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OAKLAND TRIBUNE, SUNDAY, APRIL 13, 1941 Easter Lilies Require Little Attend May Be Cultivated Successfully by Amateurs TALKING ABOUT ORCHID FOR GARDEN SHOW 8-S mm Plants Desire Partial Shade And Drainage MM 1 By R. A. LANGLEY Since earliest history, in every land, flowers have been associated with the most important events in i man's life. Naturally, then, they have been the symbols of religion And not strangely, they have been til symbolic with those who profess no i religion whatever; thus flowers' universal importance is conclu sively proven. This is the Easter season, and among those of the Christian' faith, the most significant timef all then i Will year.

In this country, the flower of Easter is lillum longif lorum, var, giganteum the "Easter lily." It is the most Important and popular flower in the great lily family, and millions of them are propagated annually, for the American call. (Lilies are not the flower of Easter in Palestine, for one example. There, 'JTZZn, "1 1 I I i 4 1 r1 111 4j fegf I I I I SY" 'wJ fas-'' i "eSJ A i jC it is the custom of Christians to go into the countryside and pick wild' flowers, and the Easter lily is not i among them). Four other varieties of longiflorum are also used as Easter lilies: the species, the For mosa type, Harrisii, and multi Values of an orchid display at the California Spring Garden Show are being discussed by riorum. ORIGINATED IN CHINA Howard E.

Gilkey, Mrs. N. Austin Cary and Dr. N. Austin: Cary.

Gilkey, landscape architect of the show, has announced that the section devoted to orchids will be one of the best and most extensive Cary grows Orchids in his garden at Orindaj and is -executive secretary of the California Orchid Society. AU.ol.theni arenatlvam China, were early taken to Japan, Perhaps the very -lilies you bought in pots this year were propagated in Japan or Formosa. As the demand for them grew in America, an Industry sprang up in Bermuda to supply it. After a time, bacterial disease nearly Treatment of wiped out the business, and the Japanese, who had not been un aware of the Bermuda trade, quickly Windows Gives NOTABLE DISPLAY OF ORCHIDS PROMISED AT SPRING GARDEN SHOW assumed the major share of it. Ever Mi: i .11 uitB, Jiiuuuni ui puios aavo oeen grown there annually.

Room Charm However, lilies everywhere are quits susceptible to this disease, and the Japanese have had considerable Orchids as rare and priceless and Ry DUDLEY WILLIAMS Interior Decorator, Berman's trouble in shipping clean stock. Now bulbs are grown in the United States, and as world conditions make tect-designer of 10 of the California Spring Garden Shows, has created for the 1941 show a tropical scene of umiKlifll hlitv for thf his nrrhid abundant as seen in former garden shows will be presented in a new A study of the photograph at the cargo space almost prohibitive, left below will demonstrate, as the and beautiful setting of tropical -I -X American growers have an advantage. The bulbs are much cleaner, and plantings are on the increase, as romanticism at the 12th annual Call' Chinese say, "better than 10 thou display. He will utilize manv hoi- fornia Spring Garden Show, sched sand words" just how vitally im with all other bulbous plants. uled to open at the Oakland Expo Tha patio at th horn of Mr; and Mrs.

G. E. Crary, 7 Diaa Dorqdoi, Orlnda, neat and appointed for comfort. Eve arecn shrubs In the border, potted plants and hanaincj baskets, variegated ivy and a well kept lawn fill the eye. even In the Winter season.

The advantages of the brick paved area are commended for many patios. Skipper, the Collie, has lust walked Into the picture and eyes the door that connects the patio with the living room. portant a characteristic window sition building April 30 for five days. Don't let the case history of Easter lilies stop you from planting them, because amateurs have had a better treatment can be. Overhanging logs, extending over dark and secret pools and sur This beautiful modern room, in record with them as a garden flower.

rounded by masses of fern, lowed tree stumps and logs to house the living orchid plants which will be shown by including outstanding growers of this spectacular flower, including Dr. W. Austin Cary of Orlnda, it is announced. Entrance to the tropical scene where the orchids will be seen, will be through grotto-like passages on either side of the magnificent "Rainbow Falls," one of the major effects) Naturally a wild flower, or one Mint and other tropical material, will be needs little care, they make a beau the setting for the orchid display, Art Required tlful addition to Bay area gardens. said O.

