lO-(Sec. II) Statesman, Salem, Ore., Sun.,June 22, '58
Little-Used Annuals-Right
For Odd Spots in Gardens
Metolius Country for Dudes. Anglers
By LILLIE L. MADSEN
Garden Editor, The Statesman
Have you come up to the last
minute in your flower garden plan
and find tome space left over?
Of course, you've provided for
your favorite flowers such as zin
nias, marigolds and petunias, but
before you decide just to put a
few petunia plants in that little
left-over spot, how about consider
ing a few of the less frequently
planted annuals that might put the
Still Time for Seed Blooms
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Blooms of this annual Gaillardia, Lorenzlana, are usually
double and mostly bicolored In combinations of yellow,
orange, red, pink, white and maroon. Even town now, seed
will come Into bloom this fall.
Garden Gabbing
By GARDEN GADDER
JUST FOR TODAY There are quite a few places you might
like to gad to today. If you are an early riser and feel Jike a full
day's jaunt, there's the final day of the 10th annual Pacific North
vest Rose show at the Olympian Hotel at Olympia, Wash. Now
don't tell us you can't do it in day. Once we attended a flower
show in Seattle (which is farther), getting up there in ample time
for the opening at 10 a.m., spending several hours at the show and
returned home by ( p.m. And we did not break any traffic laws.
Closer, of course, is the final day of the Sister's Rodeo . . .
and still, closer is the final day of the All-Arabian Horse Show
at the State Fairgrounds.
" But if It's strawberries you are looking for what about the
annual Silverton Hills Strawberry Festival? . . . Silverton Hills,
where they pick the big ones. It starts at 12 noon and runs right
on to 8 p.m. You can have either old-fashioned, (which means the
rich biscuit dough type) short cake, or the old-fashioned (which
means the layer type) of cake with the berries. We are told there'll
be strawberries for sale, too, at the festival and in stands along
the highway. The festival (which is mostly made' up. of eating)
Is in the Silverton Hills Community Hall on the Silver Creek Falls
Highway and that reminds us Silver Falls State Park is a delight
ful place these days. If you don't like a lot of folk, choose soma
other spot in the 4,000-acre park than South Falls.
FEED THE BIRDS We had a note from George Alderson, an
Oregon Audubon Society field note recorder, this week telling us
about bird-watching. Says he: "The popularity of casual bird
watching is shown by the volume of bird houses and feeder sales
In pet shops and other stores. Seeds of garden flowers are avail
able to most people, although few seem to know their value in bird
attracting." The Audubon society sends us a note, through George, saying
that the seeds of garden flowers "are good bird food. The Gold
finch (wild canary), Oregon Junco (snowbird), dark brown Song
Sparrow, red-capped Chipping Sparrow, and the White-Crowned
Sparrow are among the garden birds which relish seeds of asters,
centaureas, California poppies, cosmos, marigolds, sunflowers, forget-me-nots,
portuculacas and zinnias. The birds will eat the
seeds from the ground if the flowers are allowed to wither on the
plant, or the cut flowers heads may be set aside to use on the
winter feeding station" . . . Thanks, George, we like birds. They
do more to help rid our gardens of slugs, sowbugs,, earwigs and
what-have-you (and we have plenty this year) than anything else we
Dow of.
THERE ARE RUMORS We are hearing tome Interesting
things being planned for the Silverton Garden Clnb summer tour.
The committee which this year Is the executive committee is
arranging to visit gardens in both "hill aid dale." The exact dates
have not yet been set, but there's talk of it being very early
August.
SPEAXING ABOUT tours, shows and things . . .sever at Sil
verton there's being planned one of those old-fashioned shindigs
again for this summer . '. . The week of Aug. 20-;3 . . . There'll be
an old-fashioned Threshing Bee on Aug. 21 to wind the thing up . . .
and a parade on Aug. 23, and the Jay-C-Ettes popular Summer
Flower Show, on the 23rd also.
