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Evening star., 1940-03-02

there will be. After this so-called
rest period, of from six weeks to two
months, when they begin to show
some life or leaf out, the top soil Ia
removed from around the plant and
fresh soil added Plants are never
taken out Of their original pots UNI
less they outgrow them. j
The cuttings which were removed
from the old plants are used as
slips to start new plants by sticking
them down in a pot of good garden
soil and placed in a sunny window
where they are kept well watered.
She says fair per cent of the slips
will bring forth good substantial
plants which will bloom by the fot.
lowing Christmas.
In the spring when the weather
Is warm, or about June, the potted
plants are placed in the garden
where they will be protected by
shrubbery until the fall, when they
are again taken indoors before the
nights become cool, and are placed
by sunny window to await their
blooming.
This successful poinsettia grower
takes great pride in her self
cultivated plants for her Christmas
decorations. This past Christmas
she used 6-foot plant with blooms
ranging from IL inches to Is inches
across at the end of the living roofa
mantel and banked around it many
smaller plants with equally beautiful
blooms-and with red candles here
and there a most colorful and
artistic effect was created.
Evening star., 1940-03-02
Feed Bulbs
Now for
Bloom
Spring Flowe~'
Varieties Pre-
By Applicable
BY THE MASTER GARDENER.

just as soon as the foliage of
tulips, hyacinths and the other
spring Towering bulbs appears in
early spring, they will benefit
greatly If you apply a feeding of
complete, balanced plant food.
Colors will be more intense, stems
will be stronger and taller, and
flowers will be more lasting.
How to feed bulbs planted in
rows: Fr@.
Apply one-haH to three-fourths
pint of complete, balanced plant
food to 20 feet of row, starting ap-
plication from 2 to inches away
from the plant, and applying one
half Of the quantity on either side
of the row. After making appNca-
ton work the plant food lightly into
the soil.
For bulbs planted in clumps or
individual holes, or in beds:
Complete, balanced plant food
should be scattered around the
plants or among the plants at the
rate of one heaping teaspoonful to
a square foot of space, keeping the
plant food at least two inches away
from the stalk of the plant.
Where bulbs are planted rather
closely in bed so it would be diff
ficult to feed them after the plants
appear above the ground, we would
suggest feeding during late winter
say two to three weeks before the
plants are likely to appear. For
that feeding, complete, balanced
plant food should be broadcast over
the top of the ground at the rate
of about 2 pounds per 100 square
feet. This would be equivalent to
a little more than a level table
spoonful to each square foot of
space. Work the plant food lightly
into the soil.
II desired, another light feeding
Of plant food can be made just as
the bud appears. This can be done
conveniently where plants are in
rows or in clumps, but is not sug-
gested where plants are grown very
close together in bed.
TCCuAlS WuCIC CIOCuS, UAuOOllS OF
similar bulbs are naturalized in the
| lawn:
Where crocus or any other type
Of spring Towering bulbs are natu-
rallied and grown promiscuously in
the lawn, about the only way they
can be fed is to feed the lawn in
the way we would ordinarily rec
ommend-that is, pounds of COM
plete, balanced plant food per 100
square feet. Best results can be
obtained by making the application
very early in the spring, say in late
February or early March. At that
time 1t is not necessary to wet the
plant food down. Application Of
plant feed for such areas, Of course,
can be made almost any time of the
year, but after the grass starts to
grow or after the tender growth Of
the bulbs appears, it is necessary
to wet the area down thoroughly In
order to wash the plant food OF
the foliage and get 1t started down
to the roots.
Here's wishing you q glorious
show Of bloom from your spring
Towering bulbs!
Evening star., 1940-03-02

