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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (July 30, 1950)
Sunday frfr 30 US0-VL 100 No. 124 4 ...' 'CO. :JL :J ,. Tho Oregon Steelman, SaUm. Oregon (Partes Bradys' Gardens Show What Care Can Do To Fine Acres By Lfflie L. Madsea Tfurn Zditor, Th Statesman HAT the Bob Bradys are a farm family at heart was learned the other night when the Salem Rose society and guests met for a most pleasant picnic in the Brady gardens. , Twelve years ago, the Bradys sold their town home and moved to five acres out on the Garden Road, and what they have done with those five acres is most sat isfying. . They call their farm "Half Pint" but there is nothing half way about the care it is given. The large lawn is meticulously kept; the rosebed arranged in a square, to one side of the lawn, is well cared for. There is a small green house. There are fruit and nut trees, and some berries and a nice little vegetable --'garden. The Bradys, which in clude Caroline, take care of the lawn themselves. There used to be a cow and some chickens. They enjoyed them, too, but they proved a bit too much with everything else. Bob's roses, which have very healthy-looking foliage, are sprayed once a week or every 10 , days. Bob says he used to dust the bushes but there seemed to be enough dust around anyway so . he took to spraying and he ad mits that, for his part, he likes this best, j i Tou may remember some time ago that we spoke of using rocks as mulch in the garden? Now, Dr. John H. Hanley, noted north west garden authority, has this to give on the subject: "We recall having aeen, at the famous All- oaraen Calendar August t Salem Garden tour. Eleven gardens a be visit ed. Open to all who are interest ed. Mrs. Ben Maxwell president of the Salem Garden club who is sponsoring tour. Auras 4 Rockaway Wom en's clqp flower show and flower parade. ! August li Summer flower show, Silvef ton Jay-C-Ettes, Eu gene Field fuditgrium, Silverton. Old fashioned flower garden theme. I to 8 p.m. August 1) Lebanon Herb tea, at 576 Walnut street, Leban on. August 21 Dahlia Day, Sea side, i ' September 4-10 Oregon State fair flower show. 1 September Zl to 23 North Marion county fair, Woodburn, with flower show. September 30-October 1 Early English Chrysanthemum society show, The Journal build ing, Portland. Of Special Interest The Statesman's Thursday farm pages, the special build ing page i in the mam news section Sunday, and the Farm- Home-Garden page in wis section are becoming increas ingly popular features of Your COMPLETE Newspaper. And for world,' national and state news it's all there EVERY DAY of the week. You can enter your subscription now by calling 2-2441 or writing to "Circulation," The States- wood greenhouses at Hayward's Heath, England, where some of the world's finest carnations have been bred and grown, several benches where a layer of crushed limestone two inches deep cov ered the entire soil surface. And there is no question about the value of using rough, rocky rub ble around many of .the finicky apline plants which are brought into many gardens. ... tin gar dens where the hardy carnations are being featured it is not a bad idea to incorporate limestone fragments into the soil, or even strew them over the surface much after the fashion of mulch." Dr.' Hanley also said this week that as we northwest gardeners come to know better the improv ed varieties of border carnations and garden pinks, with their ex quisite ' fragrances, long-lasting double-bloomed characters, and extended color ranges, the more will we be using them for sum mertime effects. The English have done much with the sum mer carnation and while they were used in our pioneer gar dens, it is just recently that they have regained their popularity lost around a quarter of a cen tury ago. -.-. You have heard about bees, the honey bees, needing help in the food line? A July bloomer which does much to attract bees is the Loosestrife Lythrum Salicaria. It is a superb garden flower, too. Its rose-purple blooms are borne on tall, three to five-foot spikes and, though it seems to prefer a moist situation, anyone can grow it in ordinary soils. -.' If you want to keep aphids out f the broccoli heads, use regu larly one of the rotenone-pyre-thrum mixtures. Question - Answer Box Question: Will you give me the names of five irises of the "brown" type?. Also would you mind telling me their approxi mate prices and where they can be bought? O.M. Answer; San An tone, $6.00; Tobacco Road, $3.00; Arab Chief (sort of burnt orange) $2.00; Auburn, $T.80; Bermuda Sand (a rather light coffee color), $1.00; Bryee Canyon (more of a henna copper), $3,50. Question! My asters seem dwarfed and the leaves turn yellow. They don't look healthy at alt. now can I save tnemi T.H. r - Answer: There is a virus di sease called Yellows which affect asters, along, with a number of other plants. It seems the leaf hopper is the carrier of the virus and to control the disease, the 'leaf-hopper must be controlled. It is wise to destroy the diseased Herb Tea at Lebanon Set For Au gust 17 1 Oregon's famed herb tea, held at Lebanon each summer for the past 12 years, will be held there again on August 17 in the gar dens of Mrs. A. G. Kortz. Mrs. V. E. Wilson, Lebanon Garden club president, will be the gen eral chairman of arrangements. A visit to the herb tea garden of Mrs. Oliver Gunderson, 508 Isabella street, will be a feature of the tea. Mrs. , Gunderson an authority on herbs is the author of numerous articles an their cultivation. Some' flowers, like some folk, like the shorter day. They do better if their day is not too long. Commercial men often take ad vantage of this fact. With mums, for example, they have discover ed that, by covering the plants with black cloth in the late af ternoon and leaving the cloth over them until 8 or 9 o'clock the next morning (thus artificial ly shortening the daylight hours), they can force the mums to bloom several