22-(Sec. Ill) Statesman, Salem, Ore., Sun., May 18, '58 Gadabout JJome, (garden and Jravei By Lillie L. Madsen Woodland Forms Backdrop for Dwelling mm ill F - I I ! .' II I i in i - r - si i - rl WHVT Lincoln Landings", the country home of Dr. and Mrs. Wolcott E. Buren Is built on long lines on the historic and beautiful spot, six miles north of Salem which was a busy wheat shipping center in pioneer days. (Statesman Garden Photo) From this window in the Buren'i keeping room one looks out over the broad back porch, through a piece of natural woodland to the river. When the Burens moved to the place, the woodland was heavy, shutting off completely the view of the river. Careful selection of trees to be saved, framed the Willamette into a number of ''pictures," (Statesman Garden Photo) Historic Spot on Willamette River Site for Salem Couple's New Home By LILLIE L. MADSEN Garden Editor, The Statesman Lincoln Landing is one of the most livable homes that I have had the privilege to see. Mrs. Wol cott E. Buren, who has kept house here for the past two years ad mits that it "couldn't be much handier." For some years Dr. and Mrs. Buren had sought a place in the country near Salem. Finally, friends told them about this old home a historic spot on the Wil lamette River in Polk County. They investigated, liked it and bought. That was II years ago. "We wanted to be sure that we would like living these six miles out from town," Mrs. Buren said, as we stood on the wide, rear porch looking down the Willam ette, peaceful and placid this sunny day. Tried It First "We used to come out every Tuesday Wolcott's day off. We'd spend some weekends here. Then a little more than two years ago we decided to build. We wanted a house that would suit the land scape and our living. Our archi tect was very helpful in fitting in all of our ideas,'1 she told me as we left the broad board rear porch with its barbecue fireplace, its table and its comfortable outdoor chairs. But we didn't leave the beautiful view over a stretch of natural woodland to the river. That came right into the house with us. We entered a Dutch door (all the outside doors are Dutch doors) into a narrow hallway where we faced a built-in cabinet. Mrs. Buren showed us that here were the dishes, the card tables, and other equipment used for barbe cues and porch dining. From this hall we turned left into the living room, a spacious 17 by 30 foot room in which I'm sure the sun must shine the year around. A beautiful yellow almost a lemon predominates, and right now matches the yellow of the laburnum tree in bloom outside one of the windows. Soft greens are used with the yellow again ty ing in with the pale and darker i : greens of maples, alders and firs along the river's bank. Accents a chair covering, a cushion, a vase are in the cranberry shade which I noted from the exterior house painting throughout the in terior. The floor is of natural wood, with a large braided rug ebfore the fireplace. Had we turned to our right from the porch entrance, we would have been in the keeping room one of the most delightful rooms one could imagine. Here, too, the golden browns, the yellows, greens with touches of cranberry are used. The room is built in dormer fashion out over the porch to give two views of river and garden. Pieces of glass in amber and cran berry and crystal give added in terest to the many-paned win dows. Drawers Show Through The keeping room opens into the kitchen, an interesting birch-finished, angled room, in the center of the house. A counter, which can be closed off by lowered doors, makes serving easy and casual. Drawers and cabinets containing silver and dishes for keeping room serving, are built so that they can open into either room. Each cup board in the kitchen is carefully planned for maximum space and useabllity. Heavy finished boards (set in like chopping and bread boards) pull out above drawers making both steps and seating for kitchen work. A large maple bar runs beneath cabinets in the salad and baking center. Near the range is the cooking center, each having its own spices, utensils and other equipment. From the kitchen, a small hall takes one around a corner into a pantry built with counters which make a most useful place to ar range cookies or desserts for a party. From this hall, too is a bath room. "We had a five by seven-foot pace here that looked as if it might be wasted until we decided to put in this bathroom," Mrs. Buren explained. There is a corner wash bowl with mirrors above on three sides, covering cabinets. The hall also leads to an out side door with another covered porch to the garage. From the hall, too, opens a bedroom to the south and a den to the north. Fir Finish Used The master bedroom is of matched and handpicked fir with a natural finish, giving one the idea that fir should be used for interior finishing much more often than it is. A garden, long and narrow, stretches out in front of a natural woodland. Through