tltMSJnhSll"mft, Him, Ori., Sundiy, Miy 15, 1955 2 ?: as Zinnia Miles Favorite A recent survey shows that 65 per cent of all gardeners who plant seeds, buy packets of zinnias, and usually they buy two packets, sometimes more. This seems to put the zinnia right : on top as AmerirsV favorite summer an nual, find indeed, who has a better right than this "Garden Cinder ella?" . ; A zinnia as we know it today. Is entirely different from the flower the Spanish- explorers found in Mexico a hundred years ago if you were to visit Mexico today you would probably never recognize the ragged purple flower growing on the upland plains. In the first place, our garden flowers are full derbies, wth many rows of petals; a feature first developed by plant breeders in France in the last century. The Germans are credited with developing the modern plant shape before then the zinnias gen erally grew three feet tali. Rise ia California It was an American, however, Who created the giant-flowered zin nia we grow today in our gardens. IXiring World War I "California be came the flower - seed producing center of the world, and a special ist in zinnia seeds was a man call ed John Bodger. He selected from a field of cut-and-come again zin nias one plant with extremely large flowers, and called it the Dahlia flowered zinnia. From this point on the zinnia's meteoric rise to fame began, for the new flower was not 'only easy to grow, and produced many flowers, but the blooms took medals in .every garden show in which they were entered. The Dan- Garden Calendar May IS Rural Life and Soil Conservation Sunday. ' . May IS Rhododendron Show, Crystal Lake Springs' Island, Portland. ; May 21 Countryside Gardeners Flower Show, Aurora Legion Hall, I 2 to 9 p.m. May Zl-22 African Violet Show, 1390 S.W. ; Broadway, Portland, 2 to 9 p.m. May 27-28 Roseburg Garden Club Show, Episcopal Parish Hall, 1:30 to 10 p.m. May 30 Fleet of Flowers, De poe Bay, 2 p.m. Jane 4 Turner Flower Show. Jane 4-S Pacific Northwest Re gional Iris meeting, Silverton and Canby. Saturday night banquet and business meeting, Silverton. June 8-12 Portland Rose Festi val. Jnne 9-11 Strawberry Festival, Lebanon. Jnne 10-11 Portland Rose Show. Jnne 11-12 Eugene Rose Show. Jane 11-12 Late Rhododendron Show, Crystal Springs Lake Is land. Jnne 12-14 American Iris Soci ety convention, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Jnne 14-15 Annual convention of Oregon Federation of - Garden Clubs, Reed College, Portland. Jnne 18-15 Salem Rose Socie ty Annual Show, Izaak Walton League building. June 30-Ja!y 1 Nehalem Bay Flower Show, Nehalem. . Aug. S-7 Portland Gladiolus Show. Aug. ' 17-18 Grants Pass Gladi olus Festival. Aug.' 20-21 Grand Ronde Glad iolus Show. La Grande. Ang. 20-28 Polk County Flower Show, Rickreall Fairgrounds. Sept. 3-10 Oregon State Flow er Show, Oregon State Fair, Sa lem. - State Teamsters Vote Today on New Wage Offer PORTLAND W Oregon team sters wfll vote Sunday on whether to accept a new wage offer one that already ' has been declared unsatisfactory, by union negotia tors. Results of the Oregon vote as well as of the vote from other Western states will be forwarded to Los Angeles Tuesday where negotiations have been underway for some time. The union is asking a wage in crease of 10 cents an hour this year and 8 cents more in each of the next two years. A plastic cord wrapper of the telephone type will protect power supply cords of electric drills and other tools and prevent excessive wear. FREE Demonstration AUTHORIZED DEALER FOR . . . LAWN MOWERS e ECLIPSE e JACOBSEN COOPER SUNBEAM e JOHNSTON SAVAGE e LAWNBOT EASY TERMS GENEROUS TRADE-INS . Hansen Home & 155 N. Lancaster Dr. .., Garden Flower lia-flowered zinnia was almost per fectly suited to America's hot, dry summers, and it soon became the "best seller of the seed gardening world . Simple Rales Growing big zinnias is so easy that you can start your seeds right now, even if you will be on vaca tion at that critical period when the flowers are just coming into bloom. There will be flowers galore awaiting you when you return, if you follow .these simple rules: 1. Pick a spot with full sun at least 8 hours a day. : 2. Sow your seeds in place, where yotT want the flowers to bloom. This is important, for zinnias do not like to be transplanted. Sow in psoist soil, V inch deep. 3. Don't water your seedlings un to they are 2 inches high, then! irrigate, don t sprinkle, to avoid mildew. 