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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 8, 1955)
Nowhere A Finer Climate - Nowhere A Finer Community SECTION 1 WO — I’aire One m u < One of o u r principal crops is being overlooked so fa r as home gardening is concerned. Almost everyone, when they think of Croft Lily bulbs, associate them w ith some m ethod, of com m ercial forcing, not realizing th at this can lie well done in alm ost every home. Not only th a t, the im pression is th a t they are not adaptable to outdoor grow th. Blunt contradictions are that they can not only be success fully brought to bloom, on time, in the ordin ary home but they also thrive, w ithout undue cod dling, ev >n into Canada. At the U S. D epartm en t of A griculture Exile’ nent S tation, Beltsville. M aryland, Croft Lilies have been Thursday. December 8. them get too w arm . In general, too much heat will m ake any plant become "leggy." This e s pecially applies to indoor grown lilies which will do quite well if you have a cool, light place where the te m p eratu re doesn't vary much from 60 degrees. This will assure you of growing a neatly balanced, s y m e tric d plant topped by gorgeous crow n of blooms. A fter your plant has com pleted its cycle indoors, you can lay it on its side, in some con venient cornel, and let th e bulb go into dorm ancy to be knocked <ut and planted out of doors in the Spring, probably growing . ¡1 blooming again in the late Full-Width freezer Chest and Storage Drawer holds 59 lbs. of frozen foods ...has Self-Closing Door. GYM IS FLOODED A ccording to an exchang?. a recent rain in Langlois flooded th e gym nasium . The w ate r cam e in through the m ain door and th e girls' -bow er room, covering th ? gym floor w ith mud. The m ess was cleaned up before any serious dam age w as done. HA RBO R COMMUNITY CLUB M ET FRIDAY T he C h n -tm a s m eeting of the Ilarlio r C m m unity Club w as held F rid ay afternoon at the home o! Mi i . E. Hanacam, Sr. w ith E rm a Rice, Jessie J u d kins, Mae Simpson and Mabel Thompson as the hostesses. A fter the business m eeting, a gift ex change and visiting was enjoyed by the group T h >re w ere tw enty m em bers pr< sent for th e m eet ing. w hich was presided over bv th e president. Ruby H arvey. The Ja n u a ry m eeting will be held a t Mrs. H a n e y 's home, the last F riday of the m onth. X u B -?3 7 DxS fHRl? ÍMAS «EFTHGSms B uy C h ristm a s S e a ls mUHwrrwnte AMT APS grown out-of-doors for several F all. years and th e te m p eratu re s th ere Growing th e bulbs out of doors h a \e gone well below zero w ith should be in m ore common p ra c t out h u rtin g th e bulbs. ice. Ju st because we have it in Let us begin w ith a d escrip t our minds th at E aster Lilies ion of how you m ay grow your flourish only at E aster, we have own blooms, for E aster, right in been denying ourselves a garden your own home. b?auty th at is a most definite z\bout 180 days before E aster MUST. And it is a much easier Of you w ant an E a ste r blooming job th an growing them indoors. plant) select a good firm bulb, As stated at the beginning. fully six inches in circum f?rence. Croft E asters a re successfully T ake a strin g and w rap it. loos grown, w ithout ex tra effort, ely, a t the bulb’s g rea test diam when? the bulbs go aw ay below eter. This length will be a guide zero. When grown in th? garden, to the diam eter of th e porous th e bulbs ought to be set w here clay pot in which th e bulb is to the w ate r n eith er stands nor be grown in. Into th e bottom of drips off eaves— a sem i-shaded this pot, for good drainage, place spot is, of course, best. No spec an inch or so of pebbles o r brok ial p reparation of the soil is en pot. P rep are a m ix tu re cf necessary unless one calls o rd about th nee-quarters of rich in ary garden practice "sp eciar’ garden mould and a q u a rte r of and adds th ereto a dose of bone peat moss o r w ell ro tte r saw meal and occasional feeding and dust. Into this, mix thoroughly a w aterin g when th e p lan ts sta rt level teaspoon of any garden to show sighs of going into the fertilizer and a tablespoon of lily business. And they can be steam ed bone meal. The acuracy planted any tim e th e ground of this m x tu re is not precise but isn’t frozen—even can be held should bring about the happiest down cellar until Spring, if such results is w-anted, but should be plant M P ut some of the m ix tu re in the out of doors before th e ir sprout bottom of the pot, on top of the is m uch over an inch long. This drainage bed. Now. spread out also holds tru e for the E a ste r the roots of the bulb and set it you may have bloomed indoors, on top of the soil, filling in w ith and put into dormancy. the m ixture so th e tip of the Now, about digging them . No bulb will be a couple of inches r re d to do th a t for a couple of below th? surface of the soil. years, when you should find a You m ay now bang th e pot on whopping bulb whose stem is some fairly firm su rface to help ju st thick with offspring. G rah settle the soil and exclude the the paren t bulb firmly, give the air. DO NOT press t h ' soil from stem a slight tw ist and pull and the top or you m ay in ju re the it should pop loose from th e bulb. O th er th an n a tu ra l dam p depths of th.? bulb. You can now- ness of the potting soil, no w ater strip off the bulbets, which can should be added. he planted back not too deep, of Now, set the pot in a cool, well course—and you're in the Croft shaded or dark place un til the Lily business. Some of th ? larg plant shows a couple of inches er ones m a) bloom th e first year above the soil, then bring it but probably most of them will out into the full light (not sum not until the second. Anyhow., keep well w atered and not too they a re good sw apping stock. warm. D uring its grow ing p er P lan t back your parent bulb, iod a modicum of plant food preferably in a new location. may be given every th ree o r four A good rule to stick close to weeks. N ever let th e soil get w ith any bulb outdoors is to entirely dry. R em em ber th e plant plant it to a depth of about m ust pump w a te r clea r up to th ree tim es its g reatest d iam eter the buds and bloom, which are Anyway, «<> feel sure th a t you fu rth e i? st from th e roots and w ill get a great deal of pleasure also th a t w a t e r ev ap o rates < out of this beautiful fplant. Those through the pores of th e p o t— who w ork in them th e year the plant also b reath es through around n?ver cease to 're g a rd these pores. A little w a te r in a them w ith less th an a rev e re n t saucer, under th e pot. helps the ial feelings. G row ers in the irrigation process and se ttin g the Brookings area, for m any years, pot outdoors during th e mild, i continue th eir efforts to produce w arm rain bathes th e leaves and unblemished this strain of hy m akes h ea lth ier grow th possible. brid lilies They a re proud of The whole lily family is ac th e ir products, known and grown customed to growing their best by florists and g ard n ers all over w-here it is cool and damp, so in N o rth ern America. growing them in your home, an important DON'T is letting Two Ico-Cube Tray«, including one Ejector-type—30-cube capacity. Four Full-Width Hoovy-Duty Shelves including Clear-View Shelf over Crispers...plufi IS-width drop-type shelf. Removable for easy cleaning. 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