Show V THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING Your Rock Garden Bulbs Must Be Planted Now It’ Now or Never 1 For Twelve Lons Months at Least MAUD CHEQWIDDEN A rock garden affords a special sort of pleasure that no other part of the garden gives and when that is combined with a pool and when the spaces between the rocks are plentifully planted with snowdrops grape hyacinths scillas crocuses species tulips and narcissus poet-icu- s you have surely provided yourself with a section of paradise that will not only delight you next spring but for springs to come indefinitely These little bulbs can be planted now after which you will have lost your opportunity again until next faitThey positively cannot be bought much less planted in February or March-o- r April aa a great many beginners at gardening think It’s now or never for 12 months at least Reign Supreme Of course patches of the lovely little things are delightful in odd corners among the ahrubbery or nestling against buildings or under trees but by far the choicest spot for all of these early flowering bulbs is in the rock garden - Here they reign supreme with their exquisite beauty set off to the very finest advantage by the weatherworn rocks behind them Therefore my dear reader If you have no rock garden as yet do make one now at least get it started now for we don’t make rock garden in a day or a week or a year no more than the entire garden itself is done all at one fell Gardens evolve and grow swoop and change rock gardens among them But you can do the planning now and you can erect your rock foundation and fill it with your nice light woodsy soil and then in the carefully thought out spots you can plant your little bulbs Later when they have finished their flowering next spring you can do more planting of those sweet little alpine perennials eked out with dwarf creeping annuals which will give some color all season But the bulbs must go in the ground now although hardy of constitution and grow on stems varying from two or three Inches to 12 rarely mare Because they are wild flowers they are most happy in the rock garden which is made to simulate one of nature's own creations TlW 'Waterllly Tulip Especially beautiful is ’that species tulip with the unwieldy name of Kauffmaniana Sometimes called the waterlily tulip because of its form this is a creamy yellow flower with many pointed petals which close at night but open wide each day in the sunshine A patch of It is really a heavenly sight The poet’s narcissus that pure white flower with the small orange-re- d The rock garden is the ideal place for small bulbs eye looks particularly charming when it grows among rocks color Here we have such a good articles and garden books — and also when it can be planted at gaze at its on the lawn Their life in the edge oL a pool-td- i variety of delighting 'hues— blue This will be the own reflection pink lavender purple and white grass is extremely fleeting unless last flower of the spring bulbs in The scilla siberica tiniest of all is you can refrain from cutting the your rock garden for it lingers until the rich blue of a midsummer sky iawn until well into May Planted May is well spent! Scilla campanulata taller produces among the rocks however they Besides the bulbs you may set drooping bells in all the shades have nothing to interfere with their out a few dwarf evergreens in your mentioned Mixtures give accep- development and increase from year rock garden now if you wish since table results but really it is better to year as a result these add interest during the winto buy separate colors The species tulips are very dif- ter months But by ail means do Crocuses look better in the rock ferent from the tall stately tulips get a supply of the minor bulbs and garden and thrive better than entered so lavishly in the spring place them thickly all over your when they are used in the fashion flower shows These wild tulips rock garden as soon as the stores so often recommended in magazine are smaller more delicate in ap- - open tomorrow Purpose J' N ' F 4 s'-- ! ' f ' ' o Door Why Rock Gardens? garden is made so that grow certain little plants under the perfect conditions for their development that are necessary It isn’t made because we want to fill up a corner where nothing else will grow nor because we have a mania for gathering stones And it should be placed in the best position for such a garden not under huge box elder or poplar trees nor in the middle of a lawn nor in a formal planting In choosing the spot for your rock garden don’t rush be very sure that you have the one and only place before you so much as gather a single pebble Sometimes rock gardens are suitable in the front of a home but only when a natural slope presents itself where such an outcropping of rocks might occur in nature