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H2 In two weeks the Garden and Flower Festival opens at the Hamilton Conventional Centre. The displays, demonstrations and garden information exhibits will heighten the joy of spring. The Burlington Halton Master Gardeners group will be there manâ€" ning a 20 ft. x 40 ft. area called Info Green. This consists of two booths and a stage. The Master Gardeners will answer all gardening questions in one area. The representatives of spring he days lengthen, the sun I brightens and seems warmer, the house plants start into growth and our thoughts turn to Garden shows herald the first signs of Spring C% DON‘T LUG A VACUUMâ€"PLUG IN A BEAM:!* ©® Beam of Canada Inc. 02/93 t «n 0 s F %â€"_ "~ / Upholstery â€" Many omm ) pieces below wholesale. Beautifully framed prints must g0. Sale Starting Feb. 20 â€" Sat. 27th Central Vacuum. If you want your family and friends to enjoy a healthier, cleaner home environment, Beam has the solution for you. Call us today! Beam of Canada â€" the Central Vacuum Company that cares as it cleans! No home, old or new, should be without a Beam Elegant Walls is reâ€"decorating. We are having a Floor Clearance on selected items. 0|BEZ 90 Reynolds St,, Orkville 842â€"2636 local Horticultural Societies will provide information on their activiâ€" ties. Anyone interested in their local society may fill in a form and will be contacted by them later. The 30 seat theatre will present six gardenâ€"oriented demonstrations per day. Each will last about thirty minutes with twenty minutes allowed for questions and will be repeated the following hour. Some subjects are: composting methods, worm composting, including makâ€" ing a mini worm composter at each session which will be a draw prize for the children in attendance. How to have the best lawn on the block using Grasscvcling. Pruning trees 1 1 A few years ago the National Gardening Association developed a gardening program for Elementary Schools. This consists of a Gro Lab Many schools are composting lunch leftâ€"overs, some using worms. This activity not only teaches good environmental behaviour but also lessons in communication, science and social skills to keeping the worms and the composters working and manual skills in building the boxes and collectors. In some schools this has become a signifiâ€" cant activity. and shrubs, growing plants, shrubs and trees from seed, cuttings and grafting. All about geraniums, perennial gardens and arranging dried and cut flowers to brighten the house. On Friday, February 26th the Royal Botanical Gardens Auxiliary will be celebrated. Some of their members will show the wide range of activities available to volunteers. Some of these are drying and arranging flowers for sale in the R.B.G. store, propagating, grafting, growing and potting up plants for the annual plant sale, guiding bus tours throughout the various areas in the Gardens and taking gardening courses to enable them to answer the provincial wide Gardening Hot Line during the summer months. They also assist the programs in the Children‘s Gardens and the Interpretive Centre. They instruct in many of the courses given in flower arranging. There is just about any activity one would wish for availâ€" able in the Auxiliary. Membership will be explained to anyone who may contemplate joining this busy and happy group. The show will be open 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday and from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Sunday, from February 25th to 28th. The hundreds of exhibits are just the thing to jump start gardening activities for 1993 and supply exciting ideas and equipment. & GARDENING IN THE SCHOOLS In Your Homes unit for indoor growing and teachâ€" er‘s curriculum guide called ‘Gro Lab Activities for Growing Minds‘. The 370 page book, is a teacher‘s guide for an 11 week curriculum with detailed instructions on 47 activities.The instructions include the objective and explanation of how to direct the activity. This has become a part of education in many United States schools as it teaches many subjects using gardening as a base. Stokes Seed has become a memâ€" ber of the National Gardening Association Corporate Associates. They are involved with the ‘Growing Ideas‘ news letter, a valuâ€" able resource for teachers using class room gardening to stimulate learning. Stokes are also supplying one kit for an elementary class in Canada in March 1993. For applications forms or further information contact Joan Adam at Stokes (416) 688â€"4300. She will also supply information on contacting the National Gardening Association to find how a sponsor could buy a kit for your classroom. They cost about $300.00. Maybe the Oakville Horticultural Society or other town association might help to supply kits on request from interested elementary grade teachâ€" INDOORS UNDER LIGHTS. A set of lights are ideal to start plants and they will soon be in use for this activity. Right now my lights are forcing 20, fourâ€"inch pots of lilyâ€"ofâ€"theâ€"valley. I am trying to hold them back so they will be flower for the Festival in Hamilton. 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