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shed in the carport eliminate need for a basement. The economi
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Questions
Question Last year the
flower stems on some of my iris
became limp and the buds hung
down and didn't open. This,
spring the leaves came up stiffly
and with good color. There are,
as yet, no buds but some of the
larger leaves are beginning to
droop. What is wrong? The soil
is not rich. L. D. W.
Answer Sounds like a bac
terial disease which comes from
continued moist weather. The
rhizomes are not involved and
the plant will likely recover.
There doesnt' seem to be much
one can do to combat this trouble
in damp weather. Giving plenty
of air circulation, stirring the
soil about the plants not deep
ly, and assuring perfect drainage
are about the best helps. One
grower told me that he had
"scratched" a little bordeaux
into the soil around the rhizomes
and this seemed to help.
Qaestiom Is there a garden,
book for our locality' which cov1
crs both flower, and vegetable
gardens? Have just moved to the
country and can see- whfre I'd
like to plant things but will the
plants grow there, is my ques
tion. W. J. L.
Answer There is no one gar
den book which will answer all
of our questions. Perhaps Tay
lor's "Garden Encyclopedia" is
as complete as any. Seymour's
"Garden Encyclopedia" is also
good. -1 like .Bush-Brown's
"American Garden Book," too.
tye'll be glad to help you out
with anything we can, also.
- Question The other day on
a garden talk over the radio I
heard a new book on perennials
- mentioned, but the broadcaster
went so fast that I didn't get the
name, and of course, I had no
flace to go back to check on it
also forgot which station it was
over. Do you know any such
book. One thing he mentioned
. was that the book gave good
, lants to plant with perennials.
Answer Could have been
Harjorie P. Johnson's "Peren
nials." This is new. It is a
rather small book (96 pages, I
believe) and Rinehart is the pub
lisher.
Question HjtvVa lot of little
white insects on top of soil on
"pot plants. They show up most
when I water. Are they harm
ful? How to control C. C
Answer These are usually
called springtails. "While they
will feed on humus in the soil,
sometimes they attack the roots
and may do considerable harm.
Dust the surface of the soil with
chlordane dust When this is
watered into the soiL or even
worked lightly into the top, con
trol will be quite effective.
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Question Have a cabin up
along Santiam. Want to do some
planting. Theres' quite a few
trees on our couple of acres, but
would like some shrubs. Are
there any that are not native
; that would look and do all right?
Orare there some native shrubs
that would be good here? Would
like some that would bloom abou
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this time of the year as our men
go fishing and we women stay
around the place. Also perhaps
some that look good in summer?
N. D. C.
Answer For native shrubs
there are wild currant and Ore
gon Grape. Laurestinus, Moun
tain Laurel, azaleas (not the low
growing Japanese sorts), rhodo
dendrons (both native and
others), some of the common old
lilac on its own roots, spirea,
mock orange are all good. You
know, there are a lot of ferns
that will do well along the San
tiam, and these always give such
a cool, interesting appearance
during summer.
Question We are going to Las
Vegas, Nev. for our vacation in
June. We have never been out
of the state and are rather stupid
more than our friends think,
because we dont let on we don't
know what they are talking
about. Now. before-we go will
you tell us what we should tip?
What it the "strip" everyone
talks about? Is it something we
should see? If you go into some
of the famous gambling places,
how much are you expected to
spend? We don't have much, but
would like to-see them if there
are any we can go into without
spending much? Greenhorns.
Answer Tipping still stands
at 10 per cent Some will tell
you (and these are some of the
folk who benefit by tips) that
as everything else has gone up,
tipping should be advanced to 15
per cent . . . but because every
thing has gone up. a 10 per cent
tip is. naturally, proportionately
higher, too.
The "Strip" is a street on
which you'll . find most of the
luxury hotels and restaurants
and the so-called "swanky gam
bling joints." If you haven't seen
this, you havent' been to Las
Vegas. These places are not
totally dependent (as most are)
on incomes from rooms, food or
drinks and entertainment, and
you'll find them most reasonable
. . . even those with the very
fine floor shows, aren't costly,
as costly goes in many other
places. They are dependent
upon the income from the gam
bling devices. And the nice thing
is you can go in and enjoy the
whole thing without gambling
You are' never put on the spot or
high-pressured. If you don't care
to gamble, just don't There's
plenty else to amuse you in
cluding those who do gamble.
Las Vegas is, as its advertise
ments say, .'fabulous" and a lot
of fun particularly if you do
not gamble . . . Have fun!
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Question What is the Fleet
of Flowers, Where is it? And is
it open to te public Visitors.
Answers The Fleet of Flow
ers is a Memorial Day service
held each year at Depoe Bay.
