Show - C &laity Monang TL'Ibb :lady 6 191 r)alt glike rtetbune a - OMNI 00041011MOVOMMICOix In the Garden idt Laker 136Alts Colorful Rc'ise Gtttode4!: Vitil 'Crini‘0 Hedge Unbroken Lawn tr17740t1ftIMMMMP4r90110":' A-- i 4 Though l there are other red ' No wonder that pasters-b- y stOP to Stare at the magnificent roses both newer and flore 'gostly than Paul Scarlet sight of this red rose fenée The climber ocal gardeners have principal miss planting is seen 01md nothing- to surpass this here and the long row Of this exscarlet rose with no pink or 7 se for general ' behavior At the white climbers to Interrupt the Icellence 4f color line teaches a valuable 4ardeli of Mr and Mrs Charles lesion to amateur gardeners 4V1ggs 102 Gilmer drive this Mr Wiggi feeds and Because 11mber absolute In grown cultivates the plants intelliperfectiott The rose covers a wire trellis gently they are maintained at ton the property line making a of tWall red and green eight feet their present state of perfection Besides the Paul's cariet and during June and pigh Climbers there are innumer tearly! JuIy for four or five able choice plants in this Very eeits the enlisters of crimson 13100MS entirely hide the foliage charming garden roses and shrubs annuals and perennials or the rest of the season' the all carefully arranged for con& ose foliage is highly ornamental clean and richly green and tinuity of bloom and for color From frost to combination tlossy and immune to any pest frost there are flowers ier disease 17cilmbing i! I! 4 vttb ëlib"étaf 1' - 'Sif-- t l- - -trm -- - By Maud thegwidden Tribune Garden Editor July may not appeal to some garden rs as the month in which to make a rock garden: but really i is a splendid time is despite the heat for if the foundation be mad-nol- e the rocks gathered and placed and the ea h correctly mixed nd packed among them—then when the all planting season errives all will be in readiness to receiv those small bulbs as well as the alpine pl nts without which storock garden is well planned A rock garden can't be made' In a hurry It Isn't made In half th ir rocks and to 'plant nor a whole a It gather 474i0 010 0 r ' fItr444-1k- VS-- s 4 1o4die c!!! 4 Ira ootz:4 41k ' A 4 fl it early-bloomi- ' V : t ng - L I i day day should be planned ancr executed very slowly and deliberately so: that it will be a real rock gar- - ! den and a credit' to Its makeri 'Instead of a travesty of a thing' made of wrongly chosen and ludicrously placed stones not to mention Its ' horticultural cone seeds of pine Sr rock plants The rocks jre very Important You oho Id not 4ise round cob1 bles for ttese belong in streams or lakes zot on bare moUnta You should avoid gran slopes ite as 'too hard and Hunsympathetic" a stone Limestone or native tut are best And for tunately in these intermountain states Ave have such rocks all around us for the mere !pickt ing up Do not have too many types of stones and do not have them all small eaSily handled There Should be several of such :large size that couple of men are needed to heave i them in posi- tiod and Iheft there should be: others of laM si2411- small ones we find them Inithé too lust mountains But the average sizo of all rocks shoUld be about a ' foot aertwi - 1 I ttnIL ' - : When one sees some rock gardens It is ' difficult to Imagine what could have been the idea of making such a mon-- : ' ' strosity at all A rock garden d Isn't a collection of rocics nor of brightly-coloreones piled one ' on top of an- other like Pelion on Ossa In 'a i real rock garden the rocks are secondary and the plants are the Most important factors Perhaps the general term rock garden is what misleads many people It would be more car-- i as well as more educational' 'I to speak of such gardens as al pine gardens because in them we desire to grow those choice little plants ncalled alpines which certain positions only thrive-1and under certain conditions and the rocks are used to ap proximate as well as we mar those peculiar conditions " Alpine plants live on alps- Mrs T iL S Solt Lake 'This does not necessarily mean' Is It that makes: writes:"Virhat Swiss the Alps but any high I round 13itst out of the edges I place or as the dictionary has of rose leaves? I have searched t lt "a lofty mountain" Because In those high altitudes the season but cannot find a worm It of growth Is unusually short the makes the rose' look bad and plants are specially suited to I hope you ion tell me 'what such conditions 1 The alpine plants send their'' to do for It" roots deep into the mountains t: Ans—It is the leaf eating where they live down between ! crevices of rocks In search of Caned beetle sometimes 2 food and moisture They do not er does no It really 'waste time In growing tell but harm besides that of they flower as goon as they pos I sibly can so that in the few short'' the appearance Of the foliage weeks of sunshine for a time The round pieces t snaws have melted when the they may:- of foliage that it Cuts out so fulfill their life cycle of leafing out budding blossoming and neatly and cleverly are used