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IT'S A COOL SPOT Those who didn't get to Crystal Springs
Island during the Rhododendron Show in May, might find it an
Interesting pot now. Here's where you'll find the American Rhodo
dendron Society Test Gardens. Sure the Rhododendrons aren't in
bloom now or at least only a very occasional straggler has a late
bloom but the gardens are nice to wander about in. Last time we
were there we noted work on a rock garden along the north shore
of the lake. We were told that this would extend 350 feet along
this shore of the island and be 12 to IS feet wide. Here's where
the smaller of the species rhododendrons are grown. Here are
the plants of high adventure, which were brought back to the
gardens of the world by such men as Kingdon-Ward, J. F. Rock,
George Forrest, Farrer, from the mountains of Dalai Lama, the
gorges cut by the Irrawaddy and the Salween Rivers, and other
.equally "impassable" spots of the world. But don't expect bloom
now just coolness, quietness, and interesting green foliage. In
Portland the gardens are off 32nd and SE Woodstock, reached
by walking down the hill from this intersection, to 28th Ave., and
turn right one block.
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NOT HOW-TO-DO We just received a copy of a most delight
ful new book by James C. Rose. The book Is "Creative Gardens,"
published this year by Relnhold Publishing Corporation.
Almost all of the new' books we've seen have been "bow-to-do"
something or.other. In this book we just look and read mostly
look at what other folk have done. Mr. Rose says that "to tell
someone whose place yon have never seen how to design a garden
Is like a doctor trying to perform aa appendectomy over the
telephone when he Is not sore the patient has appendicitis."
"Creative Gardens" Is a thought-provoking essay, counter
pointed against handsome ptttures and factual, ease history stories.
He does an excellent job of fusing the house and landscape . . .
and besides all of this there are a lot of Just plain Ideas any of
as can follow. We were Interested to note how very many of the
gardens are built around trees. He made a remark which we liked
very much: In speaking of making a garden "It seemed Uke more
fun to make one's own mistakes than to rectify the mistakes of
ethers."
He also points out that walls la a garden should be "gardea
walla Instead at barriers' . , . but read K for yourselves.
very touch of perfection to you
plan?
Varieties . Mentioned
Here are a few varieties you'd
like, arranged roughly into two
groups according to height.
Low growing: Ageratum, Midget
Blue fluffy true blue flowers inj
clusters covering little 3 inch
plants; Alyssum Royal Carpet
royal purple blooms on 3 inch
plants; Alyssum Carpet of Snow
same height, but with white
flowers.
Candytuft Dwarf Fairy Mixes
quick bloom covering 10 inch
plants; Celosia Dwarf Crested big
heads of coxcomb on 12 inch
plants: Cornflower Jubilee Gen
this is a dwarf cornflower .with
fine blue flowers on 12 inch plants.
California Poppy available eith
er in mixed colors or orange.
Gomphrena Buddy and Cissy
don't let the name deter you. This
is an excellent pair of varieties
with purple and white flowers like
cloverhead on six inch plants.
Portulaca the old fashioned
moss rose with three inch plants
and multitudes of bright flowers.
Stands heat and drought with the
best of them.
Vinca Little Pinkie a peaiwinkle
just recently introduced that grows
only 12 inches tall.
For the Background
Taller growing: Ageratum Blue
Perfection fine blue, fluffy flow
ers on a 14 inch plant.
Bells of Ireland green plants
and green bells for flowers; good
for cutting. About two feet.
Celosia Pampas Plume best tall
feathery plumed coxcomb.
Cosmos Mandarin new this
year, and a real find in cosmos,
since this variety has bright or
ange double flowers with up to 40
petals, forty inches.
Gaillardia Double Lorenziana
it's a mystery why this one isn't
more widely known, for the flow-
ers are handsome, double and col
orful, and the plants are easily
grown anywhere.
Tithonia Torch be sure to get
Torch, not speciosa, for the species
grows too tall, while Torch bas
bright orange red flowers and
grows about 4S Inches high.
Well, that's a pretty good list
of possibilities for your odd comer
or experimental plot. Every one
of these is tested for ease of grow
ing and all are annuals you can
plant right away, directly out of
doors.
