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Something Will Like It
Almost regardless of location,
there are some flowers which
will grow, For rough spots or
slopes one can make a rock gar-
den and grow the -special little
plants that are listed in any
seed catalogue. As a rule these
tiny rock garden plants -. like
shallow and dryish soils. Many
of them originally came from
mountain slopes.
For dark shady corners there
are' things like begonias, lily of
the valley, pansies, and such that
will thrive there. At the opposite
end of the scale are portulaca,
poppies, alyssum and so on that
delight in the hottest sunshine,
will stand drought and are not
particular at all whether the soil
is rich. There are certain things
that must be in a dry location
and others that don't mind get-
ting their feet wet. There are
some that are exceptionally
hardy and bloom after the frost,
And, there is, of course, a wide
range in colour and height and.
time- of blooming.
Any seed catalogue will list'
all these preferences and differ-
ences and with such information
one can go ahead and fit plants
to any location, and also create a
garden that will be interesting
and full of bloom from June un-
til October.
Lawn Needs Attention, Too!
Not even a hay field will
thrive without some care and for
a really good lawn, soft and
thick like a piece of broadloom,
the same attention must be
given as with a flower bed or a
prize patch of vegetables.
Good seed is of vital impor-
tance. Except for special pur-
poses such as putting or bowl-
ing greens, mixtures of several
fine gresses are used. Some of
these grasses come along quick-
ly, some do best late in the sea-
son, some have richer colour
and so on. These are blended
together to produce uniformity
of texture and colour thorough
out the season and for various
regions of .Canada. Seeding
should be done early, before the
hot weather, or after it in the
fall.
Before sowing, of course, the
ground must be made level and
fine. If possible, it is best to
cultivate several times at inter-
vals of a week or ten days so
that any filled in portions of the
ground will get a chance to set-
tle. This pre -seeding cultivation
will, also encourage any weeds to
sprout and the more of these
destroyed before the grass goes
in the easier the care afterwards.
Grass seed prefers a fine rich,
well drained, soil. Sowing is best
done on a day without wind and
to make sure the seed goes in
evenly, experts sow both ways,
once up and down and once
across. Seed is covered by rak-
ing lightly one way only. To
keep birds away one may cover
with some light brush.
In a month to six. weeks the
new lawn is usually ready for
its first mowing. This should be'
done with a sha2p machine
which will cut clean and not pull
out the tender grass. An annual
application of commercial ferti-
lizer, rich in nitrogen, will us-
ually keep a lawn healthy and
able to crowd out most weeds.
The rest can be removed with
a spudder or by spraying with
one of the chemical weed killers
applied carefully according to
directions.
To build - and maintain a good
Lawn requires care but it is more
than worth any effort and the
moderate expense. Without a
centrepiece of fine lawn as fore-
ground for shrubbery, flower
gardens, trees, and the home it-
self, no garden layout, no mat-
ter how costly, will be a real
success.
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CHILD'S PLAY -By way of proving that it's child's playto handle
these new water scooters, unveiled at the Frankfurt, Germany,
spring fair, these youngsters stage a race on the Main River.
The scooters, steered by handlebars, which also contain the gas
lever, are designed to travel in circles if the skipper should
fall off.
Fortunes in Stamps
A postage stamp is not just
something to stick on an envel-
ope. It often represents an in-
vestment; sometimes a fortune!
A man recently left as a part
of his estate ten books of Ameri-
can commemorative stamps ac-
cumulated over a period Of some
30 years - the type of stamps
anyone can buy. They were val-
ued at $30,000. - -
A "growth" investment, they
might be called. Their value in-
creases with the years. Many
who start stamp collections as a
hobby wind up with a good. in-
vestment.
Stamps are big business, not
only to the post office, but to
collectors, of whom there are
12,000,000 in the United States.
The Post Office Department does
a $2,000,000 annual business sup-
plying commemorative, stamps
to collectors.
As a matter of fact, the de-
partment has a stamp collection
of its own worth many millions
of dollars in a little publicized
stamp exhibition room on the
first floor. It includes one set
of stamps alone worth $2,000,000!
This comprises ten sheets of
what are known as the "blue
paper" stamps - that is, stamps
that were printed on an experi-
mental "blue" paper supposed
to prevent curling. The experi-
HONOR WRITER - In a new
series of four stamps, Portugal
honors one of the immortals of
Portuguese literature, Joao Bap-
tista de Almeida Garrett, who
lived from 1790 to 1854. The
one -escudo stamp, shown above,
Is dark sepia. The others.are in
violet, green and red.
meat was not considered a suc-
cess, however, and was prompt-
ly discontinued. The Post Office
Department has the only collec-
tion of full sheets in existence.
