THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1935.
HOME GARDENING:
BEST METHOD OF IMROVING
THE LAWN
BY PROF. H. R. COX
What can a person do to thicken, way of supplying plant food is In the stand of his lawa grasa and the form of commercial fertilizer. Improve its vigour?
Many lawn soils are too neld to support a vigorous growth of the ordinary cultivated grasses. The cure for soil acidity is a dose of Ilme.
A "mixed" or "complete" fertilizer, having an analysis such as 5-8-6 or 4-8-7, furnishes the essential plant foods in about the proportion need. ed for lawn grass.
One of these fertilizer mixturca may well be applied at the rate of If this material has not been ap from 15 to 20 pounds to 1,000 plied to the lawn for several years, square feet în carly spring at the you will make no mistake in ap-time the grass starts to turn groen. plying lightly one of the common Make a similar application, again forms of lime, such as hydrated in late summer,
Ilme or pulverized limestone. A It is essential that both the lime dressing of either at the rate of and the fertilizer be distributed from 20 to 40 pounds to 1,000 square uniformly. If the material is to fect once every four or five years be put on by hand it is well to should largely correct this un-diviile it into two parts, applying one portion while going in one dl- favourable acid condition.
Lawn grass also needs food, and rection, and the other portion at the easiest and most satisfactory i right angles to the first.
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in known as one of the most de mocratic members of England'. papraga.
Disdaining the Royal box at Alntres, Hic Democratis Highness, the Prince of Wales, mingled with the railbirde as the 1935 season opened. He is shown, above, anʼlonso sa any of his companions watching the barses coming the stretch.
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The best kindscape designs to better for the grass than trimming day, cl for comparatively open them up from the botter, since lawns with free and shrub plant-trees, compete with the lawn grass ings massed along the sides, as for drinking water. shown above.
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Many lawan may be improved by resceding certain areas. Although late summer in some localities is the best. time for reseeding, many lawns may be Improved by sowing seed in early spring.
Its gigantic size strikingly indlested by the three men standing on the wing, the Fan-American Clipper is shown here at its Alameda, Calif, baze, as it was being prepared to point its nose toward Honolulu, first of the mid-ocean slope planned on the Pan-American Airways Pacific route.
The old-fashioned custom of planting trees and shrubs In the middle of the tawn is not only pour landscaping, but the trees are apt to shade the soil too much to grow lawn grass effectively. In such cases one must choose between a One of the principal causes of good lawn and abundant shade. lawn failures is the kind of gynss Sometimes the trees and bushes | Reed med. You cannot be too care. may be thinned out; or the trees fut in selecting reed. A fairly may be trimmed up from the but-large proportion of the grass seed tom, to allow enough light to pro- sold for lawns, besides being law duce a good Inwn. In fact, a cer-in purity and germination, is made Header Kempenfelt. tain amount of shade is better for up largely of such temporary lawn grass than full exposure to grasses as timothy, red top and the sun, especially on south rye grass. slope.
Next Tuesday: Preventing plant Taking out some of the trees Is disense.
WARSHIPS COME TO-
LONDON
JUBILEE MARCH IN CITY
STAY WEEK
IN THAMES
Twenty-two British warships, ranging from baffleseruisers stol destroyers, will arrive in the
It is understood that 1. force wilt he invited to march through the City. In 1900 ROME 1,200 officers and men, under the present. Earl Benity, then senior captain in the Atlantic Fleet, took part lu a similar ceremony.
Arrangements, for visiting the ships have not yet been completed. but the vessels and their stations will be as follows!
Southend: Battleships Nelson flagship), Rodney and Valiant; battlecruiser Hood; aircraft-ear- riers Courageous and Furious'; cruiser Cairo: destroyer Vaiorous. Gravescmd: Cruisers Leamler and Neptune; destroyera Fanie and Fortune.
Tilbury Docks: Cruiser Orion: destroyers Crusader and Cygnet: "Thames on May 15 for Jubilee submarinus L 21 and L 59,
week's visit to the Port of London, Greenhithe Dustroyers Comel They will anchor at various places and Crescent. from Southend up to Battle Bridge Greenwich: Destroyers Fearless Pier, opposite the Customs House. [and Forester,
Battle Bridge Pier: Flotilla respectively, with their 6-fuch Abroad, his double title (Earl of guns and elaborate system of pro- Cork and Orrey) has sometimes tection, are unquestionably the led to confusion. One Portuguese most formidable Öghting ships in paper, during the recent combined flect exerelise in the Atlantic, existence.
described the Red Float as com- manded by Admiral Cork and the Blue by Admiral Orrey!
The battle-cruiser Hood, of 42,100 tons, completed in 1919, is the biggest warships in the world: while the battleships Nelson and The Commander-in-Chief is Lord Rodney, 33,500 and 33,500 tons Cork (formerly Sir William Boyte).
A CANDLE IN THE WINDOW Meant Bundling in the Parlor!
*An old American cus tom that made .zero weather a pleasure!
See for yourself how Ainula Men and liberty Balla courled while their Puritan fathers recalled their bundling days!
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With the whole world awid by Germany's'blunt fefiance of the Versailles Treaty, history was in the making aa the Reich's rear": ‚mament, demands were outlined at the momentous conference, platured here at the Chancellory in Berlin. Their tense faces res Wealing the gravity of, the occasion, three of the leading Angio "German"-conferase "aro-seen in- darmaat-ednvaraation-Sir John. Simon' (left). British Foreign Minister; Baron Konstantin von Neurath, German Foreign Minister, and Chancellor Adolf Hitler.
These pictures will illustrate what le being do ne in England to clear sway the slums. They show the re-housing work wherein new housse replace replace ramshackle: tenements and collars. In the ploture at top a street in the slums of London in a bowni ohildren are forced to play in narrow streets where traffic le haayy and where sunlight permitas only for the briefrat periods. Contrast this, with the picture below, where a now street has vlsen from the dust of the old. Flowers, gardens, plenty of -room and sunlight and air, give children a chance to live normally. Suck homes as thate are being built at the rate of thousands per yone in Engilah cities. Through Government subsidy they are available: to even the lowest wagas-sårpéri
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