Buddha Named All America Camellia Selection for 1958
The all America Camellia Selections Inc selects Buddha as the 1958 camellia of distinction. Originating in China Buddha is a cross of Camellia reticulata and Gs dg a group, grows as a large plant into a small tree, and blooms mid season in February and March with huge pink flowers noted for substance and lasting beauty.
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China
All-America Camellia Selections, Inc
Organization of America
AACS
TV Set Buying Styles Move With Home Decor
TV buying guidance compares portable table model and console styles during National Television Week. It advises matching color and style to room, ensuring the set is visible from all areas, and using curtains or drapes to reduce glare when placed opposite a window.
Nurseryman To Address Forest Hills Garden Club
A Colby's Nursery representative will address Forest Hills Garden Club Monday at 8 pm in Vanney School multi purpose room. Russell Jones was elected president after Mrs. Boyd K. Palmer resigned, and the group invites new members per publicity chairman Mrs. Ruth Maita.
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Castro Valley
Colby
Forest Hills
Apple Tree Adds Beauty and Shade to Gardens
An apple tree enhances a garden with unmatched beauty in bloom and fruit in summer. It provides metal shade and a pleasing silhouette after the leaves fall, contributing year round charm and a cheerful presence.
Crafting Elegant Trays with Canvas Wall Covering
A DIY guide describes transforming ordinary metal serving trays into stylish pieces. It explains painting the underside and upper rim, then attaching a canvas wall covering to the top using waterproof adhesive for a durable finish.
National Home Week Promotes House Sales Trends
Builders launch the tenth annual National Home Week from September 21 to 29 to test buyer resistance to higher prices as appliance makers and mortgage lenders join in. The event highlights model homes with updated interiors and outdoor space, larger families driving more bedrooms and baths, and kitchens outfitted with automatic appliances to ease household chores.
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National Home Week
Cotoneasters as low ground cover and trailing plants
The article describes many cotoneaster species ideal for ground cover, wall or bank trailers, and tubs or rocky spots. It highlights Cotoneaster Dammers, also known as Barberry Cotoneaster, forming a rooting mat with glossy leaves, white flowers, and scarlet berries.
Geranium Ideal Ground Cover and Container Planting
The trailing habit of the Ivy Geranium suits ground cover on slopes and along parking strips in mildew areas of California. It is equally attractive in hanging baskets window boxes or other container setups.
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California
Gladiolus Digging Time Dawns for Southern Alameda
The article notes gladiolus foliage turns brown signaling digging time. Planting corms at intervals delays digging for late bloomers. A uniform early digging plan allows clean curing and storage. Digging with stems still attached helps avoid missing corms, with partial stem remaining.
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Dorothy Bayliss
Gladiolus Corm Cultivation and Curing Practices
The guide describes cleaning shower curtains and curing gladiolus corms after digging. It covers soaking, rinsing, and drying methods, corm and cormel handling, top trimming, storage in bags with dusted DDT, and planting/cultivation timelines to reach blooming size over two to three years.
Two Step Glazier's Points Setting Trick
A simple two step operation uses a light oil to coat glass points. Pour a little oil in a small container then dip the metal points. The coating makes the points stick to glass freeing both hands for setting.
Begonia Fete In Capitola Draws Huge Gathering
Capitola hosts the Fifth Annual Begonia Festival drawing thousands of visitors and locals. Begonia blooms donated by two hybridizers decorate waterways and floats while events include a Begonia Queen coronation, a waterway parade, a street Esplanade dance, kiddie boat races, and a Capitola fish derby.
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Capitola
Soque
Chamber of Commerce
Jack Dale Iinger
Sabas
Rosemary Walpole
Soquel Creek
Soquel Bridge
Fahade
Uncle Sam
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Camellia Selection
Airvent
Airvent Awning CO
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Hayward Jefferson
40Th St
Oakland
Alameda County
Glazier
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