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Evening star., 1939-03-18
Successful
Perennials
Food
Plants Must Have
The Proper Care
Year After Year
cool sanctuary.
BY THE MASTER GARDENER

The gardener who thinks he can
make a selection and planting Of
perennials and then practically for
get them. and yet have satisfactory
growth and bloom, will find he is
very much mistaken. Perennials
must have proper care year after
year if they are to perform salts
factorily. I list below the principal
causes of failure with perennials:
Poor drainage.
An inadequate supply of plant
food in the soil when making new
beds or an inadequate supply of
plant food at the beginning Of the
growing season, in the case of
established beds.
Failure to provide additional
feedings during the growing sea-
son.
insufficient or faulty winter
protection.
Failure to renovate beds and
divide clumps at the proper time,
thereby producing an overcrowd-
ed condition in the beds.
Too little moisture.
Lack Of cultivation.
1nfestation with insect pests
and diseases.
If you have had partial or total
failures with cherished perennial
borders, doubtless you have q good
idea, after scanning the above, as
to just what factor or combination
OF conditions was to blame.
But regardless of whatever
remedial steps you take to correct
faulty conditions, do not neglect
feeding. Perennials, growing as they
do in the same soil year after year,
require ample supplies Of complete
available plant food.
would recommend your making
the first application of plant food
in mid-March, while the plants are
still dormant and mulch is still on
the beds. The plant food can be
scattered on the mulch, at the rate
of 4 pounds per 100 square feet, and
you can either water it in SO it will
get down into the soil and be avail
able to the roots Immediately when
they become active or you can allow
the late SHOWS and early spring
rains to accomplish this for you.
As soon as the weather Is suitable.
remove the mulch provided for
winter protection. If possible that
Is, If the mulch is q suitable material,
as In the case of peat moss-work
the mulch into the top soil.
If you did not make an early ap-
plication Of plant food on top Of
the mulch, then you can do your
initial feeding and cultivating when
the mulch is removed. Apply 1
pounds per 100 square feet, scatter
ing evenly over the beds. Use care
IN keeping the plant food away from
the tender stalks and leaves. After
working the plant food into the top
soil, 1t Is best to water 1t in, although
this is not absolutely necessary be-
cause Of favorable moisture condi-
tions In early spring.
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'Old>Tiner'
SNOWFALL
Bushes
Amount of Pruning
Needed Depends
On Condition
By Jessie Tarbox Beals.

The old-fashioned hardy shrub
(Viburnum opulus sterilis-common
snowbalD has fallen into disfavor
because of its susceptibility to aphis,
which distorts the leaves, causing
them to curl. and spoil its otherwise
beautiful effect on the landscape.
The, common SNOWFALL has been
quite generally displaced-and right
ly so-by the much more desirable
Japanese SNOWFALL (Viburnum
tomentosum plicatum which is not
subject to aphis, and which is more
snowy and cleaner foliaged. The
leaves of this type turn purple in
the fall, which is an added virtue.
However, the Japanese SNOWFALL Is
not as hardy as is the common
SNOWFALL, and 1t is rather hard to
establish, for 1t does not take kindly
to transplanting.
Due to this lack of hardness and
thriftiness on the part of the Japa-
nese SNOWFALL. In some sections
We must still depend on the old
fashioned type. So, If you have
any of the old-fashioned ones and
have been rather disguised with
them, suppose you take them in
hand and see what you can do
with the ugly ducklings. When you
see the beauty that well-cared-
for specimen can bring to your
garden, you will not wonder at the
popularity they enjoyed in our
grandmothers' gardens.
If you have an old shrub whose
growth has become distorted through
the ravages of aphids, prune it to
the ground in March or April, and
when new growth appears, spray
with a nicotine spray. Later, thin
out the new growth to form SYM
metrical shrub. When q fair top
growth has been made, feed the
shrub by making series OF holes
in a circle about feet from the
base and filling the holes with a
mixture of complete, balanced plant
food and soil, in equal preparations.
Then water well. It is well to give
another spray with nicotine solu-
ton about q month after the first
spray was given. With this treat
ment, of course, you will not have
bloom for several seasons.
Where the growth has not been
distorted by insects to an extent
where such drastic treatment as
described is necessary, simply thin
out the old growth, cutting out old
branches at the base Of the shrub,
feed with complete, balanced plant
food early in the spring, as de-
scribed above: and spray with a
nicotine spray early in the spring
when leaves appear, and again a
month later.
Where conditions are such that
the newer improved and more de-
sirable types are not hardy, I am
sure you will be fond Of this old
fashioned shrub,
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Control Dandelions
In YOurL Lawn Now

