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4a Cee. ZV-StotMsicm, Solm. OrswSuzwTune 21, 1553 " ; r . mw mi mmmm t-T.4 ,ur-. J j U 'io u ::z itt Piani founts, rPrVL - UfH uU 'Hlf TAlr 3 liiRnOTl Tallin Pm -rlPm S :P -"T 'Ol gi GLAMOROUS DETAILS make this bosc seea nach bigger thin it actually is. The bovsc itself coreri ealy 1280 square feet without garage. 'A broad overhang protects passage from garage to front door. Rear entrance to garage from covered porch connect with service vestibule between kitchen and basement stairs. A two-way fireplace spreads cheer in front entrance foyer as well as throughout living room. Master bedroom has an outside door to garden terrace. This is Plan 327-T by Edward R. Tyler. 586 Macon PI., Uniondale, N. Y. Answers to Garden Questions Question When I was a soungster, we had a plant called '"Job's Tears." We made beads from the seeds. The flower re sembles the one I know as Texas Bluebonnet, doesn't produce the right kind of seeds. Do you know it? DN.R. f Answer Could it be the regular Job's Tears (Coix Lacryma-Jobi)? t This js a grass-like plant, how- ever. It has pearly white beads of ; tears" containing seed; they are .about Vi inch long. Sometimes i i iri 1 a imy are m cj ta cuiur. x am puw : itself grows from two to four feet high, if anyone else knows of a Job's Tears, other than the little green plant frequently referred to ; as ; such. I'd appreciate hearing about it Question What plants would best use some wood ashes? We - have a lot, but don't know where to put them? A. B. Answer Don't put a "lot" around any one plant Roses can use ashes nicely; so can delphi ums. Very few shrubs object to 1hem, particularly those growing ju aiat v j u j oa uv M-n, excessively. Question Was sent a Daphne Somerset for a gift but no infor mation accompanied it Is it a big shrub? I don't know a thing about it and can't tell by the little potted plant I received. Is it an outdoor plant here in the valley? R. E. A. Answer Somerset is one of the newer hardy daphnes four or; five years old, I believe. Any way, its plant parent No. is 315. It is an English origination and received high honors from the Royal Horticultural Society of Great Britain. A potted plant should really be in bloom now as May and June are the blooming months. The flowers are scented, blush-pink, star-shaped in clus ters. It smells like Daphne Cneo rum or Viburnum Carlesi, re sembling the latter, in my opin ion. The foliage is somewhat like Boxwood. If unclipped the shrub grows around five feet high and four feet wide, but it can be kept t v liAatrw 1iw i " thaw sa nnt nean in bounds very easily. Question What about all of this organic food stuff for plants and the harm of commercial fertilizers? Is there anything in all that? I've been getting so much literature from various or ganic organizations, am getting confused. SDH Answer Certainly there's a lot in the organic fertilizer associ ations. But dont condemn com mercial fertilizers. The organic associations don't In fact they have a number of commercial fertilizers the membership uses. After alL commercial fertilizers are those being sold throuch commerce and even manures ! are offered in many garden stores although we usually refer to these as "organic" The phrase 'commercial fertilizers" is being used? entirely incorrectly and be comes misleading. Why not at- Custom made in our new shop, your or our materials. See our samples in your home. Traverse, rods, installation, a complete drape service. "Everything For Your Window" : ELHED. THE Free Estimates 11 (3S7I Center St formerly West Salem) Phene $-732 - ...V j k-(,-K:v.:. Tomato plants, pruned to a single stem and supported en stakes, a fence or trellis, give a larger yield per square foot of space oc cupied than any other vegetable. Here the method of removing all branches growing where leaves join the main stem of staked tomato is shown. tend one of the organic garden club meetings? The members al ways welcome visitors and they certainly are a fine bunch of gar deners. Watch our garden calen dar for announcement of the meeting times of the organic gar den club. Question Came home from a ride Sunday and found a small bunch of petunias marked "Cream Star" on my porch. Couldn't -find them listed, in my catalogue and am wondering what' color they are. Could you hurry this ques tion as I'm holding the plants until you answer. Don't want pink ones next to real red one. The donor's name wasn't attached and don't want to thank the wrong person but I did appre ciate the gift C. E. K. Answer Your letter came just as I was making up my question answer list for the week, so will get it right in. An answer in four days is prompt enoueh. I I hope? You are very lucky to re ceived silver a tar. These are the 1940 Ail-American selection. They are of a dwarf bushy habit about one foot tall when mature. Flow ers are about 2V inches across, five-pointed, and a soft creamy white sometimes going to almost a golden yellow -at the throat I like these very much, but you can't always find them at florists. They should go well with almost any of your petunias, although I do not care for them with some of the deep wine shades. Question Have a small apple tree with a few apples on this year. Want to keep them from being wormy. What and when to PrT? H. G. Answer - Watch the paper for the frequent notices of sprays. First notice