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MR. RAY WETlffiRBEE NEWS FROM 424 1 LaSalle Ave. Culver City, Calif. 90230 SPINY RIDGE I have been very busy of late since Last but certainly not least, a let MY LIFE was published in OG. I received ter from Verna Chiasson, 610 Oak St., more birthday cards from this than I Thibodaux, La. 70301, about the Redbird ever did any other time, Thanks to all cactus (Fedilanthus) about which Alma and many thanks for helping Ted, our Sifford inquired. She writes: " I have Editor, to get Ozark Gardens going a two kinds , the variegated leaf one and gain , and for the way Ted has made a a solid green, known as the 'Devil's new format of OG, also for the help of Backbone' , the slowest one to bloom, I the former editor in becoming associ have had mine for 8 years and it ate editor. WHAT A GREAT WORKING TEAM bloomed last year for the first time, for all gardeners!! It is 6~ ft. tall with a spread of a I have two trees of grapefruit loaded bout 6 ft. It was worth waiting for, with delicious fruit, well as a tree as some stems had as many as 12 redbird load of limes and another full of Cal like flowers . The variegated one is amandin fruit (Phillipine limes), My three years old and should bloom next banana windbreak nearly surrounding the year. The only thing I do is put them Half Acre j ungle is full of green ban outside in summer under a tree, where anas and new buds are showing up all they get early morning and late after the time. Now that the pruning is all noon sun but are protected from hot done for this season, I have done a lot s'un. Feed any good houseplant food in of tree grafting where the previous late summer, and I sprinkle some bone grafting failed to stick. Where the meal on top of the soil , work it in previous joints took , I hope to have a with a fork, then water , so it can get big crop of Green Gage plums, several a good root feeding to carry it through varieties of peaches, nectarines, a the winter . Before the first frost I cross of wild Ozark persimmons , Japan carry it into the house, where it is ese Fuju and Hashya per~immons , One hot and dry. All the l eaves must fall wild scion took last year on the Ha shya off if it is to bloom. Keep on the dry tree , but I don ' t know when it will side, like a cactus; water only to keep fruit and whether it will stay Ozark or it from shriveling. Do not k in a mix as the Ozark ones are small and the sunny window, as you don't want• it to Hashya are about the size of large soft grow; let it rest, As buds form and baseballs and are puddingly soft, while new leaves sprout in the spring, water the Fuju is hard and shaped like an a little more and put in a sunny window apple . It can be eaten like an apple so that the flower~ will have color ; while still hard , as they seldom soft otherwise, they will remain a pale yel ~ipen on the tree , l ow- green. These plants should be kept Leave it to the birds to like them, pot bound for best results. " as well as most other fruits, includ ing Well , I see t hat I have been using the a pples and loquats. Of course , the wrong tactics with my Pedilanthus , they don't bother the grapefruit , and I am delighted with these instruc oranges , limes and lemons . (Too sour tions , Keep the letters of experience for them.) I have to watch the avocad coming; they are what make a column os, too , as they dote on them along worth-while . with the bananas, but I share with them I have obtaine d from Mr. Call a few to pay for the bugs , etc . they feast more of the late Mrs. Call's wonderful on, even the tomato hornworms . With books, "From My Ozark Cupboard: (a cook the hornworms and cutworms they peck a book ): "Within My Ozark Valley" (a su hole in the hide and shake out the in perb description of pioneer life in sides and eat only the hide and head, Arkansas); "True Stories of An i mals and They also look over the sweet corn for Birds"t (a matchless book for nature earworms, which are about the size and lovers): and "Stair- Step Town ", the makeup of cutworms. I don't have to story of Eureka Springs, The first worry about the worms eat ing many earth worms as it is usually the robins who Spiny Ridge cont'd on page 6 4 ~Sr2MlilD3 ll/0.0~f:r Robert L, Shatzer Box 126 Albright, w. Va. 26519
~ Garden's good f r iend from On ing and helpful letters from our read tario, Canada, Ernest Fisher, sent us ers. Mrs. c.s. Ro jahn of Mercersburg, his new catalog this month. Have you Pa. told us that she has had one for seen it yet? Some of his new introduc the past eight or nine years that she tions sound like plants that any Afri likes. It is . 'Longifolia Pink. ' can Violet grower would be very proud Mrs . Mary Long, another of our Ozark to add to his collection. I thought Garden writers , wrote that she was that I would mention a few that seemed growing several of these. She is grow outstanding to me . ing one called ' Spider,' which Ernest One that he reports that many visi Fisher told me he remembered growing tors were excited by last summer, too. It has a fringed light-- blue ' Dainty Lady, ' is a white and persian bloom, Another that Mrs. Long is grow rose with a full ruching of pink on the ing is •Cascade Prelude ' whose under petal edges whi le the wavY foliage is side is very red, Others in her col an emerald-green. Another, that r eally lection are 1 Baronette' and 'Beth' . ' She appealed to me, was 'Red Topper' , which says that they are quite popular in her is a flashy, powder-red that produces part of the country. ten large semi-double stars to a stem While looking at the things from the at maturity and two bloom stalks per mail bag, I would like to tell you a petiole . bout a fine letter which came,another For those growers who are looking for of our " Gesneriad Galore" readers , Eth good purple hue violets, Mr . Fisher has el M. Stoops, who tells of her soil several new introductions to offer. mix. "I use steamed bone meal because 'Winsome , ' a large double star of rich, it has no odor. When I'm mixing pott~ dark- violet with a good white edge; i ng soil, I use galvinized bushel bas 'Punchinello,' a large double star of kets. Along with the ground builders heliotrope whose petal tips are plum sand and vermiculite, I put in ant purple; and 'Evening Shadows,' which is castings, I have two big, old apple a rilled purple star with a white edge , trees in the orchard and the ants work are some of these. there all s ummer. It is really very To add t o the collection of pinks , good to use to feed the plan~s. I add he has created ' Bumble Bee , ' a semi either Rapid Grow or Blue Whale liquid double whose top two petals are fringed in addition to these things in my mix. 11 and edged with a trace of gold and 'Hi Have your African violets ever been biscus Pink', a large double- pink- star bothered by crown rot? The first sign with emerald-green serrated edge fol- of crown rot is limp leaves. The plant iage. and red petioles. may look as if it needs watered when I think the one I would most like to it is really sufficiently moist. A see of his new introductions is 1 Cana plant which wilts from lack of water diana '67, ' Ernest's Centennial pro will perk up again sometime after you ject. This is a giant star of spectrum have watered it and all will be well. violet. The wilted leaves I have reference to I asked Mrs . Bert Routh of Louisburg, will not change with additional water, Missouri, who has grown and sold thou This often is a sign that the roots did sands of African violets to tell us not accept the water that you put in what her favorit e ones are as a result the pot because they were damaged or of her wide experience with African r otted and could not function properly. violets. She replied that "I love ' Red A plant which refuses to grow in a Honey' , 'Cloud Nine, ' Big and Bold' ,and normal fashion may als o be indicating ' 0h. 1 'Sudden Spring' is a beauty and it is suffering from rot. One day i t 'Halo Light ' and 'Coon Valley ' are will just drop off f rom its center. Ex still good. I wo uld not want to do, amine the root system of your plant if without ' Azure Blue' and ' Bold Design' this happens, If the roots are missing which are older violets. • Are any of those fine white hairs or t he roots are these your all time favorites too? brown and dried looking, this is crown If you will remember sometime ago I rot. Lower parts of -the stems will asked our readers for information con generally also be brown if exarni11ed cerning the Longifolia series of Afri carefully and they will break off eas can Violets. I received some interest- ily.
Ozark Gardens April 1967 5 Cont'd on next page INFORMATION Gesneriads Galore cont'd Stem rot , a similar problem, can also For s.s. Salley, 411. Brightwood Ave . attack leaves you have put down to Torrinton .conn. 06790 . How do I root. The lower part of the stem turns sprout Iiex pedunculosa a nd Davidia brown and the leaf begins to wither a involucrata, Dove Tree? !lex requires way. Cutting away rot ted parts of the an aci d soil . Sow the seed i n mostly leaves usually will not help as the peat soil, or use decayed, (not fresh) leaf continues to rot when it is re sawdust. Seed should be stratified. placed in the medium. Moisten the seed and expose to freez A young plant which appears to wish ing. They will germinate the second to wilt can be placed under a plastic year. The Dove Tree is slow to start, bag which may help. This will keep the but grows rapidly. Any ordinary soil leaves from drying out and give the suits it, Strati fy the seed. Strati r oots a chance to get start ed growing fication-The placing of seeds in damp a gain. This will not work with an old sand, peat moss, sawdust etc. Certain er plant suffering from rot though . An seeds require moisture or slow temper older plant in bad condition should a ture or both . be discarded, as it wi l l die anyway . Where can I find Pinus, koraiensis, The pot should be well sterilized be Korean Pine? Try Harry E. Saier, fore it is used again. Discard the Dimondale, Mich. catalog 50¢. soi l which the pot contained. For i'lrs. Herbert W. Gardner, 980 If the medium you use to root your Lakehurst Rd., Toms River, New Jersey leaves is sterilized , this will help 0~753. Source of Christmas Fibrous t o prevent rot of the cuttings. Take Begonia. Try Geo. w. Park Seed Co, leaves only from healthy looking plants Inc ., Greenwood, So . Car. 29646. They A fungicide may be added to the rooting have seed and plants of Christ mas Can medium as 4t~ther insurance against dle and White Christmas Begonia. rot. Christmas Begoni as can be starte d from When you notice a plant which has leaf cuttings, in Sphagnum Moss or symptoms of crown rot, take the plant sand , avoid setting them too deep. away from the rest of your collection. For Alma Sifford, 9014 Sherland, Ov Do not overwater or use a s oil that erland, Mo. 63114. Pedilanthus tithy does not drain wel l when you do your maloides, Red bird cactus or Devil's watering . Backbone, does best under filtered This is the time of year for starting l ight , which is said to prevent leaf your achimenes. Remember that they do dropping. Small b i rijlike red flowers not like a de e p cont aine r . Never use are at the tips of the stems, which anythi ng deeper than six inches and appear in spring after the plant has less depth is better. Their roots do been chilled in winter. ne t like to have to run deeply. I gen erally start them in vermiculite and Spiny Ridge cont'd mov~ them into a potting medium after they are well sprou ted. Be sure to three are $1.50 each, ppd . ,and "Stair fertili ze them after they begin to Step To~n" is 50¢. grow. \Vhen they are about six i n ches Don ' t forget, also, to order H.C. tall , tip the top three inches from Lawson's "Book of Cacti for the Amateur them and the plants will be more com Co llector, " with hundreds of pictures pact and will bloom better. Incident and complete growing instructions. It ally, d on't forget to put those tip is $ 1 .50 ppd. cuttings down to root as they will make If you would like to swap hardy sed nice plants . urns, write me. Mine are looking won A basket of achimenes in bright bloom derful. can be the show piece of your plant collection this summer. The basket must be kept constantly moist because DOLPHIN EYE DROPS if they are allowed to dry ou t even once , their ability to bloom has been From Odella Coley , 200 E. 4th St., severely damaged, Wewoka, Okla., one of my fai thful and Next month in "Gesneriads Galore" beloved readers of OG: "Please find en we will be talking with an African Vio closed money order for another bottle let hybridizer who will give us some of Dolphin Eye Drops. I am an old cus thoughts to consider if we are interes tomer , and feel t hat these drops have t ed in trying our hand at this f ascina been very h e lpful to my eyes. I am now ting hobby. Be sure to be with us when 93 years old and am writing this with we go to Os sian , Indiana, to visit Mrs. out glasses." And I wish you could Elinor Rodda. have seen her fine handwriting! It is much better than that of many in my COUKTRY WORLD senior Engl ish class. 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Ozark ~ardens April 1967 - 6- Daisy Austin 151 0 Kimberly Ave., Anaheim, Calif, 92802
GAS - ~POTPOUR~~ - J~ ' J & (7/)l~-~ Mention the word Begonia to a group direct sun than the taller varieties . people and immediately 85% will think This is because they have denser , more of the B. semperflorens and they will c ompact foliage placed nearer the call them "Wax Begonias", a name they ground level and this prevents the ul have carried almost from the beginning. traviolet rays from bouncing off the It is easy to see why they have been ground up to the underside of the growing under this alias , But let me leaves and, as with some other varie tell you about something that happened. ties of plants , is harmful to the ~unc One morning last summer I stopped to tions of the leaf. The leaves and browse in my favorite nursery and to roots of plants are the most important talk to George, we understand each parts of any living plant. Begonias other plant- wise, I found him watering have shallow roots and the dense fol plants and still shaking his head over iage of the dwarf semps help to keep the Begonias or was it women. In the the roots cool and moist . flow of weekend do it yourself land The color of the foliage makes a dif scape customers, he had noticed this ference as to how much direct sunshine woman searching the shelves containing these can stand, a similar comparison the bottles of all the liquid "cure can be made as to fair and dark com alls" nurseries carry these days. When plexions in human beings. You wouldn't he asked her if he could help her she think of standing for hours out in the said; "Yes , I'm looking for some kind afternoon sun during the months of July of liquid polish, I think, Do yqu have and August , now would you? Would be e a certain polish for certain plants or nough to melt the wax right off any is there one that works for all? You Begonia leaf. see I was over at a friends house and These little ones are ideal border she has some of those cute li t"tle Be plants if given morning sun or after gonias growing on her patio and they noon filtered shade, They lose their have the leaves that look as though effectiveness and are not nearly as they have been washed and polished . I attractive if planted en masse . The should have asked her the name of the taller varieties must be in beds or brand of polish she used but I didn' t groups to be effecti ve , We will talk dream there would be so many kinds , about them another day. What brand do you suggest to be the I've purposely not mentioned the best to put on the Begonia leaves as I blooming of the dwarfs until now be want to wax mine too." cause a person could easily become lost I was ~oing to say there is no need in this sea of color beauty , The for me to say anything about the cul flowers are single, double, double ture of these Semps, another alias, but double, small , medium and larger. The am sure George would not agree with me stamens or centers are bright yellow , on that score . They truly are the eas ranging from a few per blossom to doz iest of all Begonias to grow. They ens tightly packed in the center. In prefer a heavier growing medium con the very double double hardly visible taining more soil than other Begonias. at all , The c olor range of the petals They need the sunshine and can stand a will rival any rainbow. The solid col lot of it, Also warmth, they like ors are in both the singles and doubles moisture in frequent and small amounts. and are ve ry vivid , The multi-ohades They will yell at you if you keep their are often banded by a solid color, very feet wet and cold. Their food needs effective. The contrast and combina will depend upon whether container tion of the coloring between flowers grown or grown directly 'n the garden. and foliage and the easy culture of They do not have the heavy appetites these give them their popularity. some of the other Begonias have , Now Until recent years the B. semperflor-. let me modify this a bit. The dwarf or ens were listed in cataloeues and lists low growing varieties can stand more as single flowering , double flowering Ozark Gardens April 1967 -7- • "Pappy, do you swap plants?" and again I'll say NO as I don't have a permit required here in Calif. to