Show ORNING NOVEMBER THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY TV 1938 D - " ‘ " 27 “ 3 Garden News Edited By Maud Cliegwidden Illicit Leaved Barberry Fine Shrub for Area One Way to Achieve Color in Planting More Than 100' Lily of Valley Varieties of Easy to Grow -- In the House This Herh Lily of the valley is such a universally loved flower that you will be delighted to know if you already don’t that this is the easiest of alt things to force into winter bloom for the house It is even paquicker than the per white narcissus course could Of you go out into the garden and dig a clump and though there are more than 100 varieties of this herb pot it for house bloom with good Do you know the Oregon grape results But for the lazy gardener Or mahonia? The common barber(and I’m one there are especially ry berberis vulgaris was crossed prepared roots which we call pips for Utle by the nurseries that are with mahonia aquifolium and the result was their child this barberry guaranteed to flower in four weeks at the very most Planted now shown in our photograph Like its these cold storage pips will be flourmahonia parent it Is practically ishing by Christmas evergreen and because of this it You don't need earth only moss must be purchased with roots bailed or peat which is designed to hold and burlapped never bare the pips ’firm and to keep them There are very few spines on the ilicifolia barberry in which parmoist not merely to provide nourticular it differs agreeably from the ishment Any pretty dish or container may be used and the pips Japanese Barberry commonly planted The leaves show an almost besettled in their bed of moss soaked well and then thp whole should wildering variety some of them are be placed in a dark corner in fairly simple ovals with very slightly toothed edges many have lateral warm temperature until the shoots leaflets on either side of the main have developed two or three inches leaf and then the very new foliage tall A plant pot inverted over the and you may see for yourself is container will serve the purpose if you have no suitable closet Very hollyhke Berberis ilicufolia is destined to When you carry (the lily of the take an important part in foundaThe two twigs came from the same bush a seldom seen variety of valley to the light the pale shoots tion plantings once it becomes bet-- 1 barberry The holly-lik- e foliage is younger than the right hand twig will gradually assume a deeper ter known I am sure Even after They both are barberis ilicifolia green and the flower stems with their etherially charming fragrant very severe frost the foliage remains presentable and sightly and bells will soon begin to show the bush is shapely full and Later these pips may be set out in the garden when they will flower though it may be kept any desired shape with a little pruning at the normal time in the year fol- Berberis ilicifolia or the Illicit leaved barberry to be literal is a fine shrub for local conditions which would be far more frequently planted were it better known The barberries provide gardeners with some very handsome shrubs but Japanese barberry is the one variety that most amateur gardeners know ever-prese- nt Original Swiss Aster Grows in This Climate How to Prevent Successfully There an a it eagerly is Corner Cracks Often in the corner of a room Wall paper has a tendency to pucker as if one wall had settled and pulled away from the surface it abuts at the corner This fault is particularly common in houses in use for a generation or more Removing the paper reveals ah ugly crack that the decorator will have some difficulty in patching neatly And in most instances the puckering will soon recur for the fault is structural The trouble dates back to the erection of the house The lathing of the walls was improperly done in that no special provision was made to guard against corner In modern construction cracks this is easily taken care of by the Use of narrow strips of metal lath bent to fit snugly into the corner and securely nailed to both walls Such strips are called cornerite on all types of plasThey are used ' since will fill place near the front of the border and we havea’f too many plants of similar habit Also the Wonder blooms over a much longer period than the common perennial asters starting far earlier and being literally overloaded with lovely violet daisylike flowers each with bright yellow center from the end of July until frost approaches I suppose there are seeds of this aster available although I have not grows about 4 inches high often seen them offered in catalogues less and never more so in this but plants may be bought at a rea respect it is far different from the sonabld price which soon increase perrenial asters we already know to dividing size Try aster Kri and which are tall fellows karti for something different next Because of this two-fostature year planted now you may be sure the Wonder should be welcomed of plenty of bloom then base The use of cornerite Is an item of small expense when the house is being erected or remodeled — and it obviates great annoyance and constantly- recurring redecorating expense throughout the life of the - building Concrete Can Be Winter Job Home repairs requiring concrete work neglected during the summer can be made safely in cold weather If there is danger of freezing quick setting cement should be used This wijl reduce the time during which the work must be protected against low temperatures Such cement also is handy for Use on floors walks and steps that must be put into use soon after com pletion Thin slabs reinfefreed with comparatively small amounts of steel mesh will set up more quickly and resist more effectively the stresses caused by variations in temperature than will thick unreinforced slabs Paper White Narcissus Sure-Fir- e