You can choose the hard, tedious
way Of digging dandenons out by
hand, but this will avail you nothing
II you have thin undernourished
turf, and your neighbor across the
way neglects to dig his dandelions.
How those feathery tipped seeds
do travel in the lightest breeze!
Or you can use q chemical spray
II you wish, but this, too, does not
make provision for bettering the
turf so errant seeds will not germi-
nate and get a foothold.
The easiest, lasting way to get
rid Of dandelions In the lawn, and
to keep them out, is to feed your
lawn early in the spring, before
the grass has commenced growth.
When plant food Is applied before
tho grass has started growth It Is
only necessary to scatter It on the
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1HcSc are LnlnGS 10 remember.
To have water lily blooms your pool
must be in the sun and contain
still water. A pool 2 feet deep is
sufficient. Galvanized or zinc tubs
will never do; use wooden tubs or
boxes mot smaller than 2 by by
FOOT for planting. The soil two-
thirds garden loan, one-third we'll
rotted COW manure) can cover the
entire bottom Of the pool Each lily
demands at least a bushel of soil,
and the water above the crown of
the plant should not exceed 9 to IL
inches. Goldfish and river minnows
prevent mosquitoes. Leave the hardy
lilies and fish to winter in the pool.
If you wish to attract birds, have
q few shallow edges.
Plan your pool to harmonize with
its surroundings. A formal pool can
be straight and artificial with sculp-
ture and garden seats as you like.
but trim its background. A natural
pool must look as if Nature forgot
to come back to pick it up. No
hungry bare stones lined up one
after another. begging for a little
moss or arabs or thyme or phlox
sublata.
All this sounds very, pretty, you
say, but how to begin, and is it ex-
pensive? The purpose of this writer
is to make you yearn for pool to
the boiling point of reading up on
the subject of water gardening
rather than to give full directions.
There are a lot of different things
you can do, but all simple and in
expensive. Call in a good digger
and stone litter to help, If you like,
but do not deprive yourself Of the
enjoyment Of signing the work with
your own handprint in the soft
cement.
First, shape the pool on the
ground with small stones and medi-
tate upon it for a few days. If the
pool is designed mainly for lilies,
the digging can be straight down to
q depth of 80 inches, leaving little
shelves here and there for pots or
bird baths.
Before mixing the cement place
the drain or filling pipes. Neither
Is really necessary, as the pool is
emptied but once a year, and can
be siphoned and filled with hoses
A pipe can be screwed into the drain
to make an overflow, but if grass
and plants, especially those like the
japanese iris that like wet feet, are
around the pool it can simply be
run over to clear it.
The inside wall of the pool
should be sloping to prevent crack
ing. The bottom is filled with 6
inches of concrete made by mixing
one part cement, two parts sand
and three parts II to 2 inch stone.
A form is made so that the walls
will be 6 inches thick at the bottom
and 4 at the top. The concrete is
poured between the wooden form
and the sides of the excavation.
For a pool of more than 6 feet
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Planning a Garden Pool Is
Delightful Opportunity
For Expressing Oneself
For Small Areas There Are
Miniature Lilies That Bear
Profusion of Tiny Blooms
By GLADYS MOON.