ship plants. WESTERN but I do exchange seeds when I have them. Gurney Seed Company sent me some green Zinnias, so that will be a first in my garden this year. NOTES I am thinking very seriously of get ting rid of all my cacti and succulents and specialize in Epiphyllums , or better known as Orchid cactus. I already have a nice collection of them. I have By Cactus Pappy pruned back my fuschias, and new growth 114 Nat-al Way already is coming on. This is one plant Vista, Calif. that sure gives a lot of bloom. Spring is really here, as it was sev Dahlia seeds are all coming up, and I enty five here yesterday, and now the see some of the tubs of dahlias are garden guys and gals will be getting also showing green tips, so I guess I'm busy planting. We had many good rains off for another growing season. In the this winter season, and the fields are meanwhile you all keep happy, "Look to so pretty and green. I have enough seed the sun, and the shadows will always be sown to plant an acre, but I love to behind you" , Vaya con dtos. grow from seeds, and so I just keep on planting them. I'm having fine luck with germination in half sphagnum moss Begonias cont'd from page 7 and vermiculite, of course this has no and Calla- lily Begonias, but now they feeding value to it, so before I plant are more apt to be listed according to the seed I soak the mixture in a solu dwarf, medium or tall varieties and the tion of a good liquid fertilizer, then variegated seperately. when the seeds are up, start on a reg- The B. semperflorens are the hybridi ular feeding of it. . zers delights. They are continuously Old Nuisance, our pet mocking bird is bringing new varieties to the markets back as sassy as ever, and when we have each year. Sweden, Denmark, ~ermany, company on the patio , he joins in with Holland, Belgium, .the Netherlands , his two bits worth, and when I go out England, and other countries are all into the garden to work he comes out to working with these, they are responsib the fruit trees and lets me know he is le for the vivid colors. You would be around. The linnets are here now, the surprised to know how many Begonias to males have such a pretty coppery breast day have B. semperfloren plant blood but they don't stay too long till they flowing through their stems. go farther north. Propagation is by seed, stem cuttings I have been elected president of the and tips with at least two nodes or by North County Shade Garden Club. This is division. Tip pinching incourages a very interesting club,and a nicer lot bushiness. All tops should be trimmed of members you couldn't find. This to within a couple of inches of soil takes in all the shade loving plants, as blooming becomes sparse. They will that most growers find hard to grow. immediately start a new cycle of growth I'll be installed with my other board and bloom, especially if these are members at the March meeting, and for grown in containers. You will not have that meeting we have Mrs. DuFrance to to worry about waxing their leaves, speak to us on camellias and azaleas,as they will do that themselves. she had nursry of them. It is always a pleasure to hear her talk as she knows her subject so well. Don't be surprised if you hear a big rumbling here on my patio,as there is going to be a meeting BLESSING of the wri ters of O.G. here in the near Lord bless the little towns, future. As you know we have four reg Thei r hills, their fields and ular writers here in California. There streams; will be much talk and some pictures. Bless those who till the soil, My plants in the shade house are And lend them dreams. perking up,so are the plants out i n the Lord bless the little farms, ground,and soon Rancho El Contento will Hemmed in by golden grain, be a blaze of color again. Give them of warm sunlight, My friend who has a flower shop near And silver rain: me always feels free to come and cut Lord bless the little homes, flowers, and my bed of Ester Reads dai Where tired mothers are, sys are always just right for decora Give to the bluebells dew, tion day. Iris are making bud, and soon To men a star! will be a great joy, as I always call Lord bless the tall green trees, them the Queen of the garden, such The birds that nest and fly; beautiful colors. I also have six new Look kindly on us Lord, Japanese Iris all different colors From your great sky! which will be so pretty when they bloom. So many keep writing me asking Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni
Ozark Gardens April 1967 -8- ing in a hanging basket~ I was told, Flower Ranch News it had been there for several years , MRS. HATTIE H. DAVIDSON growing indoors close to a north win Rt. 1, Box 204 dow. This plant did not look as fresh West Palm Beach, Fla. as do mine in our planter. This plant is never taken down, and the house of ten is closed several weeks at a t ime. PEDILANTHUS So there is no regular wate ring sched ule. Because the garden activities down Now, for the O.G. inquiries , I would here ~n south Florida are so different say, cut back your plants severely and from what most of the O. G. readers ac go_ easy on the feeding and watering. tivities are, I am often at a loss to Th~s is one plant that will thrive on know what to write about. Ideas us neglect. It often happens that house ually come from letters. After reading plants are watered too much. Pedilan the February O.G . and finding there is thus, like other succulents , can take a need for i nformation about Pedilan high humidity and never wet feet. thus , I shall now tell of my experie nces with that plant. By the way, it is one of my favorites. Pedilanthus tit HILLSIDE FLOWERS hymloides has many common names, such as Red Bird cactus, Devil's Backbone, Just recei~ed the March copy of the OG Slipper plant and others. and so happy to read our Editor is back ·In Hortus second, Pedilanthus is des on his feet. Our prayers are answered. cribed as an odd succulent shrub of As I sat knitting the other day, I tropical America, with milky juice , al wondered what did ylu do to spend winter ternate simple leaves, small terminal days? I am on the ast sweater and baby flowers, capsular fruit, grown for or set as I quit knitting by April 1. nament in warm climates. It belongs in I see I shall have lots of clean-up the Euphorbiaceae family. No special work to do as there is lots of rubble description is given o! the pink and falling off the hill where the creepers white variations i n leaves of a specie haven't gotten to yet. So glad we have that is very common here. a retaining wall and wire screen to When we first lived in Florida in the catch the big rocks . We'll have to dig early nineteen twenties, Pedilanthus out the plum tree as its almost buried. was much used for low hedges . It was The daffodils and crocus are coming thru kept cut to about 15-18 inches high. I on the west side of the house. The lawn often recall seeing the small red tip is bare and turning to light green. bloom. It evidently grew with little Saw our first robin and that the out or no trouble, any cut pieces were al door temperature read 40° with snow pre ways stuck back into the sand, which dicted but know that if it does snow it always rooted and the tiny hedge became won't last now. Have a promise of trees thicker from year to year. to plant on the Hill. We will plant Then as other plants became more pop cl~ps of Aspen, Chokecherry, and Moun ular one rarely saw any Pedilanthus. ta~n Ash. Our neighbor is giving us Perhaps twenty years ago, a variety enough lilac shoots to make a hedge • with white edged leaves came to my no Watch for my ad in next months paper· tice. These varigated leaves are pink till then remember, Today is yours.Love: at first and really surpass the green live,and work with willAfor tomorrow the leafed plant with the tiny red bloom. clock of life may then be still. It was quite by accident that I trained Ruby Gold some stems against an outside wall and P.O.Box 1034 found I had an especially good espalier Basalt, Colo. 81621 plant. At present I have one that has main stems about eight feet high. It "THE SAHUARO OR GIANT CACTUS " is growing against a plastic partition (Carnegia gigantea) in the slat house and always proves a The Sahua~o cactus grows 40 to 50 conversation piece. I've started others feet tall and every drop of rain is that way, too. We have an inside planter between the used by this plant. It's roots absorb the rain as well as its huge body and ~ining room and hall. It is forty limb-li~e arms. It blooms in May and ~nches high and I keep pots of Pedilan-· thus in this planter. They require June w~th large, white clusters of little care, not much water, and rarely beautiful flowers which open in the shed a leaf. I have others in pots late evening and close in mid-morning outdoors and these are switched for the of the following day. The flowers are indoor ones about once every three 3 inches across. It has egg shape months. This rotation keeps the plants fruit, which is 3 inches long, its red in good health. pulp makes good jelly and wine. High I have not noticed any sign of a in sugar content and slightly acid. I once had one to bloom for me and it was bloom on this varigated specie. Not beautiful. Since coming to Texas mine long ago, I saw some Pedilanthus grow- must be grown in pots. I have Sahuaro cactus seeds for sale-25¢ a pack and self addressed stamped envelope. Mrs. D. Klassen, Box 277, Carlsbad,Tex. 76934 Ozark Gardens April 1967 - 9- •
~1ne Subject 0 [ C Qtl- act; Etf'ul :B. !J(an P. 0. Box 615 Canon City, Colo. 81212
WINTER HARDY CACTUS. of many other cactus it has had a variety of names. Regions of it's A gem among the Cylindopuntia and growth also has been in much dispute. practically never seen in collections, But Dr. Boissevain, in the book on is one that at maturity is but a few "Colorado Cacti" follows Englemann in inches tall. Originally collected by his identification in spite of which Edwin Weigand, and some cuttings dis many people insist it should be Cylind trubuted among his cactus friends, it ropuntia imbricata. It is, as the name was s aid to have been discovered grow suggests, a tree like cactus and 1s ing at high elevation along with some found on the plains and foothills of pediocactus where, even which state, I southeast Colorado. Height will d~pend have never learned , and upon recent in upon location of growth. In some of our quir.v, he had forgotten all about them canyons I have found them to six feet, but was happy to again have one ( a but have been told that south west of cutting) in his collection. ~here were Lds Animas they have been observed to two distinctly different species. One 12 feet . That would suggest rich soil, that I received was all but spinless. fair amounts of moisture and some pro Such few soines as it had were weak and tection during the colder months from closely hugged the plant stem. Very the wind. On west towards Salida they dark color, not green, more purplish - grow increasingly lower in height as brown, it grew well, and made branches, the elevation increases and gradually but the small banty chickens that per disappear from the landscape. A guess sisted in flying the fence always broke would place it 60 miles to the west of the stems off. I was glad when we moved Canon City. It is claimed it does not to Canon City and I coula be rid of occur naturally beyond 20 miles north them, but the spot I placed the, plant of the Arkansas river, but I saw one seemed not to agree with its needs. It lone plant at a distance from any lived about three years. The third year habitation west of Port Collins in sending up a small bud from the apex, Northern Colorado. I never did get to in time, opening to show a purple examine the plant. But I noticed in blossom, probably about 3/4" diameter. passing it was probably three feet in It did not set see d, and that winter it heighth and much branched,growing among died. However, in 1962 I stopped to see other wild plants ir, a fence row. My Mrs. Nancy Ann Duck in Western Colorado only surmise was that it was transfered and when I spied a small plant,probably to that s pot by seed. Knowing the six or seven inches tall and very wicked barbs on the seed fruit, it is branched , I told her I simply MUST have hardly likely to have been carried by a cutting and was surprised when she birds, but could have become attac.hed told me Mr . Wiegand had sent the orig to the fleece of sheep. Ever since inal cutti ng to her. It was dissimilar observing the plant several years ago, to the one I had in that it was gray I have had a nagging desire to return green, nobby of stem, and was also VERY for a critical examination. shrubby in that i t had numerous short The Ciarborscent has various color, branches. It had never blossomed for number and length of spines , none of her , nor has the small plant that grew them to be handled carelessly. Blossoms from the cutting she gave me. It grows are numerous , usually 4 to 6 on the well and possibly in time may make a previous year's branches. They wi ll show fa~ me. Some of the more prominent grow up to 12" in a season, but it doe s cactus people were outraged because the depend upon the amount of moisture origination of these plants were never during the growing season. Blossoms are made public. The reason Mr. Weigand more often purple , but vary to shades gave was possibly far more fact that of pink. A report this last autumn of fancy, that collectors would s warm over a white blossoming plant hav ing been the area and carry away _every plant, discovered some 15 or so miles north including the pediocactus. So, of east of here has been received. Dr. course these gems are nameless .• • and Boissevain has reported this plant will continue to be until some other difficult to transplant. My pers.onal person may run across them. Someone, experience is about nil, as I make it a possibly who will scalp the area of all point to take only cuttings of varying the plants that can be found. Such as length and branches. Given even a ghost occured to that native of Colorado, the of a chance they will root and flourish. Echinoce~eus coccineus ~var. inermis. I staked them up, wi th the cut end just Pr obably as numerous· as any other barely covered with soil. I wa t ered cactus east of the Continental Divide them daily . I did not at that time know in Colorado is the species Cylind ·the cut end should be cured or calloused ropun tia Arborescense. As is t~e case so , of course I had begi nner's luck and
Ozark Gardens April 1967 -10- Cont'd on page 11 do not fully cover, but only put enough soil over them to insure that they will 'ACTUS Tidbits stay damp on all sides. When the sur Maxine Goodgion face looks dryish I just add water to West Stockholm, the central well without distrubing New york 13696 the seed at all. Under these conditions the mesembri anthemums start germinating in 3 days, Cwus Section~ sea::{ the cacti in 5 to 21 days , Staploides in 2 or 3 days, the Crassula family ~------~------~1 (Sedum, Echeveria, Aeonium, etc.) in 10 to 14 days. Although I have had some seed which finally decided to come up after 3 years , the ones I have cited rarely have germinated after 3 months. I now have about a 70% germination of all .seeds.
a . ~~~ c.H~ Suit a:nd s~ d.Ccar.s-e JOi£and (jra,Jid e.~ or- Jlennz·~~ f.~ }JiRf {Or JPakri'W g1J,.ai"''fr- Nqfes CACTI AND SUCCULENTS GROWN FROM SEED Looking over catalogs of _plants, all very lovely , all very much wanted as a part of my collection, all so much more expensive than my pocketbook could al low, I decided about four years ago that seeds could supply what otherwise I would never have. This involved a trial and error system which finally developed into a method which your kind and generous editor has decided has merit enough to be published, so here The above drawing shows the different it is. I usually use something like a soup seedlings as they will appear. Next bowl or holeless three inch deep con month will be an article on trans tainer, put a finger size pot or one planting of small seedlings. of t he plastic pill vials (after burn ing a few holes in the sides near the bottom with an ice pick) in the center. I put about an inch of pea gravel or vermiculite (this is lighter) on the Ethel Karr cont'd from pa~e 10 bottom and fill it with a two-thirds in a short time they began new growth. sand and or vermiculite , one third After some 16 years , they had reached a sterile soil mixture, flood it so that heighth of about 8 feet and generously surface is shining with water, but with branched. no puddles, and scatter the seed. I (In these stor ies of the winter hardy then place a piece of plastic over it cactus, I am making no attempt at bo and let it stand. tanical discriptions. Anyone who would Before scattering the seeds I mix like more detailed descriptions, if no them with a bit of fungicide while they book on general cactus, such as Borg's are still in the packet. (When I did ~cacti", is available, might find some not I had a serious problem of "damping reference material at the city library. off", sometimes losing all my seed Failing in that, write the Cactus and lings.) I don't cover the seeds with Succulent Journal of America. Charles soil at all unless they are one fourth Glass, Editor, Box 167, Reseda, Calif. inch in diameter or more (e.g. Opuntia, 91335 , and request a list of books Stapelia, Aloe, etc.) and even those I which are always available.)
