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Statesman, Salem. Ore., Smu June 13. 1354 CSe I) 7 .. -to. x- A ? f ii i By LiUie L. Bladen 1C Garden Gabbing TV and ' " " - , j - ' f ,;I,,WI I...IHII..IIIIUI.II-IIII. 111 -' 111 1 . f - " N- . , ."n f 'T2x-':- TertiTe Mixima, developed in France more thin 1!00 years ago, remains one of the great peony fa YOrite. Here are Mr. and Mrs. Otto Beaty admiring a plant of this variety in their garden near Chemawa. (Statesman Garden Photo) 11 ' 4 it ii iGrowing peonies is a job even for a man not too strong, The Statesman Garden Editor was told while visiting this Otto Beaty peony garden between Xeizer and Chemawa. The little tile house at the right covers one of the first bored wells in the Willamette Valley. (Statesman Farm Photo) Answers to Garden Questions Judging from the number of let ters received by the Statesman garden editor the past 10 days, gardens are sick places this spring. However, we've seen some very beautiful ones. too. As many of the questions were duplicates, the garden editor is using the ques tion first received on each subject with hopes that the other inquirers will be able to find the knowledge they, too, are seeking. The garden editor welcomes questions at all times, and will do her best to find the answers. Question What is wrong with enclosed laurel leaf? Looks like some insect might have damaged it. H. R. Answer No, this is a fungus disease. The irregularity of the bole sometimes gives the idea that it has been chewed or eaten out by an insect. Spray with Bordeaux mixture, foliage strength, or use a fixed or proprietary copper com pound spray according to direct ions on the package. The spray may have to be repeated two or three times at 10-day intervals. Queitioa Some of our azalea buds shriveled up and didn't bloom. They turned sort of silvery in appearance. Now the twigs with the buds are dying. What to do to save plant. C. M. Control Sounds like bud and twig blight Prune out and burn infected buds and twigs. Spray with bordeaux mixture or dust. The bordeaux is the most effective but will discolor the foliage some what. Unless very severe, pruning will control quite well. Question Once you mentioned something to control cabbage mag got. Lost information would you please repeat? T. T. Answer Dust soil surface around base of cabbage plants with 5 per cent chlordane. Question Can you help me with my peonies. The plants were all budded out nicely and then most of them, stayed as little brown buds and never developed. Some of the flowers came out beautifully. A couple of the stalks sort of wilted and died off. Last year we had a little of this, but this year we have much more. Is there anything we can do? R. P. T. Answer This is peony blight. Sanitation is the most important step. Cut off and burn any stem now showing disease, and then in early fall or late summer cut off all of the plant just below ground level. Do not use this in the com post heap, but burn. But through out the summer, take a paper bag and pick off all blighted parts. Don't carry these pieces loose around the garden as you may shed spores to healthy plants. This is very contageous. Spray with bordeaux mixture or Fermate, as the young plants come through the ground next spring. Repeat two or three times at 10-day intervals. I don't believe there is a place where peonies is grown that the plants do not suffer from this blight at one time or another. I checked mine this spring by scat tering quite a bit of bordeaux dust around the suface of the plant even before it showed much above the ground and then two dustings seemed to take care of it after words. But cutting off and remov ing the foliage is one of the most important items. (There have been nine questions on this trouble this week.) Question Have two fairsized white oaks which we planted 20 Everything For Your Window ELMER Blind Man FOR YOUR Draperies - Cornice Boards - Valances - Traverse Rods AH Custom-Made in Our Shop Your Materials or Ours A Complete Drapery and Installation Service Venetian Blinds and Shades ir Columbia-Matic Aluminum Window Screens Ron-Del Aluminum Folding Awnings Fireplace Screens and Accessories Vert! Vertical Blinds Venetian Bliitds Washed Shutters if Picket Fences FREE ri OTOOD Dy Estimates n.O JAOor Night 3870 Center St. Salem, Ore. years ago and prize highly. Two years ago a part of the top looked as if it were scorched and the leaves fell off. Last year some of the twigs in that area were dead. And then a larger spot turned brown and more foliage fell off. This year there are even more dead twigs and the trees look sort of weak and sick. Any way we can save them? C. V. M. Answer This is probably anth racnose. a disease that seems to have hit many of our trees. Cut off the dead twigs and paint with a good tree disinfectant. Then spray the remainder with bordeaux. The first bordeaux spray should have been put on just as the buds open ed and then repeated at 10-day in tervals for two or three times. Puratized Agriculture Spray has also given good results. Your ad dress indicates you live in the country. Here a dormant live-sulfur spray would be very helpful. In cities, where houses are close together, it's rather impossible to spray with this because of its ef fect on paint. Question Am having trouble