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, 10-See2-S!atesman, Salem, Ort., Sunday, Sept. 25,-1955 Chrysanthemums Gominff Into Bloom ---J f-! . -z.-. ' & '"'. V.- . v :; ; ; t :- " '. i :r : . bt lillie l. madsen. , ; - ' .' ; .';. Gardes Editor : . ', ':' ' ".' where TO GO Mv sueeestion is out to Black's Gardens at 2270 Chemawa Rd to view the : Chrysanthemums which are just coming into line bloom. Marvin Black, who. is. grower of 'the 'mums-, hat about two acres and more than 500 in his display garden. A great manySf. the hjooms are creations of Dr. Kraus, who is world- famous for his chrysanthemums. ? . " ". -; " " . The contest which, has been going on for. some years, is on Igain.' This "name the winner" or selecting the "most , popular Snuffl" game can be played at Black's; too A Tiozefl lucky winners Will each win six free chrysanthemums."; Beginning today. noted valley flower arrangers will fill the Hew. "arrangement gallery" on the Black place with chrysanthe- 4 s - ' V ) .Ufa -s. . .V s. : . it- . ,-.- 'MdiDiii End v GE3.d(Biffi- Q 0 0 icn . ; ' ------ - - - 1 - -- - - , - - - : v r T - r. - - -1 - I -, - . , " IT - ' r. zi .l ffr-r-2 Llt-UTD MO DV. ""ll'tl - E - I f.f .. IS-5T n a If-CT-K5-0- I - ft ' . uu.6Trf.u J r V; fir1 1 DiNmc 111 LeLUJJ V ' 0 ""J 6,4 In'!' r . I p . -Pi , ' '" I""' PgCU p FTl!1fTj Questions kf NwfMturs THE DEMAND for retirement homes is sparking the planning of economical and compact, yet comfortable houses in i smart designs. Here is a one-bedroom model envisaging the (tse of brick, stone and cedar shakes on its exterior. A front window wall and a corner fireplace are features of the living room. Sliding doors are used throughout the interior to avoid wasted space. This is plan H-418AP by the Homograf Co., 11711 East Light Mile Kd.t East Detroit, Mich. The house covers only 825 'square feet; contains 8,434 cubic feet and the carport adds 288 square feet. It fits a narrow lot. TJiis Week Order all tulips you want for October and November planting. Start planting daffodils. . i Take cuttings from geraniums, fuchsias. Keep withered roses cut from plants. Don t neglect watering fuchsias and other pot and hanging basket plants. Set out that row of strawber ries in space provided. Use. certi fied plants, no matter how small the planting. Go visit chrysanthemum gar dens to select type you think best suited for your own gardens. If you use peat moss as a mulch, be sure you soak it well first Dry peat moss keeps rains from' soaking into the roots. set out the extra azalea or rhododendron now. Pull up annuals that are past their peak blooming and com post those that are disease free. Burn others. Cut down perennials through blooming. Cut out dead limbs from trees and shrubs while foliage still on so that you can see them. . Here Is the most flamboyant of all tulips the Parrot tulip. The; T -T f 1 individual flowers are large, the petals are irregular, and marked' J Hie jrCLT(ieit ia cenntless patterns of color, iney are nest usea against a wnite wall or at least a Tight-colored wall, which will show off their brilliant colorings to best effect , - tnuin arrangements. A new group of arrangements, will be ori.dis play from Saturday through Wednesday each week during the season. Peak bloom in the gardens is expected, to be from this week end through Oct 10. ' - , . , A REPORTER'S PREROGATIVE This preview business. We went out to the garden this past week to see what the rest of you 1 might be looking at today and the next days to come. Of course the chrysanthemums" were not yet' at their best, but we did see ome mighty- nice -ones, both among those not yet named , and among those already with a name. One of our favorites from the last two years .still remains nnnamed. but we were assured it was to receive a name this year. It has the most velvety garnet coloring with a touch of gold. I hope you all look at it wnen visiting me gardens today or during tne next few days. . ''- .-; There was also a small button type of white and rose and a touch of yellow, that appealed to me very much. ' -'7 ;. ' " Over in the division of the garden, where the named varieties are found, I liked Mohave Gold I bronzy 'mum. Lipstick, a small Mow growing border cushion variety, was also .among my favorites here, as was Chorale, an apricot shaded one and Alpinglow, a pink and gold. - - Other previewers liked Raggedy Ann very much, but I'm not so ' fond of this type as many of the others. Somehow, this type never gives the appearance of neatness or even the casualness which I like in flowers. .. , . Certainly, there are sufficient varieties here in the Black Gar dens to please :all