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Backyard
Gardener
The rose
primee'sll`Biblei
By -Patrick Denton
For the average backyard
gardener, the simplest and
safest time to 'prune roses is
just as the growth buds begin
to swell in the spring.
The reason for pruning,
roses is that most garden
roses do their blooming on
new wood. Our goal in
pruning is to encourage the
growth of vigorous new
shoots that will bear this
year's blooms. And in the
pruning we remove a lot of
the old wood to make room
for the new flowering shoots.
If you are fairly new at the
rose pruning game, take
your time, use your imag-
ination and visualize the
bush as it will look with its
new post -pruning growth.
Your aim is an open -
centered, uncluttered, vase -
shape based on a framework
of about four main canes left
after pruning. This sort of
shape is accomplished by
selecting on each old stem a
swelling bud or dormant eye
that faces ciutward, away
from the center of the bush.
At wit's end
by Erma Bombed(
When psychologists and
therapists speculated on the
gloomy future of Marriage,
they always figured it, would
bd a time when,couples stop-
ped saying, "I do."
That hasn't 'been the case
at all. More couples than
• ever"are saying, "I do," btit
they're saying it often.
The, drip-dry wedding
dress is a reality. Better Of
for worse -is a comparison Of
Wife No..1 and Wife No. 2 The
symbol of a first anniversary
• is no longer paper . . it's a
milestone.
Fifty per cent of mar-
riages today will end in
• divorce. Of that number 60
, per cent wiII remarry within
five years. About 3/4 of these
will ' go on to marry: for a
third and evep a fourth time.
-..They're palled Serial Mar-
riages and their numbers
will make a big difference in
society.
If you can stand any more
Future Shock, here's what
• you can expect.
In the year 2000; the ruling.
class will be lawyers. They
will drive around in big cars,
live in mansions, and have
kidneys shaped. like swim-
ming pools. Many of them
will enter politics.- One will
be elected King.
Some enterprising entre,
preneur will come out With a
videocassette on how to get
your own divorce. It 'will be
choreographed with Prince
singing in.the background. It
can be rented, or if you're
someone who is in and out of
the marital state; you may
find it cheaper to buy one.
Open House for parents
will have to be held on three
nights to accommodate
double' and triple 'sets.. The
Parent-Teacher Association
will become one of the
largest and richest organiza-
tions in the country on sheer
numbers alone. They will
eventually buy CBS and Dan
Rather will be putty in their
hands.
The logistics of so many
children who are offspring of
so many, unions will have to
be resolved by computes. In
addition to blood tests before
ACROSS
1. Miss Gardner
4. Capricious
idea
8. Impudent talk
12. Slang for
8 -Across
13. Arroz '
•14. Drop heavily
16, Not according
• to Hoyle
17. Prevaricator
18. Flees
19. Irritable
21. Use the bat
'23. Pdsseseive
pronoun
24. Catalog
25. Vacation spot
26. Scale tone
28. Exist
29. Move furtively
30. Novice
reporter
31. "- Antonia,"
Cather novel
32. Outline
33. Vaulter's
device
34. Spherical
96, Virile
M. De plentiful
38. Maxims
39. Char
40. Inoculate
44. Experiment
45. Word with
"mate" or
"music"
48. Diesenitnate
47. Scrape of food
48. Duroca
49, Sock part
D 0 W N.
1. "The Champ"
2. Get-up-and-go
3. Inform; notify
4. In error
5. 'Hurray"6
•• preceders
6, Frozen dessert
7. Chamber of
commerce
member
8. Conspicuous
display
9. Bring into,
agreement
10. Overcharge
11. Full of life i
16. Litter's
smallest
20, Pop -music
form
21. Bridge feat
22. Lean and
strong
a marriage, names will have
to be run through a cornputer
to make sure you are not
marrying someone to whom
you are related through di.7
vorce. 41,
A more efficient way for
"singles" to meet new mates
will have to be devised, In
California, at present, sever-
al dating services are being
used. One is a Tail Dater that
has a bumper sticker in-
dicating 'you're interested,
and another is called "The
• Freeway Singles Club"
where you flash a numbered
decal in the car window if
you like what you see at the
traffic light. In the future,
look for "drive-ins" where
• you honk if you love pot roast
and blondes. •
• Serial marriages" will
bring about a lot of social
changes in the year 2000.
Greeting cards will read,
"Merry Christmas,' to Dad
and Whatshername." The
IRS will have group rates.
, And a child Of divorce will
have. enough Advantage
Hours in the air to own the
• airplane.
So how will you know if
you're one of the 50 per cent
who can make a lifetime
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Q. 1, operate a small busi-
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me after school. If 1 pay hei
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her as a dependant'?
4., If her net income is be-
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your child may be'claimed as
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23. Bizarre
25. Cajcile
26. Humdrum
27. Comply
29. Avoid
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34. Use a
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35, Manhandles
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commitinent?
Easy. Before the two of
you take your vows, (a) pick
out a carpet together, (b)
hang a picture, (c) play
Monopoly:
It could save you from be-
coming a statistic.
The stem is cut above this
selected bud, with a clean
slanting cut that slopes
downward toward the center
of the btish. Don't tug or pull
at the stems as you cut: 'this
may loosen the roots in the
ground. Wear a stout pair of
,gloves as you work, for those
rose thorns can scratch your
hands quite badly if they are
not piotected.
The first thing I do in
pruning a rosebush is to re-
move any dead, injured or
'diseasedwood. The next step
is to clear the center of the
bush of all shoots that are
pointing inward, so sun and
air can reach the center of
the bush.
Third, the pruning
operation should limit the
number of new shoots so that
the energy of the bush is
channeled into the produc-
tion of a symmetrieal,
shapely bush and lone -
stemmed, well -formed
flowers-. This is most im-
portant siith the hybrid teas
and grandifloras.
When I'm finished with a
hybrid tea rosebush, for
instance, there are seldom
more than four main canes
left to form the framework of
the year's growth. With the
'hybrid teas, the most
popular kind of rosebushes
with home gardeners, a
strong framework is needed
to produce those large, per-
fect blooms, we love to cut
for the house.
After dead, injured and.in-
ward-growing stems have
been removed, I look over
the growth that remains,
keeping .in `mind that the
thinner the shoot, the less
.likely it is to produce
vigorous new growth. Any
weak, spindly stuff, there-
fore, is cut out completelY.
' This, some say, is pruning
by the Bible: To those that
have much more will be
given; to those who 'have
little, that will be taken away
until they have nothing left.
(Matthew 25:29).
Now you are ready to
select your three or four
main stems, which will be
the framework of the bush
this year. Choose the
strongest and most healthy -
looking ones and cut out the
• rest flush with the cane to
which it is attached.
Now comes the question of
how far down to make your
pruning cut on the canes that
are to remain. They usually
are shortened by at least half
their length, keeping in mind
that the weaker the bush, the
more it is cut back to induce
vigorous growth. That's the
biblical principle at work
again.
To find' the place to make
your cut, look for a plump,
healthy grown bud around
.the height you have decided
upon. It should be pointing
outward. Make your cut im-
mediately above this -bud at
about a 45 -degree angle
slanting downward toward
the centre of the bush. The
upper edge not cut should
end up about a fourth -inch
above the bud.
The floribundas, which
bear smaller flowers in
clusters, don't require as
severe and meticulous a
pruning as the hybrid teas.
Take out weak or 'dead canes
in their entirety, shorten the,
remaining stems by one-
third to one-half their length.,
again to an oUtward-facing
bud, and do .whatever shap-
ing may be necessary for
symmetry.
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