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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1967
Page
21
Landscape piece explains cold frames as sun powered plant starters with bottomless boxes 3 by 6 feet behind a garage plan. It covers location soil, materials redwood cedar or cypress framing plastic glazing sash painting, ventilation, cleaning glass and mounting hardware. It also includes Q A on scale control and staking new trees.
A reader shares how to force pineapple fruit using a ripe apple and a plastic bag, plus notes on growing Christmas cactus, tree roots, filberts, and Impatiens. Advice covers light duration, pollination, spraying for blight, and maintenance realities of gardening.
A Southern Illinois University botanist has set aside a mile long virgin prairie segment near Carbondale and Urbana along the Illinois Central tracks. The university will lease the 40 yard wide strip from the railroad for $1 a year to maintain and protect the area.
In Frankfort Kentucky the State Police plan to boost trooper numbers by enlisting discharged veterans. Headquarters reviews records and contacts men who meet physical and educational standards. The force cannot reach the 50 per year growth authorized by the 1966 legislature.
A Ohio State expert explains wood selling terms from cord to rick and crib, and introduces press to log briquettes. He notes briquettes burn cleaner and hotter, with advantages in handling, smoke, and price justification. He also covers how storage space, usage, and distance affect cost and advises on hardwood favors for regular logs.
George Abraham answers on how to keep umbrella tree Schefflera healthy, advising slightly dry, warm room, thorough water then surface drying, light to semi shady windows, and avoid watering on foliage. Overwatering causes brown leaves. dust with zinc or captan. propagate by cuttings in sand or peat mix.
Plant pathologist Rob ert E. Partyka of Ohio State University recommends a fungicide treatment for gladiolus corms to reduce disease next spring. Corms are dug on dry soil, cleaned, dried with heated air at 85 to 95 degrees and 50 percent humidity, then stored at 35 to 40 degrees. Diseased corms are discarded to prevent spread.
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