New Vegetable Varieties For Iowa Gardens In 1969
Horticultural expert Ben F. Vanee notes several new varieties for Iowa gardens. Burpee hybrid Crenshaw muskmelon ripens earlier in Ames trials, green bean varieties Spartan Arrow Richgreen and Bush Blue Lake offer early yield and long harvests, and blue Lake pole bean improves. A Burbank Sweet Corn hybrid shows good flavor and frost tolerance while Sun Up tomato offers high yield and quality, with Mandarin orange tomato as an option.
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Iowa
Burpee
Ames
Horticultural Research Station
Roses and geraniums feature in Ames gardening trials
The Ames Station highlights long running trials on new fruit hybrids and roses. Four 1969 All-America Rose selections include Angel Face Comanche Gene Boerner and Pascali. It also details ISU bred geraniums Pink Cloud Cardinal Galaxie Pink Jade and Summer Time, their heat tolerance and ideal growing conditions in Iowa.
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Ames
Iowa
Vinedale
Tokyo Bell
All-America Rose Selections Committee
Ben Vance
Iowa State University
America
E. C. Volz
Horticulture Department
Griffith J. Buck
Geraniums As Busy Summer Bedding Plants
A May 1968 Iowa State extension note advises wide spacing for geraniums to promote low branching and stresses mid May planting for central Iowa. It highlights well drained beds, careful watering to avoid foliage wetness, and offers FS-1282 as a information sheet from ISU Publications Distribution in Ames Iowa.
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Vance
Iowa
Iowa Farm Science
Iowa State University
Ames
A Fair Field Traces Fairfield History by Susan Welty
Susan Fulton Welty, a native Fairfielder and former Parsons faculty member, has published A Fair Field tracing Fairfield and Jefferson County history from Indian times to the present day.
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Jefferson County
Susan Fulton Welty
Fairfielder
Parsons
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Rome
Paris
Geneva
Madrid
London
Vienna
Iowa State
Farmers Mutual Hail
Erhardt Lahmann
Tripoli
Iso
Bremerounty Mutual Fire & Wind Insurance
Bremer County
Far H. Welshons
P.E
Bremer
Pioneer Seed Corn
Cedar Falls
Clifford Trent
Frederika
J. C. Hassman
Plainfield
Lee Peters
Sumner
Allen Buhr
G Sumner
August Buhr
Waverly
Wendell Michael
Murex
Rainbow Farm Center
DIAL
United States Brewers Association
USBA
United States Brewers Association, Inc
P.O
Osceola
Zenith Afc
Zenith
Danville
Wehling’s
Radio & TV
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