HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1927-04-28, Page 6FOUNDATION PLANTINGS
SHRUBS HIDE THE UGI.Y CORNERS
13Y ADOLPH KAMIS.
Any landscape architect will tell
us that the way to plant home
grounds is to keep the lawn es open
as possible and to confine our plant-
*sgs to the house foundation, the
corners, fences, boundaries and the
like. The most important of these
and the one that ;should receive the
most attention in planning the plc,
ture is the foundation planting. It is
the most important because it has to
do with the setting of the home
proper,
There are two main reasons for a
foundation planting. We niay wish
to accent some features about the
home, and we niay wish to conceal or
subdue others. The entrance to the
hone is naturally the place where
the greatest ,activity is going on, and
hence it would be advisableto accent
this particular feature so as to bring
it out from among the rest of the
things. We may do this by planting
a specimen tree or shrub on each
side of the entrance—something that
is .different from the rest of the plant-
ing. It niay be a shrub with differ-
ent -colored foliage or blossoms. Or it
may be a group of shrubs which,
though of the same variety as the
The plants to use for the founda-
tion will depend largely upon the
likes and dislikes of the individual.
The height of the, window -sills gen-
erally ,governe the kind of shrubs to
use. Do not use shrubs that grow
beyond your windows or that are out
of proportion to the architectural
features of the house. Place your
shrubs about 18 inches or two feet
away from the foundation. This will
give thein same chance to develop all.
around. As the plants grow more
bushy it will be noticed that they
tend to lean away from the house,.
due to the excessive growth of
branches on one side. To avoid this,
tilt the plants toward the house
slightly when planting. By placing
all the taller -growing shrubs next to
the house and the smaller -growing
varieties alternately in front of these,
a gradual incline will be created that
will merge into the wall proper. The
steins of the taller -growing speci-
mens will be concealed• by the smaller
shrubs and will "face down" the
planting. By this arrangement all
the shrubs will be in plain view.
Be careful to consider the natural
growth of the specimens. If a par -
SHRUBS FOR FOUNDATION PLANTING.
Height,
Nance Feet Color of Bloom
Japanese barberry 3-4..Yellow; red fruit
Weigelia Eva Rathke 4-5..Red
Hydrangea P.G 5-8.. White ..... , Aug. -Sept.
Hydrangea, Hills of Snow.. 5-6.. White June -July
Tartarian honeysuckle s6-8. . Pink; red fruit May -June
Mock orange $ . White June
Cut -leaved elder ... 5 9... White May -June
Spirea Anthony Waterer . . . 2-3. . Crimson June -Sept.
Spires Arguta 3-4.. White ti May -June
Spirea Bumalda 2-3..Pink July -Aug.
Spirea Billardi 4-5.. Pink .July -Aug.
Spirea Van Houttei......5-6..White.. May -June
Snowberry 3-4.. Pink; white fruit .June -July
Lilac . 6-8..Purple or white
Tamarisk 8-10. Pink
Snowball 6-8.. White
Month of
Bloom
June
June
May -June ry•
July
May -June
rest of the planting, will create an
accent by their mass effect. The
doorway may also be brought out by
using larger plants for framing it
so as to make it appear a little bit
different from the rest. Vines trail-
ing over the porch make a splendid
accent, which can be used success-
fully in many cases.
There are some things about the
hone, however, that are not so at-
tractive and which either must be
concealed or partially subdued. The
foundation proper is generally not
very beautiful and it will be best if
this is hidden from view. Small por-
tions showing here and there from
among the foliage are enough to sug-
gest that a foundation exists. This
arrangement will make the house
appear as if it had grown up from
among the ,shrubs; in other words,
the house will be tied to the land-
scape. Sonie things which must not
be concealed altogether are the base-
ment windows, water faucets and the
coal chute. Plants must not be set
directly in front of the windows, as
this would interfere with anything
that niay want to be taken in and
out of the basement. Occasional
branches drooping over the openings
are not objectionable. Outside water
faucets for the attachment of the
hose may be concealed, but they
should be easily accessible.
ticular shrub has a natural spread of
three feet when nature, plant it
about that far from its neighbor.
While it is useless to put in more
stock than necessity calls for, yet it
is unwise to snake the planting too
scanty. By zig-zagging the plants
in various ways a more interesting
design wil be produced and a better
mass effect will be the result.
