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19RSDAY, AUGUIT 25, 1949 __________________ *~ A L~ J. ~LYAJL '1,1W (A?'AinTA, Ift&m ~ ~ UW5'Jq IL.OTR Many people in town have been growing gladioli in their sçaall garden plots for many years. How- ever, duntng the past !ew years growing gladioli bas become a se- nious pastime for a !ew fiower lovera of Bowmanville and bas even brancbed out ino a com- mnercial business. The amateur gladioli grower is you or I wha plant a few bulbs each year ta provide bcautifu] cut flowers for bouse decoratons an& other special occasions. ~of the people wbo make a hpW out o! growing these beau- ti dflowers are in this category. But, in this article we are more interested in thase who have spent a great part o! their necreatienal IK urwatcb comil *Don'# bang mn *Wind mersgu *Don't open i *Don't Wear me *Repair my bro *1 noed clannq Gladioli Growing Is Decoming lis Business with Local Florists WATCH RPIR, i ÜMi, ft woàld sal: e upt iwhenwesh;nst DICcrystaili Ioand oilingtoo? D i SWEET CAPORAL CIGARETTES k p. THANK YOU! 1 îvish ta thank ail mY Ic ecustomers for their Indulgence during the ice shortage. Every effort %vas made ta secure ice but as the situation ivas general as w~ell as local it ivas impossible to buy it and due ta the unfotunate breakdoiin of aur oivn plant %ve wvere unable to satisfy cvenyone. The suppiy is 110%v improved and wc hope to ho Rble ta 1h11 your nequirements in the future. WILLJAMSY ICE A.G. Williams Phone 439 01* SFEt 100 LIs. NET WT S A PRGDUCT OF SWIFT if# mulr SPLANT F000 2-12'S Most farm crops take many main- enals tram the land, give back littie. In time the land Is worn out, produces skimpyr croPs de- ficient in nutrients essential fo bumper crops. To get cantinued hlgh produc- tion and ta f iii the nutritionai needs of your family and the city consumer, incresae the rlch- nesa of ur sali by crop notat!on and by spreadlng Swlft's CanadiafGro-Mor fertilizen ta restore the minerala which ,your sali lacks. Cail us and arder yaur supply of Sivift's Canadian Gro-Mor for better cropa. làt W. H. BROWN DEALER FOR Case Faima Machlnery - Firestone Tires DeLavai Miikers and Separators Beatty Bras. Stable Equipment m..-Qà11 91 ALIfl St. W. Phne 497 1 time in expenimental work tryli ta intraduce new kinds o! gladji that are supenior in colouning ai îother chanacteristies. Professional Growers In this class we find the pr( fessional gl.adiali growers. A pr( fessional grower is one who hi been successful in placing intn( ductions on tbe market or plani more than 1500 bulbs a yea, Bowmanvile bas twa profession. gladioli growers, Dr, E. W. Sissc and Mn. E. A. Summers, Agricul tural Representative for Durbar County. Dr. Sisson and Mr. Summer grow their iadiali in an acre pic a! land on Liberty St. Mn. Sun mers plants from 40 ta 50 thou sand bulbs eacb year and Di Sissan !nom 25 ta 30 thausan< Dr. Sisson is the only grower ii Bowmanvillc Who bas made nev introductions and bas introduce4 six new vanieties including oni miniature. To introduce a ncw variety in valves a minimum off 6 ta 7 ycan according ta veteran grawer, Dr Sisson wba wif h Mr. Summers ha: been growing glads for about 1, years. Mn. Hnmry Jase, Newcastle also be]ongs to this clasa! pro. lensional grawcrs. To judge thE SUCCess off these glads specialists one bas only ta followv the pnizE lists o! gladiolu shows. Ndt la the professional ciass but doing some scrious work in ith Mr. and Mrs. Milton Mrima- seem ta care flot. )mbe, Osaca.. Mrs. Wes. Salter, St. Catha- Rev. and Mrs. Dick Lyons and rines,, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Evcr- mily returned ta Cinciniati on son, Miss Lila Marks, Mr. and turday. Mrs. Harry Balson and boys. Osh- Miss Dut!, Myrtie, called