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Springtime showers bring May flowers The May 4th Flower Show and meeting of the Pine Ridge Garden Club was a success, which was quite a surprise due to the cool weather and a lot of $pring bulbs and perennials not Blooming as yet. Winners are listed in order of winning for each class: Flowering Shrub - Grace Bajema. Tulips - Ria Hoogeveen, Pat Kingstone and Betty Forsyth. Double Narcissus - Pat Kingstone. Narcissus Large Trumpet - Grace Bajema, Ria Hoogeveen, Betty Forsyth and Marsha Massie. Narcissus Small Cup - Grace Bajema, Ann-Julia Bajema and Pat Kingstone. Any other flower- ing bulb - Tettje Prins, Shirley Love and Liisa Ryan. Any Perennial - Pat Kingstone, Liisa Ryan and Grace Bajema. Houseplants - African Violet Single - Tettje Prins, Grace Bajema, Pat Kingstone and Liisa Ryan. African Violet Double - Grace Bajema, Ann-Julia Bajema and Tettje Prins. Any other Flowering Plant - Ria Hoogeveen, Shirley Love and Tettje Prins. Foliage Plant - Grace Bajema, Tettje Prins, Marliese Hassler and Fieldburg, Tettje Prins and Margaret Trull. "Little Wonder" - Anita Mazzorolo, Grace 'Bajema, Marilyn Clarke and Pat Kingstone. "Spring Awaking" - Shirley Love, Pat Kingstone, Margaret Trull and Johanna .Fieldburg. "I Did It My Way" - Margaret Trull. Our Junior Garden Club always put on a good show, they sometimes out do the "Seniors." Nicholas, Joshua and Marlee Malcolm did a good arrangement in the "Spring Cleaning" class, an arrangement in a soap dish. "Collectibles" was won by pohristy | Martin and of dried materials. "our June 2nd meeting will be in the way of a bus trip to Picov's Garden Centre and John Brouwers in Ajax. The bus will leave Nestleton at 6:00 p.m. and Port Perry at 6:15 p.m.. Tickets are still available for the trip to Milton, where we will visit Pickletree Farm, a supplier of antique and modern garden accents, a walk-about of Milton and supper at the Muddy Duck. On the way to Milton, we will stop off at Huttonville to visit arge grow- er of African Violets from Tissue Liisa Ryan. N Hc Epp's Greenh al Grace Bajema and Pat Ki He Culture. Flowering - Liisa Ryan, Grace Bajema and Shirley Love. Hanging Basket - Foliage - Grace Bajema. Hanging Basket flower- ing - Tettje Prins and Grace Bajema. Decorative Division - "Spring Sunshine" - Tettje Prins, Pat Kingstone and Grace Bajema. "Cool Water" - Johanna There will also be a 1,000 Island Cruise to Kingston on Monday July 13. Meetings are held at the Nestleton Hall the first Tuesday of each month. Juniors meet at 6:45 and the Seniors 8:00. For more information please call Shirley Love 986-5330. Help clothe children You can help clothe poor chil- dren of Peru. The Rotary Club of Port Perry is working hard to collect clothing and footwear for children up to the age of 10. The clothing should be clean and in good condition. Called 'Operation Baby Clothes, the drive is designed to collect clothing for some 25,000 children in Peru, where the infant mortality rate is as high as 60 per cent. In Port Perry, two drop-off points have been arranged -- at the Port Perry IGA on Queen St. and at A. Oppers Aluminum on North St. You can drop off clothing until June 30 -- after that it will be sent to Toronto, and from there, to Peru. With your help, Operation Baby Clothes can keep thousands of children warm, dry and alive. The May flower competition for the Pine Ridge Garden Club was held recently In Nestleton. Judges were Marjorie Harrington of Cambray and story. Gladiolus easy to grow Gladiolus are really very easy to grow, and right now is the per- fect time to plant them. Any fer- tile, well-drained soil in a mainly sunny place will produce good looking glads. But for the best glads - with taller stems and big- ger flowers, select an area in full sun, away from any tree or roots. The soil should have ic material dug in, and a small handful of bone meal mixed in with the soil for each square yard. Large-flowered types of glads can grow as tall as 4', medium types grow to 3', and a miniature glad will grow 18 to 24" high. Plant the corms 4 to 6 inches deep and space them 4 to 6 inches apart. The husk covering the corm can be removed at this time. Plant the corms at 2 week intervals dur- ing May and June for continuous bloom, and select cultivars that bloom from very early to very late. Keep them on the dry side until top grown emerges, then water deeply. A fertilizer which encourages bloom (high last num- ber) can be applied when the growth is about 6 to 8 inches high. When plants are young, thrips, w at the Port Perry ) are there to Summer's here and things are heating up at the Scugog Tourist Centre Informati Marion Lee, left, and her staff t" (Nancy Parratt and Judy Woodcock answer visitors' 1 SCUGOG TOURIST CENTRE Questions, anyone? lon booth centre Is reall Way, are Day between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Already, the between are from The centre Is a project of the Scugog Chamber residents') questions everyigay until Latour of Commerce. a tiny, slender insect that rasps foliage and sucks the plant juices leaving silvery areas, can be a problem. Thrips cause the flowers to deform, and can kill the plant. Spray the plants weekly with insecticidal soap, spray with Benomyl or Malathion, or dust with diagomaceous earth if you wish to use an organic control. Cut your glads for indoor show when the first two blooms on the spike have opened, and as the flowers. open, cut off the wilted blossoms. To store glad corms for the winter, dig the plants after the first light frost, cut off the tops close to the new corm and discard Allison Little of Little Britain. With them are club directors Grace Bajema and Grace Prputt. See any that show disease or injury. Leave them exposed to the sun for a day to dry off the soil. They should then be dusted with a film of 4% Malathion or sulphur pow- der. After one month, the old corm is removed, the husks retained and the corm stored upright in well ventilated trays in a dry, dark space at a temperature of 40-50F. The Brooklin Master Gardeners will have a booth at the Brooklin Spring Fair on June 5, 6 and 7. The booth will open at 10 am.. Bring your gardening ques- tions to us - we'll be happy to help you. SPECIAL THIS WEEK! $1.00 Off Coupon STAR TREK THE NEXT GENERATION featuring all the istest tities in the series Buy One Paperback at Regular Price And Get $1.00 Off your 2nd Book . 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