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MAY 18. 1950<br />
Well-Kept Lawn<br />
Pays in Beauty<br />
Perhaps you've made a vow<br />
really. to have a fine lawj, and<br />
take good care of it this summer.<br />
You've gone down to the hardware<br />
store and bought yourself a<br />
garden hose and a lawnmower<br />
that really -works. You're going<br />
to keep that stand of grass mowed,<br />
clipped and watered every day.<br />
Watered every day? Wait a<br />
minute. In addition to wasting<br />
water, many authorities believe<br />
that's one of the quickest ways to<br />
ruin a good lawn. Here are some<br />
pointers, generally agreed upon by<br />
most experts, that will help you<br />
keep the lawn the way that it<br />
ahould'be kept.<br />
First, it's an error to water too<br />
early in the spring—in case you're<br />
trying to have the first green lawn<br />
in the block. Hold up on that irrigation<br />
until the lawn begins to<br />
suffer a little. This will force the<br />
grass roots down into new feeding<br />
zones in the soil.<br />
Second, please don't make the<br />
mistake of sprinkling it lightly<br />
every day "just to cool things off."<br />
These two mistakes—watering too<br />
. early and sprinkling every day<br />
encourage shallow root systems<br />
and help that much maligned crabgrass<br />
more than they do the bluegrass.<br />
A good general rule to follow<br />
in handling a lawn is: Soak the<br />
ground thoroughly at infrequent<br />
intervals and water it just often<br />
enough to keep the other plants<br />
alive.<br />
You can start mowing the lawn<br />
as soon aa there is enough top<br />
growth to cut with the mower set<br />
at the proper height.<br />
In case you don't know how to<br />
set the mower—end many homeowners<br />
go through life never becoming<br />
acquainted with this little<br />
detail—here's how to do it: Place<br />
the mower on a flat surface, like<br />
a concrete walk or garage floor.<br />
Loosen the side brackets at each<br />
end of the roller. As you extend<br />
the roller bracket downward, the<br />
roller itself is lowered, and the<br />
bedknife in front is tilted upward.<br />
The bedknife is actually what you<br />
are setting,<br />
, For bluegrass, measure one and<br />
& half to two inches from the<br />
floor to the cutting edge of the<br />
bedknife and then tighten the<br />
bracket bolts again to hold the<br />
knife in that position. You might<br />
Siossibly find that your mower<br />
cannot be *et that high. If so,<br />
aak your hardware dealer about<br />
obtaining longer roller brackets.<br />
A good, healthy lawn is one of<br />
the finest sights in the land, and<br />
it ought to make a perfect setting<br />
for your home. To keep it in the<br />
proper condition, make sure that<br />
the grass is at least an inch and<br />
a. half high after mowing. Two<br />
Inches is even better.<br />
Mow it ofteji enough so that<br />
the clippings are short and can<br />
be left lying on the lawn where<br />
they are needed. Don't delay<br />
mowing until the blades of the<br />
grass bend over and become matted,<br />
because right at that point<br />
your lawn is in danger of deterioration.<br />
Mow the lawn when<br />
it needs it, not just because it's<br />
Saturday. Keep the mower sharp<br />
and properly adjusted and you'll<br />
have half the battle won before<br />
it's begun.<br />
Suburban Garden<br />
(Continued from page 2)<br />
gracefully reflexed petals curving<br />
backwards on four to five-foot<br />
plants in August and September.<br />
Among the dwarfer lilies Tenuifolium,<br />
the coral lily, has small<br />
coral-red, nodding flowers on<br />
eighteen-inch plants; Thunbergianum<br />
Mahogany carries upright<br />
red-brown flowers in June on<br />
plants only a foot high; and the<br />
TJmbeHatums, Golden Fleece with<br />
tan spotted yellow flowers and<br />
Orange Triumph with orange-red<br />
lilies, both upright in umbels on<br />
two-foot plants in June.<br />
How to Plant Lilies<br />
Of the above, Candidum, Martagon,<br />
Pardalinum and Shuksan are<br />
base-rooting and should have only<br />
two or three inches of soil above<br />
the bulbs. The rest are stemrooting<br />
end must be planted deeper<br />
with at least six inches of soil<br />
above the bulb. When planting<br />
dig out the soil to a greater depth<br />
than required and mix sand<br />
liberally through the bottom soil<br />
to provide drainage. Set the pots<br />
on top of an inch or two of pure<br />
sand and cover to the required<br />
depth. Avoid the use of any lime<br />
and manure.<br />
Lilies thrive in well enriched<br />
soil and like lots of water When<br />
