THE SU5DAT OKECxOXI-VN, FORTIAJTD, FEBRUARY ' 2, 1913.
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PLACES AND PERSONS NOTED IN NEWS PHOTOGRAPHED
Helen Gould Shepard to Continue to Eeside at Lyndhurst President of France Elected in Versailles Palace Switzerland Winter Sports in Full Blast President Taft to Beside in Hotel.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 1. (Special.)
Lyndhurst is the home of Helen
Gould, near Tarrytown. where she
was married to Finley J. Shepard. The
(redding- was fjuiet, only the families
and a few Intimate friends being- pres
ent. Mrs. Shepard, before her mar
riage, made her home at Lyndhurst a
irreat part of each year, and it is ex
pected that she will continue to do so.
The palace at Versailles is where
the new President of France was
elected. The French President is elect
ed every seven years by an absolute
majority of votes by the Senate and
Chamber of Deputies, united in a Na
tlonal Congress. The President pro
mulg-ates laws voted by both Chambers
and assures their execution. With the
consent of the Senate he can dissolve
the Chamber of deputies. The PresI
dent receives 600.000 francs a year sal
ary and an equal amount for expenses
about $240,000 a year in alL Usually
the man elected President is a repre
sentative of the people one whose
personality will appeal to the great
mass of the population,
The "Winter sport season is on in
full blast at" Murren. St. Moritz and
other Switzerland spots in which con
gregate the sport-loving public of the
world during- the cold months. Skiing-,
sledding-, tobogganing skating, snow
shoeing and other forms of outdoor
activity send, the blood pulsing- fast
throupb the veins of men and women
high in Karopean society. Among those
B?en mingling; in democratic enjoyment
in the exhilarating air of the Alps are
members of royalty and the nobility ot
many lands, while wealthy Americans
have not been slow to take advantage
of the sports.
Nowhere else on earth is so much
trouble taken to make things pleasant
for the thousands of visitors who rath
er here from many lands, and nowhere
else do natural advantages combine so
well with human efforts to afford pur
enjoyment for visitors. The wonderful
beauty of the Alps is seen at its best
when the sun rises or sets in glory
over the snowcapped peaks.
President Taft has been hunting in
vain for a residence in New Haven,
where he expects to take, March 4, his
new duties as professor at Yale. He
has arranged finally to take up his
quarters in the Hotel Taft until he is
able to prosecute his search success
fully. In the hotel he will have a suite
of rooms, nine in number, on the sixth
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one-half years old, can put up a good 1 f&PW L-V jJ T.C t ?1
game of grolf Not only that, but he P C 2. f p C.5 fcwU4 - C I
can show the way to his ble sister. W N JfoS ,? 3 'J, . 11
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start to play golf about as early as the i - r-ifH&)Mt Lm It
kiddies of our own land start to learn FSr
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floor. He will have a living-room, din-1 The hunt was neia Dy me Buiciieei
Ing-room. study and six bedrooms and Indians, led by Chief Big Top.
they will be cut off from the otner
rooms of the hotel by a partition.
It is a good many years since a real
buffalo hunt has taken place in the
West. One - was worked ug on the
101" ranch some years ago, the buftalo
being an infirm and toothless beast
which was about ready to die. Recent
ly a sham buffalo hunt by Indians was
held on the ranch of L. W. Hill, of the
Great Northern road. It was all real
but the killing of the buffalo and it
was held for the purpose of getting
moving pictures before the Indians and
the buffalo have disappeared entirely.
BUDDING LILACS AND SNOWDROPS
ANNOUNCE SPRING PLANTING TIME
Trees, Shrubs and Bulbs Should Be Set Out During Early February City Back Yards May Be Turned Into
Beauty Spots if Shrubbery Is Carefully Arranged.
Who dors hiK duty 19 m. question
Too complex to be solved by me.
But he. I venture the sugKestlon.
Does part ot his that plants a tree.
Lowell.
BT STELLA WALKER DURHAM.
THE first snowdrops are out, the
lilacs are beginning to bud and
the pussy willows have been in
bloom for some time. You may know
by these tokens that Spring planting
time is here. Early February is the
time for setting out trees and shrubs
and all those bulbs that you meant to
plant last Fall and didn't get around
to.
Surely the arrangement of the shrub
bery should be given first consideration
in the plantings about a new place.
There are several reasons for the im
portance of the shrubbery. Low-growing
shrubs at its base do more than
any other one thing to make a new
house look like home. They serve to
tie the house to the ground, as it were,
and make it look as if it belonged in
its setting.
Shrubbery Affords Privacy.
