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Evening star., 1939-10-07
Try Unusual Effects
In Planning Beds

One Of the most beautiful large
designs for tulip bed noted this
spring on the grounds Of q large
institution was star shaped plant
ing, the outline of the design being
In clear yellow tulips, the body Of
the points being In bright scarlet
and q circular center of pure white.
All. Of course, were varieties of the
same height, and the effect was in
describably beautiful.
Although ornate designs for beds
are considered by many people to
be decidedly passe, yet where
grounds are large, these beds are
sometimes not at all out of place,
and If planted with care and
thought, 80 as not to give clutered
effect, are greatly admired and add
much to the landscape.
Give q little thought to some lun-
usual effects when making your
tulip paintings this month.
When you plant your bulbs, do not
neglect using q complete, balanced
plant food II you would have strong,
aight-stemmed blooms with deep,
vivid colo91ng.
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Garden Club
Activities
Listed
Many Fall Flower
Shows Scheduled
For This Month
BY FRANCESCA MCKINNEY.

ny FnANCESCA MchENNE1s
Members of the Washington Gar
den Club will hold their next meet
ing on Monday at the home of the
president, Mrs. Thomas Law, 1923
Varnum street NV. Following the
luncheon, which will be served at
o'clock. Mrs. Minnie Briggs will talk
on Tree and Flower Etchings"
Mrs. George A. Sloan Of Warren
ton, Va, gave very interesting talk
on Roadside Beautification" on
September 10 at the last meeting of
the club. which was held at the
Washington Golf and Country Club.
The Little Garden Club Of Sandy
Spring. Nd, will hold its 10th an
nual flower snow on Tuesday at the
Community House in Sandy Spring.
Glasses will include arrangements,
specimens of any flowers, and a spe-
cial award will be given to the best
arrangement of roses alone. The
exhibition will be open to the pub
lie from 3 pm. to 8 pm, during
which time tea will be served.
On Monday the Chevy Chase Cd.
c. Garden Club will meet at
o'clock at the home of Mrs. Leason
H. Adams, Bradley boulevard and
Burdette road, Bethesda, Md.
The Annual Fall Flower Show of
the Bethesda Community Garden
Club will be held on Wednesday,
October Is. The Committee for Ar
rangements include Mrs. j. Robert
Cory, chairman; Mrs. A. J. Steden,
Mrs. S. Bailey, Mrs. Hubert Klein
peter and Mrs. Ralph Foster.
On Wednesday, September q, the
members of the club met at 1890
am. at the Battery Park Clubhouse.
The guest speaker for the day was
Edward L. Stock, who gave an in
teresting lecture on Lawns"
Hostesses for the day were Mrs.
Arthur Fast, chairman: Mrs. Nathan
Blum. Mrs. Ralph Foster. Mrs.
Lewis Colt and Mrs. A. B. Foster.
National Capital Dahlia Society
will meet on Tuesday evening at
8 o'clock at the Sherwood Presby-
terian School at Twenty second
street and Rhode Island avenue
NE. N. A. Gossmann of Baltimore,
Md, and j. L. Bishop Of Washing
ton will be the guest speakers Of
the evening, giving summary Of
the past flower shows and dis
cussion of the out-of town shows.
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Garden Fireplace Offers
Chance for Continued
Outdoor Activities
Select Suitable Surroundings
To Give Lovely Appearance
When Stove Is Not in Use
BY GLADYS MOON.

The October garden playground OF working
hard gathering up the first drifting leaves dividing penas planting
stalks
We must burn all the
keen appetes
combine
the mingled fragrance burning leaves browning
Some gardens have repaces built walls
which can be very solid and efficient Mr. and Mrs Richard
8 street enjoy built much like
There back by the chimney like the warming
biscuits
itself has grill originally Shelf
ion function parties
big for affairs This
house with asbestos shingles the color old brown
of hagstones held
under the roof is the pile Everything prompu
picnic in this hidden
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Proper Time
T0P Plant
PanSieS
COlorful Flowers
Make Excellent
Spring Showing

