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IX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Sunday, April 21, 19S7
Easy To Grow Annuals Good
For First Flower Garden
By EDNA KING MANDEVILLE
Each year the ranks of flower
gardeners are being increased
ljy the thousands of new home
owners who are discovering the
real joys of suburban living.
Perhaps they realize that a new
house will never really be home
until it is surrounded by beau
tiful flowers and a well-kept
lawn.
I like to think that a few sug
gestions to these new home own
ers and prospective flower gard
eners will help them to find a
greater degree of success and
pleasure. Although this article
is directed primarily to such
people, those who have tried
flower gardening unsuccessfully
in the past might also gain some
thing. Frankly, a new flower garden
er should begin with varieties
that are easy to grow. Some of
them, like the ones listed below,
are so simple that they almost
fulfill the humorous promise of
one leading seed company:
'Plant our seeds and jump
aside". Well, they don't grow
quite that fast, but they certain
ly will produce encouraging re
sults for the beginner. Here are
some of the best varieties: Alys
sum snow cloth, alyssum royal
carpet, bachelor's button, calen
dula, candytuft, caster beans,
cosmos, snapdragon, zinnias,
four o'clocks, marigolds, morn
ing glory, nasturtiums, pinks,
poppy, and sunflower.
Those of you with some
knowledge of flowers will re
alize at once that such a list can
produce a most beautiful gar
den, full of sparkling colors and
varieties. These are really the
"best sellers" among flower
seeds, probably due to this very
fact that they are so easy to
grow.
There are few gardens new or
old that are not improved by an
edging of alyssum, either in the
pure white snow cldth or the
violet variety called royal car
pet. And bachelor's buttons, cal
endulas, and candytuft are so
easy to grow that I often recom
mend them for use in children's
gardens. It's often a good idea
to plant bachelor's buttons near
the door or on the way to the
garage, where the man of the
house can pick one in the morn
ing for his lapel. I've found that
each of these three varieties pro
duces a wealth of flowers for
bouquets, and second plantings
may be made until midsummer.
Caster beans are my ideal
choice for a summer background
at the rear of your lot, and will
readily reach a height of five
or six feet or even higher with
plenty of water and fertilizer.
Cosmos, too, are good back
ground plants, though they do
not grow as tall. And for a
hedge I would suggest four
o'clocks, ideal for that purpose.
Marigolds, one of my very
favorite flowers, come in both
large and small varieties. The
small ones include the minia
ture golden pygmy, a new and
striking variety, and the old
standby yellow pygmy or lemon
drop. These usually grow to a
height of less than twelve
inches. There are also the tall
African types varying in height
from two to four feet, with flow
ers up to five or six inches
across. I think the new "cracker
jack" variety will be especially
popular this coming season. Be
cause all varieties of marigold
keep so well indoors, I find them
perfect for cutting.
Morning glories are ideal for
growing on fences or up the
sides of the house on strings. The
new candy pink variety makes
an excellent and eye-catching
combination when used with
the more popular heavenly blue.
If your garden soil is poor, nas
turtiums are the flowers for
you. They actually seem to
thrive in poor soil, and need an
absolute minimum of care, yet
they produce their beautiful
flowers endlessly for frequent
small bouquets. Try the new
cherry rose variety for a real
treat.
Pinks and poppies are old
favorites well deserving of a
place in your first garden. The
California poppy is a colorful
low-growing variety that's per
fect for the front portion. For
delightful displays of color as
well as plenty of flowers for
cutting, I always recommend
snapdragons. They range in
height from the miniature magic
carpet to the new tall Mardi
Gras.
There are so many , different
and wonderful types of zin
nias that I really feel they
should be treated in a separate
article. But I can suggest that
you try the new ortho-polka
zinnias, a giant variety of pep
permint stick for your first
flower garden.
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orange rind.
To give a pie a flaky upper
crust brush the top crust lightly
with cold water before putting
the pie in the oven.
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IPoitpoiiiiinri
Last Sunday the two of us took off in the jeep early in the
morning and didn't return until late afternoon. The consequences
of the day were many and varied. We came home with a wonder
ful bouquet of wildflowers picked in the Sterling creek area, a
lot of colored pictures including a number taken on the Jack
O'Brien ranch during the hill climbing event of the motorcycle
club, a couple of quarts of those delicious cream-colored morel
mushrooms, which we picked under the expert guidance of Earl
Hvall and the two little Hvalls, and poison oak, in spite of
naphtha soap.
The motorcycle event was a surprise to Potpourri, and
although pappy swears he had forgotten about it until we came
upon the scene we have our suspicions after all, he did ride one
of those contraptions years ago when the family lived in Yakima.
But watching the cyclists climb the steep hill was interesting.
Most of the riders made it safely to the top, but a few spilled,
bringing cries and groans from the spectators, particularly the
wives.
One young woman from Grants Pass was quite philosophical.
