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Newspaper Page TextStatesman, Salem, Ore., Sunday, April 24, 1955 (c JJ 7 51- Tree Beauty Results From Proper Feeding j J in .- f- H ' FTI r -v1! ZJ. "".,; - - n- . . " ' 'jw' " " v ' - " - E - "- " ' . '.. : " " ", t- . "IiL ' ' "J" ' - -J I At . 5 IN k - i. 3k 1" SPA V - -x 4 . f.- , 'p- yrv hi Vi .'TV J . ... . t .... r: . MM t.i."-'-"'"" two trees wai watched carefully. The darker srttn, the more lym-iThe tree at the left hat been eating properly. The tree at the right metrical form, the better foliate and feeding of the lawn beneath the tree. branching is credited to Questions - - Answers Question Last - year we had i tually, or is this just a saying? lots of thread-like things on the Dakotan. has been neglected so far as feeding is concerned. In an experi ment in the O. M. Scott & Sons test gardens, the care of these skins of our carrots. They even went inside. Were told they were worms. Would you please tell us how to 'control?-Plan to plant garden. in last week of April or early May. Hope you can answer by then. K.L. Answer See story on rust fly control on this page. -. fe v'-. Question- -Could you give us dates and place of national Hem erocallis Society convention. Be lieve it is in Texas, but don't know where or just when. Plan ning on taking a trip down that way next month and thought we might catch the meeting. You don't say much about Hemerocal- lis and they are our favorite flower. C.H. Answer Note calendar on this page for dates. Last season I had a few stories on Hemerocallis Don't get as" mrny requests for information on this flower as on 6me of the others. Will try Jo de better. ; Question Just moved in" here la early April. Understand your roses are marvelous. Came from the, Prairie country where roses aren't so marvelous. Don't want to miss roseshows here. Would you list some for us? Love your country, but it is twf ully wet Am xoia ims is "unusual." is it ac- IPS FAMOUS , BURPEE FLOWERS x GUARANTEED $2 VALUE YOURS FOR 0NLT25t in SPRECKELS SUGAR WESTERN GARDEN OFFER with 1 Spreckels box top or 1 Spreckels bag bottom ! 9 w pa rate packets . . . 100 to 1000 seeds per packet . . . over 3600 aeeda in all! Including these best-loved Western blooms ... Petunia . . . Poppy . . . Aster ... Calendula ... Giant Zinnia . .. Gaillardia . . . Holly bock . . . Snapdragon . . . Marigold. Grown, selected, shipped to you by Burpee Seedsmen world-famous for "Seeds that GROW." FfcST BLOOMING . . . EASY-TO-RAISE . . . HARDY . . . BRILLIANT COLORS. Get all 9 packets (regular $2 value) for ONLY 25. , CUP, MIL CQOPOITOBAT Answer Rose shows listed in Garden Calendar in this section. Also watch for rose gardens in Salem's Bush's Pasture and in the Washington Park rose gardens, Portland. You'll enjoy both im mensely. This is Salem's first! year at a municipal rose garden and I think it is going to be niacvejpus." This is as uniisally wet spring. Honest! .- Question Have three or four books on flower arangement, but not any that shows much on the use of drift wood. Have a beauti ful collection of drift wood but am not too successful in its use. Have only seen it used at flower shows. Need something to look at while I arra ige. Do you know of any books on this subject any dooks mat give more ar rangements with drift wood? C.R. Answer How about "The Art of Plant and Driftwood Arrange ment" by Tatsuo Ishimoto. pub lished by Crown Press. It is very nice. Question What is the benefit of sawdust mulch? Is it actually good for anything other than keeping the weeds down. S.I.D. Answer The Oregon Forest Products Laboratory at Corvallis lists these benefits from sawdust mulches: Improves structure and aeration of heavy soils. Increases water absorption and penetra tion. Conserves water through weed control and reduces eva poration. Maintains more uniform soil temperature. Improves granu lation of surface soiL Reduces soil .erosion. Increases organic matter and humus in soil. Tests also show that sawdust mulches have greatly increased straw berry and blueberry yields. It is well to scatter a little nitrogen on top of the sawdust, and if you you work it into the soil, you must add nitrogen to help in de composition or you will loose the nitrogen from your soil. Lawn Feeding Helps Trees Keep Growing Fly Controls Now Listed Before the job was taken over by electricity, it took two work men on nours inree times a week to raise the weights which operate Big Ben, London's fam- OUS ClOCK. Most plant life that helps bet ter our everyday living has an obvious way of indicating that it needs nourishment. Lawns may go off-color, flowers and vege tables become stunted and fail to produce their usual colorful b!os- sorpsor tasty fruits.. Trees some times give up but more often just make the best of Short rations, pace their growth by decades rath er than years. Professionals have long known the advantage of feeding trees. Most home owners simply accept their traditional slow growth as part of