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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-28
PREPARING THE GARDEN

~ F course the first step that is neces-
sary in preparing for the seasons
work is to clear off the litter that
has covered the plants during the winter.
This should be removed as soon as all
danger of killing frost is over 1t must
all be burned. Grubs and worms, to-
gether with countless germs OF plant
disease, will have found it a hospitable
breeding place during the cold weather.
Pile 1t all on the vegetable patch and
been turned into sterile, useful ashes.
Wherever litter has covered plants like.
peonies. holyhocks. chrysanthemums,
hibiscus and others that die down In the
fall. 1t should be removed very slowly
with trowel, or better STILL with the
hands. Otherwise young shoots will be
mutilated sadly.
Wherever there are no plants break the
ground deeply with a fork and turn the
topsoll. This Will expose grubs that win
ter just under the frost line. and also kill
many weed-seeds that are just getting
ready to terminate. Such work can be
done even though the soil may still be far
too damp and cold for other gardening
Dig around all the vines. bushes and
trees. and spade in fertilizer or stun from
the compost heap Break the topsoil flne-
ly and mulch. or cover with a sprinklinG
Of well-raked earth so that the full bene-
fit of the April rains shall be kept In the
ground.
A few minutes spent every day from
now on to keep the soil around growing
plants loose and finely pulverized will
store away enough of the April rains to
carry the garden through a possible
drought in May. The earth underneath
every garden is a reservoir OF surprising
possibilities. and will save extraordinary
quantities of water If the topsoil is not
allowed to bake and crack and thus force
evaporation.
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spoonful powdered sugar and gradually
a cup Of cold milk. Beat the batter again
until smooth and light. Heat g. frying pan
hot, brush with melted butter and pour
In the batter. Bake for moment, then
pour in a pint of preserved pineapple or
apples and set in a hot oven until the
batter is thoroughly cooked through under
the fruit. Slide carefully out of the pan
on to a hot plate; sift powdered sugar
over 1t and serve at once.
Rolled Pancakes.
Separate four eggs. whites and yolks.
Beat the yolks until lemon coIored and
thick and add cup and half milk
Measure out one cupful sifted flour and
sift with it q half teaspoonful salt. Add
the eggs and milk to the flour and beat
until smooth. Beat the whites Of the
eggs to a stiff froth and fold into the
mixture. Put a tablespoonful butter into
a frying pan and when hot pour in
enough Of the mixture to cover the bot
tom Of the pan. Bake to delicate brown
on the under side, and when done spread
with marmalade or fruit jam and roll
up quickly. Dust with sugar and serve
at once. Sometimec these cakes are
glazed with a red-hot salamander and
sometimes a little grated lemon peel is
added to the batter These are also
known as pancakes a la Celestine
German Pufferts.
These crisp brown cakes are a favorite
German dish. made as follows: Crate six
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sECoND-CRoP VEGETABLES.

n USH beans may be planted continu-
r. ously as ripened crops are taken
- out. from April to the end Of July.
They will be ready for use in about fifty
days after planting. Plant beets from
early spring to August. Crops will be
ready in about fifty days. Plant carrots
from early spring till June. They need
three months to ripen. thus your last
seeding will give you carrots aoout the
down continuously from spring to Sep
TENDER Some very small and tender
varieties will be ready for the table in
side of thirty days Others will ripen all
the way between that time and three
months. In the south lettuce seeding Is
just reversed. u being sown from Septem-
Der to March.
Peas can be sown till June. They re-
an abundant crop during the season. 1t is
wise to plant many rows early In the
year Radishes may be sown till Sep
TENDER, as they will mature in an ave-
age of thirtyfive days.
When these veletables begin to come
up they should be thinned as follows:
Bush beans. If of very full and bushy
habit, one foot between plants. Beets
and carrots, thin down so as to leave not
more than three plants to the foot. Let
tuce must be thinned down. according to
the variety, to make the plants stand
from four to eight inches apart, and in
the case Of specially big-heading kinds
the quality will be improved If they are
as far as foot apart. providing tine
garden has room. In the case of nom
heading kinds. or in the case of family
that wants to pick young lettuce before it
has reached full size (by which a most
delicious and tender though not very
plentiful supply is securely. the plants
need not be thinned down at all, but can
be left to grow close together, as they
will be used before they begin to rob
each other Of nourishment
Peas are usually permitted to grow
pretty closely together. Three inches e.
