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and sunny situation.
Columbines are excellent for rock
gardens and hardy borders.
Grow
easily from seed which should be sown
n August for the next spring's bloom,
rhey prefer a warm sandy soil and
the use of leaf mold is preferable to
manure to mix with clay soils.
If you have not yet planted your
sweet peas, do it now. Inoculating
the seed will give you more and bet
ter flowers and stronger vinos.
‘
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1 entrancing—and that is the word to
> use—the exterior of ths petals heavily
Coquille
I veined with rbas d'or and shaded
□range'cadmium, the exterior a deep
chromo yellow, with the lower half of
the petals a rich rosy salmon. When
Place: City Hall.
fully in bloom the scarlet stamens,
Time, 7:10 p. m.
with the usual golden anthers and
When: First and Third Tuesdays.
pollens, joins well with the attractive
President—Ceo. W. Taylor, Sr.
colors of the petals.
Secy.—Mrs. Ines Chaae
But, while both the bush and ths
Trees.—Mrs. John A. Martin
bloom are attractive, the rose to re
Cor. See’y—Mrs. Nellie Whereat
markable for the peculiar hip or seed
Final Pruning of R oms Shoul
Be pod. The hip holds well late in the
Last of March
season, if you desire that, and ia of
Sunshine Garden Club
By Dr. Spencer R. Sulliger
a peculiar shape, being extra large st
When: First and Third Saturdays.
(Curator, Internatimm; Rose Test
the base. The center pushes up so
Where: City Hall.
Gardens, Portier, d)
high, with the pistil pushing out from
Time: Two O’clock.
The day of thia writing a frost, this high center and carrying the
R- M. Knox, assistant county agent, heavy in places, is reported as cover sticky head of the stigma almost too
Before high for self fertilisation.
I have
will speak at the meeting of the Flow ing the Pacific northwest.
this is in print there may bo oven never seen the stigma eo high nor
er Lovers Club, March IT, INI.
enough cold to freeze back growth the hip so prominent inside and above
and materially postpone the develop the stamen and sepals. Altogether
Garden Notea
Most perennials are bast planted In ment of roses. If the words of cau Mrs. W. E. Nickerson is a rose that
permanent position in the fall; if tion about pruning rooea given in ought to be grown in every garden.
And now we wiU soon he in the in
transferred early enough they become these columns have been observed all
thoroughly established and have a |
*** ’we‘1,
lhe «rowth
teresting period of rose growth that
The safety «
first
good root growth before winter. The roses is checked.
—• has to do with bloom and rose shows.
warmth Of the ground at this time en > plan is usually the best While some The Seattle rose show date has boon
I have. done the final pruning on all fixed for June 18 and 19, thus making
couraged a atrohger root system.
I their roses, others have not.
Per it so there will be bo conflict with
Perennials not to be planted in the
fall are. among others: Anemone Jap- sonally I have done the final pruning the dates of the Portland rose show,
oniea, Astor (hardy?, Shasta Daisy, of only a few of my roses, and will June 12 and 13. The date for the Ta
Chyuanthemum
(late),
Helenium, not prune those yet unpruned until coma show will be fixed before long,
after the middle of March, no matter and then all will be ready for the
Monarda.
Bone meal ia the best general fer- what the weather may be. It must be great display of roses in the Pacific
ti fixed for flowers, because it contains remembered that final pruning with northwest that cannot be excelled, if
phosphorous as well as nitrogen. It me is a very close pruning, 00 close it can be equaled, any place in the
that it would not be very easy to cut world,
should be scattered over the soil until
more from the bush. Many do not do
The first of the divisional rose con
it is white, then cultivated into the
such close pruning and‘it is just as ferences, given under the auspices of
soil; this wiN last then a season and
well, if you want many roses rather the American Rose society, will be
there is no danger of applying too
than fewer and larger roses. The or held in Seattle Tuesday, May 12. Tbs
much.
dinary way of pruning, especially if Royal Rosariana of Portland are hav
Nitrate of soda, ammonium sul
the bushes be large and have the ing under consideration a visit to that
phate and such nitrate fertilisers act
growth of a number of years, would conference, the visit to include a num
as drugs for plants.