Seems it was her wedding anniversary but she didn't mind too
much that she and her husband were celebrating the day on a
hillside while he coaxed a snarling motorcycle up a steep hill.
She was philosophical about the mishaps, too. "It's funny," she
mused. "When a rider spills, and we don't know him, we say
'How thrilling'." "When it's our husband we ask 'is he hurt'?"
.
Today Potpourri is glad that this column affords us space
to print the picture page "credits." Of course, if newspapers fol
lowed the lead of television, it would ' go something like this.
Medford Mail Tribune presents "Easter Sunday." Section editor,
Olive Starcher; photographs by Robert Vroman; layout by Peg
Hutchinson; engraving by Paul Zeleznik: models, the Charles
Jones family, Mrs. E. V. Meyerding, Mrs. Fletcher Fish and little
Lyn Chipman; hats courtesy of Mrs. Elsie Strang of Burelson's,
and Jean Jaeger, Mann's; Lyn's flower, courtesy of Dick Greene
(who brought a bouquet of double tulips to the gals in the news
room); make-up, Printer Ken Murray, etc.
Last Sunday it would have been much the same, except the
models were the Rev. John Reynolds and the Rev. George R. V.
Bolster, and the former wrote the message for the Palm Sunday
page. Also, we would have added that the palm fronds which
showed on the artistic still life photograph done by Photographer
Vroman came from Rogue Valley Greenhouse, since Potpourri and
Bob went out and begged Polly Bright for a leaf from one of
her palm plants.
j
The latest book of Edison Marshall, who at one time lived in
Medford, is reviewed in the April 13 issue of The Saturday
Review. And in a manner which just might make Mr. Marshall
squirm a bit. The reviewer, Hassoldt Davis, starts off by saying
that the author, "an admittedly superstitious man, with a mysti
cal half belief in the gods of the chase" has written "The Heart
of the Hunter" as "an apologia with a variety of explanations
of why, when he was not writing love stories for the slick maga
zines, he was knocking himself out in the pursuit of dead trophies
for his den, an interior decorator gone berserk."
Davis tells something of Marshall's hunting exploits in various
parts of the world, saying that in India he shot "the grandfather
Bengal tigers, who molested the peasants' herds, and shot the
stripes off them from the shelter of a cave or a machon (a nest
in a tree)." Later he says the author hunted in other parts of
the world "Where the tigers came to him because he had bought
domestic cattle and chained them alive as bait."
Davis' concluded by writing "It is a book of audience-participation,
with its author as timid as you are on the long marches
through plains and jungles, in love with fear and sick with the
fear that he might not fulfill the guides' belief in him, seeing
neither the people nor their strange lands, blindly unaware that
the only trophy worthy of a sportsman is a steak."
Not long ago there came a letter from FB, saying how she
had gone wild flower picking, taking care to take only those
which are abundant. She had been thrilled to find a few red
bell plants, which according to Marcel LePiniec and other wild
flower authorities, is threatened with extinction because cf those
who pick them carelessly. FB said she put a stake by one, in
order that she might find it again at blooming time and feast
her eyes.
She was intrigued by an article on wild flowers in a nature
magazine written by a woman who was at one time a lookout in
the Cascade mountains. FB read for the first time of false hellebore
which the woman said grew in tall thickets down by the spring.
"They are coarse plants, taller than the average adult, with
heavy stalks and large heavily ribbed boatshaped leaves. Around
the upper part of the stalk, for 12 inches or more, cluster pale
! green blossoms about one inch across. They smell like watermelon
rind preserves. There is a spot in the hills which we pass every
summer where a plant like this grows, so come July, we'll have
pappy stop the jeep and we'll get out and sniff to see if they
smell like watermelon preserves.
Potpourri finally was able to get to one of Mr. LePiniec's
lectures on wild flowers, and enjoyed it enormously. Mr. LePiniec
will doubtless forgive us if we boast that pappy's colored slides
of wild flowers compare favorably with his, but we did learn
a lot and can hardly wait to put into practice the expert's advice
oh how to transplant wild flowers, ferns and shrubs. We've suc
cessfully transplanted Oregon grape, trilliums, blue iris and a
little wild rose, but have failed with-violets, foxglove and mouse
ears brought from our wood lot up in the hills.
Mr. LePiniec's next lecture will be postponed a week, and
then he will tell the class how to make a rock garden for wild
plants. The lecture series is sponsored by the Chamber of Com
merce tourist committee and has attracted a group of outdoor
enthusiasts and flower lovers who are having a wonderful time
while they learn.
.
In case you've been repeating the story that Martin Agronsky,
the widely known commentator, was fired, network representa
tives say it isn't true. Since we're an admirer of Mr. Agronsky,
Potpourri checked with the staff at KYJC. We learned from
their files that Mr. Agronsky resigned from his former network
position to take a job with NBC's television division. The grape
vine said that NBC officials were so impressed with Commentator
Agronsky's work during the last election, that he was hired away
from the rival network.
