Compost Heap
Good Place to
Haul Leaves
By LXLUZ L. UADSEW
Garde Editor, The Statesman
Composting for tardea soils is
an old story, but well worth re
peating this time of Gbe year.
v Since the fall rains have start
ed and the leaves are falling fast
and furious, it is often surprising
to know the Quantity of leaves
hauled away for burning where
: instead they could be used to great
benefits around home gardens and
liower beds.
Many gardeners are handicap
ped right from the start because
of the lack of organic matter in
the soil and since stable manure
to add organic matter to city gar
dens is a hard thing to obtain, the
compost pile is all the more e
i eentiaL .
A fancy compost pile Is nice to
see, but a lot of good benefits of
composting can be obtained even
though the pile is : not exactly
square and built perpendicular on
the sides as recommended. Just
piling the leaves in the corner of
your, garden area and throwing a
little soU and fertilizer in with
them and letting them decay will
flo a tot ol good next year.
So long as one has to rake leaves
to have them hauled away it is
lust about as easy to carry them
back to one corner of the garden
Rose art red anyway I'm
getting notes about how satlsfac
tory is the floribunda Carrousel
... a California origination which
has an abundance of vigor and
beautiful coloring ... I haven't
seen , It yet but am looking for
ward to that privilege.
A note drifted in to me this
week which I suspect arrived dur
ing my vacation and , was mis
placed. But Mrs. Cecil Smith had
a rare dahlia in her garden which
, had two different kinds of blooms
on the same stem. Ordinarily the
blooms, those who saw the plant
told me, are white with a red cen
ter. Of the two blooms one turned
ut to be normal color and the
ether was of reddish-orange color
11 over. We hope to hear of the
final outcome of the. plant if it
continued to produce two types
at blooms. .
I stopped the other day to see
Effie May White's African Viol
ets out at Tour Corners and was
- amazed at two things: First, what
a large variety-she actually had,
and second, how nonchalantlv she
handled a plant 1 had always sup
posed had to be handled witah
gloves, figuratively " speaking.
There are a couple of things you
have to be careful of, however.
she admitted. One of these maybe
both of them, she added as an after-thought
was to keep the plants
from getting chilly. Too much of
a change in night temperature, any
chilly drafts like taking the plants
outside without protecting them
from winter winds, using cold
water in watering them these
things are all taboo if you want
your A. violets to bloom, Effie
May insists. I stood watching her
transplant a couple of little num
bers. Her soil is all mixed before
hand and her daughter tells me
that it is mixed just as carefully
as a cake. Then .she waters this
with hot water before she sets
her plant in it. The cold of cool
soil and the hot water combine to
give the .right temperature for
planting, r 5
. She-had double ones, pink ones,
ail snades or blue ones, rose ones,
wine ones and on and on. There's
no disputing that Ef fie May knows
now to grow African violets.
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While rambling around the
countryside looking over this and
that, we drifted into a dinner at
Monitor at the IOOF halt not ton
long. ago. Sitting at a table next'
xo us una enjoying, as we were,
the fine ham dinner) were two
garaeners. Mrs. Henry Annen and
Mrs. Rose Butch from the' Mt
Ansel area. We eavrirnrm1 nit
learned that Mrs. Annen's beauti-
"lul white Christmas roses had not
yet budded this fall. Frequently,
she said, when the weather is
mild, they will start blooming
outdoors around Christmas and
continue into the soring. Whn th
weather wasn't mild, they didn't
oo so weu.
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Out at the very attractive Chrys
anthemum Show held at the Salem
Heights Community hall under
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show held by the Little Garden Club of Salem Heighta. A bridal
party was arranged en the stage (top photo). With the reception
table, corsages and ether accessories displayed below the star.
(Statesman Garden Photos). , ,
the sponsorship of the little Gar
den Club of Salem Heights, 1 had
quite a chat with Charlie Cole
(Mrs. Cole always calls him "Ar
thur." I note) and. as usual. I
came away with some more knowl
edge. cnariie objected to the
habit of using naphthalene flakes
with gladioli bulbs as being "as
old as the ark." Better, said he to
use DDT dust. He takes the plants
up when they are through growing
cuts off the top. outs a teasnoon-
ful of DDT dust in a bar anri
shakes them up 'good before
storing for the winter. He suggest
ed such materials as Garden Dusto
or Botano as being very good,
and said if one used these to fol
low the directions on the contain
er. Charlie was sporting a pretty,
small, yellow- Chrysanthemum in
his lapeL It was, he said, a sport
of Olive Langford and he had
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named it Kathleen Cola la honor
of a granddaughter.