The program begins at 2 d. m
And it is definitely open to the
public as it is best seen from the
highway at Depoe Bay. If you
want to view.it it is wise to get
there early or you won t be able
to get near enough to see much.
I like to be beneath the bridge
I so that I can see the flowers on
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Grow Tasty
Leaves for
Daily Salad
A tossed salad served daily at
the family dinner will do more for
your health than any vitamin tab
lets you can buy.
When you crow your own salad
leaves you can serve a variety
which no one who depends upon
the market staples could ever eq
ual. .
Even the youngest children will
welcome a salad that is well blend
ed and properly dressed. The dress
ing is not the subject of this dis
cussion, however. It seeks to point
out the variety of salad leaves
which can be easily grown in any
home garden, and made availible
all summer.
Leaf lettuce is preferred by most
chefs over head lettuce for salads.
It is also .far richer in vitiamins.
It comes in two types the butter
leaves, and the crisp leaves. The
butter leaves are thicker, and
darker green, with finer flavor,
experts say. Crisp leaves are
lighter green in . color, thin and
somewhat brittle. Examples are
Black Seeded Simpson,! a butter
type and Grand Rapids, a crisp
leaf type. Experts give first place
in their esteem to the butter
leaves. .1
Fast growing loose head var
ieties, such "as Bibb lettuce, are
popular with many.
Romaine or cos lettuce, which
produces oval leaves, standing up
right is highly esteemed by French
salad experts. It is a good, late
lettuce, standing heat better than
the leaf varieties. The leaves can
be bleached by tying them up as
they near maturity, but this merely
changes their color, and lessens
their vitamin content
Fall Variety Listed
For summer leaves, chicory, also
known as endive, is more available
than lettuce, which usually runs
to seed in midsummer. Endive
may be had with curly leaves, or
broad leaves (escaroQe) for fall.
as they endure frost and become
sweeter after the frost comes. Sow
both types in drills, thin out to
six or eight inches.
Leaf crops grown in a Smaller
manner, and much esteemed in
bowl salads, include corn salad
which is very hardy and can be
harvested late in the fall;1 and up
land garden cress, which gives a
pungent flavor to the salad.
Chinese Cabbage
In the fall lettuce may be grown
again; and the Chinese . cabbage
leaves are delicious. Chinese cab
bage may be grown in the spring,
with rich soil and an early start.
But in midsummer, it always runs
to seed. A late crop has no such
tendency, and heads are easily
produced in the fall, from plants
started in June. .
All leaf crops demand rich soil.
They must grow fast without check,
otherwise the leaves are tough
and have a bitter flavor. Plant
food should be applied to the soil
in which they grow at the rate of
4 pounds to 100 square feet
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WASHINGTON (UP) i Closing
of the road across the tOD of
Grand Coulee Dam t vehicle traf
fic may be permanent, the Recla
mation Bureau announced Friday.
A spokesman said the decision
to close the road to vehicles for
security" reasons was made aft
er a recent security check by the
Interior Department and Reclama
tion Bureau. . I
He said it was decided that it
would be "advisable" to close the
road and added that present plans
are to keep it closed. I
Alcohol Smugglers'
Ring Said Broken
VIENNA. Austria la Ameri
can military police have broken
up a large-scale rug engaged in
smuggling . contraband j alcohol
from the Soviet Zone of Austria
into Germany, the U. S. Army
announced Fnday. !
American police reported seven
American soldiers and one officer
have been implicated in the smug
gling and are in custody; awaiting
trial. An undisclosed number of
Austrians and Germans were also
arrested. !
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too, from where you can see the
flowers set a-float
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Shows here are some of the banks of the new Portland-Salem expressway which are seeded to grass
to prevent erosion. Attractive signs along the roadway give adequate Information. No advertising
signs mar the rights-of-way. This picture shows the expressway Bear Lower Boones Ferry Road.
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strip or along the rights-of-way. Here this controlled access hirhwiy looks north frsm Wilson-
vine on tne Willamette Klver.,
Salem-Poriland Expressway
One of West's Prettiest Routes
By LTLLTE
Garden Editor,
THAT SUNDAY DRIVE A
smooth, pratically straight high
way . . . alternating grasslands
and bits of forest . . . cultivated
fields ... grazing sheep and cat
tle . . beautiful overhead spans
; . . interesting roadside plant
ings . . . Feel like such a drive
today? Then take the new Ex
pressway between Salem and
Portland. Youll find no prettier
highway on the West Coast
You might go a bit south of
Salem and take the bypass road
through Salem. That's interesting,
too, and youll be somewhat
amazed if you haven't done this
before . . . how quickly and eas
ily you cover that distance. In the
Hayesville area youll travel the
old road again until you turn off
to the left a bit north of Hubbard.
