Show - -- ' l$:011:':'Jii)ottoii':- 's I - III a -- THE SALT LAKE TRIi3UNE SUNDAY MORNINd MARCH 20 - 1J -' t By MAUD CHEGWIDDEN t' Soil management is really the 1:4' most important part of an garden- L 1 ' ?': ing for without good soil add the attendent knowledge of how to make soil good no results are possible no matter bow expensive the plants you buy nor bow beautiful !N': 4:!"" the garden plan on paper -Yet amateurs avoid this subject :' ': ''''''' like the plague and turn over quickAENt: ly if in their reading of garden sub jects they come to a page beaded s I ' 3 06'''4 ‘1::: :: NI t: :' ' ': sk r : r' ' s 1 4 ' - 0 3:' 1' i :'1 a 4 ' i t 66 ' tN '' -- — '1 - ' stlt ' ':: T' '' ' 1 I :::: 1 7'' "k ff i I '4 ' ' :: P ': ! ' 4 '0 '4 r 41 '' ' 4' tst' 7:' " t$ ''t r 4! 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4 4130AsosrakaeA01404alltatmlia4 v et AK 4 oro—Arroktix ditworJ r measurement has proved them to Ati7: odibmwg041 royil :Ix 1 1ctls :: 414Alsoisil 1 -- 7 be a mere 00002 inch in diameter— i''5 at this hot 1884 efficient his Et bed Pars i made but A economical at South Ninth ve I garden highly : 1:-1tt 1: East is heated by Means of electric cable so the temperature is always constant and it that there are practically no spaces tit 4 i li 4 t kolvt6 414 ! 46 pays for itself in a sitigle season by the immense saving in tender seedlings of choice plants sown between them and they adhere 1i: kt terP4INAW t 1 : r from seed right in the earth over the cable 74fir:'is: closely together 14 14! 0i?1 ' ::( 1 ASMNSffek Clay soils when wet are sticky AIIMIElin"0"1"1""6 111"1 handled by less sure methods The easiest way of making a hot results are the best possible and soft and "gooey" and when W E Hadfield with a few of the 70000 tiny potted plants that will soon embellish the grounds of the So useful has be found his little" bed is to use the new electric cable Such a hot bed was mode by E A dry become hareand almost like Salt Lake General hospital It takes this number of alternantheras coleuses begonias and n is waterproof and to lay this Parsons a local ama- electrio hot bed and so economical— that to mention hundreds more of a variety of ammals to keep the borders lovely cement Clay soils are the hardest in fashion in the teur gardener at his home 1884 to operate that there is scarcely 81of all with which to work for Seventy thousand baby plants are Although a great many annual types are Prima Donna and Enground about six inches below the South Ninth East street Salt Lake week of the whole year when some surface of your seed beds city The pit is about 18 inches thing or other isn't being germ14— to be con- chantress An amaranthus called being so compacted and heavy they thriving at the greenhouse in the flowers are used-20- 000 cold frame sash or deep with the cover just a little nated or brought to bloom or proj— The regular in Molten also as an such varieties Fire snapretain moisture too long a time rear of the Salt Lake general hos- servative plays important hot-bsash is then arranged over above the surface of the ground tected from the elements there Any' v zinnia verbena petunia part in keeping the numerous bor- ing its average height: It makes the wooden dragon and they are cold and take a long pital all getting ready to be set aster walls of the shallow pit Here in this small space Mr Par- one who is handy with tools can canId of and marigold—Mr Haat ders gay Many thousands the most exciting border or bed you in which you are to do your sons raises each year an amazing make a similar contrivance with a— time each spring to warm up from outside irt the—extensive grounds gell his moat individual colorful effects from nas are growing in pots can imagine and will bloom con- planting and the electric cableearly number of choice annual plants few odd window frames and pieces' carthe effect of the sun's rays te in sand ready toward the end of April W E Had- brilliantly hued foliage 'plants that after being started from-laJune until frost ries heat at the right temperature front seeds plants that would give of lumber And of course the oleo& stantly outside when the Since all South African field who has had charge of the are seldom used by the average to be moved Ways to Improve plants are it even all the time so that only half the results if they were trio cable home gardener Here be has alter- weather is settled All the begonias tender sow seeds out- keeping however there are ways of im- grounds there for the past nine nanthera in red and yellow leaves by the way are grown from seed side untilyou cannot y but you can get proving a clay soil and for my years is responsible for keeping coleus in about 10 varieties dusty a method Mr Hadfield has found them started at once in the house condiin miles of all miller