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ritual of greeting would be observed. Susan
and the baby would be watching, and they
would come out, running mock race down
the walk, with the baby screaming with excite
ment wobbling with that touching clumsiness
while Susan kept ready to catch him if he
stumbled
Vane would sweep the baby high in his
arms, saying, well! You beat Mama again!
Got a little kiss for oo's old daddykins?"
And Susan would say, Nov, Homer re-
proving him for the baby talk Gotta big
one" the baby would cry, and give it, a bit on
the moist side. Vane would carry the baby in,
piggy back, while it squealed, and. inside,
would kiss Susan. That was all as it had been,
with the difference being subtle something
far back in Susans eyes. That thing he saw
in the eyes of those who were in trouble. The
thing he hated about his office had invaded
this haven and his wife. He'd said - don't
we all? - Yes, anybodys apt to fall in
trouble" But he d thought. as we all do, that
this applied to Others, not to him.
Susan mentioned the case but once, the
day the papers carried Tooler Blacks story.
"You didn't find any trace of that woman in
Winston's office when you investigated, did
you?" she asked But it seemed statement
rather than question, and the animal fear
came forward briefly in her eyes.
"Of course not" Vane said. Forget it,
This man - Tooler Black. He's guilty,
isn't he? mean - he's been mixed up with
other things - he's been killer - and even
if now ="
Forget it, Homer Nane said viCiously.
Susan took the baby and went to visit her
sister, Rose, who had state civil service job
in the capital. during the trial Homer Vane
was glad she was away.
mo, he answered on the witness stand, Il
found no evidence of a woman's belongings in
the room with the body, when investigated
with Detective Ragland." The last clause
seemed to leap from his throat with blatant
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double meaning, but nobody seemed to notice.
He found sweat prickling his back.
He would chat with the prisoner in the Jail.
There was an attraction he couldn't fight
against. He would chat in the automobile
going to and from the courtroom. Black was
likeable fellow Granted, great many vicious
characters are, when in Jail - granted, but
Tooler was likeable. -.
well, so long, Homer" Tooler said when
the sheriff delivered him to the state prison.
Il guess my record caught up with me-
They all claimed they were framed. Why
not? What to lose? But in this case ''Ill do
what can," the sheriff promised.
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Thanks, Homer. I'm glad you believe in me-"
Homer Vane made an appointment with the
governor. The governor sat in big leather
backed chair behind big desk and the
sheriff stood before the desk.
THE evidence is circumstantial, " Vane said
in conclusion. Il don't believe in the death
sentence on circumstantial evidence. Black
was convicted, really, on his past record"
''As sheriff, you investigated the case. Do
you have reason to believe Tooler Black told
the truth about finding Winston dead when
he entered the office?"
Homer Vane's voice was tight. No.
II realize the conventions of courtroom
Evening star., 1939-05-13

left for outdoor planting, and then
our bulbs would soon be coming up!
In late March there were green
points beginning to break through
the brown earth; the tulips were
coming, hooray! Yet not all Of
them; two or three had been heaved
up by frost, and there were more
burrows to be seen-could they have
eaten any of the bulbs? The next
week our heavy = footed nlilkman,
who comes around at daybreak, had
made short cut to the next house,
right across our sacred tulip bed.
We found some of the precious
things crushed under his big foot
prints. And then a neighbors dog,
big dog with strong digger claws,
came to bury his bones in this soft
spot, and a few more tulips were
gone-but when the first "early dou-
bles" came into bloom in April we
felt repaid for all our trouble. The
lovely pink things were miracles of
beauty! They opened. the whole
front row of them, like large peo-
nies.
Another week or two and the tall
Darwins were in bloom.
We invited all our friends to see
the wonders of our tulips. However,
one thing annoyed us; they ad-
mired, as expected; then, looking
across to our neighbor's yard, ex-
claimed, "Oh. look at their flowers;
they have so many!" And they had,
for every one of theirs came up,
and although we hated to admit it
they were as large as our imported
ones!
Only three or four spindly little
plants were the result of our in
door sowing, but we did not let this
discourage us; we went to the mar
ket and bought thrifty plants by
the dozen, set these out in rows, then
planted seeds in all the bare spots;
these came up later in thick patches.
We were told to thin them out and
to take out the weeds, but serious
question arose, (Which were the
weeds?" So we left most of every
thing that came up, just to be sure
If it bloomed it would be flower.
We gambled, you see, and busily
hoed. sprayed and watered and
happily wondered why people vast
ed their time playing tennis or golf.
Our backs might ache, our hands
might be blistered. but we were
SNUG and happy, for we were i'm
portant folk. We were the salt Of
the earth-we were gardeners.
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Hardy Nuns
Are Gross
Feeders
Any Transplanting
Delay May Injure
Fine Specimens

