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2 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Friday, April 29, 1960 Good Landscaping increases the resale value of the home some twenty-five per cent or more, advises the American Association of Nurserymen. Here the formal lines of the house are "softened" and en- hanced by well-planned lovely plantings. Annual Flowers In Landscaping ks your home lacking in the proper landscaping? Well, it meedn't have a bleak appear- ance much longer -- thanks to annual flowers! Annuals are not a substitute for trees, hedges and permanent blooms -- they are temporary color display plants. Annuals have a brief life. Seed is sown in spring after the soil has warmed up. Flowers appear from late June until frost. Some of the choice annuals for this purpose are petunias, zin- nias, marigolds, sweet alyssum, cornflower, cleome, salpiglossis, scabiosa, and nicotiana. Annuals may be grown most any place on treeless property -- they do need about five hours of sun a day or more, For a temporary where hedges are lacking, castor bean or moonflowers. screening, try Even after finishing your land- |: - : scaping -- through the years you fill find a need for annuals to fill in plants that drop by the way- side or fo fill in holes where a shrub decided not to grow. You'll enjoy them as the variety that adds spice to gardens! Don't mulch bulbs before the Roses have many uses on the home property . . . in addition to their color, fragrance and multiplicity of bloom, they also are functional in relation to the landscaping of the property. According to nurserymen, some of the functional uses of rose piants are as follows: For a formal rose gardem -- Plants should be selected to provide for cutting exceptional blooms of high quality that can he conversation pieces, Hybrid tea roses are widely used in the formal rose garden, Glass Offers New Designs The "short-waisted" window, usually built close to the ceiling (above eye level) and without sills to give it a flat appearance -- presents a real problem in giv- ing it the proper "window drass- ing". An architect's answer for pri- vacy in the home where houses are close together, or where bed- rooms face public traffic, the homemaker finds that short cur- tains or draperies are not always the smartest decorating answer to "aerial" windows. A new, shatterproof architec- tural glass with stunning designs actually impregnated within a glass 'sandwich', is a brand- new solution to this decorating dilemma. The "Glas-Wich"" window comes in clear transparent or, opaque form as may be desired. It permits light, oper- ates as any glass opening -- and in addition, provides color and design without fabric or other decoration, Exciting designs of real leaves, ferns, imported butterflies, bam- boo and other inserts create a new charm from within, and offer an unusually bright decor- frost. The object of mulching is to keep the frost in the ground. ator note from the outside. -- For far thicker growth MASTER GRASS SEED Exclusive Koted" p "Green Gro- rocess gives you a more luxuriant carpet of deep-root Available healthy, ed grasses. in four different lawn blends, each best for its purpose. BIRDS NO NOT EAT IT READILY Availabl YOUR ONE-STOP e At... GARDEN CENTRE MASTER FEEDS 54 CHURCH ST. OSHAWA ~--Free Customer Parking-- DIAL RA 3-2229 Roses Have Uses Beyond Beauty As a living fence -- Roses can help give privacy, depend- ing on the plants selected. They can supply thousands of small blooms or hundreds of large blooms in many colors. Floribun- da, grandiflora or climbing rose plants may be used. As specimen plants, roses add color to the property. Grandi- flora roses have a big future in landscaping. Miniature roses are attractive as low border plants. They pro- vide a supply of dainty flowers for indoor decoration, especially table decorations. A climbing rose plant beside a porch can add shade as well as lovely color and bloom. Or properly trellis - trained, the plants can enliven a drab garage wilh brilliant color. : veryone recognizes the rose immediately. Some of the newer varieties are conversation pieces, and are much admired by passers-by. New rose colors, from laven- der to orange, with many new shades of yellow, pink and red, have been produced by famous hybridizers here and abroad. Select your rose plants with eare. With the helpful advice of your nurseryman, roses can serve functionally as well as for beauty. Select quality plants -- for the few cents more they may cost they pay off in two or three times as many blooms. Mental 111 Potential Work Force WINNIPEG (CP) -- Mentally defective people, making up be tween one and two per cent of Canada's population, represent potential work force, a rina A 4 ogist says. Dr. John Zubek, head of University of Manitoba's psy ogy department, said recent we s€arch indicates that mental de- fectives can be educated up au probably beyond their mid. Formerly it was believed such persons reached their peak of in tellectual ability between the ages of 11 and 13. "Until now there has been am attitude of resignation on the part of some hospital adminis trators," he said in an interview. "They have concluded that since the little ability such people have declined progressively with age, there is not much point in ine stituting training programs for them. . . "But the majority of our sub- jects over the age of 50 yeave showed a gain in intellectual pes. formance, compared with thelr scores five years earlier." He said that with the right kind of training, patients could "work with fairly simple numbers, learn skills and handicrafts." me SHOP WOOLWORTH"S FIRST > / fe Good Assortment of Holland ® Hybrid Tea ® Climbers 59¢ Woolworth's Presfige Hybrid Tea ROSE BUSH Good Assortment MAYTIME BULBS Various Prices OPEN FRIDAY TILL 9 P.M.