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4 Santa Cnn SmtlnrT Friday, January 23, 1939 1.11 iiia.in i.i H.ii.i immtm.9 WMw 111 1 .1 11 Soasonali GARDENING-WNDSCAPING-P LANTINGS 'm 'V, 'isg v.vt: niy. -'If 'D4ME-GROUND i iWfc TV 'ft HW ril i i Ml flfr tWffinr- 11 l' thm iv Av; Pink Heather Alyssum Snapbeans And Brussels Sprouts Many NewGarden Vegetables New, Hardy Outdoor Mums Are Fall Flower Queens Perennial Vegetables For Garden Have Been Developed In 1959 "cabbages" or sprouts. From the ground, up and around the thick Quinces Come In Two Types For The Garden There are two kinds of quinces those we raise to look at and those we raise to eat. And there's room for both in most California gardens. Flowering varieties are far more abundant than many California gardeners realize and are among the very best deciduous flowering shrubs for the state.

They range in color from the pure white varieties. Snow and Candia, to such striking reds as Cardinal and Red Ruffles. In between you'll find shell pink, coral, rose and numerous shadings thereof, So numerous is the list that the California Association of Nurserymen claims none of its members tries to stock the whole list. But each offers a good cross section to choose from. We like the flowering quinces because they bloom so early often in January and keep blooming for so long.

They have that certain freshness about them that brightens even the dreariest winter day, both outside and inside, as cut flowers. When they bloom, it's a sure sign that spring is just around the corner. Actually it is unfair to exclude the fruiting quinces from out good-to look at category. For while they are less spectacular in bloom, they are nonetheless an attractive addition to the spring garden. The primary purpose of these widely adapted shrubs, however, is to produce the large ornamental fruit so commonly used in jellies and preserves.

And this they do on most any soil with very little attention from the gardener other than to watering. In garden use, you can fit a single flowering quince into pockets that can take 5 to 6-foot shrubs with an equal spread. Nurserymen also recommend it as a hedge one that will discourage, traffic because of its thorns. Fruiting quinces are somewhat larger growing 8 to 12 feet high yet still adaptable to garden settings in all but the smallest gardens. And for the quince jelly lover, they are even worth growing in those.

Botanically, Flowering Quince is Chaenomeles lagena or Cydonia japonica; Fruiting quince is Cydonia oblonga. BUY AT HOME AND SAVE New garden mums, the hardy outdoor kind for every home, are the show of late summer and fall. The Queen of fall flowers, most colorful of alL The new winners, All-America Mum Selections, are the finest ever. Girl Friend brings us a large decorative, dawn pink, on long cutting stems for indoors or outside beauty. Flair is a large-flowered cushion mum.

Cactus or star-flowered for innovation, it is the stylish "lively lavender" and fully double, covering its vigorous plants in a blanket of bloom. Crimson Lady is also a cushion mum, with beautifully mounded plants and the "lady-in-red" covering herself in brilliant richness, simply unforgettable. A clump of any or all three will give glorious color to the yard or garden right up to "deep freeze weather, the flowers are frost tolerant and the rich green foliage carries through as well. Of course, the plants live through the winter and clumps may be separated for a number of plants the following spring. Or, just left alone, the clumps get larger and larger with hundreds of extra flowers from year to year.

In the upper North, it is advisable to use some ground protection to prevent "heaving" irv winter fee es and thaws. Great strides are being made in modern breeding of outdoor mums. Clearer, richer colors, fantastic color blends, more double flowers, healthier, tronger plants all make up the grandest show of color for the garden and home. Outdoor mums are useful for many purposes. Not the old football or exotic type, nurtured in greenhouse or covered from the weather with cheesecloth, trained with a single stem and staked for support, but in usable cut-flower sizes from "buttons" to four and five inch "decoratives" with armfulls of bloom.

Girl Friend rewards us with four inch flowers without disbudding, many of them, on the 24 to 28 inch plants with 12 to 18 inch spread. The bewitching dawn pink coloring is a blending described by the judges as flesh to peach and apricot overlay towards the centers. Flair naturally reaches 18 inches height with a spread of about 30 inches and 3'a inch double cactus flowers of rich lavender. Crimson ady, in rich crim What's new and best for the 1959 garden? Of the new vegetable varieties developed by plant breeders around the world, 1959 brings us two outstanding new winners. They are the best of their kinds and for their purposes, new All-America Selections.

