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The Answers

/. The purchase of Alaska.
2. On parts of the Isthmus of
Panama, which turns and twists in
such a manner that the end of
the canal farthest west touches
the Atlantic.
3. Lucre is from the Latin lu-
crum, meaning gain.
4. The department of state July
81, 1880.
S. The whole body of individu-
ais born about the same period is
a generation, and by extension,
the term is applied to the time
covered by their lives.
6. Lindley Beckworth, of Texas,
who is Is years old.
7. The department of commerce
reports that Americans received
$64 200, 100000 in various forms of
income in 1888.
8. While many kinds of oysters
make pearls, only those produced
by mollusks possessing special
type of shell, with an inner lining
of mother-of-pearl are in demand.
9. Russia, by the treaty of Brest-
Litovsk, March, 1918.
10. The national debt is limited
by law to $45, 900, 100000.
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inch in diameter. Knit the oval
center first. Cast on four stitches
and increase one at the end of
each row until the depth of the
work is 4-inches, then knit evenly
for 10-inches. Bind off one stitch
at the end of each row until you
have four stitches left. Bind these
Off The diagram gives the dimen-
slons and colors for the bands that
are sewn to this center oval. Cast
on seven stitches to start each
band. For the outside band, start
with color 3. Knit 7-inches, then
cut the fabric strip and sew color
to it. Continue. Use a large
crochet hook and fabric strips to
crochet around the oval and the
outside edges of the bands. Sew
together with double carpet
thread.
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A Quiz With Answers
Offering Information
on Various Subjects

10. Is there any limit to the
amount of national debt?
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HOW % SEW
by Ruth Wyeth Spears oR

Note: Mrs. Spears Sewing Booh
2, Gifts, Novelties and Embroider-
les, contains 48 pages Of step-by-
step directions which have helped
thousands of women. If your home
is your hobby you will also want
Book 1-SEWING, for the Home
Decorator. Order by number, en-
closing Is cents for each book IL
you order both books, copy of the
new Rag Rug Leaf1et will be in
Guided free. Those who have both
books may secure leafiet for 8
cents in postage. Address Mrs.
Spears, 21O S. Desplaines ST., Chi
cago, Ill.
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They Are innocent

Aunt Maria-Do you know that
next Sunday will be the twenty fifth
anniversary of our wedding?
Uncle John-You don't say so!
What about it?
Aunt Maria Nothing. Only
thought we ought to kill those two
chickens.
Uncle John-But, Maria, how can
you blame them two chickens for
something that happened Is years
ago?-Cle Ireland Plain Dealer.
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60 MANY of you have asked for
- the rug leafiet with the books
offered below that l am sketching
still another interesting rug for
you here. Keep it for your scrap
book, and be sure to order the
leaflet to add to your collection
of rug ideas.
Cut or tear the rags "a inch
wide and use knitting needles rs
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glamour girl of an earlier day, Bar
bara LAMAR (surely there couldn't
have been a thought of Barbara in
the mind of the person who suggest
ed LAMAR" when the lovely Wen
nese Mrs. Marley was choosing a
name for her American careerD.
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Five years ago Shirley Ross made
her screen debut as bit player in
a picture starring Lee Tracy.
Imagine what thrill it was for her
when she was engaged to appear
as his leading lady on a Silver
Theater broadcast.
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Muriel Wilson, formerly known as
Mary Lou" on radios "Showboat"
program, recently received a gift
that moved her to tears. 1t is a
crocheted tablecloth depicting a
scene from "Showboat," and was
designed and made by a blind
woman.
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QvvotSfEB} e
THE GOOD CITIZEN

"THE first requisite of good citi-
zen in this republic Of ours is that
he be able and willing to pull his
weight" -TheOdore Roosevelt.
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ODDS AND ENDS-After his Thurs
day euening broadcasts Felix knight
makes bee line for an armenian res
taurant and plate Of shish-kebab
At rehearsals Kate Smith disrupts tht
men in the band by feeding them ham
burgers =. Be sure to see "Stagecoach'
it t0iH probably prOue to be one
he ten best pictures released this year
g Western Newspaper Union.
Evening star., 1939-04-15
Con>ingClub
Activities
Listed
Lecture on Flower
Boxes to Be Given
On Wednesday
BY FRANCESCA MCKINNEY.

