Microbial insecticides eyed as garden control advance
Garden readers learn that leading firms test microbial pesticides like Thuricide and Bacillus thuringiensis with Rohm & Haas and Stauffer Chemical. The humane, non target friendly products could dust or spray onto crops, claiming safety for humans and wildlife while potentially reducing chemical damage and resistance. Also tips on English Ivy cuttings and mulching basics appear, alongside advice on setting up an affordable home sprinkler system and plant care.
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Rohm & Haas
Stauffer Chemical Co
Cain Ae
Your Landscape Yard Water Outlets And Lime For Gardens
A periodical notice offers booklets on ornamental shrubs trees and evergreens for small homes with prices in coin. It promotes lime use every four years to improve soil, explains lime adds nutrients lowers acidity and helps soil temperature and moisture, and gives mulching tips for cooler soil and better seed germination.
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Wimy Casas
RoseMarie the Latest Oregon Pacific Dwarf Aster Release
RoseMarie, a new dwarf Oregon Pacific aster introduced in 1959 by Walter Marx Gardens of Boring Oregon and hybridized by Professor LeRoy Breithaupt, blooms abundant rose-red flowers from August to October on an 18 inch semi dwarf plant. The hardy, nearly sterile variety complements fall blooms and provides quick ground cover with dark green foliage and profuse blossoms.
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Oregon Pacific
Walter Marx
Boring
Ore
LeRoy Breithaupt
Oregon State College
Breithaupt
Prune Old Shrubs for Shape and Renewal
A gardening note advises hard pruning of overgrown shrubs like spirea and forsythia to about four inches above ground to spur new growth and reshaping. It suggests rejuvenating long‑dead specimens by cutting to stubs or ground level, and to prune spring flowering shrubs promptly after bloom to protect next year's buds.
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Elyria
Ice-free Sebago Lake Delights Maine Tourists in 1957 58
Mild winter temperatures kept Sebago Lake free of ice for most of the 1957 58 season, a rare condition occurring only the third time in 50 years, pleasing visitors to Maine's popular tourist destination.
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Sebago Lake
Maine
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