4. Thin to 8 inches apart for mass display. Zinnias look best in terlaced; never "string them out" in a line. s4 r 4 AW r . i. -'" It isn't too difficnlt to grow these big dahlia-flowered zinnias in your own garden. Bat to do to successfully, you have to follow - the rules. Also yon have to use good seed or plants grown from top quality seed. They are best if used in the mixed colors, all of which blend, one with the other. ' Zinnias will not do well in shade. They must have warm sunshine for most of the day. Top Sweet Corn Flavor Lost Soon After Picking Only the home gardener, who can sink teeth into an ear 'of sweet corn within an hour or less after it is picked, really knows the su preme tenderness and flavor 'of this American favorite. Loss of flavor begins at the in stant it is picked. Chilling can slow this down, but nothing can stop it except popping the ear into boiling water as soon as pos sible, say from' 5 minutes to half an hour after picking. Varieties, of sweet corn differ much in sweetness. When you find a variety that pleases you, the best way to enjoy it is to make several sowings, spaced so that they mature one after the other, prolonnging the season. Yield Figured A patch of sweet corn in a space 15 feet square in normal weather should yield ten dozen ears. This is approximate, of course; each stalk bearing at least one ear, and some of them bear ing two. Hybrid sweet , corn is gradually displacing open-poDenated varie ties, though many home garden ers continue to grow the latter. The harvest season of a hybrid variety is usually shorter, while the ears are larger and the yield heavier. Most hybrid varieties are disease resistant, ann! more vig orous growers than open-pollenat-ed kinds. To maintain a continuous sup ply of one hybrid variety, more frequent sowings should be made. There are some advantages in Proper Tools Make Gardening A Pleasure Spring Tuneups For Power Mowers : Hand and Power Tools Rented, Sold and Serviced GARDEN TILLERS Aliens (4 models) Merrytiller Choremasttr (2 models) Garden Supply Phone 4-5881 s 1 it y v- cc?T , .1 If massed along the driveway, zinnias give a bright, 1 warm welcome to visitors. Y ) I I 1 1 sowing at the sameUime several different varieties, of varying ma turity dates, in order to produce a long harvest. This practice also extends th pollenation period of the planting, and lessens the dan ger of failing to fertilize the silks, which may occur in unfavorable weather, when one hybrid varie ty is grown alone. Sow ia Snort Rows A sowing of sweet corn should be made in four short rows rath er than in a single long row. This insures that when the pollen is ripe, a cross wind will carry it to the silk in the young ears of an adjoining row, rather than wasting it on the ground, as might be the case in a single row. Each silk must be fertilized by pollen, in order to produce a kernel, and many failures with corn are trace able to poor pollination. Seed should be sown, about two inches deep either in continuous drills or hills. In drills, ow three or four seeds to a foot, later to be thinned out to six inches apart for dwarf growing varieties or a foot apart for tall ones. Space the . hills two to three feet apart in the rows, according to the size of the variety, and for both drills and hills, space the rows two to three feet apart.. Deep cultivation of corn must be avoided because the plants have shallow roots; but all weeds should be kept down and the soil stirred, to break its crust, until the plants are half grown. Something Mew! Modern and Pratical Lawn, Patio and Ranch Fences on Display in full size panels 5 Lumber Co. in North u 5 On display 7 days a " your leisure Time ana see Tnemi NO PARKING PROBLEM AT Dick r.lever Lumber Co. q ' 2 Blocks of Underpass 1 Block East 117 J Liu Ave. , , - Ph. S-4S39 L , . Home Builder Should Avoid " ' Monotony Home builders have a warning from one of the nation's leading architects to avoid monotony- of sameness in their new homes as the nation faces up to the task of building over - a million new dwellings each year in 4he fu hire. It is easy to avoid row-house weariness, Ralph Walker, promi nent. New York architect, recent ly told a Washington audience. All over the nation designers are showing the stuff American in genuity and imagination is made of as they adapt. wood the world's oldest building materialto mod era needs. Saying there win always be a "coming age of wood." Archi tect Walker pointed out that wood is being used, not alone for its efficiency, but more because of the lasting deughts found in its varied patterns, in its fragrance, and in its rare functionalism. Lumber leaders echo Walker's enthusiasm for wood by pointing out the great rennaissance in wood in modern American home de sign. There is an increasing use of some of the lovely and incom parable soft-woods, like Douglas fir, west coast hemlock and west ern red cedar, throughout the home. Designers are using the texture, gram, colorings ana distinctive characteristics of these warm- toned softwoods more and more as the central design theme. No two pieces of wood are exactly alike and in this wide range of natural beauty, architects are finding the tremendously satisfy ing variety needed to give each home its own set of fingerprints and its own character. Annual Linn County Tour Set May 24 Four livestock farms in the Holley, Sweet Home and Foster areas will be visited during the Linn County Livestock Associa tion's pasture and livestock tour on May 24, says Jack Cochran, Brownsville, president. The tour starts at 10 a.m. at the Jack Adams farm 1.3 miles up the Calapooya River from the Holley TJndge. Features at the Adams farm are hogs and beef cat tle produced on 80 acres of pas ture ungated with a low pres sure perforated pipe system. The farm annually markets 500 fat hogs. E. C. Mumey is the farm manager. The second tour stop is the Dan Ashton farm, also in the