The wisest thing as well as the most conservative is to place the rock garden in the rear part of the grounds toward the back of the property where a suitable background of tall shrubbery intermingled with evergreens can be A rock We may provided Since the rock garden needs some slight changes in elevation for the most natural results provide these by means of hilling up and hollowing out one or two places If you make a pool then you have the earth you took from that for your miniature hills and undulations Rough stone steps could lead one to the edge of the pool and these steps should have tiny alpine plants tucked away between and among them Place Rocks Naturally Strive to place your rocks as naturally as possible Look before you start at the rocks in the canyons all around you — the rocks that lie on the ground with small plants growing between or near them These stones are never seen rearing up narrow Vpojnted heads like so many stalagmites Instead they rest upon broad bases and present few if any points to your gaze Yet how many many sad travesties of rock gardens do tire see looking like nightmares of the Sawtooth mountains or something In preparing earth for the rock for those garden and especially places where we are to set the tiny bulbs which' concern us now we need a light and sandy loam This must be Well firmed down so that the melting snows and the rains will not further pgck it and carry the bulbs down to unsuspected little caves and spaces left when we did i ’i3T rough work All of the bulbs we are require planting In fairly our to use large groups if the rock garden is really handsome next spring Only the species tulips and ths narcissus can permit of setting out in less than a dozen of each They require covering with two or three Inches of soil except tulips and narcissi which go deeper Two or three inches should be the space between the bulbs also to-b- e Snowdrop Flower Early Snowdrops will no doubt be the first of all to flower next year These dainty little things often blooming oven before snow has quite gone deserve to be more popular amongTocal gardeners Invest in a dozen or two now or 50 if you have a large rock gardem Then as they are starting to look bedraggled the scillas burst into I - ' r ' - ' ! f ' i ' i 1 number I have purchased not quite a half all of the others being obtained from the mother bushes by means of taking up suckers My lilacs are not the common variety which suckers so profusely either I have one only in this kind —and this is given garden space because of a sentimental history attached to it All of the other 79 are choice French hybrids which sucker but rarely However when they do produce suckers and these are removed and replanted flowers always come the second year from the time they were taken from If ever you have taken suckers from an lilac you know that you must wait eight or nine years anyway before flowers de- Buy first-siz- e hyacinths for indoor use Use bedding hyacinths for outdoor plantings m rough-texture- d blue-gree- Garden Questions - m y - A-- ed walnut furniture finished in the new "fawntone” with the contrasting note of aluminum hardware The focal decorative point is the large photo mural of Central park at night in the snow a study by n Paul J Woolf printed in deep is best to plant small It makes putting them in the ground a comparatively light and speedy task A dibber bulbs o - it 'I yti: V ’ t The blond curls oi of this magnificent fern raised by years ago Unusually good results have been obtained in fern culture by Mrs Earl E Howe 5601 South Ninth East street Murray Starting six years ago with the very tiniest piece imaginable the fern pictured herewith now completely fills a large alcove-lik- e window of the window The exposure Carol Howe contrast beautifully with the brilliant green fronds her mother Mrs Earl E Howe of Murray from a tiny start six north of course Is ideal for ’ferns relish plenty of light but cannot endure sunshine falling too hotly on their fronds Mrs Howe waters her fern every day but uses no fertilizer other than what is compounded with the new earth at repotting tBvre She has repotted the fern every which two of years-an- d mountain has used a mixture soil sand and plenty with dried blood and leaf mold chemical fertilizer of Results speak volumes for this method for the fronds of the plant are at least six inches across at their widest parts and many of them are fiv feet from earth to tip Flower Concern Holds Claim False are That Costs Will Permanphtly or plants are appreciated and Retard Building Activities oftentimes street than Fashions Flowers always most economical — too in season they more costume In this case it Is ths a dozen Choose your nosegay or Seeking to combat reports thatoas normal which have been re- - year® 1926-192- 9 will costs to