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Rose-Buying Guide Available
lo Help Select R igh f ) Variety
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Garden Editor, The Statesman
Rose shopping time is at hand
and many first-time rose grower
-t as well as experienced ones r
hav difficulty m selecting the
particular varieties best adapted to
their locality and to (their inama-
lial needs. Some mar want low
growing plants for foundation
planting while -others may de
sire -iatt ones for screening or
hedge . sMirposes.
- v ' In color, too, desires vary with
v requirements. Perhaps you like
yellow roses, or red roses or, white
roses, or want colors that .. will
blend harmoniously with the other
plants In your gataen.
To aid gardeners to choose the
roses best suited to their purpose,
the . American Rose Society each
year prints a "Guide for Buying
Roses" containing a comprenen
" stve list of the popular varieties
la commerce today. This guide -Is
compiled from reports received
from -all sections of the country
indicating vigor, blooming quali
ties and so on. Copies of the 1953
guide are available without charge
of the society. Gardeners desiring
a copy of the guide may obtain
the society's address from the
garden editor.
The clear pink Eden rose, one
of the new ones, seems to give
promise of being a very popular
one. ; It Is a seedling of the fa
mous. Peace rose and bears con
siderable resemblance (see pic
ture, on this page) in size and
form of bloom and foliage. From
Peace it -has also inherited great
plant vigor,' I'm told, with heavy
canes and strong flower stems. As
With "Peace, the full blooms are
especially handsome, very large
and firm with 40 to 30 big, lightly
rifled petals.
r "WiHlam Cuthbertson wrote a
book in 1910 on Pansies and Vi
olas, naming 50 of the best var-
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cnothor cood reason why r pay f
letles. Today, It would be difficult
to find 50 named pansies in all the
catalogues put together. X wonder
4 why we seldom ask for pansies
by name merely calling them
Blue" pansies, l "white" pansies.
"Red" shades, and so on. But there
are -definite strains and perhaps
we should become accustomed, to
the names.
One new strain out this year. Is
called "Felix because some one
said that the markings were "the
Cafs whiskers. Clear pencil
markings, radiate from the cen
ter. In this strain all .the flowers
have yellow,, penciled centers,
and broad borders of red. blue.
brown, or violet shades. The strain
Is developed from a Swiss variety
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(See picture on this page;
We turned out on Arbor Day to
view the planting on the Southern
Pacific grounds and were surpris
ed . at the number of ethers, ' in
cluding a large number of school
children who also turned out.
. This Was the first Arbor ob
servance in Salem' for some years,
It was mentioned at the planting. J
we noted, too, witn wnat care
ine planters set tne trees seven i
ox tnem. une. u iarse w isee ac i
companying picture) was placed I
careiiuiy in a noie aireaay prepar-
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hold the roots without crowding. I
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as it had been growing in the
nursery row from where it "
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fertilizer, was used partially to
xms parucuiar tree is a joveiy
Shape and is to be lighted so that
passengers who alight or who pass I
through Salem, will be reminded 1 One of the most Important fac
even in winter that Salem is a I tors is humidity and that can
city of trees. - I sometimes be a tough problem to
Most failures to germinate seeds I
axe oue to pianung ioo aeepiy or
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Eden Rose, one of the new Hybrid
Teas, whieh rives Dromlsa of
great popularity.
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-nt th finf tniv be
planted at depth two or three
times their size. Fine seeds, like
petunias, should be merely press-
ed into the soil surface and fine
ithtiv thm
Covered with glass or newspaper.
they may be kept in the dark until
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should be done with treat care to
nrevent hreakinff the delicate
roots.
I anlv in this Amt whm nw haul.
m rarelv have radiators on which
to place a pan of water.
Seedlings, too, require enough
moisture to keep them damp, not
so much that they become water
logged, develop disease and die.
Wsurm Winter
Weather Ends
raying
The mild winter may have made
It Impossible for some cane .berry
growers to apply a dormant
strength lime-sulfur spray this
year, D. 1 Rasmussen, Marion
County extension agent said wed-
Hnesday. The 10 . per cent liquid
lime-euliur spray for leaf and
cane spot' disease control should
be applied after the canes have
been trained on the wires but are
still dormant.
An even greater problem is to
finish training without tearing off
too many buds, from the canes,
Rasmussen continued. When the
buds break open, burning of the'
young growth may result if dor
mant strength spray is used. In
this case, the grower should either
eliminate the dormant spray; use
a weaker lime sulfur-spray such
as five gallons In 100 gallons of
water, or use another material.
Some growers use Bordeaux
mixture as a late winter spray
for trailing, berries. The usual
strength is about 8-8-100 which
8 pounds copper sulphate
mixed with pounds of hydra ted
hme in 100 gallons of water. Some
growers are' using . materials sold
calcium polysulphides.. Thes
should le ased according to man-
ma eturers Instructions. .
