Show 4144 40444e-4-m4des4o--4 -- - 4D No'Ir a v - 'r'' - - tilt- - Sait - blooming period passed irises bearing one white and one purple flower on a stem rushing into ehrysanthemunu bloom four months ahead of schedule and moreover being pink instead of :yellow—all these ihave been produced in gardens of Tribune readers Examples Cited Two 'tot the Most remarkable' Instances of freak flowers are an old lilac bush which flowered twice In a single season after years of neglect in a vacant lot and a calendula which after ripening seed on dne or its stems sent up six additional stems from that seed head and developed a perfect flower on each of them Mrs H M Fuller 1864 Sixth East street found the lilacs do-- ing their repeat performance on a vacant lot at the corner av-of Park street and Downington enue The house w'hieh stood in the -- - Maybe it's the heat or maybe it's something else bute this — summer has produced an unusual leumber of plant oddi ties-H M Fuller right was amazed by lilacs bloom- ing in August giving their second crop of flowers this — year Six stems grewram Me rmened seed head of this calendula grown by Mr84 William E Zobell of Provo and shown in the artist's sketch below - garden where the lilac had been planted long ago has been razed and weeds have taken over the property Yet in spite of this with no care of any sort and no water except rain the lilac flowered every spring Smelled Lilac Perfume Judge Mrs Fuller's surprise when she smelled the unforgettable fragrance of lilacs as she hurried through the 'field a few days ago and saw the whole top of the bush was abloom Arriving home she- told her husband of the odd plant The lilac is the favorite flower of Mr Fuller but he scoffed at the report of the bush flowering now until he walked over to the vacant lot to see the perfumed purple plumes Mrs William E tobell of Provo had as much of a surprise in her own garden when she noticed that a calendula which had gone to seed sent up six stems front its seed pod and that each stem bore a perfect flower :04 4- )R4I ' - - N tlir - Madonna Lilies Blend With Privet'oll NY Estafe : ''' 4 ' !111 ' New ways 9f growing madonna lilies are often 'ought by those gardeners who have tired some what of the common though lovely combination of these lilies with delphiniums In the garden of J P Morgan on Long Island N Y myriads of madonna lilies are used in what may be a different fashion to most local gardeners The bulbs are set iin a long band three or four bulbs wide in front of a hedge of clipped privet Fronting the lilies are row after row of tulips The rich but sober green of the privet makes a marvelous background for the purity of the lilies The lilies grow about three and a half feet tall the hedge is one foot taller and Is kept perfectly sheared in the form of an inverted V with the top blunted instead of being pointed The bulbs were not set close to the hedge but about a foot In front so that there could be no chance of the shrubs stealing the nourishment from the soil that should go to the lilies It is true that the tulips flower earlier than the lilies but Mr Morgan's gardener finds that the beauty of the alabaster lilies calls the eye sway - ' 0) I Ar te:A 'I ''i4v t'if ' '4"0 i 4‘1te)t!cs ''' - ftz'": Alit ro '' from th 'tulips' which have passed their 'best Now a the time to buy and plant more madonna lilies Imwhich usually ported bulbs Come from north of France are sure to be scarce and we must rely largely on focal stocks so it behooves gardeners to make no- - delay In getting all the bulbs they need ': 'New Shasta Daisies Have Double Rows of Petals jn Shasta daisies the delightful double everblooming Esther Reed which blooms from June until frost and the dainty Chit-to- n with a similar blooming period are excellent where white is wanted in the garden The new Snowbank which flowers with a has four-inc- h small center grows two feet tall and blooms a second time In September Nobilla grows 30 Inches tall starts to bloom three weeks later than Snowbank and haa three rows Of petals 1IMIMMINMOMMIliiMMINIOMINNEMIOMIMMMMMIMPMIME11nNt A et''9)4'" t4 4- ' ' 4p 7 ) CI I A I $6 Months to Pay Nothing Dom Change to Stokientatic today! Lee the famous Stokermatic coal stoker bring clean healthful abundant constant warmth into your home