'Jade Cross' Brussels Sprouts, first generation hybrid from Japan, Is by far the earliest, most uniform and heaviest producing of all Brussels Sprouts. 'uardengreen' snapnean is tne new garden bean with the most desirable, flavorful, stringless and fiberless, round straight pods. Many although mostly slight, were not-ed in the All-America vegetable trials. Breeders find it difficult to improve on the best seedsmen's strains of present leading varieties. Nevertheless, considerable progress is being made in developing disease resistant and weather tolerant varieties.

Earlier friuting. more vigorous plants, smother, uniform shaped and colorful vegetables, thicker flesh and less waste in food preparation: there are such desirable characteristics bred into the new strains of popular varieties. Some are sufficiently distinct to become new varieties and to displace their older counterparts. 'Gardengreen' snapbean is the new All-America vegetable leader for 1959. It is of the 'Tendergreen' type, a previous winner and most "popular snapbean in America.

However, Gardengreen is quite distinctive. The plant and foliage are different vigorous, of medium height, with small dark green leaves. It is resistant to mosaic and tolerant to halo blight and to root rot. Gardengreen averaged 5 to 5H Inch pods, which are round, quite traight. and hold smooth over a long period.

Pod color is a bright green. It is of the most desirable stringless and fiberless type with excellent bean flavor and quality, a good snapper. The pod set is concentrated towards the center of the plant, a heavy yielder, and pods are held up off the ground. It is very thick meated and, although intended for tender, brittle, home garden green snaps, most of the judges recommend it also for commercial uses. It is grand for home canning and freezing.

'Jade Cross' Brussels Sprouts Is the highest voted entry for seven years. It merits the coveted silver medal award. One wonders how the plants can pack on so many miniature NOW IS THE TIME TO FERTILIZE 3-yard lead of bulk ORGANIC FERTILIZER $13.50 Dalivarad FREI anywhere in Santa Crui Araa FREI OF WEED SEEDS Wandafful for top trailing and tulching a4 lawns and gardant WEST FOODS PHONE OR WRITS HOBO P.O. Box 447, Soqutl son red, reaching 15 to 20 inches and wider, is uniform mounded plant, as cushion mums should be, almost smothered in a sheet of 2-, inch double flowers. Add the 1958 winning Ruby King for another compact cushion with such flowers in a lighter and fiery red for those who go for "any color so long as it's red." For the taller olants or decor ative type, with longer stems for cutting specimen flowers or large sprays, 1958 winners gave us Burning Bronze with flowers of 3 inches, really a luscious shade of autumn, for lovely cutting sprays.

Showpiece, as its name denotes, is a large flowered companion of Girl Friend, but of royal rose coloring, charming in every way. And then there is the large Emporer, most striking and colorful of garden flowers, covering its rounded bush with double pinwheel excitement. It grows like a huge cushion muni. These seven are the lustrous award winners, All-America Mum Selections of 1958 and 1959. Most reliable plantsmen can have them sent to you at the proper late spring planting time.

For the protection of gardeners everywhere, each plant will be separately wrapped and labeled with name and the certification mark of AAMS. All plants are grown by licensed growers from originator's disease free stock plants and there can be no substitutions. AAMS. the non-profit organization for testing and rating new chrysanthemum varieties, certifies plants of highest recommended varieties only. None are genuine without that red, white and blue certification plant tag.

Bar Root Rose Bushes Pattnttii and Non-Patantad I Fruit Trees Appla, Pair, Plum, Cherry, Patch, Aprlaat GARDEN SUPPLIES RAYMAR 2515 Porter Soquol GR 5-3544 Xo. I Trees (6-ft. or larger) Pink heather alyssum, 1939 All-America selection, is the first and only pink alyssum to Time To Think Of Shade For Your Garden It's a nice thing about deciduous trees they're cool in the summer and warm in the winter. Not to suggest that they radiate heat. But they do shed their summer-cool foliage to admit what warmth a winter sun offers.