nature's plan. With just a little help in the di etary department, a tree can leap into maturity, spread its branches years ahead of what folk expect. - Pictured here are two Ameri can elms that are within a hun dred yards of each other. The one is taller, as it should be since it is approximately 30 years old, as1 compared to its neighbor just reaching its twenties. Both are growing in an open area on heavy clay soil that is inclinec' to waterlog. Respoads to Liwi Feeding Looking at these trees, they seem somewhat alike, Dut not when you compare their develop ment by counting the growth rings. By means of 4 special probe, small cores were taken out from the trunks. These indicated that in early development, the two trees grew at about the same rate. But. shown by the borings, it is evident that in 1940 the younger trees began to grow twice the rate of the older one. Why? Well it happened that home building took place in the section where the trees were growing and a well cared for lawn was established under the young er elm in the fall of 1939. High Fertility Level Trie lawn was maintained at a high level of fertility. The ground under the tree received four feed ings'a year of good turf builder The tree itself was never especial ly fed. Which is a round-about way of saying, that trees on your lawn benefit greatly from the surface applications of lawn food. Thus extra lawn feedings that cost less than a dime per 100 square feet, Oregon gardeners now have two new weapons to use against the carrot rust fly whose larvae eat into carrots and pose a seri ous threat to home gardens. H. E. Morrison, Oregon State college entomologist, says diel drin or heptachlor insecticides mixed into the soil before plant ing time may now be used as well as the older recommended ma terials, alderin or chlordane. ; Widely distributed in Western Oregon, the carrot rust fly is found from -Clatsop to Coos coun ties along the coast and from Multnomah to Lane counties in the Willamette Valley. In addi tion to causing serious damage to carrots, the insect also will attack parsnips and celery., Morrison emphasizes that the materials, to be effective, must be spread evenly over the ground and then thoroughly mixed into the top six inches of soil with a spade, rotary tiller, plow or disc. It is important, he says, the soil be in good workable condition at time of treatment to insure pro per mixing. The insecticides are so effective Garden Calendar... April 24 Final day National Primrose Show, 14th and A stsn Tacoma, Wash. . April 24 Final day Salem Gar den Council Show, Izaac .Walton Club House. " April 24 Final day of Multno mah Garden Show, Gresham. April 24 Blossom Day, Salem. April 24-Primrose Show, Mt. AngeL St Mary's. School, 2 to 8 p.m. April 24 Wood burn Flower Show. April 27-JI Annutl Victoria. B.C. Spring Garden Festival April Z8-May 6 Oakland, Calif. Spring Show. April 28 Nestucca Valley Gar den Club Daffodil Show, Odd Fel lows Hall, 2 to 8 p.m. April 30-May 1 African Violet Show, Builders Hall, Seattle. May S-8 10th annual Skagit Tulip Show, LaConner High school May 7-g Annual Tacoma Rho dodendron Society Show, 5622 S. Tacoma Way. May 7 Portland Garden Club Open House. Mar 11 Scio Countryside Gar den Club plant sale day, Scio. May 11-14 Tulip Time Festi val. Holland, Mich. May 14 Utility and Beauty Garden Club-, Wanda Edland home, Marquam. May 14-15 Rhododendron Show, Crystal Lake Springs Isl and. Portland. May 15 Iris Show, Mt Scott Community Center, Portland. May 17-19 Annual Convention National Hemerocallis. Society, Baton Rouge, La. may Zl-zz Regional conven tion, American Iris Society, May flower Hall, Salem. Mav.21 Countryside Garden ers Flower Show, Aurora Legion Hall. 2 to 9 D.m. May 27-28 Roseburg Garden Club Show, Roseburg Episcopal Parish Hall. Mav 30 Fleet of Flowers, De- Poe Bay. Jane 8-12 Portland Rose Fes tival. June 1011 Portland Rose Show. June 11-12 Eugene Rose Show. . June 12-14 American Ins Society national convention, Ham ilton. Ontario, Canada. June 14-15 Annual Convention of Oregon Federation of Garden Clubs, Reed College. June 1819 Rose Show, Salem Rose Society, Izaac Walton Club House. June 30-Julv 1 Nehalem Bay Flower Show, Nehalem. A BIG CHIMNEY, flanked by a cathedral style window on ne side, rising to die raftets of a high-ceiling living room, and by stone wall plant boxes on the other side, distin guishes this house. Indoor outdoor living is exploited in the plan wilb a series of patios aod porches. Sliding glass panels merge several rooms with the outdoors. A family room for television, hobbies and other recreation adjoins the kitchen. This is Plan 9447AP by Rudolph A. Ma tern, architect, 90-04 il6lst St. Jamaica 2, N.Y. The house covers 1,684 square feet excluding porches and two-car garage - . room : W I lVorch -! I J fa" room CI 1 EMJIS. V 3DODC 7-6 r a rOOn 11 i m4tm 4 ' rtfeU? t room r ' I ko-V .JL tl -Jr1-',.ll?t,.l'-l.lJ- ' . L ' 1 aBBBBmH-mamB ai Frazier Gives Biennial t 1 r List of New Vegetables Corn for home garden, Seneca j against "being too conservative perator. Gold Spike, Chanticleer, Morse Bunching, Royal Chantenay. SNftsu toToi una I 1. 