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Newspaper
Daily Review
Location
Hayward, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1956
Page
9
Practical notes urge marking spraying dates on a calendar and observing a thirty day interval between oil sprays. Avoid spraying within 30 days of sulfur or just before frost, except dorment trees after leaves drop. Dormant spray plans for fruit and street trees are outlined, with cautions on DDT use and codling moth control.
Chicago antique dealers report a surge in old keys used for decoration. Black iron keys from the 1800s, two feet long, are popular and often hung on walls beside sofas to contrast wood paneling. Brass keys from the early 1900s are mounted on wood shields or hung with straps as distinctive door knockers.
San Francisco Bay designer Sally Parks advocates focusing on the background rather than frames to showcase art. She says imagination and allusion are more important than elaborate framing for selling one's treasures.
A Mt Eden couple, the He J Kent, maintain a 2.5 acre estate at 26810 Mobr Grive with about 1500 camellia plants. What started as a hobby became a sideline as they cultivate 50 plus varieties, discuss soil, sun, mulch, and propagation by cuttings and root-fringing seedling programs. They plan a small shop for redwood tubs and containers and foresee growing demand for potted camellias and seasonal arrangements during bloom time.
December planting of primrose seedlings boosts early spring color. Morning sun with light shade best. enrich beds with manure and leaf mold. Seedlings set now bloom next season, though field-grown crowns may appear later at higher prices.
A gardener's checklist covers making a compost from grass clippings and soft wood prunings, top dressing borders with steer manure, pruning evergreen shrubs and fruit trees, and following a pruning manual from a nurseryman. It warns to use a proper spray gun for cleanup sprays and notes inexpensive spray guns are available.
Local nursery offers a selection of garden spreaders rakes hoes cultivators and gloves. Also available are pottery containers redwood tubs decorative bird baths and ceramic fibers for gifting gardeners this holiday season.
The living Christmas tree idea blends beauty with reuse. Nurseries offer evergreens in containers or rootball, with varieties like Cedrus deodara and Picea species. Plant indoors for holiday decor then transplant outside to enjoy year round.
The piece describes the joys of gardening beyond beauty and taste. It notes the uplifting feeling while tending plants and the social exchange of ideas with neighbors. It highlights saving seeds and slips from excess produce as a benefit of regular gardening activity.
Eden Garden club renewed its project to supply the Hay yard Public library with real arrangements for December, Angela Davis overseeing. Members donated to Hayward’s Laura Francis home for handi capped infants at Christmas. Dor. 3 meeting of San Torenzo Village Garden club hosts a potluck Christmas party with Astrid Carillo organizing the potluck and other members handling decorations and entertainment. Regular meeting Jan. 2 features a plant table and officer elections, with a 6:30 pm dinner at Hayward High School. Fastbay branch of the American Gesneria Society donated 50 to Liberty Hyde Bailey Memorial, aiming for a living memorial honoring the botanist.
Seasonal pruning advice urges readers to act now and trim trees decisively. Begin at the trunk removing weak or damaged limbs, then remove inward branches causing crowding, forming a candleabra-like framework, and finally shape by trimming beyond an imagined line.
Azaleas blooming in reds pinks scarlet oranges and white are available in containers for holiday bouquets. Nurseries feature Indian Azaleas such as Paul Schame with single salmon orange flowers and Crimson necking, and Charles Encke with medium light salmon flowers.
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