r in ripening seed In the brief interval t4 to line its nest somewhere mature offers the garden) You can cover the Besides these strictly alpine rose 'foliage with arsenate of plants there are a number of lead and this will poison some dwarf or creeping perennials of the beetle- but it is scarcely which while not strictly alpines worth the trouble i have by their ease of culture and their entire suitability become L Bingham Canyon i known as rock plants These writes: "Kindly state what is a l IVill thrive beautifully in the contact poison Also please say i perennial border without rocks U the gas used for killing ants 41 and they make excellent edging the nest is poisonous to hubut they should also be In iplants In every rock garden man beingsbestI enjoy your Sunand page day Some of the real alpines are leant a great deal from IL" f difficult for the amateur very and contact poison means il are best left alone until he has a Ans—A whicb: kills insects spray' More technical knowledge of his ' when comes in contact with it T subject such - In rnaldnua rock garden it them asOnly aphids are killed by a li must not- be planked down in pests poison :which burns any 'odd corner nor: should It contact Nicotine:Solution Is the them 'be In the middle of A lawn most used The gas used lever for area nor combined with or close ants :will kill If it is people formal garden Inhaled wilfully over a long r Chóose strictly ita place very carefully time: but there IS no danger in and Wisely 'While Most rock garden:I are using It for ants Most espetiallya if you hold your breath for !nad on sloping ground this Isret'Inandatory for nature has herself many beautiful rock gar- I: denaon flat level plains But a: rock garden should look natural It should the appearance of there made being by nature in-t stead of the band of man cut back such- perennials as 1 InJuly those who Ire to make anchusa delphinium doronicum —a lrock garden should begin to memorial daisies and pyrethrum when they have finished blooming A second crop of flowers Sow Seeds Now may- come in late fall if the toots fed carefully Even if the If perennial flower seeds have are second bloom does riot come the ' li not been started no time should garden will look' neater for this attention and the perennials will I be lost in sowing them The cll! i znati is not always favorable to not waste their strength in ormseeds the often advised practice of ' legWatch the hollyhocks and sowing perennials in mid-suwhen the first flowers open remove every alternate bud pinch- II rret and It should never bcfol- lowed it there Is any way to ing It out with the thumb and it avoid itThis will throw that finger strength into the buds remaining and you will have far larger flowers than ordinarily Be sure that all tan growing "t91---1-0t:fho::perennials are staked or have stakes ready to be tied up when the necessary height has been achieved by the plant Late bloomers such as belenium dahliu and ' Michaelmas daisies ' end should be supported when they seewhy are less than a foot tall and then' GENEItAL ELECTRIC should be tied to stakes again once or twice as they continue REFRIGERATORS L growing Are Toile Preference I' so-call- ed 4 oddly-shape- 1 d': - - - -1- '::4L11'77' - 1 1 ! I '''' : 1 i I leaf-cutt- 4 II " 1 - - 6 I - " 11 -- 11 soft-bodi- ed - 11 : 11 11 tols - ' ' - II Cutting Will Spur Second Blooms e il' - 4 - 11 l1 i m- in and Tope in Performance! i lent to $rve Y(to Mier I tewir-ri-4- 0 4 Early Sowing of Hardy Annuals Important i:oro iflof t) - Early sowing Of the hardy annuals is as important as the Propy er restraint with the halt-hard- idnds The hardy annuals can stand considerable cold weather Even the seedlings of some are fully trostproot' and all have seeds that will not perish it subjected to freezing temperatures Among those to he sown at the earliest opportunity is the annual larkspur Ilecattie It is a taproot sow where it is to bloom in a sunny spot !with Perfect drainages Ilb 0 - 144 e 1"41 -- YSt ' :4t I taiumni '‘ Above—This hedge of Paul's Scarlet Climber Sports literally thousands of rich red roses arta is such a handsome tight that passers-b- y cannot fail to stop and admire It belongs to Charles F Wiggs 1152 Gilmer drive Below :Mrs Wiggs gives nature a little help with the sprinkling can The charming arch leads one into the equally charming rear garden Ale talis an annual?" ' Sing1e'Sf4ke Can Supply Row of Sp' ires ' -- r 4 t 'Tie a string around the finest spike of delphinium in the garden and allow that one to form and ripen its seeds All of the other spikes should be cut off when the flowers have faded From the one spike when the seeds are ripe you will have enough potentialities for a whole row of beaUtiful blue - Vt$ 4 :: - 41V Now Is Deadline For Gladiolus The first part of July la positively the last chance we of planting gltdiolus bulba with possibilities of good flowers before frost They should of course have been set out ear Her but tardy gardeneri still may take heart and look forward to some of the lovely spikes of bloom late in