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Gadabout Garden Gabbing teAOti Jonte, Garden, Jrauei Statesman, Salem, Ore., Sun., Feb. 23, '58 (Sec. IV)-21 Dark Foliage Marks New Rose it II a. oy Lime l. Maasen House of the Week-" ; Extra Dividend Home Has Bonus 1 to l m. 1 Ik I 4 NuvMa ism . sue 4 . af III . I ? THERE ARE EIGHT ROOMS, including three bedrooms and I roomi than bouses of comparable size. ltt baths, In this one-story ranch house. It hai two more Good Design Responsible For Addition By JOHN O. B. WALLACE MERE'S A HOUSE with a bonus of two rooms. The extra living space comes at no extra coat because the eight rooms, in cluding three bedrooms, have been designed into the same area usually required for a six room house. This "dividend" house was baaed on a study of many homes of approximately 1300 square feet a size that falls into the category of a small, economy priced dwelling. All homes of 1,300 square feet reviewed by the architect responsible for this House of the Week plan, designated HW 83, invariably contained no more than six rooms. t Extra Rooms How to get two extra rooms Into the same area, the architect asked himself. Good design and imaginative use of space pro vided the answer. The success ful plan thus incorporates as many useful rooms as possible into a one-story, in-line ranch house of the mod eat, 1,300-square-foot size. In addition to the eight rooms being cleverly shoe-horned into 1.300 square feet the house also boasts a 40 square foot front foyer a luxury not usually af forded in a house of this size. BEDROOM 2 KT-0 i lff-tf rn.mu wjs - - i pETJiplJ pom rz-Ti . SA. j UVN0 room t i y y BEDROOM! BEDB00M"3P 1 -0"a lf-0 WttfM I 8 .3-4-a.l.Q- 8-0-.C-6-fl I CWj? .L, a. D j I miMiH-r--s"i LS-0 . T lf (04CIM. I o n DINING ROOM ll'-O's a0" 6ARAGI STUDY THIS FLOOR PLAN and you will see that excellent circulation is provided. No single room must be usea as a passageway. Architect Rudolph A. Matern. who created this bonus borne af ter long study, points out: "The room that usually suf fers in size, in a minimum house, is the bath. It is brought on the drafting board to the minimum size of S bv 7 feet, or 35 square feet and the tub is placed un der the window. 'There is a marked trend to day, however, for larger, more luxurious baths and this design follows this trend. The bath is 0 by 7 feet, or 63 square feet." Oversized Bath . The bath in HW 93 thus falls only 7 square feet short of be ing twice the size of a minimum size bath. The bath has a vanity, a dou ble lavatory, a towel cabinet and a screen in front of the water 'closet. And the tub is on the side wall, where it belongs. "Circulation in this home is excellent," Matern adds. "Noth ing suffers from its compactness. No room must be used as a passageway." There is a full basement ex cept under the area occupied by the garage.- With the exterior basement door, the architect ex plains, the cellar apace becomes a wonderful area to finish later as a rumpus or recreation room. The 40 square foot front foyer has a guest closet below the height of the ceiling. This ar rangement creates a platform above for plants. The family room has a folding screen par tition which permits the foyer to be closed off or opened to pro vide a 20 foot view to the slid ing glass doors and beyond to the rear terrace. Brick veneer has been used as exterior material around the entire house except at the front entrance. Wood finish has been used to flank the front entrance and flush boards have been used at the left with flower pots and brackets hanging from them. THE HOUSE of the WEEK A Quality Plan Selected y . AP Newafeatiires Stnd this coupon for your STUDY PLAN YOU CAN GET a study plan (or The House of The Week by filling in the coupon and sending it with 33 cent to this newspaper. This study plan shows each floor together with each of the tour elevations, front rear and sides of the iiouse. It is scaled at Vi-incb per foot It includes a guide on "How to Get Your House Built" You can take this study plan to your bank or other mortgage lender and to