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I think one should use some evergreen MY ROCK GARDEN plants , rather than choose dwarf con ifers, which are expensive and their MADALENE MODIC place in the garden should have special R, 1, Box 162 Sewickley, Pa,'15143 consideration. I would use Iheris, which has been pruned into a round ball When I viaS at the nursery last week or dome shape, This is evergreen and I was shown a most unusual order for hardy as an Oak, It blooms in spring. plants. It was written in this manner, and would not upset the scheme of blue "I have a rock wall 25 inches high and and yellow in July and August. 25 feet long with a space of 15 inches I think it would be nice to add a wide all along the top. I want enough gray contrast to the ·green, with Santo plants to adequately fill this space, lina incana and schmidtiana nana. .ror The majority must be plants that bloom a blue- green effect one could use Fes in July and August, in blue and yellow. tuca glauca, a nice little Iris, at Please have them ready on May 1st when least I thought it was an Iris the I will be there to pick them up." The first time that I saw it. This is Si~ more I thought about this order, the yrinchium brachypus, a beautiful yellow more challenging it became. I began to star. It is tender here, so I must plan what I would use, This must be keep it in the cold frame over winter. a new gardener, as there were no limi Now, what can one choose in blue? There tgtions on the price or the number of is campanula carpatica in blue. Nepeta plants, not even the type of plants. mussini is nice . Jasione humilis is This is surely an opportunity for the the best one but Jasione perennis is folks at the nursery to create a color tbe one that endures all kinds of ful and artistic pattern. The first weather, consideration for me would be to select I think one needs to go to the annuals the plants that bloom in July and Aug to get good blues for July and August. ust. This is the difficult time for Anagallis linifolia Phillipsii, a deep most of us. We have very little bloom gentian blue and one will need 4 or 5 ing during this time. It is probably plants set close together to make a bad planning on my part, You can de spot of deep gentian blue flowers. pend upon Hypericum Olympicum making a Phacelia campanularia is dwarf and com good show. Geum Montanum, if there is pact and will make a great showing of some shade and chrysogonum Virginicum. blue flowers. There is a new Lobelia Gutierrezia sarothrae and Haplopappus called Blue cascade, that trails. Lob spinulosus from Claude Barr. ~ucked elia, Blue stone or crystal Palace in in the crevices and between the stones, clumps , that is several plants set one can use Sedums and semperviviums. close together. Linum perenne blooms If there is some shade, one can tuck all summer, it is a little too tall i n that miniature Linaria that runs; a for the rock garden and I am not sure long like a green thread in a moist if Linum alpinum blo·oms off and on till c r ack. You will find it listed as Lin frost. There is a nice yellow flax aria Aequitriloba. Antirrhinum asarin~ called Linum flavum compactum. with pale yellow snapdragon flowers,for This will make you think of other the hot dry crevices. Euonymus kewen plants. I know that I will be thinki~g sis is a nice evergreen trailer that about all the plants that will bloom 1n could be used . July and August, as it will help me If there is some shade and some mois over a difficult time. ture , I would use Parochetus communis. This plant creates conversation over its oxalis leaves and pretty blue sweet pea flowers, Plant it near but not too close to the edge and it will fall over the side. This is a perennial, but tender in the north , I bring it inside for the winter and feel that it is worth all the extra care . Ever .so of ten I lose it, so I send to Thompson and Morgan, Ipswich, England for seed. I know, that I will get myself in trouble talking about annuals for the rock garden. 1 use annuals and the secret is to use them in the right place, be ing most selective in choosing the unusual. Cotula barbata is an ann ual only 6 or 8 inches tall. One can use 6 p l ants set rather closely togeth e r. The foliage is finely cut and the flowers are tight little buttons, giv ing it the name of Brass buttons. I assure you everyone will like it. Thymophylla or Dahlberg daisy resembles it in foilage but the flowers are tiny Bonsai Pfitzer-Juniper 11Yrs. old yellow daisies . Photo credit and grown by Mrs. Mary Boatright, 724 W. Poplar Harrisburg, Ill. 62946 Ozafk Gardens April 1967 -12- looks for all the world like a big green onion sitting on top of the 3oil. It has long green leaves several feet in length so I keep it on a high shelf so the leaves fall over the side. The proper name for this plant is Ornitho galum Caudatum and it originates in South Africa. It has a "resting period" and at this time the plant becomes fairly dormant and requires less water. Mine is in ordinary soil mix, and they like a lot of sun and air. They can stand temperatures much cooler than many other plants can and require water only when dry. I have a large beef steak begonia with leaves much larger than saucers and it is blooming now, as are most of the other rhizamatous ones. The plant itself is over two feet across and is so pretty each time I pass it I must pause a moment to admire it. This is Erythrophylla Feastii, with thick, lea A Visit with Mary Walton thery leaves, very dark shiny green and 311 s. Center Drive red beneath. I have the curly leafed West Memphis, Ark. 72301 variety too, E. Feastii Helix which is quite similar except the leaves are Spring must surely be just around the very ruffled at the edges and spiraled corner! The birds are singing and the in corkscrew fashion. E. Bunchii, is sun is bright and warm this morning. the one commonly called "lettuce leaf" Tonquils and crocus are blooming and and it does indeed look good enough to it is hard for me to stay inside long eat, with light green leaves, a bit red enough to get my work done. How I love at the edge and ruffled and crested. to be outside in the spring! Each day Begonias are one of my favorite flowers new signs appear of various plants and and I dearly love them all. flowers and I like to go out each morn Lantanas are starting to bloom some ing to see what new things I can find. now and are a colorful sight in all Our goose has started to lay, too, and their mixed colors, They are quite slow so the must know the winter is about to grow from seed, But are beautiful over too. A goose, you say? Yes , we once they get started. I put them out have two, and· it happened like this. in beds during the summer,and they grow Several Easters ago, a local store had into large plants. These plants come "baby ducks" and my husband bought two from the West Indies, with small. wood home for Libby. A few days later, when like branches and leaves a bit bristly. we toad a good look at them,we realized The flowers somewhat resemble verbenas the "baby ducks" were rea~ly baby "only they are smaller and bloom in all geese instead. They are the beautiful shades of pink, yellow, red and orange, big white China geese, a goose and a many times with 2 color combinations. gander. They make nice pets and all the They like a lot of sun and like most children in our neighborhood enjoy plants that can be bedded out in summer them. We built a small pond in the are not too particular about growing backyard and how they love to swim and conditions. Excellent blommers through bathe in it. the summer, they rarely ever are not On~ of the prettiest hanging baskets covered with bloom. I take them up in in my ~reenhouse is Cissus Adenopoda.. the fall, trim them back severely, and It is a fast grower and makes a beau carry them over in the greenhouse, one tiful plant - very quickly. The leaves of each color. Cuttings may be taken in are trifoliate, rather metallic in the fall and rooted also. appearance, and covered with reddish We had a disaster last week in the purple hairs. Underneath they are dark greenhouse which I must confess I've red and the young tendrils are very shed at least a bucket of tears over. colorful and velvety. Every one who Our heat is hand operated, I don't have comes in notices it immidiately. They it thermostatically controlled, so on come from Uganda and are quite easy to sunny days we always turn the heat grow. Ordinary conditions of gooa light quite low through the day. My husband some sun but not too much, a good and I both thought the other had turned potting soil, and watering enough to the heat back one high afternoon last keep moist is all they require. Dry week and the next morning my entire lot air doesn't seem to bother them for I of episcias were completely gone. They had mine inside before I had my green are so sensitive to cold, and I also house, and it filled a window shelf. lost quite a lot of African Violets. My "Sea Onion" has made a nice large The episcias are so sensitive to cold, plant and has a long bloom stalk about three feet long now covered with small white flowers. It is an odd plant and
Ozark Gardens April 1967 -13- Cont'd on page 15 BIRTHDAY CLUB HOLLOW-LOG BIRD HOUSES,Blue birds-Swallows-etc hunt nat MAKE BIRTHDAYS more fun by joining ural nest sites. Erect ge OG's Birthday Club, Shower honorees uine HOLLOW-LOG houses with cards, letters or items of the welcome their return. hobby interests. The club is open them nest, tnen feed free of charge to all subacribers young seeds and insects , size 2.90-Bluebird 13. 50 Ppd. Dealers ETHLYN E . GOFF, P.O. Box 923, Dos Pal wanted-FREE BROCHURE , EARL DOUGlASS--- os, Calif, 93620. BD April 7: In Red Creek N.Y. 1 De terest is, "It Seems To Me." This iF ;:::~~~~~~~=::==:=::::::::::=:=~ O,G, Meet Our Contributor for this WHY GROW OLD! month, Amazing Secret discovered by insurance Investigator-easy way to Look and Feel MARCELLA CAMERON, 1028 Truro Ave. In many years younger, NO diet, No exer glewood, Calif. 90301. BD April 15, cises, TURN BACK YOUR clock of Time! 1909. I just love flowers. Interest ·Postpaid $1.00. ed in all succulents and cacti, begon RESTORE YOUR VIM & VIGOR! ias, herbs , and ferns. I would love Make Your Own Natural Safe Energy Food to hear from any one wanting to ex that is worth more than Rubies & Dia change a few plants, list them in your monds; no Medicine, Tonic, or Nervine first letter. made from dangerous stimulants, but truly natural remedy,Contains elements CHARLOTTE HANKINS, R.l,Box 198,Smyrna, found in Man that are essential to re Dela. 19977. BD April 23, 1908, Would pair wear and waste of the physical love to find a twin. Hobbies, all forces--simple material easily obtain kinds of flowers, especially iris and able at home, put up by anybody at a the American Iris Society, and pen very low cost. Postpaid $1.00, pals. THE "MAGIC DIET"! The More you Eat the More you Lose. It MRS. BIRDIE MITCHELL, 64900 Pear Rd,, is a combination of food that burns up North Liberty, Ind. 46554. Hobbies, accumulated fat. Postpaid $1,00. are cacti and other succulent flowers ALL 3 COPIES FOR $2,00 POSTPAID. of all kinds also gardening. SUN EMPIRE SERVICE 2317 E. Jersey St.,Orlando, Fla. 32806 MRS. JOHN MACPHERSON, Pine Plains,N.Y, 12567. BD April 20, 1894. Interests: I love all house plants and have many INFORMATION WANTED hobbies, will exchange, Mrs, Cliff Hamilton, Box 535, Boron, Calif, 93516, Wants to find a white double Oleander,also a red Easter lily cactus. Calif.laws do not permit plant exchange so would like to hear from some one in Calif. only. Mrs. E.B. Harris, 382 Laswell Ave. San Jose, Calif. 95128, Would like to find the where abouts of the "Rue Plant." Have tried in vain to locate it. Would like to know of any nurseries that sell Euphorbias. Pearl Young, 820 Va. Ave. St. Cloud, Fla. 32769. Would like this informa tion: Six years ago we visited the whole of Calif. and especially the beautiful old missions. In one of the Southern Mission Gardens was a cactus about 2 foot tall and 1 foot around: something like Spanish Bayonets. Was called Tower of Jewels, Had a huge bi colored 2 foot flower head or stalk. Who knows what this is and how can I get one? NOTICE D Amaryllis "Bridesmaid" Photo credit IY THERE IS AN X in THE BOX, your sub and grown by Bette Marsalese, 280 Coal scription expires this month. RENEW to Hollow Rd., Verona, Pa. 15147 day. Ozark Gardens needs you.
Ozark Gardens April 1967 -14- Another big rock is for the birds. It is a beautiful red, white,and gray var BEAUTY FOR YOUR GARDEN iegated granite and stands up about Mae Dees, Rt.1 Coldwater, Mo.63934 sixteen inches high, it sets level on There is a flat sand rock in my gar the base and the top is chiseled out den, under a cherry tree that is beaut naturally into a bird bath. Underneath iful in its own right, but very soon th~ stone a mother toad lives in a now it will bloom with interest, At little cave she has made. There she the base of the rock on one side,I have helps me keep down harmful insects. two showy plantair. lilies. One has var I wish I had a small boulder in my igated gold and green leaves; the other garden, just for accent but no one is is a green leaved plant with white cooperative enough to even talk about bands on the edges. These are dwarf helping me bring one in. So I just go lilies. The variegated one had a beau along the best I can without the things tiful bloom resembling the bloom of a I need, like boulders and logs. calla lily on it last summer. It was lavender and lasted for a long period of time. To date the banded lily has not bloomed but the foliage is so pretty is has more than paid for the iger l!.ly space it occupies. llf1Y mothers At one end of the rock, I have sev garden has lived eral plants of red mint. It blooms for in this spot ~or a long period of time and is so fra 30 years OT ~ore grant. I use the young leaves in tea. and never Tails I don't remember just when we placed to bloom beauti the rock there but it has become a fix fully each summer, ture . Each spring as soon as it is warm I water i ~ well enough so my house plants will not wi tb llons of frost bite, I place my beef steak bego& water and dig in a ia on the flat top of the rock and soon k of well rotted the red begonia covers the large r ound n ~ot>pings gray granite pan it is in, and it ach spring. flows over the rock and on to the ground , The soft green ostrich plume ferns beside the tree trunk add life as any l ittle spring breeze twinkles t hrough the fronds. This spring I have decided all this AFRICAN VIOLETS beauty should be used to cheer some weary gardener (me), on a very burden There was a nice woman who lived ·in a some day if one comes, so I am working stew, on a little seat and table arrangement She had so many African violets she for the remaining side of this magic didn't know what to do. square. Here I can prepare peas for She watered them, fed them,admired cooking; pick over the salad greens; them each day , cut leaves from the rhubarb; write out Talked to them, scolded them in a lines for my stories; watch the weary friendly way. mother birds toil for their precious Soon they bloomed, white , pink, growing families or I can just sit purple and blue, there and think while I darn a sock or With leaves that were ruffled and scal fold the clean towels right off the loped too. line, Then she gave some to a neighbor, some Later in the season cherries will be to a bride , ripe and the mocking birds will pay no Some to a friend whose husband had mind at all to me as I rest and they died, gobble fruit between songs. After the Several to a home where old ladies cherries are gone,the big patch of Lady dwell. of the Lake penstomen, very near will The hope and pleasure they gave , none send up rosy spikes of bloom;the orange can tell. and gold day lilies will nod to me and But then this nice woman with violets the tiger lily from my mother's garden galore will whisper sweet memories to me,while Just kept on buying new kinds more and the bees that work for their daily more. bread among the blossoms , will drone their drowsy song of the sweetest Ada B. Turner, Wayne, New York 14893 things in life. Mary Walton cont'd from pg. 13 Yes,that one ~ray rock has a definite place in the scheme of tpings , out there The episbias were so pretty and I had in my postage stamp size garden, and added about 20 new varieties last fall. some day when I am in a very happy mood I am thankful nothing else was hurt,but I am going to write a little sonnet to it grieves me so for episcias are one its usefulness and purpose in life and of my special favorites and it was such to the beauty it adds to my every day a needless accident, I don ' t discourage living in this little Eden all my own. easily though, so I'll try to get some new ones started. We flower lovers just don't give up do we ? Happy growing ! Ozark Gardens April 1967 -15- •
"THE GOURD OF THE M ~ONTH" BY: Fae Hecht 27 New York Ave. there are few requirements. Seeds of Congers, N.Y. 10920 the hard- shelled Lagenarias and the fleshy Ornamentals are planted when all signs of frost have disappeared. A good, well drained soil, to wbtch some compost has been added, is ideal. Too rich a soil will produce many vines and little fruit. Although gourds need sun a good location is one that is protec ted from the hot afternoon sun, which wilts and weakens the plants. Seeds of this non-edible cucurbita pepo ovifera, are planted 5 to the hill about 1 inch deep and later thinned out .to 3 plants. Hills should be 3 feet apart. If space is limited, hills may be placed closer and plants thinned out more. Differ ent GOURD OF THE MONTH- ORNAMENTALS varieties have slightly different leaves. When thinning out plants try If I inform you that I relish a pear, to leave plants with as many various an apple , an orange or an egg, please l~aves as possible in each hill. Plante don ' t send me to a Super Market. As are watered until they take root and any gour d hobbyist knows, t hese terms then only if drought occurs. In the describe gourds which are actually larger garden the gourd vines may be shaped like the fruits they are named seen running on the ground as their after. Of the two most popular, Lag cousins the cucumber and melon. How enarias and Ornamentals , it is the Or ever, the gardener with limited space namental (Cucurbita Pepo ovifera) gourd may employ a trellis, whether they be that is commonly known in the United fashioned from wood, wire or cord. States. The reason is that seeds for Gourds are monoecious, both the male this specie can be purchased on almost (staminate) and female (pistillate) any seed counter. Hence, these may be flowers grow on the same vine. The the only gourds ever seen by some gar male flowers appearing about a week be deners. Packets usually are an assort fore the Pistillat e. ' The white Lagen ment. Unlike the Lagenarias which are arias flowers emerge at night while the grown for craftwork, Ornamentals are y,~llow flowers of the Ornamental gourd grown for their showy colors. These bloom all day. Some vines grow as long colors range from white, green, yellow, as 50 fee~. Pruning insures a better black, bicolor and even a touch of red crop. More laterals, the fruit bearing which appears in the Turks Turban or branches, will appear if stem is cut Turk's Cap. They may even include off at 10 feet. It is not unusual to striped or broad striped. An unusual find two or three different kinds of Ornamental is one bearing warts or ex gourds on the same vine. If a particu crescences which may be few or cover lar variety is wanted seeds should be the entire surface. Ornamentals are planted in another part of the garden thick-skinned with a fleshy outer cover away from the other gourd beds. and produce the yellow flower. Texture Preventative measures can be employee of foliage is coarser than on the Lag to avoid cucumber beetle and aphid dam enarias vines. Contrary to what most age . When plants are four inches high gourd growers believe , Ornamentals can they should be dusted with Rotenone. last indefinitely . I've had many gar This procedure must be repeated after deners tell me they were told not to each rainfa ll. Once flowe rs ha ve expect this specie to last more than formed on vines all dusting has to be several months. Once thoroughly dried , discontinued. Bees which are necessary that is to the stage where the seeds for pollination shun plants that have rattle when gourd is shaken, the gourd been dusted or sprayed. However , s ome can be around for years. Other Ornam dusting can be done at the roots. How entals are the Bell, Spoon, . Miniatures does one eliminate the gourd borer, de (sizes vary from very small to large, a stroyer of vines? Companion planting foot long), Ladle or Scoop. In my Dec is ~he answer. Radish s e eds pla nted in ember column I mentioned several uses the same hill after gour d plants have but the most popular use for these col emerged will discourage the gourd bor er orful fruits is as a centerpiece . If these cucurbits are growing on t he PLANTI NG INSTRUCTIONS gourd (instead of on a trellis) radish seeds may be sowed along the pa th vines For the benefit of new readers , I am will run. Some radish pl ants should be repeating my M~rch column in part: left in the ground, even allowed to go "Gourds , once a speciality of tropical to seed. As the season progresses gone countries, are becoming very popular a are the flowers but the fruit linge r s round the world, particularly in North on, growing larger, more colorful and ern climates . Cultivation ie simple; f i rm.
Ozark Gardens April 1967, - 16- Cont'd on next page Warted ornamentals-Photo credit 'Mixed ornamentals-Photo credit Fae Hecht Fae Hecht UNFORGE TTABLE EXPERIENCES his'. l ocal paper in 1959 . Through his DAYS TO REMEMBER friendship my knowledge of gourds in Publicity is an essential ingredient creased tremendously because Mr . Rich in most careers. To an actor, it's his ardson introduced me to many gourds I "bread and butter". Publicity has ha d never heard of. Does publicity helped me parley a dime into a career. pay? It certainly does. PS: "My Cup The story of how I invested a dime in a Runne th Over" . The kind wo rds with package of gourd seed in 1948 and be your stamped envelopes have made me c ame an international figure has been very happy. Some day I will edit a told many times; by the As sociated column, "Our Readers Write" and will Press (AP), United Press International quote from your letters. (UPI) and Kings Features. But of all my publicity articles (and I have a CHARM BEGONIA large scrap book full) I have my favo rite. Back in 1951 after growing gourd Ada B. Turner for 3 years I was invited to address a Wayne local Girl Scout Group whose leader New York 14893 then recommended me to a Garden Club. Up until that time only my friends knew To' all those who have fought to keep of my hobby. The Garden Club gave me the temperamental Calla Lily begonias my first publicity as a Gourd Lecturer, alive and thriving,the Charm begonia is in the local paper and mention in the a real find. Charm was a chance seed garden calendar of the New York Times l ing, with the beauty of the Calla Lily and N.Y. Herald- Tribune . A week later, plus a sturdiness that makes care very a 15 year old Congers High School boy easy. Crisp green leaves with a heavy knocked on my door and announced that sprinkling and splashing of creamy he was the publis her and editor of a white on bushy growth make it a well newspaper (several mimeographed sheets) shaped compact plant. Each branch is and proceeded to interview me for an topped with single pink contrasting article which appeared in his paper the flowers . following we ek. Throughout the years Charm is equally valuable as a pot I' ve returned to that page in the scrap plant indoors , or for summer use in a book many times. Several years later, shaded porch box or bed outdoors. In this youngster, Scott Witt, with a rad strong light the leaves take on a pink io show of his own on a local station, ish cast but too much light tends to invited me to be his guest. In 1957, brown the leaves. As Charm came from a Tom Powell , a contributing editor of seedling this may encourage some adven Organic Gardening Magazine, reading ~ turous souls to pollenize their begonia bout me in the N.Y. papers , interviewed and pe rha ps develop another fine new me for a story for his magazine. This variety. Fall , Mr. Powell gave me an assignment to do a gourd article for the Bulletin of the Horticultural Society of N.Y.C. , HELPS AND HOBBIES: A variety magazine, which he edited. Although he is not pri n ted monthly. Sample 25¢ . Yrs. Sub. editing the Bulletin anymore, my arti 1 2.00, Canada, 82.50, Foreign , 83. 00. cle will appear sometime this Summer. Ads 2¢ per word. Includes Stationery My hobby has brought me many friends Decorating, Recipes, Childrens ~ Teens but there is one I treasure most . Don page Puzzles, Patterns, Crafts, and Richardson of Nelson , Mo., found me many more. MRS . REUBEN PETERSON , Har through an A.P. story which appeared in court, Iowa 50544.
