Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-22

Washington's Victory gardeners
turned out last night to admire each
others beets and carrots, swap
stories of droughts and beetles, COM
pare callouses and canning methods,
and to watch several dozen of their
co-workers receive more than 81 900
in War Bonds and Stamps as awards
for excellent gardening.
Tables lining the walls of the
Washington Gas Light Co. audi
forum were crowded with rows of
fat red tomatoes. huge orange
pumpkins, yard-long beans. plump
turnips, and exhibits of more than
80 other vegetables, grown by Wash
ington's part-time gardeners.
To those whose produce was
judged the finest. and to those
whose gardens were picked as best
in their areas and sections, prizes
ranging from SIS to 500 in War
Stamps and Bonds were awarded,
from a fund donated by The Star,
the Washington Gas Light Co. and
the National Association of Nursery
men.
Barber Again is Winner.
For the second consecutive year,
Horace Barber of 14o7 Kennedy
street NV. won the 500 prize for
the best garden in the Metropolitan
Area. Mr.. BARRIERS advice to other
gardeners is Just keep working"
He took care of his 70-by-20-fo
garden every night after returning
from his job as vice president of
the Suburban Title Co. This year
he has raised more than 1900 pounds
of food-and Mrs. Barber has
canned enough of those to feed them
both for the next year.
The man who won the most prizes
was Waldo E. Smith of 5537 Thirty
third street NV. Mr.. Smith walked
away with four SIS first-place awards,
a $40 award for second place in the
Northwest sectional contest, $40 for
first place in the Chevy Chase area
contest and $40 for the sweepstakes
prize, for totaling most points in the
contest displays.
Mr.. Smith gave the credit for his
garden to his son, l0-year-old David,
and his daughter, 8-year-old Carol.
They both said daddy did it ALL"
but Carol admitted she enjoyed pull
ing up the onions, carrots and
radishes-and eating them. Davids
favorite job was looking for small
animals both in order to keep the
vegetables safe and to add to his
growing collection of turtles. David
and Carol took charge of all the
vegetables the family could not use
and sold them, clearing over 800
"All for War Bonds" they said
proudly.
The Smiths garden is a 30xl00-
foot plot in Rock Greek Park, ar
ranged in contour planting, contain
ing more than 30 varieties of vege-
tables and yielding approximately.a
ton of food this year. Mr.. Smith is
executive secretary of the American
Geophysical Union of the National
Research Council and, like Mr.. Bar
ber took care of his garden in the
evenings after work. Mrs, Smith
was chief Gamer, with Carol first
assistant.
A special award of $40 was given
Mrs. David Lu of 1900 Woodley road
NV. for her garden of Chinese
vegetables. Mrs. Lu, who has lived
in America several years now, with
her news correspondent husband,
tried her hand at farming for the
first time last year. Because Chinese
vegetables are hard to find and very
expensive in this country, she un-
dertook to find seeds for her favorite
foods from home. Pok choy, ong
choy, bitter melon, fibrous melon
and other strange sounding veg
etables now grow in her garden for
herself and her Chinese friends.
Mrs. Lu really works for her garden
as water is not available nearby and
she must water the plants every. day