your builder and get rough estimates on cost With this information you will know whether you want to proceed with construction by order ing working blueprints direct from the architect and asking for bids. ' The Oregon Statesman Salem, Oregon Building Editor Enclosed is 35 cents. Please send me a copy of the study plan for The House of the Week, Design HW-93 NAME (Please Print) STREET . . CITY 1 STATE Answers to Garden Questions Questioa We have a small patch of blackcaps in our back garden and they did not do at all well last year although it was only the third year for them. I recall my parents had blackcap bushes 10-12 years old which were much better than these. Someone told us they had leaf spot or something. What should we do? T.D. Answer The recommended program is to remove the old canes first. This should have been done in the fall for best dis ease control. However, if they have not yet been removed, cut out immediately. Then spray with lime sulphur. For a small patch use about one pint of lime aulphur to one gallon of water. Question What to do with leaves that are covered with aticky material, although loaded with blossoms. Mrs. H.S. Answer This seems to be a very common problem this spring. I'm wondering why, as last year my own camellia bushes suffered from this but this year they are doing fine. The cure, according to the experts, is to spray with light-medium summer oil emulsion. There are also some trade-named spravs on the market for this trouble. Any garden store has them. Question Last fall at the State Fair garden show I took down the name of three clema tises and now I want to get the blue one. I failed to mark the color and cannot find any of these In the catalogs I have. Here are the names: Edward Foss, Ra it NT -A TOOL Do It Yourself. It's Cheaper Serving Salem Since '41 HOWSER IROS. USI Health Utb 8t mona. and Duchess of Edinboro. Could you help me? W.C. Answer The Edward Foss is a clear blue, the Ramona a light er blue and Duchess of Edin boro a double white you made some excellent selections of the numerous on display. Do you re call the Nelly Mosier. a beauti ful pink-orchid colored one? Question Some time ago you wrote a little story of an all American selection of a camellia. I clipped the piece and now I can't find it although I know I have it someplace. I asked one of our Salem nurserymen, who I thought ought to know, but he didn't. Can you by chance re member what it is? I hate to bother you again, but as a hob by rve been getting the top se lection for the past few years. Last year you wrote a story about the 1957 Rose Guide and we boueht all our roses accord ingly. Will vou run the 1958 guide? Please? F.G.H. Answer I probably wouldn't have remembered the name of the camellia either but I tiled it away. I knew someone would ask me. The 1958 Ail-American : selection ts Buddha, a pink sin gle. All nurserymen who carry camellias should also file the jname where they can find it. Seei story on this page for 1958 Rose Guide. Question When do we graft grapes? K.B. Answer Late winter, using last year's wood. Tie in position and cover with an asphalt emul sion. Takes about six weeks to. "take." Questioa Have been told about an encyclopedia of Oregon history which came out recently. Have asked at the bookstore but no one seems to know about it. Am sure I read about it some place, and heard someone talk about it Do you know of any such book and who wrote it? L.P.W. Answer Could you be mean ing the "Dictionary of Oregon History." edited by Howard Mc Kinley Corning? This was pub lished in 1 9 5 by Binfords & Morts, Portland and is a very useful book. So far I have Jieard no criticism of its accuracy. I believe it sells for $6. OuMtlonW mrm taavlnff far Southern California in early March. We want to go into Mexi co for a couple of days, but don't have time to go way down. Seems some place once in your travels wnicn was not too tar down and wnere t n e r e was a nice hotel. That wm vent uant lt Pan vaii tell us where this was? T.H.O. Answer This w nrnhahlv Fnsenaria in I.nwr rli(nmiB. Ensenada