Many gardeners will be planting
pansies this week. It is time to set
out these bright-faced, CHEEKY little
flowers, which are inexpensive and
an excellent source of color for
the spring garden. While most
growers sell plants of mixed colors,
they may be had all in one shade
If desired. Whether solid beds OF
one color are used or a mixture OF
colors, they make an excellent show
ing in the early spring, and the
flowers are suitable for indoor dec
grafton.
Pansy plants are available from
local supply houses and from large
commercial growers who sell by
mail. The small plants are offered
mostly by strains, such as the Maple
Leaf Giants, Oregon Giants, Geneva
Giants, Donovan's, Boulogne Gil
ants, etc. but they are also avail
able in named varities. In most
cases some rogueing (discarding off
colors) will be necessary in the
named varieties ii a planting of
uniform color is to be had.
In planning the pansy beds it is
desirable to have one or more groups
in a sunny, sheltered location for
winter and very early spring flow
ering. It is not at all uncommon
in this area to have pansies bloom
all winter. Likewise it is desirable
to have some plants where they
will be shaded from the sun to
prolong the Towering season. Pam
sy blooms are useful in flower ar
rangements even though there is
q wealth Of bloom in the yard.
In preparing the beds for PAN
sizes it is well to enrich the soil with
liberal quantities of manure and
peat moss. The peat moss serves
to hold moisture for the vigorous
growing plants. Some gardeners
not only enrich the beds with we'll
rotted manure but also use it to
mulch the beds after the ground
has frozen. Others use a mixture
Of peat moss and sheep manure as
a mulch. Regardless of the mulch
ing material used, 1t is important
to guard against covering the leaves,
which should be lifted as the mulch
Is worked underneath. This mulch
is valuable not only as a protection
against winter heaving but also to
conserve moisture and to keep the
roots cool In the spring and early
summer. Mulched beds continue
to have vigorous growth and bloom
long after unmulched beds have
ceased to do so.
Pansy plants are usually spaced
about 10 inches apart in solid drifts
or beds, although they are also
effective when planted in single
rows along the edges Of walks and
flower beds.
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.
When they are given more sun and
water again in the spring they bloom
profusely and can be planted on a
well-drained, sunny slope, or, if their
pots are set in large holes filled with
sand and cinders, in a rockery.
The blooms springing from the
stems OF the various types are mag
nificent. of many different shapes,
from that Of poinsettia to the
chalice-shape Of a water lilly, and
OF a wide range Of color, from
creamy white, mauve, pink and vio-
let, yellow, gold and orange to ma
genta. Some blooms are as small
as buttons; others, like those of the
Epiphyllums, measure / foot across.
The small rainbow type. SO called
because of the red shading of its
spines, has a blossom 3 inches wide,
larger than the plant itself. The
purple Opuntia santa rita has a
glorious yellow blossom. The Platyo-
puntia has colorful fringe of bloom
on the edge of its platelike stem
and the Mammillarias have a halo
of flowers all around the stem. The
Echinopsis has q waxy, white bloom,
like q tiny umbrella.
The variety in the forms of cacti
is very great. It ranges from the
columnar, treelike Carnegie gigan-
tea, the sahuaro of Arizona, a CEN
tenarian which attains SO feet in
its old age, to the tiny, rounded
button types, which are excellent
for dish gardens and small pots.
Most Of the columnar cacti, like the
Lemaireocereus stellatus with red
blossoms and the Pachycereus
columna trajani of purple flowers,
are foreign. The globular types Of
massed tufts are very suitable for
house planting. Examples Of these
are the yellow-blossomed Echino-
cacti and the vari-colored Neomam-
millarias.
The peanut cactus, Chamaecereus
silvestri from Argentina, a miniature
of the columnar cactus of South
America, is quaint, chubby va
riety, fitting for miniature desert
scenes in sand. It has soft spines
and funnel-shaped orange-scarlet
flowers and is prolific, growing new
joints on the old. The night
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Leaves From
The Garden
Violas Adaptable
For a Perennial
Shady Border