in the awa, Mrs, Marks, Toronta; Mrs. ighbourhood an Sunday. Will Faund, Bawmanville; Mr. Sunday visitors with Mr. and and Mrs. Will Thompson, St. rs. Harald Barnowclough were Marys: Mrs. Jack Hooker and rand Mrs. George Pliu and Mrs. Gardon Kidd, Kinsale, with anles, Toronto, Mr. Art. Mc- Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Balsan. y, Newtonville, and Mn. Albert Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Balson, have Ilinga, Peter.bono. returned from halidaying in the Ruth Payne spent the weekenid Muskoka and Huntsville district th Miss Dwainè Gray, Garden and were entertained at Mr. Gea. il. Buckley's. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Tufford took Miss Diane MacNab with her elatter's sister, Mrs. Gibson, aunt, Mrs. Charles Ferguson, Osh- ber home in Coldsprings. awa. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Hill, Laurel Mr. and Mrs. J. C. MacNab and d Andrea Alliston, Port Hope4 Mrs. Earl Luke spent the week- h Mr. and Mns. Edgar Bar- end at .Nrth Bay. wlough. Regulan August meeting o! %r. and Mrs. C. Payne had Sun- HamPton W.M.S. toak the farm ai y evening tea with Miss Olive a picnic at Mrs. A. BIanchard's I Mn. Tupper John.ston. cottage. William's Point. The mnembers travelled in cars driven bv Mrs. A. Blanchard, Mrs. E. I does not cast anything ta be Cole. Mrs. L. Ciemens, Mrs. H. ourteous driver. It maY Cost Salter and Mrs. H. Trul. The wea- ir 1fe flot ta be ther was perfect and everyone Iv s IV i fr1 ai fV P H w M si( th tol i an fa]c a,u 'oys Make Four Week Tour of Canada h ybridizing is Mr. P. E. Green- Fif ty British Bc field who lias been wnning many prizes in gladiolus shows held in nearby centres. Other local glad g'rowers whose names have ap- peared frequeirtly on the prize Ilis are Rev. W. W. Patterson, ~ rg Newcastle and Mr. and Mrs. Gor. 1li don Osborne, Courtice. id Commercial Growlng There is one man in town who hias turned bis gladioli growing ~~ ~ ointo a flourishing commercial o-business. Mr. Fergus E. Morrili ýas who started growing gladioli 10 > o- years ago when he moved from tis Toronto to a farm situatedi in the...... r. forth east corner of Bowmanville tallbas since become the largest grow- n er in Canada. SLast year, Mr. and Mrs. MorrilI ,n moved to their attractive home "Willow Acres" situated on King rs St. East, where he has 12 acres of ,t beautiful gladis. Besides being the n- largest grower in Canada, Mr. -Morrili also. operates the largest r. trial business in the world where i. he tests introductions of new in varieties. W Twenty-fjve per cent of the ex- ,d ports of glads from "Willow ie Acres" are sent ail over the world to countries such as India, Bel- igium, France and Holland. r5 Mr. Morrill stated that the sale rof blooms is incidentai and that ks the big transactions are in bulbs. ý2 At the height of the seasan which Lnormally runs from the lst week -in July to the lSth of September, ýe 4,000 spikes a day are sold, with Sthe majority shipped ta Montreal. ýe Miniature Bloom 3, At present there is a growîng n interest in miniature blooms. A Jesson In seamanship is givenr -These glads have 3-inch florets a group of five boys of th e partye and are used in making ur, table of 50 British boys who are1 in Ca- decorations. bridai bouquets, nada for a 4 week tour sposoe corsages and other floral arrange- by W. Garfield Weston, prmi ments for which the larger gladis are flot suitable. Mr. Morrili states that last year, eAMPO ane-third of bis sales weremia-H M T Ns tures and that the popularity of0 these miniature blooms is rapidly Mrs. Eva McMillan, Peterboroz increasing. was guest off Mrs. Hariand Truil. Diseases and Insects Miss Pearl Piper, Oshawa, visit- c e d ber cousins MIiss Beatrice Col- i A littie Jnsect known as thrips, will and Mrs. J. Willis. t up until the discovery o! D.D.T., was a great menace ta gladioli. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Horn have Hummingbirds also cause damage. returned from a three weeks' Iý Hawever, a disease of thqse flow- vin't with their son Dr. and Mrs. e ers called botrytis does the most W. R. Horn and granddaughter ce damage and as yet no effective Patricia, Montreal. remnedy bas been found. Mrs. John Purdon visited rela- Research in this respect is done tives at Janetville nt week. at the Bellsvilie, Maryland, Agri- Mrs. Ida Smale visited ber sis- cultural Experimental Station. ter at Cobourg on Friday. Gladioli History Mis7ses Ethel and Lily Gilbert, The beautiful flowers that v.ýe Toronto, vizited Mr. and Mrs. eall gladioli were originated on Geo. Gilbart. Aý the Victoria Nyanza in Africa and Mr. and Mms. Frank Thompson ec also in Abyssinia and since that Taunton, Mrs. Larmne Dickinson: Of time bave spread toalal the caun- Oshawa, at Sam DeweiI's. W tries in the temperate zones. Mrs. J., Topping, Westrock, a United States is the greatest Alta., with ber sister Mrs. Char- tic producer with approximateîy lotte StephenS. Ce x c. $500,000,000 spent on cut flowers Mrs. Ida Wilcox Mr. and Mrs. lo each year. Orme Cruickshanks and Joanvo Poterboro, Miss Ruby Dewell, wZ Oshawva, at Percy Deweli's. d MAPLE GROVEMrs. Wlil Found, Bowmanville, a] MA L G O E Mrs. Marks, Toronto, Miss Ly la W Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Ormiston, Mrs. Russell Luke. a accampanied by Mr. and Mrs. Russell Ormiston, Enniskillen, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Willis, To- of were on a motor trip through the ronto, with his parents Mr. and th( Niagara district and Preston.* Mrs. J. Willis, and aunt Miss Bea-a1 Dr. and Mrs. Lyn Co tes and trice Colwill. ae Danny, Brantford, with Mrs L. Mr. Don Yellowiees and lady d C. Snowden and called on other friend, Guelph, at his parent's, eff relatives. Mr. and Mrs. N. C. Ycllowlees. Service last Sunday was fairly Mr. and Mrs. Roy Davis, son well atterided with Rev. Mr. and daughter, Kirkland Lake, and Young, Toronto, speaking in the Mr. Davis' sister off Toronto, at interests of the Bible Society. Mr. Mr. and Mrs. Will Wilbur's. Keith Wood, Bowmanville, sang Mrs. T. Wray with Mr. and two solos which were en joyed. Mrs. Jackson Wr&y, Oshawa.. Service next Sunday at 2 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Murray Raich when our pastor will be back. and Miss Francine Smales, To- Misses Barbara and Brenda ronto, with Mr. and Mrs. Jim Morton, Master Douglas Morton, Smales. Cobourg, with Mr. and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Vannesi Stuart Morton. and sons, Windsor, Mrs. Sam Mr. and Mrs. Graydon Munday Brooks, Providence, called on nee Jean Abbott), Courtwright,' Mr. and Mrs. Sam Dewell. visited Mr. and Mrs. Wallace M r. and Mrs. W. E. Stevens Vunday. They also called on other spent a fcw days in Palmerston elatives ivhile on their boney- with ber sisters Mrs. Will Hart noan. and Mrs. H. A. Stevens and also Mr. and Mrs. John Stevens called on friends in Kenilworth nee Audrey Hall), Scaforth, and and Mt. Forest. Mr. H. A. Ste- Mir. and Mrs. Arthur Thomas yens rcturned with thcm. Rockwood, visited Mr. and Mrs' Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Hoskin, H. R. Foley. Thorïiton's Corners, visited Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Balson. Mr. and Mrs. Bloyd Wilcox, WESL Y VLLE Cobourg, at J. D. Hogarth's and Miss Penn Gilbert, RN., To - -E Lrly Puritans celebrated enjoyeare wilhing ta învest wbere there l9th century. noydeating out of doors. A o! World War 2. TI-e depression is hope of profits and promise of Onily anc