is some 80 to 83 miles below Tijuana and has a popu lation Of 1A 1471 Thar a ,r. . number of comparatively good places to stay. We chose Hotel Riviera Parificn rlcrhl beach. Good motels are Cadillac Motet, wuintas Papagayo and Vil la Marina. The Ouin i. .. two miles north and is quite nicely furnished. All the motels have some cottages equipped for houselcaanins Th. VIII. Cadlllae hava mffaa nected and of course the hotel uinmn rooms are good. "Wheat Pit" in Minneapolis is one of the world's lartrMt oa.k markets. The Garden Calendar Feb. M-24 Cherry Grafting dem onstration. Polk County Fair. ground? 10 a.m. March 1-t Annual Camellia Show, La Canada, Calif., Los An geles Camellia Council. Held in Descanso Gardens. March (-7 Antique show and sale. First Presbyterian Church, Salem, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. March MS Massachusetts Hor ticulture Society annual show, Bos ton, Mass. March IMS-Philadelphia Flow er Show, Commercial Museum, Philadelphia. Pa. March It Mt. Angel Garden Club meeting, City Hall. Mt. An gel, 8 p.m. v March 14-23 International Flow er Show. Inglewood, Calif. March IS-IS International Sportsarama, St. Petersburg. Fla. March 14. Spring Home and Garden Festival New Orleans, La. March K-30 Washington D. C. Cherry Blossom Festival.' April 7-11 Puyallup-Tacoma Daffodil Festival. April IMS Salem Garden Coun cil Spring Flower Show, Izaak Walton League Clubhouse. April 13 Mt. Angel Primrose Show, Legion Memorial Hall. I to 8 p.m., Chairman, Mrs. Victor Hoffer. Aaril lS-May lS-Tulip Time in Netherlands, between The Hague and Haarlem. SOIL .SAMPLING And Laboratory Work New Underway for Spring FERTILIZERS (Spreaders Available) Get Your Orders in lorly 1 . Phone EM 2-0737 Now OREGON SOIL CLINIC Me S. Church St, Salem DOG LICENSE DUE : FEES Penalty Affer Mar. 1st In Morion County Molo .... So. Female Female . . $1.00 $1.00 $2.00 Mole $3.00 Sp. Female $3.00 Female $4.00 Moke Money Order or Checks Payable to H. C. Mattsorf Salem, Oregon County Clerk Fro Tern By GARDEN GABBEB MORE ON POINSETTIAS This week I had two poinsettia letters. One of the writers told me she had tried to keep hers over but failed every time. The other one was from Mrs. Claire H. Ifolcomb. She writes: "We were given a plant four years ago and have been quite successful in bringing it into bloom each year. 1 set it out in the shade only morning sun as soon as it is safe for tuberous begonias to go out. Hava even slipped it and this year had four plants all from the original, totaling 13 blooms from late November with some still in bloom. No special treatment, but plenty of water sometimes twice on sunny days." Thanks. We like so much to hear about these things. . SOMETHING NEW Rodger Seeds of EI Menu, Calif, comes sul with s new cosmos this year called Mandarin. This is an almost double variety (note p let are on this page), with same af the bleems carrying as many .as 4e petals r more. The large number of petals In their brilliant orange color gives added pranineaee la the hleom la the garden and makes them most attractive as cat flowers. Another advantage claimed for Mandarin b Ha dense foliage. Cosmos foliage has always been attractive only it has been rather sparse en some plants. Maadarta avercMies this defect aieely. WHILE WE ARE ON THE SUBJECT of new plants, there's a new member to an old flower family. The family is Gomph rena (or Globe Amaranth), and the new variety is a very dwarf ittle fellow for edging called Cissy. Cissy is the white flowered companion to Buddy, which came out some time ago and has bright purple flowers. The plants grow about inches tall, are rounded, and very long-blooming. Each clover-like bloom lasts for weeks and they dry nicely. IF YOU'RE A ZINNIA FAN-You ll be interested to know that there is a new giant cactus flowered variety called Pride of Dieldrin. This introduction has four to five inch blooms with twisted and pointed petals that are bicolored, with golden orange in the outer portion and vivid scarlet flame in the center. THE PETUNIA AGAIN Among the good new