Show PLANT LILACS PLEA OF WOMEN'S WOMEN'S GROUP 7 By MAUD 1 CHEGWIDDEN Telegram Garden Editor I Lilacs will be planted within the next two or three weeks bj b great many homeowners in Salt Lake City and vicinity if m mb of the Salt Lake district Federated Women's Women Clubs have any any ij fluence at all for they are in the midst of their second ann ann Plant a Lilac drive and their enthusiasm is spreading I Already Alread besides the individuals Individual who will plant specimens of this fine tine shrub this spring many groups group and clubs have promised to plant lilacs In parks or public grounds ground and have bave pledged themselves themselves' t to help along the movement which 1 is 13 designed to carry the fame of Utah Uta at lilac mac time to the far corners corners if I Inot not the earth carth of ot America Clubs to Plant t The Flora Dell club of Bountiful under leadership of George Ellis o of Woods Cross and the Holladay Garden Garden Garden Gar Gar- den club with Robert Casto at its helm have adopted the lilac mac a as their special shrub and will no not only foster its planting but wi will vill hold contests contest among members in connection with it But th these se two clubs were not th the first to take the lilac under the their wings for three years ago Mrs George Q Cannon at that time tim president of the Granite school district district dis- dis dis- dis Teacher Parent-Teacher associations association told me that her group had all al agreed to adopt the lilac as the their most loved of al all shrubs and to plant plan I it not only In their own gardens but on the school grounds also This first championing of my talked much idea regarding a po potential f future t re lilac festival for Salt Sal Lake Lak City certain certainly y warmed th the cockles of my heart Long live th the Granite T. P.-T. A. A Those Thos who are are Interested in promoting pro pro- moUng the the lilac lilac planting drive urge that only Persian lilacs or French hybrids be planted These cost very little tittle more than the common lilac and are so superior because they bloom while they are young and small fully six years before a an o old old- fashioned lilac planted at the same I time c could tild ld be expected to to flower also b because they do no not possess that aggravating habit of ot suck suckering wh which ch the common commo lilacs possess posses to the nth degree Plenty of Room Boom When you yok buy buya a lilac It will usually usually usual usual- ly be a shrub 3 years old or there thereabouts and will probably bo ho little littlemore littlemore more than 30 Inches t tall U. U If you axe arc planting several lilacs In n a group or in a row it will be bO a natural te tation to you to place these shrubs three feet apart But But how sad youre you're going t to be in a aJ f fj years if you do this for will grow with rapidity once th thare b bare are established and will wUl jini Ilni il quarrel over their cramped q g Lilacs should be planted eight fi apart for best results at matu matti If you think bink they look t too o loneso and poverty stricken so far tar ft f fth th their ir neighbors plant them f feet apart but do b be strong mini enough to take talce out every altone alte alt one and move it to fo a a new p pac three more ore years As for tor the subsequent cart car carl lilacs require it is 13 as little as i demanded by anything in t the e den Every two or three years ean winter when the ground has fr tr give the earth around the IH ila thick covering of stable man That Is all that will be Ibe ne neede de demake make the tho shrub produce Its gorg flowers In abandoned d prou profusion loD f |