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!', - i , .... . A. .. . . aaat Xy i il Hi. . - and Garden lome By Lillie L. Madsen Crab Grass No Longer Necessary v - Br 'Ullla L Midwa Oai-dm Editor, Th Statesman You can really give notice to your crab grass to vacate. The notice can now be . enforced. There are a lot of crab grass killers on the market. If one doesn't work for you, try an other. Phenyl mecuric acetate is one of the promising ones. You can get it in a granular dust which you can broadcast by hand or with lawn fertilizer spreader. Some of the killers are based on potassium cynate. Another is a petroleum naptha product August is one of the good crab grass month killers before it sends out its millions of tiny seeds. Way up on the top of a hill above Mill Creek to the east and south of Sublimity, we found some most excellent onions. They were among the largest we have seen. Joseph Spenner, who was the gardener there, said potash did it. He had put quite a bit of potash along the rows after he had planted the onions. It certainly produced. - If you have. a small home strawberry bed that has borne for a couple of years, try broad casting 5-10-5 commercial ferti lizer over it at the rate of 25 pounds to 1,000 square feet af ter the plants stop bearing. Don't let any of the fertilizer stick to the leaves. If your rows have grown matted together, thin them out, leaving only big, healthy new plants. It is wise to pull out some of the older plants, even if they are not too crowded. Lettuce, : like some people, grows bitter with age. It is best to pick and use what you can when it is young, then dig it up and reaced. l:vv Jtoses, the world's most popuV lav flower, are native only to the continents of Asia, Europe and North America. They are, how ever, grown on all continent. Color Slides Are Taken of Noted Gardeno i Setter Gardens Institute, sponsored by a chemical spray corporation, sent Norvell Gilles pie. aclfie Coa.st garden broad cast and author to, Europe this summer to obtain a number of teed slides of lamed Eopeei hcWogfural spots. Cardans, Royal Horticultural So ciety's Trial Gardens at Wisley, Chelsea Flower show, London's Hude park, Bagatelle Rose Test gardens In Paris,' Empress Jose phine's two century old rose collection at Malmalson, Dutch bulb fields and many other places. Gillespie is to return to Eur ope in September for a final whirlwind tour to obtain pic tures of fall gardens in the Brit ish Isles, France and Holland. The pictures, accompanied with lectures, are free to garden clubs and community meetings In the eight western states. There should be -100 people, in the groups to which the pictures will be shown free of charge. Some clubs may go together for a special showing. ICQk alone is not a complete ration for young pigs, due prim arily to the deficiency of iron and which causes anemia to in fz Garden Calendar August Mt. Angel Garden dub, 7:30, Mt Angel City hall, Mrs. Joseph Brockhause, presi dent. , j , August t Lyons Garden club, Mary Fink and Beatrice Hiatt, hostesses. August 19 Scotts Mills Beauty and Utility Garden club, Mrs. Bruno Schmidt home. August 11 Jefferson Friend ly Garden club, second annual flower show, City hall. August It Summer Flower show, Silverton ' Jay-C-Ettes, Eugene Field, Silverton.' August 17 Lebanon Garden club Herb tea, Mrs. A. O. Kortz, gardens at 576 Walnut street, Lebanon. k August 29 Dahlia Day, Sea- , side. i September 4-lf ! Oregon State Fair flower show. September 21-23 North Marion county fair flower show, Woodburn. i 1 September SO -October 1 Early English Chrysanthemum society show. The Journal Build ing, Portland. i November 4-5 - Portland Chrysanthemum Society show, Masonic Temple, Portland. The Statesman's Question and Answer Box - Question Can peony roots be divided now? I have been told to do this, in summer and not spring or winter. TJ Answer Why skip fall? The official time for dividing peon ies, so the experts say, is Sep tember 15 at 9 a jn. However, I would imagine almost anytime' in the forepart of September and not much after September 25 would do. .;. l; Question Do the so-called California grapes do all right here? Would some special cul ture help them out? i Mine don't seem to ripen properly. W J. Answer Not so much special culture a$ special climate warm, sunny, not so early frost or rain. However, there are some varieties of California grapes which will do all right here. But don't count on them year In and year out to function properly. Ask your nurseryman which of the varieties he has, and which will "do best" here. J Question When should X plant my daffodil bulbs? 