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THE EVENING CITIZEN, OTTAWA, CANADA Saturday, March 25, 1950 Time Now To Start Thinking About That Garden 8. It Alt Depends On You How It Will Turn Out f-" W-sF Page 30, Section 3 lev jy. the cost may be high. If on the other hand you are willing to do the work yourself and make a hobby of it, and are in addition willing to wait, not for improvement but for final results, then you can better your garden or create your pictorial setting for a very reasonable cost indeed. Grass and flower seeds cost very little; plants can be bought a few at a time, and most grow fast and can be easily increased by division.

After all, Landscaping is a form of Art, and the merit of any landscaping arrangement springs wholly from the mind of its creator, not at all from the cost or rarlety of the plants or accessories used. So you may build your picture with the plant material you can best afford. The more expensive planting will be different from, but not necessarily better than yours. 3 1 4 J- in the fifteenth century, was one of several gates through which the traveller passed to and fro. Today it links together the old and modern parts of the city.

Contrary to general understanding, it was from Southampton that the Pilgrim Fathers sailed in the Mayflower. They called at Plymouth on their way down channel and the latter was the last port they touched before heading into the Atlantic. U.K. Information Service Bargate, Southampton, England The great docks at the port of Southampton are famous to visitors from all parts of the world. But the travellers who remain long enough to see the older parts of the city will be well rewarded.

There was a Roman settlement there 2,000 years ago and through the centuries the place has seethed with action. It was a walled city for years untold and even today parts of the walls are to be seen. Bargate, a great, formidable, castle-like structure, erected probably A Saturday magazine feature Mostly Incidental By F.R.I. Ouch My Sunburn! A few days before last Tuesday, first Day of Spring, I saw the first definite signs of approaching Summer a big truckload of icecream cones being hauled from the freight sheds io a warehouse. The Latest Disc Chatter By Francis C.

Wilson Hi-ad Gardener. American Embassy It may be that you already have a delightful garden. Or you may be even now ready to attack a landscaping job on the bare lot only lately levelled by the bulldozer. In either case these articles are designed to help you by bringing you timely information based on gardening and landscaping experience under the climatic and other conditions of Ottawa and its environs. You may be in difficulties with your soil.

Perhaps you spent time last summer vainly trying to break lumpy clay down to a fine tilth preparatory to seeding a lawn. Or you may have learned the futility of pouring a limited water supply down the drain of an unimproved sand. For each of these so? 1 problems there is of course a solution. You will want to know the easiest, most effective, and least expensive way to go about it. Comes Later There is much you will want to know about plants.

If you have still to build your garden then it is likely you are not at this time particularly interested in plant growing for plant growing's sake. That interest comes later, after your garden is established. Right now you are interested in the creation of a pictorial setting for your home. If you do your own landscaping you will need to know something of the rules which underlie all successful pictorial plantings, and you will also need to know how to take care of those plants, for the picture depends on its parts and poor plants will ruin it. You would probably like an article on lawns, how to make and maintain them.

Then there is the question of enclosure. You nay have a hedge tn mind. "Oiich -ore -of the.mary irces, shrubs or evergreens suitable for this purpose will you chouse, bearing in mind appearance, height, cost, and whether hedge line runs in sun or in shade? Then there is the matter of a foundation planting around your new home, or the improvement of a planting already in place. Will you use shrubs or evergreens for this purpose? Or both? Wouldn't you like more information before deciding? We will have to cover the art of producing fine flowers and mulching, the compost mle formed from rubbish col-ected in the garden, and the ise of various plant foods and I'ertlHscrs. Insect pests and fungus diseases of plants must lot be overlooked, for if leglected.

will ruin your plants, spoil your vegetables, and rob ou of your flowers. Fortunately here is no lack of preventives, which roll from the laboratories the scientists in increasing lumbers. Among these we have iulphur, arsenate of lead, and ilcotlne; derrls and pyrethrum uid bordeaux; Fermate, chlor-iane, and DDT. You will want know of some of these and vhere and how they do their -est work. Depends On You How much is this gardening ind landscaping going to cost? The answer should be reassur-ng.

It will cost something, but he cost can be just as much or is little as you wish. If you vant a quick Job and are ready stand by while someone else the work, then of course 4 By C.C.H. M- many symphony orks are still playing. Not long after, he wrote and recorded "Five O'Clock Shadow" which represents quite a contrast. Lawrence's most recent Columbia etching, "Ritual Fire Dance," is a modern interpretation of a classic.

Guy Lombardo has finally made the grade. For many years, the music publication, "Downbeat," refrained from making any references to Lombardo in a favorable light. The publication has evidently taken note of Guy's increasing popularity among the teen-agers and the disc jockeys. The latest issue features him on the cover. iv Jimmy Blaine, the male singing star of "Stop the Music" TV, is quite versatile.

