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001C950F May 4, 1928. THE WEST VAN NEWS ilATURAL HISTORY LAYING CABLE DIRECT SOCIETY VISIT CAULFEILD TO %VEST VANCOUVER CHIROFRACTORTHE NOVELTY DRY GOODS STOR~ Next to Strattoa Bakery Marine Drive, Ambleside also at Vancouver Phone West Roberta A,. Vass D. C., Ph. C. Graduate ot Palmer School AVill Shorten Distance for Tele- phone Service on North Shore The first direct submarine tel- ephone cable between the old Hollyburn wharf, West Vancou- ver, and Third Beach, Stanley Park. is being laid by the B. C. Telephone Company's tug Iwal- ani. This cable will provide addi- tional telephone facilities for West Vancouver, It will also shorten the wire distance be- tween Seymour exchange and )Vest Vancouver from 7.8 miles to 4.44 miles. Under the present system calls from the city of West Vancou- ver are routed across the two Burrard Inlet cables to North Vancouver and then by land cable. EVith the new cable the calls will go direct to West Van- couver, leaving land cables be- tween North and West Vancou- ver free for local business. The new cable traffic to Third Beach is handled on regular city lines to Stanley Park, where it is dropped to Lost Lagoon, from which point it follows Tatlow EValk to the beach. This section was laid some weeks ago. (AIRS. S. E WHITE) Phone West 355 S dn i&lock next to Grocery, llarine Drive, hmbleside. A party of more than 100 mem- bers of the Vancouver Natural History society visited Caulfeild on Saturday to study floral life. Specimens of "Blue-eyed Mary" and "Seablush" were discovered. The society's program for the en- suing year is as follows: May 12, Burnaby Lake, bog flora; May 24, Crescent and Ocean Park, salt marsh flora; June 2, bot- anical gardens, U.B.C.: June 16, Brockton Point, marine biology; July 8, Hollyburn Ridge; July 28 to August 11, summer camp, Black Tusk meadows, Garibaldi Park; August 18 and 19, Grouse Mountain or Sannin Range. CRICKET CLUB DRAWING ~ Now Open House Dresses, Aprons. Etc., made on Premises SPFCIAI Turkish Towels per pair . 45c AlterationsDressmaking Lack of Health is expensive and unnecessary. Given an oppor- tunity the Chiropractor will pro- duce results by making you healthy and keeping you so. GARDENS AND GARDENING By hIINA G. HABIT, Landscape Architect CHIROPRACTIC WILL HELP YOUGraduate in Lndscaplng U. of C ~ Aaserlcan School of Landscape Architecture Gardening. Member National Lndscape HOW I LANTS OBTAIN AND ~IAKE USE OF THEIR FOOD ed in the direction of the most available food supply. When the plant food is uniformly mixed through the soil, the roots grow evenly throughout the entire mass. AVhen the food is placed only about an inch or so below the surface of the ground, the roots form a mat in this layer. KVhen the food is placed at the bottom of the hole in which the plant is placed the roots are slender and, without branching much above, form a mat at the bot tom. In other words the root growth takes place where the food supply is located. EVhile in a general sense, all substances used for the building of plant tissue are of equal im- portance to the plant, (in the entire absence of any one of these, plants cannot develop at all). there are but three or four that nature does not furnish in abundance in the soil. These are Nitrogen, Phosphoric Acid, and Potash, and sometimes Sulphur. Knowing those substances which nature does not in many cases furnish in sufficient quan- tities, fertilizer manufacturers have developed a number of fer- tilizers which provide the need- ed substances. However all fer- tilizers are not suitable for all kinds of plants and before buy- ing any we would suggest that you ask some reliable seed house as to what kind to apply, or if you wish we would be pleased to have you write us stating the names of the plants as far as possible, to which you desire to apply the fertilizer. A. 8K F. VALENTINE 1406 34arine DriveThe drawing for the raffle put on by the West Vancouver Cricket Club took place in K. 4V. Savory's real estate office on Marine Drive at Ambleside last Friday afternoon. Colonel K. AV. Savory and Capt. F. F. Love- grove did the drawing, the fol- lowing being the prizewinners: First Prize--Electric Coffee Per- colator, ticket No. 233, won by Airs. G. Gemmill, 15th and Es- quimalt. Second prize--Italian Embroid- ered linen luncheon set donat- ed by Hudson's Bay Co., tick- et No. 210, won by R. H. Sim- monds, 2341 King's Ave. Third prize--Bronze book-ends, donated by 4V. KVorrall, ticket No. 158, won by C. B. Christie, 2317 Jefferson Ave. Canadian Window Bakeries AgencyIt is well known that plantsuse some soil constituents in much larger quantities