Dy + VNAINSLoSA
The Bethesda Community Garden
Club will meet on Wednesday, April
26, at 10:3O o'clock in the morning
at the Battery Park Club House.
Mrs. Nina Bran will talk on her
work at Children's Hospital and give
suggestions for flower boxes to give
summer entertainment to the chill
dren. A round table discussion OF
garden problems will follow.
The hostesses for tf.e day will be
Mrs. William L. Norfleet, Mrs. F. E.
Strine, Mrs. Ford Young, Mrs. E. L.
Bingham and Mrs. C. w. Barber
The Woodbridge Garden Clubs
narcissus show will be held on Mon
day in the Sherwood Sunday School
Building, Twenty y-second street and
Rhode Island avenue NE. The
building will be open to receive
entries on Monday from until Z
o'clock that evening. The show win
be open to the public at 8 o'clock.
The regular monthly meeting Of
the Potomac Rose Society will be
held on Thursday in Building D,
on the George Washington campus
between Nineteenth and Twentieth
on G street,. Mrs. Lillian Smith will
describe her visits to a number of
the gardens in New Orleans. DR..
Whitman Cross and others will pre-
sent short reviews of articles ap-
pearing in the 1889 Rose Annual.
The Trowel Clubs spring flower
show will be held on Tuesday, in
Satterlee Hall Cathedral Grounds
at Wisconsin and Massachusetts
avenues. Mrs. Dion S. Birney is
president of the club and Mrs.
Theodore Coe is chairman of the
flower show. The show will be open
to the public from 4 until o'clock
in the evening and the admission
charge will be Is cents.
The Wesley Heights and Spring
Valley garden tour will take place
on Tuesday, April Is, from 1:30 until
Z o'clock in the evening. In case Of
rain the tour will be held on the
following day.
The starting places Of the tour
will be at the homes of Mrs. A. N.
Miller, 1888 Cathedral avenue, and
Mrs. w. c. Miller, 4401 Cathedral
avenue. The committee in charge
includes Mrs. John c. Freeland, Mrs.
Ralph B. Tew, Mrs. Earl Wallick,
Mrs. Harold Anderson, Mrs. Chester
Caywood and Mrs. David Wolhaup-
ter.
The tour is being sponsored by
the Wesley Heights Circle of the
Florence Crittendon Home.
Evening star., 1939-04-15