1 have n't ordered them yet. But I'd tike to order them as early as possible so I won't forget to. AJ5. Answer Order them at once. The dealer will send them to you at the proper time to plant. Usually from September through October is considered the time, although the earlier the better. Question My lUies-of-the-valley spread and grow wonder fully well, but the bloom is very scant. I was so disappointed in them this year. Just a few blooms but a lot of leaves. CM. Answer Try confining them with boards dug down in the beds. The bulbs should, be plant ed on the north side where the plants can get plenty of light and filtered sunshine part of the day. They like a soil rich in humus. "'!""' ' Question My neighbor has some lovely grapehyacinths, growing neatly in her border. I sent for some and they .grow foliage in the fall which becomes a mess before it blooms in the spring. Do - you suppose my ground is too rich? T JL ' Answer It could be, but more likely you have a differ ent variety than she does. There are scores of varieties and some of them do send up top growths In the fall, while others watt un Colorful Annuals Replace Heavy Shrubbery Many gardeners who lost their foundation shrubs during the severe winter months were Just "sunk" when spring came. The house looked so bare. Now they are net sure but what It might have been rather a good thing. The heavy shrubbery has been re placed with lew, colorful annuals. Here a foundation planting of marigolds, In the background, lntersperced with dwarf dahlias, and with the. dwarf compact Fire Chief petunia In the forerroand, give much color throughout the summer (Farm Photo for The Statesman). .. i til spring and the latter are more neat in appearance, (Question - I have a small greenhouse and I'd like to grow some panales fqr winter flower ing. My friends tell me I can't do this, that no matter when I plant the teed they won't bloom until ' I set the plants out in the spring. Is this so? P.O. Answer - Certainly pansies will bloom in greenhouse In the winter. The seed should be planted at once. Set the plants in benches in early October. Be sure the soil is sweet and light and well fertilized, Pansies are always heavy feeders and grow ing them indoors make them no less. so. ' Questlen We want to plant some lettuce for fall use. Is this Kssiblet How long does it take fore lettuce planted from seed is useable? What varieties should we plant? We don't particularly care for heads. Q.H. lAnswer Most lettuce var ieties mature sufficiently for us- ' ing in from 40 to 49 days. Many gardeners sow lettuce during the last two weeks ia August. You might try Oak Lear, Bronze Beauty, Grand Rapids, Early Curled Simpson, tarry Prize head. These are not headed var- . ieties. Headed lettuces usually take from 75 to 90 days to form good heads. Question I do not seem to be an onion gardener, yet we like green onions so much. The onions remain small, not much larger than the . sets which I plant, and if I grow them from seed they stay very little and. thin. What is wrong? A.H. Answer Could be a number of things: Root maggots, thrips on the foliage, too poor soil, lack of lime, too heavy soil, too much nitrogen in soil, poor variety. Question We borrowed sort of a tannish grey book on flower arrangement from the library once in Portland (it's a newish book) and there is a special ar rangement I am interested in. Since then I've written the local library for the book but they keep sending me the wrong one. Would you have any idea which book it might be? There's a pic ture of a spray of flowers on the cover. I cant remember the name or the one who wrote it J. P. D. With such meager 4 information, I am afraid I'll give you the wrong name, too. I have before me two books on flower arrangements, both "tannish grey," and both with a small spray of flowers on their covers. Both are very fine, but I'm not sure the special arrangement for which you are searching is in cluded in either one. The one is Rockwell & Grayson's "The Complete Book of Flower Ar rangement," published in 1847. The other is Carl Starter's "Western Flower Arrangement," published in Portland, also in 1947. ! Rockwell and Grayson have another good book, too, on flower arrangement,. "Flower Arrangement in Color." 0,on Ifev-G7;: i Inlf III! T m aioeoom I 1 OaC-O II H atDBoom ; J ft le,iiHI . oirtino On H 9xa ; B H LivtnO'Bm U ii ri . . J v aj I K IT ft Mrfila Question Can you tell us how to kill clover in the lawn without killing the grass? LAD. Answer A number of the new weed-killers will- do mis. Go to your favorite seed store and ask for a weed -killer to rid your lawn of clover. It Is cer tainly .the simplest way of re moving any undesirable weeds or other plants. Question -Some one sent me a bulb simply marked "Shuk san," and I have no idea what this is. Can you tell me? O.F J. i Answer In my lily year book, -this is listed as a hybrid lily. The plant grows from four to five feet high. THE BAKER Is only It feet wide and In most eases can be built on a lot as narrow as 25 feet. The plan consists of an L-shaped combination living dlnins room, kitchen with dinlnr space, two bedrooms and full base ment. If no basement Is used, the space occupied by the stairs can be converted into a utility room. Kitchen cabinets line two walls with the sink under the windows. The refrig erator is on the left and the range on the right, which still leaves ample space for a breakfast set. Bedroom closets are large size walk-In closets. There are coat closets in the vestibule and the rear entry. A linen closet Is placed conveniently in the bedroom hall. Plans call for a finish of either cedar shakes or wide siding. The roof, with wide eaves, Is asphalt shincled. The overall dimensions of the Baker are 19 feet by 48 feet Floor area totals . '912 square feet, while the cubage of this house amounts to 17428 cubie feet. For further Information about THE BA KER, write the Small House Plan- ning Bureau. St. Cloud. Uinn.