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Methods to
Extend Flower
Blooming Told
Plants blooming late In the sea.
on. subject to possible damage
by rain or early frosts may be
saved by transierrlng tnem to
pats and moving them to protected
locations.
Chrysanthemums, many of which
have smarted their bloom cycle,
can be continued in bloom if prop
erly protected from rain, wind or
frost. The method ot protection
varies. In the past the exhibition
chrysanthemums were grown un
der glass thereby ensuring a full
period of blooming. Later, it be
came the practice of many home
' garden enthusiasts to raise their
chrysanthemums under cloth cov
erings that broke the force of rain
fall and tended to reduce the dan
ger of frost damage..
Still, not everyone had facilities
for erecting such a covering.
Therefore, in more recent years, it
has been determined that chrysan
themums could be lifted at nearly
any stage of growth and trans
ferred to pots, the pots being set
in location where protection
from the elements was assured.
Such a location might be in an
"L" of the house, on a porch or
inside the home' itself.
Pots chosen for this purpose
could be large enough to contain
all of the plant's roots without
crowding. Even though some soil
might be lost from the roots in
the transfer, the plants will usual
ly recover if given new soil to re
place that lost and they are care
fully watered to keep them in good
growing condition.
Plants besides chrysanthemums
that may be continued for an ad
ditional period of bloom include
geraniums, dahlias and tuberous
begonias. It is possible to move
these plants when they are in full
bloom with comparatively little
damage.
pare of this sort will prevent
many losses o desirable plants in
the event of a sudden freeze such
as we experienced a year ago.
Home Repairs
Dos . . . Dont's
DO , . . bear in mind that the
key to good plnninp is a sharp
bhdc adjusted so that it extends
a.nairs wiain ncyona me Douom
aba is parallel with it.
-DO . . . plane with the grain
(whenever possible), starting at
one end of the ood with the toe
of the plane flat on the surface
and exerting over-all pressure as
the rear handle comes over the
wood.
DO . . . avoid breaking a corner
oa end gram by planing Irem the
corner towards the middle.
'DO . . . sharpen a plane blade
on grinding wheel for best results.
using an adjustable holder to get
the right angle and rounding the
corners ever so slightly in
sharpening stone. "
stone for removing the wire edge
usually formed by a grinding
wheel.
DON'T ... set down the plane
on its bottom (rest it on the side)
and when it is not to be used
again for a period of time, retract
the blade.
. DON'T ... be a lazy planer:
t)irn the wood around in the vise
whenever necessary to avoid awk
ward positions and poor results.
DON'T . . . forget that while the
ordinary jack plane is probably
DO . . . also use the sharpening
the best all-around plane for a
home workshop, tl re are many
other types for specific purposes
. . . among them the block,
smooth, fore, Jointer and rabbet
planes.
Taylors Plan for
When the Hugh Taylors built a kitchen Mte their house on the
corner of North 18th and D streets, they continued on oat and built
a covered patio, pictured above. Mrs. Taylor added to the charm
of the pallo by decorating the bearns, posts and capboards with her
original deslgos. For warm friendliness there is a fireplace at
one end, which also has a crane for holding a tea kettle or a
black Iron kettle, and for cooking there Is a wood cook stove
that has been placed In a brlcked-ln ha(t wall. Bclew Is the
dining room In the Taylor home. The chlria closet, which Is old
Is filled with old dishes and cut glass. The cupboard at the
right of the picture has been reflnlshed by Mrs. Taylor and at
the far left Is an old dresser with marble top that Is used as a
sideboard and bar.
Fall Cleaning Can
Become Fun Project
Fall cleaning may be a fun
project a time to size up the
old and plan some new acces
sories for the home. It doesn't
need to be drudgery.
Find a good routine for chores.
the right equipment and proper
dress, and you can learn to enjoy
the job. Schedule cleaning chores,
room by room. Plan your work so
that you find time for an after
noon nap.
Some homcmakers like to clean
one room thoroughly each day,
preferring the rotation plan to any
other system, giving other rooms
a once-over lightly each day.
Other homcmakers prefer doing
heavy cleaning all In one day;
routine chores like bed-making,
dusting and kitchen mopping every
day
A bride has a good opportunity
to start out from scratch. She
doesn't need to use Mom's methods
unless she finds them to her liking.
Her routine will depend on the
equipment washing machine,
freezer; whether she shops for gro
ceries or gets them delivered. It
makes, a difference in planning.
TESTED SHORTCUTS
Here are some ideas other young
homcmakers have established. Per
haps they will help you plan your
schedule
List all suniilirs and equipment
you need to do the job. 'l ake ad
vantage of new products especially
created to make the job easier.
