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Blending California and Cape Cod ideas, this small house
is based on the most popular Long Island plans since the war.
Although it covers only 828 square feet, a basement and
expansion attic give it a generous capacity. It has 18,216
cubic feet. A large tilted window, rising from a stone flower
box, and high awning type windows hinged at the top are
among features. This is Plan 2661 by Rudolph A. Matern,
90-04 161st St., Jamaica 2, N. Y. (AP Wirefeatures)
Foods Consumed by Healthy
Plants Same as Humans Use
By JOHN H. HANLEY, PhD
DID YOU KNOW THAT . . .
the foods which plants consume
in their normal, healthy growth
are EXACTLY the same as the
foods which we humans use?
That flower, or tree, or vege
table, out in the garden is just
as dependent upon sugars,
starches, proteins and minerals
for it's existence as are we? The
big difference lies in the fact
that the growing plant makes all
its own . . . out of gases from the
air, water and minerals from the
soil, and with the vital assis
tance of the sun. Here is the ab
solutely basic combination upon
which ALL LIFE ON EARTH
DEPENDS. Every animal, either
directly or indirectly, owes it's
continued existence to the green
, plants of the field and forest.
Healthy plants, gorged with their
full complement of foods and
minerals, form the absolute basis
of a healthy people in a healthy
civilization. That is why it is
so important that the fertilizer
the farmer puts on his fields be
so constituted that it will pass
along to our tables all the as
sorted chemicals we need for
proper' development of healthy
bodies and minds. Even in our
home gardens, we should give
thought to using those fertilizer
materials which will yield to
the plants and, through them,
'to the human body, the things
which they, and we, must have.
Though the detailed deficiencies
in soils vary greatly from garden
to garden, and from section to
section, there are a few rather
fundamental ideas which apply
most everywhere. (1) If you
buy one of the so-called "com
plcte" fertilizers for use on any
kind of plants, it should be a
well balanced one. Try to be
sure that it contains not only
the right amount of nitrogen
but that it includes enough phos-
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enough to make up for the lack
of these twp which is character
; istic of the soils In your district,
'. PLAN2S6l
By so doing, you are doing the
first and most important thing
to offset one of our prime garden
problems, namely, to answer the
question, "Why does my shrub
(or tree, or flower) produce so
few blooms and fruits?" Phos
phorus and potash are very
closely involved here. (2) The
best fertilizers seem to be those
which have AN ORGANIC base
(poultry, sheep or other man
ures, or packing-house refuse).
There are several outstandingly
fine ones available. (3) What is
usually lacking in the ordinary
fertilizer, (and it must there
fore be supplied by using booster
mixtures or compost makers
which contain same) is a well-
balanced supply of the "minor'
elements (minerals) which both
healthy plants and healthy ani
mals require. (4) It is ALWAYS
wise to supplement the' fertilizer
with the regular, annual use of
organic matter either dug in, or
as mulches (peats, compost, leaf
mold, manures, sawdusts, etc.)
MADONNA LILIES ... at this
season often begin to show signs
of the disease which makes them
look like scalped Indians by the
time they open their lovely
white blooms in June. Watch the
ends of the leaves and, if they
begin to look discolored and
"watery", you've got it! It's the
Botrytis disease, control for
which should begin when the
plants are five or six inches high.
Use a dust or spray containing
copper or ferbam, not once, but
several times at ten-day inter
vals as the stalks stretch upward.
This is also the time of year to
put on your first dust or spray
for those pests which draw the
young foliage together at the
tips of the stems of many garden
plants (the leaf tiers). Best for
JOHNSTON
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Planning
Planning a garden, an annual
ever-changing job, is a pretty
complicated activity.
A garden is a highly personal
thing, as much a part of its own
er as his handwriting. It re
flects his taste, his pride and his
personality. If one gardens at
all, one must put plenty of
thought into it.
Armchair gardening, pleas
ant as it is, Is deluding. Most
of us outline on paper a pro
gram far too ambitious to car
ry out satisfactorily. Once we
dig up and plant more than we
can tend in available time,
we're faced with letting the
whole grounds look seedy and
run-down, hiring expensive
assistance, or losing much of
our pleasure by having to
work too hard keping things
in control.
Everyone should have a real
istic conversation with himself
about the amount of work he
wants to do in the garden. A
small, well-tended garden is in
finitely to be preferred to a big
one, if it isn't going to get the
attention it needs. Even a small
bed of flowers requires a big
investment in time and work,
and if that time is grudgingly
spent, its better to invest
trees, shrubs and grass and let
it go at that.