the season The soil should be rich and water plentiful when planting has been Ielayed as long as this Given these requisites and a supply of fine corms as the bulbs are properly called and September and October should be beautified by the gladiolus flowers July is the month in which to move Oriental poppies and to buy new ones This perennial is ono of the easiest to increase and it is now at moving time that multiplies-Uwill take place with little encouragement on your part In digging the Oriental poppy you find that the roots are long thin tap roots It is almost impossible to get all of them out and even small pieces left in the ground grow and become flowering-sized plants In a short while The long roots also May be cut into pieces planted in sand or a sandy seed bed and each section will develop roots and top growth One thing Ia necessary and that Is to be careful In setting the root cuttings that the top of the cutting is planted at the top not upside down It sounds ridiculous but it is very easy to stand the root cuttings on their heads! If the poppies proved that they were in the wrong place when M Seed Formations weaken - ! The bone meal fertilizes lowly and constantly and carries weed seeds It is a food hot merely a stimulant as are the usual chemical fertilizers t Bone meal adds all of the necessary food elements to the loll but because it is very slow IA action there is not the danger of 'burning the green blades' of grass should a too enthustartie application be given as there is ammonia or whentulphate of other chemicals are used Also becauselt is slow you can: peet no 'Sudden uprush of 'new lush growth as you do with chemical fertilizers but IV is sure—and M Wiggs likee-thisort of plant' food best in his : i 1 s garden Resultitprove the worth of his convictions The Wiggs- garden has one feature which many amateurs would give their heads to a tiny constant stream of crystal clear water This comes from springs that ' are on near-b- y propertY and It Is in regular use as a bathing pool by marrr families of birds The sight of the sparkling water slipping along its con-Crete stone-rimmbed hot afternoon is lovely arid adds a distinct touch of coolness to the many beautiet of a eaie- fully planned and perfectly Cared for garden Entrance to the secluded rear garden is through a lattice arch! way designed in excellent taste' and used to support other sped mans of the favorite climbing - rose f! NC You Can Make ! Slight Neglect 1:11owers Can Be preserved May Destroy Lin Shallow Boxes of Sand New Seedling' s v at different times all varieties of: blooms can be used though you will find that some come out of the sand in better condition than others Pansies are especially lovely and single blooms are usually much better than double ones The sand can be used over and over again of course By tisipg a clever Method of reserving flower from their ardens anyone who wishes may lake beautiful pictures that will serve tit remind them of the glories or summer during days of snow and ice These pictures are delightful gifts too i A quantity of the finest sand lis needed and a shallow box of thin wood or sturdy cardboard The sand must be clean and of the smallest particles possible I'lleit from a creek bed is best If it comes from a hill wash it 'thoroughly through several It Is done best by putting It in a 'cheese cloth sack and iswishing it back and forth through a pool a stream or any clean i large vessel filled with !water Then the sand should be Seed beds are never made in dried full sun of course This would Now for the actual process be fatal On the other hand it the sand:is spread in a thin layer Isn't always wise to Make tha iover the bottom of the box and seed beds in deep shade 'for fis smoothed and firmed down On such a place doesn't encourage t this sand flowers from the garden are placed the flowers that healthy growth The happy medium is possible by means 4you wis I to preserve There is a of lath screens for the beds definite l art in choosing these Lath screens are very easily Ililooms and while experience made You simply tack comwil1 teac h you a great deal some mon lath to a pair of ate available when you "les that will save trouble and leaving the width of one tiegin For instance flowers lath between each pair This 3 mistake shade is placed over the place that have been open several days do not make good subjects while have seeds been of plants where some blooms are entirely unsuitsown with the laths running able because of their form from north to south never from east to west Thus as the sun g Take bloomsas soon as they have opened with their leaves travels the sunlight and shade °When the sand is covered with are constantly and continually l' the flowers then take more being changed over the seedsand and pour it very carefully lings Tiny plantlets which would be scorched to death unlover each flower and leaf coder sunshine for an hour will v'ring them completely yet benever suffer from the sort of ng gentle so that none of the Make sunshine that is permitted by a Vetals will be