Clinton News-Record, 1972-10-12, Page 22Tuberous begonias are often
at their best in the fall.
However, since they are very
tender, they are easily damaged
by frost, says D.B. McNeill, hor-
ticultural specialist, Ontario
Ministry of Agriculture and
Food..'
If you wish to prolong their
beauty indoors for a few weeks,
dig up the bulbs with soil on the
roots, just prior to frost, Tran-
splant them to pots or flats and
place in a sunny, window.
When the plants become
shabby, reduce the water and
allow them to become quite dry.
When the leaves have turned
yellow, the stems will break off
easily and the tubers are ready
for winter storage.
Store the tubers in dry peat at
40°. Examine them occasionally
during the winter and dampen
the peat if they look withered.
Pick your own apples
for freshness and quality
Cool nights and sunny days in
the month of September help to
increase the color and flavor of
Ontario's apples. This is the
perfect time of year for a family
outing to a "Pick-Your-Own"
farm, says John Hughes, hor-
ticultural specialist, Ontario
Ministry of Agriculture and
Food.
The pick-your-own method of
harvesting has become in-
creasingly popular, Both the
customer and the farmer profit
from the arrangement. For the
farmer, the problem of har-
vesting his fruit is solved and
the customer is able to get
produce as fresh as possible.
Many family shoppers are con-
cerned about quality; with this
method of harvesting, customers
select their own fruit.
Many apple farms now have
dwarf trees making picking
much easier. Since most of the
trees grow only 7 or 8 feet tall,
ladders are not needed.
There is *often a variety of
produce available at "Pick-
Your-Own" farm markets, In
most cases, the farmer obtains
this produce from his neighbors
to provide a varied selection of
fruits and vegetables.
Rosy Sunrise, one of the newer daffodils with pink trumpets.
Among the newer small-
cupped kinds in which the cup
or trumpet is less than one-third
the length of the petals, are
Frozen, pure white; Missouri,
yellow with a scarlet,orange
cup; and the orange and white
Verger.
The triandus hybrids are
always white but produce up to
six flowers on one stem and are
available in both small-cupped
and long-cupped varieties. The
petals are usually bent back-
wards or reflexed. Thalia is the
best known one in this group.
Then for rock gardeners and
folks who enjoy the tiny things,
there is a whole array of
miniatures, most of them only
six to eight inches tall — Baby
Moon, Little Beauty, February
Silver and the hoop petticoat
(Narcissus bulbocodium), Nar-
cissus canaliculatus, the
cyclamen-flowered narcissus
(Narcissus cyclamineus) and
Narcissus watieri.
None of these will be easy to
find on garden center shelves,
but may be seen in some
Canadian bulb catalogues.
Other types are the Tazettas
which are bunch-flowered kinds.
Best of these is Geranium with a
white background for its orange-
scarlet cup, and Yellow Cheer-
fulness, which of course has
yellow flowers.
The Jonquilla hybrids always
fascinate me because of their
fragrance, simple form and
adaptability. They are charac-
terized by rush-like foliage and
usually have many flowers on a
stem, The common one is deep
yellow but a newer and im-
proved kind, Trevithian, is pale
buttercup-yellow. •
Except for the tiny bulbs, all
daffodils should be planted five
to six inches deep (measured to
the bottom of the bulb) and at
least six inches apart in a fairly
loamy soil. The rock garden
types are best planted three in-
ches deep and three inches
apart.
Prepare the soil well as you
would for vegetables, but make
sure it is well drained. If it is
heavy, add lots of coarse sand.
Work in also lots of peat moss
or compost and three to five
pounds per 100 square feet of a
good complete fertilizer such as
6-9-6 or a rose fertilizer such as
5-10-5.
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6A-1 linton NeWs-Record Thursday, October 12, 1972
Garden Notes
Time to plant some newer daffodils
Fall care
of begonias
BY A.R. BUCKLEY
Now is the right time for plan-
ting daffodils. Planting them
now will enable them to form
the maximum number of an-
chorage roots before freeze-pp so
they will be able to absorb
moisture and consequently
withstand the winter much bet-
ter,
Unless you have been wat-
ching the development of the
daffodil closely in recent years,
you have probably missed
growing some of the most
fascinating and distinct varieties
now available. Watch the
catalogues or search your
dealers' shelves for the best
kinds of these delightful flowers.
Plant breeders have indeed
made tremendous improvements
on daffodils in the past decade.
They have produced varieties
with larger flowers, and which
are more weather-resistant.
They have also developed new
sand better miniatures, new
kinds of doubles and new large
split-corolla types, and new
colors and Combinations of
colors.
For a brief sampling of some
of the newer daffodils, let us
start with the giant trumpet
kinds. 13roughshane is one with
pure white flowers easily five to
six inches across. Unsurpassable
is almost as large but with deep
clear yellow flowers, Tintoretto
is light yellow with long trum-
pets. Louise Coligny has pinkish
trumpets and is very heavily
scented, and Roseate Hues has
refreshing pink trumpets. Other
pink-trumpeted daffodils are
Lady Bird, Pink Glory and
Mabel Taylor, Binkie is a two-
toned trumpet kind with a
lemon yellow corolla and an
ivory cup.
The following are good
weatherproof large-cupped daf-
fodils: Ice Follies, which has
flat, lemon-primrose cups two
inches across against its
background of a pure white
corolla; Duke of Windsor, a very
large wide flaring crown-like
cup of deep orange-yellow and a
white corolla; Apricot Attrac-
tion, as its name suggests, is an
apricot-yellow.
For something entirely dif-
ferent, try the smaller, cluster-
flowered White Marvel, with a
trumpet full of tightly-packed,
white petals; or one of those
with the new split coronas like
White Orchid, the pure yellow
Gold Collar, or the orange and
white Orangeway.
Double daffodils have long
been with us, but there are some
very splendid new doubles that
may be all yellow like
Inglescombe, lemon and orange,
as Mary Copeland, or all white,
like the huge double White
Lion. One of the most exciting of
doubles is Daphne, a new
double white poet's narcissus.
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