Morning World from Monroe, Louisiana • Page 29

AUGUST 22, 1054 MONROE (LA.) MORNING WORLD THE HOME SHIFT- With Mildred Swift Day Lilies Need Shallow Planting Garden Cenler Notes By Mary M. Jardine The heat is taking its toll of) material. This will cost more, plants, regardless of proper water- but you can depend on the mating and mulching. It seems to me erjai not wrinkling when it is the suns rays have nevei bom washecj Dacron materials will not down so mercilessly. covering.

several good camellias to save shnnk if theY are hcat se them, yet gone through When buying a pleated nylon previous summers without any sldrt look for the words trouble. ent The pleats will stay Farm and Home Week in after laundering. Those marked 1 know expect me to come pleat' will not hold, home from Baton Rouge with Miss Kiene really dropped a something for you on gardening, bomb when she said, nylon Mrs. Walter Colquit from Shreve- jn water heated to 140 degrees us- port talked on the 1 ing an all-purpose In Perfect I quote from the past been taught to use her lecture. day lilies lukei warm water.

She said of now with a balanced fertilizer with course, not to wash white nylons some of the trace elements. 'Trace witli colored materials, elements are iron, magnesium, An Error Move day lilies after the jn your Garden weather cools and we have some sent yQU from this 0ffjce! there is rain. Cut them back about six error. Turn to the last page on or eight inches, divide and set in j-tilizers and make this correc- good soil that has been worked don please. The paragraph begin- and pulverized.

I he kind of soil njnjt with nitrogen should read: makes no difference. 1 ve grown nitrogen is the foliage producing them equally successfully in acid elemcnt and gives the deep green soil in azalea beds and in alkaline to plants, and deeper color soil with bearded iris. Place plants to if you want to buy on a slight mound and pui! toe nitrogen, call for one of the dirt in to them. Water well and shortage of nitrogen the plant will settle to its proper plants ig indicate(t by yellowish depth. Day lilies need shallow leaf color.

An excess replanting. I he newer varieties drop duces fbe development of flowers their old blooms each day. which and fruil and causes soft unhealthy is an advantage. Cut the bloom stalks as the flowers bloom. Dont these out as you may leave an injury that causes rot and encourages sow bugs, best pinks is End of quote.

Of course, Jo Evans always gives us something good. This is a short summary of some of the fine points of her lecture demonstration on, the Clock with Flowering changed from 8:15 to 9:15 on Shrubs K.NOE. 1 follow' Beth Breec-e each old bulbs such as paper Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, white narcissus should not be fcr- be in Florida all this next tdized as this throws them into week. Miss Esther Cooley, Con- foltage and you get few sumer Education Specialist, from Rooms. L.

S. U. Extension Department will flow or ing quince with oil visit, with you on the emulsion early in the spring when program at 1:30 p.m. Miss you spray camellias and azaleas. Cooley will give you a demonstra- Feriilize at the same time.

Keep tion on Good Knife for the Moving To New Home At Last! SOUTHERN By William Lanier Hunt Visited Famous Bobuli Gardens The Home Gardeners of Monroe presented the flower show at the center this week. Mrs. Lea Thompson and Mrs. John Lewis served as judges. In the horticulture section ribbons were awarded to Mrs.

M. W. Montgomery for amaranthus and Mrs. K. R.

Young for Rosa de Montana and Plumbago. In the arrangement division first place was awarded to Mrs. K. R. Young.

In a tan free-iorm con- famous gardeners and horticultur- jlsts sat down to dinner. From all over the world the people had come to honor the RHS, founded 150 years ago by the son of Josiah Wedgewood. the pottery maker. Mr. Wedgewood and several other plant lovers got together, as gardeners, and organized wbat turned out to be the greatest garden club in the world.

I found myself sitting next to Mr. de Rothschild whose collection of rhodendrons at Exbury is world famous. This delightiful man who has famous among rose lovers everywhere. These are but a few of the striking personalities engaged in talking about their favorite subject: gardening. This dinner ought to go down in history as the only one of the sort ever held as there was only one after-dinner speaker and the guests just talked to each other to their content.

ov. i. i iiuiii- iiuv.il db VY dl lilt: UHtiAt I AUl pontine paths for about an hour cultural Society at the celebration enough flowers showed up to dec- i looking for a famous piece of sta- of the 150th anniversary of the Roy- orate any of the tables but the growth. Announcements One Mrs. M.

E. One of the neighbors called and said a treat is in store for you if drive by 3806 Spurgeon Drive. The arneranthum is in bloom around Mrs. Picket's house, every color in the rainbow and then some. My radio program has been and I Iicy 11 Do ft Every ime AT rLARAHL MAM0NG bsfois herbwty-1 ARETME6UST TOAgUS? WHY, FOR THE.

COURSE the plants mulched and prune in early spring immediately after they bloom. With this treatment the plants will bloom profusely. We dnnt use quince as as we should in our landscape plans. They come in colors from white, pale pink to red. star magnolia needs plenty of water.

The pearl bush is a flowering shrub not used very much. hardy and inexpensive. Belles of Ireland at anytime of year. Keep the seed damp until they sprout and come up. This foliage plant is not successful transplanted, so put the seed where you want them to stay.

annuals in with the bulbs to hide the foliage, as it dies in the spring. Clausiana tulips are the only ones that will come up year after year. Plant amaryllis very shallow in fertile soil. Potash is fine for our berried New Fabrics So much for gardening. The home economist for an electric company gave us some good points on the new man-made fabrics.

She says pinked seams make the best finish when sewing on these materials. Miss Kiene says when buy- i ing nylon curtains, ask for See you next Sunday. WORD-A-DAY By BACH pomology -O (po-mol THE SCIENCE OF CULTIVATING FRUIT AND FRUIT TREES GZT hitoh the head with ANOTHER. One of YOUR 3 SC ORGAN APPLES, CARL? Bv jimmy Hatlo NOW'" DID TME GCiJnJ? wof OF PREFER TNG BATM TOWELS T-IAT ARE HARD TO LONDON, England Last week until you are sure you have jour columnist the famous reached the end Suddenly the Bobuli Gardens in Florence. These walls disappear and you see you many and gardeners and gardens are spread over a great are out in the open olive orchards has sent plant hunters a11 over 1116 area behind the famous Pitti Pal-1 Here and there, you will see the WOrld soeking more rare ace, now an art gallery, across the bright red trunks of the cork oaks was enthusiastic our Ponte Vecchio from Florence.

They strip off the bark every few He was just as eagor to Viewed from any of the famous years and make cork from it. know more about. American towers of Florence, the Bobuli Gar- This does not kill the trees. They 'f alroady have acres dens look like solid hillsides of Just grow some more bark which 0t em' green trees except for a large foun- can be used in a few years, too. nUr left was Lord Abercon- tain area and an open vista lead- Rome, the famous Borghese son the late Lord Aber- ing to the top of the hill.

When Gardens turned out to be just a conway who was president of the you get to the gardens you literal- huge park. The plants down here for so many years, a very ly go into them for many of the in Italy are much like those in our friend and who knew more walks are underneath the huge can- south. It had been hot and dry about plants of the world than most tainer Mrs. Young made a lovely 0py of evergreens, oaks and other and, although there was no grass men. asymmetrical design in green-yel- trees and shrubs.

The long walks in sight, the fine leaved dark green The Earl of Stair was sitting at low, using iris leaves with a focal 0f magnificent green, twenty feet' Liriope, that is beginning to get our table and had driven down point of celosia. Mrs. M. W. Mont- high, look like they may have been around as an evergreen all over from Scotland with a bunch of flow- gomery was awarded second place made of stone, so straight are our southern states, presented a ers that had wilted on the way.

Using a flat green container Mrs. they. beautiful sight as far as the eye Mr. Bowes Lyon had had the Montgomery created a beautiful How do they ever reach up that could see under the dense shade idea that these illustrious flower arrangement of canna leaves and high to clip them! One can scarce- of the trees. They were not sprin- lovers would bring flowers with stalks in maroon and green with ly imagine that there would be a kling it either.

which to decorate the tables, liriope flowers and French mul- gigantic maze such as this any- Well, my time was up in Italy The London papers this morn- berry in the focal area. Third where in the world. Yet here it as 1 had to fly here to London to ing seemed to enjoy the joke as place to Mrs. M. J.

Hortman. In is! I got completely lost in the ser- represent the American llorti- much as we at the dinner. Not a horizontal pillow container of green Mrs. Hortman made a pleasing vertical arrangement of furled tuary which I never found. Horticultural Society which be- speakers'.

The dining room was aspidistra leaves with a cluster of The hills around Florence are last night at a dinner at the full of English peers and colorful yellow and red amaranthus at the covered with ancient gray green ol- Savoy in London. personalities from everywhere. M. base of the arrangement. jive trees.