than oth- ers, and it is of considerable int- erest to know how a plant ob- tains its food supply in the pro- portions required. The soil so- llltlon contains val ious constitu- ents,some of which provide nourishment and some which do not. Through the process of os- mosis, plants exercise a certain power of selection. distinguish- ing between nutritive and non- nutritive constituents, and be- tiveen those use/ in smaller and larger amounts. The amount of each constituent present in the soil solution that is taken into the plant is determined primar- ily by the amount of each con- stituent used by the plant in its manufacturing process, the pro- cess of osmosis automatically acts to keep up the supply. AVe think of compounds in soil solution being absorbed by plants in the exact form in which they exist in the soil solution. AVe usually suppose that the sodium nitrate is a soil solption, pass- ing as such into the plant but such is not necessarily the case. lVhen a plant is grown in a water solution and nitrate of soda is added the compound is split into Sodium and Nitrate Radical, the nitrate is taken up by the plant while the sodium is rejected, which, combined with any car- bon dioxide present, appears as sodium carbonate in solution out- side of the plant. As a result the surrounding solution soon becomes alkaline. If Muriate of Potash or Sulphate of Potash is added the plant uses the Potash and rejects, for the most part, the acid portion the presence of which results in making the sur- rounding solution acid. Some plants are weak feed- ing and others strong feeding. This depends upon soveral fac- tors, chief among which are the extent of area of root hairs and the activity of the plants chem- ical processes. Plants which have large root systems and a large number of root hairs are in a condition to absorb more plant food than those with .small root system. Roots in growing are attract- FRESH CAKES and BREAD DAILY LIGIIT LUNCHES TEAS Store closes 8 p. nt. Saturdays IO p. m. HARRY PERRIN, R.O. OPTOMETR1S T EYE SPECIA&&sT 205 Medical Arts Building opposite Capitol Theatre Phones Seymour 5239 Residence 496R "The doctor will see you inside," said the nurse to the patient as she helped him on to the operating table. 5C', 0 '0 I i R I 0 NOTE The writer will consider It a pleasure to answer questions concerning the garden In this column. The questions should he addressed to the writer ln care of the Editor. The answer will appear ln an early issue or If a personal reply ls desired ~ stamped, self-addressed envelope shou1d be enclosed. The council instructed the municipal engineer to report on putting culverts in front of Lots 5 and 6, Block 36, D. L. 430, for ivhich the owners,s Thos. Smith and S. Smith had asked by letter. Mr. Robert Allan, B.Sc., Naval Architect, 23rd and Kings, has just published in London, Eng., a text-book on ship design and resistance. This text-book was originally published as a pam- phlet by Mr. Allan when he was head of the technical department of Messrs. Palmers, Yarrow-on- Tyne, and has been re-issued in a greatly extended form as the result of numerous requests from England for republication. iMr. Allan treats the subject of ship design in his book from the prac- tical and technical points of view, explaining and embodying for practical use all the most recent experiment tank results of Baker, Sadler, etc., on this subject. I/gx4, 5, 6, or 8...........................BEVEL SIDING &/q x8, 10, or 12........... BUNGALOW SIDING I/, or &4x4, or 6... NOVELTY, CALIFORNIA, TONGUE and GROOVE and ANGLE RUSTIC SIDINC VERNON FEED STORE A. C. SEARLE Phono AVest 9 .'er;I izers The rejects fronl the regular grades in any of the above are suitable for garages, sheds, and out-houses in general, at very low prices. f'r Your Garden FUEI.R IIUI LDI YG SUI'I'LIES i HE IDEAL COVERING FOR OUTSIDE WALLS IN A CLDIATE LIKE BRITISH COLUMBIA'S IS CEDAR SIDING. CEDAR IS AN EXTREMELY EFFICIENT HEAT INSULATOR -- WHICH MEANS WARMTH INSIDE A HOUSE IN WINTER AND COOL- NESS IN THE SUMMER. IN CONTRAST TO STUCCO, IT STAYS "PUT" ON YOUR WALLS, DOES NOT CRACK AND DOES NOT HOLD THE DAMPNESS. FURTHERMORE, CEDAR SIDING COSTS LESS AND LASTS A GREAT DEAL LONGER. VERY ARTISTIC EFFECTS ARE OBTAINABLE, ESPECIALLY WITH THE USE OF THE WIDER iVIDTHS. YOU MAY CHOOSE FROiAI A GREAT VARIETY OF WIDTHS AND PATTERNS. NORTH SHOR'- N.OTO(S, l.TD. A ~ P '% ...ie a)I anO . IIII)er .0...~~. Oldsmobile and Chevrolet Dealers Our West Vancouver representative. H. C. Osborne, ivill be glad to demonstrate these cars at your convenience. Specialists in Cedar. Foot of Femberton Ave. Night Phone North 127 North 308 Phones IVest 628Y North 1186