Show Sunday Morning -- £ljc Salt £akc yrilmnc July 16 1939 D3 Cold Frame Serves as Planting Box for Perennials and Biennials Hare Delphinium Blooms Perennial Seed Should Be Planted Now Care Needed In Removal Of Daffodils they when in cool-to-th- start to sent! out these roots already established In the garden very shortly after the foliage hia disappeared naturally For this reason they should be moved as soon now as possible Bulbs produce offsets split and form new bulbs under the ground Where a single daffodil was set in a few years there is likely to be a regular small colony of bulbs some too small to flower but all of them searching for their supOf course ply of plant food under crowded condition there isn’t enough food to go around hence many of the bulbs even of flowering size are unable to store to form up sufficient energy blooms -- i ' T - r slip-cove- rs f Rearranging furniture has numerous advantages aside from the obvious one of drawing attention away from the mantel to another part of the room or if either is particularly fine to a view from out the windows or to a picture It 3 wr will for one thing help to even up wear and tear on a rug New Appearance In fact a new disposition of furniture gives the room an entirely y A different appearance a definite as' V set in homes of persona forced to live In the same menage all year round with no changes of scene Sin h a corner as this in the living room can easily divert attention fiom the fireplace and during the summer months There are other decorative tricks its objectionable suggestion of warmth Gay chintz and crisp curtains at the window as simple as that of replacing your writing table of African okoumi a new blond wood and coffee tabic of cool glass and furniture and as effective Remove andirons and loga from fireplaces silvered wrought iron give this corner a new summer freshness in summer and either leave them bare or bank rows of flower pots or (a vase filled with fresh green leaves In the opening Still another Water Removes Odor is to use as many clear glass accessories as possible since their A pail of water In a freshly frosty Icy look Is much more pleaspainted room will help remove the ing to the eye In dog days than odor other materials caused by overcrowding Bulbs draw on the soil very heavily for nourishment Yet this need of theirs is often ignored even by gardeners who are most meticulous in seeing that lawns and shrubs roses and perennials are well fertilized Each year a barntop dressing of yard manure or of & 'chemically balanced fertilizer should be By all means avoid freh given fertilizer from the barnyard for this is anathema to daffodils AiUmumJ Jwi - 'V 'is Jqr l: r - Deep Digging Mrs R E Madsen finds it necessary to tie up the heavily laden stocks of this delphinium of oriental parentage which after four years this July began to thrive in her garden at 5079 Ninth East street Woman Grows Unusual Persian Flower Few people have seen delphiniums in any other color save blue or blue blended with mauve pink or purple yet there are white one and— most hybrids of the blue ones and there is a cardinal red unusual of all— a delphinium that is jnimrose yellow The latter has been grown in the garden of Mrs R E Madsen 5079 Ninth East street Murray after four years of effort Native to Persia the yellow del- two-lobc- (Continued From Preceding In replanting the bulbs if they are to go in the same places as before deep digging and a thorough enriching of the soil is of paramount necessity The roots of Division of Oriental Poppies Furnishes New Plants these bulbs will go far down into the earth and it should be dug and pulverized to help them The beet fertilizer for mixing with the soil right around the bulbs is bone meal since this Is g and will release Os benefinal qualities at the time when the bulbs need it About a pound of bone-meis enough for a stretch of earth two by ten feet or if the bulb are going in separately add a tablespoonful to the earth around each bulb Bulbs should not be replanted as soon as they r dug Allow thqjn to rtmain for a week or two lrfd utof the sun that they may partly dry They are then quite easy to divide or separate The large ones will be sure to bloom the following season but small ones are best planted to themselves in some odd corner where they may grow to flowering size in a year or two Between shrubbery is a fine place for these tiny bulbs How deep are daffodil bulbs to be set7 A good rule is to allow' three times as much soil to be over them as the bulbs measure water newly through Always planted bulbs thoroughly to settle the soil around them— and to start them Into root production as soon as possible Few pjerennials give such a vivid splash of color in the garden early in the year than do the Oriental poppies In July these plants enter their annual dormant period This is the time to multiply them by root division Of course it Is equally possible pears roots should be dug for dito grow new Oriental poppies from vision This process akro is to be seed When you are ready to dig the attended to now for the seeds are root see that the ground Is wet ripe thoroughly so that roots will not Yet if you have the new varie- be broken in digging They are ties in white pink ealmon apri- fleshy and brittle looking much cot or dark red you ran nrver he like anemic emaciated carrots sure of getting more than the very Choose roots which are about as smallest percentage of these newr thick as an ordinary pencil Cut colors from seed even though the theae Into pieces two Inches