Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-04-29
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Question Box, The Atlanta Tri-Week-
ly Journal, Atlanta, Ga.
Dear Folks-You see we are giving
Rosa Lee "the floor" this time.
Her letter and questions were so
good and so suggestive of other ques-
lions that I felt they would be a
help to you all.
Questions are coming in very rap
idly, and it is indeed pleasure to
be of such service to you.
Cordially, AUNT JULIA
Rosa Lee: Your questions were so
we'll put and so interesting that l
am going to answer you through the
letter box instead of personal let
ter. Your questions may suggest
something to our other readers.
Thank you for your welcome to
the Question Box, I do hope it will
prove helpful to you and that you
will feel at liberty to come at any
time.
No. l.: If furniture has been stored
a long time and has become very
dusty the best way to clean is with
Ivory soap and warm water. You
have to dry the furniture as it is
cleaned, for unless you do you vii!
have streaks and possibly widowed
spots, but if you wash it quickly and
dry, you will have a satisfactory
piece of work. If the furniture has
become sticky or if the dirt is
ground in, use gasoline, being care
full to rub the furniture we'll with
dry cloth. Then polish.
No. 2: When only the lower sash
curtain should come just to the win
dow sill. 1t is difficult to put the
rods on the inside of the case and
more difficult to take out when the
curtains are to be Numbered. would
certainly put my rods on outside of
casing. For easement window OF
course the curtains should have a
rod bottom and top.
No 2. Gin Cham HraSS will he as
coed this season as last, in fact, in
dicati0ns are that they will be even
better.
No. 4: Wait until fall to transplant
your rose cuttings. This can be done
in the early spring. but better results
are obtained if you do your trans
planting in the early fall.
No. 5: Set out your lilac bushes in
the fall; they are early boomers and
need a good start.
No. 6: have found Carbona most
satisfactory for removing grease
spots from wooden goods-put your
cloth over a clean crash towel, pour
the Carbona through the spot to be
cleaned, using a soft small sponge to
rub over and around the spot. If all
the grease does not disappear with
the first rubbing, move to clean
spot in the towel and repeat process
If it seems to circle, soak sponge
in Carbona and br ush quickly around
outside of circle, working inward.
No. Z: Your yard should indeed
be beautiful if you follow out your
idea of planting permanent shrubs
and flowers.
Close to your house, in front, by
all means plant Abelia. This shrub
grows from cuttings, is hardy, stay
ing a lovely green all winter and
Towering profusely in summer. A
few good plants on each side of your
steps will soon make a gorgeous bed
from which you can take cuttings for
other paintings.
Your walk, you write, is twenty
feet long and eight feet wide. Would
it be possible for you to secure fiat
flint rock or flag stones for this
walk? If you can, and will scatter
grass seeds in the small creviCeS be
tween the stones you will have joy
forever. Your cape jassamine at the
head of your walk and the small box
wood hedge leading to your rose
bushes at the other end of the Walb
makes a fine layout for a 'Welcom-
ing Walk" If your lockwood is cut
low enough broaden out your bed Of
Sweet Williams, and il you like a
colorful border broaden still moro
with the sweet old-faShioned peren
mails. I would suggest your group
ing your lilacs with your cape jassa.
mine, better effects are obtained by
grouping shrubs. Would also plant
my roses in a regular rose bed, you
get very little result from scattered
bushes. A front yard has to be more
formal than either back or side. II
you have a hedge line that lies in
a sunny place do plant some old-fash
Toned hOllyhock on the inside. ]
wonder if you are using any of the
Spirea family on your place? 1t is
so satisfying and after It gets a ggo1
growth can be separated Indefinitely.
\ planting of the variety known as
"B<by breath" close to the side OF
your house will fill your heart with
JOY in the very early spring and con.
tinue after its Towering period is
past to give you a misty, cool green
all summer. If you prefer bed
across your yard instead of down
your walk, make oblong beds of the
oldfashioned perennials at either
side of your walk, just in front OF
your shrubs, taking care to calculate
the height of each planting so thai
the tallest are sure to be as a back
ground for the others.
Constantine Is Slated