the woodland still plainly visible, are two old wagon roads, leading to the river where in pioneer days much of the Willamette Valley wheat was load ed on boats for Portland. Here at one time was a thriving little vil lage known as Lincoln Landing. One small old warehouse of the several once here, still stands in the woods. But all signs of the churches, the additional ware houses, the stores, are gone. While they were past their prime, the primroses which edged the long, irregular borders, still gave indication of the color they must have given while in full bloom. Scores of astilbes were get ting ready to bloom, while rhodo dendrons, rnlnmhinps nH manv uuiei acting iiuweis were iuveiy in the borders. Mrs. Buren grows much from seed, particularly her primroses and her columbines. Native shrubs, ferns and flowers have been used to very good ef fect here also. A number of small fir trees are growing on the edge of the woodland. These, Mrs. Buren said,, have been planted for Christmas trees. Each year, the largest one is used, giving more space in the garden and furnish ing a "custom grown" tree for the family. One per cent of the world's wa ter supply is locked in the thick ice fields which cover one-tenth of the earth's surface. FREE "TV PREYUE" Each Thur., Frl. or Sat with any gas purchase FORTUNE STATION Center and Chunh Garden Gabbing i By GARDEN GADDER MAKES ITSELF USEFUL That's the Independence Garden Club. The members voted the other day to buy two dogwood trees for Champoeg Park. The Garden Club will also furnish flowers for Central High School Baccalaureate, Class Day and Graduation exercises. At the week's meeting new ofifcers were installed at a delightful one o'clock luncheon held at the Independence Pythian hall. The new slate includes Mrs. E. R. Grantham, president; Mrs. Edwin Brandt, vice president; Mrs. Clyde Hunnicutt, secretary; Mrs. Harrison Brandt, treasurer. To serve on the committees for the coming year are Mrs. Carl Groth, program; Mrs. Brandt, civic; Mrs. 0. G. Wells, social; Mrs. Etta Welch, birds; Mrs. Ralph Evans, corsages; Mrs. Ed Moffitt, membership; Mrs. Nick Versteeg, finance; Mrs. Eugene Clark, visual; Mrs. Elmer Chapin, horticulture. 1 Mrs. Grantham will represent the club at the state convention to be held in Eugene June 16-18. - WISES UP MEN Ruddie Kalmbacb. curator of the International Test Gardens in Washington Park, Portland, talked to members of the Salem Men's Garden Clnb this week, giving them the low down on the newer varieties suitable for Northwest rose gardens. Ruddle had high praise for Kordes Perfecta, an exhibition hy brid tea import from Europe. This will be marketed first this fall. Kordes, a light colored rose with a tinge of pink on the out side of Its 65-odd petals, Is high centered and of good fragrance, according to Ruddie. It already has received rave notices from Rosarians who have seen It, and It has won a Gold Medal from the National Rose Society of England ... if you don't know It by sight, go look it up In Washington Park. THE LITTLE DARLING and we are not getting sentimental. This is the name of a new pink floribunda. It, with a yet-to-be-named red floribunda, received Gold Certificates. Little Darling, with a perfect bud and good form, has many uses for arrangers and in making corsages we're still quoting from Ruddie's talk The red floribunda is semi-double, medium low-growing. It will hold its blooms up to 14 days in clusters without losing some of the flowers. Ruddie mentioned Governor Rosallini and an unnamed flori bunda as two roses winning Silver certificates on test. Gov. Ros allini is a red grandiflora. It blooms all season and is practically thornless. It is often referred to as a red Queen Elizabeth. TO QUOTE RUDDIE FURTHER He said that from the' 1956 trials there were 19 entries showing good results as compared to only two from the 1957 entries, but he estimated some others might show better next year. Some of the 1956 better roses named by Ruddie were Angel Wings, a hybrid tea, a bi-color known as 5612, and a rose hybri dized by Charles Leon of Portland, which he has named "Always". Ruddie described Always as red "deeper than Ena Harkness, and has a stiffer neck." CLIMBERS PROMISING Two "very promising" climbers, accord ing to Ruddie are Red Empress and Danse deSylps. The former is dark in color, has long tapering buds. The latter, a French rose has won several Gold medals overseas. This rose may be marketed under an easier-to-pronounce name in the United States, Ruddie said. TO GO ON MARKET Among roses at the Park wlch will go on the market late In 1958 for the first time are Oregon Centennial, Champagne Music, Chief Mojave. Chief Mojave, an orange rose, has yet to have the official stamp of approval for the name chosen by Peterson and Dering of Scappoose. For the women folk, "something different," Ruddie said. Ster ling Silver was one likely to get much attention. It is a hybrid tea that blooms In a