Nothing ulae creative imagination planning
garden pool Nothing except perhaps the poetry write
so sehreveang! Do like pool by
weeping willow with waterfall and little bridge? Then believe
IN spre you favor hes
bordere perhaps hidden desires
Just like water % pools that all right
too you
oeet-me-nos around and yellow lily in it. you
make
that have never made pool that did not wish
finished There be
when will wonder how fill
Never mind lily likes
100 in has provided miniature
lilies that bear tiny but prouse
You going to stay
salad
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Garden Pilgrinages

For the OF those ~ho wish
those available certain sections w the
Garden ~ek in vgnia u M be e %p "a April @ nu
size The gardens and listed during period
house so cents specifically Indicates no Charge
Aoays watch for shouting where highways
YORKTOWN.
The ancient cusomhouse said America
which we're bu1t in lses are @"a Ve1y ns
ing the National Park Service maintains
THE COLONIAL PARKWAy.Rng from Yorktown along
YORK HAIl1he home Revolutionary
Nelson Can see nterioro Owners: The family
GRACE cHuRcH.~Bult about 1sss
ON HAMPTON ROADS.
Route so at Phoebu Old kenyon
MYERS AMP 81 ENC ANNE Ss,
s and have been kept intact through succeeding
MEMORIAL OAk'-1n center of 4oo block
~ s E PAuhs An old Colonial church one
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THE OF ADAM oRoueaeooD-A % perfect example
miles from Norfolk off turn
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Little iul Me-; Neck y road and and follow arrows
ACREFrom Norfolk take United States Route 4eo to
Corner straight ahead to brick columns entrance Judge
and Mrs. B. D. White,
Mrs Johns garden at
JAMESTOWN.
First In Importance of ali historic
ToWne where the first English
established IN 1907
Pocahontas; site of the legislative
an old English garden
highway Admission, Is
WILLIAMSBURG.
HeadQuarters-W Williamsburg
An inclusive charge of 81 provides exhibition
oolngs OF the restoration three
private homes specifically listed each day.
OPEN ALL
governors Palace the Capitol Ludwel
PARADISE House. which contains Rockefeller jrs
american folk art public gao ST. George Tucker Gar
den IN which lie the foundations of the
Coke-Garre Garden Wren Building College William
Mary Old Courthouse Bruon Parish Church, famous
personages are buried.
OPEN MONDAY AND TUESDAY
Carter-Saunders House garden, falling
garden Dr. Robert Waller House Of the early Republic period
Peyon Randolph House. owned Randolph the
only nauVe Vren1an ever to be knighed by the King.
OPEN WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY.
Presidents House. College Of William and Powell Halam
House, Mercer House Garden.
OPEN FRIDAY SATURDAY.
Kerr House and Garden, Benjamin Waller
OPEN FRIDAY
Bracken House-The Parish
and president of William Mary
OPEN SATURDAY
James Geddy House Garden-This erected about
1885, was the home of James Geddy his
succeeded to his trade and another became ewr
Slversmth and goldsmith
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right in habit OF growth than the
winter honeysuckle.
For the moist location, the spice
bush (BenZion) might be considered,
although it is rather tall growing.
Its branches are covered with fuzzy
yellow flowers early in March to
herald the coming of spring. The
spicy fragrance Of the flowers give
it the name Of spicebush. In the
fall the red berries give color to
this bush so that it Is effective at
the beginning and at the end Of the
season.
The winterhazel (Corylopsis) is
not commonly grown here. but it Is
hardy and graceful. Growing 4 to
s feet high, 1t is suitable either
for the shrub border or as a speci-
men. The flowers are borne in
racemes on the tips of the branches.
The leaves are heart shaped, re-
sembling those of the witch hazel
to which it is related. The resemb-
lance does not end there. however,
as both like peaty soils. The winter
hazel prefers full sun and a sandy
soil. The buttercup winter hazel &C.
paucihora) has smaller flower clus-
tiers than the spike winter-hazel &C.
spicata).
Before leaving the early spring.
Towering shrubs, mention should be
made of some of the dogwoods. Dog
woods have been widely mentioned
for the winter color value of their
bark, for their berries, and for the
gorgeous spring display of flowers.
Seldom, however, is the earliness Of
their flowers emphasized. The Cor
nelian cherry (Cornus mas) is the
earliest to bloom. The flowers are
not like those of the common dog
wood &C. f1orida) but are tiny, bright
golden yellow. borne in clusters, and
thus are snowy in spite Of their size.
Small Bulbs
Satisfactory.
The Japanese Comedian cherry
&c. officinalis) blooms earlier than
the Cornelian-cherry and its flow
ers have longer stems. Both of
these species have snowy red fruits,
which are much relished by the
birds.
Much attention has been made
during recent years of the value Of
the small arly-flowering bulbs. The
crocus are certainly too well-known
to need more than passing mention
here. The snowdrops, glory-of-the-
snow, scilla, winter aconite and iris
reticulata are all useful in the bor-
ders for their very early spring
bloom. That they give color to the
garden In March goes without say
Ing. All do well In shade or sun and
require well-drained situations.
There are very few perennials
which can be depended upon for
bloom in March. The Helleborus
family is probably the earliest to
flower-the Christmas-rose III.
niger) often Towering in midwinter.
The lenten-rose and other varieties
of the species H. orientalis are early
spring Towering. The Helleborus Is
suitable for shady gardens, but
needs situation where it will re-
ceive the winter sun. It resents
moving and sometimes does not
bloom for two or three years fol-
Loving transplanting.
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Garden Club Note

