The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, August 16, 1953, Image 21

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Newspaper Page Text1 i .. . - -..it , 1 , . a . , ' " ' i : r- .Garden Questions Question When should I plant peonies? Have seen such lovely ones 'this past season. Never had any hut have space for' them now. VPoej .one.have to send east or Need More Storage Space ? lake H fiom your lumber deafer.'.. . is tfie ffme to .do it with Bmu convenient, apace savins; storage walla ward robes, or other tuilt-ina with ' easy-to-use fir plywood. Big teal wood 'panels speed work cut cost, need no special tools. So why wait? Build that extra storage you need right. now. Sloe you lumber dealer today I He has NEW PLANS for you TIME 1$ RIGHT... ft!C IS II GMT I Custom mad 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" ELIIEB THE BLIND HAH Free Estimates 10 .Down Pay Monthly (3871 Center St formerly West Salem) Phone J-7328 i "Hew Home? No-Fresh Painl!" i Your home will look oi fresh as new with Happy Painter House Point! We make it carefully tight here la town eo it has to be aoodl Our reputation, depends on your satisfaction. ; Relax in the comfort of our Color Gallery while you choose your colors. Come in this week! t Your Home Paint Center Open 8 JLM. to 5:30 PJM. Monday through, Saturday PLENTY OF PABKIIIG SPACE paiiit coiipaiiy 1710 Front Street away'for them? Would you please mention. few food varieties that grow well In our climate? Any. thing special in culture? W. G. . Answer Almost - any peony that will grow anywhere else will grow here. There's a peony gar den just a few blocks from the Salem address you five. IX your soil is good, if you have good drainage and sunlight, thjt's about it, so far as , special soil preparation is concerned. You might work in some well decayed humus no freak manures into the. soil Also, after your peony bed is established, if may need some dusting, but watch for time of this in .the seasonal articles. Variety depends upon , personal taste. Three beautiful white ones (in my own opinion) are Gene vieve, LeCygne, and Mrs. A. M. Brand. In double reds there's the large, strong, fragrant Henry Webster, or the clear dark red Tempest, which is especially good for cutting. The clear pink Hazel RENT. A. TOOL Do it Yourself - It's Cheaper OPEN SUNDAYS Salem's Oldest Tool Rental Howwr Bros. 1180 South 12th St Get help here la plan. nine any bulldins, re modelinf , or homecraft project. We have fir plywood . . . new plans -Mi.., new Idea booklets. J LSa& us flat ftr plans, tfJywoo building help FBED SIIITH Lumber Yard Dependable ' Building Matesjals "At Four Corners" HEADQUARTERS FOR DFPA QUALITY-TESTED PLYWOOD Phone 4-2279 &r km iJTk. I 1 ... Answered i Kinney, the flesh pink Hasina Brand, and the soft light pink Garden Princess, are good in that color. If you like single ones, there's the dark red Arcturui, the deep i pink , Imperial Bed (this name fools you because the flow er is more pink than red), and the bright pink Sea Shell. ' ' Peonies should be planted in early September if possible. ! t Question Have heard there is a yellow aster. Can you tell me the name of it? Haven't seen it Is it good? W. T. i : Answer There's one named Goldilocks. Just how deep the color is depends ; upon sun and heat and soil conditions, if seems. Question Some folk say that wireWorms do the damage to our potatoes and others that tuber flea beetle. Can you tell us which is actually the criminal and how to treat the soil? We've beard a lot about soil treatment in recent months. Do. you pour the stuff' around the plants? J. B. - Answer Both insects will dam age the potatoes. If the injury goes into, the ruber rather far, chances are wireworm is the cul prit If the injury is just in the outer edges beneath the peelings, then it is likely tuber flea beetle larvae. Aldrin has been found quite effective in controlling both of these insects, when placed in the soil before planting. It is used at the rate of 10 pounds per acre. The thorough mixture of the materials in the soil to a depth of six inches is considered an important feature of the treatment Question Can you tell us any thing about the European candle floating method of killing moths that deposit eggs which hatch into injurious pests? We have read about it somewhere but don't know just how it's done. Are the candles poisonous? H. W. Answer In some areas lighted candles are placed on material which will float in a half-filled tub of water and these are placed outside at night The light at tracts the moths, the wings of which are singed, causing them to drop into the water for final destruction. This method is used In spring to prevent cut worms from being reproduced and again later in the season other moths of this nature. Question Someone left some tuberous begonia leaves at The Statesman office but failed to leave the name or .address. The leaves were