boutonniere building permanently your according clothes in building activity pH tions and trends as an when No flower has yet taken first home field a Minnesota concern has prices values and Incomes more place as a boutonniere away from made an analysis of the facts and evenly met in parallel- - lines Sines the carnation has issued a bulletin outlining the that time our population has not increased sufficiently to distort the If a choice of flowers for a gift results of its studies of the national incoma significance First giving the answers to two curve bothers you send roses They are always appropriate and for every questions the report them takes up “There are two way of determinoccasion the matter of home building costs ing the cost of a house that are The questions with their answers commonly used by statisticians builders real estate developers conare: tractors architects and by the con1 “How much less does it cost sumer once he becomes familiar with the phraseology of home build There still is time to plant bulbs to build a home today than it did Ing They are first: How much don ” in pots of earlh ready for bloom in the years of it cost per square foot of floor in the house long before the outdoor On the square foot of floor basis Secqpd: How much does planted ones can grow These bulbs — 26 per cent less on the ciNqic foot space? it cost per cubic foot of enclosed be as close crowded may together area? Naturally incomes vary in as the size of the pot allows and volume basis— 20 per cent less parts of the country but e different 2 ’’How cm-parcosts do need with present only barely coveririg the cost of homes varies also so it earth with our national purchasing is necessary for us to take the larger Keep them in the dark in a cold power or ability to buy a home?” view of the country as a whole in roots the well watered until place National income paid out in the making our comparison begin to protrude through the drainhole at the bottom of the pot form of salaries wages interest When Costs Turned Down age Then bring them one by one to the dividends etc has increased to an "Cost per square foot of floor area 9 the cost light and warmth of the Jiving estimated 90 per cent of the per cubic foot of enclosed room where they will soon reward area and national income paM out average colorful you with their grace and varied only slightly one way or the Discussion of Questions beauty other for the years 1926 to 1929 The study then goes into the ques- Then incomes began their long nose dive and it was not until the betions as follows: ‘‘In arriving at a method of fair- ginning of 1930 that the cost of tohouses started down on tho path ly determining the values of day's home as compared to its value taken by incomes Housing costs in other years it Is neither fair nor then declined so precipitously that wise that we permit our estimates by 1933 they had again found a level to be influenced too much by tak- with incomes compared to those of and ing the low figures of 1933 1934 1929 together or 1935 as our basis of comparison building costs started their upward of today's costs Like incomes val march with cost per cubic (pot ues of homes are influenced by the jumping a little off the average path Then in 1934 the Income general conditions in industry the upward scarcity of labor to build the de curve moved up and for the first valuation of our currency in terms time since 1929 it stepped out ahead of gold and by several other varl of the cost of houses on our two able factors Certainly our nation' bases of computing costs It has al income is a fair yardstick to use stayed that way since in determining whether a given ar “Today incomes have returned to tide costs too much For if our 90 per cent of normal with cost per Income goes up— our outgo may also cubic foot of enclosed area' 80 per go up! Like all other statistical cent of normal and cost per' square studies on values our study ac- foot of floor area 74 per cent of If we accept our nationcepts national income as a yard- normal stick for determining whether or al income as the yardstick for tho not the cost of homes is too high average values of the things we And again like ail other statistical buy to live with (and whether we studies we pegged a period of years like it or not the law of supply and Demand income and outgo is as inevitable as the seasons) we must conclude that today's cost of houses is only 80 per cent of what it should be if rising costs of houses hao Evening corsages should be worn kept up at the bosom when the shoulder income” with the rise in national straps are narrow and the neckline low For gowns a garland of blooms is more often best A single flower is attractive in a td 2 a J Plant Bulbs in Pots 1926-29?