The Fivestamen Tamarix (tama-
rix pentandra) is also a late-sum-
mer Towering shrub, but is so tall
O5 feet) that 1t belongs in the
background of a shrub border. It.,
too, likes sun, which helps to show
up the airy heads of pink flowers
above the fine, graceful foliage. A
sandy soil is more to the liking
of the Tamarix than heavy clays.
This list would be incomplete
without lilac species, so here are
two: The Rowen lilac (Syringa
chinensis) and the Hungarian IL
lac Is. josikaea). The former is an
early -flowering sort with reddish
purple, dark red or white flowers
that resemble the Persian lilac.
However, it is a freer bloomer and
produces its floral display at an
early age. The Hungarian lilac has
later Towering season and its deep
lilac flowers are in dense panicles.
Both are fine additions to the
yard. Give them full sun in sweet
soil. Plant in the spring.
The bush arbutus (Abelia grandi-
f1ora) is a medium tall (3-6 feet)
evergreen shrub with very long
season of bloom-from July until
FROST It goes well with evergreens
or with deciduous Towering shrubs
in sun or light shade.
The goldtower Hypericurn mo-
serianum) is excellent for the semi
shady yard, where its dwarf (11a
feet) bushes display their masses
of bright yellow flowers in August
and September. There are many
yards in this vicinity that could
use this hardy little shrub to give
late summer color. It does best in
sandy soils that are well enriched
with leafmold.
The ural false-spirea (Sorbaria
sorbifolia) is another low-growlng
(3-6 feet) shrub that is well adapted
to the semi-shady yard. Its white
flowers, resembling the spirea, are
produced from June until August.
1t would be hardly fitting to omit
roses from this list and so I suggest
Rosa Zanthina, a 9-foot hardy
shrub that produces quantities of
bright yellow flowers In May. The
Rugosa New Century" a product
of the efforts of the late DR.. Van
Fleet, is a lower grower as feet
that is most resistant to disease and
insect troubles and has q very long
season Of bloom. The flowers are
fiesh-pink with light red centers
and creamy edges.
Then, If you want to really try
something that is different, there is
the Franklinia (Gordonia alath-
amaha, shrub of low-growing
tree that reaches 80 feet. The
blooming season of this very un-
common tree is in late July or Au-
gust and the flowers are very much
like those of the sweet-bay mag
nolia, of which it reminds me.
The digging OF an ample-sized
hole. the working into the subsoil
where it may be reached by the
roots of humus and if available
very well-rotted manure, the set
ting at the same level as it grew
in the nursery row, the proper
bracing of tall-growing shrubs and
trees as q protection against March
winds, and finally care to keep a
generous supply Of moisture avail
able to the roots until they can
obtain it for themselves-these are
the main considerations whether
planting in spring or fall.
Evening star., 1940-03-02

III MS 6OuLu CaTOllua SarQcn.
The doctor, perhaps, would not
care as much for the pink and white
blossoms as for the vivid red which
he brought to this country, but
surely, he would be greatly inter-
ested in recent experiments which
have produced these newer flowers.
My friend-sorry, she will not al
low her name to be used-has q
method of caring for poinsettia
plants which she follows strictly
and with great success. She says
the poinsettia plant requires a day
temperature OF at least 10 degrees,
while at night the temperature must
never be allowed to go below SO de-
grees.
This temperamental plant will not
thrive on sudden temperature
changes nor exposure to drafts-so,
be very careful Of these points. She
never leaves her plants standing in
a saucer Of water, as the glamorous
flower will not endure water-soaked
feet, but does insist upon being
watered often, at least twice a day
while in bloom. After the plant
drops its leaves and stops blooming
it is cut back, allowing about 3 buds
to each stem, then down to the
basement 1t goes and is laid on its
side, container and all, in a cool
place. During this resting or sleep
ing period she waters it just enough
to prevent stems from becoming
shriveled. When new growth starts
the stems will branch out from
where they were cut back-the more
branches, she said, the more flowers
Evening star., 1940-03-02
Number of Unusual oweng Shrubs Can Be Grown Easily
Interesting Varieties Are
No Harder to Care For
Than Our Old Friends
Hungarian Lilac Especially
Recommended for Bloom
Later in the Season
By w, H, YOUNGMAN.