for white effects and a great more reliable than cuttings They or in the hotbed When you prime plants own use I much prefer a clay soil tion around the hospital buildings many geraniums and bedding be- are sown In flats then transplanted them out in the garden give plant them to start with than a sandy one for seven each or months to tiny pots then again to larger a hot dry spot if you ha fb one for longer gonias Often the clay soil needs to be year and every passer-b- y knows A fine white begonia is called pots and finally get put in the there they will feel perfectly at he does it Snowball and two favorite pink ground outside drained with ditches or tiles Large how-wehome it 1011S amounts of a manure that is rich t in organic matter (decayed vege- manure for t Almost before you know It ail Mn J N Ma Salt Lake clay soil since this is a 106 ?' 'daffodils will be blooming Won't tation such as occurs in stable ma hot manure and will Warm up the Garden Editor writes: "I am one of the many 4': ':: It be grand to fill all the bowls in 1: ''' i nure) added to clay soil and well cold clay at the same time that it who think you are tops as a gar( To D4cuss Perennials the house with the gay golden i mixedwith it is an ideal treatment helps to hold apart the too close den writer I am especially In to use cow manure and particles things? And then in short order D flow WASHINGTON is The best and quickest way to im- for new a This bloom Perennials for continuous being year petunia sandy soil which already is a favor of your Iliac campaign es the to under the in WedIntroduced be the will spring flower shows will be upon discussed of is seed" the texture letters "free gardeners of a garden prove beginning : clay soil is warm soil and needs no more heat ' ':1 (4 my childhood home in Canada 4" us with their special classes for to add sand-- or ashes from the but which does require binding to- again but indications are there alluring name of Salmon Supreme nesday at 10 a m at Civic Center was embowered In lilacs : :::'' 1' David Burpee its originator was by Mrs Maud Chegwidden garden This furnace The ashes should not be gether in its particles )t will be fewer than last year For I: ::'::: "artistic display" i ' of merit Id the editor of The Tribune Arranging spring I want to start with a few given the A layer of granulated peat moss 15 fresh but should have been exWith daffodils if with no other U S of the 1938 selections for ' seed years with color department '''': 'for schemes t t' perennials plants say petunias marigslds posed to the elements for some time spread five or six inches deep on We can 'get the moat grace- ''' flower :::::: new is an concultivaand flower the methods of to has been entirely and propagation trying Co that any Injurious chemicals the top of sandy soil well wetted agriculture ::::: asters zinnias delphinipansies in le color and ful tion will also receive ::::: attention by means of only petunias arrangements departure 'i'i 'I'I dug and mixed in vince 130000000 people that it has '' may have a chance to leach out A first and then ri' Roses and rose gardens will be umib When should I start the a few blooms Crowded bouquets " :: prove the wisest thing you Can no free seeds or plants Yet each extremely floriferous 4 layer of such ashes or sand two will odd angle comes into the story the topic for the lecture Thursday seeds? Would a cold frame be never haw tho airy charm that a L ' or three inches all over the clay soil ever do for that garden The peat year as spring approaches thou- of An Salmon Supreme too A certain at the Art Barn shoot at 10 a m best? What mixture of sand and low bowl containing a half dozen turned in and well mixed works moss holds amazing amounts of sands of requests pour In from amateur or so of tho tall stemmed nexcissua All types of grower making a hobby by Mrs Chegwidden -: is a best? wonders The manure does what water and it Is organic matter or farms suburbs and penthouses And of How humus w large plot provided that great care has been petunias sent seeds of some new roses suited to local conditions and all the writers of these letters meet 11 else is necessary to make a well humus in its purest form 1 used in arranging them with duo N: crosses to David Burpee for his ways of using them in every sort of could a housewife care for In ' most soil disappointment for of the perfect nigh Alkaline Problem regard to length of its mond foliage to 1923— opinion after trial and it is from garden will be illustrated with a spare time? Should my list be Years ago—previous ::::::::::::: usually grown shrubs trees flowers these seeds after an amount of hundred slides in natural colors Here is a photograph of a per :i 1 added to or subtracted from?" and roses In many parts of this country there was