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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY,

MAY 27, 1935. .

Breakfast in New York- supper in Ireland-breakfast in Ireland-supper in New York

Four meala to cover five thou... · and miles. That is the ambi.

tious

programme Charles L.. Foley, of Sligo, Ireland, has mapped out for himself. The 24-year-old youth (above) ja now superintending construc.

tion of the aeroplane in which he will attempt this font this spring.

HOME GARDENING

THE VALUE OF CORRECT

SOIL MIXTURES

BY PROF. H. R. COX

A fertile or productive soll is feet. It should be evenly distrib well-drained, has favourable tex-uted and woll worked into the soil. ture, is not too acid, and contains. Garden aolls also need plant an abundance of plant food and foods, and the easiest and cheapest liuimus.

method of

of supplying food is in the Although nearly all gårdens are form of commercial fertilizer, adequately drained, if there are Most suitable for the home garden areas that are too wet, this can is the "mixed" or "complete" fer be enrrected by artificial drainage,tilizer. Such mixtures as 4-8-5, Favourable texture means that 4 per cent nitrogen. 8 per cent the soil is neither too loose and phosphoric acid, and i per cent light, nor too heavy and stiff. A potash, -6-8-7 or 4-12-4 are quite light sandy soll will not hold self-satisfactory,

cient molature during drouthy Any of these mixtures may be spells, unless the garden is arti- applied evenly at the rate of 20 to ncially watered,

40 pounds to 1,000 square feet and then worked into the soil.

A heavy clay soil hinders root development and Is. likely to be cold and wet in the spring, and extremely hard during the hot summer months.

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Finally, a soil is fertile or prò- ductive only If it contains an abundant supply of humus or or-

and holding

A light sandy soil can be modi-ganic matter. Humus nets as a fied by Incorporating two or three sponge, taking up inches of clay or clay loam Into moisture for the use of the plant the top five or six Inches, Aat critical times. It also helps to heavy clay soil may be modified by make the plant food of the soil incorporating sand or sifted coal available to the plants, and it has a beneficial effect on soil texture and Ho!! organisms. In general, a soll is as productive as the amount of humus it contains.

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Soil netdity may be very unfa vourable to garden plants, Soils

In humid regions naturally ten Unfortunately, the clean cultlyn-

to become neid. The euro for solltion which is given garden solls acidity is me, but use of lime causes the rapid depletion of soil; depends apou

the degree of neldity. humus. It is important, there The use of me should also be fore, that you restore the humus governed by the kind of plinta content of the soil. being grown, since some kinds have a great deal more neility tolerance than others,

In general, you would be safe In applying lime once every three or four years at the rate of from 130 to 40 pounds to 1,000

square

Manure, woodle mold, peat la its various forms, sewage sludge and hamus and plant food as well. composts are valuable sourers of

Next Thursday: Improving the Inwn.

The Themes occasionally forgets itself and does this sort of thing.

Mr. H. C.

Wolle, noted Englia man of fettera, in visit- ing the United States to get a -close-up-view-of-the new -deal in operation, and WAL ต luncheon quest of President Roosevelt at the White House. He is pictured arriving at the sxecutive manalon to break bread with the founder of the "new order."

This garden roveals that the owner is a godd gardener. He has studied the important questions of euitable varieties of the various kinds of crops, best time of planting, best rate and distance of planting, insect and disease control. He also brought his soll up to a high state of fertility by careful attention to the principles stated in the accompanying article.

ESCAPED PRISONER

IN COURT

SIX MONTHS AT LIBERTY

A man who made a dramatic escape from a cell at Marylebone Police Court and lus been six months at liberty, was guarded by extra police when he again appear- ed in the dock at Marylebone re- cently.

The prisoner, Edward Thomas (26) was committed for trial on Oct. 2 with two other men charged with taking part in a smash-and- grab raid on a jeweller's shop.

A Bttle later it was found he had unscrewed an iron bar from a sent In the cell, broken a small dron grating, squeezed through this Into airshaft, and then, climbed over a roof and down a` ladder' into the street.

He was captured after a struggle Oxford Street by Det-Sergt. Baker and Det. Crawford,

Envoy from Great Britain to Barlin Where he received Gor- 'many's arma demands. Captain Anthony Eden is pictured at Croydon airdrome, with Mrs. Edon. After conferences at Paris and Berlin. Eden went to Moscow for a parlay with Soviet

statesmen.

The scens of the attempted kidnapping of Mr. K. A. L Seus, alarman of Bills Motors, Shanghal, is shown above, with the entrance into the garage. At right where car No. 2330 is parked, is the approximate position where Mr. Saux's car was at the time the thugs tried to kidnap him. British policeman shot and killed one of the kidnappers and engaged the other two in a running gun fight,

This unustat napshot shows Lady Carolina Churchill, 11-year-old daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Mark borough, vainly rushing to get out of range of a news camerm in corridor of a hotel in Washington, DC, where aha with her mother, the duchess. who was formerly the Hon. Mary Cadogan. The Dake and duchess were so annoyed, "it la reportad," with ubiquitous re portera andi cameramen tămi 'they ́are_leaving the United Slates for home and peace.

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Namking is unusually crowded, just now with poverty-stricken farmer refugees from the surrounding country. On the left is soon one of the_type of aged countrymen who have been driven into the city in search of food; in the centre in a straw thank lika as many of thous to be found all over the city; while at right is a pathetic group, ragged, and hungry, with nowhere to go,

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ONE NIGHT OF LOVE

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