weeks earlier than normal. Also, by growing them beneath electric lights (to make the mums think the days are still quite long) they can do the op posite, making them delay flow er formation until January, Feb ruary or even March. Chrysanthemum growers also have learned the value of regu lar feeding with extra fertilizers, applied both as liquid mixtures and as regular fertilizers to be mixed with soil and put on as a top dressing around each mum plant. These booster solutions and extra fertilizer treatments are continued until the flower buds show color. Watch the sid buds on the mums at this time of year, Dr. Hanley advises. Keep them rubbed out, leaving only the number you expect each stalk to carry through to bloom. Among the worst pests of 'chrysanthemums are aphids and mildew disease. By all means . continue to use a reliable all- purpose dust as a preventitive measure. Once . the aphids get started among the florets of the expanding bloom, it is more dif ficult to clean them out. To con trol aphids the spray or dust used must strike the insects themselves. They do not get the poison from the plants they prey upon. . plants as the disease will carry over the winter. Control of the-leaf-hopper can be had by a Black Leaf 40 spray, a teaspoon f ul to 1 gallon of water. Add a cubic inch of soap as a spreader. You can't actually "cure' the di sease itself once it has entered a plant. Question: Geranium plants seem healthy but only one or two flowers open. The plants are full of blooms ready to open. E.C.C. Answer: "Vhth no more infor mation than this it is difficult to answer. There are a number of bacterial leaf spots which af fect geraniums but these all show signs of the disease on the foliage as well. The leaves are somewhat spotted or they turn yellow and drop off. In almost all of these good air circulation and a spraying with bordeaux mixture or colloidal sulphur will control. Some plants inherit a characteristically poor bloonv Question: Someone sent me a rosebush as a present and it is named Rosenelfe. I have never heard of it and am wondering what it is like. I put it in my rose border but don't know for sure if it is a bush or a climber. It doesn't act just like a normal bush sort Et.CM. Answer: I find Rosenelfe listed In one of my garden catalogues as a floribunda rose. The clusters of rather small roses are of a La France or shell pink and are rated rather high in beauty. Question: My neighbor has a creamy yellow floribunda rose which I admire very much but she has lost the tag. Could you tell us what this might be? BJS.T. Answer: Bright Eyes is one of the light yellow floribundas used frequently. IliJlrijiUilMMbjl vie . w m nan a m a m - i st-vnti it 1 1 f-sfc " t - ' .Bii-i 21 7 Hflf"' I III i - 1 L 1 , 1 steooom l- stoAton I f.OsM'-O KT-SiV-9 n p MVlAOOA ITl SIOAOOA (I I tT-ssir-o kJ'i--osao I bedrooms have wardro closets walk-in closet. A linen closet is i ttravldcd for in the kitchen. be trance, the sink under the corner windows while the stove is located nearest the dining areas with work counter e each side. The exterior Is a colonial brick chimney and asphalt shingles. The overall dimensions of the Conway are planned for 16 feet by M feet, with a total floor area of Mt2 and a cubage at tlJOl Cubic feet For further Information about TBI CONWAY, Writ the Ssuall House Plan sumg Bureau, St. are not large the location of 2222jj22223?5s !issbbbbs!ssss I i I tiinLiKlaJ I house. 9-or- rt rfn t-oi j-nt-, ikosoom "4 ' uvinosoo toittr a I ioQir 0t MSWI-B fl SMMBS3MBiaaAjBaaaE3BnaaacasWa lUWns amount of wall space for piscine furniture, ana zor tne atmns; Space in the kitchen. A garare may be attached to blank wall formed by stairway. Plans call for frame construction, siding, asphalt shingles, concrete steps, trellis at entrance and large picture window. Dimensions are 30 feet by 24 feet. Floor plan Is' 720 square feet,, cubage 14,040. For further Information about THE BUTLER, write the Small House Planning Bureau, St. Cloud, Minn. Question: I am trying gladiolus bulbs for the first time this year and the foliage is turning sort of brown-rust colored and looks like it is drying up although the glads have had plenty of water. There are no aphids as there were on my new rose growth, but the foliage is covered with tiny little bugs, smaller than gnats. Could these be harming the plant? They look so small. C.R-D. Answer: Thrips are the tiny little insects which look so harm less and which do so much harm. There are so many of them this year, too. There are a number of trade-named new controls which Lomta? THE CONWAY shows six rooms on osss floor and includes three bedrooms sad a dining room for these who prefer a. separate room for dining. Living mmd dinmg room saay be converted Into a combination of ta two by enittrng Use dividing partition with area, front and doors eater vesti bules and both have eoat closets. Bear and the front bedroom has located In the hall. Dining space The type with siding, shutters face THE BUTLER Is a compact Meal for the small fsussily. It is rectangular in abase, plain roofed, with grouped plumbing for ecomical construc tion. The chimney is placed so that a eombi statfoa range can be used. All nam open into the hall, aa Important feature in aay pLsn. Each en trance has a closet, bed- have wardrobe closets with overhead siorare space. The linen closet is in the bedroom halL Although the rooms the! windows allow an unusual can be had at garden stores. Spraying should be done at weekly intervals and it is im-' portant that all parts of the plant be covered. A lead arsenate spray will also control. But unless con trolled, these pests can destroy completely, your gladioli. ; r Question: Can you tell me what this leaf is from? I have a plant like this, and can it be set out in the garden? It seems to be losing some of its good color It had during the winter. - Answer: This is a caladium. They do beautifully outdoors un til frost. Choose a location Ja light sh?4f