Get one of the creamy pastes
that cover hands and fingernails
and apply It before cleaning. It'll
help the dirt to be more easily re
moved after your cleaning project.
Consider these cleaning aids:
Bottled detergents to make sods
tor washing dishes, nylons, wool
ens . . . water softeners , . . win
dow cleaners with spray appplica
tors . . . liquid starch for a bright
new look to window curtains . . .
new oven cleaner with its own ap
plicator ... A bottle of liquid
furniture wax goes a long way
. . . bleach for cleaning and sani
tizing bathroom fixtures, kitchen
tile, sink, refrigerator and range
. . . sudsy ammonia for grease
stained areas . . . insecticides.
SPEEDING CHORES
Most housewives moving Into
new establishments will find more
conveniences than there were a
few years ago, enabling home
chares to take on a dual role. Here
are a few ideas:
Outdoor Living
Clothes may be washed and
spun dry while you clean up the
kitchen (put out milk bottles, wash
dishes, wipe off appliances, shine
pots, mop floor).
Dinner might be cooked with
the new stove timers while you
snop.
Dishes might be washed in a
dishwasher while you clean an en
tire room.
Cook your dinner casserole.
stew or ragout hours in advance.
Hnve it set to pop in the oven
anytime.
Spend the last few hours in
relaxation awaiting your man's
return home. Take a bath, put
on something attractive. It's a
good lime to knit, darn, sew on
buttons.
It's a good idea to have the
table set, the dinner in the oven
and the kitchen spanking clean
when your husband returns from
work. Even if you do not have
all the modern appliances you
can. accomplish that much, .and
still look relaxed when he gets
nome.
Post a schedule in the kitchen
where you can see it. Put under
a "oncc-a-week" heading such
chores as defrosting the refrig-
eraior, cleaning out the pantry
of whatever, and under "twice-a-month"
turning mattresses,
shampooing area rugs, washing
winaows.
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Bulb Planting
Time Arrives
Most of the spring blooming
bulbs have been planted in Septem
ber. However, if you overlooked
that chore, you still have time to
get them in and have a grand dis
play next spring. But, do not de
lay! The planting procedure for these
bulbs is very simple, in fact.
bulbs are often considered the
easiest of all plants to handle. Se
lect a location with good drainage,
place plant food, well-rotted ma
nure or bonemeal below the bulb
but not in contact with it. Plant
the bulbs at a depth two and one
half times the height of the bulb.
It is not necessary to cultivate
a whole bed to prepare for bulb
planting unless mass planting is
contemplated. Simply make a hole
large enough to contain the bulb,
loosen the sou below, place the fer
tilizer, set the bulb and cover with
soil. Tulips are similarly treated
but may be planted much later
than most spring flowering bulbs.
But, just because they may be
planted later, do not put off the
tack.
It is possible, too, to plant some
of these bulbs in pots, sink the
pots in the ground out of doors
where they should be left for five
or six weeks when they may be
brought indoors and forced into
bloom for the holiday season. Tu
lips are especially favored for this
use, several bulbs being planted
in a fairly large size pot. Selection
of appropriate varieties to afford
the right colors will add gaiety to
the holiday mood ot the season.
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HOME OF THE WEEK
Patio Much Used
In Warm
By MARGARET MAGEE
Capital Journal Writer
This summer has been one con
ducive to living out of doors and
the Hugh Taylors are well
equipped to take advantage of
such weather. Their covered patio
is almost an outdoor living room,
with nature providing what deco
rations have not been done by
Mrs. Taylor.
When the Taylors moved
their home at the corner of
and North 18th streets the kitchen
of the home, which was built in
1900, was very small, so they built
onto the house putting on me
kitchen and the covered patio.
Flreolace on Patio
The large patio at the far end
of the house has a fireplace, an
old wood burning range built into
the bricked-in area and a cup
board underneath which is
space for wood for both the range
and the fireplace. The ceiling and
posts have all been painted white
and designs drawn by Mrs. Tay
lor are found on the beams, posts
and the cupboards.
Flowers are in profusion on the
Taylor lot, and beds have been
so arranged as to become part ot
the artistic arrangement around
the patio.
Do-lt-Yourself Fan
Mrs. Taylor was a do-it-your
selfer long before this became a
vogue and the entire house is an
outstanding example of what one
can do himself. Speaking of furni
ture she has refinished, Mrs. Tay
lor commented, "I think it is
more of a challenge to re-do old
things than start with all new
furnishings."
