Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-18
Promises of Assistance.

Promises of Assistance.
Rabbi Abram Simon of the Eighth
Street Temple today wrote the com
evening on Every One to Be a Pro-
Queer"
Rev. DIR. John Weidley. pastor of the
Church of the Reformation, wrote the
committee:
TT gave me pleasure to present your
communication Cn reference to gar
dening) to the members of my congre-
CATION. Lutheran Church of the Ref
ormation. last Sunday. l shall be glad
to do anything within my power to
help promote this laudable and a the
same time imperative need.
Rev. DIR. Samuel H. Greene of Calvary
Baptist Church. wrote: Il shall be glad
to cooperate with you as far as pos
sible in calling the attention of my
people to the excellent work you repre-
sent"
Rev. c. H. Butler, pastor of Columbia
Heights Lutheran Church. said he read
the committees letter on gardening to
his congregation and indorses it. He
adds: 1T is manifestly the proper and
wise thing to do in war times and in
peace as we'll"
At the services at st. Adams Sunday
the committee was informed. the ques-
ton of utilizing vacant spaces was
considered. and the subject will be pre-
sented from time to time.
Rev. DIR. John Van Schaick, jr, pastor
of the Church of Our Father, wrote the
committee: Il am very happy to COM
ply with your request that l give notice
in the church of the work of the cen
trail garden committee. I shall give
the notice by reading your letter"
Rev. E. Albert Cook of Howard Uni
versity wrote
Il presented your suggestion to my
congregation in Capitol Heights last
Sunday. large proportion of the
residents of that town are already ac-
tive in making gardens. ! am now try
ing to find an authority who can come
out to our church on May or May 0
of garden making"
Monday Evening Clubs Action.
George S. Wilson. president of the
Monday Evening Club, notified the com
mittee that the club has designated E.
j. Dakin, 40s 9TH street southwest. to
aid the central garden committees
work
The committee received the following
memorandum of work done on a gar
den. indicating what can be done on a
comparatively small tract by intelli-
gent cultivation.
John Pearson. Tenleytown, has sew
enty square yards of ground. He
works it from to $50 O'Clock am
and from to $50 o'clock pm. this
days labor. He starts blowing April
/. then harrows it. The planting is
done by hand Potatoes are put in
as soon as the ground is ready. Last
seasons yield. which was poor, was
twenty-five bushels. At the same time
he put in lima beans. from which he
got four bushels. He gathered 400
heads of cabbage and five bushels of
parsnips. He had corn from July 4
steadily until frost. This was planted
three weeks apart. seventy hills at a
time. Corn was planted between the
corn, and as soon as the first was
plucked the whole stalk was pulled up
and new put in it's place. Peas he
planted in three patches, two weeks
apart, one quart each time.
Had Surplus for Canning.
string beans. two weeks apart,
yielded enough TO eat steadily during
the summer, and some We're canned A
quart of white navy beans. at IS cents,
was planted and yielded three pecks.
After being dried on the vine these
had to be heated two or three times
in the oven in order to preserve them.
The land yielded forty boxes of to-
matoes which were canned and pre-
served In the fall he sowed the en-
tire tract in turnips. kale and spinach
and kept the family in greens all win
ter"
Frederick j. Rice, president of the
Columbia Heights Citizens Association
today notified the central garden COM
mittee that j. Clinton Hiatt had been
appointed as representative of that
association to cooperate in the COM
garden movement