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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1958
Page
18
Edna King Mandeville visits a large seed house to show how millions of tiny seeds are prepared packed and distributed. The article describes tagging, filling machines, heavy orders for sweet peas and light petunia seeds, and shipments to all 48 states with air and truck deliveries.
A horticulture note details climbing, rambling, and pillar roses. It explains growth habits, bloom cycles, and training needs for climbers tall and ramblers, with examples like Alpha Blossomtime Coral Dawn Blaze and New Dawn, plus care tips and a reference book by Helen Van Pelt Wilson.
The article outlines pruning as a method to restore ugly, overgrown shrubs. Select large old stems and remove them to the ground each year, repeating annually until all old wood is gone, typically taking three years or more to rejuvenate the plant.
Warm weather signals start of pest control season for home gardens. DDT has been largely replaced by safer substitutes like chlordane dieldrin lindane methoxychlor and parathion, with fungicides such as captan ferbam nabam zinc and zineb offering plant disease protection.
TV writer Erick Moll turns his Playhouse 90 characters Morris Seidman and Son into a novel Seidman and Son from Putnam now boosts Moll to bestseller status It is a Book of the Month and Reader's Digest selection while Broadway producers consider a stage adaptation Moll credits Seidman for inspiration and notes critics differ but he aimed for warmth not Balzac levels.
The Teamsters Union protests a $350,000 legal fees claim linked to the Hoffa removal suit. The case ended in a compromise allowing Hoffa to serve as president with a court panel supervising union affairs. Judge F Dickinson Letts will determine the fee awards for three attorneys, Schmidt Dodd and Blumenfeld.
AP features writer Cynthia Lowry reports lavish spring rainfall spurs rapid lawn growth and early weed spread. Readers hear advice on mowing height from now through hot weather, plus selective weed killers and targeted hand treatment for dandelions plantains lambs quarters dock and thistle.
Listings preview evening and tomorrow programs across stations WHIO WLW WCPO WKRC WPFB WM. Highlights include An swer Please, baseball Cincinnati vs Philadelphia, Memorial Day services at Arlington, Dick Powell in Face of Fear, boxing Beecham vs Webb, John Raitt with Howard Morris, Kevin McCarthy and Thomas Gomez South American rebels, Riffraff with Jean Harlow and Spencer Tracy, and They Made Me a Criminal with John Garfield.
Plant diseases and insect pests may hinder growth of roses, asters, gladiolus, snapdragons, hollyhocks, lilies and delphinium. Many problems are not easily visible yet cause damage. Portland cement derives its name from a concrete quarried on the Isle of Portland.
Garden guidance advises removing faded lilac flower heads to improve next year’s blooms. Tulips should have seed heads snapped off just below their forming heads to redirect energy to next season’s growth.
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