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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1963
Page
8
Dorothy Woods Sapp explains the traditional method for forcing bulbs indoors. The piece covers trenching, layering, labeling, and managing temperatures for early blooms from crocus hyacinth and others, with notes on tulips daffodils and narcissus and methods using soil water and pebbles.
Dorothy Sapp reviews Simple Practical Hybridizing for Beginners by D Gourley Thomas. The guide explains hand pollination for flowers such as gladioli sweet peas daffodils roses chrysanthemums and carnations using simple tools and clear illustrations. It stresses a clear end goal and keeping careful cross records.
An 87-year-old Crete Nebraska native Mrs W W Hess moved to Mt Vernon with prairie plants including Kansas Gayfeather Liatris and Nebraska natives. Her garden features 300 labeled gladiolus notes and plans for Blue eyed African daisies next spring. She wrote Pioneer Paragraphs for Omaha World Herald and taught school before and after her husband’s death.
A list of building permit actions includes multiple homeowners and contractors. Notable entries cover new garages and fences for addresses such as 1112 Cave NW and 4409 Sherman NE, with fees ranging from 99 to 2486 dollars. Commercial projects include remodels at 215 lith NW and 112 4th SE with varied costs.
Instructions advise removing leaves and hanging flowers to dry in a ventilated room. Harvest spikes just before full bloom for best preservation.
The Go Gazette Want Ads section attracts more readers as more people turn to classified listings for local needs. Advertisers report steady response with growing engagement across categories.
The North American Gladiolus Council and the British Gladiolus Society will exchange articles and research for mutual interest. The British issue covers a new style glau gladiolus publication with fragrant gladiolus experiments begun in 1949 by Prof. T.T. Barnard using South African species. Royal Horticultural Society and Kew Gardens sent expeditions to Persia and Turkey collecting new plants. eighteen new gladiolus varieties were brought back.
Gardeners should install barriers to curb spread of aggressive perennials such as Shasta daisies day lilies phlox heliotrope beebalm pinks and lilies of the valley. Heliotrope is nearly unstoppable once established. Ground covers pachysandra Ceratostigma plum baginoides and Ajuga reptans can invade lawns and beds if not contained. Divide and thin overgrowth and plant hardy ground covers in restricted areas to control spread.
A display of original floral arrangements created during the Society of Iowa Florists convention will be open to the public from 7 to 9 p.m. today in the Roosevelt hotel lobby. The designs were made during the school of design featured Saturday and Sunday as part of the convention program that ended today.
A new strain of mixed hybrid multifloras is recommended for less experienced gardeners who wish to grow calceolarias, or the pocket book plant. These are compact dwarfs for small greenhouses. The plant is named pocket book for its pouch shaped flower.
The best time to cut asparagus tops is after the plant is killed by frost. Do not cut it when green.
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