petunia hy brids are Pink Satin and Peach Satin to go along with Red Satin which you saw for the first time last year. These are refined dwarf globe-shaped plants which, keep neat all season long and produce many 2 to 2Vi inch flowers. In the larger and fancier flowered petunias look especially for Blue Luster (early, pro lifoc, deep violet-blue) and the All-America Selections winner for 1958, Maytime (light salmon-pink). ANOTHER MEETING If you are interested in a lot of the new things in horticulture, you might be interested in the North Willamette Valley Horticultural Society of Gresham on Feb. 27-28. Talks are scheduled on marketing, plant growth regula tors and weed control at the opening sessions of two-day meet. In the final day you'll hear talks on labor-saving equipment, in sect control and vegetable diseasea. HOW-TO-DO-IT We ran across a little booklet the ether day, called "Rose Growers". It gives considerable information not found in many of the handbooks . . for instance, there are a couple of pages devoted to how to teO the different class es of roses. There's a list of hew-te's in rose crafts sack as making perfume, rose hip Jelly, rose heads, old-fashioned rose Jar, rose sachet and even rose tea . . . There are a couple of pages on how to grow roses and an other couple on how to arrange roses. The booklet Is published by Howards of Hemet, California. AND WE FOUND .IT Those of you who read last week's "Garden Gabbing" and who have plowed through it so far this week, may be interested to know about our Tree of Heaven (ail lanthus) which we were hollering about not being able to find. Well, Verl Holden of the H. L. Pearcy Nursery gave us a ring aiul sure enough there they were quite a number of them. Verl is carrying on out there in the nursery with which Harry PearcjTdid such a nice job until he died a year and a half ago. And Verl is doing a nice Job. He's a graduate of Oregon Slate College in horticulture but has a much deeper back ground than four years or is it five now of bookwork could give. Verl worked under Harry for many years prior to college and following. The college and the practical work augment each other until it is quite surprising how much one young man can know he must be, as we say in such cases, "a naturaL" THIS IS AIT Yea many wonder why little trees cost so sawch. WeJL while ear ailianthns was getting eat of the ground and into its very proper wrappings for moving, we watched two women in a vision, af the greenhonses, catting np little two Inch twigs of spruce and varieas ether evergreens, slipping each m of them m a root heraaaaa and gettimg them grsamsd tor rooting beds. In the greenhoase section next to the place where this work was being carried on, we saw lM,eto little cat lings neing rootes cjicn ei inese naa neen nanaiea inaivian aUy ... no precision machine has yet been Invented to do these Jobs successfully . . . After a few weeks of rooting, then each one must he planted iadividually In a little tsse Inch pot another year, a larger pet and finally Into the soil . . . Brilliant New .Variety -A ' OS. , .. k FT i t W " asasw- a, -, w v r af X I I 1 .- r I r J I I N v 1 .". a. -L. ' I This new variety of cosmos. Mandarin, Is near-double, and It is a brilliant orange In color. Also the foliage is more profuse than most cosmos plants carry. This should be procurable at seed stores this year. GREATEST BY MAIL OFFER I World"' Uost Btaultful Tret BLUE SPRUCE Three years old FOf Now UthtTimt to Plant ()ny Itofc's yoejt Ve)y 1ms)9 hwy to lw)w)lyt flW,sBWJf,l,at Ce)ls,mW oMtM SejPUeJSh TloMe OfdaF . ffcs)SB frw)Mo which Awt the) wlftasotto) ta Howirfef faehmitUib., OftOCR TODAY. WeadJ Comwla chepcfc Of tWSakW)r sjuffjshf, Wfe) pa " No C.O.D.Y. Ihipaad t V ple)e)IWJf tiofMJ)a 15 for $3 30 for $5 GARDEN CENTER, Dept. D 45, Fairfield, Iowa. AmL End. $ ... Name . , Address .,..;.. ;.. (Please Print) :WaK-aJaSaSjWllM i-aaariMBaMaaak ' UN II , ,t Tom Tom, one of the new floribondas originated by Howards of HemeL This Is deep crimson pink but one of the most unusual features or