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Ge:-ald A. Sausaman , Box 126, Albright , W, Va .· 26519 Ah! Spring at last ! Isn' t it wonder- and porous one . Also the use of chemi ful? That mystical switch inside our cal fertilizers is not needed for these plants has tripped and thus triggered plants. A small amount of bone meal the plants and sending new shoots of can be added to the potting mix with growth in all directions. These new good results. Cactus seem to prefer sprouts will give us plenty of amuni- their roots anchored in a sli ghtly al tion for our cutting flats and soon we kaline soil rather than the acid or will have newly rooted cuttings ready neutral soils that are preferred for for outdoor flower beds and the porch most tropicals . Organic matter such as boxes . well rotted manure can be used .with Spring stirs more than just our both type plants safely. plants into activity, howe ver, and soon • Nat~rally desert plants are prepared we gardeners will be scurrying about for long, long periods of dryness and spading here , scratching there, and , thus n eed little care or constant generally making our presence known to watchfulness with the watering can. It the garden. Are you feeling those win- does rain on the desert and when it ter- softened muscles? I a m! Guess we does rain these plants respond with a are not in as good a shape as we had sudden burst of growth and usually pro thought we were, Do be careful and do duce a spectacular flowering. Taking a not over exert yourselves with too much cue from this habit, most growers pre spring garden zeal. After all we want fer to allow their cactus to rest in to be able to harvest and enjoy our the winter season keeping them in a efforts all summer and into the autumn. semi -dormant state by witholding water Since most of us have our spring and placing them i~ a cool location. plants well started by this time and This works most successfully but many are now repotting them or planning for light gardeners have found that this their future use, I will not dwell upon does not need to be done. Place your this subject for this time. I have plants under fluorescent lamps, rather been spading, hoeing, and other wise close to the tubes,and treat them as "working down" some ideas in my mind you would when they are in active sum that perhaps will be interest to some mer growth. You will be surprised and of you. It is not difficult to see delighted with the results. If you are that many readers of O,G, are cactus at present growing plants in a light fans, this being the point of my mental set up with high humidity and other activity. As a result I have been do- conditions to the liking of more tender ing a bit of reading and questioning plants, do not feel that you must pro of myself and others about their care vide a special area for the cactus . Put of the spine and spineless. How may them in among your other plants as they these arid loving and succulent plants will enjoy the humid air. Just r emem be grown successfully under fluorescent ber to water t hem les s and to pass lights? Many people have remarked that those pots when you are fertilizing. their homes are too warm and the air These plants would certainly be too dry to grow many tender, humidity- classed as l ong day types a nd the r efore loving tr\lpical house plants. Perhaps the lights should burn between 14 to 16 a selection of these cactus and succu- hours a day. It must be remember ed lents would be an answer to their prob- that some varieties of the epiphytic lems. The high output f luorescent cactus require specific day length to la~ps available to us today will cer- f lower. Reme mber those Thanksgivi ng tainly provide the needed light inten- and Christmas cactus that flowered so sity. Gro~ers have reported marvellous nicely during the short days. Try a results with the use of these lamps for few cactus or succulents with your long cactus . Have you tried them yet? day plant collection a nd enjoy them in Of course, these unique plants do re- a new way. quire specific cultural features that Some of our O.G. reader s are growing we must not neglect. However, they or have grown their cactus under a rti seem to thrive on neglect as far as fical lights, and we would certainly watering and repotting are concerned. like to hear from you about particular Do remember that the cactus will not experiences and recommended variet ies tolerate water about its roots for ex- that are desireable . What have you had tended lengths of time . Prepare your success with in your light garden ? potting medium to be a well draining
Cont'd on next page Ozark Gardens April 1967 -18- Garden Lightly cont'd IN CONCLUSION As I dim my light for this month, I am sincerely hopeful that all gardeners ARTICLE IN REVIEW will take the time from their busy The February issue of Electricit! on spring time chores to pause and dri nk the Farm carries a story entlt en= in the glories of nature and the in- TPre~Plants Provide a Grow-your-own spiringly marvelous awakening of life Decor" which gives us some helpful sug around them, Spring is t ruly a time of gestions and good ideas, Instructions beginning and a time for ref lection. and examples for the placement and pre paration of plants and decorative plant growing areas .are discussed , Several attractive illustrations and a helpful Among My list of possible plants to be used in such indoor gardens is included, The House Plants author remarks that several plants such as morning glories, nasturtiums, snap MARY LONG dragons, most vegetable s etc., will not Stratford, Ia. 50249 be · successful subjects, However, many light gar1eners are successfully grow Hi everyone! First I must say I i ng them I know, think most of us had a real t ouch of This brief article does not explore winter except the deep s outh. I hear the entire area of decorative plant use they, too, have been having some, but for the home but it is a stimulating when you read this maybe we will be and provocative presentation. Maybe outside wor king in God's good earth and this interesting approach to light gar get rid of the moth feeling. My flow dening will give your creative and ar ers have bloomed nicely for winter. I tistic nature a boost. Let us hear a have a big cacti I usual ly never wa bout your use of lighting and plants as ter or notice until it's time to take decoration in your homes, i t outside, I had to move it to do some fixing on the basement wall by the fur THE CHERRY REPORT nace pipes. I , then noticed it had Elaine C, Cherry , author of Fluores flowered for me , three b i g blooms all cent Light Gardening published by D. dried. It was a deep yell ow, My van- Nostrand Company, Inc., 1965, rec Bougainvillea is still blooming like ently presented a paper before those mad also an orange one has started t o attending the XVII Internati onal Horti bloom. Anyone wanting a beautiful cultural Congress at the University of splash of color in winter, try some and Maryland in August, The text of this buy them from Loyce 's of Tex. (see Ad). fine material has been printed in the She has many lovely colors, January/February issue of Indoor ri~~t The winter has gone by so fast wi.th Gardeners News the b i -monthly bul e n so many things now to be done outside of the Indoor Light Gardeners Society I'm getting such l ovely letters from of America, Inc, Serious present or OG readers from going through my home prospective future light ga~deners can with me . Thank you for ever;y one, Mrs. not afford to miss this fine article Wuster wrote saying, "It all comes back by Mrs. Cherry who is one of the aut- to me from reading just as I described horities in this field. .' it except she couldn't see the flowers" She carefully explains the types of I do have to get busy and send for tubes that are available commercially seeds but there are so many different at present and evalua tes their effec ones, I can't decide which ones, One tiveness thru her experience with them thing I know for sure, I can't keep ad and from the testimony of other avid ding on as you know. It seems to me as light gardeners, She does not delve if I'm letting something happen to me. deeply into the culture of plants under Couldn't be that I'm getting old, The artifical light, however, she does give apple scented geranium still has a us some apt and wise general observa lovely fragrance . I intend to get some tions concerning these cultural re diff erent scents this year. All my quirements. geraniums have all bloomed so we ll.. for Near the end of her excellent article me this winter, I always take cuttings she makes a most s i gnificant statement in July by putting the cutting in a can that I think we should all take time to of dirt and set it beside the Mother consider. "You cannot put a potted plant. I keep it watered and soon some plant under a fluorescent light and ex no higher than your finger are bloom pect a miracle. Light alone does not ing, I very seldom lose any by start compensate for deficiencies in the oth ing them this way, I have many d iffer er elements of house-plant culture," ent ones in bloom for me now; a huge In conclusion Mrs. Cherry refers to dbl. white, a ~moth single scarlet, the "magic of fluorescent li~t." I am Bird's egg, stars and s t ripes, Mr , Wren sure we will all agree that gardening and some fancy l eafed ones. Must close has a true fascination and an unending for now and l e t some one else have magic. Light gardening is not differ room. God Bless all of our OG readers, ent. Ted's family and Edith. Adieu till next month,
Ozark Gardens April 1967 -19- W. C. Densmore Rout. No. ·1, Mt. Olive Rood TH E S~eiali.mto ill AU Kiftdl of G011rd Setd LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN, TENNESSEE 37350 GO
Mr . Densmore is shown in the above photo holding two. of his long handled dipper gourds. One of Mr . Densmores gourd measures70 and 3/4 inches long with out the stem. The other gourd measures 57 inches to the en d of the gourd handle . The photo on the far right shows a large African giant.-- This gourd me a sured 55 i nches a r ound and weighed 51 lbs at gathering.-- Mr. Den~more challenges anyone to~beat his long dipper gourd measuring 70 3/4 ~nches with out the stem. Do we have any challengers?. Meanwhile let's enjoy Mr. Densmores story. THE GOURD PATCH the GOURD PATCH , and how we became a couple of ~ourd Heads. In your letter to me you expressed a In 1961 we planted a large garden, desire for a run down on myself and a but only one t r ellis of gourds. A small story of how I got started in the friend of mine gave me a handful of gourd business; along with some pic what he called gourd seed, they turned tures of my gourds to show to the read out to be the highly colored African ers of your wonderful magazine , the Ornamentals, the first I had ever seen. Ozark Gardens. Well Sir, in the first We began to harvest them in July by t he place I am no writer as you can well basketsful. We loaded them in our car see, but I am having wonderful luck and gave them away to our friends on with my gourds here on Lookout Mountain our trips into town, also to our local in Dade County, Georgia, just across Senior Neighbors Club, to which we be the State line from Chattanooga, Tenn. long. It seemed that everyon.e who saw Mrs. Densmore and · myself b ought this our gourds wanted to buy some , but we little place , (three acres) in 1956, gave them all away. especially for retirement. We have In ~962, I added another trellis to named it THE GOURD PATCH, as we raise my garden and planted it to t he Mart in only gourds ; no vegetables. We retired Gourds , to make bird houses for my from the Georgia State Youth Center, at birds. I ~ised about a hundred nice Milledgeville, Georgia where I was em bird house gourds, and made bird h ouses ployed as a Vocational Instructor, and from all of them , even varnished them cottage master and Mrs. Densmore as a so they woul d look nice, loaded them in House Mother and counsellor. We had the car and started out to visit our been on this job for 15 years, so in friends and business acquaintances who May 1961 we called it a day, checked we thought might want a bird house to out and moved to our mountain home in hang up for their birds in which to Northwest Georgia. So here is my hum nest. We stopped at the Motor court ble effort to write you the story of where we once s~nt our vacation, the IRD PATCH
barber shop and beauty shop, a . local ~ourd Culture as a hobby, or for pro restaurant, the drug store and coin fit; this pamphlet gives general infor laundry, then the hardware store. We mation for the beginner on planting, left a few gourds at each place we had arbors, care of vines, gathering and stopped and got a lot of pleasure from storing and preparation of gourds for the expressions of gratitude and thanks the market. At first I sent this out we received. Then we pulled into our to any and everyone who asked me for it local fill1ng s tation, and gave the free of charge, along with the purchase managers two young boys a bird house of my seed. It seemed that almost ev each to hang up for their birds. The eryone wanted the pamphlet, so ! .had to manager asked me what was I selling make a change in my policy too, a free them for and I told him that I was giv pamphlet with the purchase of $1.00 ing them away; he looked in the back worth of seeds, otherwise the pamphlet seat of my car and said, "How much will was 30¢ postpaid. I am now on my sec you take for all you have in your car?" ond thousand. I said, "Oh, about a quarter each I I have published a price list ~over guess." So he bought all I had and ing amount of seed in each pack, the this was the first gourds I had ever price of 19 of my most popular kinde of sold. In about a week he came by our gourds; a stamp will bring this price place and asked me if I had anymore list to anyone. My seeds are packed in bird houses for sale, said he had sold standard commercial packs, with general all those he got from me for $1 .29 each planting instructions on each pack and and wanted more. I sold him all I had the average price of my seed is 40¢ for 65¢ each, several baskets of ornam a pack. I sell only clean and we ll mat entals, and $5.00 worth of seeds. Two ure seeds. I have now started to !"in weeks later he was sold out and wanted ish all my gourds , that is to clean and more. When I told him that he had got either varnish or wax them. They will all I raised, he said, "Raise all you sell much faster when cleaned and var can next year, I can sell all of them nished or waxed, and there is a large here at the station." He is still ma rket for clean, nice l ooking gourds. selling them for me, and is one of the I am also doing a lot of craft work best outlets I have. I price them, put this year converting my gourds into them on display,and he gives me 50% of Dippers, Birdhouses, Vases, Bottles, what he takes in for the gourde. Sewing Baskets, arrangement baskets, In 1963-64 I added to my collection Fruit bowls, Mint and Candy, etc . I any and all types of gourd seed that I find this to be a very rewarding hobby could find. Now I have about 45 diff for any retired person and it keeps erent kinds of gourde, and started to you busy the year around working on advertise my seed in 1964 and my gourde last years gourds while a new crop is in 1965. Now I have about a thousand in the making. regular customers; who contact me at least once a year. I answer all let ters, mostly in long hand and get a lot (Editors note) Mr. Densmore and many of pleasure from my correspondence with other advertisers have gourd seed for my gourd friends. I got so many re sale in the classified pages. If you quests for information as to how to have never grown gourds try a few pkts raise gourds, that in early '65 I had this year. It's an unusual hobby and a published a small 8 page pamph! et on lot of fun also ! "MEET OUR CONTRIBUTOR " hardy trees, a small plot of grass and violets along one bank. I do remember that the fresh cool green of that grass drew me as a magnet. I also remember a huge old gander that I was deathly a fraid of and of "Old Shep" coming to my rescue when he finally got me! I don ' t remember the actual bite and pain but I can still see Shep and the gander tumb ling down the cellar steps in a flurry of goose feathers and my Mom running toward me and right on past and .down the cellar steps to join in the fray. I suppose she was sure my bellows would finally stop and my hurt heal but she '1T SEEMS TO ME"' Ethlyn E. Goff P.O.Box 923 Doe Palos , Calif. 93620 This is going to be the hard~t bit of writing I have' ever done ! I know now that my friend, Mr. Burns was not just speaking of the R~d Bug. We chuckle over the poem but w~en it comes time to tell of ourselves we may well think of his word~. My number two sor. and I were discussing personalities several years ago and he made a remark The sod house in which Ethlyn Goff that I have often thought about. His was born. observations was that no matter how long we stood in front of a .nirror we needed to rescue the old boy if she was did not really see ourselves nor look to have any future goslings. I don' t as the reflection showed , We saw what remember the terrible blizzards, nor we wanted to see good or bad, and that the big prairie fire. I do remember as a person we could not give a defin the folks ordered all their groceries ate description of ourselves, We may from Montgomery Ward. What excitement try but it takes a friend, one of the whe~ th~ wooden boxes came in! Prunes, family , businesa associates , the people raisins, dried apple , ginger snaps , big who are in contact with us day by day, square crackers, and always a box of to really tell what kind of a person we pink or white frosted scalloped cook are, I have a hunch that when I final ies. I remember the spooky "Jack ly get this in the mail I'll lean back Lights" and also that my Dad bought the and say, "Phew, I'm glad that's over!" first phonograph with a few cylindrical I'm much more interested in other peo ~~cords, We were thirty some miles ple than I am in me. I guess it may as from town and so my Mom had a switch we! l be as the first early spring board ·that connected two areas of co swimming session. Take a deep breath operative country telephones. On cold and jump in. It was a bit of a coi nci winter nights she would giv e the gener dence when Ted asked me to be IT for al ring _on both lines and Dad would put April. He did not know that the 7th of the phonograph by the phone and would April is my special day of celebration. play all the records. It gave the peo Hmm, this is the first time my birthday ple a bit of prestige that not only did has been so widly noted, they have telephones they had music, My folks , after the·ir marriage, lived What a change! Our youngsters of today in Eastern Kansas a few years then de can't study without at least one radio, cided to homestead in Colorado. I do one Hi Fi , and one T. V. blaring to not rememoer too much of what took high heaven! place there, I can faintly remember I started to school in Colorado but the sod house in which I was born and a I have no recollection of it nor of the pond · my Dad had dug by the windmill so move back to Kansas when I was eight my Mom could have access to water for years old. Mother and I went by train. the vegetables it was so necessary to My Dad and brother, who was eighteen raise so that they would not know hun mon ths younger t han I, went in the R.R. ger during the long, hard bitter win ~x Car with the livestock and house ters . At l east that was the given rea hold furnishings. They rented a place son but I suspect she needed it more to for one year then bought and· moved to combat the homesickness for her beloved The Old Salt Creek Place, Even today wooded Kansas for she did have a few when it is spoken of it is always in
Ozark Gardens April 1967 -22- Cont'd on next page "Meet our Contributor" cont'd with a team of horses that knew more capital letters. The happiest years than their driver and often proved it. for all of us were spent there. It was The long hours were shortened by the about nine miles S.E. of Osage City and fact that another Shep (a little bench was just up the hill from Salt Creek. le~ged fellow of definite Heinz varie It wasn't such a small creek as only a ty) dearly loved to ride on the seat in few miles down it joined the Marais Des front of me so I had something to talk Cygnes River. It was widly and heavily to. Our prairie hay meadow was fenced wooded on each side and with thick un on two sides with an old stone wall. der growth. Ferns', violets, paw paw's , There wasn't an inch of it that I did wild berries--well, just kids Heaven! not know where all the nests were or There is where my brother and I spent the dena of young and where to go to every free moment either on, or in, the gather the nicest sweet violets or wild creek depending on the season. There I Shastas. Nearly every noon of haying think my Garden Biddie instinct began season saw me astride Snip or Bridget to stir. I formed a love and budding and my hands full of wild flowers as understanding of all nature. The ever we wended our way home for dinner. changing miracles of my personal bit of The farm yard was, as is most of the heaven was noted and stored in my mem older places , an unplanned planting of ory. The first stirring of Spring with roses and lilacs, fruit trees , and gar its Dutch Man's Breeches, Fern curls den berries., grapes, and shrubs. All and Red Bud on till the last leaf of with n o definite landscaping but giving Maple or fat acorn dropped to the ground an interesting overall result. I do and the ice formed to entrap a few remember that to one side and in the foolish sunfish. We knew where each back of the house there were several bird nest was and how the family was old and big Hackberry trees. Those to fareing. We knew just where to find the back make an ideal place as an out "Old Herkimer" , a huge black snake-- door summer wash room. Shade, near the and you know I don't think he minded us clothes lines and the well from which anymore than we did him. "Old Buck" we pumped the water by hand. Wash day was just a big turtle to ·others but to was an all day family affair as far as us he was a friend to hunt up and maybe Mother, my brother and I was concerned. heckle a bit. I don't think he was How I hated the job of "push pulling" anymore worried about us than Herkimer the stick that in turn moved something was. He was always there the next time that did the actual washing. For those we showed up. Cottontails and Red days a very modern washing machine but Squirrels soon learned we had goodies modern or not I thoroughly disliked in our pockets and so we were privi wash day. How well I remember the day leged to be introduced to their famil I backed up and sat down in a ten gal ies as soon as they could leave the lon stone jar the better to argue the nest. When Mamma Quail "froze" her length of my turn. Mother had just babies in our favorite wild strawberry emptied the starch water from it and as patch we also learned to freeze lest I pled my case I let myself double up we step on them. The joy of ·finally and slip down farther and farther-Re seeing what looked to be only a leaf sult: One broken jar to get the girl or dull clod suddenly turn to a wee bit out, one wrathful mother and one broth of fluff that scooted away was as sweet er hard put to keep from showing h is as the berries we had come to pick. glee over his sisters plight. Guess I don't mean we didn't work hard and who did all the rest of the push pull long but someway even that was enjoy ing that day! able as I remember i.t. Perhaps the In my late grade school years my Dad years tumbling past one another so rap began to lose his health and finally idly has had a tendency to smooth out when I was a high school freshman in the rough spots and leave only the pol Lyndon he was unable to care for the ish of the fun of growing up. My land and so they we re forced to sell i~ brother had always been a bit frail and It was a heart breaking experience for since I hated housework, and was a tom all of us . We moved a few miles north boy at heart it fell my lot to be with of Pomona, Kansas where I finished my my Dad in the fields. He too loved high school years. My dad grew steadi soil and so , as we shocked the wheat or ly worse with asthma and complications corn or stacked the sweet meadow hay, so it fel l upon my brother and I to do my love and understanding of nature the farming. Mom raised a garden and grew. He taught me to really see the chickens, ducks , turkeys and the Umph-· wonderful world about me with its ever teenth great grand chil dren of the changing pattern and yet perfect bal before mentione• old gander. During ance or harmony of the seasons. The my Senior year the doctors advised my necessity of days and nights, of birth dad to . try a higher and drier climate and life, of death and final decay to so the folks and my brother again moved maintain that balance . Often have I to Colorado. This time South and West drawn of his philoaophy .from my memo of where they had homesteaded. I had ries storehouse . taken teaching preparation and stayed Corn, in those days , was cultivated to take the State examinati ons given in by the good old method of a foot in the spring of the year at Ottawa. I each stirrup to guide the blades along obtained my Kansas State Teachers Cer the row. Many a mile have I cultivated tificate and so had a contract to teach
