HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1969-08-28, Page 18GA OODMICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1969
Garden notes
Coral Bells most graceful
BY! A. R. BUCKLEY
There are many species and
cultivars, of plants that go to
make up a delightful herbaceous
border. Tall stout daisies, large
leaved plantain lilies, floriferous
perennial as ters, stately
delphiniums -and dwarf edging
plants like arabis and iberis are
among these.
But no plant serves a more
useful function that the graceful
Coral Bells or Heuchera. This is
an excellent neat low growing
perennial with evergreen leaves
in milder areas and leaves that
turn to bronze in colder ones. Its
graceful spikes of tiny
bell-shaped or saucer-shaped
drooping flowers last a
considerable time and the
pattern and texture of the leaves
of most species is ' a highly
desirable feature. •
Heucheras produce their
blooms from May to July and
these last nearly_all summer for
they seem to be almost
indeatructable. Many choice
cultivars will send up spires of
bloom in August or September
that remain on the plants until
removed in the late fall cleanup.
These plants require a good
rich moist soil and will not
tolerate dry conditions. Yet the
soil must be well drained for the
roots are shallow and a
• concentration of soggy soil
around their collars will
accelerate their demise by the
winter frosts. They may be
planted in early fall or spring.
When planting make sure the
crown is placed about one inch
below soil level to compensate
for inevitable heaving in spring.
Even so it is often necessary to
push the crowns back in the soil
when the frost is out of the
ground. To P•rolong the period
of bloom the plants must •be
watered during
Some winter
advisable on
prbvinces.
There are very few species of
Heuchera cultivated in gardens.
Heuchera sanguinea and
Heuchera brizoides are the two
chiefly involved. Heuchera
sanguinea, a 'flamboyantred
species from Mexico. and
Arizona, was at one time the
only one used for gardens. Now
with so many hybrids it is
almost forgotten. 'CrOsses of
Heuchera, sanguinea and.
Heuchera brizoides- have resulted
in new cultivars with larger
blooms and many more flower
scapes per plant.
Tests'on new cultivars carried.
out at the Plant Research
Institute over the past few years
revealed an astonishing number
of top-rated cultivars with a
spectacular display of colors.
Many of these were from
European breeders, particularly
Alan'' Bloom of Bressingham,
England.
The • highest rated and
hardiest among those tested at
dry periods.
covering is
the prairie
Ottawa are as follows:
Bressingham Biaze: An
extremely brilliant cultivar that
overshadowed most, of those
under test. Its individual florets
are wide flared bells produced in
clusters containing as. many as
ten flowers in a cluster with 20
or more clusters on each stem.
Damask: A delicately graceful
plant with glowing carmine -rose
flowers; Firebird: This vivid
crimson scarlet cultivar had 54
scapes to each plant; Freedom:
The rose pink sprays of this
cultivar were produced in
'abundance on 18 inch stems.
The pink, florets were enhanced
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Teacher: Mary-. Lynne Telford, S.O.T.A., B.A.T.D.
CLASS LESSONS: $1.00 per half hour
$1.50 per hour
PRIVATE LESSONS: $3.00 per half hour
Anyone wishing to register please phone 524-9635 or
write to M. L. Telford, 115 Elgin Avenue W.,
Goderich, before September 6.
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The flowers of
slender stems.
by a ring of narrow white
aborted stamens.
Jubilee: A very showy, long
lasting cultivar with rose -pink
flowers and prominent yellow
stamens. One of the tallest,
kerowing to 2'/2 feet; Pearl Drops:
'A form with small white flowers
on slender stems; Pruhoniciana:
An extremely floriferous cultivar
that averaged 60 stems per plant.
Its individual florets' were deep
rose -pink produced on stems 18
inches long.
Scintillation: The flowers of
this cultivar are large and very
light pink; they are produced in
great abundance, averaging 62
scapes per plant. Because of its
beauty, grace and symmetry this
cultivar was rated highest of all
those under test; Sparkler: Its
flowers are carmine and scarlet
on very slender sprays set off by
dark .green foliage; Sunset: Pink
bells with coral red lips. Upright
growing and good foliage; Queen
of Hearts: A cultivar with large
red florets, .produced on long
stems tat renders them
excellent for cutting. -
the coral,
tells are produced on graceful
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FALLTERM
Students are reminded that school commences on Tuesday,
September 2, 1969. Students from the Goderich District
'Collegiate Institufe area who are attending Goderich District
Collegiate and Central Huron Secondary School in Clinton,
will report to Goderich Collegiate.
On TUESDAY only, school will commence at 9:40 a.m..This
nieans the/ buses will travel the-routes:approximately, forty
minates later than on a norm -al -School day. -
Grade 9 students attending Goderich District Collegiate
Institute are to report to the cafeteria.
" rade 10 students attending Goderich Collegiate are to
report to the new gymnasium.
Grades 11, 12 and 13 students attending Goderich Collegiate
are to report to the auditorium (old gym).