The Bethesda Community Garden
Club will hold its meeting on We'd
nesday morning at 10:30 o'clock in
the conservatory Of the Botanic
Gardens. Following the meeting the
members will view the azaleas and
make tour of the gardens under
the direction of William Frederick,
assistant director Of the United
States Botanic Gardens.
Evening star., 1939-03-18

heavy chicken wire is used to re-
inforce the bottom and walls. Ir-
regular pools with sloping sides and
stone walls can be made without
forms as one can stand in the ce-
mented bottom and work the con-
crete mixture upward, placing the
stones to suit ones artistic eye in
the soft cement. Four parts sand
and one part cement for finishing
coat and between stones) When
the concrete is set, but not dry, the
entire surface should be brushed
with pure cement and water mixed
to sirupy consistency. Fill the pool
several times, and 10 days before
planting.
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surface Of the soil, and let the late
SHOWS and spring rains wash 1t
down to the roots. Then it is there,
available to the grass roots when
they begin their early growth-a
growth which is made before the
weeds spring into action. The head
start which the grass gets enables
it to crowd out those weeds now
In the lawn.
A day or two after application of
the plant food is made, seed With
q good grade of grass seed any
bare and thin spots in the lawn.
Evening star., 1939-03-18
Royal Visitors
FrOmEn9land

When King George vi and Queen
Elizabeth visit the White House
this spring, they will be given suites
finished In the American Colonial
era with hand-carved mahogany
beds and vast old.fashioned ward
robes placed there by President
Monroe,
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Blooming Shrubs Bulbs Floral Pageant in March
List of Plants Flowering
In Beginning Of Season
Is Surprisingly Long
Two Kinds of Honeysuckle,
Spicebush, Winterhazel,
Among Others in Group
BY w. H. YOUNGMAN.