Cont'd on next page Ozar k Gardens April 1967 -23- " Meet Our Contributor Cont ' d " Mrs. David R. :Birch •l L 548 N. Rosedale t:t:at fall . By graduation my dad was L Tulsa, Oklahoma much worse so I asked for and received I y ore 74127, a -elease from my contract ~nd went to them . The 1966 Lily Year Book of the North The next year saw me in overalls American Lil y Society , Inc . is a treas f arming and doing chores by day a nd ek ury of information for the beginner as tension study courses at night . I went well as the experienced grower. to Greeley State Teachers College ~ that For those interested in setting up a summer for a six weeks course . My breeding program,a study of the follow brother was hiring out to. others to ing articles should be helpful: "The help so between college and my school Lily Plant" by L. H. McDaniels, who room that fall I did all the farming of pictures in detail all stages of growth the half section of · land: The next from seed to bloom. The pictures of few years saw a repeat of farming and different types of bulbs are of partic chores , study at night, one room ular i nterest as each is different and schools with all e ight grades or summer one can learn to recognize the s pecie sessions at college . The depression by examining the bulb. was beginning to be felt. My folks had The bloom parts are pictured so acc gone to Central Kansas so a sister of uratly that anyone can make a cross if my dad could help care for him and my they have a couple of compatible bl ooms brother went into the CCC's. In the at hand. "Propagating Practices" by meantime I had met my husband and F. Henry Payne is another designed to married afid moved to his place, pelp the breeder. Another, "Concerning although we farmed both places. I tily Chromosome Terminology" by Jos. taught until our first baby was born. Uhring. "Pollen of L. Cernuum (sirn A great many of you remember the de you-um) "What color is it?" by Ruth pression, I'm sure. We not only had Clas. Others of interest: "Sterility that but were in the heart of the Dust and Incompatibility in the Patterson Bowl and after losing almost all our Hybri d Lilies" by C. Stusitnoff and stock and probably the top two inches S. H. Nelson and "Hypocotyl? or Coty of our soil we decided to follow his ledon? by A. M. Showalter, "Bud Sports folks to California. .In the meantime in Hybrid Lilies" by A. J . Porter. our number two son had been born and so Those who would like a copy may write with no job, two babies, an old car and Mr. Ernest F.· Stokes, 21 Oakland St., a bor rowed fifty dollars, we started Lexington, 12173, Mass. He will tel l out. Those years I do not like to re you how you may obtain the yearbook member, although many were in worse Members receive theirs, also regular trouble than we were. We had our bulletins, special announcements, lists health and youtli on our side and my of available books and papers loaned by husbands willingness to do any job that the libr ary and the Seed Exchange came along. Since we had hit rock bot Bulletin as part of their membership. tom there was only one way to go and Pee is $5.00. that was up. We have raised four chil Now is the time to snip off all dren we can be pr~ud of. We own our winter growth made by L. Candidum, burn home, have seen all four into college leaves and spray plants with Bordeaux and married with wonderful families and or a good fungicide covering plant and good jobs. I guess you can say we are surrounding soil to destroy the ever just normal Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Public present Botrytis Blight that ruin our Not rich nor poor- just comfortable and lovely Madonnas. While you are about it happy. We have had some sorrow but no treat the Peony and Iris beds. These tragedies. My dad did live to see .and three lime lovers have the same enemies enjoy all my babies. He passed away too. Because they love a sweet soil, I when my youngest was a year old . My give the Lilacs the same spray just for brother died of cancer the day before good measure . Later they are sprayed he was forty. My husbands mother died for borers using Chlorodane. the year before we married. Life has You can still plant Lily seeds which been good as a whole. should be planted while weather is I think the philosophy that has seen cool. Like the onion, when their own us through the good years and the bad best temperature together with the is well expressed by the story told of proper day and night length occur.They the old lady who had a shiftless hus will pop up. Don't discard seeds if band and a "pasul of younguns". When you cannot plant them now. I once put asked if she didn't sometimes worry,her a qt. size fruit jar filled with lily reply was, "Worry? I tells you for seeds into the vegetable compartment of true, when I ' se awake I ' se too busy and my refrigerator. Each year I removed when I goes to bed at night I'se too the jar and allowed it to warm to room tired. temperature, opened and removed a por tion: of the seeds then resealed and re Please mention OZARK GARDENS when placed it for another year. This ex writing to the advertisers, many adv ertise in other papers . Give periment in seed longevity was incon OZARK GARDENS the credit when you clusive because I planted the last of answer the ads in the classified. the seeds the seventh year and most of them came up.
Ozark Gardens April 1967 -24- Cont'd on page 26 A VISIT TO MEADOW-BANK Frances Ford Meadow-Bank, Bristol Road, Whitchurch, Bristol, England Hello a gain from Meadow-Bank, how's everything growing over your way?' Al though as I write it is only just com ing into March, and despite a few days of really bitter cold weather around the 14th, February the gardening time is getting away to a fine start. In the greenhouses where naturally most time is spent just now, I have cleared and brushed down the staging and used puffer pack Pyretheum dust on the joints, this is for leather jackets and earwigs. The whole job is some thing of an achievement when one is surrounded by large Blue Gums, Acaia Delabatas and other greenhouse shrubs. But now all is ready for the big on slaugnt of repotting, I have divided Trichocereus grown to some three feet the Stretocarpus, which look very high which has a nest of leather jack happy, the ferns must come next as I ets eating in to its base. see much new growth showing. The mix I am hoping to be hard hearted enough ture I use contains t peat, t coarse to dispose of quite a few of my Gerani grit, t soil, sometimes I am lucky e ums this year, space or rather the lack nough to have leaf mould to incorper of it makes me make this awful decisioR ate. Varieties of ferns include,Pteris But how does one decide which shall go, Rowerii, Pteris Cretica Albo, Nephro not the scented leaf varieties they are lepis-Todeiodes, and Asplenium Nidus too delightful with their pungent per the birds nest fern as it is commonly fumes, not the variegated leaf ones, as called, and many others. One which the leaves are so useful for flower ar causes many comments from visitors is ranging. This brings it down to the the Stag Horn fern which I have planted Irenes, Zonals, single and double, and on a piece of bark,the roots are en the Regale, amongst the latter, Grand cased in moss held onto the bark by Slam gives an almost audible sniff as I wire, this of course becomes invisible pick up the pot as if to say you know· I in time. Although not often seen here, am too glorious to throw out The same while in Australia we found they were applies to Rapture, and Rogue whose great favorites, especially on railway colors compliment each other so. One stations and grew to anormous speci such a soft dawn peach, the other ma mens. The Euphorbia-Wullfenii has four hogany red and Grandma Fisher just sits heads of its curious greenish flowers, because who would ever think of throw and the Velthemia only has two heads of ing her away, and so I collect together its pale creamy pink blooms this year ~y doubles of any variety I can find, although last year there were four. I which can be given to a friend and feel this is because the plant was ra start cutting back and repo~ting the ther neglected during the summer. The others. Quite by accident a couple of air is perfumed by the white jasmine years ago I found out that a very good and I made up my mind that one of these feed for Geraniums is one that is real glorious plants must be moved to nearer ly marketed for Chrsanths. Before we the door so that we can enjoy this close the door on the greenhouses let lovely perfume each time we enter the me just tell you, buds have already greenhouse, But I fear another perfume formed on the Epiphyllum and Aporp will soon have to take its place,at cactus, lagelliformus. In the seed least for awhile this perfume of insec pans are different types of outdoor tici~e smoke bomb, as I find an attack Primula, which I hope will grace the of mealy bug on the Rhoicissus-Rhomboi bog garden which partly surrounds the dea, although nothing else is effected pond i'n the front garden, also some yet. special Primroses and Ariculas, These Moving on into the Geranium and Cacti are becoming much sought after again and house it looks as if a real upheavel over the past few years several old is in process4 My husband has decided varieties thought to be extint have he does not ca~e for the Cacti collec been rediscovered, mostly in old Irish tion planted out on the staging· and so cottage gardens. all the plants are being put back into Do you remember Horace the Hedgehog? pots. I agree with his decision as I Well, during the mild spell of weather feel each plant gets more individual he moved his quarters and we were quite attention this way, although only one concerned, wondering if he had decided ·plant seems to have !aired badly under the bonfire heap was quite a cozy place the communal way of life, this is a but luckily this is not so, whilst
Ozark Gardens April 1967 -:-25- Cont'd on page 26 A Visit To Meadow-Bank Cont'd, clearing some herbaceous debris , I SUCCULENT PLANTS spotted a soil upheavel under a clump of Japanese Iris, whose leaves had not been cleared last summer, and sure e - nough there was Horace fast asleep and none the wiser that we had peeped at him. Lester E. Rothstein The birds had a miserable "wedding 290 Lenox A?e,, day", traditionally fourteenth of Feb. New York, N. Y,10027 here, and I think very few of my garden v'isi tors at · any rate thought of any thing else but how much feed they could consume to help them through . the frosty ' night , but I saw the Magpies are be ginning to get agressive in their tree top home • Their brilliant plumage of Although it's mid-February and cold black, blue~ and white shines glorious n New York, with some snow on the ly in the sun, and with their long ground, the succulent collection shows tails they give the impression of being definite signs of spring, This is nor a bird that belongs more to the tropi mal for many collectors, but not for cal land . This always seems strange to me, especially as regards my cacti. I me as the Australian Magpie is a far think the reason for the early activity more somber bird, black and white with is that I kept the plants warmer than no hint of blue, but his song is a mel usual this winter, simply by caulking odious warble, where as ours is a sort up a lot of the cracks in my back of whirring chatter. porch! The International Flower Show Nature certainly is deceiving the takes place March 4-12 and I think this most brilliant birds rarely having a will be the first time I will enter song, yet the drab looking ones singing cacti that aren't sound asleep. Howev so wonderfully that poets through the er I always managed to bring in a few ages have written poems in their honor, succulents that were in growth or flow The nightingale comes to mind at once er and this year will be no exception. in this way, such a soft brown bird One interesting plant now in growth hardly noticed by ordinary folks when is Bowiea volubilis, a succulent member visiting woods etc., and whose song of the lily family from Tanganyika in even goes unnoticed during the day Africa. It consists. of large, onion amongst the clamour of all the other like bulbs from which grow long, twin woodland songsters. ing thin shoots which can be trained This contrariness of nature is often to grow on a trellis, etc . , and they found in flowers as I am sure you will produce a very delicate, feathery eff agree is the brilliant Amaryllis so ect. Flowers are greenish- white , tiny lovely to look at and demanding atten and insignificant. My plant grows in a tion, but nothing else, and yet the rectangular plastic pan over which I modest violet hiding under the leaves placed a piece of chicken wire bent in are still perfuming the air all around. to an inverted U. The wire is now hid Well gooqbye for this time, all best den by the light green shoots. wishes for happy gardening and thank Getting very popular with collectors you all the folks who have written to are the so-called "mimicry" forms of me, we shall enjoy many happy "chats" Crassula and their hybrids which gener ovPr the future months I am sure. ally s peaking resemble piles of gray Lily Lore Cont ' d green angled stones piled on top of one another. They seem to be winter-grow To those of you living where late ers in this area. Two very attractive freezes occur , should lily tops become hybrids are c. "Moonglow"and C , "Mor~ans frosted cut them off down below the Pink". Other mimicry species inc ude damaged part. Even to the tip of bulb, CC. alstonii, arta, columella, cornuta, dust with sulphur, if none is at hand , deceptrix. The--flowers are often at use Arasan. Either should be available tractive, though small , but, as with at nearest Drug Store. This prevents most succulents, the plants are inter decay of dead tissue reaching those esting-looking without the flowers, defenseless scales and then taking a Where can these plants be gotten and lethal shot of Rot Fungi. I keep these how can you identify the plants you items ready at hand for that emergency buy? Cacti and succulents are not only which usually occurs when you are out a hobby; they are a million-dollar bus of town. Just do hurry home. Properly iness and a tremendous scientific field treated, your bulbs will come up· the as well. Plants can be gotten from the following spring none the worse for many dealers in the U.S. and all over their years rest.But, do mark the spot. the world, from retail stores and gar So far, winter in Oklahoma has been den shops and from fellow collectors. mild. We have been envious of all the The trouble in identifying your plants moisture ot~er areas are eetting. Its is that most retail dealers and flor March, and early crocus and daffodils ists don't know what they're selling, are blooming. Soon we will be finished so you have to get help from friends with our short spring and into summer, or try to identify your plants from our longest season. -26- Cont'd on next page Succul ent Plan ts Cont'd erow easily and look nice . I also got books , which isn' t as easy as it sounds. a letter from a long- time O.G. sub one of the leading deal ers who ~ scriber, Mrs . Margaret M. Re itzel, who knOW what he' s sellin~ is Johnson' s described her experiences in re- learn Cactus Gardens , in Par amount, Calif. ing succulent gardening after moving 25¢ will bring you h is illustrated cat from Penna. to Arizona- quite a change! alogue . She has a large Kalanchoe beharensis , Another attract ive plant n ow in full which we colder climate people don't bloom for the first time for me is grow because of space considerations . Hatiora s a licornoides. Ted Leopold Fro~ her description, I would say the will excuse my mentioning it, for i t ' s plant is perfectly normal , that is , with an epiphytic cactus, but, since cacti curled droopy leaves. I would give it are, technically, succulents , I t r us t I full sun ru1d , as a test of whether or can ge t away with my comments. I t 's not it needs water, would simply feel called salicornoides because its s t ems the leaves to see whether they are tur resemble the halophytic pseudo- succu gid or not . If there ' s any doubt about lent Salicornia species which grow on the plant dying, pull off a leaf, place ocean beaches , "halo-" and "sali-" both it on the eround and it will soon form referring to " salt." The stems look plantlets. The lower leaves on this something like tiny little sausage plant normally do dry up and drop off links, the last links of which bear and the bare stem is one of the attrac small bright yellow flowers , making a tions of the plant, showing the scars most attractive displ ay. where the leaves were . Her. K.orgyalis I have received several letters from with its curled leaves, also sounds readers, which I welcome, but unfortun healthy. Neit her of these is really ately haven't the time to answer per likely to die from lack of water, sonally. However, I can use these col though, of course a reasonable amount umns to acknowledge and answer any should be given. K. orgyalis can also questions, which are very helpful to me be propagated from leaves. Beharensis when I can't think of anything original leaves can form plantlets almost any to write, a fairly frequent dilemma. where on the edge, but orgyalis does so Mrs. Martin Gnadt writes, in January, only at the stem end. Anyone disagree? that she has two Mesembs in bloom, I am anxious for spring to roll a Cephalophyllum alstonii and Trichodia round so that I can carry out my plans uema densum. The latter has bloomed to do a lot of grafting in an effort for me and the former ·I have as a few to speed up growth of some of my seed small seedlings. She als o mentions a lings. I have tried it a couple of very important point: that putting times successfully, have read up on it, your plants outside ov er the summer discussed it with knowledgeable collec will generally set the plants up to tors and witnessed a couple of demon bloom later on . Even if it' s only a strations and I hope that now I am window-ledge , it' s f a r better than properly equipped for the test. Graft keeping the plants indoors. And don' t ing would apply mainly to cacti, but forget to water a nd use fertilizer, there are a f ew succulents where it can as even succulents have to have plenty be helpful , such as in the Euphorbias of nourishment. She mentions she has and sometimes in the Echeverias and Cerotegia sandersonii , which is a similar plants , where grafting a crest trai ing plant of t he Asclepidaceae or onto a normal stock will produce a fine milkweed family that has odd- looking specimen. Till next month , then , so parachute-like flowers. She inquires long. about Ceropegia halfarthii and C. nilo tica, both of whic I have; the former JOIN THE NEW SOCIETY FOR THOSE WHO GROW nas-beautiful flowers and the latter is UNDER LIGHTS . SEED FUND! ROUND ROBINS! small and hasn' t yet bloomed. Mrs. LIBRARY! BULLETIN! Six picture and in Gnadt also mentions that she discovered formation filled issues per year. Reg that rain water is needed by E~thorbia ular Membership - $4. 00 per year. Con obesa seedlings during the firs month tributing Membership - $6 . 00 per year aiter germination, which is very in Add $1.00 to either for joint husband teresting, though I can't account for and wife membership with one copy of it. She describes a Kalanchoe with bulletin to be sent. INDOOR LIGHT GAR leathery bronze leaves and yellow DENING SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC., Mrs. orange flowers, which I would say is K. Robert Washburn, Box 39, Chippewa Lake , or~alis . Mine is now in full bloom, Ohio 44215. an a pretty sight. Mrs . Johnny Bourbois writes, in Janu xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ary, describing a plant that she be AMERICAN PRIMROSE SOCIETY offers lieves is Kleinia (or Senecio) fulgens , Quarterly publications beautiful ly ill and she ' s probably right. The Senecios ustrated, an international seed ex are members of the Composit ae {Compos change of around 600 varieties of rock and alpine plants including 100 diff ite, or daisy family) and some of t h em erent primulas , a nd a cul t ur e chart to are ver y popular with collectors , ex assist in t he growing of species pri cept t ha t most of them grow quite large mula. U.S.A . $3.50 per year. Mrs. Law ~nd you have to keep cutting them back. rence G. Tait, Trea. 14015 8 4t h Ave. N. They are good for beginners, as they E. Bot hell, Wash. 98011 xxxxxxx~xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Ozark Gardens April 1967 -27- ..