5ou can get lost in the The lion. David Bowes-Lyon, un- Vilmorin from France, the fasci- Our state president, Mrs. Homer beautiful little narrow roads closed cle of Her Majesty the Queen, pro- nating Dutch scientists and bulb Harris, aware of the fine work in completely by high walls. The sided over the elegant occasion at people and the astonishing Mr. done by our Louisiana flower ar- roads get narrower and narrower which many of the world most Wheatcrolt with his board rangers is urging us to send in photographs to the lower ar- i rangement calendar contest for 1956.

Please keep this in mind when making your arrangements for exhibit at the Garden Center, Any worthy arrangement will be photographed and sent to the contest. Credit will be given the arranger and her club. Your club president has probably received a letter about this contest from the publishers. Up to the present time Louisiana has not been represented. Let's all try to enter this contest showing our local plant material and the talent we have here in our state.

Later on I will have more information about this. Mr. Truman Quinton of Jackson, Miss, visited the center this week and was amazed and delighted at the progress we have made. We hope to have Mr. Quinton as a consultant again this iall.

another foliage arrangement you might like to try. Mrs. G. W. Levert made this one and it lasted two full weeks.

Using a palm spathe as a container (small glass container inside' Mrs. Levert created a rhythm arrangement of pine, pittosporum and large violet Lovely and cool looking. The First Christian Church members enjoyed the twin arrangements macie recently by Mrs. E.L. Marchman and Mrs.

M. W. Montgomery. These were used on eith- i er side of the communion table. Using matching white pillow vases they created identical triangular i arrangments of aspidistra foliage and white calla ldies.

The walls of the church are a light value of pink with maroon velvet draperies- in the background. Next Wednesday, August 25 will see us in our beautiful new air- I conditioned home in the Sears 1 Farm and Garden Store located at 1501 Louisville. We want to ex- i tend an invitation to you all to I come in and visit. a date. her-Csv f-s TT -rd if llS '-T.

Catahoula Is Surveying Its Drouth Losses HARRISONBURG (Special) A delegation of Catahoula citizens met here in the ASC office Wednesday to estimate the damage wrought by the drouth in the parish. Catahoula is one of the parishes lor which Governor Robert Kennon asked help under Public Law 875. This area has been hard hit by the drouth and will suffer further damage unless the section gets rain soon. There has been little rainfall since April and some areas, especially the northern area of the parish, has had practically none at all. The delegat on of citizens found all crops far below normal in the parish, including: Pastures, 25 per cent of normal, range, 18 per cent of normal: corn, 2u per cent of normal; cotton, 35 per cent of norm-', beans, per cent of normal; feed grain.

20 per cent of normal, and hay, 15 per cent of normal. The findings of this delegation will be sent to the state a 'icult re offices and forwarded to the sec- letar.v of agriculture in Washington, I), C. Studying the drouth situation in Catahoula were W. S. ek and E.

W. Chisum of Sicily Island, Otis Auttonberry of the soil comerva- tion office. Barney Cain of the HA. h. M.

on. production credit association, II. G. Taliaferro, Jones' die and Johnson and Bill Bickham, county agents. Locai Eoy Saouis PariicraJ3 In HrrW i -1 Ul AI A Li vV FERRIDAY (Special) Representing the Ouachita Valley, Boy Scouts of America with headquarters in Monroe, a dele tation of eleven Boy Scouts, Explorers and leaders will take part with nearly 1,800 others in the anniversary meeting of the Order of the Arrow, the Boy Scout Honor Camper Brotherhood, at the University of Wyoming, Larnmmio.

Wyoming from August 26 through 29. Tom Bell, sponsored by the Ferriday Rotary club will attend the meeting to represent the local scout troop. The four-dav conference of fellowship, training, and exchange of ideas, is believed to be the only national meeting of its kind to be run entirely by young men whose average ages are between 17 and 18. TO CONSTRUCT HIGHWAY DODSON (Special) A highway board member has announced that Hie Brewton Mill-Dodson highway in Winn parish is scheduled to begin construction on August 30, Mr. O.

R. Lang also states that the highway department has awarded the contract to R. T. Henry of Dubaeh, La. for an 18 foot wide asphalt surface of State Route 328 from the junction with 235 southeast to the junction with U.

S. Highway 167 at Dodson. The project which will be seven miles long will cost $87,680 and will be a great help in the movement of tim- and agricultural products to market. MAY SEP.VE YOU? ei Z-i iVO Twin Cities Corrpbte Herd ware ond IPs Center THE Hammond Chord Organ HEWITT'S 216 GRAMMONT ST. OPtN SATURDAYS UNTIL 4 P.M.

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