Needless to say, good soil should be
used throutrhout
planting
-meas—a
rich, black, sandy loam with enough
humus and fertility in it to insure
good growth. Well -rotted stable ma-
nure can be mix d '
e m to insure the
latter. If the . soil is naturally poor
around the foundation, it must •be
taken out entirely to a depth of some
18 inches or two feet and refilled with
good soil. This is absolutely essen-
tial for good plant growth. You
cannot plant a shrub ingravel, cin-
ders or hard clay and expect it to
perform. It simply can't be done.
Finally, when you have finished off
the planting, mark off your bed into
a pleasing informal design. Keep the
soil stirred and f
am weeds
throughout the growing season. The
graceful curves around the beds will
not make the plants thrive better, but
will give the planting the appear-
ance of neatness which oftentimes
goes a long way.
Chosen Varieties of Vege..
tables.
Experienced growers of garden
crops have learned that there are
great differences in varieties of vege-
tables as well as corn, melons, pump-
kins, peas, tomatoes and other crops
that are grown either for home use
or for the market. The names of
varieties as published in seed rata-
logues have not always been a safe
guide to the grower. An analysis
of Canadian seed catalogues made by
the Seed Branch of the. Department
of Agriculture, and the Canadian
Seed Growers' Association, revealed
no less than 2,245 variety names ad-
vertized from year to yeiir. Many of
these were found on test to be dupli-
cates of the sante variety, and in
other cases they were so inferior as
to be unworthy of a place in the gar-
den. For the guidance of the grow-
ers of these crops the best varieties,
as proven by tests of various kinds,
have been selected out and reduced to
266 in number.
The selected list has been published
as a supplement to the regulations
under the Seeds Act, issued se Acts,
Orders and Regulation No. 11 of the
Departent of Agriculture at Ottawa.
The list is arranged alphabetically,
commencing with the artichoke, of
which two varieties are named, fol-
lowed by asparagus, with three varie-
ties, covering in all forty-four kinds
of garden crops. The varieties given
are •arranged accroding to. earliness of
maturity, and those of outstanding
merit are indicated by the letter "X".
This supplement, just off the press,
is being distributed by the Publica-
tions Branch, Department of Agri-
culture, Ottavwa. To the extent that
it is followed will gardeners, reap
satisfaction in realizing that theyearo
growing the best available sorts of
the diif4rent crops.
Teol:.s are half the garden. Are
lass cultivators, forks and hoes in I
Y r If not, buys new ones, i
Cleaning Dairy Utensils.
A plentiful supply of boiling water
or steam is a necessity for the clean-
ing and sterilizing of pails and other
utensils if a bacteriologically clean
milk is to be obtained. Detailed in-
structions for cleansing . dairy uten-
sils is contained in a new pamphlet
on Producing Clean Milk issued by
the Dominion Department of Agricul-
ture. The utensils should be rinsed
in cold or luke-warm water immedi-
ately after .using, and then they
should be washed well in waren water
to which soda or, a dairy cleansing
powder has been added. After wash-
ing, the utensils should be rinsed in
clean hot water to remove traces of
the cleaning solution.
But even this is not altogether suf-
ficient. Utensils that appear to be
perfectly clean may contain many
thousands of germs. Where steam
treatment is available the sterilizing
is best` done by placing the utensils
in a closed container and blowing
steam into it for 15 minutes. In-
verting the cans or pails over a steam
jet for a couple of minutes is also
a good method, When live steam is
not available the utensils should be
immersed, in. scalding `water for at
least two minutes `•-
Clean utjisils, hbwever, are "only
one item in the ' production of clean
milk. Equal care' must be taken at
every , stage from the time the milk
leaves the cow until it is consumed
or used in manufacture. What the
necessary precautions are is told in
the new pamphlet, which may be ob-
tained from the Publications Branch,
Department of Agriculture, Ottawa.
If a drop in temperature threatens
your early ternatoee that are set out,
and you have no frost protectors,
turn some quart fruit -jars .or flower-
pets over the plants. If you have
many plants, you may run out of jars
and pots. Be prepared next time ---
have some frost protectors, Cheap
,incl ciniekly put on.