came out this week for spraying apple trees for worms. Use a lead arsenate of DDT, 50 per cent wettable. For DLUID IIAII Down Pay Monthly, 1 U-i.W J one small tree, , there are some all purpose dusts and sprays on the markets under trade names which would do a good job. Question What to do to con trol caterpillars. So many this year. Eating everything. C. S. Answer Any of the poison sprays will get these. The trade name one you - mention in your letter is very effective. Question There's a sort of scale like bug or growth on my pbilodendron. t think it is kill ing the plant What can I do to control it? N. T. Answer. - This is probably a mealybug, and if left uncontroll ed, the plant will die, if not die, or lose its vitality. These insects are controlled by oil sprays. A nicotine sulfate spray at 2 tea spoons per gallon of water, and some yellow laundry soap added for a sticker, will also- help. Us ually these pests appear if circu lation around the plant is poor, If there are not many, dip a cot ton-covered toothpick in wood alcohol and touch up the bugs. This will take care of them, too. In the early days of oil produc tion, a "gusher" or well which spouted oil all over the neighbor hood was hailed as a ttriumph by a producer, but today, the pro ducer who fails to control the oil coming from a new well consid ers the result something of a disgrace. ITS PLANTING TIME For Shell Corn Ensilage EAHLT YELLOW DEIIT IlimiESOTA 13 nYDDJD 355 HYDDID 525. SUEET conii For , the Home Garden Complete Assortment of . Varieties' D. A. UIIITE Ci SOUS Rose Show FineDi WinPlaudits By LILLTE L. MADSEN i ' Garden Editor, The Statesman Those of you who missed the rose show at Salem last week end really missed something. t I get rather blase about flower shows, as I go to so many (and usually enjoy each one) Certainly hat- little complaint to make of the Salem event Naturally. 1 1 dont agree with all of the judges but then, listening in on them - as they left the judging floor, they didn't agree among themselves, either. I enjoyed a great deal the "Bou quet from Grandmother's Garden" arranged by Labish Meadow Gar deners . . . The arrangement was centered around a bouquet of old fashioned roses including such as XVOSa sCUhUUMl iuua( M.wom jhwum t. w: s n t i;vl t-m i uw Missiun wne . . . uitcu nus. Mildren Davis' red roses, Blaze variety in the green, pottery pitcher, which placed second in its division. The first place winner in the antique container division -was lovely and we agreed here with the iudses. Red Moss roses and wine clematis were used together in a frosted glass vase. We eabbed a bit with other rose show attenders, who agreed with us that the Salem show was far su perior to the Portland event this year, although, of course. Port land's show was larger. jWe even saw an Ena Harkness rose at the Salem show more beautiful than the Portland sweepstakes winner of the same variety. j Three items which drew consid erable attention for themselves at the Salem show were Al Lindbecks' potted Elfe rose, a small rose, re sembling Picture in formation . . . a display of Foxtail Lily, which makes one think of glorified fox gloves or lupines . . . and a dis play of peonies. i The foxtail lilies, in their bril liant colors, were brought by Mrs. Henry Carl, and everyone at the Rose Show was asking everyone else what they were. 1; found out early in the game, and 'thereafter very smugly handed out' the infor mation to all askers. The foxtail lilies, or eremurus, are Asiatic perennials. Sometimes they are called by the attractive name of Desert Candle. The flowering stalks are 4 to 10 feet high, with spire like racemes taking up two to 'four feet of the stem. They ire a little difficult to plant, I've Jbeen told, because the roots are so brittle. They should be planted in the fall, and from 8 to 10 inches deep, in rich, well-drained soil. They are very heavy feeders and i those who have grown them say that one can hardly give them too much food. They come into their own in the garden, when planted ; against a background of shrubbery. We see too few peonies on dis play in the Salem area and it was nice to find such a lovely one from the Salem Peony, Gardens at the show. Peonies do well ;in the val ley and in spite of rain and breezes this spring, I have seen some very fine ones. They are 'planted in early September and those of you who wish to add some to your gar den should be looking; them over and placing your orders now. Jost to mention a few peonies of outstanding quality: Red doubles Kansas, a bright redj with very strong stems, selling for about $10; Ruth Elizabeth, large and brilliant, the same price; Andyj dark red; Philippe Rivoir, rich crimson and fragrant $2.50; Karl Rosefleld, dark crimson, $1. Pink doubles Mrs. Livingston Ferrand, pure pink, $10; Edith M. Snook, ivory tinted pink with some yellow and green tints. $8.50; Cathie Ann, deep rose on 40 inch stem, $7; Nick Shaylor, blush pin, $4. ; Those going for around $1.50 Jeannot flesh pink; Lady Alex andra Duff, very pale pink; La France, fragrant; Lillian Gumm, fluffy flower of shell pink; Martha Bulloch, fragrant and rose shaded. White doubles: Dorothy, blush white, very large, $15; Mattie La fuse, long lasting, fragrant with ivory and pink tones, $12: Miss America, semi-double, $12: Victory, ivory, $10; Nancy Niebolls, white with pink suffusion at center, $5; splays