Statesman, Salam, Ore., Sunday, July 17, 1955 (Sec. 1)7
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News and Views of Farm and Garden -By LILLIE L. MADSEN
Outdoor Dining Enjoyed at Lincoln Landing Home
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By LILLIE L. MADSEN
WEjGO TO A PICNIC-The Men's Garden Club of Salem was
host at ."Ladies Night" and the place was the summer home of Dr.
and Mrs. W. E. Buren at Lincoln's Landing in Polk County. It is a
beautiful spot and early in the evening before food, we wandered
about the gardens admiring the amount of astilbe, the pentstemons,
the garden carnations all the old-fashioned flowers that are so
right in the gardens of an old-fashioned place such as this.
' During the me3tin2 itself. Dr. Buren. by request briefly sketched
the history of the Landing, telling that before the days of railroad
this was aa important wheat shipping point, with half-mile long
trains of wagons lined up to unload during the flush season. There
were ferrie a schoolhouse, a church, flouring and lumber mills,
a beehive factory, a store quite a little own in addition to the
numerous warehouses alone the banks.
There were 92 folk out for the meeting, held Tuesday night.
WINNERS Prizes for the evening were two beautiful deep red
?loninias and a huse tuberous begonia from the Ray Claggetts.
Une went to Mrs. Buren, and the, others went home with Mrs.
Jack Bartelt. and Mrs. A? Regier of Dallas.
D3ve Cameron, as a member of the Salem Park board, thanked
the Salem Rose Society of which Eugene Carothers is president,!
for the markers which that group furnished for the new municipal
rose bed in Bush's Pasture. Dave also thanked the Men's group
for the share it had in helping other Salem garden organizations
in lurnisjiing a sprayer for the garden.
I Ben Coomler told of how. well the garden at the Methodist Home
! on Statesman Street was doing and George Candeaux commented
on the many favorable remarks that were coming in, in reference
to Salem s Ro?e Garden.
J. Farl Cook, presided and Henry Hartwig, the peony man, in
Iroduced the speaker.
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ITNFRIENDLY BUGS-That's what we heard about first. And
the Strawberry root weevil was declared Public Enemy1 No. 1 in the
I garden. The speaker was Charles Starker, entomologist for the
Pacific Supply Cooperative at Portland, and a son of the famous
Carl Starker, known for his arrangements, his books on arrange
ments and his ferns.
Charles talked about pest control in the home garden. He had
slides to show the various types of insects, their damage and their
control.
There are two groups of root weevils in Oregon. The adult
weevils of the first group are black and are most common ; at ,
lower elevations. The larvae are present from July to May! oft
! the' following year. The small black root weevil adults are three-:
sixteenths of an inch long while the large black weevils are three
eighths of an inch in length. The adults usually appear in late May
and continue to emerge until September.
Trie other group of weevils is gray in color and is found at !
elevations above 350 feet in the Willamette Valley chiefly. The weevils
are In the larval stage throughout the summer and fall. Adults
appear at the end of fall. They spend the winter in or on the soil
and lay their eggs in April and May.
Root weevil larvae are easy to locate by digging three to six
! inches beneath or besides tae plants they attack. A hand trowel w 'couver. B. C,
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cwue. oearoaas re raisea nan a uigni idoh im living lof the root system. The black root weevils are easiest to find in Plant show, Loyal Heights Field
loom level with a picturesque balcony forming a hallway. This Xpril and May. The gray root weevil larvae are easiest found house, W. 77th St. and 21st Ave.,
Hows for a large recreation room and laundry under the bed-! in August and September. i N. V. Seattle.
Among the ornamentals these weevils damage are primroses,: Au. 4-13 Bryonia and Fach-
rhododendrons, azaleas, saxifrages, and scores of others. sia Show, Greshin.
Controlling the weevil in the strawberry or primrose patches Aug. 6-7 Portland Gladiolus
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LINCOLN LANDING Outdoor dining at its best was enjoyed this week
at the country home of Dr. and Mrs. W. . Buren, when the Men's
Garden Club of Salem were hosts to their wives and other lady friends.
Garden talk was carried on throughout the informal dining. Here are
seated from left to right, Mrs. Darwin Biewer, Mr. Biewer, J. Earl
Cook (president of the Men's Garden Club), Mrs. Cook, Peggy Cooke
behind Ben Coomler. Standing are Mrs. Burtia Bennett. Moody Benner,
vise president of the club, and Mr. Bennett, secretary. (Statesman Farm
Photo) "
July 21 Brgoks Garden Club
meeting, 1 p.m. no-host lunch
eon at home of Mrs. D. R- Mad-H
sen, Keizer.
July 22-23 Lily Show, Seattle,
Frederick L Nelsons.
July 28-30 Begonia Show, Van-
Aug. 20-21 Symphony of
Flowers Show, Anchorage,
Alaska.
rooms and half a flight down from the living room level. This is
plan Y-742AP by Herman H. York, architect, 90-04 161st St.,
Jamaica 2, N.Y. The house covers 1,441 .square feet without
garage which figures separately.