bruised the sand layer smooth and: lath screen yet they will have hen a second layer of flowers the benefit of the sun's rays as 3nay be added on future days they require it The screen too will shelter the plants from hard 4tnd covered with sand and so the process can be continued rains and strong winds lintil the box is filled A deep hox of course would require 4043 much- sand and would care Or more flowers than would be The mosI important time in the life of any plant is just after the seed has germinated' Then a few moments neglect a few Jrantilis of dryness can death to the future plant - meat At this time When any gardeners are growing perennials from seeds almtst constant-attentiois demanded by the seed beds As soon as seed is sown the beds Must have sufficient moisture and this must never be withdrawn until the plants are six or eight inches tall By that time their roots are developed enough to forage for themselves to a great -- n Energy Wanes Beneath Hot July Sun wa-ter- extent - two-bytw- os - practical es they flowered InJ May this is the time to correct the error The flaming hue of the scarlet varities are difficult to combine with many other flowers and clashes in color can now be made right before another seuon rolls around Gardeners who dislike the brilliant scarlet of the common Orintal poppies should make the acquaintance of the new pinks and the white ones too They are lovely No one can deny however that the scarlet poppies have a place In most garderui Their cheerful color is welcome In early spring when most of the garden is merely green Keep them from too close proximity to pink or rose colored flowers and you have nothing to fear With blue Or white they are perfect- and with the deep purple of some of the early irises they are richly companioned Anchusa memorial daisies and purple Irises make fine neighbors for the scarlet - poppies When you have several layof sand and flowers place he box in a sunny spot for weeks In this time the Three lowers will have dried perfectly Now the most particu-as lar part of the work begins you retrieve the pressed blooms from the box of sand Proceed Arery carefully indeed pouring !tile sand off at first until you 't an see the flowers They should be crisp firm and retaining all their original clinging sand golor Blow the particles off or use a camel's hair brush Now the flowers are ready to be arranged on cards in any fashion you like—as bouquets or as actual garden scenes With a little talent for water tólors you can paint 'clouds and sky or any sort of scenes for the flower ii background groups The flowers once in place are to be fixed there by 'tiny specks of glue and pressed tenderly down with a Clean soft i bit of cheesecloAh The finished picture should shellacked and then it may te framed By doing this work When July arrives many garfind their enthusiasm waning Their planting tasks are largely finished for the time being the days are hot and adtivity means some unpleasantness and they slump and wait for the cool days of autumn ut it is just in this period that danger hovers near and ne gardener can afford to be off guard Weeds grow and go to seed aphids caterpillars and all the insects we are heir to feed on wants and breed their young the sun dries out the earth uncOnscionably fast and plants in full bloom use up the available sOil nourishment with astonishing rapidity Cardeners must keep everlastAs Inkly at it even in July Kipling wrote: "Gardens are not made Bk saying 'Oh how beautiful!' !and sitting in the shade" A garden need not become a btirden In summer however Use your intelligence and the tasks demanded for good results will net prove overburdening The earliest hours of the day are the best in which to get the heaviest garden tasks out of the way Those who work at sun-ril- e or earlier really know the deepest joys of gardening It is Irk' these minutes when the earth seems waiting for our ministrations when the birds are singing morning hymns and there is dew on the ground that digging or cultivating spraying or watering cutting flowers or pulling weeds or mowing the lawn became tasks most easy to perform !Again there are a couple of hours before the sun has set and actual darkness comes when these same garden jobs may be done with the least effort and the greatest benefit Most gardens may be kept in the top ranks with the work done during these hours instead of in the heat of the day !Weekly spraying for aphids and caterpillars should be kept up through July and August A standard nicotine solution for aphids or other sucking insects and arsenate of lead for the eating pests or one of the new sprays combined with bordeaux mixture for mil-O-w usually takes care of all eventualities deners' 7-- Poppies Multiply Readily During Moving Period Earwigs have long been known to European gardeners and to those living on the racific coast but to mod Utah gardens they are strangers But reports have come of several loci' --amateurs who have been asto4nded In the past year by these creatures and their fell work Earwigs are about a quarter of