So before drawing the essen
tial garden map and plan, de
cide how much work you want
to do. If you want to be a Sat
urday gardener, don't spade up
the entire north forty. If you
propose to put in a couple of
hours each night after work and
spend a two-day week-end with
spading fork and hand-weeder,
the garden can be larger.
No one can measure your
strength and enthusiasm but
yourself, and at this time of
year you are very apt to be
deceived by your own esti
mates. Take it easy and have
your garden too small rather
than too large. You can al
ways expand later.
Another important decision is
the location of the garden itself,
It's not entirely a matter of the
richness of soil and how the sun
hits your property, Think also
of the family's outdoor living
habits. A garden may be an
outdoor living room and as
such should be planned as an
extension of the house.
It may be a cutting garden, a
mass of color you want to enjoy
from a distance. In any event,
it should be placed in harmony
with the rest of the - ground's
landscaping. It should be plan
ned in related units so that its
owner won't spend most of the
time tidying up a chopped up
series of beds and plantings.
It's never too late to repair
mistakes. If the rose garden
at the corner was a mess be
cause everyone took short
cuts across it, you can always
transplant the roses, resecd
and try a new area. If the
vegetable garden proved to
be an extension of the chil
dren's playground, that too can
be moved or fenced in.
The point is to know what
you want from a garden. If it's
vegetables, its location will be
slightly different than the spot
you d pick for the mass plantings
of gladiolus.
Once these matters are ironed
out, it's time to reach for the
tape measure, the paper and pen
cil and get ahead with the busi
ness of planning the garden it
self what goes into it and what
you want to take out of it.
home garden use are the superb
all-purpose dusts, available at
every seed store. The all-pur-
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a Garden
Planning Planting It's best
Sowing Seeds
Really Means
Instructions on the seed pack
ets of cucumbers, bush and vine
type squash, pumpkins, melons
and some other crops that like
plenty of space to spread out,
usually say to "sow in hills."
Beginners would naturally
suppose that this means in
mounds, elevated above the sur
rounding surface.
But in most sections of our
country, it means a point, as
distinguished from a line, and
is more likely to be hollow than
mound. Only where , the
ground is so low that it does
not drain well, or rainfall may
be so heavy it runs off slowly,
should garden hills be elevated.
Sweet corn is sometimes sown
in hills, three plants to a hill,
though the practice of growing
this crop in drills is spreading.
Hills are lined up in a straight
row, and spaced at equal dis
tances apart. The usual prac
tice is to dig a shallow hole
with a trowel, mix plant food
with the soil in the bottom, fill
soil on top of this, and then
place the seeds, using a few more
than plants are to be grown
This is to make sure that enough
come up; if more grow than are
wanted, the surplus ones are
thinned out.
In well drained gardens, it
may be advisable to leave s
slight depression above the seeds,
since most of the varieties sown
in hills are tender, and are sown
late when warm weather dries
the soil and rains have become
less frequent than in the early
spring. A depression will con
centrate the moisture from light
rains and heavy dews, to speed
LUMBER
2x4 to 2x8 surfaced framing
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Must be seen to be apprec
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and save. Also estimates on
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Huddleston Retail
Lumber Yard
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Route Z Silverton, Ore.
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You can broadcait
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Is a Job
n
to know before you grow.
in Hills,
in Hollows
up germination of the seed.
To facilitation cultivation, each
hill should be marked by a stake
until ,the seeds begin to grow.
When the hills are accurately
lined cultivation between rows
may be carried out with the
same ease as between drills;
and a hand-hoe can be used to
keep down weeds in the row.
Did You
Know That
It takes 30 gallons of water to
fill the average bathtub, 30 gal
lons for the average shower
bath, average lawn sprinkler
uses 120 gallons per minute and
V garden hose with nozzle
uses 275 per minute?
In 1940 there were 37,300,000
dwelling units, of which 2,500,
000 were vacant?
To budge a sticking drawer,
soap or paraffin along the top
and bottom sliding edges is a
good first-aid measure, but in a
serious case the edges may have
to be sanded down?
Nearly a million families paid
off home mortgage debts last
year?
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homes which are so popular to
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the amount of furniture you can
buy, how it is arranged, and
your entire living pattern with
in the home.
That is why stationary units
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decoration or they can severely
limit it. It many homes this
problem of space is eased by the
use of recessed convector-radia-
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tractive than cast iron radiators
and take up much less than half
the space. Ideal with steam or
hot water heating systems, these
convectors can be recessed fully
or partly into the wall, thus en
larging the space available for
furniture and other accessories
Small bathrooms especially
utilize convectors to advantage.
A certain number of units are es
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all of them except the heatinff
outlet must stand out from the
walls. Thus the convector, when
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Convectors also show up to
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the home. Attractive and
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easily to harmonize with any
color scheme or decorative
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