This stretch of the new road will
also be completed by fall, the
state highway department prom
ises. When the entire piece is
completed youll save almost five
miles. There'll be 45 miles to
Barbur Boulevard, and from there
Burnside in Portland, there's on
other six miles. Too, the new road
is much faster. But while we all
react to the ease of driving on
the smooth, divided highway, the
thing you are out to note today,
isn't Aow fast you can travel. In
stead, you are to take time to see
the lovely views, the parkways,
the beautiful overhead spans,
that this road affords. And re
member it's yours. You are pay
ing for it Don't leave it just to
the visitors from out of state to
admire. Enjoy it yourself.
LANDSCAPING IN A BIT
WAY If you've had difficulty
making up your mind just how to
landscape that little front lawn of
yours, give a bit of thought to
the planning that it has taken to
landscape this or other Oregon
highways. When I traveled over
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this highway the first time, I not
ed that here and there stood some
of the trees that had been grow-
ng there for a long time. At oth
er places, native shrubs had been
added, while at still others, there
were materials that were not na
tive . . . and for stretches, through
which you could see rolling farm
lands with mountains in the back
ground, there was nothing but
grass at the roadside.
I returned to Salem and looked
up Oregon's chief highway land-
scaper, Mark Astrup.
"There are practical reasons
for landscaping," he told us, as
he pointed out some of the feat
ures, even while admitting that
beauty is reason enough in itself,
for him. "But the public fre
quently demands other types of
reasons. "Take for instance," he
pointed9 out, "some of the plant
ings where the old and the new
roads meet, some of the gentle
curves where two cars may face
each other briefly at cross angles,
where there are turn-offs and
turn-ons to the highway. Correct
plantings here will break the on
coming glare.
"On the hillsides too steep for
modern equipment to conveniently
mow grass, we are planting Eng
lish Ivy. This will be used on all
the overpass banks from Barber
Boulevard to south of Salem. It
serves as an excellent soil ero
sion preventative, too. Mr. As
trup continued. In the underside
of overpasses, where it is impos
sible to use plantings, concrete
block paving has been used in a
decorative way, to hold the soil
in place. v
"We have saved, the existing
growth wherever' practicable, and
we have supplemented this with
some of our own native material
such as Douglas fir, mock orange,
flowering current Oregon grape.
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vine maple, 1 was told. "Partic
ularly in the rural areas have we
used native material." and then
he smiled. I "But we have also
planted 4,000 hollies, flowering
crabs, hawthornes. We acquired
these along with a right-of-way
which cut into a nursery. We
might not nave planted them, if we
had had to buy them. But as we
had them, they have worked very
nicely into pur program. We still
have some I to plant." I recalled
some nursery rows of small trees
growing within the attractive
fence on the highway's right-of-way,
not too far from where the
highway crosses the Willamette
river.
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View Windows ia Right Place
As your car slips over the smooth
roadway, you may marvel al how
well the "views" have been pre
served. You'll find pleasing con
trast between trees and orchards
and fields.!
"Almost like view windows. Al
most like it had been planned."
youll think. And you'll be right
It was planned.
"We like the looks of the 'Ore
gon countryside," Mr. Astrup ex
plained. "We are proud of it, in
fact So we plan to keep openings
through the farming rountry not
to plant these roadsides too heavi
ly. This way the travelers, too,
may get a view through our big
'framed' windows ... a view of the
countryside we admire so much.
You know; what we say here:
Youll remember Oregon!'
A few miles beyond the Willam
ette river and you turn right on
Barber Boulevard . . . running into
an interesting assortment of res
taurants, roadside garden and
Camellias
Rhododendrons
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Ym want Mood flroon Uvt on your
shrubs and other plants, but insects
persist in chewing holes in foliage, or
sucking out their very life. Keep your
plants growing by using Black Leaf.
Malatluon spray to kill beetles, worms,
mites, leafhoppers and other chewing
and sucking insects. For foliage diseasa
control, add Black Leaf Phygon to
summer sprays. j
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Statesman, Salem, Or., Sunday, May 22, 1955 (Sac 27
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Many Plants Share
Magic Onion Flavor
Every home gardener should
know his onions. little can be said
in favor of this vegetable and its
cousins, so far .as vitamins and
calories are concerened. But when
it cofries to flavor, it' is supreme.
Salads would be insipid and cook
ed dishes Cat, for most of us with
out this flavor. If the odor is ob
jectionable, there are numerous
plants besides the - onion which
will contribute flavor, without odor.
Chives for example,' are milder,
much less odorous, and especially
good in salads and cottage cheese.
