Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-19
THIS AND THAT
BY Charles e. TRlcEWELL.

Time has q way OF bringing q wis
! dom OF her own. even 70 the flower
| lover. II shows him at last that there
Is difference between growing
| few roses and many roses. that for
I general all-sround floral enjoyment
there are other plants. too.
No doubt this Autumn will see
| many persons taking stock. deciding
/ TO go easy" on rose growing, to leave
! Il to the experts and the florists. No
| flower is more beautiful, when grown
right, than the rose. few more dis
appointing in the ordinary garden
| form, as grown by the amateur who
/ has neither the time, money or pa
/ thence. to give them what they de-
mand.
The famous yellow, Souvenir de
! Claudius Pernet, Is a fine example.
As grown in the greenhouse, under
| perfectly controlled conditions, 1t Is
| one Of the most beautiful OF flowers.
/ Placed in a blue vase. its sunfiower
/ yellow blossoms vie with water lilies.
But what happens when the ANA
teur tries 10 grow it in the garden in
| the sun? He cannot control the
amount of light and heat, he cannot
| even be sure that heavy rains will not
| descend just as the buds unfold.
The result is that he seldom II ever
gets in the garden the perfect flowers
! which he sees, or at least once saw,
in the florists window. For even the
florists do not grow it as much as
| they did No one can blame the
| flower people for offering It with vast
| enthusiasm to the public, but it is a
hopeful note to see that they have
| quietly replaced 1t with later produce
| lions.
And now that we, who have praised
roses SO much during the past decade,
have administered to them a slight
slap on the wrist, as it were, let us
turn our attention for a moment to
eyergreens.
The term evergreen" Is broad; It
contains multitudes, as the poet said;
as class they are known to every
body and universally used.
The question remains whether they
are not too much used, in view of the
plain fact that for every perfect plant
ing of them you will see half dozen.
If not ten or a dozen, in which many
of the specimen plants are in shabby
condition.
No plant creation can look quite
so bad, and yet live, as an evergreen,
particularly the Arbor Vitaes. These,
and some of the other popular va
rieties. can be half brown, shaggy all
over. and dead at the top, and yet retain
a semblance of life about them, so
that the owner hates to throw them
away.
They have a way of growing tall
and lop-eared like some NANCY old
dog, without losing their ability to live.
1t would be better, in many in
stance. if vigorous culling were done
with them, and requirements made,
not of new evergreens, save the mark,
but of such simple and sturdy shrubs
as the common privet, common bar
berry, and the like.
Good foundation paintings can be
achieved with these things, along with
very few evergreens for accent, and
while they will not be evergreen" in
any sense, still they will look fairly
green most of the Winter. enough so
to keep the foundations from looking
bare. People do not expect greenneSs
in Winter, anyway, in this climate.
An evergreen cleanup, such as here
advocated, would do the general APP
pearance Of the National Capital,ca
great deal of good. Clean, trim shrubs,
although bare limbed, are far better
looking than old scraggly evergreens.
which should be removed, but which
seldom are