Evening star., 1936-06-26
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

1aQ OeSt De separated. W0lLe Is the
natural way to insure this separation,
which really Is more mental than phys
ical, after all, since Nature herself
splashes colors together in a most in
discriminate but beautiful fashion.
The only care which must be taken
with white flowers is not to overdo them.
While an all-white garden would be in
teresting, most people would not be sat
isfied with it, after they had achieved
1t, but would pine for the pinks. blues,
yellows. lavenders and other shades and
tints which 60 to make up the palette of
the flower garden. In this listing Of
colors the good green of trees, shrubs
and grass must not be omitted, for it
is at one time and place the background
for all the rest and one of the most salts
flying colors.
An all-green garden, now, is some
thing else! Many persons achieve it,
witout realizing it. Sometimes they are
foolish enough to lament it, when they
have something very much worthwhile,
really. What is garden in which most
or many Of the flowers have been fall
ureS, except green garden?
Let no one be too sorry, therefore, II
the season or the seeds or la1ness or
any other factor has caused floral failure
in the ordinary sense. Sometimes this
will happen, even with the best and most
enthusiastic home gardeners. All he has
to do, in most cases, is to look around
him, to see green garden Of good pro-
portions, If he has kept his grass reason
ably well, his shrubs and evergreens in
condition hic frir ND in oood
foliage. Nature has seen fit this season
to send more branch and leaf to most
shrubs and trees, and to build up
background Of greenery not always seen.
Whatever the reason for this 1--WE believe
it was to accommodate the 17-year To-
custs) the happy fact is that not within
memory has the suburban area of Wash
ington, in particular, been SO lushly
green.
While the reader is looking around his
garden, trying to determine where to put
more white flowers, and we hope the
Feverfew, let him keep a sharp lookout
for caterpillar web.
These will be found in Wiegelia bushes,
in particular, in fruit trees. and other
places. Rest assured that wherever
found they are doing no good, and should
be destroyed. One method which can
not be recommended is to burn them
out. There is always danger in this,
both to the operator and to his tree or
shrub specimens, to say nothing of the
possibility of the fire getting entirely
out of hand Fire, like modern traffic,
is great and dangerous thing and ought
to be respected as such.
Caterpillar webs may be torn out care
fully, or as much of the shrub pruned
back as will enable the operator to carry
away the entire nest. All such webs
should be burned later or otherwise de-
Stroyed, no matter whether any worms
are visible or not. for the powers Of such
structures for future mischief are un-
limited.
While looking for webs, keep a sharp
eye open for insects of various sorts,
whether known or unknown makes little
difference. In the garden there is no
choice between insects now that the To-
Gusts are gone: none is good, and all
should be ended, to the present and
future well-being of the growing things.
The market is deluged with insecticides
and fungicides, most of them good.
Where the average gardener falls down
is not using them soon enough, and
thoroughly enough. A poor spray prop
erly used is better than a good one
used inef1ciently and skimpily.
This is the time of year garden ought
to begin to take care of itself. to some
degree, if ever yard can be said to do
that. 1t can, almost, if the green back
ground is in good shape, and there are
plenty, but not too many. white flowers.
such as the Feverfew, to blend the colors
of the other flowers and help make them
stand out as individuals yet thoroughly
part of the general creation.