Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-06-11
HELPS SALE OF LOT To
HAVE IT IN CULTIVATION
ment to Success Of Subur
ban Gardens.
MUCH SPACE HAS BEEN TAKEN
Means New Members of Nature Study
Glasses in Public Schools, Says
Principal Thomas, of Ginter Park.
Time for Insects and Disease.

Ryland, OF tho Realty and Finance
Corporation. that it always helps the
sale OF a city lot to have it In clean
cultivation with growing crop on 1t.
On this account we make It rule to
have our developments as far as pos
Side sown In some cover crop during
the winter and planted during the sum-
mer. This continuous cropping not
only helps TO get the land more level
and in better condition for prospective
attractiveness. There is also health
consideration. For instance, city lot
all grown up in marsh grasses and
shrubbery suggests a fno breeding
place for mosquitoes. while one covered
over with rag weeds would not be so
enticing to person afflicted with hay
fever. I consider every lot you get in
cultivation n big help to the suburban
development of Richmond. Ny advice
10 our customers is to have their lots
cultivated in preference to letting them
lie idle"
Tho occasion OF these remarks on
Mr.. Ryland's part was in connection
with his turning over to the central
garden committee this week fourteen
lots in the North Richmond Terrace.
In addition to a similar number pre-
viously placed at It's disposal These
lots strikingly illustrate how the prep
aration of land helps TO stimulate an
interest in planting. At the time tho
first lots were prepared, only four had
been taken by group of boys under
Louis BloomberE. Soon. however. the
others were all taken. When the prcp-
aration of the last group was begun
Tuesday, not one had been taken.
Now more than half these have been
spoken for. In addition, several indi-
viduals in that section who had been
unable to arrange for the preparation
OF their lots have taken advantage of
the opportunity afforded them by tho
preparedness force OF advance guard
of the central garden committee, to
have their land prepared.
EVERY LOT TAKEN.
WITH OTHERS IN DEMAND
What is illustrated In the above Is
forcibly duplicated in the instance OF
tho Battery Court property, where
about ten acres were secured through
the active cooperation of ]. w. Nc
Combs, who is also an ardent advo-
cate for the cultivation OF suburban
lots as an aid to their development
When the preparation of this land was
begun, none of it was spoken for. Now
practically every lot Is taken. with
other applications that are having to
be turned down.
Keep your eyes open for insects and
diseases is the slogan of A. L. Thomas,
principal of the Ginter Park School,
~ hos ct,
]. Frank Fooshe. director OF the Amer
lean National Bank Garden Club, in
the inspection Of the gardens of that
suburb. where the gardening fever Is
running high. During the winter Mr..
Thomas, who is TO have charge OF the
agricultural work in the summer nor
NAL al CovinEton, conducted a nature
study class at tho Ginter Park School
AS means of bringing the adults OF
that community into closer touch with
the community life. This garden move
ment." he said. "means many new mem
bers for our nature-study class the
coming season. The insects discussed
IN the classes the past season are now
living realities to many who had never
given them much study previously
Some OF the lessons learned in those
studios have been help to these ANA
ture gardeners in combating the in
sects and diseases that prey upon trees
and plants. This putting into prac-
tice the things taught in classes serves
TO vitalize the work done and to awuk-
en- a larger interest in the practical
side of modern school life. This tech
meal information as to the life OF
plants and the habits of insects is p
big help to the right use of insec.i-
cides and fungcides The spray jump
Is destined to become a part Of the
apparatus of every well-regulated
school much so as the hammer and
the saw in the manual training di-
vision for the boys, or the needle and
the baking pan in the domestic SCI
ence department for the girls. 1t is
the poorest sort of economy for the
farmer in the country or the gardener
in the city to go to the expense of
preparing and planting land, only to
have the crop eaten by insects or de-
stroyed by diseases. which could read
ilV he cOntrolle6 at small