Homer Bryan, one. of the directors of the show. mis might appeal to lazy or busy the home of Mr. and J. Flagg, 4397-' Detroit Avenue, Oakland, features crown-tested Cela-nese curtains in a raw silk effect, color natural beige.

The rug is one of the newest "carved' 'or embossed types in beige to harmonize with the curtains, For vivid contrast we have the Nine years ago, when the garden gardeners once planted correctly in (the right location, they can al To Get Lawn in "Rainbow Forest," theme of the forthcoming show. show was presented for the third successive year, a small orchid exhibit was displayed against ancient logs and tree stumps, providing a realistic illusion of the way these Sponsors of the garden show will Back in Shape most be forgotten until the pure beauty of their blooms demands attention. ACID SOIL REQUIRED As to the planting, several requirements must be observed. Like most bulbous flowers, Easter lilies chairs at either side of the fireplace in a pleasing garnet. The wing- preview the horticultural exhibition on the night of April 29, with many notable visitors present and people plants grow in their native state.

Recalling the attractive setting, type chair in the foreground Is in Getting the lawn back into shape Howard E. Gilkey, landscape-archl blue and white chartreuse. after Winter's siege is on of the A special feature of this room is most important of all Spring jobs. of prominence from all parts of the State in attendance. Public attendance starts the following morning and continues throughout the day and night tor five days.

the treatment of the ceiling and demand an add soil. They will not tolerate a lime soil, nor do they want a pH above 6.8. Drainage is important. A clay soil Fortunately it is one of the first walls! Rice cloth is used to splen 13 that can be done, so there is no ex Marigolds Win which allows water to remain about cuse for not attending to It before the rush of other Spring work Comes did effect, while the ceiling gives a wood-grain marquetry effect, which is continued in the section of the in tfl 1 along. Three Awards Recent experiments in lawn feed' the bulb will soon produce rotted piants.

Well-rotted manure worked deep Into the ground, with sand, if it seems needed, will be a good pre Chapter of Fuchsia Society Will Meet The Berkeley-Richmond of the American Fuchsia ing have demonstrated that the application of a complete balanced chapter caution in most gardens. Since well Marigolds, all American flowers, (I' wall over the fireplace. Note the five floral engraving pictures above the mantel. They lend a most modern motif, which is softened by the floral subject of the pictures themselves. The occasional furniture and Society I' plant food is more effective if made in March or very early April than won three All-America awards for rotted manure is not always available in cities, commercial peat moss win prove a very good substitute, when it is delayed until later.

HUNGRY ROOTS will hold its first Berkeley meeting at 7:30 Monday evening, April 14, at the Alta Studio, 2625 Telegraph Avenue. All fuchsia lovers are invited. Visitors will be welcome. The 1941, In the careful tests which are held each year to determine the best new flower produced by the lamps, the former of regency feel Manure must be rotted, as the fresh will attract ground pests which would otherwise never bother the Except on slopes where it might be washed away by heavy rains- ing, add pleasing relief from the hundreds of patient workers through main topic of discussion will be "tha new fuchsias." such a Spring top dressing can be bulbs, When advised to work the ma geometrical lines 'upon which the room is based. The lamp shades were custom designed.

Finally, the applied at any time now. The hun out the world who are trying to make life more beautiful, marigold terlal deeply into the soil, remem- gry grass roots, after their Winter red-brick fireplace gives the room long rest, need immediately avail White Thyme Der mat the bulbs should be planted with the tops of the-bulbs three Spry won a silver medal, marigold Goldsmith a bronze, and marigold a warm "heart." White thyme is sprinkled able plant foods to support the almost incredibly rapid top growth of times as deep as the widest dia. Scarlet Glow honorable mention. meter. Thus a small two-Inch bulb should be planted in a hole at least In the last ten years 'remarkable improvement has been achieved by Day to Witness the first warm days.