When plans were in the making
for building on- a kitchen Mrs.
Taylor did the planning. The re
sult was a kitchen work area, a
dining area at one end and a sew
ing room in the section that was
the old kitchen. This is separated
from the new kitchen by a bar
in which the stove has also been
set.
Cupboards and built-ins here are
of natural colored spruce and the
counters, bar and drainboards are
covered in bright red. In contrast
to this is the turquoise used in
window and door casing trims
and n the open beams and the
antiqued turquoise cupboard she
has refinished. Plans originally
called for. a high fireplace with
container for wood below. The
cost prohibited this at the time
so a pot cupboard was. substituted
and Mrs. Taylor says she would
not do without it now.
Off the kitchen is the family
room. This has' a corner fire
place, which has a white tile
trim. Bright touch in the room is
the red curtains with tiny green
figures and a green ruffle trim.
Elegance Felt
The dining room of the house
has an elegance about it that
makes one feel he is stepping into
another age. The crystal light
hangs over the long mahogany
table In- the center of the room,
which is papered in a mustard
colored wall paper with a provin
cial design. At one end of the
room is an old china closet with
glass doors containing old dishes
and cut glass. Lending a homey
note is the rocking chair in one
corner of the room. Pictures of
fruit on the wall all framed in
gilt frames were painted by Mrs
Taylor's mother, Mrs. R. W,
Hicks.
Brown tones predominated In
the living room, where the center
of interest is the fireplace with a
large mirror above it. The walls
are a chocolate brown and the
rug is brown. Cream is used in
the trim for the room and the
drapes arc chartreuse. Pictures
used in this room have been
framed In gold and in cream
frames trimmed with gold. Golds,
beige tones with a floral design
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brown and green are used in the
furniture.
More furniture that has been re
finished by Mrs. Taylor is found
in the one downstairs bedroom in
the house. A small figured pro
vincial design wall paper
shades of green has been used in
this room and the woodwork is
in green.
Upstairs there are four more
bedrooms and one gets to them
via a stairway going up from the
dining room. The stairway, which
like most of those built in that
day is very narrow, is entered
through a salon type swinging
door.
The smallest room upstairs has
been done in one color mustard
to give a feeling of more space
and an old bed has been cut down
and redone for the room. In the
large bedroom a blue figured wall
paper has been used and giving a
bright contrast are the red drapes
with a narrow blue trim. Twin
spool beds are used in this room
and furniture has been done in
antiqued, pimento. On one of the
chests of drawers is found an old
pitcher and washbowl with a blue
trim.
'Red predominates in one of the
other bedrooms and shades of
green are used in the other. In
the latter there is an old walnut
bedroom set the Taylors refin
ished. One project still remains
in this room that is the cutting
down of the height of the head of
the bed.
Your Garden
Notebook
DO YOU KNOW?
A selection of species and varie
ties of magnolias can provide
flowers from March through July?
The raising of orchids in the
home is gaining in popularity as
a hobby?
Bulbs planted now, in pots will
provide winter bloom to cheer the
home and make fine Christmas
gifts?
COMING EVENTS
Oct. 24-25-Seattle Chrysanthe
mum Society show, Norway Cen
ter, Seattle, Wash.
Oct. 24-26 Holly Society of
America meeting, Multnomah Ho
tel, Portland.
Dec. 5-9 Oregon State Horticul
tural Society, Corvallis.
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October Busy Month
For Gardeners
Tasks Needed
To Insure
Future
By MARK M. TAYLOR
Capital Journal Special Writer
October brings the end of the
active gardening season with
some fall flowers completing their
cycle, but, the home gardener's
work is not finished so lightly for
certain tasks must be performed
m order to insure a good year
next year.
Dahlias, fuchsias, cannas, tuber
ous begonias and gladiolus should
be lifted and stored this month
unless you wish to prolong the
blooming season by transferring
them to pots for indoor bloom.
These can be left out through the
winter, if preferred, if they are
well mulched to protect them
from the ravages of a possible
frost.
Cut Peony Stalks
Peony foliage will turn brown
this month, indicating the end of
its growing period. Cut the stalks
just below the soil surface.
Chrysanthemums should be cut
back to the ground as soon as they
have finished blooming.
Beds of annuals should be
cleaned out with all refuse con
signed to the compost pile, as
should also be done in the vege
table garden.
Roses may continue to bloom
unless frosts intervene, and as
long as they are growing do not
neglect your regular spray pro
gram. Leaves are already beginning to
fall. Do not permit them to lay
on the lawn indefinitely as they
will tend to, mat and smother the
grass that has not yet become
dormant. Put all leaves, except
from rose bushes (that, may har
bor some disease) on the compost
pile.