- 1926-192- Make Oivn Needlepoint blue-gree- and Some Rules On Planting Of Shade Trees Shade trees do well when they are planted in late fall but so often the wrong tree is chosen that one might have better refrained from planting at all Before you buy any tree find out how tall it will become when it is fully grown and what width its branches will spread Avoid the huge forest trees if you have only a tiny yard and a small cottage and invest instead in some of the smaller flowering trees which Will not only give shade but lovely bloom as well Trees must have very large holes Even prepared for their roots than though they extend no 18 inches down and across the earth must be dug and loosened at least one foot preferably two deeper than this so that the feeding roots which will begin to grow after planting may extend easily into the grouhd and anchor the tree enabling it to withstand wind as well as tp get plenty of nourishment and moisture Always set a strong take with each new treeiiammering the stake far deeper in the ground than the tree roots and tying firmly in two or three places up the trunk In 1 the tying however make a knot n the string or rope or whatever you use between the tree trunk' and stake so that there will always be a small space between the two thus the bark of the tree will hot be injured by being rubbed against the "wooden support during strong winds I ' f velop Best Planting Time Now At this season you cart remove portions from the French lilacs with absolute safety Just a few fibrous roots are necessary on the piece that you sever in order to insure growth Fall is by all means the best time to plant lilacs whether suckers or large shrubs If the ground is dry see that you water it plentifully and keep it wet until winter comes and you may be sure that next spring your lilac will go ahead growing and developing soon to be a fine large flowering shrub No one ever had too many lilacs One of my favorites is Souvenir de Ludwig Spaeth a fairly old hybrid but a beauty with long pointed plumes of blossom in a rich red shade It is single Perhaps the best known of the French hybrids is Charles the Tenth Although many others are finer this is valuable because it flowers so very early It has reddish blooms too but they are not nearly so red as Ludwig nor so beautifully shaped in the spray Have White Lilacs Always have some white lilacs because here you obtain a charm that none of the colors can provide Marie Legraye is very lovely with large florets of alabaster white showing a tiny yellow eye This is another of the older hybrids that still can hold its own with more costly aristocrats Always remember that lilacs in a few years grow quite tall and plant them accordingly It is stupid to set them where they will have to be moved in a few years to give space to their height and girth Pot some hyacinths for indoor bloom Put three bulbs in the shallow pots sold as bulb pans tables tucked into the curved walnut headboard New designs too are the chairs in walnut with i the-pare- nt Planting Hints Originally you may have bought draperies of shimmering cellophane finished with chenille On the sofa bedroom furniture for a three-roothe cover is of a apartment or a house with a living fabric in eggplant and deep n room all its own But who knows flecked with beige picking up where you’ll be living six months or the room colors a year from now? Perhaps in a It is a colorful background which dramatizes the natural beauty of the grand big studio where the living room must also be dining and bedroom But you’ll not mind you've such marvelous light and sun and air That is you won’t mind if you can make that one room play its triple role without looking the part Mrs E F Magna writes: “I And that’s what today’s designers was happy to read your article are providing making: almost every piece of modern furniture about the privet as I have been or four" different considering one on either side good for three uses in tHree or four different types of the chimney where I need tall shrubs Is the Amur river of rooms We have an illuminating example privet the same as the one listed in the studio photographed showing as English (vulgaris) privet?” one of the new walnut sofa units Ans No this isn’t the vulgaris and chairs designed by Helen Park Variety Be sure to specify Amur This room is a complete one-rooriver when you buy it apartment or studio bedroom although its furnishings were first deG G Manti writes: “Your signed to serve as a bedroom group articles are of so much help to douIn the studio setting the divan me gardening However I bles as a bed and is set ' against wishin my would they put them ail in a pair of headboards with attached one instead of scattering place night tables which form a back them here and there I am afraid and two end tables for night-and-daof missing some Will you be kind use These headboards can alenough to