1 On did turf, where 'the soil be with pure white flowers like a powdering of light snow and is desirably close-clinging when it runs over rocks or among graveL eight inches deep, and a three-Inch tween the grass plants has become hard and compact, it is advisable this flower family, whicn by the way Shakespeare did not know. His Close of Two bulb in a bole a foot deep. NEIGHBORLY PROTECTION Teucrium chamaedrys is a fine "marvgold" was not our marigold to go over the area, either before or little plant, with small, close-set just after the plant food is applied, Notable Shows it was the which, is still called "pot marigold." Our marigold is native in Mexico, and Vas not introduced In Europe until after Shak and loosen up the soil. SPECIAL IMPROVEMENT Since these plants like semi-shade, they are well placed under trees, and do well on slopes where adequate drainage is assured. Easter leaves and a frosting of light lavender flowers.

There are many sages and they have won their way in gardens, without any reference "to It- 4i This room In the home of Mr. and Detroit Avenue, Oakland, is worthy, for the, effective' treatment of the walls and ceiling. Ride cloth Is employed, and wood grain marquetry pattern Is applied to the ceiling and to that part of the wall over the fireplace. The occasional furniture and lamps and the red brick fireplace give the room an atmosphere that Is In good taste and genial. On small areas this can ba done Today is the last chance to see espeare's day.

But for centuries It lilies are seated so deeply that other theif scent and flavoring qualities. with an ordinary digging fork, by two shows which are every' year stood still, with small Improvement, flowers can be planted around them becoming more popular. For many until suddenly breeders began to jabbing the tines into the soil and moving them slightly back-and-forth. A special tool, known as a on higher levels. In fact lilies apparently like to be crowded.

If Blue Sage get "breaks" as they term them. years the bulb show at Niles has attracted thousands during the six Spring weeks when most bulbs are Why do some flower families lm The blue sages, such as salvia pat turf smke. is made lor this numose. cinerarias, cyclamen columbine, ferns, perennial phlox, or similar flowers are planted nearby, all can ens and s. farinacea, the fiery scarlet prove so fast, and some apparently refuse to respond to plant breeders' MIMULUS SUITS ROCK GARDEN AND at their best In the Bay area.

One type of this tool has a flat reversible Iron base, with sharp spikes saee of gardens and the tall s. Today is also the last day for the efforts. That is a secret yet to be second annual Treasure Garden discovered. sclarea or Clary sage, with Its rose tipped bracts and lavender flowers, are all notable garden plants and on one side and a flat surface on the other, so that it may be used both for spiking and for tamping Show at 560 South First Street in But, pending that discovery, gat- RED; FLAX ADAPTED TO DRY SOIL San Jose. Although Treasure Gar live harmoniously.

As Easter lilies are white, they will not make a color clash. They seem to take strength from their neighbors and need less staking, are more protected. In making a garden plan, consider, the Easter lily as a good fill-in be deners may well be grateful for the breaks which have given such at the common kitchen garden sage. Is handsome when it is a well grown dens is comparatively young, it has uneven humps, or "sod lifted by Winter frosts, back into place. Holes tractive new forms to a flower which Minaulus is a perfect rock garden clipped and cultivated.

t' made by the spikes both permit the attracted much attention and comment, particularly as the theme is shade, but succeeds almost anywhere else. It is an unusually fine plant foods to find ready entry Into responds so gratefully to a little garden care. plants 3f ellowjlLjed orwhite, moschautus is actually a perennial, modern. subject for the background mass the soil and serve to admit air, close bunches of violas, but the color--rangeila much greater.They dislike hot, dry weather, but by sowing under glass for early bloom, or by north and east of Leslie Kller, president of the but Is often treated as an annual. The height depends upon the fer Spry, the silver medal" winner "is miniature form of the dwarf tween shrubs, or with a background of rhododendrons or magnolias of the bushy sort Camellias and Easter tility of the sou.