lavender color and opens out to a silver. By 1959 the roses above, which are not all yet available, will be by late fall or in 1959, at Willamette Valley nurseries. HOW'D WE GET THERE? Now we can just hear someone ask how we got into the Men's Garden Club meeting ... We didn't crash the gates. We had Gordon Bateman gad for us and then we listened to his gabbing later. JUST FOR TODAY There are a number of places that you'd find Interesting today ... If you like it real close to home and live in mid-Willamette Valley, why not wander out north of Salem to the Schreiner Iris Gardens in the Quinaby neighborhood? You'll find some delightful things to look at there ... or over to the Cooley Iris Show at Silverton? Many of the rhododendrons and lilacs in the Cooley Gardens are still lovely, and the arrange ments made by Pauline In the Cooley Iris House In the gardens are very lovely and full of ideas. Or If you'd like to go a bit farther, go out the Salmon River cut-off (through Rlckreall and over the new highway to Otis) and travel south on the coast road to see the Rhododendrons. Start early enough so that yon can go as far as Florence . . . when yon get to Florence go on south to Honeyman Park four five miles south. Drive into the right and follow around. It's a most lovely spot ... All we can say today Is that It's too bad, If you're going to the coast, that you didn't go out last night and stay over. You'd have more time for the trip today . . . so perhaps you'd better do this next weekend. The rhododendrons will itlll be good better. It could be even than this weekend. Don't Bury Frame House Plant trees around your home so they serve as backdrop and sidecurtains, letting your house be the center of attention, advises R. Ralph Clark, extension horticultur ist at Oregon State college. A general rule of good land scaping is to plant trees that will frame the house, giving it an air of spaciousness and stability, Clark says. And in choosing trees for this purpose, consider the angle and place from which is most likely to be seen, he adds. This is usually from the view of an approaching visitor or passer by, Clark points out, so pretend you're a visitor and look at your house from this point of view. Then, plan your trees so the area in front of the house will appear simple and uncluttered, with the trees balancing and framing the building. This means you will want to limit the use of large shade trees to the back and sides of your house, Clark explains. Large trees are especially useful behind rambling, modern nouses since the trees help soften harsh roof lines. Trees planted in front of the building line of the house would be a size and kind that complement and don't hide the house. (Landscaping With Annuals Found Easy Annual flowers have three main uses. The one most people carry out is the planting of beds and borders for summer and fall garden color and cut flowers. An nuals, of course, fill a vital need in this way since they bloom after the perennials, for the most part, and the garden would be drab for the better part of the sum mer without them. The second use is a modifica tion of the first one. This is the practice of spotting various an nuals into the perennial border so that there is a continuous show in the garden even after the per- enials have finished blooming. Flowerless Home Bleak But there is one other way of using annuals which is most ef fective, and for which they have no substitute. This is in land scaping new homes. Nothing is more bleak than a lovely new home with bare ground or small, newly planted shrubs ineffective ly surrounding it, and nothing is more capable of a quick transfor mation of that situation than a planting of annuals. To do the job right you must first do a little exploring. When you are turning over the soil around the foundation make a practice of probing as deeply as possible with the spading fork to discover every sizable chunk of plaster or cement the builder has left about the house. Hardly a home is built without some of this debris being covered with earth, and all too frequently the amount of such material lying hidden to the eye is so great that unless it is uncovered and re moved at the outset it will im pede the growth of shrubs for years into the future. Check Soil Another sad situation in which you may find yourself is the one in which the builder has found it necessary to grade the property heavily, and in doing so has re moved the precious topsoil which is so necessary to -good plant growth. Compare the soil arqund the house to that in the areas which have not been graded. Is it lighter in color? Can you de tect no decayed vegetable . ma terial? Does it fail to crumble readily after being pressed into a ball? Those are bad signs for you, and if the topsoil has in fact been removed, then your only practical alternative is to put it back by buying topsoil and ap plying it to a depth of at least 6 inches. Now so far as what' in nlant