long It is Important that the upper part parent is of a new line Almost all of the infants will of the section be planted at the bloom the second season in the top In order not to forget this original shade of scarlet shape the top with a horizontal It Is on'y through root division cut and have the lower end made that you may get several new with a slanting cut riant every piece In a box or plants of pink poppy from a parent pink one Root division is an bed of sandy soil with the flatly cut top about an inch below the easy taak well worth trying The poppy has a long thin tap surface Frees the earth firmly root Very soon all of the fol age aiound the segment water well will wither and die In the few and stretch a piece of muslin or weeks before new leaf growth ap burlap over the bed elow'-actin- S L phinium is properly called delphinium Zalil Its flowers which at certain seasons make the low hills of Persia brilliant with color are used in dyeing The flowers are each about an inch in diameter spurred with broad yellow sepals and narrow d yellow petals The folmge is unlike that ordinarily associated with delphiniums in the gardeners nund for It is very finely divided and looks like that of the cosmos Those gardeners who are alwavs on the lookout for novelties as W'ell as those searching for a medium height good yellow perennial will like this unique delphinium ' rase) for the body of the building Windows throughout have steel sash and are so placed to admit the greatest amounts of sunlight On the first floor will be housed the laboratory's heavy equipment such as two 200 capacity ‘busters” devices used In testing tensile strength of steels and the weight concrete will stand before d crushing frN "V A V v VA 1 j - EAST 17TII SOUTH - V ’ I UNWELCOME GUESTS Ml Ilo Uni ! oli lIHtor LUMBER C C ‘1 1C I J Sunday 700 to 10:00 P M JV OW you can choos from 50 small homes design- first-floo- 3!2!i A Wm rSi-- Garden Queries Answered vs d ) ffV ft j v A OPEN FOR INSPECTION 1312 set-bai- k ROMNEY ' r Screening Equipment In addition screening equipment used for grading gravel and sand more copious lings may be given a supply of water than is possible will also be located in the large with the very fine mistlike spray r laboratory On the north By Maud Chegwidden When cooler days come the end of the first floor are two smallshade can be dispensed with The er laboratories O T I Pocatello Idaho probably to be used like will grow perennials young write: “Will jou liinill) give me for testing paints and gnsnline weeds and should he permanently direction for pruning an On the second floor offices and planted In the borders before the smaller laboratories such as those monthly rose that Is a of October end climber? I do not know Its for testing cement soils rhemi-al- s oils and other mateiials will name a It wa started for me Planting them then Is a better by a friend but It rlimhs about plan than waiting until next be located A photographic dark seven feet or more and lias lirge spring for in fall the ground is room is also planned warm and mellow and the young Levi Muir one of the commispink roses not In flusters” roots immediately begin to estab- sion's cldist employes as chief Ans— Your rose isn’t a rambhr lish themselves in the new place materials engineer will supervise It is probably a climbing hbnd or with no possibility of a cheek moving of present equipment from tea since these are immenselv popsuch as often occurs in the offices in the Capitol basement ular at present and have roses exspring when the ground m cold and the University of Utah to tne actly like their bush counteiparts and soggy new building save that through the nddition of COAST TO COAST (limbing rose blood they hnvc been IV 31 given a climbing habit No Mnr “Th Bst Cost I’lant I’ood Needed Mildew Treatment These roses are to he pruned in ASA Agent for MAlFIOUMt early spring when nec ewarv and (internl llollm — HrrpriMif Hlnrsg the time for a modi st Now is Prrennmls which show a dingy they only need to have dead wood of a plant food cut out and Is 1! white coating mi their foliage aie to lawns and (omplcte any unusuallv long other areas of lie or 49 fast llrnadwnt Was 117f shoots removed Often afflicted with mildew straggly a are in where growplants garden they are not so ruggedly If one is fortunate sime ing condition hnrdv as true i limbing roses winto on the the food soil get enough ter temperatures take quits a toll just prior to a rain so muih the of their top growth of better The method applying small quantities of plant food at writes: “Mary Ann” Magna frequent intervals has proved far “(an tree be grown from seed? you really can't blame them for coming Could I grow ( lilnese elms and superior to the old system of large into your nice coiy home they don’t quantities onee a season and levs ratal pa from seeds? When know any better But proper icreenj will make food Is lost in the process should seed be sown?” these pesky "guests" keep their distance Ans— Yes Indeed It is quite easy to grow these trees ou name from ('llS(OI!l-ri(((seeds If jou have patience enough StTCMMIS Jl ST TH mioisg to wait for the trees to reRrh tree IlYLANI) 1097 sie You will enjoy watching the for Expert Plumbing Work development No matter what you want don Remote Dead Rloonn w ran lvt ou srric In Jnat a frw mlnut with our rom)rt A regular program for the replumbing bhop on MhteU moval of dead flowers from anU'osatdi nuals perennials and flowering shrubs will jield dlvldi mis In extending the blooming period The ait of