Of the most fabulous rarity in
United States stamps, the de-
partment has not one - only a
few dye proofs for exhibition
purposes. That is the historic
24 -cent air -mail stamp of 1908,
It pictured an airplane - up-
side down!
The mistake was not discov-
ered until the first sheet of 100
was issued. This original and
only sheet was purchased by a
Washington man for $24 - its
face value. He promptly sold it
to a stamp dealer for $15,000.
The dealer sold it to Hedy
Green's son, 'Col. Edward Green,
for $100,000.
The value of these stamps has
THEY'LL KNOW BETTER BY JULY - Baseball managers Freddie
Hutchinson of the St. Louis Cardinals, deft, and 9'tayo Smith of
the Philadelphia Phillies are already deeply concerned with
the preseason problems while.fhe rest of the nation is just be-
ginning to envision a summer of diamond pleasure. Clear-
water, Fla., is the site and this year's rookie crop the object of
- their careful scrutiny:
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0 -0 -OKLAHOMA I -This special
three -cent stamp, commemorat-
ing the 50th anniversary of
Oklahoma's statehood, will be
placed on sale at Oklahoma
City on June 14, opening day
of the Oklahoma semicentennial
exposition. Backgrounded by a
"silhouette of the state, the de-
sign shows an arrow, symbolic
of Oklahoma's frontier days,
piercing the orbital emblem
symbolic of the new frontiers of
the atomic ague.
soared with the years. One alone
recently sold for $4,000. A "cen-
ter line b10ck" from the original
sheet went for $25,000. A "plate
block" of four is valued at $30,-
000, The "plate block" is com-
prised of the four stamps in the
corner which carried the serial
number of the sheet.
Unique but of no special
value is the sheet of two -cent.
stamps in which several are
labelled "5 cents." When the or-
iginal "2 cents" imprint was
found to be imperfect on these
particular stamps, the "2 cents"
was chiseled or burned off the
plate, and in making the new
impress the engraver replaced
it with a "5" instead of a "2."
Thousands of these sheets
were issued to post offices all
over the country. Not being a
rarity, they have no value to
collectors.
It is the commemorative, or
memorial stamps, which attract
most collectors today. The Phila-
telic Division of the Post Office
has 2,600 standing orders for
new issues. It is easy to under-
stand why.
The "Graf Zeppelin" air -mail
issue of 1930 is of great value
today. A set of three sheets re-
cently brought $8,000.
It generally takes 15 to 20
years for a special issue stamp to
attain high value. Much depends,
also on quantity issued. The
Alexander Graham Bell 10 -cent
stamp series of 1940, for instance,
would yield $1,400 on a $100 in-
vestment.
Some 12 to 15 special issues
are printed each year. When a
new stamp series is issued, it is
placed On sale first in a selected
city. For one day it available
only in that place. This is of
great interest to collectors who
make a specialty of collecting
"first-day covers" - that is, com-
memorative envelopes on which
the stamp appears with the post-
mark of the city of issue.
These envelopes are printed
by commercial dealers. .Collec-
tors send these to the postmaster
there with remittance covering
postage for return mailing on the
first day of sale. ' The - depart-
ment has between 300,000 and
400,000 requests of this kind.
A collection of "first-day cov-
ers" is among the fabulous dis-
play in the department's exhi-
bition room. Also to be seen is
the famous Columbian Exposi-
tion issue of 1893, containing the
only $1, $2, $3, $4, and $5 stamps
ever issued in the same series.
Today only $1 and $5 stamps
are printed inthese high de-
nominations.
Before the days of postage
stamps, money for postage was
collected and the amount stamp-
ed or written on the envelope.
It was not until July 1, 1847,
that adhesive postage stamps.
were available. Prepaid postage
in the form of stamps was not
made obligatory until 1856. To-
day the Post Office. Department
issues more than 21,000,000,000
stamps yearly, at a face value
of about $800,000,000.
Not only does it sell stamps,
but also a "best seller" booklet
Called "Postage Stamps of the
United States," at 75 cents - a
veritable Baedecker for the col-
lector. By Josephine Ripley
in. The Christian Science Moni-
tor.
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