"But. oh. those fallen leaves," some will way. "What a job to rake them up." True, answers the California Association of Nurservmen. but thev on fall once a year, tvergreens sned a few leaves the year round, creating a slight, but ever recurring problem.

Remember this next time you rake a deciduous tree's leaves. All of this brings us to our point. Namely that its time to think of shade. Right now in the middle of winter. Deciduous trees are dormant in January and February, which means you'll find them bareroot in nurseries less expensive than they will be later in containers.

Before planting, give thought to what you want in the way of shade. If you need plenty of it, make sure the tree will eventually grow big enough. If, on the other hand, you only want some shade for a patio, don plant a giant. Shade trees in the tall class Include Norway Maple and Silver Maple, Scarlet Oak, Moraine Locust and Maidenhair Tree. Better suited to smaller gardens are the Modesto Ash, Silk Tree, White Mulberry and Chinese Pistachio.

In desert areas, Ash, Fruitless Mulberry and Chinese Elm are good. Y'ou will do well to remember that shade is not built in a day or a year. You won't be 6linging hammocks next summer from trees planted now. But you'll be surprised at just how fast most shade trees do grow if you give them a fair share of water and a little time to get established Botanical names for the trees listed above include: Norway Maple (Acer plantanoides); Silver Maple (A. saccharinum); Scarlet Oak (Quercus coccinea); Moraine Locust (Gleditsia triancanthos in-ermis Moraine); Maidenhair Tree (Ginkgo biloba); Modesto Ash (Fraxinus velutina glabra): Silk Tree (Albizzia julibrissin); White Mulberry (Morus alba); Chinese Pistachio (Pistachia chinensis.

Gardener's Checklist Bareroot roses are still at the top of all planting lists. Don't try to plant them if soil is too heavy and wet, however. In such a case, bury the roots and wait until the ground dries out a bit. Deciduous fruit trees should be pruned now. Check a pruning guide to make sure you cut out the right wood on the particular tree you're pruning.

Begonia tubers are arriving back on the market now. Sprout them indoors to get an early crop of blooms. Don't set outside if danger of frost is not past in your area. For fruit in the small garden, try planting three different trees in one hole. Your nurseryman will show you how to prune them for planting this way.

In most areas a long list of annuals can be set out now for spring and early summer bloom. If frost is still common in your garden, asic your nurseryman when to plant these. Most of the escapees who have been permitted to "escape" from Communist China into Hongkong have been older people, physically handicapped and others considered useless as laborers, reports Republic of China sources. SHOP IV THE GREATER SANTA CRUZ TRADING AREA stem to the protective tip leaves, dozens of sprouts are crowded on every plant. Jade Cross, as its name sug' gests, is a first generation hybrid or cross, with the richest blue green sprouts.

It is a grand con tribution to our gardeners from Japan and the first hybrid Brus sels bprouts. Growing extremely vigorous and uniform, about 22 inches tall, with finer leaves and shorter petioles than comparison varieties, heavier in yield and reported 3 to 9 days earlier than Long Island Improved, earlier also than Catskiil. Jade Cross is wider adapted for home and commercial uses. Being a crop to mature in rool weather, seed should be started early for a spring crop, late for a fall crop to be improved by frost, as a winter crop in the lower south. While it produces well in summer, flavor is strong and sprouts are not so crisp and tender as in cool weather.

Jade Cross is an excellent breeding accomplishment. This hardv, more refined member of the cabbage familv should become more popular than ever with this beautiful variety in the garden and on the market. Only early orders will obtain seed this first year. The coldest weather in fifty years and ten inches of heavy snow on plants in this seed crop last March broke down many plants and caused very short deliveries on seeds men contract orders. Get a packet of Jade Cross this season if you can, for the finest of all Brussels Sprouts.

There should be a plenty of seed for 1960. Add the 1958 winners to the garden this spring. Now in good supply, they are the best of their kind for their purposes. "Lnoctaw wax snapbean is the heaviest bearing wax or yellow podded bush snapbean of them all. Pearlgreen' gives us a white seeded green pod bush bean of Tendergreen type and quality, useiui also lor dry snell beans.