tell nie if you- think I ways be used separately with box have arranged the shrubs well in springs and mattresses as twin the inclosed plan also suggest beds in a more spacious apartmeiit shrubs for the piuce marked ” Across from the couch is an interesting arrangement of chairs and Ans: Thank you fpr your apprebook table A dresser base in this ciation You have done very well set used without its mirror makes indeed in' the sketch’ you sent chest which 7s not at all incon- save that your lilac will' be too gruous — even in a more formal liv- shaded by the tree to flower well A pair of occasional I’m afraid In why not plant ing room chairs and a round table serve for rugosa roses? They look well at all times have pretty flowers coleither bridge or aupper And there is a grand combination orful fruits and best of all give table which marvelous autumn coloring Since you’d never figure out at first this is In full view of your kitchen glance eo much a living room piece window you will enjoy seeing them does it seem To the eye it’s a desk as you go about your work with sleek paneled drawers at one Note to Dora Logan: No" 1 is behind which however end Gerivy No 2 is there are tray drawers for linens English man ivy although it isn’t an ivy or clothing A mirror panel pulls at ail but You are very out the hinges above the desk welcome drawer and makes a vanity of the piece so that the functions of writing dressing and clothes storage Daffodil Planting are net in the least limited The carpet in this room is a deep eggplajnt in tone against which the 'If you have a woodland corner in soft but intense turquoise of the he garden plant the bedding daffoThe dils in small colonies wails glows and scintillates The smaller scheme is lightened by woodwork bulhs can be had very cheaply painted an eggshell tone eggshell Save autumn leaves for the comupholstering and textured rug and post Beautiful Fern Only Six Years Old A few days ago I went through my garden counting the lilac bushes and I found that I had 80 Of this t An imposing piece— this couch with night-and-da- y which can also be used for single or" double beds light and dark upholstery i 5 YourJ5tipply by Taking Up Suckers pearance rV' J? D You Can Increase Dwarf Evergreen New Walnut Units Serve Double 1937 This Season Best Time to Plant Lilacs Also Can Be Set Out at This Time By NOVEMBER 28 Flower Hints high-neck- If you have a few flowers left from that dinner centerpiece use them as a spot of color on your purse The huge chrysanthemums are the most memorable but the tiny pompon types are the most useful Divide and reset early spring blooming perennials such as bleeding hearts peonies leopard’s bane pyrethrums and' Shasta daisies The spicy scent of the carnation makes it one of the most desirable centerpiece flowers Make a light airy arrangement of few flowers for a change using a frog or holder to keep the blooms in place 10-in- Needlepoint is not an impossibility nowadays simple to the intricate are readily available By MARY DAVIS GILLIES The sure way to give a room a personality of its own is to have an heirloom in it— something that looks as if the room has grown around it And the nicest kind of heirloom is one you make yourself Of course we'd like to have There needn’t needlepoint but be any "but” these days or any regret at not being able to afford a museum piece There are patterns ready to hand from the simple to the intricate and yarns in every color you can imagine The old favorite flower and fruit patterns arc here and the Queen small colonial Anne sprays gorgeous Victorian bouquets and the modern In colors you can choose from bright rich hues on deep back garlands Patterns from Hie grounds to subtle faded l&nes on gray or lemon 'grounds Panels of scenery clipper ships Chinese pagodas busy fishermen modern tropical jungles George Washington and the cherry tree d and a deer leaping through the forest — these are only a few of the fascinating designs If your house has a name— well why not your own designs? Some canvas pieces come stamped in full colors Some have the difficult petit-poiwork done and only ths solid color background to do For simpler things there's a little needlepoint doorstop id cocker spaniel or tiger lily design Hearih-rup- s chair scats tops of bridge or coffee tables fire screens or overmantel pictures— there’s no limit to needlepoint versatility long-limbe- nt Officer BULBS -- r PLANTS SHRUBS -- TREES o HYACINTHSond U N o o o ABC in large I S S assortment Elected Officers for the 1938 season elected recently by the Garden club of Cottonwood Include Mrs G R Walker president Miss Marjorie Mrs Brown first vice president W G B Terrell second vice presisecdent Mrs Robert-Hamptoretary and Miss Laura Weber treasurer The group will hold no meetings in December' n PORTER WALTON CO S |