Pansies are ordinarily used for
early spring color in narrow flower
beds and at the edge of founda-
ton paintings. Violas, a smaller
f1owered perennial, will be found Just
as satisfactory for the perennial
border in shady places and for
planting in the rock garden. Viola
Jersey Gem is the old standby, but
there are many others worth grow
ing. The violas delight in cool
moist situations.
Now is the time to pot up few
of the bushiest chrysanthemum
plants for indoor bloom. Placed in
large pot of rich soil, shaded for
few days and kept well watered,
they will Withstand the move with
out injury, and will give several
weeks of color indoors. The late
blooming varieties are most desira-
BILE for this purpose. Use large
pots and take the plants with as
little disturbance of the roots as pos
sible. After they have finished
blooming indoors they may be reset
in the perennial border or wintered
over in the cold frame.
An interesting bulbous plant that
has just finished blooming Is the
Halls Amaryllis Uycoris squami-
gera). This interesting amaryl-
lis-like plant produces its Leaf
growth in the spring and then dies
down until in August or September
when the Towering stalks shoot up
rapidly and produce clusters of bell
shaped ilac-pink flowers. Since the
flower spikes appear without the
foliage it is desirable to have a
ground cover of low growing plants
surrounding them. The bulbs are
planted at this season in a we'll
drained sunny situation about four
inches deep. They are hardy, and
in favorable situations will persist
for many years.
Now that we may expect an early
frost almost anytime, it is desirable
to make plans for protecting few
OF the late-f1owering plants. In
Washington there is usually period
Of from one to four weeks of warm
fall weather following the first frost.
so if we can protect them from that
early frost we can have flowers for
a considerable period afterward.
Cheese cloth, burlap, or any light
weight cloth and few good stakes
make satisfactory shelters. The main
thing is to have them ready so that
when needed they can be put quick
ly into use.
In planting lily bulbs this fall re-
member they need protection from
wind If they are to do their best.
In exposed beds the stalks are short
and the flowers small In a we'll
protected bed, such as might be made
in the shrub border or in the corner
of the garden, they make a strong,
tall growth and large, showy flowers
that are particularly gratifying to
the gardener.
1t Is good gardening practice to
remove and burn the foliage of peo-
nies as soon as it begins to die. Cut
the stems just below the surface of
the ground, using care not to injure
the buds now formed for next
springs growth. This practice will
tend to control those diseases which
live over winter on the old leaves.
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Some Beautiful Flowers Are Their Height Just Before the First
Introduce Color in Many
Ways Through the Use
Of New Hardy Nuns
4 Other Blooming Plants
Give the Garden Beauty;
Also Good for Cutting
By w. H. YOUNGMAN.