I ,1 V II At Expedition tBeally jr-?;7 We are getting into the lily season sow. Watch for varieties yon may want for later bloom. This is one of the Golden Chalice hybrids. Garden Calendar... June 26-27 Victoria, B. C. Rose Show. , July 9 Labish Meadows Gar dners annual summer picnic, home of Mrs. Jack Bartlett July 30 Aug. 1 Vancouver B. C. Begonia Show. July 31 Salem Garden Club tour and tea. Aug. 1-Z Portland Gladiolus Society show, Journal lobby and Auditorium. Aug. t Silverton Jay-C-Ettes Summer . Flower Show, Eugene Field Auditorium, Silverton. Aug. 12-13 Oregon State Gladiolus Show, Grants Pass. Sept S-12 Annual Oregon State Flower Show, Oregon state fairgrounds, Salem. A B. C. Nichols, white with hint of pink and orange, $4; pure -whites W. L. Gumm, $2.50; Mrs. Ed ward Harding, $1.50; Mrs. A. M. Brand, $2.50; Le Cygne (ivory white J, $2,50; Genevieve, $3. Mrs. Eari C Bear (Agnes tells me that she has been watering her African Violets with warm tea water and has had great success. She has had lots of bloom m an eas window most of the year, with the house averaging a little on the warm side. She lets her plants get fairly dry and then soaks them up good. They are potted in a half inch of sand in the bottom, with sheep manure, sand and good garden soil as the general potting mixture, topped off again with sand. I'd almost wager, given the same care, with warm water used instead of tea, the results would be the same. I forgot to ask her if she had tried this ... Chlordane is generally accepted as the best of modern insecticides for use on lawn. More and more people are using chlordane pro ducts for control of turf insects. However, don't use it unless it is necessary. Some researchers are claiming that on clay and loam soils an excessive use may have FROn YOUR 0 with Slt Ml Ml Th All-Aluminum Wall Flltwf VentHator That Allows Your Heusa Walls to Remain Dry! f tci nsATci-pacc? ca or Morris-WaIieirPaIi.ftCo( 1710 N. front St Lovely' 4 k .. . I 'Bike' Court Has Busy Day, But Levies No Fines MONTPELIER, Vt (Busi ness was good the first day no money was taken in. At the first session of the new bicycle court seven respondents pleaded guilty to violations of the bicycle ordinance. Sentences ranged from suspension of the right to ride a bicycle for a week to making two or three copies of the ordinance rules and regula tions. Complaints including riding a bike on the sidewalk, riding double, or not having proper registration, lights or horn. Police Captain George Conner, who is in charge of the bicycle patrol, reports that be has re ceived fine cooperation from the parents of the young offenders. a tendency to built up concentrates, the reaches of which are not yet known. But it is still your best bet for soil insect control. .' r In many wayside garden stands and established nurseries, we have recently noted potted specimens of the double white mock orange being offered for sale. If buying be sure that these are well rooted. From any reliable nursery, they should be. Many of the summer wayside stands are reliable, too. But oc casionally one finds potted speci mens of shrubs that prove to be merely cuttings stuck into wet sand or soil. Of course, in the case of the Mockv Oranges, even this wouldn't be too had, as they root readily from cuttings but if you are buying rooted plants, be sure they are rooted. There have been some very good buys in these shrubs this past week ranging from 60 cents to a dollau PAICJT DOLLARS uiaimn PEELING CRACKING and BLISTERING HOUSE PAINT DUE TO DAMP WALLS O Car Phone 4-2279 McCarthy Freedom, Says :- GEARHART, Ore. tfl Wiscon sin's Sen. Joseph McCarthy ''ob viously intends" to curtail the free dom of the press, Gordon Sabine,! dead of the school of journalism at the University of Oregon; told the 66th annual meeting of the Oregon Association of Newspaper Publishers here Friday. About 150 newspaper executives were registered for. the sessions. Speaking on "Journalism, Jour nalists and Joe McCarthy," Sabine said "it is the dut of every Amer ican to fight against the abuse of the power of the people and the abuse of the freedom of thought and speech and the press." -I think Senator McCarthy, per haps without attempting to, has made more citizens concerned about what goes on in their gov vernment which we must agree is a good thing." Sabine said. "I think he also has thrown the spotlight on the general matter of loyalty to the United States, and has reminded as that if we get too complacent, we can do a dis service to democracy. "But there ends this man's serv ice to his country end to us as citizens." Referring to McCarthy's exami nation of James Wechsler, editor of the New York Post Sabine said: "This is not the first time a powerful public group has attempt ed to intimidate editors and cur tail our freedom. It will not be the last time. Bui we must iden- FREE ESTIMATES On Kitchen Remodelint Old or New . CAPITAL SXOKE ltl N. High Ph. 44431 TERMITES FREE INSPECTIONS Guaranteed Pest Contol Service 265 So. 20th Ph. 2-0731 warn . mm woilMrsSuinnnfl 1 Willamette Aluminum Co. S035 Portland Kd. Phone 2-S05S - xm n ii if-ZJL-i -4tcj uf i PA1MT CLEABAfiMi' Epnre Stock to Go at Discounts Up to YOUR CHOICE OF ENAMELS GLOSSES FLATWALL WATER MIX VARNISH I STAINS OUTSIDE PAINTS PORCH & DECK PAINT Many Colors to Choose From But . 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