the | conditions exist without positive evi- @ence of insect or fungous attack, a | need for food is indicated, because | a well-nourished tree not suffering | from insects or fungus will have | slenty of richly colored foliage. | “There are 11 or more chemical | elements in the soil which con- | tribute to plant growth, although 8 or the 11 are almost invariably | found In soil where there is any | plant life. The others, nitrogen. phosphorus and potassium, are the | ones easily exhausted, and from the tree standpoint nitrogen is the really important one of those three. A commercial fertilizer which would grow a fine crop of potatoes might do a shade tree little or no good. Po- ‘atoes often require more potassium than the soil supplies, while trees need less and are usually able to dbtain enough without difficulty. “Of course, soil analysis or expert edvice is always valuable, but where ¥nat is not readily obtainable a safe rule to follow is that a tree fertilizer | should contain at least two and pref- erably three times as much nitrogen &6 phosphoric acid or potash. If MILLER 1119 17th St DI. 4464 West 0480 Spacious, Charming Home % An extra Most Desirable Location bed room % Private added living room % Kiddies’ play room Unusually Large Lot—Beautifully Landscaped Semi-detached—All Brick Four Bed Rooms Two Fine Baths Library on First Floor Recreation Room with Lavatory Adjoining Brick Garage Oil Burner Screened Wher. your family outgrows the home then is the time for that extra room Make use of that back porch, inclose it and make an extra room Unusual Value COMPARlSON INVITED 1331 Michigan Ave. N.E. Easy, Economical Monthly Payment Plan you buy a commercial fertilizer be sure it is for trees and not for other | CHARLES M' WALLINGSFORD S ;, Builder and Owner “In most cases feeding by the | 1010 Vermont Ave. N.W. perforation method is best. That | rmeans punching holes with a pointed | ber or soil auger about a foot apart and to the depth of the roots all over the root area, putting fertilizer | &t the bottom of each hole and filling | with soil. If the ground has become | packed it can be cultivated with profit, using some fertilizer there, too, | Feeding is not a cure for insects or | disease, but a well-nourished tree is | less susceptible to many insects and | some diseases than an undernourished tree” Haye & nice new room for the guest and make your property worth more, Call us now. . Let us estimate the cost of building your porch NOW. CONSTRUCTION J UPERIOR o5& 0kATion 1331 G St. Phone MEt. 2495 NAtl. 2990 An Imposing Corner, Lot 180 ft. Frontage, over 19.500 square feet of Grounds 1290 Kalmia Street N.W. Situated just East of Sixteenth, a delightful and highly restricted community of new homes, an appealing home with large reception room, living room with open fireplace, dining room, sun room, kitchen and pantry, and service stairs on 1st floor; four full sized bedrooms and two baths, heated sleeping porch on 2nd floor; oil burner, electric refriger- “ | ation, screens, weather strips, copper gutters and downspouts, and 2-car detached garage . - f | to match house. Trailers Surprisingly Low Priced for This Character of Home Open Today and Sunday L. T. Gravatte Realtor (Continued From Pirst Page.) time to come. Typical comment from & Des Moines, Iows, real estate firm: “No effects of trailer competition an- ticipated in the near future, due to the severe climatic changes in this area, though a house shortage here has caused a considerable increase in rents and may eventually force people in the lowest rent brackets into trailer Nving” A Milwaukee, Wis, realty concern states, “We believe that with building costs rising and small rent- able units becoming very scarce, many families will at least temporarily adopt the trailer mode of shelter. We éan quote several specific instances.” Southern Winter resort communi- tles have been first to note the effects of trailer popularity. “Our experi- ence 80 far with trailers and tourist — T 2ncC tourlst 729 15th St. N.W. A Home of Dreams Comes True Meadotwbrook Pillage Chevy Chase, D. C. “The (iénria” Burnt Mills H RISTOCRATIC in its elusive charm; Magnificent in its - graceful dignity; Perfection in its interior arrangement, and Harmonious in its incomparable surroundings, this true Georgian type of the old Southern Colonial Mansion is a Mas- terpiece of architecture and craftsmanship in a setting of un- spoiled landscape beauty. Occupying a Two-acre Eminence, with extended views across similar estates of 1 to 5 acres, this will strongly appeal to the family of discriminating tastes. It offers unlimited opportuni- ties for the enjoyment of modern country living combined with every convenience of the city. This home is without a peer in or around Washington in today’s market, and is conservatively priced. Large living and dining rooms; 5 commodious bedrooms and 3 tile baths on 2nd floor; spacious sunlit hallways; Ist floor library and lavatory; modern electric kitchen and large breakfast room; clubroom, 2 servants’ rooms with full bath and extra lavatory in basement. 2-car attached garage. Gen- eral Electric heating system. Finished attic dormitory. Designed by Dillon & Abel R. E. LATIMER CO. Developers Exhibit Home 318 East-West Highway Drive out Conn. Ave. to first trafe light beyond Chevy Chate Circle at_East-West Highwav, turn left, 4 blocks to house. OPEN, HEATED, LIGHTED SUNDAY AND DAILY Drive Down Chevy Chase Boulevard Tomorrow Choice home sites, long-distance view, close to Government Park, new homes all around. Will build to suit, all brick, 5 rooms & bath or larger. %6,950 and up URNT MILLS HILLS is an unique and out- standing achievement as a Community of Country Estates on 1 to 5 acres. It is but 10 miles out 16th iLI; THIS 1S AN ELECTRIC KITCHEN REALTH HOME BEAUTIFULLY Street FURNISHED House, from the White . . and 25 minutes’ ! | : 7 easy driving time. 3 miles n beyond Silver Spring traffic light. A new group of detached brick homes! Every one the work of a master craftsman. Located on an arterial highway, half way between Wisconsin Avenue and Connecticut Avenue, oniy a short walk to schools, all stores, theater and bank. Rapid transportation to downtown passes within a short distance of these homes. The exhibit home, attractively furnished, is a center hall Georgian Colonial of unusual beauty. There is a large living room with open fireplace and adjacent screened living porch; bright, cheerful dining room, modern electric kitchen and pine paneled den. The second floor has Seven other homes, of varied three master bed rooms, two tiled baths, numerous closets and a large cedar-lined closet. Houses Now Available 4929 and 4935 Chevy Chase Boulevard _n.'nk.i* —— price range, completed or under way, open for in- spection. In the basement is a beautiful recreation room with fireplace ond an adjoining open porch at ground level. There is a separate boiler room with oil burner and built-in garage. Built and Presented by the KASS REALTY COMPANY, Inc. Benjamin Goodrick,- Sales Agent “Electric Kitchen Health Home” PHIL. D. POSTON, Inc., Sales Directors SHep. 2630 or 4516 Rugs by Manoukian Open Daily and Sunday 10:30 AM. to Sundown . NA. 6682 101 ISt ST. KW hJ