Questions & Answers
Question The foliage on our
rhododendron is becoming very
pale green. Some of the lower
leaves on the plant have turned
yellow and are beginning to drop
oft The plant just doesn't look
healthy at all A. K.
Answer See special article
on Rhodendrons and azaleas on
this page. This will give you the
symptoms of the same various
ills.
Question "Will root weevil
bother astilbe? We had some very
good ones a few years ago. They
began looking sick and this year
almost , aren'L A neighbor said
they were probably bothered by
root weevils, but I thought these
can be done quite successfully by soil insecticides, mixed with the Society Show.
Dieldrin. heptachlor and Aldrin were j the
Baits used . from May until August was
top six inches of soil.
suggested insecticides,
suggested, too.
Charles also discussed aphids, lace bugs, thrips, whitefly. cater
pillars, oyster scale, spiders, mites, pear psylla, symphylids, cut
worms, slugs, earwigs, pill or sow bufs, millipedes and the j 12
spotted beetles.
anything else we can spray with
that is more effective than DDT?
F. D.
Answer You might try
malathion, one of the new sprays
or dusts. Use about 5 tablespoons
fuls (or what the container tells
you) in a gallon of water. Add
around six tablespoonsful of
sugar to the mixture. Spray on
the fence, being sure to wet the
entire surface thoroughly.
Question Wc have a lot with
onion thrips or aphids and were
told to use malathioon. Is thiS!nr.icn an :t fli, tnie to Deonli
poisonous to us if we use it on ' ka shnnlrt u. rpafl -nd obeved with the
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FRIENDLY BUGS You might not like the big black beetles ' you
sometimes dig up in the garden, or that you find crawling around
beneath your plants but protect them. They are on the hunt for
slugs and cutworms. Starker told the group. And lady bugs imay
not look very industrious but they can make big inroads on apnias.
The young of the lady bugs, resembling little lizards, are par
ticularly good at attacking aphids, he said.
Aug. 11 Annual Herb Tea,
Lebanon, 1 p.m., home of Mr. and
Mrs. Earl Michelson, 951 Park.
Aug. 17-li Gladiolus Festival,
Grants Pass.
Aug. 18 Salem African Violet
Society no-host upper, Mayflow
er hall, 6:30 p.m.
Aug. 20-21 Grande Ronde
Gladiolus Show, La Grande.
the onions? Y.L.
Answer Most of the directions
NEW CONTROLS Malathion, according to Starker, Is one of
the best finds in the new control insecticides. This will control,
he pointed out more than 75 bugs on 40 crops. He also discussed
the uses of heptachlor, lindane, methoxychlor, rotenon. He added
that with the new insecticides also came new responsibilities. A
e, and the labels on
packages should be read and obeyed with the greatest, of care, the
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Si V? and;tuce or potatoes for at least 10
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Answer No; root weevils in
jure a great number of plants,
including astilbe. Have you tried
digging down wound plant to
find out if there are root weevils?
Question t What is wrong with
enclosed leave of rhododendron?
C. D.
Answer Looks like damage
of the adult root weevils. Bait
during the summer beneath the
plants or dusting the foliage with
a stomach poison helps control.
'You can use aldrin dug into the
top six inches of the soil around
the rhododendrons. This digging
will injure some of the feeder
roots, but they will recover. 1 like
best dusting the foliage with a
stomach poison.
Question Along our back
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Each year they seem to return to j
this spot and are more numerous.
Sometimes the pickets are almost
black with the awful insects. We j
have tried DDT but tney just
seem to lap it up, and come back
for more. That's the only place
we have flies to any etxent but
they go around from there and
bother us,, always seemingly re
turning to the same spot Is there
days before harvest In any
where it has been used, even
earlier, wash all material used
most carefully. Read the warn
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age. Question How to get rid of
the little clover enclosed. Seems
to be taking the lawn. Is kind of
pretty, but am afraid of it It
gets into flower beds, too. Tried
pulling it but it just comes back
stronger than ever. R. M.
Answer Use a broadleaved
weedkiller such as 2,4-D. Follow
directions on container, and be
very careful that the material
does not get on other plants as
it will kill these too. Will not
kill ordinary lawn grass if used
according to directions.
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THAT SUNDAY TOUR Your garden editor was scolded; this
week by some of the readers I found out I did have some) because
no mention was made of where-to-go. There's a spell at about
this time of the year when it seems most awfully nice to remain
at borne in one s own garden of a Sunday afternoon and perhaps
just snip off those withered roses look over the plants for insect
injury add a little mulch to that on the azaleas and rhododendrons
pick the sweet peas and the pansies turn the fuchsias so that the
blooms are kept the same the whole way around (this is for the
hanslnz baskets and pots). I
But todav would also be a good time to take a ride around !
Stayton the petunias, for which that little city is noted, are lending
lots of color to the gardens there. Don't just ride down the main
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the Santiam hospital . . . everywhere you'll see pentunias, and note
how much color they can add to a summer garden!
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their own lunches . . . The Oregon Florists plan to picnic for
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