Holley area. Ashton specializes in com mercial sheep. Of special interest here are non-irrigated hill pastures that have received special fertiliz ation. Farm ponds, a covered trench silo, a laminated rafter round roofed barn, irrigated pastures, the use of sewage sludge as fertilizer. and beef cattle are highlights at the third stop which is the farm of L. B. Thompson and Sons. The farm is located one mile west of Sweet Home on the Holley Road. The tour's final stop is the Ar nold Harrang farm one and one half miles east of Foster. Here visitors will see 51 steers being supplemented with grain. The irri gated pastures are utilized under the daily ration system of graz ing. Harrang also has 150 head of commercial ewes on non-irri gated pastures. Of patricular in terest are the forage plants which consist of S-143 Orchard grass, Granger lotus, Parker lotus. New Zealand white clover, Rhizoma al falfa, Tualatin oatgras and Nan- geela sub-clover. Cochran says that all persons interested in pastures and live stock are invited to attend. SEED LETTUCE NOW Lettuce seed germinates best in a soil temperatures of 60 to 65 de grees. If necessary to sow when temperatures are higher, place the seed between moist cloths and store for several days on ice. Dry the surface of the teed before sow ing. I at the Dick Meyer Salem. . - week drive over in I .f t . - v-5 yfLo- Wi ' I - ff t-tcwioo- ? Mi U 1 I V 1 I iTuar - tn s 1 LrS ::: II isr i - I " I eiN mt IlllPlIfl 7 . :::N'-i I " ; l1TT t,v," Cf LfHll r-l I rSSn ' WTtLtTT , "" te I 1 t- J ; I II I I 1 I I HJ II 1 II II O K - i - I 1: ITE 3 - I I Teit S. H U 4".t Of I Door Designs Keep Up with Style Trends An interesting row decorative trend has been started in homes built in the past three years, all because of a big industrial battle out west Most of the nation's Douglas fir softwood doors are manufac tured in Oregon and Washington. Most doors in the past have been so-called panel styled. But, in re cent years flush door manufactur ers stepped up their output and sales so that they nearly crowd ed the old panel manufacturers out of business. Then, the fur started to fly. Douglas fir panel door makers put some of the nation's top de signers to work, came up with some of the few major changes in door design in generations. Now, from these western fac tories are coming a whole new line of panel doors: Some with picture mouldings, others with factory-finished color combinations, still others with fabric panels over the fir, some with louvres, and a fine new line of Dutch and restyled entrance doors. This is all part of the new trend toward more wood, both. inside and outside, in home con structionThe new, bright, freshly-styled Douglas fir doors blend perfectly with door jambs of the Asame. material and siding and exterior trim of fir, west coast hemlock or western red cedar. Answers to Crossword Puzzle ELI LJPIA L II LJG IICIJJ I L I IE in I MB lit IK I Ml I IIIIIIUIl. MO E IN IE RATQH Me II Id 1 It Ie Is ItIy us tie e 1r Un e IsItI NEW easy lawn beauty! We spray with Folium EXPERT LAV11 5PRAYI1IG cJLouchd - ; ' -. HAVOOAP Mink Almanac Prepared by Salem Rancher Clarence W. Stacey, Salem fur farmer, has recently published "The Mink Rancher's Almanac" giving year-around information on mink farming. In addition to "what goes on each month", at the mink ranch, Stacey does some describing of shows that he attended. Of the Milwaukee mink show he says that it "was like being at a fur style show, as you could recognize the ranchers' wives among the crowd, by the fine mink garments they were wearing." Among the hints given in the almanac are included: "We let our pens down on the ground be fore whelping and cover the wire with coarse sawdust. Many of the kits are born outside the box and carried in. Therefore, it is impor tant to have a floor that a small kit won't drop through ... We like to feed vitamin K oil during whelping, beginning about the same time the first Utters arrive and continuing for about three weeks . . . Always be sure that your feed is fresh when it goes out to the mink. There are heavy losses of mink reported each year in the United States from food poisoning." Short lengths of garden hose, slit along one side and supped over the step plate of a shovel or spad ing fork will provide a cushion for the gardener wearing thin soled shoes. RhMT IE F utllA UK t KM 11 I IXIU-IL. IL, C Y Take It easy Ie ns fertilize our lawn wit' ad-rich 20-20-20 Toliur- jat floods t our grass t nourishment through the leaves, the stem md the roots.- No waste, no work, no danger we take care of everything. HO FUEL OIL CO. 1710 -th Commercial St. Salem -:- Oregom Phone 2-411S . t- xX . - AP Ntwtfetuf TTO-STORY split level is the architect's description for this five-level house. It occupies as small an area as a cottage, yet contains nine rooms, two bams, extra lavatory, .plus basement utility room with work bench space and spar cious basement game room. You enter thjs house from a covered porch at the living room level. Four steps below is a den or all-purpose room with laundry and lavatory adjoining. Rear terrace opens from the den. 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