Leeks are preferred by the British
for flavoring cooked dishes. And
you must know about garlic, of
which you can grow a year's, sup
ply in about one foot of garden
row planted to garlic sets.
Top onion sets, produced by
perennial varieties instead of seeds.
may be planted in the fall, and will
produce green onions before the
ground can be worked in the spring.
Bottom sets, which are really
dwarf onions, checked in , growth
by crowding in a row, may be
planted in the spring as soon as the
ground is prepared.
Onions Ia Twa Months
The smaller sets, sown inch deep.
will produce mature onions in two
months, much quicker than you
can grow them from seed. Use
the larger sets for green onions,
and plant them deeper, as much
as three inches. They grow quickly,
but usually run to seed and will
not produce large bulbs. From
onion seed you can ' grow either
green .or mature onions, but it
will take six weeks for the first
and four months for the others.
Onion plants of Spanish and
Bermuda varieties are shipped
from Texas each spring, to be
planted in gardens. . You can grow
your own Spanish onion plants in
a flat started early in the house.
or hotbed, setting them out when
they are pencil size. It will take
all season to mature really good
size bulbs, but you can feel proud
of them, and win prizes in the
harvest show. New hybrid onions
give an earlier harvest '
Tabular Leaves
Chives are perennial, and be
sides producing tubular leaves
they bear lovely mauve blossoms.
You can start them from seeds, or
by dividing the roots of established
plants, and they will make a most
attractive border for a garden
path, living many years..
Leeks are grown from seed, and
should be transplanted for best re
sults. The English gardeners pride
themselves on exhibition leeks
which may be grown in this man
ner: When the plants are about
as thick as a lead pencil lift them,
and set each one in a hole made
with a dibber. Do not fill the hole,
other stores, and suddenly you are
above Portland . . . While the view
is lovely over Portland on a sunny
day with THE MOUNTAIN, in the
background ... try it once at
night Not even the famed view
from Top of the Mark in San Fran
cisco offers much more than Port
land's million lights from Barber
Boulevard.
African Violets And when you
get to Portland Sunday, if you
wish, why not stop at the African
Violet show at 139 S.W. Broadway,
the offices of the Carlson , Realty
Company. The show opened yes
terday but will be open from 10
a.m. to 9 p.m. today. Members
have promised a showing of plants
in double .pinks, as an added at
traction to the show, marking the
Portland chapter's fifth anniversary.
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but merely cover the roots at the
bottom with earth and let the bote
fill naturally. Jn rich soil, the
leeks will grow to a diameter of aax
inch or more.
Garden
Calendar
May 22 African Violet Show,'
139 S. W. Broadway, Portland, If)
a. m. to 9 p. m.
May 27-27 Roseburg Garden
Club Show, Episcopal Church Par
ish haH.
May 30 Fleet of Flowers, Do
Poe Bay, 2 p. m. '
Jane 4-5 Pacific Northwest Re
gional Iris meeting. Dinner at Sil
verton, Saturday night
Jane 8-12 Portland Rose Fes
tival. ,
Jane 9-11 Lebanon Strawberry
Fair.
Jane 19-11 Portland Rose Show.
Jane 11-12 Eugene Rose Show.
Jane 11-12 Late Rhododendron
show. Crystal Springs Lake Island,
Portland.
June 1244- American Iris Soc
iety annual meeting, Hamilton, On
tario, Canada.
Jane 14-15 Annual Convention
of Oregon Federation of Garden
Clubs, Reed College.
Jane 18-19 Salem Rose Soc
iety, annual show, Izaac Walton
League building.
June 30-Jnly 1 Nehahm Bay
Flower Show, Nehalem.
Aag. 8-7 Portland Gladiolus
Society show. i
Aag. 17-18 Gladiolus Festival,
Grants Pass. -
Aag. 20-21 Grande Ronde Glad
iolus Show, LaGrande.
Aug. 28-28 Polk County Flower
Show, Rickerafl.
Sept 3-10 Oregon State Flower
Show, State Fairgrounds, Salem.
Things to Do
If you have to use the space
they occupy, dig the daffodials and
heal in for completion of ripening
process.
When - hyacinths are through
blooming, scatter a complete fert
ilizer around them and then let the
foliage and bulbs ripen naturally.
around perennials or annual
In decaying the clippings gen
erate a lot of heat which may
damage the tenter tissues. It s re
ally best to compost the grass clip
pings. However, they can be used
on rose beds or rhododendron and
and azalea beds if .they are not
piled against the stalks of the
plants.
Tartles Need Preddiag
Water turtles hibernate and can
do so safely when living outdoors.
Indoors where it is warm they
should be kept active as much
as possible and tempted ta eat,
or they may starve during hiber
nation. After the first winter hiber
nating, pet turtles usually lose the
inclination.
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