The hardy garden chrysanthemum
is a gross feeder and needs to be
dug and the soil reworked before
the clumps are divided and reset.
This work Is best done while the
new shoots are rather short-2 to
inches. Delay in starting this
work may cause injury later on.
The chrysanthemum nematode lives
over the winter on the old stalks
and crown. Early division and the
use of the outside shoots may help to
reduce the infestation by this tiny
pest. The nematode is the principal
cause of defoliation of this import
ant fall-fowering perennial.
While resetting a chrysanthemum
slightly the results from Well-fed
clump will more than offset the
delay. This is especially true of the
earlier Towering varieties which are
now being generally used by the
home gardener.
One cause of the defoliation of
the chrysanthemum has been men
tioned-the chrysanthemum nema-
tode. Lack of food or water are
the other common causes. Thus
lifting and reWorking the soil is
very important in maintaining
healthy vigorous appearing plants.
BY Incorporating liberal quantities
OF Well-rotted manure, compost, or
leaf mold in the soil the food supply
is replenished and the water holding
capacity is greatly increased. In ad-
dition to the humus a complete
fertilizer should be added at the
rate of 3 pounds per 100 square
feet of bed.
With the soil reworked the gar
dener is now ready to divide and
set out the plants. A single rooted
shoot from the outside clump is all
that is necessary to provide large
free-f1owering plant by next fall
Most gardeners follow the theory
that the outside shoots are less
apt to be diseased than those taken
from near the center Of the crown
While most of us do not pinch off
the tops of the new shoots such a
practice helps the newly set plant
to Withstand the shock of trans
planting.
Space the plants not less than
18 inches apart. Twenty-four inches
apart is better. The nematode
spreads by crawling from leaf to
leaf, and where the plants are
grown closely the progress of the
nematode can be easily seen. (Some
varieties of chrysanthemums seem
to be immune to the nematode
but list of those which are more
or less immune is not available }
Eighteen inches appears to be
rather widespread spacing in the
spring when the plants are SO
small, but a well-fed plant that
has been pinched back two or three
times during the summer should
have spread of at least that much
When hot weather follows trans
planting it is we'll to shade the
newly set-out plants for a few days
until they have had Q chance te
become established.
Evening star., 1939-05-13
Recreation
Every One
Enjoys
Window Boxes Add
To Pleasure of the
City Dweller