anannual appropriation that feet picture It was made in a potfree seeds for congressional dis-- experimentation and work If you are starting a garOen on the problems of acid soils have to for came Salmon However Ans—Thank you very much You tery bowl in a lovely abode of dull soil that has not previously been 'be met but in Utah and surround- tribution through the department of the nameSupreme of the man who sent the blue but white green or brown should start your seeds at once In worked and your 94311 is the heaviest ing etates we have scarcely any agriculture But in 1923 the gov- seeds to Mr Burpee has been lost Club Meets 74Azsiumo' might have been used A frog bolds the cold frame if you have one or sort of clay such as often has been such soil Ours is the opposite prob- ernment decided to discontinue the and since a large cash prize awaits KAYSVILLE—Members the stems just as we want it to and of the in pans in the house if not Delthis of the quandistribution great from soil These the this basement alkaline lem of procthat dug need to hear about him he has meeting phinium being perennial is not in A modern arrangement of poll- - some of the long leaves of the dafess may need to be repeated two alkaline soils occur in semiarid tity of seed since it was only com- it and to only himself to claim Kaysville in garden club fodil were combined with thobthe city council cham- such a hurry for it bloom the sec- gulls and tulips Monday or even three times before it is parts where alkaline salts such as mercial garden‘ seed such as could the award identify loomm is well as a couple of tubers voted to adopt the lilac as their ond year be bought from any good seed house worth while to plant costly garden sodium sulphate sodium or potas- and lips one yellow the other dull pur club shrub and to sponsor its plantA mixture of one part sand one did not necessarily represent material It is better to take the sium carbonate or chloride are better than those in com- agriculture have no free seed It ing Robert Falkner addressed p t loam and one of leaf mold or Ilepends on what size your family pie whole first year to Just improve the present in large quantities They varieties You see there were only sht de has no seeds or plants for sale the group on correct methods of peat moss is ideal for seed beds is and bow many afternoons a week fodils and two of them have been soil and forego the garden than are always difficult for vegetation mon use As to the size of the plot it all planting evergreens and bulbs to rush in with the planting and and frequently actually destructive Not only does the department of either you devote to bridge! If gardening put down in the bowl without any always afterward regret your baste to it as we all know However is your big hobbyif you're a real stem at all Yet the effect Is quite are to alkaline have conditions and immensely struggle against poor rabid gardener you can take care entrancing One daffodil tallest of irresults improved with drainage proper all then two a little shorter a third of a surpriaingly large garden and still ahorter—and or plowing rigation deep digging you have perfecIf Soil's Sandy also and suswax fat and healthy over it I with proper fertilization tion The little china bird on the loads of soil the of' of a few opposite Sandy just by the addition pect you are this latter from your edge of the bowl adds a touch of guide line by using wedges between to adjust the curb to the line Use ly Itesight occasionally otherwise letter Good luck to you By ELIZABETH GORDON clay is composed of particles that good soil to encourage nitrification piquancy that is lovely but not 2 2 of to to be soil curb about a piece All and the Houses are funny things needs Like the redwood six stakes are really rock fragments each deeply dug your backfilling and tamping may Besides the annuals you name try really nebeasary And by the way by is fill of disBack will out be easy and and tamp thorough- throw the board stakes In this way it which may be perceived with the before anything at all planted people the niceatones often are alignment scabiosa or bride and since in this arrangement the frog If your drive or path requires a salpiglossis mourning naked eye—far different from the The deeper you dig the 'better will guised by slovenly upkeep or painted tongue could not be hidden by foliage a be curve Commonest is can this The be the results eventually although offender against atoms of clay soiL Sandy soil arranged too You'll love them both Also think few rough pebbles were set around Drive a 4 by 4 stake in at each end about the two African daisies It and give a very natural 11111111 loose and porous and will not stick oddly enough the deeper you dig an attractive house personality is soil! one on and side Place a