Shrubbery serves a no less important
purpose in providing privacy for the
home grounds, by forming a living
wall to shut off the street or one's
neighbors. Doubtless one of the rea
sons that American cities do not have
lovely private gardens like those of
the Old World cities is because we do
not make our gardens to live in. but to
be gazed at from the street. But even
If we are inclined to look upon gar
dens surrounded by brick or stone
walls as un-American and undemo
cratic, there is no reason why we
should not avail ourselves of the op
portunity that shrubbery plantings of
fer for some degree of privacy, at least
In the city back yard. For tha de
spised and neglected city back yard
ran be made a thing of beauty and
surely a joy for many months in the
year if it be planned with an utili
tarian motive in view.
It is a comparatively simple matter,
especially in a city without alleys, to
transform the back yard into a veri
table outdoor living-room, by a judi
cious grouping of shrubbery, even if
the front yard be without any screer
from the street. The shrubs can be
grouped at the sides and back so as to
give the privacy of a walled garden
in the rear. The use of shrubs and
climbing plants to screen 'unsightly
objects also goes far to make the yarc
livable.
Careful Planting Necessary.
The planting of trees and shrubt
needs, perhaps more than any other
kind of gardening, the most careful
planning. There are several things
that it is important to remember not
to do. In the first place, do not spoil
your lawn by scattering shrubs or
"specimen plants" indiscriminately
over it. Instead of cutting up the
lawn in this way, group the shrubs in
irregular borders at the sides or back
of the grounds. Plant tall-growing
sorts in the rear and lower-growing
ones in groups in front. But do not
plant all of one height in a row. Mix
them so as to have an irregular sky
line. In general it is just as well for the
amateur landscape gardener to avoid
shrubs having variegated or highly
colored foliage. Also, In the name of
peace, do not set out shrubs with such
marked pugilistic qualities as the Colo
rado Blue Spruce unless under the
advice of a landscape architect who
knows how to harmonize warring col
ors. For the same reason, select aza
leas with a full knowledge of what is
likely to bloom at the same time
in the same neighborhood. There
are exquisite colors in the aza
leas of which, by the way, Oregon
boasts some splendid native varieties
but there are certain magenta shades,
lovely in themselves, that are likely
to fight with the reds and pinks of
the rhododendrons that they are apt
to be associated with. Also if there
is iron in the soil, don't for the love
of peace, plant pink hydrangeas. In
the course ot time you will have a
washed out blue for your reward if
you do.
If you can possibly do It, plant rose
bushes in a garden by themselves, for
they are grown for their blossoms, not
because the bushes have any value in
landscape effects.
In this climate one of the pleasures
of planning a shrubbery border is that
one can plan lor all the year round.
Most of the better known shrubs, like
the lilacs, spireas, snowballs and
flowering currants, bloom in the early
Spring. A few bloom in July and
August and others like the gorse (Irish
Whin) bloom best in Winter. The
gorse really blooms all the year round,
though it is at its best in February.
The Scotch have a saying that when
the Gorse ceases blooming kissing will
cease, which naturally suggests ad
vising its planting in the gardens of
newly-weds.
Many of the shrubs that thrive in
this climate are particularly valuable
in planting for Winter effects. The
hollies are lovely all the year round
and the mountain ash and several
verieties of barberry have beautiful
foliage in Autumn and berries all Win
ter. Our native dogwood has very
attractive berries for a long time in
the Fall besides having blossoms both
Spring and Fall. The rhododendrons
and mountain laurel retain their broad
leaved dark green foliage throughout
the Winter. The Oregon grape is one
of the best shrubs for beautiful foliage
all the year round.
Perennial Plants Favored.
When you have grouped the shrubs
in the border with due consideration
for height and mass and foliage and
time of blooming, plant a few clumps
of perennial plants in front of groups
of the early blooming sorts. The blos
soms on the shrubs will be gene be
fore the time for the perennials to
bloom. Lillies and gladioli are especi
ally beautiful with the lacy foliage
of some of the spireas for a . back
ground. The Japan lilies should have
been put in in the Fall but they will
bloom this year if planted with the
shrubs in February. Gladiolus bulbs
should not be planted until l&te In the
Spring.
When trees ana snruos nave Deen
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planted so as to shut out curious eyes,
and the back, fence and drying yard
have been screened off with shrubs and
vines and you have provided for all the
year interest in blossoms and foliage
and fruits, then make your garden
truly livable by building an arbor,
pergola or tea house, or at least by
furnishing it with chairs and a tea
table. Then, if you would have the
Intimacy of the most charming neigh
bors in the world, set up in your gar
den a bird bath and a few tiny houses
that you are willing to rent for a song
and feathered friends will come to
abide with you at all seasons.