in active growth. Frequent shallow<br />
cultivation and mulching with<br />
peat mosa will conserve the soil<br />
moisture. Space the taller varieties<br />
from twelve to fifteen inches<br />
apart, preferably in groups. Give<br />
top feeding with bone meal in<br />
early spring and avoid windexposed<br />
locations. Mulch the beds<br />
each winter after the ground is<br />
frozen hard with coarse leaves or<br />
salt hay.<br />
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21' Club Boss Collects Books for Rutgers<br />
Unofficial Curator<br />
Is an Alumnus of<br />
State University<br />
Many a best-selling author, contentedly<br />
lunching in the rarified<br />
air of New York's fashionable "21"<br />
Club, has been pleasantly flattered<br />
hy a request for an autograph on<br />
the flyleaf of his latest work—<br />
the request coming, no less, from<br />
one of the owners of the worldfamed<br />
eating place.<br />
"Make the inscription out to the<br />
Rutgers University <strong>Library</strong>," is<br />
the unexpected request of "21's"<br />
boss, I. Robert Kriendler, a 1936<br />
graduate of New Jersey's State<br />
University.<br />
Through its unofficial curator<br />
stationed at this strategic crossroad<br />
the Rutgers <strong>Library</strong> has accumulated<br />
an enviable collection<br />
of signed, inscribed- and dedicated<br />
copies of contemporary works.<br />
Kriendler, who shared 21's responsibility<br />
with his brother Jack<br />
before the latter's untimely death,<br />
established the collection as a<br />
memorial to his brother.<br />
Another unusual Jack Kriendler<br />
memorial at Rutgers is a collection<br />
of reproductions of famous<br />
paintings available to students for<br />
room display.<br />
The Jack Kriendler Memorial<br />
Collection in the Rutgers <strong>Library</strong><br />
includes still more unusual contemporary<br />
material — typescripts,<br />
printers' gallery proofs and even<br />
manuscripts from the ^authors<br />
whose books went on to become<br />
best-sellers.<br />
The volumes are authored by an<br />
awesome group. The list contains<br />
most of the names that have<br />
graced best-seller lists through the<br />
past few years.<br />
One shelf finds Gen. Dwight<br />
Eisenhower's dedicated volume<br />
nestling alongside one by Lucius<br />
Beebe and another by Jim Farley.<br />
Elliott Roosevelt rubs elbows<br />
with Drew Pearson and Bob Sherwood<br />
with Bob Considine.<br />
Volumes by H. L. Mencken and<br />
Ely Culbertson share space with<br />
books by William L. Shirer, John<br />
Steinbeck, Oscar Levant, Morris<br />
Ernst, John Hersey, John Gunther<br />
and F. Van Wyck Mason.<br />
Carlos Romulo, Philip Wylie and<br />
THE MANUSCRIPT of "A Rage to Live," John O'Hara's best-seller,<br />
is presented to Rutgers University Librarian Donald F. Cameron<br />
(center) by the author (right). I. Robert Kriendler (left), Rutgers<br />
alumnus, bibliophile, and host, of New York's famed '21 Club, arranged<br />
the presentation, one of a large collection he is gathering for<br />
the library as a memorial to his brother, the late Jack Kriendler.<br />
John O'Hara nestle comfortably<br />
side by side, as do Kathleen Winsor,<br />
Louis Bromfleld, Rebecca<br />
West, Biily Rose and Ludwig<br />
Bemelmans.<br />
Hollywood hasn't been forgotten,<br />
as books by George Jesse! and<br />
Louella Parsons testify, but General<br />
Lewis Brereton is probably<br />
surprised to find his -book in with<br />
theirs and Saloon Editor Earl Wilson's<br />
to boot.<br />
George Jean Nathan and Step-hen<br />
Longstreet head the stage delegation,<br />
with Ward Morehouse,<br />
Deems Taylor and Norman Bel<br />
Geddes also on the team.<br />
Kriendler is a former pupil of Librarian<br />
Donald F. Cameron, then<br />
an English professor and now director<br />
of the seven-unit library<br />
system which serves the State<br />
University.<br />
Kriendler's interests in Rutgers<br />
doesn't end with the library. Like<br />
most alumni, he can shout himself<br />
happily hoarse when Rutgers bags<br />
a traditional victory in football.<br />
But he's the only alumnus who can<br />
bag a Rutgers triumph of sorts all<br />
by himself—the author, the pen,<br />
the request for an autograph, and<br />
the inevitable "inscribe it to the<br />
Rutgers <strong>Library</strong>, will you please?"<br />
We're Extremely Proud to Present<br />
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A continuing storm of protest<br />
from Missouri educators descended<br />
on the head of Dizzy Dean all<br />
during his umgrammatical baseball<br />
broadcasts from Sportsman's<br />