car jack named on this page today the untidy driveway or path Even to the display together as clay does no matter the poorer you make your on the opposite side in the center how tightly you may squeeze s This is because you turn up and mix' though the driveway is surfaced gr e is curve 1 soil until the obtained Screw up with the fairly good top soil any with cut atone or a similar material handful While it is a warm ) f d t with good drain quant1t3r1larger asvyou dig deeperli nature bad away of lambing herself It is necessary to notch out the side : : t age it is bad ii piece to the F water to run away Just as fast as knowledge must not deter you from ing tidiness into an unkempt apsawing a three-inc- h ke t ) '74 Ii ' 4 it 'y' ve I of one and o of t Before you realize It the '1 it is applied and plants grown depth digging deeply though Roots pearance t I t inches apart Then brace the curved ii : i It will wither and die in a few hour many things you will have in the sod or the flower beds have en: t — ' 't board with at least six stakes and when a dry period comes even 'garden go down two feet at least croached on what should be a f to 4 backfill do so or three preserve the carefully Sharply marked path though they grow very quickly if roses go down two course curb you have obtained The California poppy is one ofefornia poppy absolutely will not be is constantly pro- shrubs trees of get far If you have been postponing enough moisture ) ' Once' is done curb you might the finest annuals in the world transplanted Their roots are aent I your vided deeper than this In time If there edging your driveway or footpaths ' down and no matter how care- i well give a thought to the surfacing It flowers deep startiseason entire Sandy soil may be improved by is a layer of hard and infertile sub- because of the high cost of curbing ' thq of the drive orwalk so you have a adding great quantities of organic soil less than a foot below ground you should know about the economy ng in late May and never stopping fully you get down after them wits completely new looking driveway until real hard frost has come and your trowel you cannot take them matter stable manure and dead it won't encourage the roots to of wood for this purpose A perThe best practice is to lay a four- - moreover once you leaves grass clippings peat moss grow and expand and your results manent wood curbing we mean one get It started UP intact A transplanted poppy Inch bed of cinders and cover them it that will not rot away after a few all of which will help to bold mois- above ground will be pitiful-after' year from always wilts and seldom if ever reappears year four-inc- h of stone ' with a recovers So sow the seeds where fill volunteer seedlings layer ture in the soil and which will make Dig Deeply years It is the cheapest way to do Then you will have a roadbed or a Time was the trick the loose and ' gritty particles more when the brilliant you want them to flower and do it will drained walk be well that soon as you can Even nightly where orange yellow was the only color You must dig deeply and fertilize To be sure of this we had a typicohesive mud will reverbother you no mat- - we As far as stable manure is con- - well to have the perfect growing cal driveway job figured in concrete1 had in this dainty flower but trmtst at this time of year will And ter what the weather annual - metal and wood We specified that you will now eerned the rule is to use horse ground is such variety not hurt this hardy add greatly to the tidy appearance that therecolor $ i -' : 4 Roots of 'Plants cannot live with- the wood curbing be of California scheme may be folany ' ' ' of your property out oxygen and this yearly or redwood all heart grade because it lowed some of the hybrid Try ' periodical turning over of the 'soil is a wood that is one of the three eschscholtzias (excuse —its name A GARDEN r most durable known to man which aerates it and will do!) be when thrilled you EVERY HOME I constant exunder can in the form of anplocmatotoeo oare stand up bloom they ' oneFOR The Ramona hybrids are prob cayed vegetation also puts an posure to moisture without rotting or disintegrating The cost of the ' amount of oxygen in the soil ably among the very finest new In 44 cents a blooms month poppies Unusually large i I Earner SHRUBS come on the neat and compact garden soils and usually needs at- linear foot installed as opposed to This Near up bulbs Potted as such frilled are tending to yearly At least a casual 52 cents & linear foot for tulips hya:plants and the petals ntiL I “4 44 t 4 4- - ti s --a r T and 8105 a linear foot for of what food plants crocuses delis daffodils It and in understanding and fluted 44 glistening exquisitely PLANT NOW! l "rggl need for growth is necessary for concrete