producing seed lias a weak-uunel fed on any plant anj unSi n e 111(A) PLUMPING & HEATING less seed are to he saved for pi liltBUILDING SUPPLIES FINANCING CONTRACTORS ing It Is better that they be re:(nai Sn Ulh Fait llr 1097 moved i: v V been in place even one y'ear with- Morning A I) u v I out blooming however dig down now and see If the trouble isn't Early morning Is the best time In which to water seedlings Soon after they have attained their second pair of tiue leaves— the first pair of leaves alwavs a different shape from the true leaves aie not counted— the seedlings must be thinned out It is essential that each plant have enough room to grow and develop without crowding Surplus seedlings if taken up carefully w ith a knife or similar tool usually may be replanted in another bed Ths young plants will require all possible free circulation of air Be sure to not place the burlap shade too close to the surface of the soil With continued growth the sccd- - O V I - V Disturbance Harmful Daffodils however Rre not in need of as frequent digging and If you have dividing as tulips daffodils thriving In your garden do not disturb them unless you are making changes If they have be-fo- Mater By Grace Grether You've your fur e niture In trim tailored touch fabrics hung your window in gay colorful flowered chintzes given your lamps new summer bonnets of linen or parchment rather than their customary fine silk And the chances are that you’ve overlooked the simplest and least expensive of all decorating devices by which a feeling of cool tranquillity may be introduced Into broiling summer homes That stunt— and It ought to b far more widely practiced than it is— is rearrangement of furniture so interest is diverted away from the inevitable focus of present-da- y living rooms — the fireplace Give Warmth Even if It's patently a fake giving off no more heat than a cold potato a hearth does give a room a warm cosy feeling And if there’ anything less desirable m midsummer than a warm cozy feeling It’s the extreme opposite mood established by the oldtime summer practice of shrouding furniture In drab ghostly Daffodils need a long time In which to make roots after plantmonths— and ing— usually three Frame Cold Creates Cool Illusion i ing well-drain- The best device Is a regular cofd frame For the glass sash used earlier when weather was cold substitute a shelter of burlap stretched over a wooden framework or one of laths The summer suft is too severe for seedlings Many of them will bum and shrivel unless a shade Is offered them If too rich soil is used in a seed bed growth may be rapid but the plants resulting will be soft and fleshy and entirely unable to withstand severe winter The best soil for these seedlings Is composed of equal parts of the three ingredients already named — loam sand and peat moss This must be pressed firmly down sowing is done Surface of the seed bed should be two or three Inches above that of the ground outside The sheltering frame should rest on uprights which will hold it a foot above the bed level Seed must be sown thinlv and coveied lightly Provide a bulb spray or similar means of giving a fine mistlike sprav to the seed bed or the small seeds are sure to be washed out of the soil and the tiny seedlings may be uprooted or dislodged Watering must be done daily sometimes oftener for when the tempeiature is 90 and over soils dry out with rapidity New Grouping July U the best time In which to transplant or divide daffodil bulbs Foliage now is almost withered Earlier while the leaves are still green it Is a dangerous proceeding and may result in losing flowers for at least one ygr follow- By Maud Chegwldden Carden Editor This Is an ideal season in which to start seeds of perennial plants Almost all seedlings thus obtained will bloom next year and will have made fine strong plants by late fall of this season They may then be moved to their permanent places Besides trying to grow your favorite perennials from seeds and so Increase your stock of these varieties always adventure each year with a few new perennials Biepnials too should be sown at this ftme A biennial is a plant whioJf has a life cycle of but two years the first it germinates and makes some leaf growth the second it flowers goes to seed and dies The root of a perennial on the other hand lives year after year while an annual has only one year of life in which it must germinate grow flower and ripen its seed Ill Favored The biennials are considered by many gardeners as little more than a nuisance since they do not blossom long enough to justify the trouble taken in growing them Yet without this trouble we should have no such lovely things in the garden as Canterbury bells foxgloves and others all of which are biennials A seed bed should be made in a sheltered place with soil composed of good garden loam and sand to which granulated peat moss may be added This bed is to be enclosed with a board wall which will not only serve to keep wandering animals from walking over the seedlings but will also support a frame necessary item giving shelter from sun and heavy rain Ise Light Colors Give Room Cool Appearance g 'P j for-doll- s ' T 20-ye- ar J Jtwf Thi beautiful flrrhrlrk bungalow completely redecorated and new roof hardwood floor fine kitthen and bath 3 lovely bedpainted Ood room with roomy closets larr cement basement hot air heat altrailUe lawn front and rear tonve-niintl- y Karate with prhate rirtvewa located for school lie Sine to See This Home! 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