He makes hillbilly records for Caravan; sings moppet tunes for Columbia; records polkas and ballads for London, and works evenings as an announcer for a major network (ABC). Bandleader Elliott Lawrence says the band business can be brought back to its pre-war popularity if name bands today cater more to the teen-agers of the nation. Lawrence will start the ball rolling by giving mat- Have you noticed that two of today's biggest hits are theme songs? Sammy Kay's RCA Victor hit "It Isn't Fair," was Richard Himber's theme. Tony Martin's hit, "Marta," was the theme song of Arthur Tracy, one of radio's earliest stars who, incidentally," is now enabled to make a comeback. Seems like a radio station in Kansas City, is becoming very Bostonish in its attitude towards recordings.

When MGM thrush Margaret Phelan played a date there recently, she guested on a local station. Much to her surprise, her waxing of "I Like A Man Around The House" vzs banned "because of suggestive lyrios." In England, "The Third Man Theme" is known as "The Harry Lime Theme." Harry Lime is the main character in the film, "The Third Man," which has everybody zany with the zither. Bandleader Elliott Lawrence is that very rare phenomenon in music who can talk with equal ease on matters sweet, jive and long-hair. In fact, some years ago, he wrote a classical opus, "Suite for Animals," which inee dances for teen-agers in towns where the band has been booked for week-end evening dances. The matinee dances will be limited to youngsters up to 16 years and the cost would be an attractive 50 or 60c considerably less than they'd have to pay for the evening dance which usually attracts a much older group, anyway.

Lawrence hopes his move will be followed by other bandleaders a move he is certain will give new life to the music business. Guy Lombardo's Decca recording of "The Third Man Theme" may have had lyrics if the producers of the film, "The Third Mad," were successful. They commissioned 30 Broadway writers to turn out words to the tune, but gave up when offered titles like, "Come Hither With Your Zither;" "A Dither Over A Zither;" and one nonsensical misnomer, "Zither A Doctor In The In show business, anything can happen! For instance, two days after Sammy Kaye was selected by the Custom Tailors' Guild of America as one of the ten best dressed men in the nation, he was almost pinched in a Chicago freight yard for being dressed like a hobo. After a little explaining, Kaye convinced the railroad detectives that his attire was for publicity pictures. The photo appeared on the cover of "The Billboard" in conjunction with Kaye's latest Victor recording, "Wanderin." Arthur Godfrey's latest for Columbia Records is "Candy and Cake," which he sings with the Chordettes, heard on his CBS radio and TV programs.

Other side has Godfrey singing "Dear Old Girl" with the Mariners, also program regulars. Bing Crosby, The Andrews Sisters, and The Mills Brothers each have prepared a new album of religious records. Harold 'The Great Gilder-sleeve" Peary i3 out with a new Capital recording "Gerald Mc-Boing-Boing" by Doctor Suess. Oildy did a couple of records for youngsters before but nothing like this. Sussex Street This lengthy dogs-leg street was once called Metcalfe Street from Bolton Street to the Rideau River, and Ottawa Street from the Rideau River to MacKay Street.

It was named after the Duke of Sussex, sixth son of George III. Personal Problem Solved Our wee son Donnie has another snow shovel thanks to the proprietor of a children's shop at 333 Dalhousie Street who noticed our dilemma and telephoned me that he hart a shovel in stock. Sold out oevtrai times, lit admitted, but each time he managed to get a few more. M.O. in Mail Box I'm indebted to Citizen Literary Editor W.

J. Hurlow for this one. He was buying some postage stamps in a Laurier Avenue sub-post office one day recently when the postmistress rushed past him to the front door. "I wanted to see what that woman did with that money order I just sold her," the post lady explained. "Quite a lot of people just drop the money order into the mail box without putting it into an envelope.

And you'd be surprised at the number of people who can't even write, their own name." Strange. Regulations The Ottawa Humane Society will hate me in the morning for this but it's a fact. Two 13-year-old girls, our daughter Margaret and a school chum. Daphne Berlin who was spending the weekend with us, were walking-past the Humane Society's animal shelter on Mann Avenue one Saturday afternoon. Daphne an expert horsewoman, noticed a delivery horse in bad shape.

Sores Inside and outside its mouth from a too-narrow bit, and other conditions. The pair went to the Humane Society and tried to report the affair but the official said he could not take a report from anyone under 21 years. He finally agreed to make a note of the complaint, under protest. If I'm wrong, I'll apologize to the society which asks children to "Be Kind to Animals." 5V Worsted Comes Back To Worstead All Worstead, England, is learning about worsted these days from Schoolmaster Henry Wright, who is explaining the town's new loom to Pamela Batchelor, 12, and David Carver, 10. This little Norfolk village is the spot where centuries ago the famous cloth was first woven..