I concerned, your own taste in tiowers can be a reliable guide. The quickest ones are things like alvssnm nr ranrivtiift ' Th nn I that bloom the longest time are thines like hvhriri nottiniaa LFrench marigolds, portulaca and nasturtiums. Of the taller plants you'll get best results from zin nias or Aincan Marigold. Just re member that vou had best stav at least Vz feet away from the foun dation, plant the flowers where they will not be beaten down by anpping irom tne eaves, and give them a Dlace where thev will r. ceive at least one half of the day in iuu sun. Fish Floats May Give New Ideas on Ocean Currents Roses to Be Shown The Salem Rose Society will meet Tuesday night at the YMCA at 8 p.m., the final meeitng before the Salem Rose Society annual show. Members are asked to bring arrangements wmcn will be judged informally at the meeting. Marvin Black will be present to demon strate arrangements. Anyone in terested is invited, according to miss Kuin aquier, society president. Take Off Wax Paint, varnish and other finishes will not dry properly when an- pnea over sun aces which have been waxed. Handymen should remember always to clean surface before band using turpentine or special surface preparers which are sold for this purpose in al most au paint stores. -BUPTURED?-i See - the Dobbs Truss - ft is different it holds the rupture in and up. Bulbs, balls and many types of pads that cut off circulation and cause rupture opening to become larger and larger, should not be worn. -DO NOT EXPERIMENT- Come in anytime for free demonstration of the Dobbs beltless, bulbless strapless truss. For men or women. Only at CAPITAL DRUG STORE 405 State St., Corner of Liberty FINEST MAJOR GASOLINE Clip This Coupon and Bring to Fortune It's Good for a NAIL CLIPPERS Precision Mode, Professional, With Handy Key Chain. Shapes! Cleans! Files! OFFER GOOD THROUGH MAY 26TH LIMIT ONE Subject to Availability - CENTER 4 CHURCH ST. Plus 5 Fortune Stamps (5 Gal. Gas Purchase) You Get On Stamp With Each Gal. Gas No Other Stam" Worth so Much .11 Those colorful glass fishnet floats that are periodically found along the Oregon beaches are being eyed by an Oregon State College ocean ographer for their scientific, rather than the usual souvenir, value. Drv Wayne V. Burt, who has been making an extended study of Ore gon's ocean geography for the past five years, believes the glass floats may provide some new in formation about Pacific Ocean cur rents. Because it Is generally believed that the floats come from Japan via the main current systems, Burt is also contacting Japanese of ficials and research workers for information. In his study of how the floats travel here from Japan, Burt is especially interested in the fact that large numbers of floats are found at one time. A Newport fish ing boat, for example, found 103 floats during 2tt hours on April 10. Lincoln beach residents also found dozens of the Japanese floats about then and all of them are believed to have been pre-war models. In Ocean Eddies This may mean, Burt pointed out, that floats are being concentrated in ocean eddies for long periods of times and then brought ashore in group by a change in the wind or current system. Or, it could be that some storm or accident has freed a large number oi noats at one -time, he continued. He is asking the Japanese for in formation on types of floats being used, float losses and storms. He is hopeful that contacts can be made with Japanese oceanograph- erx and fisheries workers so mat information about losses there, and , findings here, can be checked out. ! With such an arrangement, new information might be developed on driftspeeds and currents, he noted. Burt is also requesting that Ore gonians who have information about finding floats write to him. He is interested in knowing when floats were first found, whep found in large numbers, where they were found, and what types were found. ,Ocean currents are actually more changeable than people think," Burt explained. 'They don't change as fast or often as wind currents, of course, but they do make significant changes." People normally think that Ore gon currents always travel south but on two of 12 Oregon cruises made In recent years by the Scrip ps Institution of Oceanography, it was found that the currents were traveling rather rapidly toward the north, he added. More studies are needed, in fact, to determine what is "normal" in terms of currents, water tempera ture and salinity off the Oregon coast, he said. Cl u TUBEROUS BEGONIAS 3 g FUCHSIAS - DELPHINIUMS - BEDDING PLANTS g 2 "Always first In Qoolify" g CLAGGETT S GREENHOUSE g q 4V4 Mi. N. of Salem on Wallace Rd. q q Turn Right at Foot of Bridge in West Salem p DannDnnnnnnannDnnnnnnnp o a mc? ..- -yy . t .- . 4 TkriU to our mountains of perpetual tnoiii-Rainier , Baker, St. Helens, Adams, Olympus. So much to see... so much to do... i i ana only a pleagant drive away! 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