All American Rose Selections 1969 Roses Angel Face Comanche Gene Boerner Pascals
Angel Face Lavender floribunda is a new allAmerica award winner noted for deep lavender color large blooms and old fashioned fragrance. Comanche Orange Red Grandiflora features bold scarlet blossoms on tall cutting stems and candelabra clusters. Gene Boerner Pink Floribunda stands out as the only pink rose selected for 1969 with constant bloom and spiral bud form. Pascals White Hybrid Tea symbolizes Easter with pristine form, slight fragrance and strong mildew resistance.
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Angel Face
Comanche
Gene Boerner
Eugene S. Boerner
Jackson & Perkins Co
Pascals
Louis Lens
Belgium
Pascali
Oleanders and Hibiscus Grow in Warm Gardens
Oleanders are evergreen shrubs thriving in sun, with five to six months of bloom in colors red white salmon pink and yellow. They tolerate heat wind and light frost, adapt to various soils, and can be trained into small trees. caution as all parts are poisonous. Hibiscus offer six to eight months of color, not suitable for frost pockets, with evergreen-like Raphi olepis and other compact forms for window borders and patios.
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S. California
Lakewood
Armstrong Nursery
Kathleen Beckworth
Long Beach Orchid Society Meets at Wardlow Park Clubhouse
The Long Beach Amateur Orchid Society plans its regular meeting Monday at 8:00 p.m. in Wardlow Park Club House Standbridge Ave and Wardlow Rd. Carlos Ripley will discuss the World Orchid Conference in Sydney Australia.
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Long Beach
Grant to Claremont Water Plan Payoff
Claremont University Center received a 407000 grant from the Earl W Huntley Foundation of Los Angeles. Louis T Benezet, center president, announced the award on Friday and noted the plant's usefulness for foliage arrangements and floral displays. The piece adds cultivation tips, recommending organic soil mix and ample watering as the plant establishes.
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Claremont
CNS
Claremont University Center
Earl W. Huntley Foundation of
Los Angeles
Louis T. Benezet
Roses Yellowing and Dropping Leaves and Peach Tree Fertilization Guidance
Winter yellowing of rose leaves is normal and cinquefoil canes rotting from excess moisture and deep planting. Edge rose bed with Sweet Alyssum is harmless. Fertilize six-year-old peach with 6 10 4 plant food. 3 pounds within two feet of drip line after watering, then spread half-inch manure after watering.
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Alice Sumner
Plants for acid soil and year round garden tasks
The article lists plants that tolerate acid soil such as fuchsias camellias gardenias rhododendrons begonias liquidambars magnolias and other well known species. It notes hardy shrubs can be planted any time except when soil is wet or during frost and grass lawns can be sown year round.
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Desert
Garden Clubs Meeting Slated
Long Beach Garden Club will meet February 12 at 1 00 p.m. in the Glendale Federal Savings and Loan community room at 5535 Stearns Street Los Altos Shopping Center. The program is Garden Plans for 1969 with seed and flower catalogs on display and garden books reviewed. Visitors are welcome.
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Glendale Federal Savings and Loan
Los Altos
Stearns
Time for Planting A Guide to Bare Root and Seed Planting
This notice lists recommended planting activities including bare root shade fruit trees roses and perennials like lil ies iris bearded varieties and strawberries along with cane berries asparagus and rhubarb. It then covers low flower seeds for many annuals perennials and wildflowers and includes bedding plant plantings of delphinium stock pansy viola primrose and herbs alongside low vegetable seeds such as Swiss chard parsley spinach pea mustard celery endive lettuce carrot beet and cabbage.
If Christopher Columbus Lived Today Motorbike Discovery
Classified ads urge readers to check for good buys now while humorously imagining Christopher Columbus discovering America on a motorbike.
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America
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