TIME TO PLANT SWEET
PEAS SOON TO BE HERE
Expert Says That Last Three Seasons Have Demonstrated That Portland
Is Unexcelled as Place for Raising This Variety of Flower.
BY GEORGE POPE.
other city in America. I have there'
E are now within a (ew weeks '"'" "' " ,.v':"
of the time when sweet peas j , instructions, whether he
should be planted either in tue ows hts fiowers for home use only
open ground or in pots, to be set out
later. The past three seasons has
given ample proof that in no other
section of the United States, and per
haps in the world, can sweet peas be
grown to better and greater perfection
than in Oregon. It will therefore be
of interest to tell the readers of The
Oregonlan that in no previous years
have there appeared, in the various
seedsmen's catalogues, a greater and
finer selection of varieties to choose
from.
The latest European varieties will
undoubtedly be shown at the next ex
hibition of the Oregon Sweet Pea So
ciety in July, and unless something not
foreseen at this time should happen,
we may look forward to a feast of
flowers that will take front rank with
anything that can be staged in any
or for exhibition.
Seed.
, This is one of the first requisites,
and I should advise every person, in
the first place to get their supplies at
home from responsible seedmen, pro
vided they have wnat you want, and
secondly, to ask for fresh seed. Seed
deteriorates, and tli'is deterioration
often leads to disappointments. Some
times a failure occurs not at all at
tributable to the quality of the seed.
It has been often observed by experts
that since the upbreeding of the sweet
pea, the seeds have also obtained a
harder envelope. My own observations
lead me to believe that both the light
colored as well as the extreme dark or
black colored seeds are hardest of hull,
the best way to remedy this defect is
to steep such seeds for a few minutes
in nearly boiling water, or to cut the
seeds with a pen knife, taking care
not to destroy the seed germ.
Preparation of Ground for Seed.
When you have decided where to
have your peas, lay out your bed two
feet wide, remove first spadeful of top
soil, laying it to your right, then re
move the second spit, laying it to the
left, then place some well-rotted ma
nure in the trench and spade it under.
This will give you a spaded depth
of from 24 to three feet. Replace the
remaining soil in the order in which it
was removed incorporating with it ad
ditional manure or commercial fertil
izers. I believe that it is best to pre
pare the bed in the Fall, but if this is
not done, then you must choose the
best time, when the soil is not water
laden. Should you have prepared your
bed in the previous Fall, then one spit
deep spading only will be needed In
the Spring.
Planting.
I generally raise my expensive seeds
in two-inch pots in a cold frame and
transplant to suit weather conditions.
If you plant in the open, then make a
trench about four inches deep, place
seed about one inch apart and cover
to a depth of two inches, when your
plants are three inches out of the
ground select the stoutest and thin out
to eight inches or a foot apart, grad
ually filling the trench, but don't
smother the young vines, and be sure
to keep them erect as the weather
gets warmer. Keep the soil stirred,
taking care not to interfere with the
r,oot system.
What to Grow Pnu On.
Hazel brush is the very best I can
get. I have this brought to me, eight
to nine feet long. You must sharpen the
end and set them at least one foot in
the ground and ten Inches apart. Be-
tween t"r.i3 I place smaller brush, for
which the tops of vine maple can be
used. Failing brush, you can make a
trellis of chicken wire with a wide
mesh.
Time of Planting.
ily experience has taught me that
by planting on Washington's birthday
I can have early blooms by the first
of June, and by the first of July I have
my peas ready for a show. But this re
sult can only be obtained by careful
tillage. Generally speaking, it takes
four months from seed to bloom.
Watering.
Sweet peas, once they start to bloom,
absorb a great deal of water, in warm
weather. Give the vines a good soak
ing twice a week or oftener if your
ground if very porous. Don't allow
any seeds to grow, for this will reduce
your flowers. In extremely warm
weather give your vines a good spray
ing in the cool of the evening. This
will open the pores of the foliage and
enable it to absorb the nitrogen from
the atmosphere, thus aiding plant life.
Insects.
When planting in the Spring, or as
soon as the young vine appears above
ground, sprinkle a trail of soot on eafih
side of your row. This will prevent
slugs from eating them down. Should
red spiders appear during dry Spring
weather, spray with soap suds, to be
made from soft soap if possible. Such
an emulsion has proved of service.
Shade.
There are quite a few of the finer
varieties,, notably the Orange and
Marne shades, which are not sun
proof, that is to say, they become
bleached looking when exposed to the
midday rays of the sun. If a canopy is
made for these from cheese cloth and
placed in position so as to shade them,
fine results can be obtained
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