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Tree Beauty Results From Proper Feeding
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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.
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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-
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Answer Rose shows listed in
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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
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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.
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List of New Vegetables
Corn for home garden, Seneca j against "being too conservative
perator. Gold Spike, Chanticleer,
Morse Bunching, Royal Chantenay.
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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
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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-
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Walnut bark grafts are more suc
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Two years of trials with various
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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.
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