Nurse Crops for Alfalfa. •
There is considerable advantege,ht
using a nurse -crop when seeding
down alfalfa. It greatly reduces the
initial cost of production, and, ex-
cep$ where the land is comparatively
clean, helps to prevent the weeds
from retarding. the .development of
the young alfalfa plants, The
stubble of the nurse -crop tends to
hold the snow and thus reduce the
possibility of winter lcillin+g.
Tests were made, during the last
three years with wheat, oats, barley
, and flax as nurse crops, at the. Bran-
don, Manitoba, Experimental Farni,
In all three years, flax, on account
of its shallow root -system and the
small amount of shade it caused,
proved the least detrimental to the
young alfalfa plants, Wheat, on the
average, was better than oats or bar
ley, as it stands up better and its
smaller leaf development allows more
sunlight to reach the alfalfa.
In the experiments the alfalfa was
seeded at the rate of 10 pounds per
acre, while the nurse crops, with the
exception of the flax, was sown at a
slightly smaller rate than when nor-
mally
ormally used. In seeding, the alfalfa
seed was mixed with the grain in
the grain -box.
The owner of a vibrating -type bat-
tery -charger had trouble ' keeping
his battery fully charged because his
charger did, not seem to charge at as
high a rate as it should. In trying
to locate the trouble he noticed
that the connecting wires from his
charger to the battery were ' excep-
tionally long, and got very liot
when the charging was going on, He
concluded, therefore, that there was
too much resistance In the wires, so
he made thein as short as possible,
and used heavier wire that had less
resistance. This had the desired ef-
fect, for it increased the charging
rate and there was no further
trouble.—G. S.
TIIE ONTARIO GARLIEN
CONSERVING ¥eisatiRE.
In the cities where every gardens
has a hose and an endless supply of
water i
at his Comiiiazld the conserve
tion of moisture#is not so important
but in the 'village and on the farm
one cannot afford to waste (water
hence gardening becomes •a real job.
As a matter of fact where there is a
hose, watering is often abused. Some-
times the hose is turned on both
morning and evening, while daily
watering is the rule rather than th
exception. A. sprinkling every. even-
ing does more harm than, good. One
or two real soakings every week is
w i"at the garden needs. Where there
is no hose, .however, one 'must save
every drop of rain.. To do this get
out the hoe or the cultivator after
every shower and loosen up the soil.
This not only keeps down.the .weeds
but ` it prevents the sun drawing up.
the moisture through the soil. When
Ashmead Bartlett I the plants get so big that close, shal-
War correspondent of the London low ` cultivation is impossible mulch
press at Joffr�e's headquarters in the + around earefully with old straw,
Great War, in the Japanese war with leaves or other refuse.. Above all
Russia, with the French in Morocco , things avoid high pilling up of plants
and now in China, or raised beds. These will dry out
in a hurry' or they become toze;a'>< and
r + tasteless. This means early sowing)
getting the first crop in just es soon/
as the sail is ready and fetrili
- � with nitrate of soda, one scant table.
spoonful u rwa ,
t thesquare yardad
osq .and
ered down. Even where the garden
' is well manured, three or four AP
plications of nitrate early in the sea.
son will, be found a wonderful helyi
to get trowth started.
, .ANNUALS IN PERENNIAL BED. o One cannot go ahead nod have Q�
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perennial bed in full bloom in one
season, or in the- second either, for
that matter, unless a fel annual
are allowed inside the boundaryi
Moreover, without the addition
cheap annuals, the establishment of
perennial bed in a hurry is quite eel
expensive matter. The best way cal
to make haste slowly, Plant only)
those perennials that you knew an
df
like, in clumps . with the taller sorts'
toward the rear, then as you gradue
ally get' acquainted with other peren-
mals In your neighbors' gardens orl
elsewhere add to your collection..
Study carefully the place where
these must go, taking into account
the color of the flower,' height of,
plant and the blooming season. The
whole bed }nest blend together both
in height and color. In, the meantime,
before all the space is taken up, fill"
in with annuals, such es zinnias, mars!
igolds, California poppies, petuniass,f
cosmos and other pleasing flowers'
that have attractive foliage as well'
as bloom.