and olioy it stew world of comfort at a savings of 20 to 60 OWN formor heating costs Only Stokermatic has the Silent Unit Drive 3year guarantee Call us for a free more and complete survey information today No obligation Xelaphons bowl home-heati- 1 5 ng R ( A SAvEorig'y AA1 tvr or watt STOKERMATIC 17- ":evase - Isarantee 1 YOUR HOME $ STOKERMATIC I - t rot Sala By Salt Lake City Utak 1 01 :if - ' — ' ' 'I '10 ' ec - ' ''' 114 A 1 ' ' 41p 4 t 3 e' ‘ ' ' (i'llej p Vi Jo 1 0 ' 3 - W )914 i ''' i ' 4 1 113m ' - ' 4 - lt e f t ' ' ' -- 4 ofee040- ' The most toublesome pest which plagues the collector of house plants is the white fl because It is so lively and so hard to contaeb with a spray The white fly works on the under surfaces of leaves of house specimens and gels at Its tasks so effectively that often it has thoroughly established itself an all the plants before the owner ever notices it The adults are tiny and like miniature moths They fly away whenever a leaf is touched which adds to the difficulty in These adults fighting them lay eggs on the under sides of leaves and the minute nymphs which hatch from the eggs burrow int the leaves and suck the This is what makes leaves of plants affected with white fly look mottled and pale The nymphs are metamorphosed to adult stages in about five weeks and start the cycle of life all over again In cool rooms they do not multiply nor work so quickly Spraying frequently repeatedly with a nicotine solution will keep the white fly under control but it must be continued relentlessly Amateur gardeners spray once or at most twice and consider they have done their duty In reality their duty is never done when the white fly is in question Heliotrope and fuchsias are especially favorable breeding places- for the whits fly Trees Require Consideration A tree is regarded as an ject of permanence and therefore should be carefully considered when used to improve the appearance of home Shade trees 'should be placed so that they will provide shade from the hot afternoon sun and frame the house Such trees need room to grow and should never be planted too chise to the house Rapidry growing heavy feeding shade trees auch as poplars and willows should be avoided as the roots are apt to 'clop sewer and drain lines and they very quickly extract all the nutrient from the soil so that It is difficult to grow either a lawn or other planting material near them A few fruit treets Ore always desirable for both their fruit and flower ELEsql FIXTURES d 104 1a ) 4 4 ' ''s' world ''name of houseleeks Their botanical cognomen lit-' serallyMeans "live forever"' Prohably 'no other plant we can grow save maybe the spiny ' '''' ' : - ' I '''' ! - 4 - '' 110 :': and unfriendly act will live 4n a Utah garden with no water at sll for twb' or three month This has been the case In own 'garden where the variety stmpervivum tectoruin planted ' in a couple of wooden buckets (and therefore lieing under more difficult—edfiditions than it theij''' were in the ground) have lived for three years With no moisture at ail- - save rain AnctWhen has rain Alen on them? Not for weeks and weeks On weeks Yet they re all in fult bloom lot We do not make sufficient use of sempervivums nor do we grow Ahem reallY intelli- -gtaut even :if we have a few We so often stick them noncha- -' lantly in odd uneaten for sin- corners' almost without exception we place them where they will grow horizontally along the ground when they are much more spectacular growing on a vertical surface In Rock Garden Perhaps their greatest use11 In the rock garden TbeY are also excellent for planting in theerevices of old wallc'or on steep banks and In these positions their lovely syrometrical rosettes will make festoons and curtains of rich green tinted with red or bronze or draped about by those beautiful threads with the appearance of spider webs in the variety known as S arachnoideum In gardens the houseleelt was used largely set in rows of single rosettes as edging for formal beds When the offsets ("chickens") grew they were always rigorously pinched out so that the rigid line was not spoiled Nowa days we seldom make gardens like this-a- s though they were laid out with past and ruler so semperv arti must be set in other ways places ''' ' ' - '":''' '- - ''-- 0 ' ' - ''' ii '''sf'''':':!'''' '' ' Replies Given to Plant Queries Asked By Readers in Intermountain Area Have you tried those delicious- ly fragrant members of the dianthus family called clove pinks in your garden? off you have this is the time to increase your Take a stem while still at tached to the main plant and at A joint close to the ground slit it very carefully in a slantwise cut half way through Now gently place the joint on the ground and put a handful of earth firmly over it Press it dowi make sure that the earth does not become displaced with a flat stone Front the cut at the joint rusty" Ans—I suspect root rot If the leaves come away very readily from the root you will probably find the root to be soft and mushy like 'custard Affected parts must be cut away and burned Healthy roots can be replanted but new soil should be used : easily Some eollectors anda few botanical gardens have large 'collections Beginning a Well form collection night-ver10"fascinating and educationaV hobby for jocal gardeners since the plants 'do so well in our climate Sempervivum tectorum alretidy mentioned is commonest y o folfeshayllitleadtvs or semtetaessu root a -- atbhoicukt it four inchesein diameter and is a clean rich deep green is color At flowering time in the August and September stems rise from the side of the rosette about eight inches each being topped by a cluster of teddish pink flowers of unodd- doubted beauty and much f ity Web Variety S arachhoideum or the cob- - 0 web houseleek has smaller ro-settes most beautifully formed with the Inver lacy weblike growth toing from tip to tip It is excellent for the rock gar-seden or for walls It floweis in June with blooms redder than those of S tectorum and smaller but similar in form Sempervivum arenarium as its name tells us is a sand-loviplant and has very large rosettes of bright green that may meaitire as much as nine inches across Flowers of this variety are yellow 9 II i en 1 ng 4 701 STATE BO SAVE $60 - ()- l brand new MS model General Elec- tric O nl y a few lett at our special low A Ili The Ran" New low Raaaa T611 "e prices prices an DM nod els gt"e 4014z1 Dial 11 - I If A?? 610 0 ia - 11 11A4 7 It" - s tlir' 0 - lo II if PICTURE Br iii 4 41 0' - 1 4 r irttth!" 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Take advantage of the 10 discount on a new Gas turnace 'now Easy terms' 1 '4 — - Many families pay even lesi than 8112 a 'year for Gas—for cooking refrigeration and househeat ingcombined! That's due to the lower rate when Gas is used for all four jobs So why bother with two or more fuels when one can do the whole job so in cez21-pio- o 6- ng (iriiotinct ' '''11 11 TAI P P LY CO II PA!! Ft! E 11 1 I t I 1 ' !' ligitifLIA N ti t 1 Iii 0:111 A t" ii I- - 41 01 III ward ' - y r water-heati- - k 0'‘- "1 -' Here's the HOME LOAN f ' tt' Water-heatin- - VtI 7''''' Dial Mrs C M Roosevelt writes: "I shall be plemed to have you tell me what N wrong with an iris when the leaves turn red or 1 roots will develop- - In a month or six weeks the newly rooted shoot may be cut from the parent plant andmovedto a new place where It will flower next year From a single root now a good group will be obtained before winter comes Clove pinks are 89 useful in the garden that you need lots of them Their cousins the grass pinks or Scotch pinks may also be multiplied In the same fashion Any of these dianthuses make good plants for the rock garden the perennial border or in the latter case for edgings to the herbaceous border supply 1 I affected by red spider For this spray with a very strong force from the hose directing it to the under side of the foliage B?Cutting Stem Near Joint '‘10-0-- '' IDiO)trij1It He soon will poiso'n for him cease to bother you The other leaf is from a shrub Clove Pinks Can Be Rooted v ) ti leaf-eatin- tfil a 000311411-- S o 43 0 ' 111-- — By Maud Chegwidden Mrs S D GSalt Lake City writes: "We need your help We recently purchased a house whose yard is baAly LandSoil is hard dry and clay-lik- e in need of attention 'advise to do 'seems us would What all you scaping wrong as our funds are limited? We want thick velvety lawn proper placing' of shrubs and trees and colorful healthy annuals and perennials We know almost nothing about it Where would you suggest moving a weeping willow tree which is