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Show J gab from the garden nvgaimeEimlfeer sEairimlbs ffI eBir ly (Icnnicc Folsom Tribune Garden Editor WHILE WE USUALLY think of flowers when we think of color in the garden, ou can add lots of delightful color with a careful selection of shrubs, trees and ines You can start m the early spring with colorful shrubs such as the forsythia, which blooms the earliest of all, with its large golden bell shaped blooms. The flowering almond is another very early flowering shrub. It has lovely double pink rose flow ers which Another blooms with the tulips and daffodils is the snowberry. Its flowers are rose colored and it has in white berries September ERING QUINCE e its colorful blooms to the early garden and, of spring course, we must remember the pussy willow with its FLOW brings red-orang- furry catkins of silvery pink. The honeysuckle has fragrant flowers followed by colorful berries. It is anothwhich flowers in the spring. In the late spring, Utah is made more glorious with its plantings of lilacs. These sweet-scenteshrubs do very well in our alkaline soils and climate. Beauty bush has trumpet shaped flowers and blocms in May. You will want the high bush cranberry for Its berries. WITH THE ROSES you will have the fragrant mock orange with its lovely blooms of white which come either single or double in form. Tamarix and rose of Sharon are for summertime along with the showy hydrangea. These are hardy shrubs, the blooms are large and last a long time In addition they are easy to plant and care for. M er d Crapemyrile Is grown by r. W . luHon Stephens. 1130 many of our best gardeners and it flowers in July. In our area it needs a little protection Potent ilia is a low glower with flowers from late May until frost. It is good for extra summer color in your garden TREES ARE very important in any garden. They will bring lovely color in the spring, shade in the summer and a harvest of fruit or colored berries in the fall In addition many have colored foliage for fall beauty and colored twigs for winter enjoyment Mrs George Cawley has a beautiful Mimosa or silk tree flowering in her front garden The flowers 3re her hydrangea, strong tummertifne hloouirr. E. 13th South, admire masses of pink stamens on rounded heads. In our area this tree will need some protection over the winter. Mrs. Cawley brought the start of her precious tree all the way from Florida. It has thrived in her garden and they have even transplanted it once. THE JAPANESE pagoda tree flowers in August and the bloom Is followed by pods. A pale green bean-lik- e small but delightful owering tree which does well here Is the golder ram tree. It grows 15 to 20 feet tall and the floors are deep in July. The fruit is yellow green. Some other flowering trees are redbud, flowering peach, plum. cherry and crabapple The magnolia is a showy tree for early blooms m the spring Keep your newly planted well material watered., especially during the hot summer months. Ihe Among flowering vines are the clematis, the honeysuckle and the trumpet vine You can now plant this material any time you desire when you purchase it in containers from your nurHave him cut seryman open the can, water it well the day before transplanting, dig the planting hole large enough to teceive the roots with the .soil intact. The U.S. Department of Agriculture hae published a booklet called Shrubs, Vines and Trees for Summer to help you choose and care summer for flowering plants. Copies are available for 15 cents from Consumer Product Information, Pueb- yellow-cluster- REMOVE CAN THE from the plant and set it in the planting hole, fill in with top soil Next, water well advice from the garden doctor wBny untf neiauB tfBae BalteB fiBrsi? by Dr. Anil L. Stark Tribune Garden Consultant ONE OK THE most expensive pieces of literature a ailable to consumers today is the directions, cautions and warnings on the label of a container of pesticide or other agricultural chemical. The cost of developing a new single agricultural pesticide product ready for marketing ranges from two to over four million dollars. The information essential for its proper handling and usage is printed clearly on the label of the container and this represents years of research and testing in the laboratory and the field When used properly and st nelly in accordance with directions on the label, the to of injury possibility plants and animals fioin use of the product is extremely remote, if indeed it exists at all. IF THIS IS SO, why do some individuals experience trouble when using pesticides, fertilizers and other agricultural chemicals? The reason is usually simple.- - folThey didn't read and low directions on the label of the container. Many home gardeners and others of receive directions for two a product from talking with friends, neighbors, a tore cleik or some other person individVery often what the ual said or intended to say is not what was heard and the misconception received when might end in trouble applying the material. and folBY READING on the lowing directions label, you avoid misinterp- retations and results are more likely to be satisfactory burnOverdosage causing or roots is of foliage ing one common form ol injury from the use of pesticides and fer'iliers Another is applying pesticides or ' herbicides to plants not approved on the label. All pesticides cannot be applied indiscriminately to all plants. Using two materials that are not compatible in the same spray may also bring about injury. IT IS GOOD procedure to read the label carefully at least a couple of times before using the material and then measure quantities accurately rather than estimating amounts. Most products have a wide range In which the material may be used without plant injury, but some users exceed this range on the assumption that if a lii tie is good more its better If you are not sure of what you are doing, don't do it. until you find out more about the product and its use lo, Colo.. 81009 Entries are all in from Beautification the Civic Awards Program. Judges will be busy traveling up and down the state to judge the projects the week of Aug. 20th. JUDGES INCLUDE Mrs Theodore Burnham, Jack Johnson, Douglas Walton, Mrs. Andrew Gantner, Clifford M. Reynolds, Walter M. Keller, J. Henry Ehlers, Mrs. Fred Augsburger, Mrs Ronald Roscher Among these talented people who donate their time to rs the project are landscape artists, civic leaders, garden club leaders, nurserymen and certified landscape judges Awards will be presented to the winners at a special awards program and tea to be held Sept 29 at the Garden Center, Sugar House Park. MLL PATIO STOKES' MOST PLANTS have enough troubles without your burning their roots with too much fertilizer or herbicide or their leaves .with too much pesticide. '61 Lirit Try to use your head a bit when applying chemicals, even though it may hurt a little bit to do so Eltttt KJU 8 ft II VZ |