which is quite as important for the developing roots as the plant food Itself. American Society of Landscape Architects, took over the design of The anndal Species are dwarf and quaintly colored, sometimes trailing double variety Harmony. Growing in. compact 9-inch bushes, produc- the large conservatory and turned over rocks very attractively. Soil Acidity inf flower with a golden center, lilies make a good combination, keeping the location Interesting for a longer period of bloom.

While the camellias are in bloom, the Easter On the other hand, dry soil calls out a streamlined creation, carma White, who designed the central taller annuals and sprinkling fre quently in Summer, they can usu ally be brought through success' Treasure Island GARDEN LOAM For Lawns and Flower Beds Light, rich, and easily worked loam which was especially bought for the Exposition. Soils may be known by what bordered by maroon, it makes an grows in them. Where ferns, fox theme, likewise went "modern." Her ideal plant for ribbon for Red Flax (Linum rubrum) and torCnia (wishbone-flower) although the latter prefers a little shade too. Giant mangolds are now ootam' fully. They are related to diascia lily is growing, not detracting from the camellias' claim for your eye.

gloves, firs and oak trees the ground is more or less acid. Where creation represents a flower arrangement on the grand scale. Pruning of Buddleias Increases Flowering Buddleias bloom on new wood, and If cut back heavily in Spring or Winter, will produce good tall shoots that will bloom in mid-Summer. It not trimmed back, they will be ahle in carnation and chrysanthe or twin-spur, whose culture is some Flax has terminal blooms on stems Then from June to August the Eas, clover, alfalfa, maples, and birch what easier. The uses of the two Trees and shrubs are used in place of single blooms.

ter lily will bloom against the glossy trees are found, the soil will be neu tral to alkaline. are the same: Pots, boxes, baskets. background of its neighbor, and at The show more horticultural about i a-' toot tall, and should 1 be combined, with other flowers in full sun. Torenla Is used in the South in place of pansies. its color run mum flowering types.

Best of the chrysanthemum types is the silver medal winner Goldsmith, which bears globular flowers with incurved petals, borne on long base branching stems three feet tall. open border, bedding and ribbon ways gaining by the protection from planting. leggy and sprawling. They are so easy to grow here, that people Liquid Fertilizer Wind. Easter lilies are long-lived plants, Then there is crepis or hawk- element, the leading nurserymen of Central California, have done well with their landscaped gardens.

None of the show is outside, and the effect created under skillful Liquid manure is largely nitrogen. haraiy appreciate them. weed, a roadside gamin in some lo ning to yellow, blue- and white shaded with rose. It is of; simple culture, of long, season 'and ex Scarlet Glow is a small-flowered Properly taken care Of, buddleias double marigold of dark maroon A solution of one tablespoon ammonium sulphate crystals dissolved and practically pest free, so they will not interfere with the rooting system of the more expensive, aristocratic shrubs. And Easter lilies Zp3 CU.

Altos $4 ii vrf tF.S THAN BERKELEY PREPARED LOAM are valuable shrubs. New kinds tremely useful for edging. which in the sunlight has a scar. calities, but in its cultivated state a veritable pink dandelion of the softest shade imaginable. Good for cutting and easy to grow, it is yet which will freshen one's interest in lighting has been charming and informational.

in two gallons of water, makes a The flowers of nemesia resemble let glow, justifying Its name. thi genus are Fortune, pure lilac, similar preparation. with 12' to 18-inch flower spikes, too olten unknown or neglected. demand constant moisture, as do the surface roots of camellias. BLOSSOM SCHEDULE Perhaps the reason they are not fully in, bloom the whole length at Cleome pungens, the Giant Screen Test, Answers MIIUONSOM once: Dubonnet, wine-red, and Spider-plant, used to be better OR MORE YARDS $2 cu.

