« 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. ‘ - TOT IWV » H" -ritS' ■ OK'-X 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. 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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