Show Plant Li Lilacs lacs to Enrich Ga Garden U Urges Spec Specialist I a I I st By MAUD l CHEGWIDDEN Telegram Garden Editor Two garden clubs in our state have adopted the lilac as their special shrub from which I aver that these clubs are composed of oi men and women of the thc hig highest est order of intelligence as well as lovers of oi beauty They are the Flora Dell club of Bountiful and the Hollad the Holladay y-c y club b. b un All readers of my articles for the past several years know that I have preached lilac planting in season and out of season hoping this way to encourage the statewide cultivation cultivation cultivation tion of this to me most beautiful of all flowering shrubs so that eventually eventually ally we may hold an annual lilac festival comparable to Portland's famous rose festival Members of the Salt Sale Lake District Federation of Women's Clubs last year conducted a Po Plant a Lilac drive and Will do tho the same sarno this year Must lust Order Early Your order for lilacs should be in inthe inthe inthe the hands of your nurseryman Immediately immediately immediately im Im- im- im mediately if you haven't sent It in already because this is one ono shrub which positively needs early spring I I planting the earlier the better I believe there Is danger in late plantIng planting planting plant plant- ing and if iC for some reason I could I not order and plant my lilacs until April I think I should defer it until autumn I am partial to fall plantIng planting planting plant plant- Ing anyway and especially for the lilac Remember that the lilac will wil thrive In any Utah soil soli for It likes like one which is not acid or sour but bu remember also that if the soil b be been en enriched you will be amply repau repaid I in fl the size and color of the blooms I like to use old barnyard manure a good heaping at the bottom of each hole and then over this I put two or three Inches of the best soil I have that have that from the surface of the ground usually being the finest in any garden The roots are then placed on this this' good earth and the hole is gradually filled in with soil which is firmed down as the filling in process continues If you have no barnyard manure marure use bone meal several generous handfuls to each shrub mixed with the soil This is a fertilizer which is slow in its action but which is really excellent in results and for any new shrub we need a slow fertilizer fertilizer fertilizer fer fer- fer- fer not a rapid one Feed Old Bushes Old lilacs will be benefited by feeding at this time too since the they are getting ready to start into leaf and soon afterward will be in althe al all all the glory of their flowering Do you know of any shrub which gives more beauty more fragrance than the tho lilac at the same time that i it demands less Im I'm sure you dont don't dontI I should like to see lilacs in long rows along our streets filling all the theair theair theair air with perfume If the garden and women's clubs keep up their good work this will come to pass before long VIll Will you reader do your bit and plant at least one lilac this month QUERIES Mrs O. O R R. Murray writes T r should like to know the best place to send for seeds M My flowers last year were a failure I X think the seeds I planted were poor be because because be- be cause causo I gave them every care Can you tell ten me where to to send I read your piece ever every night and enjoy it it IL V Answer There really Isn't any best place Local nurserymen have good seeds tested for germination germina germina- tion lion very carefully Sometimes stores other than nurseries sell sel seeds and and then one onO one cant can't tell how fresh they are Old seeds often faUto fail fai to germinate Try again locally |