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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1957
Page
2
Build a color scale model of your lot to plan gardens and color harmony. Model the house with shirtboard, shape a roof, and color windows and trim to match the real home. Use colored paper for driveways lawns and trees, place shade and evergreens, and color flowers to harmonize with the roof.
A garden column discusses weed control using Di Sodium methyl arsenate and seasonal spraying limits to avoid turf injury. It also covers lilac pruning strategies to maintain size, shape, and bloom, including methods for drastic or gradual reduction and removing suckers to improve form.
A compact garden plan for just over 1,000 square feet creates privacy, interest, and an inviting patio. The design uses a sheared hedge with wire fencing, flowering borders, and varied perennials to maximize space and living area. It includes practical notes on azaleas, soil acidity, watering, and inexpensive booklets offer guidance for small home landscapes.
A reader describes dry lawn patches and feeding by worms, likely chinch bugs or Japanese beetle grubs. The note suggests Chirdane to control them with a wet spray or dust, detailing mixing rates for broad coverage.
June and July are good for shearing decorative evergreens but avoid crew cuts on coarse growing types like pine spruce and fir. Prune only half to two thirds of current growth and let some new growth form each year. Fine evergreens such as yews arborvitae junipers and hemlocks shape easily but should still expand with year to year growth.
The article compares perennials and annuals noting that perennials require annual trimming and occasional division, may bloom 2 3 spring and summer, and suffer more disease over time. It also notes annuals bloom from midsummer to frost, grow fast, resist disease, and provide late season color.
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