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If you live where fence posts don't
grow, you ought to talk your neigh-
bors into buying posts in carload table, such as beans, peas, cern and
lots. Your dealer will make you a tomatoes, which raise the edible part
nice price on a carload. Each one on a separate stem, speed is the es -
could haul right from the car and sential thing in getting tenderness.
save the dealer the cost of unload- Spinach, radish,' beets, carrots and
ing. Another way out—make cement .a host of others must be produced
posts during slack sesaon. Do the
in a few days.
GET VEGETABLES IN EARLY
With the exception of those - vege-
work in the barn, or in a sheltered
location, if there is danger of freez-
ing.
I would much rather take a new
and progressive ideal to the street
corner than to the House of Lords.—
Viscount Astor.
STUDY THE SPRAY CALENDAR
SUGGESTIONS FOR 1927 SPRAYING
By L. CAESAR, Provincial Entomologist
1. Do not spray at all unless you! the liquid; a mere mist or a light
are going to try to do it well. IV spray will not kill the insects. Use
will not pay. lime sulphur 1 to 7 of water, pre -
2. You cannot make a success of frably just as the buds are burst -
apple growing without good spraying. ing, or a 3 per cent. lubricating oil
3. You cannot spray well without emulsive slightly earlier when buds
a good outfit which will give you are nearly ready to burst.
plenty of pressure. So overhaul the 10. For scab and codling moth
old spray machine at once, or if it is cover every leaf. Scab attacks the
not satisfactory buy a new one with leaves, too, and is often washed from
them to the fruit. It will require
from 6 to 10 gallons for each tree
twenty-five years old or upwards, not
just 2 or 3 gallons.
11. Be sure the spray reaches right
through the trees. To insure this go
in, if necessary, underneath the tree
and 'spray the part beyond the trunk -
first, then step back to the outside
and spray the remaining part. Do
this from both sides. Remember that
it is the centre or shaded part of the
tree where scab naturally is worst,
and poor sprayers nearly always miss
this side, though they often cover the
sunny or outer side all right.
12. A tower, even with a spray
gun, is a great help. Often it will
suffice tg, standon the tank. A saw-
horse type of support along the
centre of the tank is .a safeguard
plenty of power.
4. Get a spray calendar from your
Agricultural Representative, or from
Mr. P. W. Hodgetts, Director of Fruit
Branch, Toronto, or Professor L.
Caesar, O.A.C., Guelph. Tack it up
in the spray shed where it will al-
ways be available.
5. Use only thespray materials re-
commended in the spray calendar.
6. Do not spray when it happens
to„ be convenient, but spray at' the
tunes the spray calendar says. •The
time of spraying is of vast import-
ance and the times given in the spray
calendar are based on years of study.
7. Omit none of the first three
regular sprays, some years the first
is the most important, some the sec-
ond and some the third. Each spray
helps to make the next more effec-
tive and each must be given to insure
clean fruit.
8. McIntosh and Snow trees should
always receive a fourth application.
Read what the spray calendar recom-
mends under "Special Sprays and
Remarks," and be guided by it.
9. You will not control San Jose
scale on large trees; twenty-five years.
old or more, unless you first prune
thein heavily and scrape the loose
bark off with a hoe. Then see that
every particle of the bark is wet with
against falling off.
13. Do not use large openings in
the discs of either nozzles or spray
guns unless you have 225 pounds
pressure or more. They are waste
ful, make it difficult to maintain high
pressure and give too coarse a spray.
14. In many cases better work will
be done with a rod and two angle disc
nozzles than with a gun. In any
case use some system in spraying, so
that you will make sure everything
is being covered in a methodical way.
How to Make Cottage
Cheese.
Cottage cheese is one of the kinds
which can be made satisfactorily in
small quantities. The process of
making it is very simple and is fully
'described in a pamphlet of tlie' Do-
Inilnion DeEEpartmeent of. Agriculture
entitled "Why and How to Use
Cheese." It is made from soured
skim -milk. The soured milk is put
in a pan and set over hot water until
it separates into curds and whey. It
is then strained through a double
oheese cloth over a dish and the curd
put in a bowl, well -mixed, seasoned
with salt and pepper, and a little
cream or butter added. After chill-
ing it is ready to serve. Stale
soured milk should not be used, and
the milk should not be allowed to
heat above lukewarm temperature,
otherwise the curd a,iIl be tough.