Park, St. Louie, last year-<br />
Last week Missouri pedagogues<br />
breathed a sigh of relief. Dean<br />
had moved 1 to New York, where<br />
he will >be television interviewer<br />
at Yankee stadium this season.<br />
Now nearly a million new school<br />
children will be exposed to typical<br />
Dean language: "He slud (slid)<br />
jiome," "the players 'returned to<br />
their respectable bases,' 1 or "the<br />
ball ricketed (ricocheted) off<br />
the fence."<br />
THE WESTERLY<br />
Astronomy for the Amateur<br />
By JAMES PICKERING<br />
We have devoted considerable<br />
time, in the last few columns, to<br />
the constellations which lie to the<br />
north of us this spring. It is true<br />
that they are far more spectacular<br />
than the more southern aggregations<br />
of stars, but later on, when<br />
the summer section of the Milky<br />
Way swings over us, and we get a<br />
chance to look to the south at the<br />
real hub of our universe, the<br />
southern skies will bear more<br />
watching.<br />
Right now, below the eastern end<br />
of Leo and the western part of<br />
Virgo, there are two constellations<br />
along our southern horizon that<br />
are strangely similar in outline.<br />
The first and more western of the<br />
two is Crather, The Bowl. Crater<br />
is made up of four faint stars<br />
which make an irregular foursided<br />
figure lying just below the<br />
brightest star in Leo — and, as it<br />
happens, south of the bright object<br />
which is our sister planet<br />
Saturn.<br />
East of Crater, and' having almost<br />
the same outline, but placed<br />
end for end, is Corvus, The Raven.<br />
3orvus is shaped very much like<br />
:he traditional mainsail of a<br />
schooner, and is sometimes known<br />
as Spica's Spanker. Spica, which<br />
iea just above and a little to the<br />
east of Corvus, is the brightest star<br />
Virgo. The four main stars<br />
which mark the angles of Corvus<br />
are slightly brighter than those<br />
n Crater, but neither constellation<br />
is exciting.<br />
Now let us take a tremendous<br />
jump far to the north again. Our<br />
old familiar, the Great Bear, with<br />
its rear half taking the form of the<br />
Big Dipper, is just about crossing<br />
:he meridian — that imaginary<br />
ine which contains all the points<br />
over the head of man from pole to<br />
pole. To the north of the Dipper<br />
lies the tail of a most tortuous and<br />
twisted constellation, Draco, the<br />
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of the Big ipper, and begins<br />
a curve to the east which T<br />
ries it in a great swoop '"cTan<br />
around the Small Dipper, which a"<br />
this season seems — ~ -v U.4KJ LU litLTl hangK<br />
w 1 c<br />
pended from Polaris, the North<br />
Star. After making this great<br />
curve, Draco swings suddenly<br />
southeast again and ends in a very<br />
definite figure of four star,, Vhtch<br />
-re known as Draco's Head.<br />
Best Known Star<br />
The best known star in Draco Is<br />
a rather faint one which lies near<br />
the end of its tail, just above the<br />
middle star in the handle of the<br />
Blg Dipper. This star is Thuban<br />
which is an Arabic word_meaninr<br />
Dragon. Thuhan is the Alpha of<br />
Draco, but it is far from being the<br />
brightest star in the constellation<br />
It has been given the primary<br />
designation because, from 3700 to<br />
1500 B.C. it was the brightest star<br />
nearest the north pole. A little<br />
known but nevertheless important<br />
movement of the earth called the<br />
Precession of the Equinoxes has<br />
swung the earth in a great, slow<br />
circle, similar to the motion of a<br />
spinning top just be-fore It stops<br />
spinning, so that a line drawn outward<br />
from the north pole describes<br />
a tremendous circle against<br />
"- i stars. Some 500 years ago, this<br />
ick of the extension of our north<br />
pole was slowly passing near Thuban,<br />
which was the North Star of<br />
its day.<br />
The slow circling—wabble would<br />
be a better word—is caused by the i<br />
'act that the diameter of the earth<br />
s iust a little larger through its<br />
iquator than it is through the<br />
poles. The attractive force of the<br />
iun and Moon, not to mention that<br />
of other, more distant bodies, thus<br />
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works with more strength on the<br />
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else, and swings it so that<br />
the poles describe these vast circles.<br />
One complete revolution of<br />
the Precession of the Equinoxes<br />
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