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.PAGE 18 -PLAINDEALER - FRIDAY. AUGUST. 10.1ST* IN YOUR GARDEN By Carol Wright Horticulture Instructor With flower gardens in full bloom, now is the perfect time to practice your flower arranging. Many garden flowers lend < themselves beautifully to the different styles of arrangements and if you are a skilled designer there is an endless variety of tex­ tures, shapes and colors to blend together to suit your home decor. However, if you are just beginning, I advise you to work with a very limited variety of plant materials and colors so that you can concentrate on placement of flowers and not be concerned with getting colors and textures evenly blended. Once you feel comfortable with the mechanics of the arrangement, then branch out with new and different com­ binations of flowers and foilage. One of the easiest arrangements to begin with is the round or colonial shape. This arrangement requires A. Foa-rn B. Top Vleu; 0 VteuJ CD S.L. Ruggero, M.D., S.C. announces the association of Dr. Gregory P. Daly in the practice of Family Medicine 7404 Hancock Dr. Wonder Lake 815-653-2131 By Appointment Only Svc^e.' .... VI D. Top V leu) Top Vieu) VltLU) S i d e V i e u ) only 13 flowers to establish the basic form. Use a found shaped container such as a bowl or basket. It may or may not have a pedestal. Round shaped flowers such as zinnias, marigolds or daisies also contribute to the round effect you will be creating. Floral foam, purchased from the retail flower shop, is the best medium to place inside the container to hold your flower stems in position. This foam is a soft material which rapidly absorbs water. Once you use it, though, it is not very satisfactory to recycle. Any holes poked into it will be permanent and its water absorbing ability is very poor the second time also. A sharp kitchen or pocket knife is the only other item you need on hand. Here then are the steps to follow in assemblying your round arrangement. 1. Cut 14 or 15 round flowers (a couple of extras in case of a goof). Large flowers for a big container and small ones for a small container. 2. Place the stems in warm water with some floral preservative and leave them set over night or several hours in a cool dark place. 3. With the foam dry, cut it to fit into the container allowing one inch to extend beyond the upper rim. See drawing A. 4. Fill the container with water and let the foam soak it up. Keep adding water until it will absorb no more. 5. Now begin to select your flowers according to size. Cut the stem so that you allow for the desired height plus enough to let the stem protrude a couple of inches into the foam. Hold the flower vertically in the center of the foam and push the stem in (Remember, all holes are permanent so properly position the flowers before inserting). See B. 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When you look down on the arrangement from above, the central flower serves as the center point and any two neighboring flowers are cne outer boundaries of the "pie piece". See D. Position one medium sized flower in each of these wedges that the stems angle toward the center of the arrangement. See E. Alternate the height of the center six flowers so that you do not form a "ring" around the middle of your arrangement. See F. 8. Fill in between the flowers with some foliage so that you cptiter«up the foam. The foliage Hems should angle in towards the center of the arrangement the same as the flower. 9. Add water to the arrangement every day to keep the flowers fresh. 10. Remembei^ practice makes perfect! Perspective v NORMALIZATION REVISITED By RONALD REAGAN Virginia is called "The Mother of Presidents" be­ cause four of the nation's f i r s t f i v e P r e s i d e n t s c a m e f r o m t h a t s t a t e . Among the many American reactions to President Carter's mid-December announcement of "normalization" of relations with Peking were ecstatic predictions by businessmen and some journalists of huge new markets in China for U.S. products, on the one hand; and, on the other, deep concern by many friends of the Republic of China on Taiwan that investor confidence in its export- oriented economy might be seriously undermined. So far, neither reaction has proved true. How goes Taiwan, nearly eight months after the abrupt change in diplomatic recognition? Just fine, ac­ cording to the economic statistics. Investments by foreigners and overseas Chinese in Taiwan for the first six months of this year totaled $150 million - double the in­ vestment for the same period last year. The budget is balanced. Unemployment in April stood at 1.09 percent. Economic growth is expected to reach 10 percent this year and trade with the United States continues to grow. Republic of China leaders are predicting as much as $10 billion in two-way trade, making Taiwan our eighth or ninth largest trading partner. One hundred miles across the Taiwan Strait lies the mainland of China, the world's most populous country with more than 900 million people. Although its trade with the United States and most other industrialized Western nations continues to rise, the People's .Republic of China is going to have great difficulty meeting its "Four Modernizations" goal DEK-KiNG THE PREFABRICATED WOODEN PATIO DECKING THAT YOU CAN INSTALL YOURSELF) No Need For Special Tools or Skilled Labor. Completely Assembled Components Provide Easy Installation In Just A Few Hours I FREE I Electronic Bug Killer with each deck purchased. Starting as low as $250.00 Falcon Gas Barbecue Grills • Flower Boxes • Planters • Wood Fencing • Pool Decks Fireplaces - Come to the leader, Since 1972. 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That Teng Hsiao-ping and his allies want to forge ahead with full modernization of the economy in record time there seems no doubt, but they do not have the unanimous consent of their. colleagues in the hierarchy and China is desperately short of cash with which to buy sophisticated machinery and equipment. They will need either long- term, low-interest loans from their suppliers or extensive use of a sort of barrier that has been called "compensation trade." - China is working with Hong Kong on this latter basis. Hong Kong has capital and technical know-how. It supplies those in the form of plant design, machinery, construction inside China itself. The Chinese supply low-cost manpower and agree to pay the supplier back in the finished goods from the plant. This is an indirect method of getting long-term financing. Whether it can work on a massive scale is problematic and what China can supply the West in large quantities - besides art and craft objects -- is also problematic. Meanwhile, Taiwan, which had been bracing itself for years for "normalization" but which deeply resented the method by which it was an­ nounced (we rousted President Chiang Ching-kuo out of bed six hours before the announcement to tell him), has a nagging, continuous worry that the People's Republic of China's "peace offensive" may anesthetize Western nation! to the point where it can begin a political-economic campaign designed to eventually force the Nationalist Chinese into "unification" with the mainland. Meanwhile, time is running out on the U.S.-Republic of China Mutual Defense treaty (it expires Dec. 31) and the Republic of China is hoping the United States will sell it newer, more sophisticated defense armaments to it can take care of itself in case of a People's Republic of China military threat. 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