October coorfu period in the garden well in the parks and
and vivid
With of this background many Towering
that forth their best
live surviving the light which Towering
plants.
We all know the chsanthmum outstanding fall bloomer
They time that
killed them before they had chance to display their but with
hybrdzes
Department past years
Towering hardy
October
different varieties the available
forms and coo that almost color scheme be carried out
provide bloom until freezing weather of
range tiny
balls short stubby
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Careful thought should be given
to the place and surroundings be-
fore building a permanent garden
fireplace. 1t must not stick out bare
and hot in the summer months and
it must not be stiff and artificial
with cement. Pots of flowers, as
well as morning glory, moon flower
and silver lace vines will soften
or hide 1t during the summer. ma
tured-in" is a good expression to
keep IN mind for such things as
fireplaces, pools, bird baths and sun
diaiS.
Mrs. Harry H. Semmes of Chevy
Chase says hollyhocks do not mind
the smoke from her outdoor fire.
place. They just planted them
selves around the spot and made
satisfying summer screen. A flag
stone table built out from the fire.
place on one side is an added at
traction, and since it is lower, makes
a handy place for pots and pans as
well as a shelter for wood.
In the garden of Mr.. and Mrs. w.
G. Meal at 1926 Military road 1
found lovely stone fireplace. I'VE
used to call it finished" said Mrs.
Meal, but now have plans for en-
larging it with extensions on each
SIDE" It is charming Just as it is,
and Mr.. Meal has enhanced it by
planting two nut trees in the fire.
place corner of the garden. What
could be more delightful by the
garden hearth than these lovely
plants? The Meals and their guests
find outdoor banquets a source of
pleasure in these lovely surround
lngs.
The fun of making a fireplace in
the garden is in letting it grow up
with use. We prefer building a tenn
porary picnic ground each autumn,
using brick from a little corner
wall and no cement, so that in the
spring the bricks may go back on
the dry wall in shady corner over
run with vines. When the eve
nings begin to get short and cool
we lay small brick floor about 2ls
feet long and IL feet wide on the
terrace near the kitchen. Three
sides are built up and a heavy grill
laid on top. Every one tries or sug-
gests a chimney arrangement, but
in the end the smoke follows its own
whims and we like it. We build out
the hearth and a one-brick-h high ex-
tension for utensils. Depending
upon fires for warmth, we are able
to continue eating out of doors on
the dry days of autumn and winter.
There is some handy electric wiring
for modern coffee makers. toasters
and grills when the appetite of the
hungry mob exceeds the capacity of
the fireplace.
The main purpose is to continue
healthy outdoor life and derive
pleasure from it. Some spot where
you can build a fire satisfies a pri-
mordial human urge and helps you
to get your moneys worth and your
works worth out of your garden.
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blooming cereus, with its large
blossom Of heavy fragrance lasting
one night, is very popular for con-
servatories. The purple e-flowered
Cholla and the Cephalocerus, or
old-man cactus, with dropping, hair
like spines and pink flowers, are
particularly decorative. Others are
the barrel types, growing from l to
3 feet, and the several pears or
Indian figs.
AS they have a tough skin, pulpy
Interior and little or no leaves, the
cacti retain water and do not give
it of as most other plants. They
even provide water for animals in
the desert. Hence they rot II given
too much moisture and freeze very
easily If allowed to stand below 80
degrees F. Their root system is
very small. serving chiefly to hold
them in the ground. The average
should be moistened only when their
soil is thoroughly dry, but they
should never become so dry that
their normal green wrinkles and
yellows. The room temperature, hui
midity and the variety of cactus
determine the necessary amount of
moisture to be given indoors.
If the plants are sent from the
desert they need a soil mixture of
three parts sand and one part loan.
II they come from nurseries, where
their price range from a few cents
for the tiny ones to hundreds of
dollars for the rare and giant va
rieties, they should be given a mix
ture OF three parts leafmold and
one part sand. The soil must be
alkaline and not acid; one part lime
or plaster may be mixed in to insure
this. The hole for drainage in their
pots should be large and the pots
one-third filled with small bits of
charcoal. cinders or broken earthen-
ware. The soil fills the rest and
coarse gravel is laid on the top.
The plants should be left in a warm,
dry corner for few days, or even
two weeks, until their roots are
well dried out. Any broken roots
should be first trimmed of and the
whole root system spread apart and
outward just under the surface Of
the soil,
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widely grown. While their flowers
are not as large as the pansies, their
permanence and freedom of bloom
make them fit into the rock garden
very well.
Stokes aster (Stokesia laevis) is
good garden plant that is not as
widely grown as 1t deserves to be-
1t is a bit difiicult to establish in wet
or cold soils. When established,
however, it puts on a colorful dis
play that lasts from July to freezing
weather. The flowers are of fair
size and come in several colors. It
seldom exceeds foot or a foot and
a half in height which makes 1t a
useful addition to the sunny border.
The blue sages (Salvia azurea and
farinacea are desirable because of
the lovely clear shades of blue that
they give to the hardy border Saliva