with my holly. Looks like it has a rose blackspot. Is this new? Have had holly in my garden for more than 50 years and had no trouble before. What can I do to save the bush? B. M. Answer Holly has been deve loping a fungus in recent years. Seems like a copper fungicide will control it. Pick up and burn all the affected foliage. Tronble with holly is comparatively new in this area By LILLIE L. MADSEN Garden Editor, The Statesman EVERYONE DOING NICELY A heart ailment and peonies ro well together it seems. Anyway, Otto Beaty no longer looks like tho same man I recall seeing last six or seven years ago at the Marion County Spring Jersey Cattle Show. Then he was unable to get out of the car to watch his favorite sport Jersey cattle judging. He had just sold his fine big herd of Jerseys, no longer able to manage the project he had worked since he was a youngster. And the peonies in the Beaty garden I had never seen better looking ones than I saw in these gardens Friday. IT WAS A HOBBY When Otto first began getting around after his heart attack in 1&45, he knew that dairying was, for him, a thing of the past. He held a sale, retaining only one milk cow. He had to have something to occupy his time while up and around. A friend suggested dahlias. He tried them out. They required digging and storing and replanting every year. He got tired, he said, in winter just thinking about them. Another friend gave him a start in gladioli. Pretty soon they, too, turned into too much work. In addition to planting and digging and storing there was spraying. and treating for thrips. Then one day he recalled a pink peony which his grandmother had cultivated on the place when he was a small boy. In fact the grand parents, Sarah Rose and Silas Pugh, took up the donation land claim in 1845 more than a century ago. Otto's mother was born here, and so was Otto. A search brought forth the pink peony which he learned was Edu lis Superba. That started the Beatys in their new hobby, that of grow ing peonies. Edulis is still one of the favorites now after seven years of peony growing. NO TROUBLE AT ALL Peonies, the Beaty's say, give so little trcuble. For their garden spot, they chose the old bull pen. Beaty used his little garden tractor and worked up the piece, putting in some bonemeal for good measure, and scattering some oyster shell about the place because "experienced peony growers said to do that." The peonies, just a few at first picked up from a Washington state grower, were set according to directions. In the fall the old plants were clean off the spot, and that was that. In the spring again, the spot was cultivated the plants are set four feet apart each way and a handful of bonemeal scattered : around each plant. Most of them would grow for five years in one spot without dividing. Each year they were better than the year be fore. Because of an open garden, not too heavy fertilization, keeping the ground sweet, little disease has bothered. A few blasted buds have ! appeared. Varieties that repeat in this are removed. ! OVER 100 VARIETIES Like drink to some, one demanded an- j other, until out of that Grandmother s one little pink peony has now grown two gardens of peonies on the Beaty place and there are more than 100 varieties. They are divided into three types the early, the medium and the late. The early ones are just about finished blooming and the medium-time bloomers are now on. The late ones are merely showing color as the beautiful large white Mrs. Frank Beach, or the deep red Philip Rivorie. Among those I liked best which are now in bloom are Festive Max ima, a large white: Philomele, a pink with a yellow center; Felix Cross, a rose red; Mrs. Bryce Fountaine, a deep red double; Nym phia, a big white with a yellow center; Lady A. Duff, a pink single; Cherry Hill, a very deep red, now almost through blooming; Auguste Desert, a rose pink with silvery tips: Nich Shay lor, a flesh pink; Sea Shell, a huge beautiful shell pink; Mrs. Wilder Bancroft and Meteor, both very dark reds with very yellow stamens; Apple Blossom, a single pink; Ruth Elizabeth, one root for which they paid $15; Susan White, a creamy one, opening like a Chrysanthemum, almost shaded green; Baroness Schroeder, another good white, and the Japanese ones like Tokyo, Beauty, Rushomon. . . . But there were 100 kinds, I can't mention them all HOBBY PAYS Mr. and Mrs. Beaty had no intention of growing these for sale just for their own amusement and to give Otto some thing to fill his time. Then along comes a friend who says that another friend in Port land is looking for peony blooms nice ones. Would the Beatys sell some? That was a couple of weeks ago when the early varieties were just coming out. The Beatys "guessed" they could spare some. That's how it started. Now they are cut systematically. The Beatys are again in business. "We are going to sell that one cow we got left and plant her pas ture into more peonies this fall," Otto said as he showed me his new seedlings just coming into bloom. "It took four years to bring them from seed to bloom," he boasted, as he displayed some beautiful varieties, unlike any of their parents. "Peonies seem to agree with me. I feel excellent this summer." j '. 76-0' ! j i I ! i'v, "1 1 1- -j k i I r ' , .A3 -.1 4-60 7 6 tO I , I J . f 1 i -BAUl.