tween plants is generally ample. To get
very fine radishes. thin the plants to
make them stand two inches apart. If
you propose to gather most of the rad
ishes while they are still very young and
small, let the plants stay close together.
as you will then thin them naturally In
the process of using them
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beaten egg and a tablespoonful salt. SLIT
about a half pound flour into bowl and
stir the liquid into 1t, beating to a light
batter. Dissolve a compressed yeast cake
In tablespoonful cream, then add two
more tablespoonfuls cream and tea
spoonful sugar to the butter. thoroughly
beating them together. Cover the bowl
with a cloth and let rise three-quarters
should be light and spongy all through.
Put a griddls over the fire, grease we'll
and set on it well-greased muffin rings.
Fill threefourths full Of the raised batter.
and when cooked a delicate brown on the
griddle side slide a pancake turner under
the rings and cakes, turning over quickly.
Brown on the other side When done
tear apart, butter each side. place to-
gether again and serve at once.
German Pancakes.
The Germans have two forms OF pan
cakes, one prepared from grated raw po-
tato favored with onion and served as
vegetable for dinner, and the other
large wheat cake, served with powdered
sugar and quarters of lemon. or spread
with preserved fruit and glazed in the
oven.
To make the latter sift then weigh
half pound Of -four. Beat three good
sized eggs until light; make a we'll in the
center of the -four and gradually work
the eggs into 1t until you have q smooth
batter free from Jumps Add a table,
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Mock Orange Bush.
~ HE mock orange" of Philadelphus
is popularity known as "syrnga,"

1" HE mock orange of Philadelphus
is popularity known as "syringa.'
L and the latter is the botanical
name for lilac. The mock orange family
comprises about thirty species of hardy
ornamental shrubs. varying in height
from five to twenty feet many of them
admirably adapted for the decoration Of
home grounds.
Perhaps the most widely grown variety
of those known to the old-time gardener
as "syringas' is Philadelphus grandi-
horus, which grows about six feet high
and has large white, sweet-scented flow
ers. which appear in June. Common
mock orange P. coronarius) reaches
about ten feet in height and blooms in
May or June. and is very fragrant. The
flowers are pure white and are borne in
dense clusters, often so numerous as to
bend the branches down to the ground
Gordon'S mock orange (P. gOrdonianuS)
is native of the United States, and in
good ground often reaches ten or twelve
feet in height. 1t has pleasing green
The flowers are white and produced in
great abundance. They bloom in June or
July in central ATTITUDES.
This plant thrives in almost any we'll
drained soil. and often does we'll in the
shade of trees and buildings. Pruning
should be done after the shrubs have
lowered. as the blossoms appear on the
wood of the previous years growth. BY
pruning the shrubs can all be kept within
fixed limits of growth.
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SETTING OUT PLANTS.

way II you have a large number. Roots
exposed to sun or wind begin to suffer
at once.
Dig the hole much deeper and bigger
than the plant apparently needs. Throw
the lower soil. which usually is inferior,
to one side and I'LL in with fine top soil
and some manure, but put the manure
SO deep down that the roots won't touch
II when the plant is set in the hole.
Trample on This bottom filing TIL you
have a nrm foundation OF fine, rich earth
Hold the plant in the hole as you want
1t to stand when planted. II Its longest
roots will just touch the bottom without
crsmping the excavation Is right. ana
you can drop the plant in and let It rest
on the bottom temporarily.
Throw finely pulverized dirt in TIL the
roots are all covered. Pack them down
as hard possible. The roots arc COM
pressed and twisted now. and the plant
will be much deeper In the pit than
1t should be, but you will achieve the
necessary result Of packing the roots
thoroughly with soil.
Now pull the plant up gently. 20 that
II stands perfectly perpendicular ana -
high as 1t should be. You can tell this
by the appe arance OF the main stem.
which will show the earth line.
Hold II with one hand and with tho
other pack earth down between the roots.
No matter how tightly 1t seems to have
been packed before you will fnd that
you can poke your finger into inrufnera-
BILE cavities. All these must be filled up
tightly.
When you cannot possibly force an
other bit OF earth between or under the
roots. fill in the hole. Every shovelful
must be trampled down. When you have
filled to within an inch of the top. throw
in manure or other fertilizer, but don't
let It touch the stem.
