1935-05-09 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG" „TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, MAY

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 lawn grass and the form of commercial fertilizer. improve its vigour?

Many lawn solle are too neld to support a vigorous growth of the ordinary cultivated grannes. The cure for soll acidity is a dose of lime.

A "mixed" or "complete" fertilizer, having an analysis such as 6-8-6 or 48-7, furnishes the essential plant foods in about the proportion need. ed for lawn grass."

One of these fertilizer mixtures may well be applied at the rate of from 15 to 20 pounds to 1,000 aquare feet in early spring at the time the grass starts to turn green. Make a similar application again In late summer.

If this material has not been op: plled to the lawn for several years, you will make, no mistake in ap plying lightly one of the common forms of lime, such as hydrated Ime or pulverized limestone. A It is essential that both the lime dressing of either at the rate of and the fertilizer be distributed from 25 to 40 pounds to 1,000 square uniformly. If the material is to feat once every four or five years be put on by hand it is well to abould largely correct this un-divide it into two parts, applying favourable acid condition.

one portion while going in one di Lawn grass also needs food, and rection, and the other portion at the castest and most satisfactory right angles to the first.

Lord Nuffield, called "the Henry Ford of England", a multi-million- airs head of the Morris automo: bile Industries of Great Britain, sean on his arrival in California, during his current round-the- world trip. Lord Nuffield is a soted philantroplit and f known as one of the most de mocratic members of England'. peerage.

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A MOST DELightful romANTIC COMEDY Revealing for the first time on the Scraon the quaint old American custom of 1776!

The best landscape designs to better for the grass than trimming day en for comparatively open them up from the bottom, since lawns with free and shrub plant-trees compete with the lawn grass: inge massed along the sides, as for drinking water.

shown above.

The old-fashioned custom of Many lawna may be improved by planting trees and shrubs in the reseeding certain areas. Although middle of the lawn is not only poorį late summer in Rome localities is Inndscaping, but the trees are apt the best time for reseeding, many to shade the soil too much to grow lawns may be improved by sowing lawn grass effectively. In such seed in early spring. cases one must choose between a One of the principal causes of good lawn and abundant shade. Inwn failures is the kind of grass Sometimes the trees and bushes seed aned. You cannot be too care- may be thinned oul; or the trees fut in selecting seed. A fairly may be trimmed up from the bot-large proportion of the grass seed tom, to allow enough light to pro-sold for lawns, besides being low duce a good lawn. In fact, a cer-in purity and germination, is made tain amount of shade is better for up largely of such temporary lawn grass than full exposure to grasses an timothy, red top and the sun, especially on a south rye grass. slope.

Next Tuesday: Preventing plant Taking out some of the trees in disease.

WARSHIPS COME TO LONDON

JUBILEE MARCH

IN CITY

It is understood that force will be invited to march through' the City. In 1909 some 1,200 officers and men, under the present Earl Bentty, then senior captain in the Atlantic Fleet, took part in 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 lagship), Rodney and Vallant; battlecruiser Ifood; aircraft-eat- riers Courageous and Furlous;; eruiser Cairo; destroyer Valorous, Gravesend: Cruisers Leander and Neptune; destroyers Fame and Fortune.

'STAY WEEK IN THAMES

Twenty-two British warships, ranging from battle-traisers to Tilbury Docks: Chulser Orion: destroyers, will arrive in the destroyers Crusader and Cygnet:) Thames on May 15 for Jubilee submarines L 21 and 1 63.

week's visit to the Port of London, Greenhithe: Destroyers Comet They will anchor at various places and Crescent. from Southend up to Battle Bridge Greenwich: Destroyers Pearless, Pier, opposite the Customs House. and Forester.

Its gigantic else strikingly indicated by the three men standing on the wing, the Pan-American Clipper is shown here at its-Alameda, Calif, banu, ne it was being prepared to point its nose toward Honolulu, first of the mid-ocean stops planned on the Pan-American Always Pacific route.

Battle Bridge Pler: Flotilla respectively, with their 6-inch Abroad, his double title (Earl of loader Kempenfelt.

guns and elaborate system of pro- tection, are unquestionably. the The battle-cruiser Hood, of most formidable fighting shipm fn 42,100 tona, completed in 1919, is existence. the biggest warship in the world;

while the battleships Nelson and The Commander-in-Chief is Lord Rodney, 33,500 and 33,900 tons Cork (formerly Sir William Boyle).

Cork and Orrey) has sometimes led to confusion. One Portuguese paper, during the recent combined feet exercise in the Atlantic, described the Red Fleet as com- manded by Admiral Cork and the Blue by Admiral Orray!

With the whole world awed by Germany's blunt fellence of the Verimilims Trouty, history was in the making as the Rolch'e raaY. mament demands were outlined at the momentous, conference pictured here at the Chancellory in Berlin. Their tanes'fäcus 'no- vealing the gravity of the occasion, three of the lending Anglo- German conferess" are been incarasat conversation—Sir John Simon (left), British Foreign Minister; Barod Konstantia von Neurath German Foreign Minister, and Chanteller. Adolf Hitiwr.

These plotures will illustrate what is being done in England to cisar away the slums. They show the re-họnsing work wharein new houses replace work wherein now kansas replace ramshackle tone- ments and callay, in the picture at top w`sfrest. In the slums of London là shown; children are forced to play in narrow streets where trafio is heavy and whore' sunlight parmester, only for the briefest periode. Contract this with the picture below, where a ako ukenst bas?aison from the dust-of the old. Flowers, gardens, plenty of room and sunlight and air give children a chance to live normally. Such homes as these are being built at the rate of thousands par wear in English cltiss, Through Govard

tomy ment" aubsidy they new avaliable to avan the lowest wages:warner..

A CANDLE IN THE WINDOW Meant Bundling" in the Parlor!

"An old American cut tom that made zero weather a pleasure!

See for yourself how Minute Men and liberty Balles courted while their Puritan fathers recalled their bundling days!

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