plants die because of wet roots,
better drainage is no doubt the
need. If it is heavy and sticky,
sand, sifted coal ashes and humus
will improve it. Late autumn spad-
ing plus top-dressing with lime
or wood ashes in the early spring is
recommended. If the soil is sandy,
of course, it requires a generous ad-
dition of hunus. If lacking In plant
food, manures and chemical ferti-
li7ers are the answers.
Stop, Look and
Consider.
So before starting your flower beds
this spring, consider your soil. What
success did you have last year?
What does your soil most need If
even greater success is to be yours?
I once knew a gardener, who, hav-
ing bought new house. set out
to beautify his grounds. He plant
ed little of this and a lot OF
that and then waited for the spring
to unfold his dream garden" Some
of the plants and bulbs did not even
grow-they had rotted in the soggy,
wet soil. Others grew nicely until
the hot sun in May and June be-
gan to bake the top soil-it had
practically no humus in 1t, and was
as hard as concrete. That gardener
then began his laborious task of
taking up his dream garden section
by section. He added sifted coal
ashes and humus to the SOIL spad-
ing them in deeply. For a few of
his flower beds he dug out the
clay and had it hauled away, re-
placing with good top soil which
he purchased. But before putting
the top soil in, he provided drain
age so that it would be impossible
for water to stand in the beds.
Since this garden was planted first
it was necessary to improve the soil
the slow, hard way. It would have
been very much easier and less ex-
pensive to have improved the soil
before planting flowers and shrub
berry. Cover crops or manure may
be added, together with sand or
ashes on the heavier soils, before
planting and the whole yard may
be spaded or plowed with little delay.
For the home gardener who Is
just beginning I would recommend
taking soil samples and sending
them to the following agencies, who
will analyze them and make recon-
mendations for soil improvement: For
the District of Columbia-The Bu-
reau of Chemistry and Soils, United
States Department of Agriculture.
For Maryland residents-The Uni
versity of Maryland, College Park,
Md. For residents of Virginia-Vir-
ginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacks
burg, Va.
In taking sample of soil, dig a
hole inches deep-then with a
trowel take a uniform slice a quar-
ter of an inch thick and 2 or 3 inches
wide from the side of the hole. Put
this in clean box-a cheese or ice
cream carton will do-a half pint is
sufficient, and mail to the proper
agency. Send a note along de-
scribing the location, crop to be
grown on the soil and giving your
name and address.
Evening star., 1939-04-15
Nourishing Roses

Many factors are responsible
for success or failure in growing
roses, but one Of the most i'm
portant phases of rose growing
Is providing ample nourisllment
to the plants.
Proper feeding of roses is not
complicated, can be controlled
with ease, and fully justifies the
consideration we give it. A we'll
fed rose plant is larger and
sturdier, requires less watering
during dry weather because of a
better root system, and produces
more and brighter colored
blooms.
The first feeding should be
given at the time or soon after
the protective mulch is removed
in the spring, followed by con-
tinued light feelings at three
to four week intervals, up to
about August /.
This will generally mean
about four or five feelings dur
ing the period specified. Use a
heaping tablespoonful of COM
plete, balanced plant food
around each plant. Scatter the
plant food evenly on the sur
face, slightly away from the
plant where the feeder roots are
located, and work lightly into
the soil. being careful not to
disturb the roots near the sur
face.
If a light summer mulch is
used the plant food can be ap-
piled on top Of the mulch for
later feelings, and watered in
thoroughly.
Evening star., 1939-04-15


Most fortunately I have our own
Mount Vernon kitchen garden near
at hand. The pears and nectarines
are blooming there now. Several
visits this summer to George WASH
ington's fruit, herb and vegetable
garden will keep me abreast of the
treatment and development of the
trees trained along the paths and
against the walls. The Mount Ver-
non gardener knows how to sue
ceed with these trees, though he re-
grets that some tourists are so eager
to have something from the home of
the father of their country that they
will take green apples. He has heard
tourists disagreeing about the trees,
some insisting that they are not
trees at all.
Good Reasons
For Training.
Though the trained tree may
seem artificial, 1t is one nature
improvement that is happy. In the
first place, there are good reasons
for this dictatorial regimentation
of trees. Trained on walls or trel-
hses, or along the garden path
on a horizontal wire one or two
feet above the ground, they do
not shade the garden, and require
no more space than vines. Flowers,
herbs and vegetables can be planted
right between their toes. The neces-
sary pruning of all outward growing
limbs, to keep them in design,
causes the production of superb,
easily harvested fruit. Such trees
are also easy to spray.
The life of a well-cared for tree
may be more than the three score
and ten years allowed its planter,
and he will receive dividends every
year and probably live longer be-
cause of his diet of beauty and
fruit.
Here are some of the directions
you will learn from the espalier
specialist. Seasons for planting are
October and February. Plant against
east, south and west walls.
MIR. Langley of Twickenham wrote
that he had known north aspects
to produce good plums and cherries
IN warm summers. ut is very un-
reasonable to expect that two south
or east walls, planted with the
same fruits, of the same age and
goodness. should produce fruits
equally as good and early, when
the soil of one is moderate, light
warm loan, and the other a strong.
cold brick-earth, or clay" wrote
the gardener of Twickenham. and
he added, when it falls out that
bad soil and a bad gardener hap
pen to meet together, which is
the very case of 10 gardens to one
Evening star., 1939-04-15
Garden Pill grinages