Then turn the water on Don't stop
| till the ground Is so well soaked that
| tho water remains standing on top. When
| it has finally drained away, cover with
leaves or grass or other vegetable litter
| for a mulch, or toss finely raked earth
| over It,
| Soak freely for some days after plant
! ms. Don't sprinkle. but pour 1t on from
| hose or bucket. Remember. however,
that though the plant needs lots of water
after 1t is in. you must not plant II
in wet ground. The soil must be dry
while ynu plant.
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1--WE most glorious Towering shrub
for very early spring is the for
= sythia. also known as golden Dell.
1t grows to a height of eight and even ten
feet, and has wonderful yellow flame OF
blossoms that absolutely hide the
branches before a single leaf appears.
The branches arch over and make de-
uehtful shrub that is satisfactory all the
wear II will make it's finest show II
nlanted against n dark background. Give
each plant plenty of room, for the
branches will spread widely and will fl
naIlv bend to the earth again and root at
the tips.
It is little troubled by insects. and needs
onlv slight pruning. There are several
varieties The one described here Is
forsythia suspense, and it is by far
the most satisfactory. Young plants.
from two TO three years old. and about
two feet high, can be bought for % cents
each For a fine group. plant three or
four of these. giving each plant from
four to five feet of clear space around 1t.
One plant will be sufficient for a small
place. Do not set this shrub in the
middle of an open space. 1t needs back
ground
The showiest Towering bush for mid
summer bloom is the weigelia. This Is
one of our very hardest plants, with
standing not only all sorts of climatic
conditions. but being able to flourish
where other shrubs fail 1t will do al
most equally we'll In shady or sunny
places. For this reason 1t Is splendid
where shrubbery is desired in spots that
are shaded either by the house or by
dig trees.
1t branches so widely and sturdily that
1t becomes almost tree-like under favor
able conditions, and. therefore, is shrub
that will look well standing alone. al
though. like all other shrubs, it is most
effective in groups.
Weigelia candida has pure white flow
ers. Weigelia rosea has richly rose-col-
ored blossoms. Weigela rosea, variegat-
ed has charming variegated foliage. and
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M osT amateur gardeners keep the
|" rake, hoe, sickle and other garden
S"S tools In the cellar 1t isn't really
a handy" place. The man who has only
a few moments to spare. can do lot
in that short time If he doesn't need TO
waste any of it getting ready. If the
cellar is kept locked, those few min
utes that he could use TO rake, hoe or
prune Just before he starts for business
or just before dinner are usually lost
because 1t is too much trouble to get
the tools.
The best way is to have a concealed
spot in the back of the garden, where
all these things can be kept. The
writer has heavy oblong case. long
enough and wide enough to accommo-
date the rake and hoe, with the sickle.
trowel. pruning shears. old saw and
hand spray pump. This is lined with
waterproof tarred paper and sunk In
the ground behind a group of lilacs.
About an inch of the case projects
above the surface. A heavy lid. one
quarter of an inch wider and longer than
the box protects the contents from rain.
An oil-soaked rag is in it, and this is
tossed over the tools and is used now
and then to give them rub. Such
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good-sized potatoes. Add to them half
teaspoonful finely chopped onion. half
teaspoonful salt and one egg thor
oughly beaten. Mix we'll Have a
tablespoonful butter. Put in two
! tablespoonfuls of the batter and brown
on both sides until crisp. The Germans
usually serve apple sauce or some stewed
fruit with pufferts.
Wheat Pancakes.
These are more tender when made with
! out eggs, but the egg gives additional
food value and also a good nutty flavor
which the cakes baked without lack.
When eggs are high a tablespoonful In
dian meal can be substituted for the egg
with satisfactory results. Made with
sour or buttermilk and soda they are
more delicate than when the sweet milk
and baking powder or soda and cream OF
tartar is used. One or two chopped apples
or a cup Of huckleberries stirred In the
batter at the last afford pleasing changes
from time to time. The batter for pan
cakes should be thin or a sour batter
A general rule for thin batters is scant
measure of the liquid to full measure OF
-four. II soda and cream Of tartar are
used. allow a level teaspoonful soda and
two rounded teaspoonfuls cream OF tartar
to each quart of -four. If baking powder.
three rounded teaspoonfuls to each quart
of -four. Where sour milk Is useu, tie
general proportion Is a teaspoonful soda
to a mint of sour milk To make the sour
milk cakes. sift into pint of flour hali
teaspoonful salt and teaspoonful SODA.