When you install an outdoor win
dow box 1t Immediately becomes a
part of the house, and should con-
form to its architectural design
and color scheme.
For this reason 1t is we'll 10 con-
struct your own window box, and 1t
is not difficult to 90.
Window box gardening Is a recre-
alton and delight which every one
can enjoy, whether he lives in the
smokiest city or the roomiest sub
urb. They are grown to be seen from
both the inside and the outside Ct
the house, and there is such
variety of subjects available that
almost and location Except eX-
trerely shady oneS is suitable.
The box itself should be of the
same color as the building, or as
It's trim and the flowers should be
of contrasting color which is
harmonious. For red brick house.
white flowers and plenty of green
foliage would be attractive. For a
house in which yellow is the pre-
valling tone blue flowers should be
used. These are only suggestion,
since the taste of the owner will
control, Of course.
The flowers must grow we'll. il the
box is to give pleasure: and rich
soil is most important, because
there is so little of it. The soil
should be what florists call good
potting sofia sandy loam well
enriched Holes drilled into the bot
tom of the box and covered with
broken pieces Of pottery will serve
for drainage.
The best window-box flowers are
those which bear flowers freely and
continuously. In these respects the
petunia has no superior. All types
are long bloomers, the large flow
cred single and double. the small
flowered singles, the dWarfs and the
balcony types. The new fragrant
double nasturtiums are fine windov'
box material. and some of them are
Of the trailing habit.
1t is possible to have a Windov,
box filled with morning glories. and
it is hard to imagine a more beau
tiful decoration than their tape
try of green leaves and glorious
blue flowers. They like a south ex-
posure.
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unless the flowers are kept cut, form
seed and stop producing flowers.
Even zinnias need considerable cut
ting to keep up continuous show of
color. Petunias. on the other hand,
will flower most of the season with
out any effort to prevent the forma-
ton of seed.
Effective Displays
Are Possible.
The use OF ANIMALS for effect
seems to me to have been largely
neglected At the Great Lakes Trade
Exposition very effective display
was obtained by using the various
varieties of Towering tobacco. We
often see ageratum, sweet alyssum
and petunias used effectively in
beds. CThe sweet alyssum needs
frequent trimming to produce a con-
tinuous show of colorD Cosmos,
annual hollyhocks, tithonia (Mexi-
can sunflower). marlgold (tall
AfrlcanD and hibiscus are tall and
suitable for use as a BACKGROUND
or at the back of wide flower bor-
ders. For intermediate height lark
spur, Towering tobacco, sunfower
Four-o Clocks, Snow-o -the-Moun-
tain, amaranthus, etc, are a few
possibilities. For loW-groWing an
nuals consider the annual phloX
verbena, dwarf zinnia, calliopsis,
SWan-River daisy, nasturtium, bed
ding dahlia. California poppy tEsch-
scholtzia), Iceland and Shirley pop
pies, gaillardia. petunias, saliva
dwarf marigolds, etc.
Some of the ANIMALS make very
satisfactory low hedges for the yard
and garden. Kochia summer cy-
press is frequently so used, but
there are others-balsam, straw
flower and Four Clock are all good
In selecting ANIMALS for your gar
den do not overlook a few for fra
grarce Some of the most fragrant
are: FloWering tobacco, lemon ver-
bena, mignonette, heliotrope, petunia
and sweet sultan.
Animals as rule are of rather
easy culture. The seed may be
sown indoors In fats, it may be
planted in coldframes, or it may
be sown in the beds where the
plants are to grow. Most of us have
rather limited time and space and
prefer to buy plants, at the proper
time, ready to set out that will pro-
duce a display in relatively short
time.
In setting out the young plants
it is we'll to pinch out the tops. shade,
and keep we'll watered until they
have had time to establish them
selves. Clean cultivation and light
fertilization produce healthy, Wig
orous growing plants that well repay
the extra care and feeding.
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Leaves From
The Garden
Notebook
PeOnies Should Be
Disbudded Now to
Insure Fine Bloom
Star Stan Photo.

While many dahlia fans object
to planting the large Towering varie-
ties early in the season. If your tu-
bers have started to sprout they
should be planted as soon as the
beds can be made ready for them.
The little bedding dahlias (tubers)
should be planted now to provide a
long season of bloom and an ample
supply of cutting flowers.
A*
Now that summer seems to be just
around the corner, it is well to
transplant ANIMALS to the beds.
Pinch out the tops. shade and keep
we'll watered for a few days. AS they
should make rapid growth. they
need to be given fertilizer and cul-
tlvation. Any good garden fertilizer
such as a 1875 or 5-6-5 may be
applied at the rate of pounds per
100 square feet of bed at planting
time. Give them a second feeding
early in June of about one-half that
amount.
If your peonies are making a nor
NAL growth they will need to be dis
budded now to produce fine, large.
individual blooms. Pinch or cut off
the smaller side buds. retaining the
central or terminal bud for flower
ing. Stake, or make some other
provision for supporting the heavy
flowers before wind or rain ruins
them.
At this season of the year, when
We are interested in having fine,
large, healthy looking flowers, it may
be worthwhile to give them a little
extra stimulant. A tablespoonful OF
nitrate of soda in gallon of water
will provide that extra stimulation
Newly planted trees and shrubs
need extra care their first season
A wise gardener will see that they
are given a good soaking once every
week or 10 days. Frequent sprinklings
(wetting the surface) will do more
harm than good. When watering
take of the nozzle and let the water
run slowly so that it will all soak
in and wet the ground to depth OF
8 or 10 inches.
While azaleas seldom need to be
pruned, the bushes can be shaped
up or straggly branches shortened
at the close of the Towering season
without injury to the next season S
crop of flowers. And while we are
thinking of azaleas let us not over
look the value of top dressing of
compost or leafmold. The humus
will hold moisture and keep the roots
cool during the heat of the summer
and thereby insure better crop OF
flowers next spring.
4 X \
Shasta daisies are another of the
perennials that benefit by lifting
dividing and resetting in well-en-
riched beds. They are strong growers
and need to be thinned and to have
plenty of food. Set the shoots about
. foot apart.
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Many Flower Show Dates
Announced for Nav