Would like to try shrubs? Things that
but attractive
shrubs suited this which seldom
having
lowing also grow
provements old
consider the
put better than hunbers Both flower early in the spring and
both small slender
Arguta has flowers The Korean chocapa)
like our old friend the Vanhoute with better
the poong the floral display Both the Gandowe the
spreas height sunny
location.
An interesting shrub that seldom in local yards the spread
ing cooneaster &C. dvarcaa This hardy redued atan
In height and be used either the border specimen plant
The spreading cotoneaer nisnomer the habit
growth upright with the spreading branches giving effective
Evening star., 1940-03-02
15>1nch POinsettia Bloom
Raised Successfully by
Washington Woman
Plants Produced From Slips
Through the Summer Give
Blossoms for Christmas
By AGNES TRINIBLE,

Most Of us associate the pnsea with Christmas obtaining
them from favoe florist shop
pertinent with them after Christmas
later, but seldom is this thrill realized. -
There however right here Washington
proudly boast realizing this goal She perfect blossoms
her old plants but blooms plants
Imagine having ponsetta bloom measuring Is inches
having ponsettas she has them bloom
ing of throughout the spring slip plants is
towering now but being its first blooms they sas
will be larger
The ponsettia know tropical plant
central America and Mexico It first introduced
Dr. Joel r. Poinset Of Charleston
Der OF the South Carolina legislature
and from 1925 to 1929 he served Minister was
during his diplomatic interested and
experimened with the ponsea
Evening star., 1940-03-02

To those who imagine that the
idea of air-conditioning is new, 1t
will be q surprise to learn that an
effective system was In use 100 years
ago. The Black Emperor, Henri
Christophe, cooled the rooms of his
palace at Sans Souci back in 1908.
The palace was sumptuous, with
banquet hall, gilt mirrors. and q
richly carved mahogany throne. The
palace was built over a rushing
mountain stream to refresh the re-
gal rooms,
Evening star., 1940-03-02
Garden Clubs
Plan Many
Activities /.
"
Party to Attend
Flower Show
In New York

The Garden Clubs Of Washington
have arranged an all-expense tour
for those interested in attending
the International Flower Show in
New York City. The party will
leave Washington on Monday,
March II, by train early in the
morning, permitting a visit to the
show that afternoon. Expenses in
clude a stop overnight in New York
so that Tuesday may be devoted to
the show, sightseeing, or shopping.
The party will leave New York
Tuesday afternoon, reaching Wash,
ington before midnight. -
The Garden Club of Chevy Chase,
Md, will hold its regular meeting
on Wednesday at 3 pm. at the home
Of Mrs. Arthur w. Defenderfer, 2
East Kirke street. Mrs. John Vance
will be co-hostess and Mrs. Lillian
Wright Smith will speak on Spring
Gardens" Also at this meeting
plans will be made for the Chevy
Chase Garden Tour, conducted for
the benefit Of the Montgomery
County Hospital on May "a. saW
Dates for the Rose Institute given
by the Potomac Rose Society and
George Washington University have
been announced as March 20 and q.
t--
Daffodils will feature the pro-
gram of the Woodbridge Garden Club
Monday evening, March 4, at the
Sherwood Presbyterian Church. "A
set Of rs kodachrome lantern slides
featuring the newer danodil varie-
ties will be shown, and Miss Marga-
ret Lancaster will discuss the use
OF Daffodils in the Home Garden
Paintings" Visitors are welcome.
Evening star., 1940-03-02