Could Be Out
You may not find all of these
at local greenhouses and flower
shops this late, but you are sure
to find some of them. A few will
even bloom yet from seed scat
tered in the vacant spot
If you don't find the one you
are looking for, ask the shop own
er for a similar one. Sometimes
different seed houses carry almost
the same thing under a different
name. But these, mentioned here,
are all standard varieties. Some
are comparatively new, however,
and it just could be your florist
might not have carried certain
ones, or if he did, be could be
out of them.
Of course, if you are a gardener
in Stayton, then I suggest that
you plant petunias, and more pet
unias. It is Petunia Town and any
visitor coming in during summer
can't but admire the amount of col
or this ambitious flower produced.
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If it's fishing you like or dude ranching the Mctollus country Is now open to both. No better
streams are found anywhere for a weekend "rest" than in the higher country between
Salem and Sisters, and no more attractive dude ranches can be reached within a few hours
than also found in the area. (Statesman Photo)
Blaze Damages
Portland Plant
PORTLAND (AP)-Fire swept
through a building materials com
pany plant in north Portland Fri
day afternoon, causing damage
estimated at $20,000. I
Fire investigators said children,,
piaving with matches were respon
sible. 7
Nearly a hundred firemen fou?ht
the blaze from which smoke bil
lowed several hundred feet into
the air.
Earl Shannon, owner of the
firm, the Shannon Building Ma
terials Co. at N. Vancouver Ave.
and Russell St., said the fire
first was discovered in a shed
housing plywood.
Fire Investigators said chlTOren
ranging in age from 8 to 10 told
varying stories of lighting match
es. They said the stories were so
conflicting thev were unable to
learn which child started the fire.
-Travel Talks-
Jazz Prayef
Gets Backing
LONDON (AP) The Church of
England newspaper, Friday
praised a preacher for staging a
jazz service on Britain's Commer
cial TV last Sunday.
He is the Rev. Geoffrey Beau
mont, author of a composition fea
turing The Lord s Prayer" in the
two-beat rhythm style of Ameri
can Dixieland.
The prayer was sung on TV by
a selected group backed up by
trumpet, trombone, saxophone and
rhythy section. One hymn also had
some hot licks added.
"He is expressing religious ex
perience through the material
available to him," said the leading
editorial In the church paper. "He
la doing for certain elements in
society what Bach with his
chorales does for others."
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Reich Army Changed
BONN (AP) - Defense 'minis
ter Franx Josef Strauss announced
the West German army is being
reorganized to abolish 20,000-man
divisions in favor of self-sufficient
combat groups of between 3,000
and 4,000 men, Tbey will be
called brigades. , '
HERE WE GO AGAIN on the
subject of knowing Oregon. We're
not going to suggest anything def
inite, but did you know that Sea
side lays claim to the "West
Coast's finest boardwalk?" This is
& two-mile beach promenade, not
buiH from boards but out of con
crete . . . That Fort Clatsop,
near Astoria, was the winter
headquarters in 180546 of the Lew
is and Clark Expedition? This post
was reconstructed in 1955 accord
ing to design of Ha founders . . .
The world's shortest river is the
D River, at Delake at the mouth
of Devil's Lake? And the lake is
abundantly stocked with rainbow
trout, steelhead and silver salm
on . . . .' . That Slltcoos lake is
the largest on the coast? It's
north of Winchester Bay and is
nne of several bodies of fresh wa
ter to be found near the ocean.
Besides, there's no closed season
in Siltcoos on bass or perch
LIKE IT ON THE FARM? A
100-acre dairy farm on the Mas
sachusetts coast, a restored plan
tation near Natchez, and a cattle
ranch in Montana are among the
260 farms and country resorts de
scribed in the 1958 "Farm and Va
cations Holidays" booklet. Each
description in the 58-page booklet
gives details of locations, recrea
tion available locally, and rates
for accomodations. These general
ly average about $40 weekly for
ing three meals a day . . . We'll
make our bow to farmers always
if they can't make it one way
they will another .... and none
of us can make it without them.