in which to work, and light refresh
ments.
The public is invited to attend
this show and an admission of so
cents will be charged for adults
and 25 cents for children, the pro-
ceeds will go to the Montgomery
County Hospital.
DR.. Whitman Cross famous rose
garden will be the scene of the rose
fete, held for the benefit of the
Potomac Rose Society on the after
moons of May q and %. This gar
den, at 10l East Kirk street, Chevy
Chase, Md, will be open on those
days from until o'clock.
Among the new rose varieties pro-
duced by DR.. Cross in this garden,
which will be on display for the
first time, will be "Nanjemoy," which
won the gold medal certificate of the
American Rose Society in 1923; THE
Honorable Lady Lindsay and
Chevy Chase" the striking new
climbing variety, which will be in
troduced next year on a country
wide basis.
A demonstration of how rose hy-
bridizing is done will be made at 4
o'clock each afternoon. Guides will
be provided to enable visitors to be-
come familiar with the many fine
rose varieties in this large garden.
DR.. Cross was the founder of the
Potomac Rose Society, which has
done so much to further the cause OF
the rose In this area, and is now its
honorary president.
Mrs. Cross is serving her second
year as president of the society
Home gardeners and flower lovers
are invited to attend the rose fete
Admission will be so cents, for the
benefit of the Potomac Rose Society
The Georgetown garden pilgrim
age will open to the public a large
number of the finest private gar
dens in Georgetown on Saturday
May 20, and Saturday, May q. A
list OF the gardens to be open on
the first Saturday were given last
week. Among those that are to be
open on May 81 will be the gar
dens of the former United States
Ambassador to Argentina and Mrs
Robert Woods Bliss, Dumbarton
Oaks, 3101 r street; Mrs. F. Cuni-
berti, 1924 R street; Mrs. Howard
Davidson, 1898 R street; Mrs. L. M
c. Smith, Reservoir road, and Mrs
Ernest I. Lewis, 3099 @ street.
The Washington Garden Clut
held its flower show yesterday al
the residence of Mrs. Howard Boil
linger. On Monday, May 8, the
members made their annual garden
tour of several beautiful estates in
Washington and Alexandria. Mrs
Lee Sanford entertained them al
luncheon, and Mrs. Henry A. La.
tame entertained them at tea.
Evening star., 1939-05-13

QlIlN DIOkeIl llIlSeI IldllS, HluuUy
shoes, and also save encouragement
and loss of temper
Perhaps we garden because we are
natural born gamblers and love to
take a chance, or because we like a
good fight.
Last autumn we planned a garden.
We ordered bulbs from abroad and
prepared a place for them accord
ing to directions: then on a chill
day in late October we put them to
bed. A neighbor came over to see
us at work and decided that she, too,
would have some tulips next spring,
so she went to a 10-cent store.
bought some bulbs, came home and
in few minutes had them planted.
She did not bother to spade a bed,
or prepare the soil; she casually
made a few holes, put in bulbs. and
tramped them down. We pitied her
inefficient efforts!
All through the winter we dreamed
of our buried treasure and of the
beauty and color hidden away in
the brown bulbs awaiting the call
of spring.
In January the seed catalogues
came, we pored over these-what
gorgeous flowers. oh. if we only had
room for all of them! It was hard
to select the few we could have from
the many offered. You see we were
novices at the gardening game, how
could we know which to buy?
In February the seed we ordered
arrived. We admired the pictures
on the tiny envelopes, read the
planting directions on the backs,
shook them to hear the seeds rattle,
held them up to the light to see
how few seeds were in them.
We noticed that the directions
said to plant them in a cold frame
or indoors in flats in a sunny win
dow. We had no cold-frame, we
had no flats, but after a good deal
of thought and work we managed
to cut down some orange crates
but where to find earth to fill
them2 The ground outside was
frozen hard; we tried to quarry
out some soil from under the back
steps, but it seemed to be full of
brick-bats and other debris, so we
went to florist, bought some pot
ting earth and planted the seeds
in this.
Now another question arose
where to put the boxes? Directions
were south windows" but all our
south windows had radiators under
them and the heat from these would
cook the poor little seedlings, so the
flats had to be kept on bench in the
east window in the mornings and
carried over to a west window for
afternoon sunshine-this was a lot
of bother.
After a week or so we could see
a bit of green in one of the boxes,
and what a red-letter day that was!
Two weeks saw more green.
We were called away from home
and when we returned after two
days found that our tiny bits of
green had dried out. We watered
what was left of them, but they
seemed to dwindle away; I guess
they "damped off,"
We were a bit discouraged, but
there were several packets Of seed
Evening star., 1939-05-13
Controlling Ants