For the convenience of those ho uish make
those available in certain sections u
esss sf oess VI s%te & a ts o A c
pe Ihs gardens and homes listed H be opened during period
house so cents wher specifically charge
LEESBuRG-ALD1E DISTRICT
sbe. miles south of Ieesbug Just off U Route
The garden is walled and terraeed and
Eus Tuesday Wednesday thursday and Friday
Of nsessedn oAk % @ose So % M Ms 49, 3 miles north
ss sao his Built BY James G Monroe and occupied BY him
preserved in stone Mr. Frank Ltleton tuesday
M rnqqaZ aSou aaS d"y mile northwest Of eesDs
home Of exoy and Mrs westmoreand Davis Follow arrowso
open 1uesday wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
Modern
sIoKENear Ade The narcissu test garden of the Garden
Club Of Virginia. Col. Floyd Harris,
WINCHESTER AND CLARKE DISTRICTS.
CARTER HA1LMagnacent estate, house built 1870
Nathaniel Burve Old garden with original
request1 M: Gerard Lambert, owner
1890 (can interoro On es3 ~
west Of its intersection with State Route r. Mr. and Mrs William
,, FAIRFIELD Al Route sae miles north
AUDIEY-one Berryvile tArrow
shows turn Built Washington
Gusts George Washingons ward Now owned by Mrs
Modern Gardens.
SCALEBY-On u So Boyce evergreens
and most notable rock garden in Virginia Mrs Kenneth Glp
PLAY GARDEN. U Route So between Boyce and Mill
.cALENDER-on road between Beryvie and Mllwood At
tractive house nteriorD
WOODLEYOn road between Berryvine Mllwood.
esting old house. Mrs. Graham Daugherty,
ROSE COTTAGE-Nea Fairfield, route Mr.. and
Ralph Richardson,
RED GATE-Tun south at Wildwood 624 3s miles
Edward Jenkins,
ALEXANDRIA DISTRICT.
ROBERT f. LEES BOYHOOD HOME-607 Orinoco street.
(Can interior and garden)
ARCH HA-Corner of Franklin and Alfred streets Dr. and
Swetnam,
OAK HIIBult for William Ftzhugh about $780, property
which in the marriage settlement the wife of Lord Fairfax
SEEM Ten miles out Of Alexandria State Highway 1885, Mrs
Edward Howrey,
WELLINGTON-On Mount Memorial Boulevard
Arrow shows turn Built Tobias
OF George Washngtons secretaries Mr. and Mrs Malcolm Mahe
HOILIN HALI-Three miles Alexandria, Fort
Hunt Roadtake county road 629 The original
pu py George Mason for his Thompson Mason Original
spinning house may be visited trucker Miller
WOODLAWNust south Of intersection of State Highway 235
Vermont and six miles south Alexandria Built
ington for Nellie Cus granddaughter Washington
see interioro Mrs Oscar w. Underwood,
GUNSTON HALL-Of u S. county 600 (Arrow
Bill of Rights the first Constitution Virginia
the trainers OF the Constitution the
ineroro Mrs Louis D. Herle, owner
R!PPON LODGE-On U. s Highway l. (Arrow shows turn)
Built about IT'S by Richard Blackburn grandfather Mrs Busod
Washington and greatgandathe Augustine
ington Home of the Backburns Can see inteoo Mr. Wade
H. Ellis
PQHiCk CHuRCH'-On U s. Highway l. A Colonial church
ATTENDED by George Washington and George Mason
Modern Garden.
,1nnC<
Evening star., 1939-04-15
Leaves From
The Garden
Notebook
Best to Kill Weeds
Before They Can
Get Started