tastes. - ' - - --- - " , - ' - r . . -SPRING NOT FAR AWAY When you think of tulips yW think of spring. But unless you do a little thinking about them now, roxi won't have any to admire in your garden in spring. Tulips are versatile, which makes for a good garden flower, of course. They come in a great variety of color; they come in quite a variety of shapes and if . you plant correctly, you can have a tulip blooming period for almost eight weeks. Remember that early blooming varieties should be in the ground by mid, or not later than the end of, September. Midseason and the later blooming varieties can be planted as late as mid-November. " r ; Tulips look best in mass plantings, and they do best if drain age is good, the soil mediumly rich and of good texture, the space open and airy, with plenty of sun. And they don't, like too much competition, although they will bloom on the sunny side of. de ciduous trees. Place the bulbs six inches deep and 4 to 6 inches apart in each direction. In the spring, when the bulbs start to come up, loosen the soil a little around them, being most careful net to : cultivate or hoe too deeply. Hilling a little soil up around the base of each plant as it grows up will help keep it from toppling over in heavy rains and winds. -' - TULIP KINDS If, as one woman wrote me this week, she liked only double tulips but wasn't sure. just. how to use them, 'or even if they are in good taste , then plant doubles. Any flower you like is id good taste, so far as the flower itself goes. Double tulips bloom in April and in May. according to earlier and later varieties. - They are excellent if planted in a mass in a border or even alone in a tulip bed. But choose varieties,' even if a mixed color,, that bloom about the same time, for best, effect ... If your taste is for the Darwin flowered forms, the tall, straight-stemmed varieties, you . will' find them too. blooming in April or in May, 'according to 'variety. In recent year, one notes they are used a lot in - double-or triple line along entry walks, against walls and fences. Also .used well, this way is the Breeder tulip, somewhat taller than the Darwins, but less formal in growth. 1 Their stems are strong and stiff and they come in both solid and multi-colored varieties. Most of them bloom s in May and they are very good massed or used in planter boxes. - - Cottage tulips do not run quite so tall as the Breeders or Dar wins, but they seem to have a large variety of form and color, most ly brilliant-ithe Breeder tulips run to softer colors, more pastels, than do the Cottage type Most, Cottages bloom in May and are best used in big' massed plantings.. . " . Diseased Plants No Good for Composts Leaves from fruit and shade trees are now starting to fall and vegetable gardens-contain a great deal of crop residue. All of this calls for making a compost pile, if you do not have one. Organic matter supplied by compost pile ' is ideal for the vegetable or flower garden, but diseased material should be avoided. An example of ' the latter is apple leaves infected with mildew. ; . , Answers Qnestloa We have moved to a place on the edge of Salem and have four acres around us. In this a small orchard about a half acre, and we want to plant it into a grass that sheep will eat Our youngsters have five sheep as 4-H project. We thought the orchard would" be pretty in a per manent green with sheep. Will the sheep eat the bark off the trees? What should we plant? S. P. Answer Why not birdsfoot re- foil, the one with the narrow leaf which grows prostrate? It's a good ood and it makes a pretty green. It increases the fertility of the sou, too. It has a matting type of growth and it may be mowed if the sheep do not keep it down. It will grow early on wet soil, giving the sheep a little earlier pasture than some crops. It doesn t need too much water, but may turn brown in late summer if - not watered. To plant- cultivate the ground three or four. inches deep before sowing the seed. If the soil is very acid, . sweeten it ' with lime. Cover the area with a complefe commercial fertilizer. Finn the soil well. It is well to use a com mercially-prepared birdsfoot re foil inoculant on the seeds right be fore sowing. You can buy the in oculant. where you buy the seed. Sow about one pound of seed to every 500 square feet. . After established, do not. use m trogen fertilizer but use fertilizers high in phosphate. Sheep do not eat bark, but will nibble on low hanging branches. ' ' Question Have a small green house. Want to sterilize flower pots which have green growth on them. Also along place where I stand Don't like looks of it. W. N. Aaswer Use a household bleach, such