'Ruby' lettuce is the best red salad lettuce, beautful for salads and it holds its bronzy red color even in summer heat and sun. 'Ruby Queen' beet is round and deep ruby red all the way through, an all-purpose early main crop beauty. 'Green Wave' mustard film-ply produces more remains much longer in the garden before sending up seed stalks than others. It is of the Giant Southern Curled type, with mildly pungent flavor for boiled greens. Plant the newest and best for the finest garden of all in 1959.

Live at home and board at the same place, with tender and de-tlicious garden fresh vegetables. You can buy them in the stores even at high inflated prices but they are easily grown in your own back yard. Death Valley is a colored rock trough In California about 140 miles long. One hundred years ago it really was a desert. Today it is a tourist resort with swimming pools.

Also valuable borax mines. AVENUE i I You don't have to be the typical vegetable gardener to grow the perennial vegetables Artichoke, Asparagus and Rhubarb. They don need a big plot of ground nor a special area all to them selves. Thev don't require fre quent turning of the soil and replanting. All last for several years.

And best of all. perhaps, they actually fit into the general garden scheme. This latter point is all too often overlooked by gardeners. How many know, for instance that the Artichoke is grown for its gray-creen. ornamental effect even in areas too hot to produce edible buds? And did you know that Rhubarb is planted for its glossy leaves and pink stalks by people who never serve it? Of the three perennials, only Asparagus is harder to fit into the garden scene.

But when you can plant a 30 or 40-foot row of it along a property line, you'll have both its fern-like foliage and its delightful contribution to the dining table. Growing these perennial vegetables takes more patience than the average vegetable gardener is used to. Artichokes and Rhubarb will not be ready to harvest until a year from now, Asparagus should not be harvested for two. But all of them once the harvest has started will produce crops for many years. Artichokes grow best under coastal conditions and will not produce edible buds where days are too hot.

A member of the California Association of Nurs erymen can tell you whether to try them or not in your area. Artichoke divisions available now should be planted 6 inches deep with the tops showing. Transplants of Asparagus go 8 to 10 inches deep and lz incnes apart in a trench. Add only about 2 inches of soil and fill the trench gradually as the tops make good growth. Mix liberal amounts of manure with the soil.

Rhubarb sections may produce a few stalks to harvest bv late spring, but it's doubtful. They'll go dormant in early summer and start growing again when rains start. Plan to harvest their growth the second year. TV Programs For Week Are Attractive Bv Charles Merce New York The coming seven days can't be called the most memorable week of the season on television, but there are several programs well worth the twisting of a dial. For example: If you enjoyed the radio programs of the late Walter Dam-rosch, take a look with your children at noon on Saturday at "Young People's Concert of the New York Philharmonic" with Leonard Bernstein as host and conductor over CBS.

Sunday afternoon Bernstein and the Philharmonic will be seen and heard again in their regular monthly program. The theme of the program, which made such an excellent debut last month, is the use of jazz by modern com-i posers and serious music both in this country and abroad. "NBC Kaleidescope" offers a detailed report on the new possibilities in nuclear research being revealed at Brookhaven National Laboratories on Long Island. Also Sundav afternoon, on CBS "Twentieth Century" presents the second part of an excellent examination of juvenile delinquency. "Maverick" does another twist away from its Western origins Sunday night on ABC with Rich-i ard Brinsley Sheridan's 18th cen- tury comedy, "The Rivals." Later Dan Dailey makes a rare TV appearance on "General Electric Theater" over CBS as a trumpet player in "Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home." There is another rare TV matic appearance Sunday night on CBS when Bene Davis stars on "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" as a middle-aged spinster whose mistaken identification of a robbery suspect sends a young man to prison for a year.

Monday night "The Bell System Science Series" presents the story, of linguistic science over NBC. Dr. Frank Baxter is the guide on the program called "The Alphabet Conspiracy." Followers of "Trackdown." formerly seen on Friday evenings over CBS, should be informed that the network has switched its time to Wednesday night. Wednesday night the "Du Pont Show of the Month" will present an adaptation of Sir James 2,1. Barries "What Every Woman Knows" on CBS.