Mix thoroughly. Add scant pint sour
milk and beat we'll. Then add the beaten
yolk of one egg and, lastly, the whipped
white folded in. Bake on hot. we'll
creased griddle, turning as soon as the top
is full of bubbles. Bake unit me cake
stops putting and serve at nee. some
good cooks prefer to mix e sour mix
with the flour over night. adding the salt
soda and egg in the morning. For vari-
alton in these cakes use half or one-thlrd
fine corn meal graham or whole wheat
flour.
Bread Pancakes.
Wheat pancakes made with bread
crumbs are nice served with fresh fruit or
preserves Pour pint scalding milk over
cup of stale mot dried bread crumbs
Add a teaspoonful butter. and soak over
night or until the crumbs are softened
When cool and ready to bake. add pint
of -four sifted with two teaspoonfuls bak-
ing powder and half teaspoonful salt.
Add two we'll beaten eggs and cup of
milk possibly little more. Beat the
batter thoroughly and bake on hot. we'll
creased griddle These will take longer
to bake than the ordinary cake.
Kentucky Waffles.
Beat the whites and yolks Of three eggs
separately. Add to the yolks one pint sour
cream and two pints of flour. Add enough
sweet milk to make the batter very thin.
Add three tablespoonfuls melted lard. a
teaspoonful soda dissolved in a little milk
and lastly fold the whites. Bake quickly
in very hot irons. Serve with butter,
syrup or caramel sauce.
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PROPAGATION OF PLANTS.
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IF 1T is at all possible set aside some
waste part of your place. even II 1t
i is only few feet square, for place
TO plant all cuttings that come away In
pruning shrubs and other plants
The hydrangea paniculata grandifora
will root splendidly from cuttings hve or
six inches Ions set in the ground any
time before June. If the soil is me How
and soft all that is necessary is to Suck
the cutting in. AS pruning Is Dehenclai
for this variety of hydrangea, you Will
get many cuttings even from one p PAN.
There is no reason why dozens or pants
should not be raised from them.
The larger clippings from California
privet hedges will root with equal ease:
Willows OF all sorts, poplars. catalpa ana
almost all the hardy shrubs Will root
we'll To get tall background or a
screen quickly and cheaply. nothing Is
so easy as TO plant poplar branches close
together Five out of six poplar cut
tjnpj will thrive. even If they are as long
a. axe feet when thrust into the ground
Peel Avay a few inches of bark at the
bo,,oA. They will often have quite a
showing of leaves within a few weeks
aftei planting.
CstaIba trees cut into lengths for fence
posts{ often take root and become hne
No4t hardy roses will propagate well
from cuttings, lnOuen nol 81 cnSHy as
tn, rtlants that have been named. Wei
ceha land forsythia propagate well under
favortng conditions. but are not abso-
lutelY certain.
LOCUST, when grown for a hedge. can
b, made 10 increase itself by frequent
pruning and planting OF the cuttings
Woo1bine and all the varieties of honey
suckIe will grow freely, particularly If
a good portion OF vine be planted its whole
length in trench SO that II may send
out lots OF suckers.
II }there is an unattractive vacant lot
behind your garden or anywhere where
il sy}oils the view. plant all your cuttings
there and in addition throw there ali
seed that YOU can't use and all old roots.
Only a few minutes need be devoted
10 this. for you need simply stick the
cuttings into the ground. The writer
changed a most ugly plot of seven build
ing lots behind his garden into what
was not only beautiful place ike a
wild garden. but nursery that produced
almost two hundred plants for himself
and his friends during three years.
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Perverted Ingenuity.
From the Springfield Republican.