Md: Seventh annual Maryland
House and Garden Pilgrimage.
April -Carrollton, Miss: Pill
grimage Garden Club.
May-Mandarin, Fla: Tour Of
orchid farm.
May 3-LLeland, Miss: Pill
grimage Garden Club.
May 4-SGreenville, Miss:
Pilgrimage Garden Club.
May 7-10-Annual meeting,
Garden Club Of America. -Balti-
more, Md.
May 14-11Annual meeting,
Garden Club Of Virginia. Peters,
burg, Va.
May z1-23-Roanoke, Va: An
nual meeting, Virginia Fedora
ton Of Garden Clubs, Roanoke
Hotel. ~ ~.
Evening star., 1940-03-02

like sun and a light, well-dra1ned
-too-acid soil.
The Mountain Andromeda (Pieris
horibunda) and the Japanese An
dromeda (P. japonica) are two excel
lent shrubs for the semi-shaded and
shady yards. They are evergreen, Of
medium height (3-5 feet) and thrive
in our naturally acid soil. The flow
ers are borne in snowy panicles at
the tips of the branches, the buds
being conspicuous from late fall to
early spring, when they open into
tiny creamy white bells. The Noun
tain Andromeda is a native of near
by West Virginia and has upright
flower panicles, whereas the Japa-
nese have dropping panicles. Both
do their best in the shade in a soil
well enriched with leafmold.
For the lover OF dogwoods the
Cornelian cherry (Cornus mas
and the Kousa dogwood &C. Kousa)
are suggested. The Cornelian cherry
has clusters of tiny yellow flowers
early in the season, while the Kousa
has white flowers late in the season.
Both grow about Is feet high and
are adapted to the same treatment
as the common dogwood.
A shrubby perennial, the blue
spirea (Caryopteris incana) is we'll
adapted to the background of a
perennial border. It's snowy clusters
of bright blue flowers appear in
September on bushes ranging from
2 to 6 feet in height. 1t thrives
best in a sweet soil in full sun.
Evening star., 1940-03-02
The Garden Notebook .
Prepare Planting Spaces for
New Roses During March

should be put on the beds before
the new leaves appear. If the
leaves break through the ground
before the fertilizer is applied care
will be necessary to keep from burn
ing the foliage.
Sprays OF forsythia, Towering
ounce. Thunberg's spirea and
Pussy Willow may be cut and taken
indoors for early bloom. Put the
cut sprays in a deep pail of water
and hold in the basement, taking
them into the warmth upstairs as
they are needed.
At the demonstration pruning
given by the Takoma Horticultural
Club the instructors cautioned about
pruning roses before the middle of
March. In the more protected sec
tions Of the city pruning can be
done at any time now. although in
the more outlying sections it is bet
ter to wait until after the middle
VI &004CA .-
A good beauty treatment for the
lawn may be given in the form of
q top-dressing. This may be pre-
pared by using rich top soil, sand.
cottonseed meal, thoroughly rotted
and pulverized manure and COM
mercial fertilizer. The quantities
Of each to be used win depend upon
the size and condition of the lawn.
Ordinarily quarter-inch layer
would be a fairly generous apph-
cation, which might well be in
creased to half an inch on q very
thin impoverished soil. The maxi
mum amount of fertilizer per 100
square feet is ordinarily pounds,
but DR.. Pieters recommended 10
pounds in this page last fall.
If the stand of grass is thin scat
ter grass seed before applying the
top-dressing. Roll the lawn lightly
to give a smooth, even surface.
Evening star., 1940-03-02
To Lenethen Stems

Oftentimes potted hyacinths bloom
with very short stems. This can
be remedied by placing . pasteboard
or tin collar around the leaves and
flower stem as 1t emerges from the
ground. Seeking light, it will push
on up above the collar.
Evening star., 1940-03-02
Aversion to Untidiness

When we meet untidy people, we
are likely to feel a sense Of aversion
that often binds us to the qualities
we might otherwise admire. We may
grow to like them Notwithstanding
but there Is always a hope that their
standards will improve.
Evening star., 1940-03-02

