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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1963-06-20, Page 7Two richly fragrant roses have just been named as winners of North America's Alifiest garden award. The All -America Rose Selections honour for 1964 will be shared by Granada a blaz- ing red -pink -yellow hybrid tea; and Saratoga, a pure white floribunda. Pure white has always been an elusive colour with rose breeders the world over, Sara- toga was bred by E. S. Boerner of Jackson & Perkins. For many years, Gene has been trying to breed the perfect white rose, For reasons still unknown, a pure white variety with fragrance, disease resist- ance, vigorous growth and free flowering habit seems to be much more difficult to obtain than any other colour. This is one of the reasons we are still growing Frau Karl Druschki as the most satis- factory white rose. It's a hy- brid perpetual that was intro- duced in 1901 and is becoming more and more difficult to obtain, For over sixty years we haven't been able to improye greatly on this one variety. Gene Boerner is the man generally recognized as the father of the floribunda. One of his earlier creations is Fashion, which is still recog- nized as the top floribunda so far introduced, He's been a creator of champion roses for most of his seventy years and has almost always worked with floribundas. Saratoga freely bears un- blemished white blooms mea- suring four to four and a half inches in clusters as well as on single stems. Its gentle, sweet fragrance has been described as exactly the same as the old Damask roses. Although it is a floribunda t a hybrid tea its flowers as large as those of Frau Karl Druschki. I suppose that the popular florist rose, Talisman, is fam- iliar to most people, chiefly because of its marvelous wring, blend of nasturtium a, scarlet and yellow. It is used to be sold quite widely as a garden rose because of its striking colour, even though it lacked many of the qualities such as form, fragrance and disease resistance which we demand in a modern rose. Granada, the 1964 Hybrid Tea All -America winner, I predict will make everyone forget that Talisman ever existed. About the only difference in colour is its clear lemon yellow, which replaces the golden yellow of Talisman, I find that this seems to give the flower even more brilliance. Unlike Talisman, however, Granada is a really healthy, 04111111.41011,11411114041.4 vigorous plant that will produce twice as many flowers, 1 find that they are much better formed and that they have a rich, lasting fragrance, a quality almost completely lacking in Talisman. Granada is the creation of Robert Lindquist, who repres- ents the resolute, younger men who are now vigorously at work scientifically producing newer and better roses. Bob Lindquist, despite his youth has already produced two out- standing roses. His first one was in 1954 with his floribunda Lilibet, which won All -Amer- ica honours that year, One year later he introduced still another impressive champion, the famously fragrant orchid - pink hybrid tea Tiffany, which was a 1955 All -America win- ner. Bob Lindquist told me that the sweet fragrance and exquisite flower form of Gran- ada came from Tiffany. He believes that every gardener will be enraptured by the shape and form of Granada's buds. The flowers are semi -double and classically formed with gracefully rounded petals. They average four inches in size, but the first show of bloom often grows five to six inches in diameter in some areas. The substance of the petals enables the blooms to resist wind and rain damage, lengthening the show in the garden considerably. Plants of Granada and Sara- toga will be available for the first time this fall. SUMMER HOLIDAY FOR HOUSE PLANTS House plants appreciate a vacation just as much as you and I, and the best way you can give most of them a summer holiday is to move them outdoors any time after the first of June. We do this because the atmosphere out- doors is much closer to the ideal for plant growth. The humidity is higher, the light is better and the plants are almost sure to make excellent new growth under these more or less ideal conditions. Even tough, hard -to -kill house plants such as Gracie Field's "Biggest Aspidistra in the World" and the Sansevieria, will grow better next fall and winter if they spend the sum- mer in the open air, This doesnot mean that you would plant them out in the vegetable garden in full sun. Every type used as a house plant is shade tolerant, otherwise it would not grow in the extremely poor light conditions found in most homes. It's true that some would survive in full sun, but all house plants will do better in a light, filtered shade. Where natural shade is not Jack Alexander AUCTIONEER Bind Appraiser We handle Town and Farm Sales i Phone 357-3631 - Wingham 2.1 .,aioo.,esor,.a,amio.,,►awnilruwn•arotrtreuawurnon.00.m...aer1,11111 , FEMALE HELP REOUIRED Campbell Soup Company, Listowel, Ontario Have openings for both MALE and FEMALE workers in their. plant, Applicants should visit the plant's personnel office for interview. Good wages, full range of employee insurance bene- fits, and cafeteria facilities are available. available, then it can be sup- plied artificially with over- head screens or lath shade. A word of warning, African violets and others with woolly or downy foliage should not be put outdoors without a solid roof overhead. Their leaves, when splattered by rain, are often permanently injured, An ideal spot for such plants would be under the roof of tinted fibre glass over a patio. Geraniums are of course one of the few exceptions to this rule. They succeed best when grown in full sunshine. When plants are kept under a tree in the open, the pots should be plunged in the soil up to the rims. If this cannot be done conveniently, build a wooden frame around the pots and fill this with a damp form of humus such as peat moss or vermiculite. When this is not done, they can dry out so rapidly that permanent injury is done before such damage can be detected. Before setting them out in the garden is the best time of the year to feed or repot house plants. I've seen recommend- ations suggesting that you wait until fall, but this is not a good idea. House plants do their best growing during the summer out of doors, and their health and vigour for the corning fall and winter is determined to a large extent by the treatment they receive during the summer. I'd earn- estly recommend that you re- pot your house plants in good soil and feed every three weeks with a liquid complete fert- ilizer during the summer months. Of course an exception to the rule would be a Donsai plant, which is artifically dwarfed. Big tub plants such as oleanders are also better left alone to keep them within bounds. Salesman: Is your mother home? Boy (on steps): Yes sir. Salesman (after knocking three times): 1 thought you said your mother was home, Boy: I did. There she is across the street sitting on our front porch. The All-American rose selec- tions honor for 1964 will be shared by Granada (top), a blazing red, pink and yellow hybrid tea, and Saratoga (bottom), a pure white flori- bunda, Pioneer Girls Held Encampment At a special encampment ceremony at the Wingham Bap- tist Church last Tuesday, mem- bers of the Pilgrim group of the Pioneer Girls were given awards of various types. The meeting started with a hymn and prayer led by Mrs. G. Hotchkiss, welcome by Mrs. Sinclair and the theme song. Those receiving awards in- cluded, gold stripe, Donna Hardie; red stripe, Joan Bur- chill. Mission badges: Patricia Cantelon, Lynda Aitchison, Jane Ann Nethery, Joan Bur- chill, Brenda Stapleton, Nancy Guest, Nancy Seli, Kathy Mil- ler. Safety badges: Brenda Stapleton, Adora MacLean, Donna Hardy, Mrs. B. Mac- Lean. Citizenship badge, Donna Hardy. Kitchen badge, Kathy Mil- ler, Joan Burchill, Valerie Seiling, Ellen Gorrie. Song badges: Nancy Seli, Joan Bur- chill, Donna Hardy, Adora MacLean. Water badges: Bar- bara Feagan, Jean Irwin. Those receiving higher rank were, voyager rank, Ruth Ellen Currie; settler Tank, Brenda . Stapleton and for the first time since the organization was founded, a townsman rank was awarded to Donna Hardy, Miss Laura Collar, a local missionary who will leave short- ly for Jordan, was the speaker. A picture of the group ap- pears elsewhere in this issue. However, a number were absent when the photo was taken, in- cluding, Ellen Gorrie, Rosemary l: