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Zinnia
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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
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to accept a new wage offer one
that already ' has been declared
unsatisfactory, by union negotia
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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.
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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.
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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
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zinnias give a bright, 1 warm
welcome to visitors.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. Eight steps up from the
living room are a study-bed
room, bathroom and master bed
room. Five steps up from this
level are two more bedrooms
and a bath with stall shower.
This is Plan 100AP by Samuel
Paul, architect, 89-51 164th St.,
Jamaica 32, N.Y. The bouse
covers an area of only 1,050
square feet with 920 square
feet on upper floors.
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Flowers which do not like to be
transplanted include annual pop
pies, salpiglossis, mignonette, an
nual phlox. If necessary to trans
plant them, the seedlings should
be grown in small pots so they can
be moved without disturbing their
roots.
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In Corn Field
. This is the tale of two corn
growers. One will net only $300 on
60 acres after paying all expenses.
The other may net $4,000-eight
times as much.
One is Joe Average. Come corn
planting time in June, Joe will
wheel out his planter and "just
plant corn." the way he's always
done. He'll grow 45 to 50 bushels
per acre. That will pav him peanut
wages, and leave a little dab for
management
The other character is Better
Farmer. He knows he must plant
and fertilize to go for his 100
bushel goal: He will plant 17,500
kernels per acre and put in up to
$30 or $35 worth of fertilizer.
Hisky? Sure, but all farming's
a risk. He's already "risked" over
$50 an acre without fertilizer. With
a break in the weather he knows
fertilizer and extra seed can run
his net income up to $3,000 or $4,
000 on 60 acres.
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ffi natural to be grouchy if your
favorite plants start to .curl and twist
with loads of aphids on every shoot
just after you've.planted and weeded
and mulched and dug to the point of
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