Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-02
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

, ly to be Interested in it almost to the
exclusion of other flowers.
| During recent years the glad1olus
| has seen a remarkable development,
the blooms far transcending the hum
| bier reds OF our grandnother's garden.
| The different varieties have names of
their own, and the bulbs often COM
mand n very fancy price.
We look forward with particular an
l'ticipation to the blooming of the yell
| low Schwaben. This Is declared to be
| the best of the yellows. We of Estey
alley are partial to yellow flowers. 1t
is natural preference, too-we did
not read in some book that yellow
| blooms are very Stylish now.
No, sir. we like yellow tulips, yellow
roses and yellow "glads" just because
we like sunshine! Last Summer the
wonderful yellow zinnias were the
pride of our garden; we like yellow
no matter what the fool psycho-analy-
Sists say
Our soap-box stool does us little
good in Kidding up the yard. We
have been working on this job for a
month and every time we go out into
| the back yard we find a bit of brush
or leaves we missed the last time.
We do not need our box, either, in
spraying the rose bushes.
Where on earth do the aphids, the
! green lice, come fromf Almost over
night they coated the buds and stalks
| They are fat little green creatures
| filled to the brim with destructiveness
and the milk" of the ants.
The lice are of a beautiful pale
| green color. Looking at them clustered
| around a rosebud one cannot but help
| feel that the stocking manufacturers
are missing a bet in not copying the
color and advertising it as "aphid."
How to get rid of them?
| Get a sprayer and a solution OF
nicotine sulphate, which. by the way
is deadly poison. and mix half tea
| spoon in a quart of soapy water.
Then wet the insects until they run
around on the other side of the bud
Then remove to the other side and
spray them back again. Keep this
up until the bugs are coated with SOAP
and nicotine. In the morning the
aphids will be gone.
The nicotine sulphate. 1t may be re-
marked in passing. smells exactly like
an old pipe gone wrong.
| r
| The task we dread most in the gar
den is technically known as thinning
out"
| This requires us to attack the thick
growing sweet peas and yank out by
the roots about half OF them in order
that the plants that remain may have
room enough to grow properly.
| We shudder at the task How dc
we know we are taking out the worst
ones, not the best? We do not When
we get them out, shall we throw them
away or give them to the neighbors
Some Of them we can replant in a
| bare spot in the row, that is some
| thing to be thankful for. Anyway
| the deed must be done. All of US anna
| teur gardeners, the books tell us, are
inclined to keep our plants too close
! together.
Well, no wonder! We only want &c
| plant all the flowers in the catalogues
and we find it rather difficult to do /;
in the small city back yard. What we
| need is a farm
Say, come here and look at this rose
| BUSH
There. in all the beauty of the true
rose pink. sits the first rose of the
season, nodding there at the end of a
| long stalk.
1t is not very large-the bush will
do better later-but to US 1t is very
beautiful
To Estey alley gardeners the first
rose OF Spring seems lovelier than the
| last rose Of Summer.