1t seems a shame to start this
issue by emphasizing the necessity
OF killing weeds before they get
started, but that is the easiest way
to control them. Weeds in the gar
den and flower beds are not hard
to kill at this season of the year
when they are small, but wait until
they have developed a good sized
root system then tackle them some
hot, humid day in July or August
and you will know it is work! Chick
weed may be controlled by busting
with sulphate of ammonia. The
others are best controlled by fire.
Quent cultivation.
Weeds in the lawn are coming in
for increasing attention on the part
OF the research chemist and today
there are a number of products
on the market for their control.
The newest of these will kill crab
grass, dandeHons and the plantains
when applied as a spray.
The daffodils are coming into full
bloom somewhat earlier than last
year, even though the weather has
been rather cool. With cool weather
the Towering season lasts much
longer than when it is hot. This is
true OF most of the spring Towering
bulbs and plants-hot weather cuts
the Towering period short.
While the trumpet varieties of the
n %l>> IT.
some of the large crowned leedsii
are also in bloom. The poets, as
group are the last to flower. BY
careful selection it is possible to
have in the border two months of
color with daffodils. A scattering
of bulbs at various points in the
yard will also give long season
of bloom
Evening star., 1939-04-15
Espalier Fruit Trees Have
Delighted Horticulturists
For Many Centuries
Our Present.Day Methods of
Cultivation Little Different
From Those Used of Old
BY GLADYS MOON.

making the most Of little spring
fruit the fall Old World oldtime charm
espaier fruit Directions planting
ming the than
entitled
Langley Twkenham pages
the first nyleaf IAN account VT fruit trees have
Garden 1880 beginning
IA named varieties Of peaches necnes aprcos and
beneath
dred
the old brown leather ncing
Bake when he read it fresh from press in
So little wall" espaier fruit
trees the fall OF 1889 is late for
right @ time TO- dream and prepare the soil and
snail all interesting
can get them strongly rooted
oons U-1orms OF
Evening star., 1939-04-15

thro'out England, than the produc-
ton must consequently be very
bad"
Modern Methods
VS.. Ancient.
That was 200 years ago in Eng
land. Are we wiser in America
now? Mr.. Langley recommended
horse manure spread in the shape
OF cup around the trees. Our Goth
century horticulturist suggests bone
meal and wood ashes and some COM
plete commercial fertilizer in the
spring and mulch of peat moss
and well rotted manure for winter.
Both old and modern gardeners
agree that pruning should be done
at the end of August or the begin
ming Of September before the leaves
fa!l and no branches should be
left closer than the length Of the
leaves. The limbs should be retied
each year to give free dilation. Pear
trees like plenty of room and mois-
ture. The fruits of apricots and
peaches should be thinned to 2
inches apart around the first of
May.
Let us watch the fig trees, planted
against the wall at the right of
the entrance to Mount Vernon's
Kitchen Garden. Figs should not be
pruned in winter or spring. It is
a good idea to have shelters to
place before the blossoming trees
early in the spring to protect them
from frosts. The same shelters can
be used to keep the fruits from
drying in the hot winds of summer
have seen the meticulous garden
ers Of France tie paper sacks over
each pear growing on the low cor
don.
Evening star., 1939-04-15

