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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 27, 1955)
Thursday, October 27, 1955 Fill th e pot about tw o-thirds full of coarse riv er gravel. Now. mix w ell about equal p arts of good garden soil, sharp river sand and well ro tted G.if mould, to w hich should be added a g e t"-o s hout growing things sort of con p re to success. V.'e are. however, pinch of lime in some form c h a r . . . . B y M. S. B R A IN A R D Because M other N atu re has sult her Biological M ajestj as t o free to choose those item s from coal, ag ric u ltu re lime, poultry b. r vast catalog which interest i hel’s or well m > s '\ ¡ egg shells dem onstrati?d herself as being w hat she has in stock and r .a in us m ast and one of those having You can tell if h. : i \ ; • s . ' p retty sm art, people m ucking a- to stick to her ru les if they tien rv rd o u s potentialities are the if v. a te r comes out of the b e tom succulents. This rem ark ab le fam of ‘he pot w ithin a m inute a f t c 1 ily, which inclu 'e: cacti h i- the it is placed on tl , sin lace. Go d I peculiarity of hoarding w ate r d rain ag e is abro te es • ¡Gal to wl . -i it s ava.la e, ar. .. l cae. and s-.c a ent culture. Re when th ere is none. They rat. ,? m em ber how fast w ater s rik s into from alm ost microscopic little b desert <"i'ids Occasional w ater fellers to the huge "organs of the esp -ciau y d u im g the sum m er desert." They f a r from th e snow- m onths, will ke- p the plants swept peaks to the to rrid desert healthy. Too much w atering will and alk ali flats S cientists tell us m ake th e soil sour and soggy for they sta rte d out as reg u lar plan ts any plant. It is because too much hut gave up th a t schem e of life w ate r on the coast, during th, when the w eather got tough and w inter, w ith im proper drainage, they learned to store food and th a t m any of the succulents can't w ate r in their stems, many doing be grown out of doors here unless aw ay w ith th eir original leaves precau tio n s a re taken th at they which caused m ore eva|K>ration don't stand in puddles. The plants th a n the count > a,fo rd ed : It says do best if allowed to thoroughly here they hui t up an unique dry out before w atering. system of photosynthesis, w hat W ater should be w ithheld from ever th a t means. alm ost all th e family betw een P eculiarly, the cactus member's O ctober and April. This is their of this huge family almost all o r snoozing period during w hich they iginated in the W estern Hemis should h? dam pened say, once a phere w hile th" most spectacular m onth, and kept cool. Some of the of the succulents come from South hardy varieties, accustom ed down Africa. We have many succu'ents th ro u g h th e cen tu ries to such in our own back country. conditions, can stand freezing, but W ilh this trernc ldous field to in general, the danger lire I r ! choose from and adaptability to m ost is around 40 degrees, below i such a w ide r ange of growing which most of them go out of the conditions, plus the fact they have growing business. Like all growing things, they a very wide blooming range-co'or, tim e-size-recom m end them ot need food not in a bunch hut now only to th e casual grow er but also and then. One? a m onth o r so, to the collector, hybridizer and give them a little, eith er dry on dow nright specialists. Besides, 1he surface and w atered in or dis fam iliarity witli them will bring solved in th e ir drinking w ater. CONVERTIBLE FOR CLEARING on the most astounding and w'.se- Any ordinary fertilizer will do. If sc u .d in g m outhsfull of name;, in th e grow ing tip of your cactus the classical languages w ith which, o r o th e r succulent looks lively, it to perm eate your conversation, is happy. Alive with power, the New Homelite Model 5-20 brings down They W ill N et do w ell in full and, in a m anner of speaking, is trees up to 6 feet in diameter, si, css through 20 inch trees in quite n'ecessary if one is to dif sun, all day long. Good bright 20 seconds. Has more big features, m ere power per pound than feren tiate betw een th e many- sunshine for a p art of the day is fine. N eith er do they like all any ot ,er chain saw ever developed. kinds. shade. They love a la th house. Almost everyone will tell you • Big 5 hp for faster cutting this fam ily will grow in sand— Many varieties of th e group • Light, light 2 0 pounds for easy handling th at they need no atten tio n at all. grow well out of doors here. They MORE POWER FOR FELLING T hey’re w rong! And they W on'!t can stan d cold w eather, such as • High compression, short stroke engine While they may ap p ear to, out in we know it, and only heed p ro tect The new Model 5-20 is piecisior. built for dependable perform th eir n ative h ab itats, m uch of the ion from the scorching sun. Of i ance and low maintenance. It can be converted in minutes for desert is rich er in plant food than course, some of the exotics can be I clearing land or cleaning out brush and undergrowth. 14" and w hat wv consider good growing grown, indoors, again avoiding ground. All it lacks is w ater. unreasonable sun and shade. II | 18" bow saws are available for plunge cutting and standard Beginning sort of hind end to, is h ard to obtain d a ta as to w hat guide bars from 14" to 60" for pruning or felling big trees, if you now have a cactu s o r other an be grown unprotected, in our succulent th a t you w ant to m ake im m ediate clim ate but if th e plant I A S K U S F O R A FR EE D E M O N S T R A T I O N happy, g et a clean flow er pot hav is brought from a rep u tab le com p L ighter SEE F O R Y O U R S E L F - for limbing ing a non-porous o u te r surface any fam iliar w ith your hom e zone, and w ith a drainage hole. All por you w o n 't get fa r astray . ous pots allow the roots next to To bo avoided are th e advertiré.; th e ir surface to dry out unless the bargain collections at a suspic pot is plunged. T he pot should, if iously low price. F o r th e w riti is anything, he on the "sm all size," money I prefer a b atch g raded to say, the diam eter of the plant, in fit a 2 ‘zi o r 3-inch pot unless cluding th e spines, if a cactus. shopping for a b u tto n collection of m iniatures. T he la rg e r o res will probably bloom th e first >xv r, if th ey ’re a t all inclined th a taw ry . All the fam ily a re easily groyvi from seed and a p acket of m ix « ' seed from a reputable houso w.l tu rn up quite a herd. They arc also easily propo^ated from cut tings an d offsets and lend them selves icadily to grafting. Mans different kinds can be grown oi th e sam e p aren t p la n t and a!' live happily th ere-after. The whole lot is also quite ad aptahha to dish an d m in iatu re gardens with many of them in p a s tels th a t blend beautifully. A good "D on't” fo r th e begin ner is don't get too m any to sta " with. Get a few and learn how to keep them happy, t lien add to your collection as you go along You'll find out, for instance, pos‘ ibly, th a t the fam ily known a Epiphyllum tickle you m ost. The> a re th e ones w ithout the stickers (which is in th eir favor, a t the o u tset) and although they are inclined to be scraggley looking c ritte rs you can forgive them w hen they burst o u t w ith lily- size delicate pink o r red o r w hite blooms .hanging in long festoons, from tabletop to floor. Upon v. n tu rin g into som ething we know little about, it is a.h an d y asset to know w here to look for dependable inform ation. T ry Ab bey Garden Press, 132 W. Union S tre e t, Pasadena 1, California. and. . . . . . . . SUCCULENTS IT’S N EW ...IT’S PACKED WITH POWER H omelite ,Z s C H A IN S A W COAST POWER SAW & EQUIP. CO. Brookings, Phone 2211 Oregon u. s. 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