SOUNDS MOST INTERESTING
A project' called "Bible Inns"
I now underway in the land of
Israel. The inns, being built at
Israel's points of historical inter
est, will combine such architec
tural devices of ancient times as
courtyards, pergolas and arches,
with modern equipment and facil
ities for the contemporary travel
er. The first Bible inn is now un
derway at a point south of Beer
sheba. It is called the "Patriarch's
Inn" in honor of the Biblical Abra
ham who once, we are told, lived
in the region. Another of the inns
under construction is the "Nabat
ean Inn" in the Nebev, to honor
the Nabateans, an old civilization
that greatly enjoyed life some 1200
years ago. Both inns are situated
near the new highway now link
ing Beersheba with Elath. Don't
ask us because we don't know
just when they'll be ready. One
release about them indicated that
they could be occupied later this
summer.
INNS OF ENGLAND This is a
continuation of those we men
tioned last Sunday (and we ap
preciate the three cards and two
telephone calls we received re
minding us to "continue" as we
had promised).
In the garden of the Merton
Hotel at Ross-on-Wye in Wales, a
pretty little town commanding a
red-cliff overlooking the waters of
the Wye-not the Kwai Admiral
Lord Nelson wrote letters to Lady
Hamilton.
Sometimes in Britain the adjec
tive "new" just doesn't mean any
thing. Take the New Inn at Glou
cesterit was new when built
about 1450 to house pilgrims to
the shrine of the murdered Kine
Edward II in the town cathedral,
then an abbey.
Even cheese has it's place in the
historical inns of England. On the
Great North Road stands the
stone-built Bell Hotel, at Stilton in
Leicestershire. Here farmers in
the 1700 s used to bring their soon
to-be-famous dairy products for
sale to coach travelers. The sign
Doara stw displays simDly a huce
bell and one word: "Stilton."
DISNEYLAND TRAIN To ear
ly visitors through the Grand
Canyon diorama, Disneyland at
Anaheim, Calif., has a new train.
It cost $150,000 and has five cars
patterned after the "Narragan
sett" type popular for excursions
in the east around 1900. There are
also five other trains in the park.
Two in service since the opening
nay, nave carried more than 5,
000,000 passengers.
.LIKE -MUSIC? This isn't the
'oncert we mentioned before. Lu
cerne, Switzerland, will have its
20th International Festival this
summer from Aug. 13-Sept 10, dur
ing which time seven orchestral
concerts, choral works and cham
ber music performances will be
given.
Information and tickets may
be obtained by writing the Inter
national Festival of Music Lu
cerne, Switzerland. Hotel informa
tion and reservations can be made
through local tourist offices or
through the Lucerne Hotel Asso
ciation, 1 Hirschmattstr, Lucern.
Head Hunters Vie
TAIPEI (AP) Two discendants
of head hunters are asserting rival
claims to the title of king of the
aborigines in the Sun-Moon Lake
area of central Formosa. But the
claimants, Mao Hsin-hsiao and
Shi Sun-chia, will not declare a
head-hunting war to settle the dis
pute in the old way. Instead, they
recently held news conference to
assert their claims.
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Radioactive
Cocktail Okeh,
Man Reveals
MINNEAPOLIS AP)-A silver
haired scientist drank a radioac
tive cocktail fresh out of an atom
smasher Friday, smacked his lips
and announced: "It tastes all
right."
Dr Wallace D. Armstrong, 52-
year-old University of Minnesota
medical man, drained a cup con
taining radioactive fluoride in the
first reported experiment of its
kind on humans. He used water as
a wash.
Dr. Armstrong, head of the
school's physiological chemistry
department, conducted the test as
the first in a series he plans on
Other human guinea pigs.
I feel I have a moral respon
sibility to try it first myself be
fore asking others to do it, he told
a news conference before druuung
the potion.
The hot" fluoride was manu
factured only a few hours earlier
in the university's big atom
smasher, called a linear accelerator.
it was made by bombarding a
beaker of water containing a large
amount of heavy oxygen with 10
million volts of electricity.
Armstrong said the main
purpose in the experiment was to
learn the exact rate that fluoride
is absorbed and excreted from the
human body. The radioactive sub
stance was used for measure'
ments far more accurate than pos
sible through chemical analysis.
Dr. Armstrong said it would
take about a week to calculate all
the results of the experiment.
Tuareg men, nomadic Berbers
in North Africa, have a hard time
with their women, reports the Na
tional Geographic Society. The
women regard themselves as
men's equals, marry at will and
demand to speak in council.
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