SEED BOXES AID HOME GARDENERS Pictured above are
the proper methods for starting seeds In a seed box, or "flat," de
scribed in the accompanying story. Each seed should be given
room in which to mature in the outdoor box.
Starting Seeds Easy
By Proper
Everv home gardener should
know how to start seeds in a
sr-cd box, which florists call a
"flat," and move the plants when
large enough to their destined
place in the garden.
In some sections whole gar
dens are made of such plants,
usually purchased. But your own
plant can be grown easily at far
less expense, once a few simple
methods are learned.
There are both advantages
and disadvantages in starting
seeds this way. It takes longer
to grow either vegetables or
flowers, because of the set-back
which is caused by transplant
ing. But when the seed box can
be started weeks before seeds
could be sown outdoors, an ear
lier harvest is possible, even
though growth takes longer.
Some Difficult
Some plants are difficult to
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Methods
transplant, all the vegetable root
crops, lor example; and many
flowers such as poppies, and sal
piglossis. But skilled operators
can transplant almost any sub
ject. An advantage of the seed box
method is that seeds go farther,
since all can be grown to plants,
if desired; and the plants are
placed in the garden in the ex
act position where they are to
mature, and require no thinning.
It is easier to grow very small
seeds and difficult subjects in a
box; and when the weather is
too wet, or dry, too hot or cold,
the box can be moved about and
sheltered from damage.
While professionals usually
sow seed in one box, rather
thickly, then transplant the seed
lings when very small to pots,
or another flat where they are
widely spaced, the amateur can
save time and make his plants
grow faster by sowing the seed
thinly in the first place and thin
ning out excess seedlings to give
ample room for the others to
mature, without being disturbed.
Precautions against disease
should always be taken. This is
easily done by using soil substi
tutes, rather than soil. Sphag
num moss and vermiculite are
substitutes widely used and eas
ily obtained. Both are sterile and
sphagnum moss actually de
stroys fungi.
Layer of Moil
A thin layer of sphagnum
moss, passed through a sieve,
and spread over the soil in a flat
can be used to sow the seed in;
covering lightly with similar
moss. This will prevent "damp
ing off," and similar diseases,
which sometimes destroy seeds
as they are sprouting, or soon
after.
The entire box may be filled
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Flower Timetable In
Home Gardens Given
When seeds are sown, the
sower should have a definite idea
about how long each kind should
take to come up. This cannot be
told to the hour, or even the day.
Among flower seeds different
kinds may vary in germination
time from 5 to 10 days for mari
golds, to 180 days for aconite, or
a full year for clematis.
Many a supposed failure with
flower seeds is due to lack of in
formation on this important
point. Seeds may be sown, .and
when they fail to appear in a
week or two, be given up for
lost; when all that was required
for success was another few
days, weeks or months of wait
ing. Seeds Tested
Seeds are tested for germina
tion in laboratories; where con
DAYS REQUIRED FOR SEED TO GERMINATE
' Five To Ten Days
Acacia Centaurea Marigolds
Sweet Alyssum Cheiranthus Mimulus
Amaranthus Coreopsis N'icotiana
Antirrhinum Cosmos v Pansy
(snapdragon) Sweet William Penstemon
Aster Dianthus Petunia
English Daisy California Poppy Annual Phlox
Browallia Godetia Portulaca
Calceolaria Hollyhock Mignonette
Calendula Baby's Breath Schizanthus
Calliopsis Linaria Viola
Candytuft Lobelia Zinnia
Celosia Lupins Nasturtium
Ten To Twenty Days
Achillea Snow-on-the-moun- Nigella
Canterbury Bells tain Primrose
Pyrethrum Gaillardia Cypress Vine
Shasta Daisy Gerbera Cardinal Climber
Feverfew Helenium Castor Bean
Cobaea Scandens Kochia Scabiosa
ColeuS Sweet Pea Stokesia
Dahlia Linum Thunbergia
Carnation Lychnis Verbena
Foxglove Forget-me-not Vinca
Over Twenty Days
Aconite. 180 days lLarkspur,
Anemone, 20-60 days Geum, 15-60 days py, 42-84 days
Columbine, 12-60 days Impatiens. 15-30 days Thalictrum (Meadow
Begonia, 21-30 days IPerennial Sweet Pea.j rue). 14-42 days
Clematis. 90-365 days' 21-28 days iStrelitzia (Bird-of-Par-
Cyclamen, 25-30 days Meconopsis
I 180 days
LEAF LETTUCE COS UTTUCE BQO10 LEAVED CURLY LEAVED
OR ROMAINE ENDIVE. ENDIVE
CHERVIL CHIVES CORN SALAD CURLED
I GARDEN CRESS.
RICH IN VITAMINS In the line-drawings above are shown
some of the green leaves which have high vitamin content and
which are also easijy grown by the home gardener. Their uses in
preparing outstanding salads are described in the accompanying
story.
Tempting Salads Grown In
Home Gardens With Ease
Home gardeners have a won
derful opportunity to enjoy taste
ful, tempting salads all summer
long. The fact that green, leafy
foods stand at the top of the list
which nutritionists say you
should eat daily, may be ignored
if you feel that way about nu
tritionists. Healthful they may be. but
salads also stand high with gour
mets. Many a popular restaurant
gained its reputation by special
izing in a fine tossed salad with
well-mixed dressing. This is a
man's dish, and much more suit
able than cooking, as a specialty.