I learned too, that squash keeps
very well all winter long it they
are taken carefully, without bruis
ing and. placed in the basement.
They should not be too cold and
they should be kept dry..
Aumsville Group
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AUMSVILLE The Aumsville
Auxiliary, meeting this week,
voted to give Christmas treats to
grade school pupils and smaller
children and to send two gifts to
the Veterans Hospital gift shop in
Portland. . , . . , ..
Refreshments were served by
Eileen Mickey and Blanch Wal
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Garden .
Calendar
Not. 17 Jefferson IVUnrfi
Garden Club covgred mrm
7 pjn. Qty haU. Harold Wynd to
mouw piciures.
Nov. 17-18 Oregon Beekeepers
mum raetunj xteamond.
Nov. 20-21 Oregon SUto Hor
ticultural meeting, Memorial Un
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Flower Fiesta Civic Auditorium.
Dec i-5 Nut Growers Society
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Yule Corsages
Discussed by
Garden dub
wrapping and. Christmas corsages
were in mens at th Mt Angel
Garden Oub meeting Wednesday
night at the dty halL
Mrs. George Schmidt demon
strated numerous novel and ori
ginal ways of wrapping Christmas
girts. Mrs. Bernard Schiedler
snowea a aosen corsages with a
Christmas mntit ooe a xnlnature
weath made on a Jar rubber
base.;
The annual Christmas party was
sei ior Wednesday night, Dec. 10.
with following la charge: M'ft
Juliana Dehler. chairman. Xfr
Ray Telfer, Mrs. Aloir Humpert.
xnn. uraoara jruner, Mrs. Leo
Till, Mrs. Anna Walker.
It Was VOted tht wnm tnm
bers be paid for out of the dub
Treasury and not be purchased by
the individuals, also that the gifts
be living plants.
An invitation from the Labiah
Meadows Gardra rfnh
inviting tnembers as well as the
club to take part in it's Green
Mrs. Mark Wampach and Mrs.
Ed Zach were hostesses. .
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Qvil Service Board lo
Certify Police Test Result
Results cf a civil imU
ammation for new Salem patrol
men will be certified by the Salem
Civil Service Commhsion at Its
monthly meeting Wednesday at
Ohe tests were taken last week
by 13 men. nin at ohnm bm
temporary patrolmen on the dty
police force. The police depart
ment had exhausted its dvil serv-
ice eugiDxe list some time ago.
annual meeting, Marion Hotel,
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Dec. S-T t VrriUnA v1 ev
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m. tiuu Ave ana Harold Street.
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Qacstfesi Can you tH m fV
name of a scrine-floweriM Kn's
that has a dm ihmt -
and little whits like Cowers
juii a irw oa a stem and the
petals have tiny green -tips on
tnemT J, saw soma last year at a
Cower show, wrote down the dea
crieptkms and forgot to get the
name. O. S. .
Answer Could be snowflake
CLeucoium Ytrnuml T4. i.
old-fashked Cower and It coloo
ies beautifully if left alone. 1
found some growing in an old
garden out nar Sheridan some
jw ago ana taixea the owner
OUt Of a bulh. It H Anm V-..
tifully lft all .trv ..
shrub border. The Cowers hart
oetzxam larger and while it has
ntmultiplifd rapidly, I now have
Vv wnera out one was
wismauy pianWd.
Soma buih ntiWu. . . ,
"ihim v w smi rx
t,now to bloom in my garden.
uMKKnra inooors last, spring. Is
this unusual? R. XX
a habit, after being forced, of
fomtnr too with hinom.
rnornents during the next few
months. If it lm Hw. m-. t n
bloom Otlttvwa k...
mer. However, sometimes when
ther bloom twrir 4n a . .w.
this way, they are completely spent
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fore they bloom again..
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grounds as a mulrh immJ
of my plants. They dont seem to
ao so weu ana am wondering if
this has hurt them. The leaves
are a liQa yellow. Wu inA th.i
coff ee grounds were good frttf
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kave a boAoTTwStrw
a chapter or two la'aoa
j!?. on greechouaes. AIm the
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f?TT tood bulletins oa this
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