q
blstey
that Machyes pleasant
spring.
Normally few blooming in early March, but this
them
thunberg shows faint coorng But let's from the unusual and
look at those things which normally flower March.
jasmine spcebus
The flowers Of these not particularly conspicuous
true but then hardly expect large snowy flowers would
looking list OF
Towering be for give
border It
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each month-to give interest to the
shrub border or background, and to
break the somberness of the green.
There may be flowers in the beds
which will help, but Towering shrubs
enlarge the picture and thus are
worthy of consideration.
Jasmine Can Be
Recommended.
The jasmine is one of the more
desirable boomers which opens its
satiny yellow flowers at the first
sign of warmth. Jasmine nudiflorum
is the one most commonly grown
and is hardy here. Some of the
others will grow here in the more
protected locations and are worthy
of trial. Sprays of the jasmine may
be brought indoors in February and
their fragrant flowers will open and
give color to the room. The jasmine
Is worth growing if for no other
reason than to provide a February
bouquet.
A good evergreen shrub for the
sunny or shady yard is the Mt.
Andromeda (Pieris). Its snowy
flower buds, on the tip of every
branch, are CONSPICUOUS all winter
long and they open in late Feb
ruary or early March, depending
upon the exposure. This slow-grow-
ing shrub is fine for the foundation
planting or border. The tiny flower
buds are in upright panicles on
the native species (floribunda and
dropping in the Japanese species,
which Is larger and faster growing.
The Andromedas need a moist,
peaty soil, and hence combine well
with azaleas, rhododendrons, and
the coniferous evergreens.
Another interesting group of the
early Towering shrubs are the
witchhazels Hamamelis). They are
mostly low-growing trees and shrubs,
whose chief value is their habit of
producing clusters of curious ribbon
like petaled flowers during the win
ter and early spring. The japanese
and Chinese species are more snowy
than the native ones, but are so
tall co feet) that they are useful
OIlly III Cl1C UdShS1Ou1lu. 4llC lldLltC
witch hazel H. virbiniana) will grow
in shade but the Japanese and
Chinese species require some sun.
A shrub rarely grown here but
worthy Of trial in well-protected
places is the wintersweet (Meratia)
a member Of the sweet shrub family.
It is not hardy but will stand some
frost and hence can be expected
to survive In only the most pro-
tected places. If 1t were not for its
very fragrant yellow flowers it would
not be worthy of consideration.
Two Honeysuckles
Early Boomers.
Two honeysuckle species flower
In March. The winter honeysuckle
Nonicera franrantissima) has tiny,
creamy-white flowers which, if 1t
were not for their fragrance, would
go unnoticed. This species is ever
green, except in severe winters and
makes a pleasing appearance, al
though it is bit too spreading
In habit for the small yard where
more upright growing shrubs are
desirable. The Standish honeysuckle,
also an early bloomer, is more up
Evening star., 1939-03-18

BY MARGARET NOVEL;
planning spring. spot
and
when walls suocang and
air Is unbearable
Under your largest shade would be the
pens be located close public
around the of the rope swing
OF it, mgher branches and
table two for magazines
the ground placing shrbbery
Evening star., 1939-04-26
Luncheon Is Given
By Mrs. Hotchkiss
And Mrs. Jackson

Mrs. Neil Hotchkiss of Aurora
Hills, and Mrs. Donald Jackson of
Oxon Hill, Nd, were joint hostesses
yesterday at a luncheon at the Little
Tea House in Virginia, entertaining
in honor of Mrs. George P. Healy
of Auburn, N. Y. house guest of Mr..
and Mrs. Hotchkiss; Mrs. Maurice
Spencer of Long Beach, Calf, who
is visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Jackson at
their place in Oxon Hill: Mrs.
Stewart Hotchkiss, recently arrived
from Hawaii, who is the guest Of
her brother and sister-in-law, Mr..
and Mrs Stanton Foster at their
apartment in the Buckingham Com
munity, and Mrs. Dora Griffith,
who is leaving Friday for Spring
field, Ill. to visit her son and daugh-
ter-in-law, DR.. and Mrs. B. I.
Griffith. The senior Mrs. Griffith
has been in Aurora Hills during the
past winter with her son-in- law and
daughter, DR.. and Mrs. J. Frank
Kendrick.
Additional guests at the luncheon
were Mrs. Kendrick. Mrs. Foster,
Mrs. Kenneth c. Beeson of Airing
ton; Mrs. ]. R. Swallen Of Takoma
Park. Md. and Mrs. William Hus-
band of Washington.
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Mrs. Armstrong
Will Entertain
After Concert