treateJ mine once a month all summer FLOWERS'N' TIINGS and they haven't showed up in it- since MARY BOATRIGHT (4 yrs. ago.) I grow all my plants in 724 W.POPLAR 2/3 black peat and 1/3 perlite (buy at lumber yard), add 1 cup cow Manure and HARRISBURG,ILL.62q46 bone meal. For cactus I put 2 inches of limestone gravel in the bottom' of the pot and add some commercial limestone ' to the mixture. They bloom better in this than in any thing I ever used, and no nomatoads. I read that they couldn't live in peat moss or humas. The mould that breaks down the humas also destroy them, which might be a good lesson for us to add more leaves to our outside soil. I have used this soil mix for over 4 yrs. and have never seen a root kr1ot on any plant grown in it, so it mus t work. If you have never seen a Red bird He~lo -~Good-by winter, I cactus in bloom,you are in for a treat. love ~pri~, it is a month of surprises, The little red birds are as perfect as we will have left-over March winds, you will ever see in plant life. They April showers and warm May sunshine, are tiny, about one half inch long and one couldn't ask for more or do we get they all set in a circle facing each it all in any other month. We will other. On a well-grown and old plant likely also have a few days of winter the circle will be 2 in.or more across. cold and summers heat. It may be even The variegated leaf variety blooms much more moody this year, not having the younger for me than the green leaf. honor of Easter. So come with me into April and enjoy its many moods. Several readers wrote me to ask how I WILD 'FLOWERS was getting along in the "huge snow" of Wild Flowers on Grand Mesa, Colorado February, one kind lady was sure my By Gertrude McCormick,Delta,Colo, greenhouse roof would break and ruin all my flowers. We very seldom have over 4 inches of snow, then it only lasts a few days. The big February snow was in the Chicago area, and Harrisburg is 300 long country miles south of Chicago. We have about the same temp erature reading as Paducah, Ky. The Magnola is quite hardy here in Southern Illinois, we have fairly mild winters, but not-so-mild summers. In January OG. I asked if any readers could tell me how to contrgl algea in birdbaths and small pools , one reader wrote me that pieces of copper pipe in the water would take care of it, so I thought I would pass it on so other As I mentioned before,Arizona desert readers might want to try it too. It has much plant growth contrary to the might kill plants,copper sulphate will. image most people have of a desert. A I bought some of it and was quite sur characteristic of many such plants,! prised to see it was nothing more than saw, is the tendency for leaves. to be the old time "blue stone" we used to come thorns or to be covered with a put in wells. I don't re.call what for, wax-like substance, both of which re but it might have been to kill algea, I tard evaporation. Other than the many do rem~mber that it killed the pretty types of cacti, are the Yuccas, the ferns that· grew on the walls of the Acacias,Honey Mesquite, Crested Prick wells. lepoppy,Palo Verde, Ocotillo, the Buf Someone asked in Feb. issue how to falobur nightshade, Creosote Bushes, make red bird cactus (pedilanthus ) and many others. bloom. They must go entirely dormant in Creosote Bushes cover thousands of winter and lose all their leaves. When acres in the southwest. Its adapt mine begins to show color in the top ability to lack of moisture has been buds, I give it plant food and begin to greater than any other desert shrub. water and move to a sunny place. It These bushes may flower most any time hasn't failed to bloom but once in 9 of the year,but in April and May after years,that year it had nematoads, so if spring rains, profuse yellow blossoms yours doesn't bloom, look to see if it cover the three to four foot plant. has root-knots (nematoads). If there is The leaves on Creosote bushes have one in ten miles of it they will surely that waxy look and are capable of find it. A half cup sugar disolved in standing long periods of dry weather. 2 qts. of water will kill them. I After a rain, the bush puts forth an odor of creosote, so the Mexicans nam- Ozark Gardens April 1967 -28 Cont'd on page 32 There are twenty-nine shrubs pictured in the book. Of course this includes the Catawba Rhododendron (R. catawbien se) and the Flame Azalea(~. calendul aceum). I've seen these only in cul tivation. Our second visit to the area was during the Spring Wildflower Pil grimage the last week of April, 1961, much too early for the magnificant dis play of these flowers in our southern mountains. It comes in June. (Readers Dr. H. H. Arnold interested in the annual Wildflower 519 N. Holmes St. Pilgrimage may get information by writ State College,Pa. ing the Chamber of Commerce at Gatlin 16801 burg, Tenn. ) Another shrub that Dr. Baldwi~ point id out to us was Oilnut or Buffalo-nut (Pyrularia p,uber~). (Illustrated on p. 22.) It belongs to the southern moun wildflower lecturer tains but it grows also at Ferncliff I have been writing this in mid-Jan State Park in southwestern Pennsylvan uary. It's pleasant to dream, while ia. toasting one's shins before the open Tree-like specimens of Mountain Lau fire, about a trip to a favorite spot rel (Kalmia latifolia) grow in the in the spring woods or of an excursion Great Smokies. One with a girth of 3 to a national park, or even just to ft., 6 in. at breast height has been think of greeting the earliest spring found . Its height is 25 ft. and its flowers in the rock garden: Hepaticas , spread 45. The American Forestry Ass Snow Trilliums, Colt's-foot, the first ociation lists it as the largest found spears of Solomon's Seal, and the rest. anywhere. It was the discovery of our And so I want to tell about a good book author, Arthur Stupka. For a good many to carry with you on such a trip, and years Dr. Baldwin too has had an active about another book-a recently published interest in the discovery and measure guide to the cultivation of plants in ment of big trees. He has located and the wild garden. reported six other "champions" in the WILDFLOWERS IN COLOR by Arthur Stupka Smokies. They are Ameri can Mountain is,in the words of the dust-jacket,both ash (girth 5i. ft.), Black Haw, Yellow a field guide to identificatio~ and a Birch, Yellow Buckeye, Eastern Hemlock, full-color picture book that portrays and Winterberry. (These are on record the conspicuous flowers and fruits of with the Am. For. Assoc.) more than 250 species of wildflowers, Not all trees have showy flowers. shrubs, vines, and trees common in the Robert Frost writes : "Some giant trees eastern United States. The volume is have blooms so small they might as well of nice size to fit into the pocket or have none at all," Our book shows the into my lady's handbag. (The publisher flowers of 17 species that are worth and price will be noted Below.) It was looking at. The lucky tourist will designed primarily as a tourist's com f i nd in bloom the Mountain Silverbell panion for visitors to the Great Smoky (Halesia carolina monticola) and Fringe Mountains National Park, Shenandoah Tree (Chi~nanthus virginicus). These National Park, and the Blue Ridge Park are often planted as lawn trees. We way, The book has 266 col or Plates, have fine examples on the Penn State each 2i by 4 inches , two to a page, and campus. these represent just 259 species, since vines, -- seven or tne p.Lates portray seven plants have two plates each, one vines. Among these I especi ally value for flowers and one for fruits. The Dutchman's Pipe (Aristolochia durior), seven pictures of fruit are of fine Leather Flower (Clematis viorna), Pas quality. They are especially we lcome . sion Flower( and Crossvine ( Bignonia Flower books rarely have any. Among capreloata.) This l ast was pointed out them are Dogwood, Mountain Ash, Fraserb to us at The Sinks , a noted Waterfall Magnolia, Teaberry, and Strawberry-bush in the Great Smokies Park. ( Euonymus americanus ). This last I Subtracting the 7 vines, the 17 trees Prize more highly than any of the other and the 29 shrubs, we have left in the plates, both because of the excellent book 206 herbaceous· floweri ng plants. photography and because it brings back The photographs for the illustrations memories of our first visit to the were all taken in the three parks I Smokies , in August of 1950. At that mentioned above; but, most of the time we were guests in the cottage of plants have a much wider geographic Dr, S, Glidden Baldwin, who later be distribution, many extending even into came honorary president of the American New England. I have checked out about Nature Study Society. Dr. Baldwin told two dozen that range only to Virginia, us that locally the fruits of the Maryland, and southwestern Pennsylvan Strawberry-bush were called "hearts a ia. This is because the high elevations bustin' with love." I had not seen the of the mountains harbor many p lants bush before, although it does grow that characterize the Canadian Zone of farther north. vegetation, like the Yellow Clintoni a,
Ozark Gardens April 1967 - 29- Cont'd on next pag e Dr. H.H. Arnold, cont'd wife most aimable people, and we wish- for example. The book contains no as all his friends must--that this nice plant not found in the area covered by volume may be brought by every one of Gray's Manual of Botany. the thousands of visitors to the Park. The color slides from which the The Concise Encyclopedia of FAVORITE plates were made come from the official WILD FLOWERS By Marjorie Dietz impress files of the three parks mentioned and es me as one of the mos t practical of from the private collections of twenty several books on wildflower cultivation one named contributors. The photo that have come out in recent years. The graphy is of uniformly high quality. subtitle, "A Hundred Native Plants to Only a very few slide~ were taken at Appreciate in the Wild and Grow in the such a distance that the plate is of Home Garden," hardly does the book jus little aid in identifying the plant. tice, because there are really 241 Conversely some pictures are twice the plan~~ described in the text; that is, size of the flower: Fringed Polygala the hundred that are illustrated with and Wild Ginger, for example. The size nearly full page drawings, and as many of the flower relative to the picture more related species that can be readi is indicated in each case by numbers. ly identified by comparison with these. Another effective way to show size is The descriptions include 11 violets, 10 to find or arrange a background of asters, 9 kinds of Phlox, 8 Trilliums, wood, rock, or dry leaves on the forest 6 Columbines, 5 Irises, 4 Ladyslippers, floor. In the book such a procedure etc. The drawings are about the best I has resulted in a number of magnifi have seen. They are done not just in cent flower portraits: White Clintonia, ~tline but are delicately shaded, and Indian Pipe, Galax, Wild Sarsaparilla, never eo stylized as to be beyond rec Wood amemone, Wood Betony, and others. oginition as in case of some books I This recalls that one of the best of could name. our color slides reaped from the trip Marjorie Dietz is the editor of the to the Smokies in 1950 was of Pink Tur magazine FLOWER GROWER. She lives at tlehead ( Chelone Lyoni ) , which we East Hampton on Long Island. I get the caught in a fine pose before a natural impression that she writes from first rock wall at the side of the road. hand experience gained through observa There is space here for comments on tion in her own wildflower garden, a only a few more flowers. I have never corner of which is shown in color plate been· lucky enough to catch the Wild used as the frontispiece. Here are A Leek or Ramp in bloom. The broad, lily zaleas peering over a log, ferns, eight like leaves appear in wide patches in Moccasin Flowers,. Crested Iris, and early spring and then disappear before Bird's-foot Violets. Besides this col the flowers come in July. The guide at or plate there are twelve pages, amoun the park told us, and the book repeats ting to twenty-five photograghes , in it, the native people in the vicinity black and white. of the Great Smokies gather these A feature that wine my approval as a strong-scented herbs and eat them at an retired teacher of languages is the annual "Ramp Festival", held usually in author's system of noting the pronunci April. This, I understand, is a humer ation of the scientific names. They ous ceremony much in the spirit of the are so terrifying to many and so often annual groundhog watching at -Punxsutaw abused in saying them, but also eo sim ney, Pennsylvania. ple and beautiful when mastered. A plant I hope to acquire is Umbrella WILDFLOWERS IN COLOR by Arthur Stupka leaf (Diphylleia). It grows only in Harper & Row, PUblishers, 49 E. 33rd. the southern Appalachians. There is St. , New York, N.Y. 15.95. only one other species of this genus The Concise EncRclopedia of FAVORITE and that one grows in Japan. I want to WILD FLOWERS by arjorle J. Dietz. ~lant mine in company with Twin-leaf Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden (Jeffersonia) and Blue Cohosh (Caulo City, N.Y. 1965. S4.95. phyllum). Each of these three members of the Barberry Family has only one sister species and the latter are found only in east Asia. The botanist Asa SPRING ELF Gray was one of the first to call at tention to the number of plants common There was an elf abroad last night, to eastern North America and east Asia, Across the fields he flew, plants that are not found at all in He sprinkled magic on the trees, western United Sataes or in Europe. A And swept the skies with blue! good example is our earliest spring The orchard is a gay ball room, flower, Skunk Cabbage. Its range is The trees have donned gay wings; from Quebec to N. Carolina but it goes Each bud a curl of pink and white no farther we st than Minnesota and Io Now hide the dark-brown twigs. wa. Then it crops up again in east A There is soft music in the air ••• sia. Europe has no Hickory Trees (gel The birds are singing high! us Carya ). There are 18 species n A tepid breath sways the tree tops east u.s. and 2 in east Asia. Under the April sky! We were entertained for an evening in Arthur Stupka's home on our first visit Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni to the Smokies. We found him and his
Ozark Gardens April ,.967 -30- THE BOOK GARDEIN Dr. Charles R. Gunn 226 Lastner Lane, Greenbelt, Maryland 20710. AQUATIC PLANTS OF ILLINOIS GUIDE TO THE VASCULAR FLORA G.s. Winterringer and X:c. Lopinot,l966 -- ID' 1fim CAROLINAS- Illinois State Museum A. E. ReaiorQ; H. E. Ahles, and Springfield, Illinois 62701 C. R. Bell, 1964 1 42 pages, Sl.25 The Book Exchange, University of North Carolina Following the generic key which Chapel Hill, North Carolina utilizes superficial characteristics, 383 pages, $3.95 the authors present an illustrated cat alog of the submersed, floating, and A valuable contribution to the flora littoral plants of Illinois. The text of the Southeastern United States has fo~ each species includes a description, been issued by the Chapel Hill Press. a range map, a phenological note, and The generic and speci fic names have references. An illustration always more in common with Gray's Eighth and accompanies the description. Species the New Illustrated Britton and Brown keys are used where needed. A glossary, of the Northeastern United States than references, and indices to common and Small's Southeastern Flora Manual. scientific names complete the bulletin. There are keys to the families,genera A DICTIONARY OF BOTANY and species. The species a nnotations - G. Usher,-r966 consist of phenological notes, habitat Constable and Company Limited notes, and range in Southeastern United 10-12 Orange Street States. No subspecific categories a re London, W.C.2 England treated. 