The whey which drains from the
curd niay be used as a beverage if
sweetened with sugar and flavored
with lemon juice. It should be strain-
ed and chilled before serving.
,Partial Sununer-Fallowing.
For the eradication of weeds a
partial summer -fallow is sometimes
useful. The land is handled as a suns
mer -fallow up to the time it is neces-
vary to sow some late seeded crop
such as buckwheat. The process is
' fully described in a bulletin of the
1 Dominion Department of Agricul-
tune on Crap Rotations and Soil Man-
agement in Eastern Canada;'in a sec-
tion on methods of controlling weeds.
It is stated there that buckwheat is
a fairly good crop with which to
smother out some weeds and, since
it is not seeded in some districts until
about Juno 21, time is available to
give the land very thorough cultiva-
tion before seeding. Another good
crop to use is rape, which also may I
be seeded late. When this systtin of
partial summer -fallow with a smoth-'
er crop is used it is advisable to plow
the land in the preceding fall, culti- i
vete thoroughly during the spring
and again plow and cultivate before
seeding.
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1 BASKETBALL LS LOTS
1. OF FUN . II
Basket ball is probably the rooster
popular indoor sport of the 'girl. Ie,'
is played by her in the colleges, in
the high schools, in clubs—wherever,
groups of girls athletically inclined
may gather.
As a game it has all the fascina-
tion of hard and interesting compe-
tition. As an exercise it has :been
endorsed, when properly regulated,'
by many physicians and directors of
physical education. Although devised
as an indoor sport, it may be played
in the open air when weather perr-
mite.
- The object of the players is to
pass the ball from one •to <another,
until it is tossed into one of the bas-'
kets which bang one at each end of
the court. A successful attempt at •
the basket is called a goal and may
count either one or two points, de-!
pending upon the condition under,
which it is made. The team scoring;
the greatest number of points, of
course, is the winner.
The rules are too numerous to 'dei
scribe in detail, but, . in a general
way, they resemble those of the fa -
miller professional er school gania'
played by men and boys. The essen-'
tial differences are that the girls'
rules do more to eliminate 'rough-
ness, Bold the players within certain•
marked divisions of the field—to
guard against over-exertion — ands
shorten the periods of play.
A marked effect of the girls' rules
is to emphasize team play rather
than individual starring, thus encour-.
aging that, spirit of co-operation'
which is the essence of all true
sportsmanship. As played to -day,'
the game encourages more girls to
enter, with the result that almost
every college and high school has its
teams that participate in regular
inter -school or interclass games. In
that it 'has fulfilled the purpose for
which basket ball was invented some
thirty-five years ago—to develop a
form of indoor exercise which should
combine muscular effort with -the fun•
of a game, and yet be available to all:
Any group of girls who want to 1e
play the game can enjoy it together,
even if they do not seek outside con-
ests. If no teacher is available, a'
ook of rules and directions will
quickly explain the underhand, over-
land and therm "passes"; the fine
pints of. "guarding" and "blocking
an opponent; the skilful "dodging"
and "pivoting"; the isnt;4:cacies of,
ignals and team play. Girls find
hemselves becoming adept, in a win-!
ter sport which is both fascinating
nd healthful, and which can be
layed in the open when spring calls
hem out-of-doors.—jean Merrill.
The High Cost of Smashing.
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Why do boys break windows any=
way? Because of the fun of it, the
smash of breaking glass that foie,
lows a geed shot or a careless swipe.;
Why, then, don't boysbreak windows,
all the time? . Why do. they .get over
it? And .the answer to that is right
here: because beye learn.' that glass
costs money, and what money means,
and how much work it takes to earn'
a dollar, and what property rights
are, and why civilized people have
agreed to respect the other fellow's
things. Grown-ups don't go around
smashing windows. Neither do boys,'
after they've developed' to a point,
when they've "learned better." It's
merely a matter of how fair along
they are in their social development.)
Let's do our bit for apple pie,
Time toothsome dish supreme
That hits the very spot ---oh m.yl
And helps keep up the steam.
There's, lots of pie tri prospect nocv,•
And Mother feels at ease
To ltonw our tummies can be filled,
'Cause father ski'�1.yea the tree&
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