England was rather in advance Of
America in demanding honest names for
drugs and articles of food, and a recent
heavy penalty has dealt serious blow to
the profitable traffic in spurious Havana
cigars. The stale trick was resorted to of
adding a qualifying word: "Habana riv-
ais" the cigars were called. with rivals
in small print. and 1t was contended that
the meaning was not that the cigars were
Havanas. but that they rivaled Havanas
In merit. But this excuse did not appeal
to the court. The new movement for
honesty in trade is incidentally an educa-
tional movement for the honest use of the
English language. Much perverted inge-
nuity has gone to the invention of decep-
tive phrases, and to get rid of such quib-
hles &c -''rdy upward step in CONNER
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- o THE beginner there always seems

~ o THE beginner there always seems
to be a mystery about setting out
d growing plants, such as hardy
shrubs. etc. AS a matter Of fact. any
body with common sense can plant our
ordinary shrubs successfully with ordi-
nary common sense.
If the dealer from whom you buy is
good one he will deliver the plants
with the roots carefully protected. II
you cannot set them out Immediately. dig
hastily made trench. take all the bun
dies just as they are, thrust the root
parts gently into the excavation. cover
thor oughly and press the earth down
with the feet: Pour water on literally
Thus the plants will often pull through
a delay of days.
Even II you are going to plant at once,
It is wise to heel in the plants this
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An Icicle Factory.
From the Pathfinder.

Prom the FdtNEHItE
In Austria ice sticks" are manufac-
tured at a~profit. \ series of poles is ar
ranged so that the water will fall slowly
over each one in the series. OF course.
the water in thu winter time freezes,
forming large icicles. When the icicles
have attained the proper size the en-
ployes of the lice plant" come around
with carts. break off the great sticks of
ice and haul them away 10 a place where
they are put in storage. OF course, 1t is
much easier 20 handle large quantity of
ice in this way than II is TO cut it from
some }stream and then pack IL away. There
may. however. be a difference in quality
taatween stick Ice and lake or river ice.
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FINE PIONEERING SHRUBS.

is to be preferred where only one speci-
men can be planted.
This shrub is free from insects. except
that occasionally a borer will attack it.
1t is easy to prevent this by ordinary
watchfulness. as the arrival of the enemy
is announced almost at once by the ap-
pearance of the branch. To keep this
shrub at it's best. all old wood should be
cut out regularly. close to the ground.
Plants two or three years old cost -
cents. Both of these shrubs can be
planted early in the coming month. or
they can go in fairly early in the fall, in
which case the forsythia may produce
some blossoms by next April, while the
weigeia is pretty sure to bear flowers
by next summer If the plants are sturdy.
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garden in the morning unless you ,an
pick up the rake on the instant.
If you have latticework inclosing a We
randa it might be a good thing to cut a
little door in it and keep the tools there.
The earth under verandas Is perfectly
dry if the ground has been properly
graded by the builders
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SUPPER.
Scalloped Oysters
Bread and Butter.
French Pancakes with Jelly.
Cheese Cake.
n ANCAKEs are favorites the world
over. with a lineage behind them
that runs back to the very dawn of
hist Dry. One of the ancient Saxon names
for February is translated the month of
cakes because in that month the pagan
Saxons made an offering TO the sun. THE
kindle the fire and the women knead their
dough to make cakes to the queen of
heaven" walls the Prophet jeremiah in
foretelling the calamity of the Jews.
Cakes and the failings Of the bakers
furnish the Prophet Hosea with wealth
of pregnant illustrations in describing
Gods wrath against the nations for their
various shortcomings. Cakes have been
used at all stages of the worlds history
to sanctify solemn coTpacts between man
and man History tells of a fearful
slaughter of the Danes pursuant to a
pancake OATH" and EngliShmen still
recall with shudder those mystic ON
nipotent symbols which We're found one
morning before that awful Indian mu-
tiny when the tigers of that slaughter
seem to have their own special varieties
of cakes the Scotchman alone halls his
country as The Land o Cakes"
Scotch Dat Cakes.
Notwithstanding that the auto racer
St. Chaffray is credited with just dis
covering that "oat porridge is a glorious
sample of what mechanical ingenuity can
do with hard grain that Europeans
consider good for nothing save the feed
ing of horses" the Scotcnman can give
Americans points right along on the cum
nary utilization of that nutritious grain.
The scotch oat cake can either be fried
on a griddle or boiled over a fire. The
meal used for this purpose should be
ground rather fine. A good rule for these
oat cakes is this: Put quart of the meal
in baking dish with a teaspoonful of
salt. Four in. little by little. just enough
cold water to make a dough and roll out
quickly before 1t hardens into d circular
sheet about a quarter of an inch thick.
Cut into four CAKES and bake slowly for