Evening star., 1926-01-18
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

"a good lawn is unquestionably the
most beautiful and most valuable fea-
ture of the home grounds; or, in fact,
of any landscape developments, in
Guiding public parks, private estates,
suburban plots, or even city yard"
says our catalogue.
Nothing else can impart the same
dignity, or appearance of refinement.
| or set off the ARCHITECTURAL beauty of
a building to better advantage than a
well made. well kept lawn.
Furthermore, a beautiful lawn is
not only valuable from an esthetic
| standpoint, or because it promotes a
personal pride of ownership; but it
also possesses real intrinsic value, as
1t actually increases the value of the
property upon which 1t grows"
Many a Washington householder
could take that advice with benefit, IL
one may judge from the bare front
yards to be seen in Summer. 1t is
true that the trees here make the
growing of grass difficult in some To-
calities, but even here the expenditure
of few dollars for really good grass
seed especially for the kinds suited to
shady places, will give pleasing
results.
Those who have never looked into a
catalogue of this magnitude will be
offered Here we have not only the
| mixtures for all sorts of situations,
but also various kinds Of golf course
mixtures and grasses. and grasses
especially suited to athletic fields.
The list of individual recleaned
grasses includes Bermuda grass, Can
| ada blue grass, Chewing's New Zea-
| land fescue, colonial bent. creeping
bent, fine -leaved sleeps fesCue, hard
ia,, CO Il ..lyI,
blue, meadow fescue, red or creeping
feSCue, red-top fancy, Rhode Island
bent, rough -stalked meadow, various
leayed fescue and wood meadow grass
Come we now las the movies say
to the e-honored seed catalogue
statement:
I'm accordance with the universal
custom of the seed trade, - --
& Co. gives no warranty, express or
implied as to description, quality
productiveness or any other matter Of
any seeds, bulbs, roots or plants they
send out, and they will not be in any
way responsible for the crop"
Usually the following is appended:
"And If the customer is not willing to
accept these goods on these conditions
they are to be returned at once"
Color plates of gigantic tomatoes,
sweet corn, stringless beans, asters,
snapdrag CONS, sweet peas, zinnias,
gladioli, dahlias, etc, greet our wan
dering eyes.
Surely we will have to try some of
this grand tomato seed on our back
fence, In the past we have gone in
for flowers. exclusively. but this color
plate is irresistible.
We. too. want to be among the
satisfied customers who write in that
every tomato they grow weighs or
3 pounds.
AS for the flowers. we are left in
delightful state of perplexity. wanting
each and every one, but realizing full
well that our dooryard is not large
enough to hold them all, even if we
had enough money to purchase the
entire collection.
The fine thing about flowers. how
ever, is that one does not have to have
them all to have all that they are
able to give US.
One gladiolus has the beauty of a
hundred, and a border of Zinnias is a
veritable flower garden all by itself.
One rose is as sweet as a dozen roses.
one violet as shy as bouquet, one
glowing dahlia the epitome of them
all.
Thus we muse over our catalogue
book