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Deca ce MUTI Gul UR a aa GARDEN 'Covered Wagon' GUIDE Method Outlined For Growing Shrubs From Cuttings By A. R. BUCKLEY Plant Research Institute Modern materials and new techniques have made it pos- sible for the average home own- er to propagate some of the most ornamental deciduous shrubs from summer cuttings. One of the easiest ways of do- ing this is by the 'covered wagon' method, a technique in- volving the use of a propagat- ing case, covered with polye- thylene plastic, which, because of 'the framing used, bears a resemblance to this wagon of bygone days. To make this structure, get a box or a flat about 20 inches long, 14 inches wide and 4 inches deep. Fill the box to within half an inch of the rim with a mixture of equal parts sand and peat moss. Firm the medium into the box witha tamper made from a block of wood. Now get some willow twigs, thin bamboos or heavy | gauge wire. Bend them hoops and insert the ends in the inside of the flats making a framework similar to that of a covered wagon. Have at hand some sheets of polyethylene, or a number of laundry or fruit bags made from this material, to be attached to the frame after the cuttings have been inserted. From now until the end of July is a good time to take greenwood cuttings. Of course, you must have a source of ma- terial. If it is a hedge you need and you are visiting friends who have hedges of alpine currant, Amur privet, highbush cran- berry, arctic willow or spirea, you could ask them for cuttings since they should be trimming their hedge soon. Similarly, if you want deciduous shrubs, get in touch with someone who has spirea, honeysuckle, variegated etelder, snowberry, Somer daphne, cotoneaster, forsythia, hydrangea, mock-orange, tama- rix or weigela growing in their garden. These art all easy to root if taken in July. LEAFY STEMS When you are ready to col- lect your cuttings, equip your- self with a pair of pruning shears, some labels, twine or plastic wire and a polyethylene bag. Select leafy stems pro- duced this year that snap easily, for this is the wood that is most likely to take root. Cut twigs 10 inches to a foot long, like | which is much larger than your cuttings will be. Tie them in bundles, affix a label to each separate kind of twig clipping and then place them in the polyéethyiene bag. Tne cutting will not wilt in this bag and you ean safely leave them for sev- eral hours until you are, ready to make the cuttings. To prepare the cuttings se- lect the semisoft tip wood and make a slanting cut just below a node or the point from whicli a leaf or leaves arise. Remove the leaves from the two lower nodes and treat the cuttings by dipping the ends in a mild root- | ing compound, There are many | kinds of these root inducing hor- | mones on the market. They are | available in powder and liquid | forms and all of them make | rooting faster. | Next insert the cutiings two to. three inches deep in the |medium and space them one| |inch apart in the box, in rows | two to three inches wide ac- cording to their size and sub- stance. A flat with the dimen- sions given will hold from 75 to 100 cuttings. When you have inserted all your cuttings water them well from above with a fine rose watering can. This will set them firmly in the medium. Now attach the polyethylene to the willow or other framework by means of tacks or pegs and arrange the whole frame so that it looks like a covered wagon. Make sure it is airtight, but at one end allow for it to be open- ed: so that you may push a watering can spout through. Leave the frame in a sun- ny place but keep it shaded by means of a cloth during the hottest part of the day. It should not need watering for a week or 10. days, but it is a good plan to wet the leaves occasionally as they dry. You may need to do this every four or five days. In about three weeks test the cuttings by pulling one out to see if it has formed roots. Some kinds root faster than others. When they are rooted, plant the cuttings in the garden in some spot such as a corner of the vegetable area, and _ sprinkle them daily from above with a fine rose watering can until they no longer wilt. Leave the cut- tings in the nursery until next spring, when they may be plant- |ed outdoors or until the follow- ing fall. SHOW TIMES AT MOVIES REGENT -- Fun. for the whole family "Paradise Hawai- jan Style'. Elvis Presley once again sings his way imto the hearts of all his fans. In color. Shewn daily at 1:30, 3:25, 5:25, 7:20 and 9:25. Last com- plete show at 9:00 p.m. Now a name, soon a legend. Steve McQueen as 'Nevada Smith". He drank, killed, loved and never forgot how to hate. Co-starring Carl Malden, Brian Keith, Arthur Kennedy and Sus- an Pleshette. Adult entertain- ment in color. Starts Thursday. 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Durante averages six months of playing the top night clubs of the U.S., usually returns to his Beverly Drive home in_ late spring. He'll take a local date; last week he was playing Humpty Dumpty in NBC's spe- cial, Through The Looking Glass which will appear Nov. 6. Otherwise he preserves his summers, especially the three months he spends with wife Marge and daughter Cece at Del Mar, 100 miles south. "T wouldn't miss that for the word," said Jimmy. 'In the mornin' I'm out fishin' in the surf; I love it. Then in the aft- ernoon I go to the racetrack. I don't bet much, 'cause you can't win anyway when you play nine races. And that daily double! murder!" THE NOSE QUESTIONABLE The Durantes adopted Cece four years ago. She can do no wrong in his eyes. The only thing about her he deprecates is the nose. "How d'ya like that kid!" he shrugged. '"'All she got for a nose is a button. It's no big- ger'n a pimple. I keep pullin' on it, hopin' that'll make it grow. Nuttin' happens." Come early autumn Jimmy will once more be resuming his vagabondage. His wife and daughter sometimes join him in resorts such as Miami and Puerto Rico, but most of the time they stay home, STILL HAS KNACK Jimmy seems to have lost none of the explosive energy for which he has been noted throughout his long. career, He retains the ability to win any audience. He learned that while playing theatres and cafes in New York during his youth. "Ya hadda be on your toes in those theatres," he recalled. IN THE HOME WORKSHOP eae MAKE FLAGSTONES of dif- ferent sizes and colors by pour- ing concrete into a wooden mold. Pattern 229, which shows every step in building the mold for flag stones and also gives formulas and directions, is 50c. Packet 29 contains this pattern and three other full-size pat- terns for home improvements all for $1.75. 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