They 'cause
naturally be longer than in the ease ber of other Washington
cities.
growth and large flowers, but unless
of newer rosea. This would also hold i Definite plans will be made soon and
great care is used in applying them,
if the heavy growth of yeans has been I announced. All hi ail, the season of
they weaken the plant.
allowed to make very large stems. 1931 is to be a great roae tftne for the
Thorough cultivation is needed by
But whatever the situation, it is rea-, Pacific northwest, and it is well worth
all plants and conserves moisture.
sonably certain that you will have while to grow many good rosse to
Water should never be applied by the
plenty of roses. We always do have greet the visitors who will come here,
aplinkling method; instead the ground
————
them, even in the yearn, when, like ’
should be thoroughly soaked. Surface
fruit, “we are not going to have any Delphiniums Found Fine for Both In
wetting causes the feeding roots to
roses this year until very late.”
doors and Ont
come to the surface and are thus in
If the spraying with Bordeaux and (By Everett Earle Btanardin Sunday
jured by the hot sun.
lime-sulphur has been done and
Oregonian)
Tall Plants should be carefully
growth of foliage has not prevented
Not to have delphinium in your gar
staked and tied to neat painted stakes,
the use of the blue vitrol drench and den is to miss something especially
placed in such a way as not to de-
he usual feeding with animal fertilto- fine. Here to a major flower if ever
tracTYrom the plant.
w has been done, the early spring there was one, not only of exhibition
Seed pods and withered flowers
work among the roses in abo it over. site and splendor, of perennial nature
should be removed if one would con
During March some time use a prink- and useful for cutting as well as for
serve the strength of the plants and
iing can to moisten the surface of the landscape effect in th* garden, but
also have more flowers.
Bum old
rose beds with a solution made by dis also of easy culture and obtainable
flowers and seed pods as they harbey
solving two (2) ounces of copperas through planting of the seed as well
thripe, a minute insect injurious to
in one (1) gallon of water. M ike the a* by purchase of divisions.
Other
all flowers.
surface of the bed moderately wet factors which are elements in tfce del
Allysauma in all colors are among with this solution, but it must not be phinium’s popularity are the flower’s
the best edging plants we have; they allowed to get on the foliage, but ia nurity and depth of coter, particularly
are especially good with Rock Crees to be carefully sprinkled on the In the rare and desirable shade* of
(Arabis) and Aubretias for combin ground only. This will help destroy blue, the surprisingly wide color rang"
ing with Darwin tulips and such any of the pests that may have es and the steady improvement ia both
shrubs as the Spiraeas and Hy- caped the spraying during the winter. form and color whieh th* delphinium
dangeaa. The yellow variety, Alys
If you have, a place in your garden hybrids are undergoing as the plant
sum Saxstile, starts to grow as soon for one additional rose bush plant a wizards continue to work with them.
as winter is over and soon presents a rood, healthy 2-year-old bush of Mrs.
It to small wonder that a delphinium
mass of yellow flowers, from spring W. E. Nickerson. A vigorous grower enthusiast inquires, “Can a garden be
through June. It grows from four to and a shapely bush. The buds are planted'without delphiniums?”
The
twelve Inches high. All the Alyssums beautiful in form, as is also the bloom. one who propounds this leading ques-
grow readily from seeds planted in E)>ecially is this so when the rose is tionn obviously has had experience
August in a light well drained soil sbout two-thirds out. The color is with choice varieties. The query ia
Flower Lovers
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really a positive declaration to the! The northwestern climate is ideal
root stock. The initial cost of good
effect that no garden ia at all com- ' for delphiniums. Here, too, wo have divisions, therefore, is really very
piste or satisfactory without an ade- a number of notable growers and ori- small, as it to in the nature of an m-
quate planting of the majestic and ginatom, among them Pudor, Barber vestment which yields sure and swift
Pudor’s Prise Winner returns of beautiful flower in abun
highly decorative perennnal larkspur. and Healey.
There is indeed much to justify such strain and a now strain temporarily dance for the decoration of home and
an opinion. 1 have in my first para known as the “Beat of All,” give office and wherever lovely flowers may
graph given a brief summary of th* splendid flowers from the seed. Bather be used in ideal arrangement.
superior merits of the dephinium hy has originated the popular Hoodacre
brids, but no paragraph, however delphiniums and the vigorous-grow Former Coquille Lady Married
tome, concise or diffuse, can adequate ing, pure white Hoodacre flowers.