Lime sulfur is used to control
anthraenbse disease in red - and
black raspberries. The usual pro
gram . for black raspberries con
sists4 or a 10-13 per cent dormant
lime sulfur spray, followed by a
2 .per cent spray when the new
canes are about 10-12 inches tall.
For control .of yellow rust in the
Washington variety of red rasp
berry, a spray containing 4 gal-
Ions of liquid lime sulphur in 100
gallons of spray is applied in the
green tip stage. At this point, the
new growth from the one year old
canes is about one Inch long.
Yellow rust disease is not a nrob-
em in Willamette, Newburgh, and
other local commercial red rasp
berry varieties.
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Vcnelisa Ellnd
Made to your exact measurements in either WHITE or EGG-'
STTFTJ, colors with ALUMINUM or STKKI. slates, seUlockina!
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Questions -
QttesHea Fm getting Interested
In African violets and would like
a little information. Can you tell
me now many varieties there are 7
About what price range they come
in? Someone said there were spe
cial potting soil and special ler?
tilizer for these, too. Where can
I get them? ; Does one . have ; to
buy them from easterners or are
mere some sold here? R.Q.
Answer Your initials are the
same as one of the new violets s
Ruffled Queen. This is a dark
burgundy and the petals are ruf
fled somewhat after the style of
some pansies. It is reported to be
a good bloomer, too.
" As to your question: I have no
idea how many varieties there
are. One little catalog before me
lists thirty-some. I note in another
catalog about the same number
but mostly with different names.
I imagine some of these are very
closely related in appearance.
however. v . -J
As to price range: everywhere
from SO cents up to three and four
Normal Bulb
Supply Due
From Holland
That the Dutch bulb district
escaped the floods and a normal
supply of bulbs may be expected
next summer, subjected to crops
turning out well, was word the
D. A.- White & Sons, Salem, re
ceived' this week from the Boot
Sc Company Bulb Corporation at
Sassenheim, Holland. -
The letter, too; gave a brief
description of the1 flood, reading
in part:
Undoubtedly you will have heard
and read in the newspapers about
the terrible floods In Holland, in
the night .of Sunday, Feb. 1. For
people in the flooded areas it must
have looked as iz doomsday had
come. Thousands of our country
men, -women and children, spent
two or three days and nlgnts on
the roof of their homes or In the
tops of trees, under the most mis
erable conditions and bitterly cold
weather.
'This terrible disaster, of course
made a deep impression on all of
us. Our nation as one man did
what was " humanly possible, to
help . those who suffered.
in days of. need it is a very
great pleasure to meet friends
who are willing to help. The fel
lowship and spontaneous assist
ance from foreign oountries, " par
ticularly from the American Ar
my, is. highly appreciated by the
Dutch people. We are very grate
ful indeed, that our Allies showed
to be good friends in need.
Since the liberation of our
country from the Germans, our
nation worked hard to get back
to its former wealth. As soon as
we had conquered our difficulties.
your people were told that we did
not need the Marshal help any
further, we being able to stand
again on our own feet, of which
we were proud. ' At the moment
our industrial works are still 100
per cent intact, our farmings 79
per cent, and if no further disas
ters will occur, the damage done
will be altered within a couple of
years. . .. . .. -
Soils Head Named
To National Office
Dr. H. B. Cheney, head of Ore
gon State College soils department
has been: named for a three-year
appointment as representative of
11 - western states on -a national
soils and fertilizer research ' plan
ning, program.
Dr. Cheney was recommended
for the" key , post by experiment
station directors of the 11 states.
He will , serve as regional collab
orator at the saxfn annual meet
ing of the burean of plant . in
dustry, soils and agricultural en
gineering at Belisville, Md Mar.
to 4. to review - present' sous
and fertilizer programs and rec
ommend future, research.
Dr. Cheney came to OSC last
September from Iowa State Col
lege where he . was in charge, of
extension agronomy. He is a grad
uate of Iowa State and Ohio State
Universities.
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dollars.' Depending, how new; the
varieties are and from whom you
buy. :
MUote too, that the catalogs' list
"African Violet potting soil" and
"African Violet fertilizer". .You
can make your own soil, however;
with well-decayed barnyard fer
tilizer, a little sharp sand, a little
; good garden loam and a little leaf
mold or peat moss. Mix and sieve
the. sou well. ' I do not - know If
any of the local , garden stores
carry the African violet saO. I. do
know 'mat several call the African
violet ' fertilizers. You - do "not
have to send East for the plants.
There are a number of growers in
this area.'.:-.'.
Question - Two different years
my sweet peas -seemed to get a
blight." The leaves turn white and
a large per ' cent of jny seedlings
die. What should be dons? O. M.
Answer This is anthracnose.
To control, use only plump, sound
seed from healthy - pods; treat
seed with Arasan before planting.
Rake tn and 'burn all plant parts
at .tne ena 01 tne season. 4
This is one' of the most destine
tlve sweet pea diseases and it is
often more serious near apple
orchards where the fungus win
ters on cankered apple limbs and
in bitter rot apple mummies. It
also winters over in sweet pea
refuse and on seed from infected
Pods.