Prepare Compost
If you do not have a compost
pile as yet, now is the time to
start one. All vegetative matter
can go into the compost pile
where it will break down and af
ford an excellent, inexpensive
source of fertilizer and mulch for
future use.
Every bit of vegetative waste
may be put in the compost pile
to make a fertilizer and mulch
for future use. Tests have shown
that everything but rubber breaks
down and becomes a part of the
finished compost, nature's own
fertilizer.
The compost pile may be placed
in a large box or a pit, with a
scattering of sou placed upon
eacn layer. Chemical activators.
to start the decomposition process
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and speed up the action may be
added, if desired. The top of the
pile should be scopped out so that
rainfall will gather there and
keep the material saturated to
promote rotting.
Add Wastes, Pruning!
Grass clippings, leaves, prun
ings from trees and shrubs and
kitchen vegetable waste should al
ways be added to the compost
pile.
If there is danger of a foul odor
from the compost pile, which is
the exception rather than the rule,
a light sprinkling of acid phos
phate over it will stop this con
dition and preserve the gases
valuable for olant food.
When the major pruning of
shrubs and trees gets underway
woody branches and twigs may
be included in the compost al
though chopping or grinding these
into smaller parts will speed up
the breaking down process. Me-
hchanical grinders are available
for this purpose.
At this season of the year, with
leaves beginning to fall in pro
fusion from our trees, the mak
ing of a compost pile 'takes on
added importance. In the past the
acrid smell of burning leaves in
dicated we were well into the fall
season. Now, however, it Is con
ceded that the burning of these
leaves Is like burning money! The
leaves from our trees contain
many valuable food elements es
sential to the healthy growth of
most plants. It is only logical,
then, to utilize this material,
which costs us nothing, yet which
Questions
Bv MARK M.
How should one prune a philoden-
dron that has - grown too large?
E. S.
Cut back to any desired height
just aboTe a leaf. It will branch
out more, then, but Its height will
be restrained.
When is proper time to prune
shrubs? M. J.
It depends upon the character
of the particular shrub in ques
tion, but, generally, spring
flowering shrubs are pruned im
mediately after flowering with
summer and fall blooming shrubs
pruned in early spring just be
fore growth starts.
Have arborvitae planted next to
house.. The part next to the house
seems to be dying though the
outer branches are a nice green.
What should be done? J. M.
If the branches are dead, dry
and brown, it la best to cut them
back to the trunk to permit good
air circulation and to prevent
insect pests from nesting there.
Careful removal of dead branches
sewice-
in
supplies valuable food elements to
our plants.
Materials infested with a funguj
disease should not be included 'n
the compost pile lest the disease
be spread through its use
Seriously iifested plant material
should be burned to destroy the
imeaiduuii.
Take Up Begonias
Tuberous begonias will be taken
up this month as the danger of
early frost threatens. Lift the
tubers, then let them dry thor.
oughly. The tops will come ofl
easily but any vestige of the stem
remaining on 'the tuber should be
carefully removed with a pen.
knife, the tubers thoroughly
cleaned of any soil remaining and
then should be packed in dry
sand.
If you have some special be
gonias you would like to multiply
ity laniiig Bteiii cuuings at this!
time. Root, them in sand anil
carry them through the winter un.'
aer glass or omer protection, for
planting next spring. Saving seed
of tuberous begonias Is no work
for the amateur as the seed ii
so tiny and without prooer nnlll.
nation will not give the choice
plants expected.
The vegetable garden comes in
for its share of attention thli
month, too. Root vegetables may
be left in the ground until just
before frost. Parsnip?, however,
are improved in flavor if left un
til after the first freeze.
Tomato plants should be lifted
and moved to a warm place so
tne green tomatoes will ripen.
Answered
TAYLOR
only may permit the good ones
to cover np the removed area.
Is there a chemical killer to rid
a lawn of crabgrass? P.H.
The newest development Ji
known as PAX but is yet in
experimental stage so much be
used with the nnderstading it
may not be successful. Most
broad-leaved weed killers are
ineffective against crabgrass,
unfortunately. Perhaps the
most successful control is J
through creation of a healthy
stand of desirable grasses that
will crowd out the crabgrass.
Pre-emergence killers, those
that kill the new plants as they
germinate from seed seem to
be the best control yet found,
If you have a heavy infestation
you may spray It with sulphtate
of iron, but you will need to re
seed the area with good
grasses. Small patches may be
hand weeded and the good
grasses fertilized and kept
growing.
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