badly diseased. Answer Without knowing more about the trouble, I'd say this was a very bad case of mil dew, probably .caused from poor air circulation. While this begonia likes considerable shade, it must have good drainage and good air circulation. Question I tried two nurseries in Salem for the Albizzia Jubil brisson on the post office lawn and didn't find any. Can you tell me where I can get one? Or if I can get one locally? It's the pret tiest tree I have ever seen. I'm amazed a tree like that will grow in this climate and when it does that you don't see it more often, F. C. Answer Send me an addressed envelope and 111 give you the name of a nursery carrying this tree. It's all you say. Just a very, few years ago it was expensive, as lawn trees go. There are sev eral around Salem and the rest of the valley now. But it still isn't used as much as it deserves. I know of one nurseryman in Sa lem who sells the tree 4 to 5 feet at around $2 and a 5 to 6 foot tree at $2.50. Question We are planting a new rose garden and thought we'd put in all of the sweep stakes' winner. Isn't that a pretty good way of getting a fine collec tion? A.N.T. Answer Sweepstakes are not given for varieties but for per fection in growth, you know. How good the bloom would be in your garden would depend upon what; type of care you gave it And sometimes you'd have more .han one, which in itself is a good idea. One of the things The f STAPLE ISIS Fll TACrili INSULATION CriUNO Till lUILDINO PAFEI SCtZEN Wlkl : Pre ft by thit of, osy, affictail tockfog th4. Dmi tfca job thr H fi linst evieksr. Held notorial Is s4c with hmnH oparaim toefcar wtrit other. Sbms mn4 ; simplify your oast ieb with Dvo- i rest. , For Hoevy Doty Wort I Ute Tkls Heaaer Tartar, ?--- TanirY" M l1 mi) frw mmniam J If fV"" I X' V 11 J x Horris-Walker Painl Company 1711 Front St Ph. 4-2271 - !i . . - ; i Garden . By ULLIE Garden Editor, I 'didnt get to the Lebanon Herb Tea this year but I've been hearing about It all week it was held Saturday at Lebanon, at the home of Mrs. Peter Smith, club president and general tea chair man. 4 - Among the things I've heard is that women from every valley town bore down on the tea, mak ing it one of the most successful of quite a number of successful events, yet staged. Guests, . as they registered, re ceived a little vial of herb vine gar and aa visitors awaited their turns to sign the guest list they were served with punch and cook ies. That's quite an idea just think how much shorter the line at a' show or any other event would be- if , one could munch cookies and drink punch. We picked up the recipe for the punch which was made by Mrs. Leonard Vaughn. The base was a popular punch powder (cherry flavor) and black tea, to which was added pineapple and lemon juices and peppermint During the program hour Mrs. L. Munts of Sweet Home, 1953 Oregon Federation Garden Club wild flower chairman, described a meal that might be prepared from Oregon's own edible wild plants. For- salad she suggested water cress, mountain cress, min er's lettuce, spring beauty and dandelion. She said that she per sonally likes to "win" these with a bacon-vinegar-sugar, mixture and adds a hard-boiled egg. Tasty as greens, she listed sour and curly dock, Virginia cowslip, pigweed. Lamb's quarters, boiled with fat meat or bacon as "our grandmothers used to do." "Roots" included camas, skunk cabbage, wild onion, scouring rush, which would take the place of the vegetable. As a drink, she described "willow herb" as being the most prevalent drink of the common people of Russia, and for dessert there was the wood sorrel leaves made into a pie which tasted like rhubarb. One of the interesting exhibits at the tea was that prepared by Miss Alena Jacobsen, president of the Oregon Herb Society, which featured yarns dyed with color ings from flowers, berries, herbs and onions. Miss Jacobson her self gathered the dye recipes from the Navajo Indians. One very gay guest at the tea was 80-year-old Mrs. J. S. Igow, Long Beach, Calif., who came with her daughter, Mrs. Fred Sex ton of 'Molalla. Mrs. Sexton is state newsletter chairman of the garden club federation, m An oak tree can add as much as $1,000 to the value of what Statesman Garden Editor enjoyed in the George and Elizabeth Put nam , gardens recently at the Salem Garden Tour, was the way groups of roses had been made in the rose gardens. Three or more of a variety together is an excellent idea. Now the winners in the Port land: showr Saturnia is a triple winner having taken grand sweep stakes honors in 1946, 1949 and 1951 McGredy's Ivory, a double champion, took top purples in 1945 and 1948. Here is the list lor the past 10 years: 1953, Ena Harkness; 1952, Crimson Glory; 1951, Saturnia; 1950, Rubaiyat; 1940, Saturnia; ini-iosA (Silk Tree, or ' Alblxxia Julibrisson) "This is the beautiful tree new in bloom on P.O. lawa. on State St We have a limited number for fall delivery. Come eat and tag yours new! 4' $1.75. 