Following the benefit concert
which the Radcliffe College Club
will present Sunday afternoon at
the Phillips Memorial Gallery,
Mrs. James S. Armstrong will en-
tertain at tea at her home, 4534
Hawthorne street, from $50 un-
til 7 o'clock, Dean Bernice Brown
Cronkhite of Radcliffe will be the
guest of honor. Guests will in
clude members of the Radcliffe
Club and the artists of the after
noon.
Mrs. George Blackwell will en-
tertain at tea from 4::3O until 7
O'Clock Monday at her home in
Ayr Lane, Bethesda, in honor of
Dean Cronkhite.
The concert, which is given
through the courtesy of Mr.. and
Mrs. Duncan Phillips, is for the
benefit of the Radcliffe College
Regional Scholarship Fund. Mil
lard Taylor will be violinist and
Ethel Blackwell pianist for the
occasion and Charlotte Ridley
Watkins, soprano. will sing.
Mrs. Harold Morrison is in
charge of ticket reservations.
Patronesses for the concert
are Miss Grace Dunham Guest,
Mrs. Alger Hiss, Mrs. Harold N.
Marsh. Mrs. Eugene Meyer, Mrs.
Walter Nash, Mrs. Jouett Shouse,
Mrs. Rudolph Stanley-Brown and
Mrs. L. Corrin Strong.
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President, Mrs. Roosevelt
Dinner Hosts Before
Award Ceremony
Miss Rachel Crothers Honored
By Chi Omega Fraternity
At White House Affair

entertained at dinner last
preceding presentation
Of the Chi Omega Fraternity Miss Rachel Crohers
the Secretary Treasury
Secretary of War Attorney
MI Murphy Mrs Claude A.
the Navy; Columbus
1azz Anderson widow Ambassador
TO the Society of Marv Vail
Address, Mr. Mason critic Brown: Dr.
and Mrs E. Faulkner,
Fraser Mrs Cornelius NJ Garrison
Mrs Goden Miss sculptor; M Hnkle
Mr. and Mrs Wilmarth Lewis Holland
Montague Miss Elizabeth Dyer August
ky OF ST. Paul. Mr. Robert Mo
Stmon OF Goucher College, Baltimore; Mary Collins
Ae Hamilton Dean Marjorie H. Nicholson
Miss Lucille
ana Mrs James M Helm social
Inc program following the dinner in
Awards introduced the speakers
John Golden and Mr. making tribute to
the work OF Miss Crothers.
made the presentation of the responding he-
remarks At the of the
held a reception
Inc secretary OF War and Mrs their
at the Shoreham Mr. Woodrings
daughter Colorado Springs who returned
with Mrs Woodring Florida
FORMER Senator and Mrs Coolidge Ftchbure Mass
parents OF Mrs Woodrng also
from recently, N'e "1''NN
he Secretary of the Netherlands Buenos Aires Jnkheer
LIZ van Vredenburc
the Shoreham ~ ~ 0"N'AAe ~
Nine Abdulah wife
Switzerland
the guests OF Mr. and Mrs Drew Pearson dnne
at the Shoreham last
Mrs Capt Clark entertained At luncheon
ooay al Army Navy Country Club
John Borden Canal
brother and sister n-aw, Mr.. and Mrs A. Borden
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Gov., Mrs. Miles
CAPITAL Visitors

Gov. and Mrs. John E. Miles
Of New Mexico, who have been
visiting here for some time and
who now are in New York, are
expected back in Washington at
the end of this week.
Gov. and Mrs. Miles were en-
tertained at dinner last Thurs
day by Senator and Mrs. Carl
A. Hatch of New Mexico at their
home.
Among the guests were Mr..
and Mrs. Clinton P. Anderson,
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Butt and
Mr. and Mrs O. F. Santebal of Al
bequerque. N. Mex. and Mr.. and
Mrs. w. H. McMains, Mr.. and
Mrs. Stewart Hatch and Mrs.
Bell of Silver City, the latter the
State regent of New Mexico. here
for the annual congress OF the
D. A. r.