Qaestten Knolosed leaf from
camellia. Please tell me what is
eating the leaves and what to do
about it? The camellia is about
10 feet, tall, many buds are fall
ing. Hundreds of them are under
the camellia plant. CP..C
" Answer There isn't sdiything
eating your camellia foliage at
least not the samples you sent! me.
They are badly affected by leaf
spot. Usually this isn't serious but
in very wet years, it seems to' be
come more so. The control listed
for this includes sanitation: Gath
ering and burning all fallen leaves,
and then spraying with bordeaux
mixture.' You must not have the
latter too strong or you will burn
your foliage. In most cases spring
weather and sunshine wiH take
care of this disease particularly;
11 you keep fallen leaves picked
up. The loss of buds is hot
caused at all by the disease but
by too great variations in J6U
moisture. , Moisture should be
sufficient, and'unif orm. If the soil
gets water-logged buds are lap t
to drop. This occurs where the
drainage is poor. Then, - in late
summer and fall, after the buds
are set, if the water is insufficient,
the buds will also drop toward
spring. We are having a lot, of
bud drop this spring because early
fall rains were not sufficient to
reach the roots of the "camellias.
The water went down three or
four inches enough to green the
graasv but not enough to help the
camellias. Gardeners, seeing the
grass green put away their water
ing apparatus and the camellias
suffered. t :
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Question Our lawn soil Is ra
ther heavy and l there are some
bumps in it. We want- to roll . it
to smoothen it down. When should
this be done? CJU.
Answer You don't really roll
your lawn to take out bumps.
These should be taken out prior
to rolling. The real purpose may
be to smoothen out a few little
irregularities but chiefly to posh
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Greatly iBcreasedTlioaaI activity is planned by the Paelfle Northwest divisloa el the Men's Garden
Crabs ef America as a result ef s resent meeting In the offices ef the Portland CeaveaUon Bureau.
Officers and delegates from 14 clubs hi Oregon and Washington, representing, a membership ef ap
proximately IjOea. gttensaed plans far the group's. firs regieaal convention, date to be named. Among
these attending were (from left) Oeerge Candeanx. Salem; Dr. Ralph Storey, BlcMlnnville, and W. J.
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the roots , Into contact with the
soil. The lawns usually improve
with a rolling in the spring, but
if your sou is very heavy, you d
damage your lawn by rolling it
when wet. Roll it when it is only
slightly damp. Soggy soir would
pack and dry with a hard crust.
Question Have taken some car
nation cuttings and placed in sand
about two weeks ago. Pulled one
up today and still no roots; al
though - cutting seemed healthy.
Shouldn't these be rooted by now?
Took cuttings at Joint like you
said to do. G. S.
Answer It usually takes car
nations from three to five weeks
to root. Temperature should be
between SO and 00 degrees for
best results. Don't pull them up.
Have patience.
Question When should poison
bait for root weevil be applied?
F.T.
Answer It's difficult to make a
hard and fast rule for time of ap
plications for root weevils. In
general for the gray weevils, bait
in April and for the black weevils
about the time of the second pick
ing. '. of strawberries. Excessive
rains during early spring, may ne
cessitate the repeated application
of bait if the poison is leached out
before it can take effect.
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Feb. 2 Mill City Garden Club,
Airs, naroia round, president.
Feb. 2 Home Garden Hour,
KOAC Garden Companion: Mrs.
George H. Morency, 2 p.m.
Feb. 21 Little Garden Club
of Salem Heights host to Friendly
neignDors uaraen ciub. 8 Djn.
m nome- or Mrs; Virgil Sexton.
Waldo Road. Dr. Krause. of the
u&C experiment station, to show
studies of new Chrysanthemums,
Feb. S-Mareh 1 Pacific Ca
mellia Show, Glendale, Calif.
rttt. zs-BSareli 1 Camellia
show. Greenwood, S. C.
March 1 Camellia show, San
josevhuuii.
March 2 Salem Garden Club.
speaker: P. H. Brydon, Tea chair
man, Mrs. W. J. Braun.
March 8 Willamina Garden
Club, , home of Mrs. Nina Heider.
March i-8 Portland Spring
yiantmg air, Oregon , Journal
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These chicks from R.OJP stock,
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March S-U New York City
Garden Show.
March 12-22 International Flow
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March 14-15 Camellia Show, ,
Berkeley, Calif, v
March 15-21 New England
Spring Flower Show of Massa
chusetts Horticultural Society.
Mechanics Building, Boston.
Theme: "Golden Gardens."
March 20-2 Camellia Show,
Dallas, Texas.
March 21-22 Camellia Show,
Norfolk, Va. '
April i-12 Puyallup Valley
Daffodil Festival,. Wash. -
April s-12 Multnomah County
Spring Garden Show, Gresham.
April 25-2 .Oregon Primrose
Society Show, April 25 at- Wom
en's Club building, Portland; April
26, open primrose gardens in Pott
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May 1- Oakland, Calif. Spring
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