Evening star., 1925-03-15
SLIM FORSYTHIA BUSHES FORM
YELLOW LACE DRESS OF CAPITAL
Massive Banks, Like Pale Gold Waterfalls, Are in
Full Blossom, With Cornelian Cherries, Jasmines
and Star MagnoIias Coming Into Elo,cer.

Little Miss Washington discards her
solled brown rompers this week and
puts on her first party dress of the
Springtime-a delicate yellow lace
aHalr of weeping forsythia, cornelian
cherry and Winter jasmine, with a
new bonnet of star magnolias and a
petticoat of wild violets.
BY and by she will wear more
eiaoorate dresses-a coming out gown
OF cherry blossoms and some gorgeous
draperies of roses and lilies, spireas
and weigelias.
But she will never wear a prettier
dress than her first All this week
she has been practicing with it, Next
week she Will be able to wear it to
perfection, like the little lady she is
Bushes I'm Full Bloom
All this by way of saying that the
forsythias are in full bios ON, about
a week earlier than usual and with
a wealth OF flowers seldom seen in
washington so early in the year.
Ihese slender bushes, popularity
known as the Weeping Forsythias,
like long, pale yellow waterfalls, can
be seen this week in almost every
part of the District. Today they are
in almost full blossom on the Capital
grounds. about the Sylvan Theater,
south Of the Washington Monument
around the Tidal Basin, along Mary
land avenue northeast and along
Massachusetts avenue between Thomas
and Scott Circles, where the finest
display in the city is to be seen Be-
sides. there are few suburban front
yards which do not have one or more
bushes
These bushes have an uncanny
habit of blossoming with the first
teW days OF warm weather in March
and usually pay the price of their i'm
petuousness when they are caught by
a later frost, which ends their bloom
ing for the season. The blossoms
come first and the leaves follow. 1t
is not uncommon to see them bloom
ing with patches of late snow on the
ground.
The popularity of the rorsythia has
grown rapidly in the District In the
last few years. 1t spreads quickly
sending up each Summer dozens of
new shoots, which are covered from
the roots up with yellow blooms, tiny
bell-like delfcacies, the following
Spring. Once started, the shrub
propag gates itself.
The cornelian cherries. also coming
into full bloom, are not so common,
but are even more snowy. The
shrubs grow or feet high and the
Towering branches extend from the top
umbrella fashion. There are a dozen
or more about the Capital grounds,
a number of scattered bushes in East
Potomac Park. and single bushes in
practically every park area in the
city. There are masses of them In
East Potomac Park near the inlet
bridge. where they are next-door
neighbors to the Japanese cherries.
Jasmines in Flower.
The Winter jasmines are old-fash-
ioned. but somewhat neglected shrubs
about Washington. They grow about
feet high and today are covered
with starlike yellow blooms, about
the size of forsythia blossoms with
a reddish interior. There are fine dis
plays of them on the Capital grounds,
in Lafayette Park and in Washington
Circle. These also are likely to be
caught and ruined by frost.
During the week the star maGnolias,
the earliest of the magnolia family and
the queens of Washington's early Spring
time, will be IN full bloom. The buds
were bursting yesterday on the Capitol
grounds and in parks where isolated
specimens have been set. One of the
finest in the city is in the White House
grounds near the offices.
The wild violets are opening and with
will be great beds of them in Rock
Creek Park and in all the stretches of
woodland about the Capital. They are
naturally shy and delicate flowers which
will be ruined by a heavy frost, but