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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1970
Page
3
A reader shares a cement based bonsai method and plant care guidance. Steps describe creating a rock base, planting sockets with a potato mold, and using a 10 inch saucer with dowels. Advice covers soil mixes, watering, pest control, and handling citrus and egg shell amendments for roses and tomatoes.
The Lorain County Rose Society invites the public to a Thursday slide show at the Oberlin Community Building next to the Oberlin Post Office at 7 pm. Color slides cover plant and shrub propagation and new roses for 1970. Guest speaker is Mrs Peter Zimmerman. Coffee and cookies will be served.
Readers discuss bark slashing to hasten fruiting on fruit trees and its contested effectiveness. The note explains a June bark removal method, cautions about cambium damage, and promotes a new Green Thumb book on fruit and vegetable gardening for homeowners with 355 pages of guidance.
The author contrasts Florida and Ohio gardening, praising care, water, and labor over luck. He recalls neatly kept Palm Beach estates and a standout Akron gardener who pours fertilizer and combines skill with effort. Snowy January nights prompt plans to start hotbeds, while terminal willow branches hint at coming spring and decorative colors.
This guide details winter forcing of shrubs such as pussywillow, Japanese flowering quince, flowering plum, cherry, almond, pear, crab apple, redbud, saucer magnolia, and weigela. It advises selecting branches with abundant buds, cutting last year’s growth, warming in a cool room, spraying periodically, and covering with a plastic bag or burlap. blossoms should appear in two to three weeks for indoor bringing.
COLUMBUS UP I Many hybrid horticultural items may be interesting to grow but they won’t necessarily develop as well as normal crops in Ohio. Extension horticulturist James D Utzinger advises selecting varieties from current recommendations and using seed catalogs, with catalogs from 1970 offering descriptions, prices, and maturity times.
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