1 NX 741, ITTQJfflE. UUf. . I let ttotdufclntan fartu Iwrtut I I lHeta2Sati.taJiBltrKiiti I j la tM m I tat littM. I I I mttrw that only two pounds per acre of aidrin, heptachlor, or dieldrin or live pounds of chlordane are re quired. The OSC departments of agricultural chemistry and food technology report carrots grown 1 . i J , u11 1 in ircaicu son wm noi contain undesirable residues or have off- flavor as a result of the treat ment pays off mans times over in the development of the tree that could n't be replaced for hundreds of dollars. Many lawn experts are saying that the traditional method of feeding trees by drilling or punch ing holes into the ground is more laborious than necessary. The concentrated feeding in isolated spots is apt to mark the lawn with grass patches of irregular growth, A comprehensive analysis of soil taken from under the two trees in dicates that where the regular lawn feeding had been in practice the amount of nitrogen and organ ic matter in the soil was apprecia bly better. This would indicate that the 100 per cent greater trunk growth was not at the expense of the soil, but was a bonus an ex tra from the lawn feeding. Golden, Seneca Arrow, Golden Ban tam, Golden Early Market, Golden Jewel, Gold Beauty, North Star. Lettuce for heads, 456, Penn- lake. Great Lake. For leaf lettuce, Salad Bowl, Oak Leaf. Onions Danvers Yellow; Globe, Yellow Sweet Spanish. Surprise. Peas Thomas Laxton, Laxton 7, Freezonia, Perfection, Alderman, Alaska. Pepper Early Calwonder, Penn- wonder, Yolo Wonder (later than the first two mentioned); Vinedale. Summer squash Green Zucchini, Caserta, Yankee Hybrid, Yellow Crookneck, Summer Straight Neck, Dark Green Hybrid Tomato Big Early, Faribo Hy brid E, Burpeeana, M o r e t o n. Vaughan's Early, Big Boy. Try new varieties with caution. Be sure they are better than the old standards, before t making a complete switch. These are among the precau tions issued by W. A. Frazier, department of horticulture, Oregon State College, when he released the, biennial recommendation for vegetable varieties. Frazier, however, also warned He approved trying out some of the new with some of the old, and added that there may be important differences in strains of any given variety. Too, he said, environ mental influences such as different types of soil might change a va riety. Among the recommended vege table varieties are: Green bush beans Wade, Processor, Topcrop, Tenderlong 15, and Contender. Green Pole beans, for home gar deners. Gill Delicious Giant, Ore gon Giant. Wax blush bean. Pure gold. Lima pole beans, Christmas and Oregon lima. Lima bush bean. Fordhood 242, Henderson, darks Bush, Early Thorogreen. Beets for home gardener, Green Top Bunching, Seneca Detroit. Cabbage Golden Acre, Copen hagen Market, Danish Ballhead. Carrots for home garden, Im- RENT A TOOL iDo It Yourself It's Cheaper. OPEN SUNDAYS Salem's Oldest Tool Rental HOWSER BROS. 1180 South 12th St. Primrose Plants That Art Differant! New Colors From Cross Polonized Sood . . . 45 ach Also Good Selection of Rock Garden Plants -.3 for SI. 00 AL'S FRUIT STAND Just N. of Woodburn on Highway 99-E Walnut Grafts Do Best With Whitewashing Walnut bark grafts are more suc cessful if scions and stocks are white-washed, according, to experi ments conducted by orchard spe cialists on the Davis campus of the University of California. Two years of trials with various kinds of treatments show that whitewashing gave the best results, besides being easily applied. Al though the same-results might be obtained with other types of white wash, the experimenters tested only one formula: Five pounds of quicklime, one-half pound of -salt. and one-fourth pound of sulfur. The sulfur and salt were added i while the lime was slaking. Covering the grafts with peat moss, held in place by paper cylin ders, gave almost as good results as the whitewash, but took longer to do. Less successful were paper bags over the scions. Treating the scions with growth - regulating chemicals before grafting failed to stimulate growth. This Week In the Garden Prune conifers Limbs cut back beyond needles will not survive. Set out pansies Pansie plant ed too deeply, will not bloom well. Bait for slugs Cover baits with shingle or paper over night to protect birds. Use lead arsenate spray around trunk of tree to stop in sects from crawling up. Fertilize lawn with balanced fertilizer. Clip dead blooms from daffo dils as they finish blooming. Leave foliage alone. Note that a mulch covers the ground beneath your azaleas and rhododendrons. Go to at least one flower show to .ee what other gardeners are doing. Give hydrangeas a mulch of well rotted manure. Ml U i. Use a sprinkling can instead of a hoe!" Do WHdi persist in your unpaved driveway or in cracks of your patio or walks? 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