CVuAlICo. 4llCSC 1Ildy Uc dUucu OI
replaced by the use of composts
manures, fertilizers, green manures
and cover crops.
Acid or Alkaline
Soil Affects Plants.
In the third place, soil may be-
come either too acid for some plants
or too alkaline for others. If too
strongly alkaline because of lime.
bluestone, or plaster, some plants
will not thrive in it. It is possible
by Incorporating leafmold and peat
moss or by adding aluminium sui
phate, sulphur or alum to counter
act the alkalinity and to increase
the acidity. Conversely, if the soil
is too acid for some plants it may
be sweetened (the acid neutralized)
by the addition of lime (either as
ground limestone, hydrated lime or
finely ground oyster shells.
Conditions can develop in the
soil which are actually harmful to
plants, such as lack of drainage,
insufficient aeration, too little lime
continuous growing of the same
family of plants on the same soil,
undesirable minerals and the pres
ence of unfavorable or absence of
favorable organisms, especially bac-
terra.
Knowing all these things, it is
q comparatively simple matter to
Judge your soil with a fair degree
of accuracy
If the soil is poorly drained and
Evening star., 1939-04-15

maryland Gardens Nert Week.
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AColorful, Hardy
Creeping Plant

The creeping phlox CPhlox
subulata) is beginning to bloom and
is being offered for sale at many
OF the stores and markets. It is a
colorful hardy plant for the garden,
but it requires sunny, drained
situation. On the top of a wall,
creeping over rocks in the sunny
rockgarden, and on the edge of
well-drained bank, are the places
where it does best. It is available
In white, several shades of pink, and
lavender,
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The Gardener Should Study Why nproducve
Lack Of Valuable F1umus
Or Nutrient Substances
Are Frequent Causes
Excess Alkalinity or Acidity
May Also Prevent Plants
From Reaching Maturity
BY w. H. YOUNGMAN.

When realize that soil
which countless microscopic
kind and in which whole chemical laboratory
understand that
the character of it and destroy its usefulness
after ALL soil living growing a
There unproductve by
depicting the of
composed vegetable animal matter essential
Cd
1oo elements t2) improves the texture of the soil making fab
as the gardeners 90 helps the
by increasing the waterhodng
would otherwise be lost "a breaking preparing
food through bacterial
These without humus (5
plant food Consequently there
than to maintain adequate in
Secondly soils become unproducve
Evening star., 1939-04-15

arrangement hagstone
with comfortable chairs gliding small tables This
with flower flower planted for color
foliage trained the old
which be the horisto make ordinary
nasrtms vbena moonvine like the duchess Pygmaon
you missed the being gardener.
A. Moonvine small treIis Golden double nasurtus
bamboo spnts Pink verbena blue morning
Balcony petunas (blue white Morning
glory and together blooms by
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-08-31
New Fire Truck
To. Be Tested

The watertower Of the new Sea-
grave 65-f0ot ladder truck will
be tested today ON Homer street,
Waterville, at $3.50 o'clock.
Members of the fire commission,
Chief Thomas F. Cavanaugh, and
Seagrave representatives will be
on hand TO see the truck put
through its PAGES.
Temporarily housed at the
Brooklyn fire station, the new
truck, II approved, will replace the
trurck now at the East Main
street station. It was ordered sew
eral months ago at a bid Of APP
proximateIy $4,000.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-08-31
KASSON GROVE
ASSN. OUTING
Bethlehem Resort Group
Plans First Annual
Event For Sunday

The first annual outing Of the
Kasson Grove Association at Long
Meadow Pond In Bethlehem will be
held Sunday. Sept. 8. A lengthy, but
well-balanced program Of events has
been scheduled for. the occasion and
gala time is anticipated by men,
bers and their friends.
A soft-ball game between mar
ried and single men comprising the
summer colony at Kasson Grove
will start at 1890 a. m. to be fol-
lowed by a picnic luncheon. At 200
o'clock In the afternoon there will
be horseshoe throwing contests. AT
8 o'clock swimming races are sched-
uled; 4 y. m. novelty races: B p
m. boat races.
There are many Waterburians In
the Kasson Grove Association and
Its officers also include local resi-
dents.
The present roster OF officers In.
cludes: william Glispin, OF Water
bury. president; John Rova2 Of
Torrington, ce-president; and Mis-
Edith Curtis OF Waterbury, treasur'
err.
John Dauch OF Waterbury Is chair
man OF the committee In charge o.
the outing committee.