The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-04-07
Nation Wide Move to Plant
Flower Gardens This Year

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Plans Sponsored BY United States
George Washington Bicenten-
NAL Year
This is the time of year to think
about planting flower gardens.
Every back yard, every strip of
fertile soil is a potential flower
garden and may be made to bloom
in honor of the Father Of His
Country in this Bicentennial year.
Evan as little as fifty cents worth
of seeds will plant garden any
one may be proud of which will
give joy to hundreds Of passersby.
In a nationwide broadcast at
1:3O p. m. Thursday, March 18th,
the Secretary of Agriculture,
Arthur M. Hyde. officially opened
the Bicentennial flower garden
campaign which is sponsored by
the United States George Wash
ington Bicentennial Commission.
The United States Marine Band
Orchestra played a program of
| appropriate music. and Congress
man Sol Bloom. Associate Director
of the Commission explained the
proposed plan which is, to have
every vacant space all over the
country bloom with flowers this
summer in honor Of the Bicenten-
NAL Committee in each state is
promoting in planting flowers in
honor of this great celebration.
The United States Department of
Agriculture is cooperating also
and horticultural experts attached
to Agricultural Colleges in each
state are doing Elective work in
promoting this activity. through
the schools of each state. .>"''s
In consequence, hundreds of
amateur gardeners will plant Col
onial flowers, ANIMALS and peren-
malls, which were familiar in the
time Of George Washington and
which will bloom each year as a
permanent memorial to his men,
DRY.
The United States George Wash
ington Bicentennial Commission
has secured from the Department
Of Agriculture a list of flowers
which were familiar in Colonial
Days which will be particularly
adaptable to this kind of; cele-
grafton. .er..
For bright sunshine with plenty
Of fertility and moisture: Overo4
feet high. castor-bean. cosmos,
sunflower, sorghum, feterita,' milo,
and Indian corn; over 8 feet,
Josephs-coat, love lies bleeding,
feather cockscomb. orange sun
flower, princesfeather, spider
flower, and .summer-cypress;. so
inches, cornflowed, larkspur. scab-
iosa, scarlet sage, strawflower, and
zinnia; "a inches, balsam, calliop-
sis, China-aster. summer chry-
santhemum, cockscomb, cone
flower, four-o'clock gaillardia.
Aztec marigold, platycodon, poppy,
salpiglossis, snapdragon, and
snow-on-the mountain; Is inches,
Jobs-tears, mignonette and stock;
IL inches. calendula, California
poppy, calliopsis, candytuft, French
marigold, petunia, Drummond
phlox, pink, and Iceland poppy;
under II inches, ageratum, cocks
comb, lobelia, portulaca. sweet
alyssum, and verbena.
of Easiest Culture under Or
binary garden conditions: Over
feet, sunflower about 3. feet,
Josephs-coat, Notwithstanding
heliopsis and princesfeather; about
80 inches, cornflower, strawflower,
and zinnia; about "a inches, Gallo
psis. summer crysanthemum, cone
flower, gaillardia, marigold, poppy
and snow-on-the-mountain; about
Is inches, mignonette; about IL
inches, Capemarigold, calendula,
tuft, petunia. Drummond phlox,
pink, dwarf nasturtium, portulaca,
and sweet alyssum.
On Light Fertile Soil: Gaillardia,
marigold, Drummond phlox, and
portuiaco. ,
On Light Soil, Not Too Rich:
Cockscomb and feather cocks
comb.
On Poor Soil: Love lies bleed
ing, princesfeather, -Joseph-coat. |
Capemarigold, godetia, dwarf mas
turtium, portulaca, grass-pink, |
sweet alyssum, garden balsam,
and calliopsis.
On Land Near the Seacoast:
Plants from the three foregoing |
lists depending on the fertility of |
the soil, together with the castor
bean, suflower. heliopsis, spider
flower, cornflower, strawflower,
zinnia, calliopsis, snow-on-the-
mountain, four-o'clock, stock, cal
endula, California-poppy, petupia.
and sweet alyssum.
In Partial Shade: Basketflower,
sweet-sultan, clarkia, platycodon,
godetia, Drummond phlox, pansy,
sweet alyssum, lupine, and for
get-me-not.
Especially Responding to Rich
Soil: Castor-bean. scarlet sage,
balsam, and China-aster.
To Cut for Everlastings: Rose
everlasting, feathered cockcomb,
globe-amaranth, and strawflower
Not Adapted to the South: ex-
cept for late and early spring: Sal
piglossis, pansy and for-get-me-
not
Plants that can be started to
advantage In Hotbeds and Cold
frames for early Towering, wheth-
er they are to be used for bedding
purposes or for cut flowers:
Ageratuu. China-aSter. CalliopSis.
castor-bean, calendula, cosmuos.
cockscomb, chrysanthemum, CODE
tia, 1obelia, marigold, petunia.
grass-pink scarlet sage, spider
flowerand verena.
Some plants that may be sown
in Beds in the Open Ground and
later transplanted to the perman-
emit locations are ageratum, calen-
dula, colliopsis, China-aster.
Clarkia cockscomb, dahlia, gail
lardia, lobelia, migonette, pansy,
pink, snapdragon, spiderflower,