perennial aster found originally in Switzerland hence of undeniable hardiness in Utah which every gardener should know and to know it will be to grow it This is aster Krikarti but because' of its wonderful performances it is known as Wonder of Staefa — this is the name of the little Swiss village in the Alps where it was Wonder of Staefa first noticed ter A excellent lowing Bloomer Garden Questions Answers asks! Mrs W M Roosevelt “I have some house plants that are covered with a shiny sub- stance in spots that looks just as though I had flicked varnish on them What can be the cause And of this? Is it harmful? one more — will you please tell me whether tulips should be planted beneath big trees or if the shade will keep then from flowering? lour writing is such a joy o me and to other lofer lovers that I know we often talk of you and wish we could meet you some time New Ceiling Giver Old Jimmy Kirkland can’t help wondering if one of the 40 thieves is hiding in this huge urn which accords so well with the white painted woodwork and the rich evergreens at his parents’ home in Bountiful What todo with cracked rough and disfigured walls and ceilings' always has been a vexing problem Patching the plaster takes care of major defects but after the repaired surface is painted or kalsomined when light strikes it at unfavorable angles the edges of the patches will stand out in bold relief Removal Dirty Job In many residences erected 30 years or more ago the plaster so badly disfigured that nothing short of a new surface will suffice This is particularly true of ceilings However removing the plaster from just one ceilng is such a dirty job that no housewife wants tq tolerate if She realizes that her most strenuous efforts cannot prevent the irritating dust from such a job permeating the entire house But why bother to remove the old plaster? The modern and approved method directions for pruning rose bushes for the winter? This is This my first year gardening home had some fine rose bushes when we bought it and I want to treat them right You have helped me greatly this past sum-jumer and I hope you keep up the of renewing an old ceiling is to cover it with metal lath using nails good work you are doing’’ An- Thank you It isn-- t neces long enough to pass through the rose bushes now un old plastering and penetrate the more hJe some unuually ’long joists at least an inch or used one of the types commonly Any be back and sheet metal lath winter wd‘s so that of expanded for will suffice such a remodeling would be 'torn loose he Pruning is done early next year job for Ans — Thanks your niceand I will give directions at the Don’t Remove Borders wishes I hope that we may meet time Not even the heavy ornamental Your plants are some day also Note to Girl Scout -- The tree wood bordering the ceiling attacked by the scale insect I am leaves you inclosed were — 1 ginkgo must molding be removed However rea like This looks sure tiny 2 Chinese elm 3 mountain ash pretty such obsolete decorative efbrown speck and may usually be 4 Russian olive 5 unknown to me placing fects with rounded plastering so found on stems or the under sur7 box elder No in- much in vogue just now is a simple this of leaves Beneath the face deed it wasn't a speck of trouble mattter Metal lath can be hard brown coat is a sucking in- and I hope you will come again formed to make most any quickly desired sect that works havoc on plants my dear curve If there are not too many you can scraps them off with your fingernail or spray them with volck so- Brownie Leaders Meet Governing Factors lution several times Tulips do bloom The governing factors in placing trees of well under Brovnie various Leaders They packs quite before the leaves are fully cut meet each Wednesday at scout a house on a lot are orientation you know headquarters from 10 to 11:30 a m view prevailing winds and natural to study the needs of the younger features such as’ trees uneven A K I Salt Lake City writes: girls and prepare a program of ac- ground streams and similar physical conditions “Will you be good enough to give tivities st As an example of color In a planting without any assistance from flowers the foundation group shown in our photograph could not be imIt is at the home of proved on Mr and Mrs R O Kirkland in Bountiful and is less than a year All winter through exclusively it will be green But green alone does not always give sufficient variety so Mr Kirkland added a few redleaved barberrj bushes These pick up the color of the bricks in the wall behind them and the brilliant effect is helped severe still further by the scarlet berries old Even now after several frosts have left deciduous shrubs entirely denuded of foliage this planting is luxuriantly green because evergreens both coniferous have been used and broadleaved Attempt Made To Grow LUy pyracantha Kirkland has chosen his specimens for this south and east cor Mr ner very wisely There is plenty of Up variety yet there is unity green which deserves to be more frequently planted On either side of the urn which by the way is set in the one perfect place for it is a fine plant of Savin’s juniper a dwarf that has a slightly more upright habit than Pfitzer’s juniper the small ones seen At each outin the foreground side corner of this planting Is a I wonder if any reader has grown the spider lily which lives normally on the Unaka mountains of Tennessee? Last week a kind follower of this department sent me a bulb of this lily which she had obtained from her childhood home She was generous enough to give Trie one of the three her brother sent her and neither slje nor I know its exact requirements nor to be honest its true name I think however that ft la a a member of the hymenocallis amaryllis family? and it is probably the variety undulata or