404 pages, $7.00 A companion book for the Guide has just been released. The "Atlas of the This handbook of botanical defini Vascular Flora of the Carolinas" ( T.B. tions, including . terms for the bio 165) contains the distribution maps for chemistry, soil science, and statistics the taxa presented in the Guide. The disciplines, contains about 7,000 en Atlas may be obtained from the Depart tries. Each entry is printed in bold ment of Botany, University of North type for ease in location. The author Carolina. The price is not known. has included definitions of all phyla, classes, orders,and families of plants. This is a valuable reference work with concise definitions. THE BOOK GARDEN will cont. next month Ozark Gardens April 1967 -31- :1 MARGARET DRAKE. ELLIOTT 1513 Nelson St. ed it hedionella which means little 'Muskegon. Mich. 49441 stinker. This plant bel~ngs to the ~~~ Ag- Kaa-Noo-Ma-Ga-Qua Caltrop family,one with which I am un familiar. Ocotillo (oka-teya),another most in teresting plant, grows up to 15 feet It is not necessary to wait for April tall here. In Mexico, near Guanahuato, showers to bring flowers for the early I saw it growing much taller. It has ones even we lcome April to the herb adapted in the way its stems ar~ cov patcb. ered with thorns and the habit ~t has I have explained before how I plant of leafing out after a rain with tiny bulbs in the fall so that there will be oval leaves, then if more moisture is lots of early spring blossoms as soon not forthcoming, drops its leaves and as the snow is off the ground and this goes into a semi-dormant state, This makes pleasant color while the perenn may happen many times a year. When ials are getting their growth and put moisture is sufficient, the plant put ting on their many-shaded green coats, out plume--like clusters of bright red The greens of late spring and summer blooms on the tips of the stems. Ari are enough so that bright blossoms are zonans transplant Ocotillo to their not necessary but during these first artistically clever cacti and desert days of spring the little flowering plant landscapings . A yard like this bulbs are our greatest joy. requires no labor to keep it that way. Already, of course, the little window Palo Verde trees grow along washes, seed box of herbs has its baby seed also,and in April and May put on their lings pushing upward above the box and show. At this time the tree is liter looking for the light. They are still ally covered with yellow blossoms,then too small and tender to transplant but for the rest of the year is almost how we have enjoyed them. This year leafless. The name comes from the I ordered a window seed box already Spanish word paloverde meaning 'green planted with eight different herbs. from stick', because the bark of the tree Brecks. It has been a lark watching and the branches are green. them but the seeds have not done as Honey Mesquite (mess-KEET) trees well as those I have planted myself, grow from 15 to 25 feet tall. They from the packets from my grocer's. You have tassel-like blossoms and bloom know how it is , distant pastures are from April to June. Growing along des always greener and so sending away for ert washes, they are a sight to see, them was "different", but no better The blooms furnish nectar for bees and than previously. The difference in the other insects. In the fall , long swee t germination time of herbs makes such a pods furnish food for some indians, box as I bought a bit difficult because Trunks and branches may be used for while the sage and chives have done firewood, the s a p for making black dye very we ll and are fairly large and and for mending pottery and the inner sturdy some of the others, the slow bark for baskets or clothing. As with germinators, are not up yet. s ome other desert plants , this one The whole project satisfied my cur sends roots down as far as 60 feet. i osi ty and I will be pleased another Mesquite belongs to the Pea Family . season to stick to my own "berry box" The Acacias, also Pea Family, bloom method. I will admit the adventure during May. They sport the thorniest with the Breck window herb box short of branches. Groups of t h is tree pro ened Feb. a great deal for me and any vide protection for birds and small thing that can abbreviate that month animals. Pods which form after blos here in Mich. is a welcome past-time . soms fall may be used for food. The All through Maret the birds have been bloom has a fragrance and attracts in coming f r om the south so that now by sects. Acacias grow from 2500 to 5000 April we have many of our .old friends feet altitude. back with us. Everyday brings surprises The Pricklepoppy grows in many now and it is fun to skip downstairs in places from Texas to Wyoming, Nebrask~ the morning to cat ch a glim~se of the and California. The Crested Prickle "new ones" and to hurry h ome from poppy is white with crinkly-edged pet school to see our late afternoon guest~ als and a crested yellow center where Apri l brings the insect eaters back to the pollen matures. The leaves have us. Many of the flycatchers , some of sharp thorns at the end of each serra the swallows , .a few warblers : (although tion and stems are thorny , too. Cattle May is their month here) , vireos, and stay away from this plant because of we count on April 10~ to bring the the thorns and because of an acrid sap yellow - bellied sapsuckers . We have which is distasteful to them. The friends who do not welcome these wood plant belongs to the Poppy E'amily and peckers because they attack their favo is said to contain a narcotic. rite ornamental trees; magnolias, rowan An inexpensive, paperback book, 100 decorative cherries and birches. They Desert Wildflowers by Natt N. Dodge, leave unsightly girdles on them and we shows these plants in color. have to recommend wrapping their choice trees if they insist on keeping the sap suckers away. The Herb Corner con t ' d or/. page 33 - 32- The Herb Corner cont~'d. find some dried frozen ones in a shaker We so n ot have these lovely ornamen on my grocer's shelf in February and I tals and so we are happy to welcome tried it out. They were next like sapsuckers along with all the rest of fresh ones, and had held their color the feathered hosts that find their very well. I was glad because you re way to our Oasis here in the dunes. member I recommended freezing some at These are days when we have t o keep a harvest time. close watch on the Juliana (cats des Grape hyacinths and tulips are a cended from our Juli) for they too are bright rainbow along the north among "bird~watchers" and their intentions herbs. are not always the same as ours. Again the elecampane has wintered Birds are only some of the welcome through nicely and I really think the visitors that come this month. Friends chamomile and feverfew, my child hood laugh at me, not the true dirt garden friend , Etta, gave me are going to make ing ones, because I get so excited on it. I am so pleased. . the day I see my first garden toad. It The mints are such old standbys, they is an important day for me for from never disappoint me and this year is no earliest childhood I have been partial except ion. There they are pushing their to toads. Frogs are nice but there's scented leaves and square stems about something very s pecial about a wise like so many fingers on an outstretched Buddha toad s itting in one's garden. hand. We have a variety of them and I Somehow I feel a garden wi th a toad am trying to get them out of the south just has to be successful; it's sort of ern wheel and all corraled in another a special blessing. place. It isn't easy for you all know Butterflies are friends of my garden how persistent the mints are! too and I am always on a sharp lookout Remember the comfrey, I wrote about, for them. It's good luck to have a that Mildred gave me ? It was such a butterfly alight on you and well it may success last year and now again it is be for I had a very good harvest the up and looks good. The tansy, costmary, year one alighted on my hand as I woodruff , tarragon, sages germander , reached out to pick a sage blossom in balm, oregano, sorrel and all the rest the St. Francis patch. seem to be tryi ng their very best to The birds and garden animals like the please me. The lavenders do not grow as April showers as well as the plants do fast and sturdy as I would like but I and I enjoy getting out in the herb realize my conditions are not perfectly patch in a mild April rain to poke a to their liking. round and see what's what. I think Violets and the buds on the clove most people miss a · great deal by not pinks promise a mass of beautiful bloom enjoying their garden in the rain and a bit later in the month and from now at night too. How many only know their on you know the story, each month seems garden by daylight and on sunny days! more fun in the herb patch than the one They miss so many of its moods, like just before and each brings its own seeing your friends only when they are surprises and new adventures. partified and have on their "company Remembering that our frost date here manners". is May 15~, you can understand why I Well, all the time I've been seeing have not done my seed planting yet and and telling you about birds, frogs , why many of the baby seedlings from the toads, insects and these things the window box are still inside. perennials have just been growing It is very hard to restrain one's thriftily so that by the end of the self when these spring days are so be month the greens are well turned out guiling but from bitter experience I and there are so many of them it is have learned May 15~ means just that, easy to identify the herb friends just and "haste can really make waste". by their shade of green. Perennials in Apri l and annuals i n Let's take a look around this month. May is a good rule for us and those in I n the north section the santolina our growing belt across the northern (both gray and green) came through the states. You lucky southerners- how we winter very well although a little envy. you sometimes in this gardening scraggly so that it will need shaping; game. The rue is hardier than ever and I find With Easter early this year I hope there are a lot of little rues I didn't yours was a blessed one and that with get out to transplant or give away last the coming of May your s pecial days may fall and they now need attention and a be happy. new home. The hops that an O.G. reading Teas and t i sanes are favorite use friend gave me are choice and I do not for our herbs from the Oasis Herb Gar know yet whether they survived their den. There are so many herbs that can first winter here in the Lake Michigan be used in these for both pleasure and dunes but I have a hunch they did. The good health. Doubtless each one has chives are so satisfactory both in the his own favorite but a display of ours garden and in the kitchen, they never at the Muskegon County Garden Show took disapoint me and they are in the St. first prize when more than a dozen were Francis garden as well as above in the recommended for adding "spice to life". east border and in the wheels. We need The herb miniatures were another a lot of chives for they are favorites attractive feature of the show which tor so many thi ngs. I was pleased to brought herbs to the public • s attention.
Ozark Gardens April 1967 - 33- Shanghai style, or Pekingstyle cooking. •: The flavors and method of cooking is somewhat different in each case. Among the soups (almost as many as Heinz's 57 varieties), the favorites usually are: Chicken legs and wings with mush rooms; bacon and cucumber soup, sour and hot soup. Chicken is prepared in different ways, such as Diced chicken fried with walnuts or with hot pep pers; Shanghai-style beggar's chicken which is cooked in a special way--baked in an envelope of mud! All the good is thus kept inside! Sweet and sour "MEDICINE TO RUIN THE STONACH" pork, and pork fried with green peppers and beef fried in oyster sauce, are Dr. John Bechtel, 121 Waterloo Road almost as popular as baked fish with Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong sweet and sour sauce, and fried bamboo M.B.H.U., Eng., A.M.I.H., India shoots. Roast suckling pig is delic ious, as is chicken livers fried with With apologies to Mrs. Leila Davisson green peppers. I could start my column off this month By now, your mouths must be watering with the heading CHINESE KITCHEN CUP so I'll close with an example of how BOARD, but instead I 1m using the prov one famous Chinese restaurant in Hong ero--of Confucius or some other famous Kong prepares SWEET AND SOUR PORK. I Chinese sage. The ancient waiter said: hope that Mrs. Davisson will forgive me "Sweet delicacies and rich vituals are for encroaching on her territory with medicine that ruin the stomach." Just this recipe 1'from a CHINESE KITCHENS to give you an idea of what the old CUPBOARD. I'll promise to stick to man had in mind , let me quote for you Hong Kong Flora (unless someone wants three suggested Menu cards presented to more Chinese Menu tips!) prospective customers by a Hong Kong INGREDIENTS: Fresh Pork t lb., sugar Restaurant: No . 1: Cold Meat Combination 3 tbsp., vinegar 2 tbsp., salt t tbsp., Shrimp Balls and Broccoli, Shark' s Fins soya bean flour 1 tbsp., green beano with Shredded Chicken Soup, Roasted a little, onion, a little, water 5 tbsp Chicken, Roasted Pidgeons, Double one egg, and tomato juice 2 tosp. Boiled Mushroom Soup, Steamed Fish and COOKING INSTRUCTIONS: Wash the fresh Ham, Fried Rice, Stewed Noodles, Sweet pork and chop into small cubes. Stir Almond Cream Soup, Fancy Cakes. No.2: the meat together with a little bean Assorted Apetizers , Shrimp with Bamboo flour and albumen in a bowl. Mix the Shoots and Chilli, Shark's Fin with sugar, vinegar, salt, bean flour, toma Bird's Nest and Shredded Chicken Soup, to juice, green beans and water in a Stewed Abalone with Duck Gizzards, nother bowl. Put the meat into a pot Steamed Chicken with Clams and Vege . of oil and cook for about three minutes tables, Stuffed Duck with Mashed Chest Pour the oil out of the pot. Put the nuts, Double Boiled Mushroom Soup,Fried mixture into the pot and cook together Prawn on Toast with Ham, Fried Rice, with the meat until tender. Stewed Noodles, Sweet Almond Cream Soup (Incidentally, we have never tried and Fancy Cakes. No . 3: Vegetable Ape this recipe. We always go to a res tizers , Shrimp Saute, Shark's Fin with taurant. However, the adventurous cook Sherred Chicken Soup, Braised Abalone may want to try it. If you do, let me with Green Vegetables, Roasted Chicken, know how it ·turns out! I HOPE IT DON'T Baked Pigeon with Port Wine, Double RUIN YOUR STOMACH!) Boiled Turtle and Chicken Feet Soup, Now, of course, in order that you may Steamed Fresh Water Fish, Fried Rice, get the proper taste and atmosphere for Stewed Noodles, Sweet Almond Cream Soup a Chinese meal, you will have to eat with Lotusnuts , Fancy Cakes. with a rice bowl and chopsticks. Here (Note: YOU will notice Bird's Nest is a diagram of how to use chopsticks. Soup listed on Menu No. 2, Perhaps it will interest you to know that there is a certain type of bird that cement their nest together with siliva-hence, it should read "Bird 1 s Spit Soup!" Be lieve it or not, it's good!) We ll, even a quick glance at these suggested Menu lists will help you to appreciate what the ancient Chinese sage had in mind when he said "Sweet delicacies and rich vituals are medi- cinesIf you that prefer ruin tothe choosestomach." your own Men- 1SUBSCRIBE TO "CHATTER'' - African Viole ~ u, there are at least three different magazine of African Violet Society o types or style of cooking served in Canada. 6 issues per year a2.00. Samp different restaurants in Hongkong. You le copy 25¢. Please send to: MRS . LIL may have Cantonese or Southern style , IAN CARTLEDGE , Box 58-0G, Chippawa,Ont. ,Canada. O~~rk Gardens April 1967 - 34- .f
BY-Mrs. Leila Davisson 9779 Ste. ,Rt. 4 , Mechanicsburg,Ohio 43044 TRIPLE SEED CAKE I found this recipe for Sesame seed Sift together 3 cups f~our, 2i tsp. Cake in a newspaper several years ago. baking powder, 3/4 tsp. nutmeg, 1 tsp. I was first attracted to it because it salt, In another bowl blend together was•a part of a letter written by a man 2/3 cup shortening, 3 c sugar, creum who was complaining because more cooks ing well. Add 4 unbeaten eggs, one at did not use Sesame seeds. I have used a time. Beat for one minute after each it many times and it is very delicious. addi tion. Blend in 2 tbsp. grated Here is the recipe, just as he gave it. orange rind and 1 tbsp. lemon rind . Mix well. Measure 1 cup milk and add a c s ugar 2/3 c, plus 1 alternately with t he flour mixture, 3 eggs, beaten tbsp. of short beating about 1 minute afteJ' each add 2t c flour ening ition. Grease tube pan well and flour 2t tsp. baking 4 tsp. toaste<;l in bottom only. Spread t of batter in powder sesame seeds pan, sprinkYe 1 tbsp. anise seed over t tsp. each of mace I tsp. salt batter, add another layer of batt er and and nutmeg .., tsp. soda sprinkle 1 tbsp, poppy seed, add anoth 2/3 c rich milk er layer of batter, sprinkle 1 tbsp. caraway seed and add last layer of bgt Cream sugar and shortening. Mix in ter. Bake in moderate oven (350 deg.) beaten eggs and sesame seeds. Mix for 75 to 80 minutes. Let cool in pan flour with spices, risings and salt. for 15 minutes before turning out. Add flour alternatly with milk to the Frost while slightly warm with fruit creamed mixture and mix well after each glaze. 2 tbsp. orange juice, 1 tsp. addition. When altogether, beat vigor lemon juice and 1t c confectioners sug ously while you sing three stanzas of ar. Blend well. Clementine. (about 5 min. ) Pour into two greased and floured 8 inch pans. Chicken Livers with Poppy Seeds Bake at 350 deg. about 50 minutes or 4 medium onions 1 small clove of until done when tested, Let cool in 6 tbsp. butter p:arlic pan for about 10 minutes. Turn out 1i tsp. marjoram 3 tbsp. flour and let cool on rack before icing with 1 lb. chicken livers i tsp. pepper a rich chocolate icing. (I add about 4 1 tbsp. poppy seeds 1 tsp. paprika tsp. toasted sesame seeds to this icing salt 2/3 c broth for a richer taste teaser.) Saute the onions in half the butter for Caraway Ring Cake 10 minutes. Add 1 tsp. marjoram and t tsp. salt. Stir well and cover to keep Into a large bowl put the fol'lm~ing in warm. Wipe the livers with a damp gredients. cloth and leave them whole.Bruise the 2 c flour poppy seeds. Heat remaining butter in 2 tsp. baking powder second skillet, add the livers, poppy 2 tsp. cinnamon seeds , garlic and r emaining marjoram. Mix well. Stir well and cook at big heat, stir ring often. Sift in the flour, salt, Into another bowl , cream 1 cup butter pepper and paprika. Lift out the liv or margarine , add gradually 1i cups ers and place on top of onions in other sugar and 3 tsp. caraway seed, Beat 5 skillet. To the skillet in which t he egg yolks until thick and lemon col livers have been cooked , add t~e broth ored. Add to creamed mixture and mix and heat to boiling, stirring to loosen we ll. Measure 1/3 cup milk . Add al and blend the brown from the bottom of ternately with dry ingredients to the the skillet. Pour over the liver and creamed mixture , beginning and ending onions, cover the skillet and cook for with dry ingredients. Blend thoroughly 30 minutes. Do not stir. Serves 4. after each additing (with electric mix er at low speed) Beat the 5 egg whites until stiff peaks form and fold gently into batter. Turn into a 9 inch tube pan that has been we ll greased and Drop a few mint flakes or a pinch of floured only in the bottom. Bake at savory into peas while cooking. 375 deg. 45 to 50 minutes. Cool and frost with a cinnamon glaze made as follows. Sift 2 cups confectioner's Next time you mash potat oes sprinkle a sugar and 1 tsp. cinnamon. Add 4 or 5 little fresh dill seed as you ~ash or tbsp. of hot cream. Blend unti l of add a few sprigs of rosemary whiJe spreading consistency . cooking.