as you use for your dish clothes and tea towels. Usually two tablespoons to. a gallon ..of water will do the trick. Leave the pots in a solution over night A similar one, or the one in which the pots have soaked, may be poured "on the "floor to kill the green, growth. Turkeys Attack Injured Farmer IOWA CITY, Iowa A 52-year-old farm hand, attacked by a flock of 3,600 turkeys while he lay helpless after a tractor over turned, remained hospitalized here with serious injuries. Moses Nissley said the turkeys, weighing 25 to 30 pounds each, picked at his body and face and leaped on him while he lay be neath the tractor for three hours Tuesday. The tractor, caused a spinal fracture. Body Found By Railroad MAUPIN A man was found dead two' miles west of here Friday and sheriffs officers said he apparently was killed when he jumped off a moving freight train, He was identified by papers as Robert Millard Meeks, 40, Los Angeles. ' ' J The body was discovered near the Oak Brooks fish hatchery by Kenneth McAdams, an employe of the Spokane, Portland and Seat tle Railroad. . Sheriffs officers said it ap peared Meeks jumped from a train that went through ' Maupin Thursday night The spewed of the train whipped him into a fence post along the right of way and he was knocked down,- striking his head on a rock. ...... Question What doe; one use to help decay compost more rapidly? I ve put quite a bit of prumngs and a lo; of leaves into a pit-like spot in the garden which I wanted to fill. The material just lies there, never seeming to get any differ ent Will it ever decay? I thought it would do so in a couple of years, but it just doesn't Someone men tioned that there is a material to help the process along. Y. S. Answer C a 1 c i um cyanamide will do it in a few months. - Qnestloa A friend sent me some seed marked Dierama Pulcberrima from Missouri. She had been visit ing in a famous garden there she said, and one of the groundsmen Takes Care of Debris Gard en Ca enda t " ' 1 X'- ' ? T - ,.- i rs- v. . V , I V 1 i - i - ' -r - , ; . ; " ' 'I t f . , LJLj- - '.- J.1 AV . :k 'i 1 '-.i-.v;.'y 'i ;o'f;jA n-. I ! ' I - ill .,.-.11 Oct 1-Z Seventh Annual Corvat lis Chrysanthemum show and field day. ' - .... Oct 1-2 Early English Chrysan- Hipmnm show.. ML Srott Cnmmun 1 ity Center, Portland. Oct 1-8 Regional Men s Garden Clubs of America meeting, Corval lis. .- " - Oct' 1-2 Portland Fall Rose Show, Information Center, Port land Chamber of Commerce. . Oct 12 ML Angel Garden Club open meeting, City Hall. Claud Miles of Charles H. Lilly Seed company, speaker, t p.m. Oct 2S-T7 24th annual Seattle Chrysanthemum Show, Norway Center auditorium, Seattle, Wash. Oct 28-30 Vancouver Men's Am ateur Chrysanthemum Society an nual show., . ' . ' " Nav. 5-4 Annual Chrysanthemum show, Portland Study Club, Cham ber of Commerce Visitor's Infor mation Center, 1020 S.W. Front Ave., Portland. ..Nov.. 15 Salem Rose Society meeting, t p.m., YMCA. PLANTS MAY NEED WATER Dry weather ever some areas of the country makes it necessary to water- ornamental trees and shrubs on the home property to help them through the winter months. Many home owners tend to neglect the watering after the summer months have passed "and cooler weather arrives, but should it not rain for a few days plants may need water. After a long dry spell it takes days of rain before the soil contains enough water. Blueberries, which are not sus ceptible to serious diseases or in sect pests, are valued as much for their foliage as for their berries,, when planted on the home proper ties. The foliage turns bright red in the falL An incinerator such- as this, placed in an inconspicuous place, in the back garden is an aid to keeping a home neat and free of debris that is not suitable for, a compost heap. This particular incinerator was displayed in the recent Oregon State Fair garden exhibit and attracted considerable attention. (Statesman Farm phote.) ' ' gave her the seed. She lives in an apartmen in Los Angeles, and has no use for the seed. But what is it? It could be a weed for all I know. Won't plant it until I hear from you. N. N. H. Answer This, is sometimes call ed fairy wand, and I'm not sure it is hardy here. Try starting it in early, spring,- when you start other plants. It must have a sunny spot in the warmest part of your garden. It has bulbous roots, when once developed. It has grass-like foliage and the flowers grow on leafless stems. The flowers are pink or bluish or white, as a rule I've seen it around San Francisio and Oakland, but never here. Would appreciate hearing from anyone 'who might have grown it in this area. 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