-f- - -J v"iTf?' s.M.ia- j -liv.ac. I "JiVfiCi: 4z4 rT'' r -U- --CfiR. - fi t il I I 1 iBITIs,LcL,,j' I I .JlUMt. Em J jk- r"V - j ,3xS PLAHwS00-B AP Newsfe tares SOUTHWEST RANCH atmosphere distinguishes this spacious one-story house, which needs no basement with its ample storage facilities, air conditioning room and laundry above ground. A club room with fireplace in addition to large living room with fireplace provides abundaat liability. This is Plan 500-B by VH. Schumacher, architect, Tower Bldg., Oklahoma Cky, Ok La., who suggests a combination stucco and fieldstone facade with colored asphalt shinties on the roof. (Further information and blueprints available from the architect.) Garden Calendar. . . Gardeners Toljl To Use Fuchsias For Added Color June 13 final day of Salem Oardeners who need extra color Rose Society show, Izaak Walton I and have difficulty making some League building, 500 S. Cottage ' flowers bloom, are advised to get St. 12 to 6 p.m. a couple of fuchsias already in June 16-17 - Oregon Association woom inese are amoung our best Nurserymen, Corvallis. : v PlaAn,U i" the PaClfic j x Northwest. Also they are among June 18 - Stayton Garden Club,; most colorful. Xnev Mm to p.m. Mrs. Marie Freres, host-: ilke nothing tetter than tn iiic. grow and bioom. Sightless Will Have Garden Of Fragrance The Brooklyn Botanic Garden, visited by so many westerners each year, is going to have a new division. A garden of fragrance is being planned for sightless persons. The proposed garden, expected to be available in the spring of 1955, will be constructed with funds currently being raised by the Women's Auxiliary of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and other volunteer citizens. The Garden of Fragrance will be patterned after the one at Brighton, England, complete with guide rails and benches, braille signs augmenting the roman-lettered plant lables, and pathways planted with patches of camomile and thyme which give off fragrance when crushed under foot. Lilac, lavender, honeysuckle and rose, whose fragrance is quite familiar, will be mixed with the less known aromas of flowering tobacco, Russian olive, artemesia and some of the more exotic herps. One garden sign, quite foreign to the ordinary garden or park. SHRUB SALE Every boiled shrub in both APQ Our Salesyerds cut JLJ O or more Take advantage of these Cut Prices to Landscape your home. Both salesyards open SUNDAY, 10 till 5. We will toon close our town salcsyard for the summer! and are reducing stock in our country yard to fit sum mer needs. Knight Pearcy Nursery 2 yards open 7 days a week Town yard, 375 S. Liberty, 3 blocks south of State Country yard on 99E, 1 mile sooth of Brooks. Things to Do Carefully lift old forget-me-not plants to a corner where they can self-sow seeds for later re planting. Sew forget-me-not seeds now for next year's bloom. Carefully nip out withered heads of azaleas and rhododen dron bloom. Trim out any dead or broken twigs. Rub off or cut off all sucker growth near your tarees apples, will read "Please Touch the Flowers." Peter J. Salmon, executive di rector of the Industrial Home for the Blind in Brooklyn, is en couraging and endorsing the plan, explaining that fully 90 per cent of all blind persons lose their sight after the age of 20 and remember the colors, textures and forms of plants about them. 8 ess. assisted by Mrs. Lucy Pea body and Mrs. Nell Stewart. Top ics: "Roses for Fall Bloom"; Summer Flower Arrangement, and corsage making by club mem bers. June ls-20 Seattle Rose Show June ls-20 Tacoma Rose Show. Jane 15-20 Corvallis Rose Show (postponed from earlier date) June 15-20 Southern California Gladiolus Show, Civic Auditorium, South Gate Jane 21-22 50th annual meeting of American Peony Society and show, Minneapolis, Minn. Jane 22-24 Annual meeting of Herb Society of America, New York City. June 25-2 Rose Show, Van couver, B.C Jane 25-26 Pacific Northwest District of American Rose Society meeting and show, Davenport Ho tel. Spokane, Wash June 26-27 Annual meeting of American Delphinium S o c ie t y, Garfield Park Conservatory, Chi cago. Jane 26-27 Northern California Gladiolus Show, Clunie Auditor ium, Sacramento. Aug. 7-8 Oregon State Gladi olus Show, Canby. Aug. 11-12 Grants Pass Gladi olus Show. cherries, lilacs, or wherever It appears. You'll save a lot of trouble later. Visit Salem Rose Society Show at Izaak Walton League and select new. varieties. You can buy them in pots at garden stores and set out for continuous bloom this season. Divide primroses and reset Since World war II, the U. S. steel industry has spent $5,600, 000.000 on a 35 per cent expansion of its capacity. ' However, they'll respond to any little special care given them and tbey cooperate fully with feeding experiments. In general the fuchsias want a moist, rich and slightly acid soil, plus moist atmosphere and filtered sunlight That's why they do so well in a basket beneath a tree Although the northern bounda ry of Indochina touches the Tropic of Cancer, the area itself extends 1,000 miles into the tropics. RENT A TOOL Do It Yourself - It's Cheaper OPEN SUNDAYS Salem's Oldest Tool Rental Howftr Bros. 1180 South 12th St IHntlM MM M Nm. VJ MtaMltaliMMSWrtrM I EAst 8105 400 N. 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