5' $2.50 Yfarings' Nursery 1023 OakhiU Ave. Ph. 2-4201 ATTENTION RESIDENTS OF POLK COUNTY FDEE SEOVICE Oil YOUB FUBIIACE R cordless of age, make or condition by our mechanics. Safety Inspection Oiling ; 1 Clean Filters Adjust Combustion Cement Chimney Collar This lerrice U endorsed br Marshal throughout the United States. Write today to: iHolkmd : Fiff&ace Go. !320XetrneT St Far your FREE service appointment. This offer good for the residents of Polk County for on week only So Hurryl I- . Listen to "Wonderful at 5:30 p. m. Monday Through Friday Ga bbing i L. M ADSEN The Statesman' - ; - would otherwise be just another city lot or house site. And a healthy stand of oaks can do even more for s nomesite taking the mercenary viewpoint But no mat ter what cash value oaks may have, they are undeniably a satis faction you can't measure mone tarily. ... Also they are the basis for a' very fine rhododen dron or azalea planting. ' Certaily they are worth giving a little care, and contrary to the general suspicion, they usually need care when grown , around a home. In nature the best oaks are found in fertile soil not too far from streams. Some water should be applied during the dry months. If possi ble, let the soil dry out fairly far down between waterings. Never let water stand around the tree as oaks can't stand wet feet If construction, is necessary around oak trees, and as a result the soil becomes badly compacted, sug gestion has been made that holes be dug with a post-hole auger to a depth of 12 to IS inches about two feet apart, just beyond the drip line. These holes may be filled with sand and fertilizer acd then watered with a sprink ler. If your oak is doing well, you probably won't have to fertilize at all, or at most, very little. Most homeowners very carefully rake up every vestige of oak leafmold, and if this be the case, fertilizer will help out A mixture of or ganic fertilizer such as cottonseed meal, blood meal, bonemeal and manufactured sludge, in about equal proportions mixed with sand, "Would be very good. This should be worked in lightly around the drip line and watered welLi The very best time to give this feeding is late April or early May. However, as many of the materials are slow working, this feeding may also be done in Sep tember or October. For the many inquirers who are constantly asking for a ground cover to use beneath trees, there's the violet Many of the violets will form a dense ground cover, stay ing green all summer and giving a delightful purple or if you use the white variety, white cover ing for a time in the spring. These are particularly good where most other ground covers wont grow. Just incorporate plenty of humus in the soil before planting. Golden rod, it wauld seem, should be golden, or at least yel low. Most frequently this is the case, but I have learned there is a lovely white goldenrod (some times called silver rod) which blooms in September and carries on way into October. 1948, McGredy's Ivory: 1M7, Peace; 1946, Saturnia: 1945, Mc Gredy's Ivory; 1944, Golden Har vest ... a realy fine collec tion. Who Is State Farm? An organization famous for low-cost automobile insurance because it aims to insure only "less costly" careful drivers. Call me for more informa tion ... J. EARL COOK Ph. 4-2215 626 N. Hioh State Farm Mutual Ante Ins. Co. Fire Underwriters and lire Salem. Oregon City" Over KSLM Garden Calendar. 4 Aag. 18 Seaside Garden Club Flower Show, Masonic HalL Aag. 1C W si port Garden Show. . Aag. 17-23 Multnomah Coun ty Fair and Flower Show, Gres hara. ; . .. Aug. 19 Canby Garden Club Flower Show. - Aug. 20-23 Dahlia Show, Bre merton, Wash. ! Aug. 223 Cora Bay Men's Garden Club Flower Show, Tiogo Hotel. j Aug. 22 American Begonia Convention and Show; Redondo Area Branch, Redondo Beach. Calif. i Aag. 22-23 Annual Fuchsia Show, Malmos Auditorium, Seat tle. ' j - Aug. K-23 Pacific Northwest Gladiolus Show, Everett, Wash. Aug. 28-29 California Dahlia Show, San Francisco. Aug. 26-27 Annual San Fran cisco Summer Flower Show, San Francisco, Calif, i ' Aug. 28 Spray and Depoe Bay Garden Club show, Depoe Bay Community halt ; Aug. 28-30 Polk County Flow er Show and Fair, RickrealL Sept 9 Mount, Angel Garden Club, Mrs. John; Drescber and Mrs. Marcus Wampach In charge. Sept 10-12 National Rose Show, Columbus, Ohio. ? Sept 18-19 Victoria Fall Flow er Show, Crystal Gardens. Eradication of many kinds of weeds by chemical sprays is fa vored by hot suny weather.n No matter what the weather, annual zinnias, perennial babys breath and both annual and per ennial phlox manage to flower. STORM WTNDOWS Aluminum Combination Doors and Windows. Pin Now Fer Fuel Savings Next Winter. FREE ESTIMATES Ph. 2-8058 Wanted ... Service; Han For Auto-Matic Heating Equipment , Permanent Job Experience Required Salem Heating & Sheet Metal Co. 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