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The 617th meeting of the Home Interest was held April 24th ,1928
at the home of Arthur Christie in Wesley Heights. As this was
the first meeting to be held on the fourth Tuesday of the
month - the date which has replaced the time-honored first Mon-
day - tense interest held the city of Washington. Airplanes
scattered flowers over Wesley Heights in honor of the breaking of
this splendid tradition. The Marine Band played Dream Kisses
and as the Home Interest seated itself for supper, all traffic
throughout the city was stopped for the space of one minute.

At its meeting Harry Stabler presided. A memorial to Olivia
Lansdale was read and approved. One copy was ordered to be sent
to R. H. Lansdale and another spread upon the minutes.

For the Forethought Committee, Garland Ligon, speaking in
dulcet tones which many took to be those of his wife, advised start-
ing perennials now. If you want advertisement as a public-spirited
citizen, get on the D.A.R. blacklist. Sodium fluorite kills roach-
es. With a small boy cleanliness is not next to Godliness, but
next to impossible.

Lucy Moore, the other member of the Forethought Chain Gang,
advised all to keep asparagus beds free from weeds. In cleaning
yard put trash on compost heap. Another member of the society
called attention to the fact that Lucy Moore had string-beans
from her garden today - April 24th - a potent justification for
her being on the Forthought Committee.

Milton Bancroft then read a very well studied paper on
Landscape Gardening. It was a pity this paper could not have
been illustrated by lantern slides. The word-pictures made one
want ^(to) see the trees and planting and formal green swards. Milton
sketched in rapidly the history of gardens. He touched on the
theory of garden design, bringing out the principals governing
it - Unity, Variety, Symmetry, Rhythm, etc. He made the point
that the formal garden should continue one of the main axes of
of the building and should end in a feature. And, in making
a formal garden, make a layout plan and study it on paper first.

Mr. Allan Farquhar and Mrs. Sam Bond were appointed on the
Forethought Disaster for next time. The essay for the next
time was attached to Mrs. Annie Kirk, who was requested to
write an account of her recent European Trip.

The Essay Committe - consisting of Annie ,Kirk, Mrs. Bancroft
and Edwin Morris - was continued and urged to get busy.

QUESTIONS. Dr. Christy, Sr. asked the name of the tree with
the pink blossoms. Allan Farquhar answered Judas Canadensis
Dryensis Volsteadiana - without hesitation.

Edith Thomas asked how to start box bushes. Take pieces
two inches long, root in sand, shade with small slats and
keep moist.

Elizabeth Ligon asked if too early to set out Cut-and-Come-
Again stock. No answer - evidently confused with Cash-and-
Carry Drug Store.

Fred Thomas asked why a certain grade of wheat should be
higher in Baltimore than Chicago - by 25%. Write Mr. Black -
bourne.

Mr. A.G.Thomas exhibited a letter from the Sherwood Forest
Company agreeing not put signs in Sandy Spring.