macrosteph-an- a At flowering time if I am lucky enough to flower it I should be able to identify it In the meantime I shall plant it with bated breath in a little pocket of woodsy soil in semishade You’ll hear from me later about it dear readers and if anyone does know this lily won’t he please write in? Plant tender annuals in a cold frame or else give them a good mulch m There are a great many smallcan be covered by a dime aimosrtfmultipliers and from two or threetmany of these pretty waxen cups bulbs which we should plant in our even when they are opened flat bulbs set out now you will hAve a drooping modestly on every eight colony in a very few years inch stem and they will be white gardens now that are especially yet their hue is most intense Never regular There is the scilla siberica which pink light or dark blue You will nice for the rock garden This part 1 this bulb unless you get at is as gay a blue as glory of the adore them of our yard is especially suitable plant snow almost This little gem has Crocuses are lovely for the rock for these tiny miniature beauties least 50 if you want the effect the rather widely opened garden too where they provide gay housed be- first year after planting And set drooping which may be bells on stems a scant four inches golden hues that offset the many and hot an atmosphere they are tween walls of safely weathered them three inches deep rough A patch of this in the rock blues and lavenders' to perfection sure bloomers Chionodoxa Lucilae is a blue tall rock whereas in the open garden They should not be permitted the they can so easily be forgotten variety with white center also you garden with a brown rock as back- Of course crocuses are hot confined full light when first set out because overlooked and sadly neglected may buy alba the white variety or ground will be a joy forever Be to yellow but are also white amelight tends to promote too rapid a Look over your rock garden now rosea the pink one but of them all sure you arrange such a planting thyst white striped with purple growth when the making of roots in and wherever you find a patch of the blue is far far more worth- where you can see it from a window deep purple and pale lavender of your home for on the bitterest this early period is far more im- ground that is minus any greenery while cold day of early spring you may Buy in Named Varieties portant When the roots are well tuck in there a half dozen or more For the Rock Garden be certain of looking out at this developed then bring the plant out of these little bulbs They need to It is beet to buy crocus bulbs In Into the direct light gradually There are some perfectly ex- - bit of glowing loveliness two inches of soil with be named varieties since some bloom covered You can test the quality of the at- and to be set from two to three d'usit sciljas to be bought for the Scilla campanulata or the wood earlier than others and also have mosphere with the paper white— if inches apart Next spring the de- - roc garden which have every hyacinth (scilla siberica is called a small variation In -- height and it’s fbo hot and dry the buds will could demand— you lovely the squill) has taller stems than mixtures do not lightful picture with its brilliant charm give the blast if you get a beautiful bloom colors form and fra- its cousin from Siberia with more best results But ohalways delightful like an exquisite mosaic will color the numare conditions There will be ber of varieties there great your healthy grance Moreover they are great flowers on each be your pride and joy are from which to make your choice! You'll Cost Small never be content till you have a of Ferns Book The cost of the tiny things is very sample of each "I know There is Kathleen Parlow for American Ferns by Edith A Rob- small too For only a dollar you one This is a very large white erts and1 Julia R Lawrence recent- cqn buy quite a representative colcrocus as pure as driven snow with ly published by the Macmillan com- lection while of course if you are prominent bright yellow anthers pany N Y is good instruction for in the affluent class you will splurge And you must have someVof-tha- f fern lovers' Both indoor and out- and buy them by the hundred You crocus called only but sufliciently door use and culture is discussed will never regret moriby so spent Yellow Mammoth First of all these httle jewels to Then yoS will The book is exceptionally well illove Ivanhoe a dark beauty in lustrated with many full page pho- bloom is the snowdrop that shy dusky purple and Grand Lilas the tographs It also contains several modest flower that has caught the color of a lilac plume and The identification and cultural tables of fancy of many of our poets The American ferns Bishop which is a rich purple drooping flowers are white daintily trimmed with green blooming very late and Striped Bjtapically which has bold purple the snowdrop is called Beauty t stripes on a white ground though don’t let this discourage Concrete Easily Colored ‘ Remember for beauty in the rock They come either single or you garden next spring and henceforth-forevermor- e Adding color tp stucco or to double and live fotever Also they these bulbs must be poured concrete work often pro- thrive in shade The most heavenly blue patches planted now They need no produces a more attractive job Such of tection for all ere hardy Simply work requires careful selection of of color will follow art them two inches deep materials -- and thorough mixing Glory of toe Snow or chionodoxa firm the earth well above them Natural mineral colors and pig- (with the "ch" pronounced like a vater them and then forget them ments that will not fade arc avail- “k’’ fer few bulbs give such yery Small bulbs are handsome in the rock garden until March able in wide variety very blue flowers