farinacea is rather tender and may
be treated as an annual, although
1t will survive most Of our winters
without difficulty where the soil is
well drained. Perhaps the roots can
be wintered over indoors, but have
not tried 1t. The blue sage Is.
azurea) is taller growing and more
spreading in habit Of growth.
Stokes Aster
Very Colorful.
Other hardy fall-blooming peren-
mails include gaillardia, purple cone
flower (Echinacea purpurea), plum
bago larpentate (Ceretostigma plum
baginoides), and the ever blooming
sweet william Dianthur latifolius
atrococcineus). Perhaps some would
include the goldenrod in this list,
but most gardeners consider it too
much of weed In habit of growth.
Fall-f1owering shrubs are few in
number and for the most part of
little value. The long season bloom
ers, such as the crapemyrtle and
abela, however, often continue to
flower until stopped by severe frost
or freeze. The Daphne cneorum,
which is sometimes classed as a
perennial, frequently puts on burst
OF bloom in the late fall. The Vir-
ginia witch-hazel usually blooms in
October, but its flowers are not quite
as interesting as those Of the vernal
witch-hazel that blooms in February.
Sometimes the butterfly bush (Budd-
leia) continues to flower after frost,
but not often. The Cinquefold (Po-
tentilla) is another herbaceous- like
shrub that carries its blooming Pc
riod into October.
Some people grow ANIMALS to in
sure flowers for garden color and
cutting in the late summer and fall.
From the above it would seem that
we might well use perennials to take
care of these needs. There are few
ANIMALS that flower after frost but
there are several good perennials
that can be depended upon until
freezing weather.
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boast them tightly rolled like quills
and one has long, stringlike petals.
With this array it is possible to in
troduce color and cutting material
In the hardy borders, in the speci-
men beds and even into window
boxes and urns. A few enterprising
gardeners lift and pot desirable
specimens for indoor bloom.
Anemone Hardy
Perennial.
Another desirable hardy fall
blooming perennial is the japanese
Anemone. 1t thrives best in light
shade but will do fairly well in the
sun when planted in deeply pre-
pared soil that has been we'll sup
piled with compost or leafmold. The
flowers come in single, semi-double
and double forms and are borne on
long stems that make them Splen-
did for cutting Queen Charlotte, a
pink, is well known, as is Whirl-
wind, a single white. There are a
number of other named varieties.
The japanese Anemones improve
with size and age, hence resent
frequent sub-dividing and trans
planting.
Another well-known fall-bloomer
Is the dahlia which gives a riot of
color to most gardens until cut
down by frost. Dahlias are very
tender and light frost will blacken
them. In 1888 many local gardens
had a splendid show of dahlia bloom
until Thanksgiving time. For this
list. though, dahlias should not be
mentioned, since they normally are
killed by frost
The hardy asters will survive light
frosts, but Aster tartaricus is
especially hardy. 1t is one of the
tallest of the asters and thus makes
q splendid background plant. How
ever, the leaves are large and this
may be Objectionable to some (but
not when used as background ..
Other species of asters and their
named varieties vary in height from
two to five feet, and In color from
white to dark blue and violet. All are
hardy and most of them continue
to bloom after light frosts.
The Boltonia (Swamp Aster)
greatly resembles the Tartarian
Aster both in flower and in growth.
While called the Swamp Aster it
does very well under ordinary gar
den conditions. Tall-growing and
vigorous, with many branched ter
minal flower clusters. It makes a
splendid showing as background
plant in the late fall. Some gar
deners call both the Swamp Aster
and Tartarian Asters weeds since
they seed themselves freely. In the
small garden this is a disadvantage,
but many gardens will have ample
use for such hardy growers.
Another free-flowering perennial
is the so-called hardy ageratum
tEupatorium coelestinum) or mist
flower. The Eupatoriums (blue and
white) are natives, but the white is
not particularly desirable. The blue
form would be more widely used in
our gardens were it not for its habit
Of spreading by underground stems.
Even so, except for moist places it
can be restrained without great diff
f1culty. Their masses of blue
flowers in late fall are very colorful
and attract much attention. Where
space permits, especially near pools
and along streams, they may well be
used.
Several of the hardy violas give an
extra burst of flowers in the late fall
and are especially desirable in the
rock garden for this reason. The
variety Jersey gem is the most
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Cacti Indoors andOut
Plants Are Extremely Adaptable
But Demand Good Drainage
BY EDITH L. HOUGH.

the cactus one OF the most interesting beautiful plants
adaptable II provided
warm sunny and outdoors be
INSIDE or ulched with straw during the
native to fairly moist this locality they
an should be protected from the rainfall
oampnesS humidity
They be
blooms next summer The winter April
period corresponding the
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For Cav Picture

Scatter portulaca seed in the
cracks in crazy paving. It will
come up next spring and give a
gay picture in midsummer. It will
not germinate until the weather Is
warm.
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BY MARGARET NOVEL;.

dinner table in October this display all the glowing
autumn This golden yellow damask cloth
deep blue candles The and
their
tend and with banding This
effect carried out with the bueberes and red leaves Of wood
bne, bright fruit of Towering crabapple.