Did you take advantage Of the
warm days to SOW seeds of the hardy
ANIMALS? Larkspur. bachelors
buttons, California poppies and a
number of other hardy ANIMALS
should be sown at the first oppor-
tunity. They do better when given
! an early start. Just scatter the
seeds where they are to grow and
lightly rake them in.
AS the weather permits 1t is we'll
to prepare the planting spaces for
the new shrubs and roses to be
planted this month. March 20 is
considered as the proper planting
time for this area, but, of course,
it is earlier downtown and later in
the outlying areas. The earlier the
better is good rule: however, do
not attempt to work the soil when
it is SO wet that 1t will puddle. In
case of doubt take small handful
and squeeze it into a ball. II the
ball skaters when struck gently the
soil is in condition to be worked.
Where the planting holes are pre-.
pared week or more in advance
the planting can be quickly finished
once the shrubs arrive, and there is
also less danger of undue settling.
1t is remarkable the difference in
results obtained when the early
Towering bulbs are planted In q
protected place as compared with
those planted where the strong
spring winds strike them. Some
OF the snowdrops are blooming on
stems an inch or two long, and they
should be 4 inches or more. Hya-
cinth blooms have been known to
open underground in exposed posi-
tions. The protection of shrubs,
walls, or even row Of rocks will
provide the needed shelter.
Now that spring house-cleaning
time is here it might be well to
give the house plants bit of at
tention. Dust has collected on their
leaves and should be removed by
Swinging with water or by washing
with a damp cloth. That is, all Of
them except the African violet, and
the others are best given their baths
in the morning.
Now is the time to give the tulip
and dafodil beds an application Of
plant food to stimulate long stems
and large flowers. The fertilizer,
which is applied at the rate of 3
or 4 pounds per 100 square feet,
Evening star., 1940-03-02
GARDEN DATES

&asSSE 8SeX2
March-Mobile, Ala: Mobile
Azalea Trail and Bellingrath
Gardens. Charleston, S. c.:
Magnolia Gardens and Middleton
Gardens.
February 28- March 6-Houston,
Tex: Forty-first National Flower
and Garden Show, Sam Houston
Coliseum.
March 1-SSarasota, Fla:
Garden Club 1910 Show, Munich
pal Auditorium.
March 1-3-Palm Beach, Fla:
Palm Beach Flower Show, Society
of Fine Arts Building and
grounds. ts
March 1-3-Key West, Fla:
The Key West Garden Club and
Tree Guild Flower Show.
March 2-April Laurel, Miss:
1910 Chemurgic trek.
March 3-10-New Orleans, La:
Spring fiesta.
March 4-Miami, Fla: Garden
clubs f Greater Miami tours.
March 4-9-Tormto. Canada:
Spring Flower Show, Eaton Au-
ditorium.
March 7-S-Norfolk, Va: Sixth
Annual Camelia Show, the Gar
den Club of Norfolk, Atlantic
Hotel.
March 7-10-Worcester, Mass:
Annual Spring Flower Show,
Worcester County Horticultural
Society, Horticultural Hall.
March 9-16-Milwaukee, Wis:
Annual Spring Flower and Home
Show, Milwaukee Auditorium.
March 9-17-St. Louis, Mo-:
Greater st. Louis Flower Show,
the arena.
March 11-16-Boston, Mass:
Sixty y-ninth Annual New England
Spring Flower Show Of the Mas
sachusetts Horticultural Society,
Mechanics Hall.
March 11-16-New York, N. Y:
Twenty-seventh Annual Interna-
tional Flower Show Of the Horti-
cultural Society of New York and
the New York Florists Club,
Grand Central Palace.
March 11-16-P hila d e lphia,
Pa: The Philadelphia Flower
Show, Commercial Museum.
March 13-14-Fort Lauderdale,
Fla: Flower Show of the Fort
Lauderdale Garden Club.
March 15-Santa Barbara,
Calf: Garden Tour through
Santa Barbara and Montecito,
every Friday until May 8.
March 16-31-Woodville, Miss:
Woodville Garden Club Pilgrim
age.
March 1S-Palm Beach, Fla:
Tours Of the Garden Club Of
Palm Beach.
March 17-30-Laurel, Miss:
Beginning second annual pill
grimage, Pilgrimage Garden Club.
March 19-April New York:
Garden Pilgrimage Of the South,
sponsored by Horticultural So
ciety of New York.
March 20-21-Rose Institute,
sponsored by Potomac Rose So
ciety and George Washington
University, Washington, D. G.
March 23-31-Detroit, Mich:
Michigan Flower and Garden Ex-
hibit, Convention Hall.
March 23-Aprh 7-Chicago,
ILL.,: Easter and Spring Show of
the Chicago Park District in Gar
field and Lincoln Park Conserva.
tories.
March 24-April 7-Natchez,
Miss: Ninth annual pilgrimage
Of the Natchez Garden Club.
March 26-27-Tdewater Mar
cissus Show, Suffolk, Va.
March 26-2S-Hattie S burg,
Miss: Pilgrimage, Pilgrimage
Garden Club.
March 29-April 1-Gulf Coast,
Miss: Mississippi Gull Coast
Pageant, sponsored by the garden
clubs of the coastal region.
March 30-April 7-Chicago,
H.: Chicago Flower Show, Navy
Pier.
April 12-13-Ninth Annual
Narcissus Show, Garden Club Of
Virginia, Armory, Alexandria,
Va.
April 21-24-H oily Springs.
Miss: Pilgrimage Garden Club
April 22-27-Garden Week In
Virginia.
April 21-2S-Vicksburg, jack
son, Meridian, Miss: Pilgrimage
Garden Club.
April 15-26-Aberdeen, Miss:
Pilgrimage Garden Club.
April 27-z8-Greenwood, MISS:
Pilgrimage Garden Club.
April 3s-Nay rDaltimore.
Evening star., 1940-03-02
By MARGARET NOVEL;