The tiny things ' - -- or-thr- ee shrub very littleknown locally and which unfortunately didn't get into the photograph This is barberry ilicifolia and1 you may read about the choice variety in another article on this page Notice how well the white urn combines with the greens of the planting and the reds of the house which has white mortar and white woodwork Even in a black and the good color-blen- d white photograph can be realized and for a picture of cheer in winter this composition could never be superseded Basement Space Valuable In New House Tulip Bulbs of Excellent Quality Cheaper Than Usual Rock Garden Bulbs Should Be Planted Note j can-nar- From Southland The paper white narcissus polyanthus is deserving of its popularity as it is one of the easiest grown house plants and one of the most beautiful They can be grown in' water soil wet sand or pebbles and if you will be careful about too dry r of right accent has been obtained ti through use of arbor vitae and juniper This latter is a beautiful grayish breen columnar ever- Logical arguments can bo pro- sented for and against the matter of a- basement in a new house Climatic conditions the size of the house and the type of heating sys- tern to be used are deciding factors in the matter Frequently space needqd for heat- ing equipment fuel laundry otor- age and other purposes can be more economically obtained above than below ground and to advantage in convenient isage Better light and air are available and upstairs utility rooms also save steps On the other haltd basements of- fer ideal storage space for solid fuels such as coal coke or wood because the fuel can be cheaply delivered by gravity into suitable The Bulb Garden in Tulip Time storage bins They also offer Ideal conditions for storing certain foodi returns such excellent of year bulbs gorgeous quality give where space separated from the Tulip minimum of such a with after heati-nplant is provided and when in eld varieties that are nevertheless work year selection of tulips will proper use is made of the earth as a as good as anything modern are You color in them every may buy temperatures cheaper this year than I have seen under the sun with the exception Earth temperatures at the level blue— even some of approach of the ordinary basement in the pule them for many seasons past Every to blue called be as United States seldom go below the gardener should ihvest in all that blue so closely For the new garden tulips save freezing he (an now for who knows what point and seldom rise to now in might be happening to the ships the day Set out the bulbs than a few degrees below the piore next that hung the bulbs from Holland well prepared beds and then average seasonal temperature This nPXt fall’ May when they are at their lovely factor can be utilized to good adThe garden in tulip time is as bpst srattor seeds of annuals among vantage for the storage of foods and the garden will be flow-so- n such as beautiful as it will ever he all apples potatoes beets winAnd certainly nothing williery and charming all year ter squash etc and for the storage of canned foods and preserves sea-jthe- New Homes Built in U S This Year to Top 1937 by 50000 CHICAGO — It i’s possible that cannot be taken care of amply by it will set itthe number of newhomes built this private enterprise if is to the task self It being done year vwll be 50 000 above 1937 ac- already in many sections and js cording to John H Fahey chair- becoming general man cf the federal home loan bank ''During the past four years archi- boaid in an audiess recently before tecl3 nave contributed more in plan- the annual lonvention heie of the njng houses of moderate co“t tmn United ’St Its Building and Loan at any tme in 20 years Buildois league He p( inted out that with- and material dealers have devised in the last few months the pare of better and more economical methbuilding has been faster than at ods of construction without sacriany tune ‘since 1929 ficing real1 values and it is now "The housing need of the coun- possible to obtain a far better home at a' lower price than a decade ago” try are not confined to cur large cities although the conditions in For many years Mr Fahey said metropolitan areas are usually the savings and loan associations have center of attention” said Mr Fahey supplied the great bulk of institu“Most of our urban homes have to tional lending for home purchase 40 per cent or be supplied in the cities of medium and construction size and in the smaller communi- more Thus he said these insti75 to From year per tutions are "better equinped” than year ties cent and more of the building of any othersto de il with the present is in housing demand houses one and com mu rii tic of -- 100 000 population and less and about 6J per cent of cf 25000 and Officers Retained this volume in less There is a very great home EVANSTON YVyo— VVyuta shortage in these centers and home Boy Scout officials were rebuilding tn thc-- areas inconspicutained in office until the next genous as it may be in individual represents the largest part eral district meeting as follows: Dr L C Goodman chairman Dr J'S of urban housing construction R v no good reasoqj why Hellewell "There cf Janos Y Harris s'cc?Trv Martin families with annual income Ml and even It's then F Harris trea-urax 1200 to Ernest C $1000 in the smaller cities and towns Donellon commissionertwo-famil- y dfs-tri- ct com-mumt- I t" cr - Many perennials can be sown now gaillaf-dia- s columbines Delphiniums foxglove canterbury hells coreopsis primrose and others may well be planted in the fall BULB SALE Clean-U- Special 10 p Splendid Varieties Giant TiSUPS 2c each other varieties of Tulips Bulb Iris similarly reduced 50 Daffodils too late to plant as long as 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