Siobhan McKen-! na, James Donald, Martifa Hunt, Cyril Cusatk and Diana Van Der Vlis are the stars. It is the story of a stubborn, ambitious Scot who i marries a plain, intelligent and subtly domineering woman. i BUY AT HOME AND SAVE WARREN ELECTRIC ELECTRICAL WIRING HEATING and FIXTURES CONTRACTING 925 Sequ.l Av. GA 3-5954 edge borders, walks and flower beds. COO Use Tranquilizer To Dwarf Mums We have read so much of using Gibberellic Acid in making plants grow fast and tall.

Let us now turn about and try a tranquilizer to dwarf them. Inspecting trials at the U.S.D.A. experiment station, Beltsville, Maryland, a couple of years ago. Dr. Samuel Emsweller, All-America Selections flower judge there, told us of experiments with tranquilizers to dwarf plant growth.

A quaternary ammonium com pound, called Amo-lbia, retarded growth of some plants, as a snap nean, sunnowcr, ana cnrjsanme' mum. tested with low and nign concentrations in water, and at different stages of growth, temperatures and length of days. Amo 1618 did not damage the plants but simply retarded their elongation. On several mum varieties used in tests, full flower size and normal color were retained. Just the stem growth was retarded and blooming was relatively somewhat later.

Plants may be treated unrooted or simply by spraying the foliage. Even seeds and soils soaked with Amo-1618 retard the plant growth. Home gardeners desiring the thrill of the new, as well as mum growers wanting beautiful mums in dwarf, compact plants in full bloom at times desired, might try Amo-1618. At least experimental quantities will be available this season. Try it on some old varieties first, rather than on your new All-America Mum winners.

There are 26 federal dams built between Minneapolis and St. Louis for flood control. PUBLIC NOTICE CERTIFICATE REQUIRED BV SECTION 246S CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE NOTICE IS HEREBY OIVEN that the undersigned GEORGE J. KIM- MEL. and ADRIANO TRABANO, are transacting business as co-partners at 1601 Freedom Boulevard, watson- ville.

In the Conntv of Santa Crur, State of California, under the name Of COAST TAINTING SERVICE The full names of all jnembera of such partnership and their place 01 residence are as follows: GEORGE J. KIM.MEL, 2150 Portola Drive. Santa Cruz, California. ADRIANO TRABANO, 44B0 Freedom Boulevard, Aptos, California. Dated: Santa Cruz, California, Dee-ember 27.

1958. GEORGE J. KIMMEX, ADRIANO TRABANO EMMET L. RITTENHOUSE Attornev at I. aw STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA On this 27th dav of December.

1958, before me. EMMET L. RITTEN HOUSE. a notary public in and for the county ol fcanta truz, staie oi California, onallv appeared GEORGE J. KIMMEL and ADRIANO TRABANO.

known to me to be the persons whose names are aubscrlbed to the within instrument, and ac knowledged to me that they iigned and executed the Mme. IN WITNESS I have hereunto set my hand ana affixed mv otficial seal, the dav and year In" this certificate above written. (SEAL) EMMET L. RITTEJfHOUSE Notary Public in and for the Countv of Santa Cruz, State of California. Jan.

2. 9, 16, 23 (791) NOTICE OF TIME APPOINTED FOR PROVING WILL. ETC. No. lt.041 In the Superior Court of the State of California, in and for the County of Santa Crui.

In the Matter of the Estate of FAY FDW1X NEIDIG. alo known as RAY E. NEIDIG. Deceased. Notice is hereby niven that a petition for the nf the will of RAY EDWIN NEIDIG.

also known as RAY E. NEIDIG, deceased, and for the issuance to petitioner, PATRICIA LOUISE NEIDIG, of letters testamentary has been filed in this court, and that February 6th, at ten o'clock A. M. of said day, and ui? luunrmnn oi ia in xne courthouse in the city of Santa Crui, County of Santa Cruz. State of California, have been fixed aa the time and place for the hearing of laid petition, when and where all persons interested may apoear and eon-test the same and how cause nv said petition not jran'ed.

Reference .9 hereoy rrd to i.d Petition for furt.er particulari. Dated Januarr 2t iwi TO.Nf KKLLEY, Clerk. Bv FLORENCE B. MuiUI, Deputy Clnt. CLARENCE A.

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