The following is a belated an
ly picture the gloriee of th* indispen Healy ia the orginator of the magnifi
nouncement of the marriage of a
sable named varieties and improved cent Imperial hybrids.
former Coquille lady, Mrs. Zoe San-
delphinium strains that are now avail- - Much
boon said about the great
don, who lived on Sanford Heights
able for planting in the average homo value of the delphinium hybrids as
here for several yearn. The item was
garden subjects. They are very fine
osmer's garden.
taken from a Ladysmith, Wis., paper:
The delphinium dumps got under indeed when large clumps are grown
Mm. Zoe Bandon, of this city, and
way very early in the year, and th* in th* background of the border or
Louie Fugetoon, of Sparta, were unt
time to get them and set them out is when used by themselves in large
ed in marriage December 11, at Du
just when the new shoots aro apring- plantings. Their decorative vain* in
luth, Rev. Frederick Sohiotz. former
ing from the ground. Now, in the the garden to enhanced when the blue,
Ladysmith man, performing the cere
early spring to also a good time to di- lavender er mauve dephinium hybrids
vide end reset clump* that have been ! are intermingled with pure white or mony at the Zion Lutheran church, of
which he is pastor. The bride is a
growing and multiplying pver a peri- lemon er apricot lflie* or with lovely
former deputy county treasurer, in
od of thro* years or mor* in your gar- pink or white climbing roses.
this county, and has niade her home
den.
Each division that you make
However, I want to here point out
must have on* eye or shoot and a por- 1 that the towering perennials of which in Ladysmith for many years. Mr.
Fugelaon is a master sergeant in th*
tian of the root stock.
The ground I speak aro atoe of iumi mi t value for
United States Army, and is just now
should hav* been deeply rug, with an . cuttings. Those mammoth exhibition
retiring from service.
They will
admixture of well-rotted manure in spikes that aro two feet or more in
make their home in Ladysmith for the
the bottom of th* hoto where dolphin- length ar* invaluable for the decora-
present.
•»
ium hybrid* are set
< Hon of reception hall* ted th* larger
corridors
There aro many p<mr delphiniume rooms
------------ or
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— of N the
— home. Note,
Showers for Two Ladies
offered for sale—many are, in fact, too, that ths plants produce laterals
A miscellaneous shower was giv
wherein
the
spikes
have
more
of
ele
not worth carrying home. Know what
Mrs. Richard Kidd March 5th at the
you aro buying.
See th* plant in gance and grace and are just about
home of Mm. Jack Leach with Mrs.
ideal
for
use
in
smaller
baskets,
vases
bloom, then get divisions of it if yon
Vance Weekly as assistant hostess.
would be euro of getting choice Vari and bowls. The hybridist, Shaw, has
Mrs. Kidd was formerly Elisabeth
eties. Remember, only by getting di produced a strain that gives an extra
Voltum. Many useful and lovely gifts
ordinary
number
of
fine
laterals
per
vision* can you expect to get plants
plant, useful alike to home grower were received by her. A handkerchief
absolutely true.
shower was also given Mrs. M. Clap-
and commercial export
However, if a gardener has plenty
In thia matter of quantity of flow ehaw by members of the Royal
of garden space, patience and seed ers produced it should bo remembered, Neighbors. Cards and games were
sowing knack, th* gam* of producing Mao, that , the plants will, if rightly played, followed by refreshment«.
worth-white plants from the seed may handled, give two and sometimes These attending were Mesdames Rich
be engaged ia. There ia groat varia throe crops of flowers each season. If ard Kidd, Delbert Wimer, W. H. Wi
tion in the seedlings from any plant, the spikes are cut down after the first mer, Jack Page, Al Burch, H. Rose,
but seed from extra-choice varieties blooming so that seed cannot form, a Carl Eneete, Wm. Smith, Clarence
may giv* you some exceptional sorts second and even a third blooming pe HurreM, Earl Schroeder, M. M. (Up
and now and then one that ia entirely riod may be had without injury to the shaw, D. Pierce, J. L. Holycross, Robt.
unique. From hand-pollinated seed of , plant. Finally, the hybrids are peren Waggoner and Misses Fay Hurrell,
choice hybrids there is much mere
nial, sending up from year to year in Mary Am Schroeder and Virginia
chance of getting something out of
Page and the hostesses.
th* ordinary than with th* eetf-fsr- creasingly fine flower* and making
also splendid increase of the original