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T!ps On Care of P!an!00s Are Given
1 so ! s va t ot a these bulbs do not bloom the
rather idely eir so branches back to 2 every da following year but willbloom the
moisture and temperature above the pot and either plant in the soil gets good and wet. Wipe next year. This non-blooming is
requirements, the leaves off occasionally with a caused by the bulbs being forced
particularly, the garden (pot and all) or simply
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Because some of these plants are
grown under conditions quite
different in homes where they are
used, some special care greatly
increase their value. Here are
some suggestions for their care.
Poinsettias, cyclamen, azaleas,
Christmas cherries and Christmas
peppers are among the pot plants
commonly used for the Christmas
holiday season. Keep the soil of
your poinsettias fairly moist
during the blooming period. When
the blossoms finally drop, start
cutting down on water. Water
every other day for the first week,
twice the second week and then
let them slowly dry out. When the
plant is completely dry, it
becomes dormant. Put it in the
basement in a cool place until
spring. When the weather warms
out-of-doors enough to plant
tender seeds such as corn and
grow it indoors as a pot plant. In
'either case, you should have a
nice big plant next winter.
Azaleas require considerable
water. If the air in the home is
moist, watering only every second
or third day may be enough. Let
the soil become fairly dry before
watering. Don't try to keep it
soaking wet. When the blossoms
have all dropped, continue to
water. When spring comes, plant
out-of-doors. With winter
protection, some azaleas will
overwinter east of the Cascade
Mountains. You can bring the
plant in the house the following
fall. Whether you do or not,
remember azaleas like an acid soil.
Use plenty of peat moss both in
the graden and in the pot.
Cyclamen are easy to keep
blooming over a long period of
time. Keep them moist at all
Forest Service Ships
Trees From Nurseries
The-Forest Service's two tree
nurseries in the Pacific Northwest
Region shipped 9,700,000
seedlings for use in reforesting
National Forest lands this fall.
The total is 3,500,000 more than
a year ago.
The nurseries expect to ship
another 17,300,000 seedlings for
next spring's planting season. The
total -- 28,400,000 - would be a
record number for one year and
about 5,000,000 more than the
previous year. The nurseries are at
Wind River, Gifford Pinchot
National Forest, Washington, and
Bend, Deschutes National Forest,
Oregon.
The trees will reforest about
71,000 acres of National Forest
land. In addition, more than
I 0,000 pounds of seed were sown
by aircraft this fall on 5,000 acres
of land.
Last fiscal year about
19,000,000 seedlings were
planted on 50,000 acres and seed
sown on 10,000 acres. The acres
reforested were those from which
about 3,000,000,000 board feet
of timber had been harvested to
help meet the Nation's need for
wood products, according to
Regional Forester Charles A.
Connaughton. That volume would
build about 325,000
&hree-bedroom ranch-style houses.
Prompt reforestation of
cutover lands will assure an even
greater future yield through
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intensive forest management,
Connaughton said. The lands are
planted or sown with carefully
selected conifer species best
suited to each area. Principal
species used are Douglas-fir,
ponderosa pine, noble and Shasta
fir, and lodgepole pine.
In a d d i t ion to the
reforestation work, 73,000 acres
of young timber stands were
thinned last fiscal year in the 19
National Forests of the Pacific
Northwest Region (Oregon and
most of Washington).
Purpose of the thinning is to
remove worthless trees and brush"
and leave the kind and number of
trees that will grow most rapidly.
Thinning is done in dense,
stagnated stands too small for
commercial use. Remaining trees
in thinned stands increase their
annual diameter growth rapidly.
Thus commercial-sized trees will
be grown much sooner than in
unthinned, dense stands.
There are other benefits from
the thinning in commercial forest
land area, Connaughton pointed
out. it reduces losses from decay,
insects, and other natural causes.
Wildlife and livestock habitat is
improved, water for irrigation and
domestic uses usually increases,
and the probability of destructive
fire is reduced.
Such timber stand
improvements are the foundation
of intensive timber management
to produce more wood products
for the Nation's growing
population, the Regional Forester
said.
Intellectually I know that
America is no better than any
other country; emotionally I
l know she is better than every
D other country. - Sinclair Lewis
damp cloth to keep them clean. A
north window is better for them
than full sunlight.
When your cyclamen is through
blooming, dry it off gradually.
Put it in the basement, still in the
pot, but water it lightly every
three or four weeks to keep the
bulb from drying out completely.
When spring comes, remove the
bulb, soil and all out of the pot
and plant it in a partially shaded
spot. Repot it before the first
frost in the fall and bring it into
the house. Florists seldom try to
keep the plants over from year to
year. They prefer to start new
plants from seed. It requires
about 18 months from seed to
produce marketable plants.
Christmas cherries and
Christmas peppers require care
such as you give geraniums.
Allowing them to dry out causes
the leaves to turn yellow and
drop. They are quite tolerant to
temperature changes and about as
frost-hardy as tomato plants.
Don't let them freeze, it is
possible to keep the plants over in
the house and plant them out in
the spring. They like full sunlight.
Florists prefer to start from seed
every spring because the plants
otherwise get too large the second
year.
Mother's Day
and Easter Plants
Tulips, daffodils, lilies, azaleas,
hydrangeas, begoinias, roses,
cinerarias, calceolarias, and
cyclamen are the plants
commonly used for Mother's Day
and Easter. Keep bulb plants-
tulip, daffodil and lily, - in the
house at 60 to 65 degrees. Water
them as you would a geranium.
When the plants stop bloonfing,
plant them in the garden. Usually
into earlier bloom in the
greenhouse.
Keep hydrangeas at
approximately 65 degrees in an
east or west window. Keep the
soil moist but not soaked. Too
much moisture causes their roots
to rot. Give each plant a
teaspoonful of commercial
fertilizer once a month. Dissolve
the fertilizer in water. When the
blooms dry up, slowly dry the
plant but continue to water it
about once every two weeks. The
leaves will all fall off but continue
watering just the same. When
spring comes, plant it in a
partially shaded place in the
garden. Hydrangeas are
semi-hardy and will winterover
out-of-doors. Be sure to prune
them back heavily when you
plant them out.
Begonias are easy to grow the
year around in the house. You
can plant them in the garden or in
the window box. Keep the soil
moist. Frequent watering is
necessary. The plants bloom
continuously when you keep the
old blossoms picked off and
fertilize them as you fertilize
hydrangeas.
Baby Rambler of Polyantha
roses are hardy out-of-doors.
Water and fertilize them regularly.
Plant them in a permanent place
in the spring.
Cinerarias and calceolarias
usually remain in bloom four to
six weeks when given plenty of
water and kept at 60 to 65
degrees constantly. Avoid drafts.
East or west window exposures
are good. The plants wilt badly in
bright sunlight or high
temperature. Both cinerarias and
calceolarias are annuals so trying
to keep them after blooming is
not advisable.
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