TREASURE ISLAND Charm ing, the most knowivatrangely-enouglv 4han4t4s PIAN1 1 Anne Shirley- and ''Anne of more widely used in our garden 'lies in the fact that, in the minds of the new varieties. TOSS THXft now. imnf-ine tall (three to seven $3 cii. TOP SOIL YARDS many, they are "typed" as a potted plant, that comes from the florist five inches below the surface. Fill Green Gables." 2 Mistaken Identity.

3 Ginger Rogers, from Lew Ayres. (b) Hattie McDanlel. Baby Sandy (d) Laird feet) fountains of delicate lavender flowers growing ever upward to the increasing buds at the top, leaving long, graceful stems with green pods below to produce the abun In full bloom at Easter time. They in the bottom with an inch layer of coarse sand and small gravel for would not bloom here so early with eut hothouse forcing, on a precise drainage. Cregar's.

KING SPENGER 1917 Fourth Street, Berkeley AS hberry 1465: BE rkeley 0882M BE rkeley 7745 When plant lice come, they Come with a frush. "Black Leaf 40" will kill them also 4i (a) Emma, Lady Hamilton, Now remove the potted root mass with as little disturbance as pos dance of seed! And now there Is a yellow variety, Golden Cleome. Cleome -will not grow in dense acneduie. As a matter of fact, with oldrftsrage facilities, a hothouse, and attention, Easter lilies can be leaf happen, Ixrf mlnari, moit thrlps, PiMly paramour of Lord Nelson (Vivien Leigh plays her in the picture), (b) sible. Lay the pot on its side and roll gently, pressing through 'the bright to bloom on any day of the Aw, you know, she gave six lessons, via Lupe Velez.

ear. But since most people associate bvgt, lot bugs, young sucking bugs similar Mracn. A Llttie Goes a Long Way One ounce makes six gallons of effective spray; add a little soap. "Black Leaf 40" kills by contsct and by fumeSi Spray as sopn as pests appear Use on flowers, vegetables, trees and shrub. NOTE: Dogs do not like the smell of "Black Leaf 40." Use on SNAILS SLUGS Put Out Snail-Foil Now 5 The Sea Wolf preview was hole, if it wants to stick.

When the mass is free, place in the hole. Fill the hole to the level of the mass, and water to press out air and firm the on the S.S. America at sea. direct from gardens of the Exposition. Rich, friable, loamy soil, that will grow strong Ueautiful plants and lawns.

Delivered In Oakland, Alameda or Berkeley at the following prices: 4 $12.00 2 8.00 1 yard 4.50 1 sack 1.00 Ask for our 28-page garden guide McDonnell Nursery 5146 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland Phona OLympla 2065 them as the potted gut plant, millions of b'llbs are annually allowed 'to dry, and are thrown away. The best time to plant Easter roots in the soil. Tomorrow you'll flnri thouHiindft of ilrnd pontn, Sht Don't' fill the- hole completely EASTER GREETINGS TO Ol II AW AM) FATHOM until the stem is fully cured, so that i ask for fflfMhh- Establish yow office in Hit TRIBUNE TOWE Light, airy rooms with express elevator service. lilies In the garden Is about three weeks after the flower has faded, or when the seed has ripened. Why not your evergreens and solve the dog nuisance.

Imltt on Original Factory Scaled Packages for FuU Strength 4ie TOBACCO SY PRODUCTS CHEMICU CORPORATION INCORPORATES LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY no danger of stem rot Will be incurred. If planting more than one, place them at least 18 inches apart to allow for future growth. One i'f: save the Easter lily this year? The procedure is easy. First decide the most desirable place in the garden. mi cautioning word: don't plant too close to a camellia or ether slant end dig the hole deep enough so t.

at fce toa of the sot would be with surface roots. 7.