Dressing Important '
The dressing is important, but
this discussion is about the green
leaves which you can grow all
summer long, and pick fresh just
long enough before the salad is
with sphagnum moss, or ver
miculite, and the seedling plants
grown in these substances up to
transplanting size. But in that
case some fertilizer must be used
when the plants have reached a
sufficient size to need it.
This will be about when they
have made their second pair of
leaves, called the "true leaves."
Stir a level teaspoonful of bal
anced chemical plant food into
a quart of water and use this to
water the plans. One application
weekly should be sufficient.
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ditions are to temperature, mois
ture, light and air can be con
trolled. The table which accomp
anies this article was obtained
from laboratory experience. In
the garden, allowance musty be
made for adverse factors wmcn
cannpt be controlled and which
mav delay germination.
KeeD fhe accompanying table.
if you plan to sow seeds this
spring. You will find it useful in
many ways. When several varie
ties are sown in the same seed
box, they should all have ap
proximately the same germina
tion period: so growth will be
even, and when the time comes
to transplant them, all can be
moved. Otherwise, slow growing
kinds may be seriously injured
when faster growing neighbors
are lifted from the sou.
15-25 days.Matilija or Tree Pop-
Baileyi, adise Flower), 120
or more I days
eaten, for the leaves to be
washed, dried and chilled.
Lettuce starts the list, and not
the tight, white, head lettuce of
commerce. Any salad chef will
tell you that it is tasteless and
"does not take the dressing
well." What he prefers, if he
can get it, is cos lettuce, also
called romaine, which cata
logues list in several varieties.
Loose Heads Good
Loose heading varieties are
also excellent, with bibb or lime
stone lettuce possibly a favorite.
You can grow this in the early
spring, and fall, but it goes to
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12 Lumbermen To
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Area's Products
Twelve ' Rogue River valley
lumbermen have been asked to
help shape plans for selling west
coast lumber to American con
sumers in greater quantities, ac
cording to Dr. W. Gossard. presi
dent of the West Coast Lumber
men's association.
"Rogue River valley prosper
ity," Gossard said, "depends up
on whether local mills can main
tain full production and full em
ployment. We have had ample
demonstration, during the past
three years, of sales possibili
ties when we get out and really
promote west coast lumber."
Won Acceptance
Gossard said that douglas fir
and other west coast lumber
species have won the widest ac
ceptance they have had in more
than a quarter of a century. Each
year since 1936 sales from this
region have increased, with 1949
the biggest year since the roar
ing '20 s.
The twelve Rogue valley
lumbermen named to key WCLA
committees to aid in this market
ing program include George
Flanagan and H. C. Sampert, of
Elk Lumber company, Medford;
B. L. Nutting, R. J. Hogue and
K. P. Pickens, of Medford cor
poration, Medford; Floyd Hart,
Timber Products company, Med
ford; Thomas Ross. Ross Lumber
company, Medford; A. A. Laus
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Medford; Harry S. Dowson,
Southern Oregon Planing Mill,
Inc., Medford: E. W. Pease, Trail
Creek Lumber company. Trail;
H. E. Brown, Brown Brothers
Lumber company, Williams; and
James A. Pack, Moore Timber
products. Grants Pass.
seed In hot weather. Leaf lettuce
is also excellent in salads, and
can be grown for a much longer
period than the heading types.
Use leaf lettuce as soon as leaves
are two inches across, but be
sure to thin out plants, so that
they will mature.
Endive comes In two types,
broad and curly leaved. Both
have a distinctive flavor. They
stand both hot weather and
frost. A late sowing should al
ways be made to mature In the
fall, when frost Improves the
flavor.
Corn salad has a fresh and
spicy flavor which makes it a
welcome ingredient of the bowl
salad, and is grown easily in
soring and fall. Curled garden
cress thrives with ordinary gar
den culture and imparts a pun
gent flavor to the bowl salad.
Watercress Is highly prized and
casilv grown where there is a
good supply of fresh water to
keep it constantly moist.
Chervil is an aromatic plant
somewhat resembling parsley
but superior in flavor; and can
be used both in the bowl salad
and as a garnishment for meats.
Like parsley, the seed is slow to
germinate. Sow it with a few
radish seeds to mark the row.
Chives is a most useful salad
vegetable. It is a cousin of the
onion of which the leaves are
used. They have a delicate onion
flavor, just enough to season the
salad. Chives grow from seed
easily, and a plant lives many
vfars Tt hears an attractive lav
ender flower and is often used
as a border along the garden
P. . .
At ICasi IWO sowings snuuin
always be made of these leaf
vegetables, one in the spring and
one in midsummer for the fall
crop: and as many as four sow
ings may be made wnn gooa re
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The new puncture sealing
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civic officials in Portland, now
in available for the first time to
motorists in the Medford area,
Roy P. Stoy. manager of Rogue
Service and Supply company, an
nounced today.
George Fernandez, of the
Rogue Service sales staff, re
cently attended a meeting of B.
F. Goodrich dealers in Portland,
where he saw cars equipped
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