Students attending Central' Huron SecOridary school are tO
report fo the Large Group Instruction Room. Central Huron
students must register at Goderich before they, report to
Clinton.
Buses will travel approximately the same routes as last year.
FOr details as to time and location, please contact:
.Mr. Rex Duckworth, Goderich, 524-8462 or 524-6271 or
Mr. Alvin Sherwood, Dungannon, 529-7929.
Grade 13 students should bring funds to purchase twit books
as shown on the book list provided in June.
Grades 9; 10 11 and -12 students will be supplied with all
text books by the School Board.
Any student not registered for the new term should contact
the school during this week to eliminate confusion on
opening day.
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From the two or three
cultivars known up to less than
ten years ago we hde up to 50
to choose from today, although
it inay take a few years before
this many become available in.
Canada. In the meantime, any of
the above-mentioned cultivars
are worth the effort necessary to
Obtain them.
RASPBERRIES
As soon as red raspberries
have finished bearing, ° cut out
old fruiting canes, advise
horticulturists with the Ontario
Department of Agriculture and
Food. Red raspberry canes are
biennial; they grow one year,
fruit the following year, then
die.
Old canes should be cut off at
ground level. The removal of old
canes soon after bearing helps
prevent the spread of disease to
new growth. The trimmings
should be 'burned if disease was
evident.
THE BLUE THUMB
essons from the Moon
In an age when "news"
concerns itself predominantly
with murder, arson, rebellion,
Volence, mob action -etc it was
_Ivry fitting that for a period of
-days the screens of the world
should have been sattirate-d•with
the heroic performance of three
t4,
jerfectly normal and very
'modest young men. They spoke
little but said much. They were
ever magnanimous in passing on
the 'adulation heaped upon them
to those other men, numbered in
huitreds of thousands, who
gave them the vehicle and who'
had built into it such amazing
reliability.
It was time we retrieved our
confidence in mankind. It was
time we regained our faith in the
noble virtues.. It was time ,,we
eschewed the false gods of
permissiveness, irresponsibility,
indiscipline and license and took
some heed of honesty; more
especially technical honesty.
Who could fail to feel reality
returning when a 26 year old
youth took upon himself, the
responsibility to say "GO!"
whereas had he lost his nerve, he
might have said "STOP!" Let us
hope we can hang on to this.,
exhilaration. Let us hope it will
give us the courage of our
convictions.in future. This seems
to me to be the first lesson.
The second lesson of this
magnificent team effort lies in
the realization of the absolute
necessity to Mobilize all our
forces when we undertake to
solve an immense problem.
Many public speakers and
commentatin-s, this . past few?
weeks, have inevitably fingered
the Matter, of' the priority of the.
Moon Landing, as cornpared
with the, running sores of
Poterty, . Hunger, Civil Rights
and Lawlessness. •
The Moon Landing was
pattern of how, to bring any
major project to a successful
conclusion, arid although the
cost was measured in billions of
dollars, • the whole .expenditure
was redeemed by its fabulous
success. For money apart,
success was due to selecting the
men with the brains and
aptitudes, to training them, and
finally welding thern into a team
with a soul and great dedication.
Compare, then, our failure to
make appreciable headway
against want, hunger, inadequate
shelter, inflation, integration and
loss of personal freedom. Why-
sh,ould we always fall flat on all
our social problems? To date
these problems have invariably
been sought to' be resolved by
Money, Money too often placed
in unscrupulous hands. It never
seems to occur to recruit a
number of men and women and,
having weeded out the duds, to
train up those finally selected so
as to ensure they will carry out
the spirit as well as the letter.
The politician considers he has
done his job when he has voted
the "funds". The net thing you
know scandals wise, someone
goes off with the till, and the
whole project becomes tainted.
It has been said with truth.
that .organizing the Moon
Landing was much easier than
solving the. social unrest of the
day, and of course, the reason is
that it is far easier to organize
the disciplines of science and
technology than to deal with
flesh and blood. The' latter
display no uniformity of
behaviour until it almost
becomes necessary to deal with
eaeh single human individually.
At once you have an
economically impossible impasse
with which to deal. Hence no
progress is made. The crusade
falls into disrepute.; a new crowd
of politicians takes office and
starts off with a new set of
premises equally erroneous.
Had it riot been that the
metals, the fuels, the optics, the
behaviour of Earth, Moon and
Sun, all adhered to their own
unwavering disciplined
characteristics, you would not
have had a Moon Landing. for
aeons. And if you , had not
enrolled hundreds of thousands
of selected first class brains you
would also have failed. When
you mobilize the country against
an enemy, you train your forces.
You set up a hierarchy of
command, devoted to the cause
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However when you work on
the criterion that any ass will do;
that it's Buggins turn to make a
buck; that if the body breathes
it Will fill the bill; just exploiting
his own ideas as to what is
required; then you cannot
expect to make: a dint in the
social problem. Perhaps it is time
some more attention was given
to the most elusive, least known
and least understood object on
Earth — Man himself. This is the
second lesson to be loarnt from
the Moon Landing.
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