an inch long AlstIngulthed by the pair of pincer-lik- e organs at their tall ends They have hard wing covers and this makes them Immune to most sprays Since these insects 'eat flowers It is possible to trap them with a poison bait if the usual sprays of arsenate of lead or palls green prove Inefficient Such a poison bait as is laid out for cutworms or other chewers will serve Never allow tulips Irises r other plants that hatte now finished flowering to go to seed unless you have a very!speetal reason for It Seed formation weakns the plants using up energy they should conserve for next years flowers - until fall Thanks Local Gardeners Fight Foreign Earwigs Pest I ed Ans—Spanish is perfectly English and Dutch fairly hardy I shall do as you ask from now -- i - --namely Wi "Iris Fan" Pocatello writes: "I was so thrilled to read your article about Irises as this Is my pet flower I hone you Write oftener about them Please say If the Dutch English and Span-I- A irises are hardy" spires It is verywasteful to permit delphiniums to ripen seeds indiscriminately This plant more than any other weakens itself through constant seed formation If One of your choicest roots for no apparent reason dies consider if you have not been allowing it to form seeds year after year In all probability you have and you have therefore wasted Wits energy Delphinium spikes must be carefully watched when the seed pods are forming and ripening for at the correct moment Mother NatUre lierself takes a hand in the seed dissemination and the pods split open at the top and the seed Is expelled unless you are at hand to gather it Fresh seeds give the highest per cent of germination A seed bed of light sandy soil should have been prepared previously and then if the black seeds are sown and covered With about a quarter inch of said or light earth and are kept well watered almost as many seedlings will appear to reward you as seeds sown By late fall they will have grown splendidly and may be moved then to where you wish their flowers next year or they may remain in the seed bed until spring i - robssess- l Ans—The leaf was from a bryophyllum or air plant The fuchsia prefers part shade It will thrive best if put outside for the sumMer in partial shade Never keep it in a sunny window in warm weather The digitalis is a biennial strictly sPeaking though often it will live morethan the two years and frequently self sows seeds and so becomes permanent Mrs 11 S S Ashton Idaho writes: "My pansies are being eaten by a small grey worm which appeared last summer The flowers were sprayed several times with nicotine 'solution and fly spray but to no avail This year the worms are destroying them again" name' Anse—The remedies you would be no use for a chewing insect Nicotine kills aphids by burning You need a Spray which will poison the: worm when it eats and forthiii use arsenate of lead covering the plants with it I know this will cure the trouble few momenta as you take the powder from the omo Mrs M S Geoite writes rt have a houseplant that no One en name for Me I am sending a leaf under separate cover hoping you can tell me what it is Should a: fuchsia be grown In full sun? Is the digi- - 35DeliTers 4 r - :11IECHANISrti' iv' A 'Mar Gardeners Query Tribulte ert for Horticulture Advice 1 eo p4 - - 1 L anloomEmikommocAkLi-150- ! 1 nd - "N 1 all-arou- i!robably the one Itent which Mr Wiggs Ii inbst protidi after his spectacular rose hedge is the lawn This isn't large for the property is not a large one But it is unbroken by flow er beds or other obstructions— both front and rear and hence it is made the most of and gives ! an appearance of spaciousness ' And it 11- a perfect sward are Two things regularly-encarefully die for the lawn and they are rolling and feeding with bone meal The rolling makes it firm level and smooth ' se rerpetuai Water Supply Owners of houseplants Who go:off for several weeks on trad cations may arrange theirplints on: a porch or in the basement with a perpetual water supply until their return It's earn First take a large bucket or washtub place it on a stoot or wooden box and till it With water All around it arrange the house plants Tear up some old otton ripth so that there are as many strips as Plants each strip to be abbut two inches wide Tie Ili of them together at one end: and put this knot in the tub i of water weighting it down with a stone so that it will stay at I the bottom of the vessel Put the other end of each strip on the earth of a potted plant clipping away any sur plus length so that the 'strip runs straight from the edge of the tub to the plant With a nail or a hairpin or anything similar fix the end of the ripth into the soil of the plant This is all that you need to keep the plants watered suffi ciently until the water in Ole bucket is exhausted and as it is tarried along the cloth tO he plant very gradually a tat of water lasts for about two weeks for quite a number of plants -- Li 0 0 gle £AX"DUSTALL '810 EA ED RTI C Here's a bargain in bat living! 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