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New Catalog 50¢ seeds, mixed sPeds; each plants, cones, moss, etc. Sample seeds. AL &: SON 25¢ large spoonful plus $2 .00 Fully illustrated. COMPANY, Box 2256, Cleve stamp, MRS . V. FAGAN , 119 THE WILDCRAFTER, B-7-G, land, Ohio 44109. Albany Ave., Amityville , Looneyville, W. Va . 25259 MAIL BOX SEEDS -Shirley LI. , N.Y. 11701 Morgan, 2042 Encinal Ave LUND ' S BOOKS, Monroeville Alameda, Calif. Rare SEED-Beautiful Tree Morn ing-Glory,50 Seeds $1.00 Ohio 44847 World's lowest seeds . Begonias, Gesne ppd. Claud Essary Box 606 book prices. Book list riads , Ferns,, He rbs , Hollis, Okla. 73550 free ; How to Live Healthy Shrubs , Peppers, Trees, 100 Year s and gift book, Bible Plants, Seed Fold- SEEDS- Ornamental pepper 10 five cent postage ers, Booklets . Send two seeds; Jerusalem Cherry stamps . 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Noble ever Pan' each $1,00: collect: Claretha Walker, green tree well tiered Amazon lilies ( Eucharis) R.2, Box 940, Lake Placid, branches c overed with grandiflora Sl.OO;bouchei Fla. 33852 soft bright green needles. $2.00; Foliage lily Gets 2- 5 ft. 12 in. tree (Scilla violacea) 50¢ · JUMBO ELEPHANT Garlic $2.75; Bird-of - Paradise. Ifafa lilies (Cyrtanthus~ your starts 3 large 5 Compact, trunkless leath Cream, Saffron, Yellow, small $1 . 00 Len Mirzwick, ery leaves. Blooms orange White each 25¢ ; Canary 3 15 Piper St. Healdsburg, red edged, blue tongue. yellow, Mandarin Red,Mars Calif. $1,75 ppd. SULEN'S NUR Orange, Nasturtium Red, PERENNIALS many rare: SERY, R,1, Leesburg, Fla. Orpiment,Tangerine QFang~ shrubs-vines-trees- named 32748 Vermilion, each 35¢. Jas Dahlias-10 for $2,00 ppd. per Red 75¢; Fire Red Sl. List with order. PROGRESS 15 yr. 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All $1.00 Packet of Stamp for list of house ROCKERY PLANTS Sandwich white· onion seed plants, 500 vari eties. SEI>TPERVIVUM collection: 10 seed of red Birdlover Begonias, episcias , Afri colorful collection of Sunflower seed. All 50¢ can Violets , succulents Hen & Chi cks, 10 vari e LEN MIRZWICK, 315 Piper and cactus , miscellaneous ties, labeled, for $3,00 St., Healdsburg, Calif. MARY WALTON, 3 11 So. Cen MRS. JERRY COULTAS, R, l , Buchanan, Mi ch. 49107 FOR Sale:Live Herb plants ter, West Memphis, Ark, of all kinds $2,00 dozen 72301 SEDUMS: Large listing of ppd, Order direct from Send stamp for large list. 46 varieties of hardy this ad , just name the of House Plants and cutt Sedum available, Stamped plants w~nted: Botanic ings . ~mry Boatright, 724 envelope please. MRS . Gardens, Prairie Point, w. Poplar, Harrisburg,I l ~ JERRY COULTAS , R.1, Buch Miss. 39353 62946 anan , Mich. 49 107 ------~------+ THE CLASSIFIED MARKET PLACE LOADED with VALUES! MISCELLANEOUS MISCELLANEOUS MISCELLANEOUS . PHOTOGRAPHS restored, In- OLDTIME SOURDOUGH BREAD w~~~~~ED : Amo::phopha~lus) 1formation , prices 25¢ IRECIPE, salt rising bread r1v1ere (Ind1a_ L~ly coin and 2 5¢ stamps, everlasting yeast bread, bulb , huge bloom1ng s 1ze. credit first order. OGP all $1. 00 Sourdough star FRANK J . BALl! 215 Des- ~ · ~TCRAFT , Box 545 , Atlan- ter mix , packed in earth- demona Ave ., P1ttsburgh, tic Beach Fla. 32003 . enware ~storage jar with Pa. 152 17 . Also need var- ' instructions and recipes, iegated leaved Clivia, FLORIDA homes or acreage. $2 . 50 ppd , 6 for $12.00 Dolls , doll clot hes Deal direct with indi vid~ THE WILDCRAFTER, B-7-G, greatly reduced, s tamp ual owners. List and in- Looneyville , W. Va . 252~9 for list . Childrens pa;rty , formation, 50¢, OGP ABIE, favors 15 for 25¢ and f Box 545, Atlantic Beach, FOLLO\'IING LISTS 10¢ each: stamp . Tuck- ins , t able 1 Fla. 32003 House and Garden plants; novelties , pin kits , 12 House and Hardy Ferns; GIFTS: Hand crocheted Begonias ; Native Plants; for '\ 50¢ and stamp. Fancy bottle covers, all sizes . color slides of Native a pr ons ~1 .0 0 ; pot holders Small size, stuffed , make 5 f'rjr $1 . 00 ; garden apron flowers , over 100 avail nice gifts for small able . Mrs . Eugene Polsfuss, $ 1,00; Fancy pants pin children, All colors . holders 5 for $1 , 00 ; pot 223 Cordele Ave, Macon, S3.00 large size, $2.00 Ga . 31201 holders 50¢ each; baby small size. Write Mrs. NATURE comes to life in booties 7 ~ ¢ pair; c~o Jennie E. Foster, 111 W, cheted: MlS . V. FAGAN , 119. Iowa Street, Chesapeake, original oil paintings, Albany Av e ., Amityvil le , Va, 23706 Unframed,16-20 $ 10 ,00 and L. I ., N.Y. 11701 up; or orders taken from- your description or photo World ' s best , guaran teed FREE! HARD TIMES NUTRI- of landscapes, still-life health , beauty secrets is TION SECRET. 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Box 68, Cologne, stored , 3X4" Miniatures used, refill and start ov N. J. 08213 f1asterpiece Works of Art. er again. One testimonial: SPECIAL: Barbie Pajamas, Made from any size Photo. I have been using your Pretty colors : 15¢ a nd Handcolored in Heavy Liv catalysts on my shrubs and stamped addressed enve ing Color Oils, by brush flowers and feel they are lope . MRS . V. FAGAN, for fine details,set into doing a lot of good. My 119 Albany Ave., Amity 14K Oval Metal Frame with roses are thriving and I ville , Long Isl and 11701 g lass.Give color of eyes , have never had many blos hair etc. Price $5.25 soms on my hibiscus, the RAINBOW MAGIC Floral Dyes postpaid : H. Watson, 315 plants are all dark green in 8 colors, Red, Blue, Harpersville Road,Newport and healthy looking. I am Green, Yellow , Pink , News, Va. 23601 very much pleased. Unquote Orchid, Orange , Violet , Try making coffee or tea Change the colors of ~our SEAL your letters with with the cell water , even Flowers to your taste.50¢ Dear letter stickers , in ice cubes. Wonderful for · f er pkt., make s one quart neat container,makes nice washing all vegetables be plus self addressed en gift , 35¢ ,stamps accepted fore ~~acin~ in refrigera vel oue for each one to 3 Mrs, P. Bates, 821 s. tor. $1 , 00 each or 3 fQr pkts: Louis J. Helwig, Jefferson, Farmington,Mo, 12. 50 . HILARY M. DOREY , 12 R. 1 , Chillicothe , Ohio 63640 . Arnold Ave., Dept.Z, New 45601 port , R.I. 02840 BARGAIN CO LUMN BARGAIN COLUMN BARGAIN COLUMN PERENNIALS: 35¢ each: SEEDS. 25¢ pkg. stamped BARGAIN RATES - FIRST 25 Silver Mound; Blue Fescue envelope. 6 pkg. $1,10 WORDS 50¢. Each word over Grass; Cerastium tomenta Arctotis, Candlebush, 25- 4¢ each. Bargain Col sum; Polygomum Reynoutria Roselle, Pittosporum, umn is not classified.: Plumbago; Monarda (red, Powderpuff, Thryallis, pink, lavender); thyme Poinciana. MRS. E. SANT L00K!50¢ each-7 for $3.00 ( 1emon, wooly, lavender, MYER, 1315 s. Charlotte Postage $1.00: Steer-Hom serphyllum); Veronicas Ave., Sarasota, Fla.33580 Tree(Plumbago(Pink,White, (pink spices, Pavanne, GLORIOSA Lily Tubers: 2 BlueJ; Giant Kalanchoe, Elegans white, Elegans for $1.00. Fairy Lilies, Blue Passion Vine; Scar Pink, Minuet, Crater Lk. Salmon Amaryllis Mont- let Wisteria; Red Yucca; and Incanna); Include 35¢ bretia Bulbs. 6 for $1,00 Eurphorbia Rubra; Jacob toward postage and pack MRS. E. SANTMYER, 1315 S. inia ( Pink, Yellow, Or ing please. MRS. JERRY Charlotte Ave., Sarasota, ange); Needle-Point and COULTAS, R.1, Buchanan, FJa. 33580 German Ivy; Chicken Gizz Mich. 49107 ard; Perennial Petunia; G. CUPP, 355 Mars, Rt.1, Daisies (Pink, Yellow,Po Nipomo, Calif. 93444. 18 PERENNIALS: 50¢ each: cutting s-$1.40 match or laris); Clove Pinks; Red Silver Beauty Ajuga; Pink Cryptobergia; Pickle, Wa mixed-Zonal, Lady Wash Spires Ajuga; Blue Sap ington, see ted, fancy ffle, Velvet and Polka- phire Veronica; Echinops; Dot plants: Myers Plant Geranium, Pheasant's Dbl. Arabia; Canadian Red Foot: Roses, Rock-ros e , Co., 302 Erie, Cleburn~, Rhubarb; Nepta Mussini, Texas 76031 Pansy-bush, Will trade Silver leaved thyme; $10.00 worth of newer ITALIAN MIXED Spices for George Graves thyme. 35¢ tall bearded Irises for spaghetti sauce. 8 bags towards postage please. one full book of S&H f or $1. 18 bags for $2. MRS. JERRY COULTAS, R.1, Green Stamns or hand work Recipes included. Post Buchanan, Mich. 49107 List for stamp. paid. D. MUMPHREY, 17336 SWAP:Have large Gladiolus Kni ffen St., Elsinore, bulbs, will trade for old SEEDS: Pink Oleander,pap Cal1f. 92330 aya, Pomegrana~e, Guava, fancy glass dishes or old cotton,Luffa Gourd, orna Jewelery, write first.Mrs DAHLIAS: Rose glory,Gov- Harold Lempher, Young mental peppers, China ernor, Elders Red, Ogden America, Minn. 55397 berry. 25¢ pkg. 5¢ post Read, Silver Wedding, 1- age, Sophia Parsons, 1425 Polar Bear, Mary Eliza- SEED; 1 Tbs. Mixed annual 18th Ave. East,Bradenton, beth, Rozena, 25¢ each or perennial flower seed na. 33505 plus postage. LOUISE or perennial and annual · PRENCESS feathers. Won DERRICK, RT.1, Box 85, seed mixed: 25¢ plus sta derful red with velveL Epps, La. 71237 mped envelope: Mrs. T. touch, filled with seed. TREELETS, shrubs, plants, Owczarcz~,74 Peoria Ave. You will like this flower bulbs. Also SWEET- GUM Buffalo, N.Y. 14206 pkt. 50¢. Free Oddity balls and other dry ar Seeds brochure with or rangement materials. Send SPECIAL: Barbie pajamas der. ODDITY SEEDS, R. H. stamp for lists. MORANDA pretty colors, 15¢ plus FARMER, Tyner, Ky. 4048~ WILLIAMS, R.3, Box 781, stamped envelope: Mrs. v. 6 Plants $1.00 Postpaid Benton, Ark. 72015 Fagan, 119 Albany Ave., Anemone Pulsatilla, Marsh Amityville,L.I.,N.Y.ll701 Marigold, Blueberry,Ruck FOR SALE: Orange colored leberry, Hazelnut Pie Daylilies singles and dbl Marcella Cameron, 1028 Cherry, Plum, Raspterry, 50 for $2.00; Mixed Iris Truro Ave. Inglewood,Cal. Blackberry. Bittersweet, 50 for $2.00; 5 different 90301-Send 50¢ for organ Wild Grape; D. Weigand, Jonquils-10 of each for ic soil formula. Great R. 3, Wautoma, Wise . 54982 S2.00; Red spider lilies for orchid cactus,potted 50 for $2.00; Rooted ctgs plants. Free Epiphyllum, SALE on Bougainvilleas, purple wisteria vine 40¢ seeds with stamped envel. Hibiscus, Oleanders, many each; All orders_are plus other unusual pot plants. postage: Lyda Wh~te, R.3, WANTED: Hops seed or Many plants t price, Send Millport, Ala. 35576 vine; recipe for yeast stamped envelope for list cakes; Everlasting bread LOYCE'S FLOWERS, Rt. 2, CAPEK DAHLIA GARDENS, Le starter: HARRY BUCKLEY, Granbury, Tex. 76048 mont, Ill. 60439. State P.O. Box 35, Westervelt, SEEDS, edible podded inspected Dahlia roots. Ill. 62574 peas; pomegranate; corn Old and new varieties. SEED: 25¢ pkg. plua stamp beads, strawberry pop Stamp for list; or 3 for Red Yucca, Scarlet Wis- corn, red sunflowers, pkt 11.00 ppd, - all different, teria, Red Okra,-- Thry- 30¢ 5 for $1.00: WADE __la~b_e_l_e_d~·------l allis glauca, Texas Blue BIRCHFIELD, 309 Montreat Bonnets, ,Farkinsonia, Po Rd,, Black Mountain, N.C DECORATED stationery 28711 flowery or mixed designs inciana,Red castor beans, in a variety of materials Giant club gourds, Double FOR sale, dipper gourds 15 for $1.00 ppd. (sheets yellow or purple Datura, treeted and varnished,50¢ and envelopes) HELEN Mixed Giant nardy Hibis- each; small mixed orna RICKETTS, 4809 Fisher, cue, Steer Horn Tree:-- mentals 10¢ each plus ,Howell, Mich. 48843 Myers Plant Co. 302 Erie, postage:Mrs.John Holleman Cleburne, Texas 76031 Boles Rt,,Parks,Ark,729~0 ~~--~~------.___ __ BULK RATE Ozark Gardens Return Postage Guaranteed U.S. POST AGE PAID R. D. 1, BOX 2'Zl Mary ' a Gardens 5/67 Fairview, Pa. Permit No. 11 FAIRV I EW, PA. 16415 124 W. Chestnut Hill·Ave . Philadelphia,Penna.l9118
Mum trair.ed on umbre 1l&. fr-ame. Takes abou• four D..Lants of the tall growing variei,_ • This one is a golden - yellow Photo cred1t and 5row by Mary Boatright, 72. w. Poplar St . Harrisburg, Ill.
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