BY MARGARET NOVEL;
The flower market these
every spring your
tulips when crisp like would
Freshly tulips whole . UAce living
they limp and drocng to leaf Would do well to make
other selection Daods usually rather
sd and should arranged In that msnnerust might
or used With iris other graceful flower for dler
Evening star., 1940-03-02
III E R R s

HERD PLANTS: pot-grown, easily shipped.
DRIED HERBS: for Salads, Omelets, etc,
HERB COOKERY: Booklet of Recipes sent
on receipt Of 25 cents
HERB CATALOGUE: New edition, fUst
published. Sent on receipt Of 10 cents. -
WEATHERED OAK HERB FARM, lne.
BRADLEY HILLS, BETHESDA. MARYLAND
Evening star., 1940-03-02

Now is the time to give the tulip
and daffodil beds an application Of
plant food to stimulate long stems
and large flowers. The fertilizer,
which is applied at the rate of 3
or 4 pounds per 100 square feet,
Evening star., 1940-03-02

Dates for the Rose Institute given
by the Potomac Rose Society and
George Washington University have
been announced as March 20 and q,
The Phoenix index., 1940-02-03
Florida Is
Beaten BY
SC. State

ORANGEBURG, S. C.-(SNS)-
South Carolina State Bulldog
stopped the flashing Florida A. ant
M. Rattlers in nip and tuck Gag,
battle here Friday night and won
a close victory 1851.
Florida took the lead in the eX'
citing fray at the beginning b}
sinking two free Ctlrows and tlelc
goal. AT half time Florida was
leading 1918
South Carolina State caught UP
with Famcee near the middle OF
the second half and the lead was
exchanged several times thereafter
before the Bulldogs passing ana
floor maneuvers became effective
Armstrong, Harney in the closing
moments of the game found the
ring with clean shots which put the
game on ice for the home team and
the victory 1851.
Nathaniel Harvey was high point
scorer for the night with Is points,
Armstrong and Gillon made 9 points
each for the home team.
Shadd and EdmNmds were respon-
sible for II points and 8 points, re-
Spectiyely. for Florida.