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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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walk-in closet. A linen closet is
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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
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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
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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