Gleanings from here and there: Medford householders are
getting downright irked at the people who try to sell insurance,
cars and what have you over the telephone. A homemaker just
loves to take her hands out of the bread dough or dish pan and
rush to the phone only to have a voice start a selling spiel.
Interesting sight on grocery store shelves three cans, of a well
known brand of shortening in among the fly spray, moth balls
and insecticide. O.S.
May Event
Announced
Additional plans have been
announced for the annual May
Fellowship luncheon, sponsored
by the Medford Council of
Church Women. The luncheon
will be served in St. Mark's
Guild hall Friday, May 3, at
12:30 o'clock. Tickets are in the
hands of representatives to the
council from the various affil
iated church groups.
Mrs. Gaston Floux and' Mrs.
Samuel Earhart, co-chairman for
Ithe day, state that Mrs. Winston,
registrar and dean oi women oi
Southern Oregon college, is to
be the speaker. Since the theme
for the day is "Free Schools in
a Free America" the program
follows that topic. A panel dis
cussion by three former teach
ers will be a feature and par
ticipating will be Miss Jane
Snedicor, Mrs. Marie Dizney and
Mrs. Mamie Bloomfield.
Mrs. Gaston Floux, Central
Point, is to act as moderator.
Musical selections by Medford
Madrigal Singers and two vocal
solos by Mrs. Charles Champlin
are also on the program. Mrs.
Otto Frohnmeyer will accompa
ny Mrs. Champlin. Miss Verne
Cingcade will give an outline
of her work in Christian educa
tion in the public schools. Pro
ceeds from the luncheon go to
ward assisting in Miss Cing
cade's work, it is stated.
Mrs. James Morrow, president
of the council, will introduce
her officers and the chairmen
at the luncheon table.
Mrs. Frank Chapman is gen
eral chairman for the luncheon
and Mrs. J. C. Sparks has charge
of the decorations. Assisting her
will be Mrs. Jessie Minear and
Mrs. Floyd Jenkins. .
A nursery attendant will care
for young children.
Chicken Salad Variation
New York U.R) Here's a
tasty switch on an old standby
chicken salad. To 1 cup of
cooked, chopped chicken add V
cup each of crumbled, crisp ba
con and diced celery. Toss with
cooked salad dressing. For a
fancy touch, serve the salad in
a tomato cup, or cooked arti
choke, from which the choke has
been removed.
The syrup from canned fruits
should be saved for use as a
sauce on puddings and desserts.
Home Missit rs
To Be Topic of
Methodist Group
"Our Plus Becomes A Cross--Home
Missions in the National
News" is the topic for the pro
gram to be presented to the
Woman's Society of 'Christian
Service at a meeting, Tuesday,
April 23, at 1:30 p.m. in Meeker
Memorial chapel of First Meth
odist church.
Mrs. Richard Jewett, in charge
of the program, states that the
purpose is to give a birdseye
view of the scope of the work
of the Woman's Division of
Christian Service in home fields,
with special emphasis on min
ority islands outlawed by con
ventionalism or circumstances.
The messeage will be portray
ed through a playlet in which
Mrs. Jewett will take the part
of the editor-in-chief of the pap
er Home Missions in the Nation
al News. Her staff will consist
of Mrs. C. Gordon.Morris, editor
of education news; Mrs. Melvin
Ward, editor of health projects;
Mrs. Carol Adams, city editor;
Mrs. Mike Simmons, town and
country editor; Mrs. Douglas
Smith, special features editor;
Mrs. David Chirgwin, editor of
the woman's page; and Mrs. Gale
Culy, editor of religious news.
Music will be presented as
part of the devotional program.
Mrs. Lyle Schoppert will accom
pany her daughter, Susan, who
will sing "Teach Me To Pray."
Mrs. Schoppert will also bring
news of the work done in Med
ford with the Mexican migrants.
The prayer group of the Wom
an's society will meet at 10:30
a.m., followed by the business
session at 11 a.m., presided over
by Mrs. L. G. Rankin, president.
A nursery will be provided for
pre-school children. The lunch
eon, which will be served by
Circle 10, under the direction of
Mrs. Ed Branchfield, will honor
some twenty-five guests
ALWAYS DELICIOUS: Use a-pearl-white Canned Bartlett Pear
half as the delicious base of each fruit cup; add orange slices and
other canned or fresh fruits, as desired. Perfect for dessert climax
as well as a meal starter.
Keep Flowers Fresh
New York OJ.R One of the
nation's largest distributors of
fresh flowers has a tip for the
woman who receiver them. Says
a spokesman for Goldfarb Flor
ists: when you receive flowers
take care not to bruise them by
laying the flowers on top of
each other. Stand them in a
bucket or lay them on a table
with their heads separated and
extending over the edge of the
table.
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At this glad season
we wish you, every one,
the hope and gladness,
the happiness and
blessings of Easter.
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These fibers are blended with
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