curbing installed t ' grape hyacinths may all be set colore of pink scarlet chrome yel1 ' - ' 'j To make a neat pleasing edging ' all gardeners even the most amaout now in the where ' low Renew Old Lawns red white t4 claret copper garden SPECIAL ' they purple t will gradually regain their expended and orange teurish For their benefit let me of any of the durable woods—Caliki Imagine having purple and Plant New— SALE say that there are three important fornia redwood weetern red cedar energy and will be ready to bloom California poppies and red and 4 ' ' THIS WEEK ON Sweet Peas Hardy chemical at next their times proper spring copper ones! It 1 I Annual and Perbefore growth boards 8 by 12 with ' two of their You can never makes bulb—a Bible but it is elements—required ennial Seeds can take place and these are nitro- edges nosed to make semirounded rt-- ' fc' is—flower a second You know I hope that a Cali- that hardy bulb III lt i Shrubs Roses and time in a pot before its due season gen potash and phosphorous You corners If you are edging a path Buy Now WU' 'L ' Stocks Aro have to add 'these three elements ask for only 2 by 12's as they will be Trees In planting the bulbs where you ' ' Comple te '4 wish them to bloom next April or and humus to make a garden on In better scale for the width of the ?SEEDS ' 4c Until recently we are told Begin RIGHT With path May remember the rules regarding any sort of soil ' Chemical fertilizers cont aiIi n boards of these dimensions were Our Acclimated De-- 41' SHRUBS depth of bulbs Each one is differA ' 14 ent Crocuses should be two inches known amounts of each of these hard to find in the average lumber ROSES ' - - -t Iv pet'dable Stock! : The ' -Modern Moot Crower ii'food elements while stable manures market but they are now much means two inches of which deep ist BULB' earth above the tip of the bulb Treat cuttings from plants PLANTS varying degrees of them more widely available '' '' Get Free Garden Book' contain 11 -- meet four inches --of earth shrubs tretsDSeo how roots 1 s' For this ireason some gardeners To install the wood curbing dig a Ducko — — Roby and Z EThurichkesy1 above them daffogils and hyacinths trUelYrctrinarEetfttsh prefer the balanced chemical ferkti-- a trench J cheal deekplc k is 021 t about as five inches and the little grape Quicker blossoms Astonish' :!1:::1ALVIZ lizers since they know Just t '"- - - ' 1 loL treatment the soil is receiving but eight inches Use aim as a center 2i hyacinth two or 'Urea Roughly rtztelf owentztretadiendbots Fat r ' Vrtttl at the same thne they are not ac- guide so you will not wander away the same—number of speaking Lawn owe talk: Gran Beek taw Tour Don't Plasms Forget the texture of the in a direction you do not want to go inches should bit left between each Wrists Gordening tually improving ' - soil as Place a length of board in the bulb as is left above the bulbs stS0oirdesitiorSeretdd rocatftiborittr:dmirsitinuelitthi: - ' they would do if stable maBAILEY Et SONS City Sales Peed Coe- - llth $o and v nure were used: It is your indi- 'trench Then drive 2 by 2 stakes this is for a close planting to an'ts cutti nirs) Sent prepsid S100 for State Streets although '4" SInee11165 ' Seedgmen which will give fine effects the Lusa site Write today or leo your dealer City Store: 42- West 1st South - - vidual problem as to which form one and a half inches long on both Store and Office: 6143 E 2nd So Salt Lake of adding plant food you will follow sides of the board to hold it upPhone Wacatrh 40 PenttswastANiA CHEMICA) COPIPORATION Top left driveway without a curb Top right bending heavy' red first year but will 'necessitate Was 365 Salt Lake City BIAsi Phone CIA0461 —-sion in a couple of years or so in' your own garden right Adjust the board to your woodplanks to obtains destred curve Below finished driveway o ass 5 ' NI I V" : auvaisr a t ::::::' S' t a tp' ( p ? j '::I 0:::1t:i :i J I 00 f ' :':It r (f —f kr i 5 Att v: 4A y" Ii44 !i s 1 4 7 A 0- o4 : --:- f- ? t d 5 k 4S1r1tr 2 (4 :s2 4 t: 0 !- : 1 0 1' :r4 l'''t' ')k-f7- l a &'s a Jr-- ir t AV iie m 4 well-know- -- back-and-for- th e e ed t b 0 -- -- mid-Ma- When Daffodils :Bloom Do You Know How to Arrange? Garden ' ues 3 5 5 ) ) 1 Seeds Free? 'Nor New Petunia Says Government Is Introduced aty ik :::::: it '1: : ri i :':::::::: --t-!q ) v: 4 I: 't K' -- -- sf ) :::'e : IP - 9od Curbing Recommended for Neat Paths 3 I because about Steps in Installing DriveIvay Curb I I r s II - 1 e - I 1 r three-fourt- Of One Finest Animals in World --- - - F - 1 e 1 I ' u ' 0EEDS ' 0 - I e : 10 - --LAa- r— " - Bulbs Out Now I mretali-installe- -- 4 - ? ' 1- r771t11 - - -A a illlrg - ' ' - - - - - 1 t iins r- e 7 1 h( CI 1e - s 11 -- - 's fr-- ' - - I I - kt '?TON ca - -- tss PORTER w - Set Your Potted - r |