in the center of the front lawn?" 4 Am—First build up the soil We have climatic and soil To do so dig in peat moss or conditions in this district enleaf- - mold and as much old tirely different from any other decayed barnyard manure as part of the country and often you can get For the lawn must learn by 'experience One maybe you had better use a good thing about mistakes in chemical fertilizer recommended placing a specimen in the by a reliable nurseryman as wrong spot is that all such mis- Sulthis gives quick results takes can be rectified in spring is a ammonia of spendid phate or fall but mistakes made in plant food for grass With propchoosing wrong material can er watering and cutting this never be anything but failures will improve the lawn amazTherefore buy garden material ingly only from local dealers who All shrubs or trees can be have grown it here from seed moved once frost has come or from infancy But you might do well to delay The weeping willow should be until spring when you can study moved to the rear garden may and habits all garden plans plant be toa corner where it would winter and have your ideas so make'a splendid background for crystallized by spring that you a pool Do this after there has will avoid making more misbeen hard frost takes There are some good garden Mn M R J Rock Springs books in the public library Wyo writes: "I am sending some which will help you arrange the leaves from shrubs What is the material in the garden but retrouble cause and cure please?' member that in all cases these books have been written for conAns—The round sections have ditions g different from ours been cut out by the beetle which flies off with Many plants are recommended which will 'fail here notably these patches which he uses to the broad-leave- d line his nest Since he does not evergreens such' as rhododendron eat the circle we can't lay ' - ' ' their amusing name bf hen II and chtekens or bY their old 1 r 114 411 630 SO STATE '- may know sempervivum better ' :' k Flies Plague Growers of House Plants 414! 1''''' :-- - ' "1""'""A"I is4 s - 4 ' - ' lookini Illsh wants to be than cactus Whin') will thrive and stay green under the driest conditions Serzipereiwn is the answer ' There are many species but to the prayer of girdeners Wvater about a dozen only' are obtained whose yards la 1 You )0 1 ' r'---- - - ' :bir ' 1 v v ErMaud:Cbeinidden Tribune Garden Editor When weare'struggling to keep the garden ''s an a Mo flit in a climate which all too patently desert It it aloy 'to' know of any plant other 01v Jr : - Aikz: riz: 1 ' ' 11 - t i414 It 4 -' - '' ' 4051tr 'Ben and Chicks' Answer Need for Plants To Grow iti Drvfl e ' 16 4 aces-:---::- i ki41 - i i Silent Unit iiir HE MODERN WAY TO HEAT f -- -- - ' t i ctircmoit loxwiI1p b I di) u ometit 1116104 CI It half-sever- 0 AL7g ' i 4 ob- I 1 49! 114 : 4 'i 40646 ''''''1 - - Wultait 25 1940 ' 1 tt 1 - A - ' - - - gakt ireibutte - Divide that old clump of iris at once—throwing away the inner parts of the old roots and replanting the strong new outer sections All irises need dividing about every three years KeeP on buying and planting Madonna Illiesr you'll be glad of it next June when they flowers Cut gomphrena 'or any of the othereverlasting flowers downward in a cool just as thei Start to open Hang head and symmetrically ay place so they will dry straight ' ' for Keep on disbudding dahllas end chrysanthemums to( with Feed liquidmanurer large blooms in- Prepare ground now for any new bittof lawn you tend' to plant Wisterias do best ifpruned now Cut back loni strag of the old wood sling shoots ito within three or four feet : flowers more and This encourages larger If dark little lice have appeged on water liliea do not This may be injurious to the apray with an insecticide fish Instead merely wash the pests off with a strong for this spray from the hose The fish will be grateful diet to their addition - t 4 FrakFlotvers Startle Plant Lovers This Semi Amateurs' 'Must' List I Here's for This Week - 4 4 Suidgy Morning natural - - e 0 - Oriental poppies flowering In August three months after their ' ' 4 Gardeners Report Many Oddities in Plant Growth - - t 36 South State ?NA 1011 f ' Phone ' t C 1111111r1)10 0 )I II V X I T III ‘ r ' 411L0 OM AnAlek mt - -- - A - - I - 4MoV4gWewmm - - "PPM |