Ants may be controlled rather
easily with little work and two
poisons. Where ant hills can be
located use carbon bisulphide.
Punch several holes in the hill and
put a tablespoonful of the carbon
bisulphide in each. cover the holes
with dirt, or the ant hill with a wet
newspaper. This chemical gives
off heavy gas that settles into the
soil and effectually kills the ants
Mote: The gas is infammable,
keep away from firesl.
Where the ant hills cannot be
found use one of the poison bats
available at the stores-it is too
bothersome to mix at home. Place
the poison bait around the yard at
intervals, the ants will carry it to
their nests.
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spur, etc, have been grown in gar
dens since Colonial times for cut
ting. Most of them, while dating
from long ago, have been improved,
and are just as satisfactory in mod
ern gardens as they were in those
OF our grandmothers.
The choice of ANIMALS for cutting
should depend upon ease of culture,
color preferences and type of use to
be made of the flowers. For tall
vases flowers such as annual phloX,
verbenaS and nasturtiums are not
very satisfactory, but larkspur, cos
mos. the annual sunflowers (Halian-
thus, hibiscus, stocks, nicotiana
tf7oWering tobacco, etc, are all
long -stemmed. For quantity of cut
ting material zinnia, marigold. mas
turtium, calendula tcool, moist sit
uationN, snapdragon, stocks and
gaillardia are very dependable and
prolific.
For color effects ANIMALS are GER
tainly we'll qualified to supply every
thing needed BY purchasing named
varieties of plants well-arranged
color design can be had within a
comparatively short time. The gar
dener will. however, need to give
consideration to the height of the
plants at maturity and, also, to the
length of Towering period. Some an
nuals such as Ragged Robin (cen-
teurea) produce one burst of bloom
and then die down, while others,
such as nasturtiums and sweet peas,
Evening star., 1939-05-13
The Use of Annals for Planting Effects Should Not Be
Majority Of Growers Look
Upon Them Solely as Fine
Source of Cut Flowers
Some Attention Necessary
To Prevent the Premature
Formation of Seed Pods
BY w. H. YOUNGMAN.

There hardly garden without
gardeners depend almost exclusively
tall annuas dwarf annuals
ing ANIMALS fragrant annua that
there kinds of
chief
DR. C. corbett probably had ANIMALS in mind when he wrote:
plants Nature constantly
to ugly which civilized has If you
will Nature the suggestion wishes
will
phox she will floor with
surface bold the golden disks of the dandeon
bright faces of the She will walls with
festoon of and hide therein rich
white and you ask she will screen apartment from another
Most think ANIMALS
they widely for that ase
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DragOn>Gu Guarded Door Leads
To Chinese Garden Hidden
Away in Old Georgetown
Miss Genevieve Wimsatt Has
Shown Rare knowledge and
Taste in Its Production
BY GLADYS MOON.

The oomze garden OF the perfecon exquisite
detail etching
the universal
expressions the theme And the spot
harmony in world of discords.
Chinese Chinese
Honors and Long Life Here Miss Geneveve
self and all the sympathy for China
the language and the authorship
Forest Now In May the of the bamboo
inches
the rooted Gate Genial
their thick wiowke all
winter When the leaf the old will
Miss Wmsa said the person bring
United States from China
first she brought this