this rose, Is that we stems remain oxblood red all season. The foliage is a dark green. The bushes are good hloraiert, and those trying them out this past year report that they were covered almost con stantly with bloom during the summer. Rose Buying Guide Gives Tips on Planting Success By ULLIE L. MADSEN Garden Editor, The State Sana A year ago I wrote a story on the "1957 Guide, for Buying Roses," issued by the American Rose Society to iU members. Evi Hantlv h Guide nroved success ful for already we have received any number ol requests ior some thing on the 1958 guide. Acinillv the mide is free to anyone who sends a request post card to the American nose so ciety. This year's edition lists over Ann mm which have been intro duced in recent years. Ratings on overall garden performance, rela tive height, color and fragrance are compiled irom re pons suo mitted from hundreds of'ama- tanra thrniishniit th rnuntrv who test the roses in their own gardens. Vnn mav recall earlier this m rf year we published a story on a guide formulated from reports of rose growers in the Salem area. George Ailing of Salem was re sponsible for this. Net Much Trouble So many people do not grow roses because they think it is too much bother to prepare the beds and too much care to look after them after they have been planted. AS tne American Kose society says: Bear urn in mma; a rose bed may be prepared In as simple or as complicated a way as you wish. If the sou is fertile and productive you don't need to worry about any special prepara tion. If it is poor, work in organic material such as compost, well rotted manure, peat moss or the like. Be sure to obtain good qual ity stock and plant the bushes carefully by spreading out the roots snd packing the soil firmly around them and watering well. If you start growing roses with a dozen or a half dozen, the only care necesary during the season is a few minutes once a week or cww every-aetber week to culti vate the bed and to dust the bushes for pests and disease. In choosing roses to plant this coming week or ih early March, it is well to pay some attention to rating. The national rating of 10 is perfect; from 9 to 10 sre the outstanding varieties; from 8 to 8.9 are excellent roses; from 7 to 7.9 are good; from 6 to 6.9 are fair and from 5 to 5.9 are of questionable value, snd below 5 are poor. Top Ones Listed Because of lack of space. 111 list only some of those receiving high ratings in the 1958 Guide. If you have a special rose you'd like to know about and if it is listed in the rating I'll be glad to answer questions. Or you may send for your own Guide. I was interested to know that Charlotte Armstrong, a red. Crimson Glory, a deeper red, and Peace, a yellow-blend, all Hybrid Teas, have rated in the top cate gory1 since they were introuced. Peace, with a rating of 9.6, has the highest of any in the Guide this year. Crimson Glory ran second in the Hybrid Teas with 9.1, and Charlotte Armstrong, 9. Betty Prior, a pink Floribunda, rates 9, and Paul's Scarlet Climb er, rates 9.1. Other Hybrid Teas which rate 8 or over are: Red Chrysler Imperial, Tally bo, Rubiayat, Christopher Stone, Grande Duch esse Charlotte, Nocturne, New Yorker. Pink Dainty Bess, Rose Marie Reid ( a new rose), First Love, Picture, Pink Favorite. Yellow Golden Wings (new), Burnaby (new), and Eclipse. Blends Tiffany (new), Helen Traubel, Confidence, Good News, Mme. Henri Guillot, Saturnia, Sutter's Gold. Tip Toes, Lafter. FLORIBUNDAS: Red Spar tan, Bed Pinoccbio, Wildfire, Corcorico, Eutin. Fraashant lady Ann Kid wed, Donald Prior, Floradora, Independence, Per manent Wave .and World's Fair. Pink The Fairy, Pink Bountiful, Rosenelf, White Dagmar Spath. Blends Fashion, Vogue. CLIMBERS: Red Chevy Chase. Etoile de Hollande, Crim son Glory, Christopher Stone, Blaze, Gladiator (new). Pink New Dawn, Dr. W. VanFleet, San ta Anita, Cecil B runner, Picture, Blossomtime. Pinkie, Panda, Coral Dawn (new). Yellow -- Paul's Lemon Pillar. White City of York, Glenn Dale, Silver Moon. 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