mail pouch was ever ,h rt business session presideci had a great influence on the sccurity. Thcy bave- shown their lost by the famous Pony Express, Mvr by Mrs. Niddery, in the ab-rniinds of men than the wvar. If xvi]lingncss by tlieir attitude ta Kerosene replaced wvhale ail zence of the president followed the normal recovery had taken place Caniadian investmnents. Thcy in- as a mears of illumination. bountiful rond lunch. The remain- after Wor!d War I it would not vest for profit, they have no de- Napoleoni institutcd the French ci'r oà the afternoon %vas spent have materialiy altcred aur ca- ire ta sec their substance .vasted Legion off honour in 1802. n u.'alks, cailing on fr'cnds, chat- nomic convictions. Tbe depression v tin-- or swimming. Mrs. Blanch- shoak the souls o! mcti, started ird's hospitality was greatix' ap- them out :n senrch off new faiths )reciated by the 23 ladies prescrnt -the scarcb bas not yet cndcd.Ph nP o e and aIl prcnounced it a very suc- Theni came World War 2. IfsD ccsu iii.scope and range xvas far greatei h n than World War I. Physical dam- Lions in the Way 1 ulszdCmmns ain 'lict. Socialist movements devel- By R. J. Deaclman oped in different parts off Europe In n previaus article, "Building spîead ta other countriEs. Britain A New Wld" NS 45 1pint elecfed a Scialist govemnn-înt, il ordv~.. 45, pont-is novvocmrating under diFficul- d out the nesd for the restorafiontisICadtesmomns d4 d 4 of balance to the trade of the wr esefcie h C worl. Geat ritin lng eldgained strength for a fime but its lending place among trading n a- support fell off In the recent cc- V~~- ans. Foliowing the nepeal o h tion. The war enhnnccd the reIn a arn~~~~~~ Law i 186 mpots v ej cconomnic position of-. the S O W JLR K ~ N ,reased-so did exponts. (Over a United StatEs-added to hem xvorld rng period there was an tînfa- eoniltcs aorable balance off traee. Britain FORPROPTnsibilitieOs.IHT AL -ns ir\vesting hem profits abroad, Now a r.ew problemn prenent, O RMTDLVR A RNGTCL evclopng ber shipping, bianking itscit. The United States which rîd insurance. Much o! this rcached a very high level off pro- vealth was sncrificed in the two 131ITCEI Icat wars. It was spent figYhfino« duction in the war, found itsclf tdeiensive battle until the rest with tremendous capacity ta pro- GARAG ýfthe worid could get rendy for duce but with limited markets for G1B G [c struggle vhich lay ahead. ifs produets. Europe xvas unable Corner Klnt and Brow~n Sts. 6 flwmanvllle World War I was foilowed by ta pay, it was stnrving. The Mar- boom and a depression. The shall Plan was develaped, sup- iepressian started in 1329-its plies wcî-e sent from. the United fcect was felt until the outbrcak. States ta salve the immediafe Problem-the future la stillinii -lux. The Marshall Plan will end In 1952. Will the United States adapt now the policy which Great Bnitain accepted with the Repeal o! the Corn Laws in 1846? Brn- tain expand.ed production in other cauntnies. Her sbipping covered the world. She developed lier in- surance and banklng business- toak goods and services in ex. change for services rendered. Tbrough this means Great Bn-. tain becarne one of the nichest countries in the weld-belped atlso in the developnient of other countries. to wonîcî trade. The Amnenicaàn-t-a- FACTS WORTH KNOWING rn!! would have Io be lowered, imports cxpanded. The carres- Copernicus, the famous astron. panding increase in- éxponts of omer, was a Pale, His real namè other couintries would restore the was Kopernigk. balance. Imports in this case "Gospel" means good news. wouid be goods received as dil- More states ln the United States dends on capital invested and bave names oiifated from In- pavments for services rendered. dian words than from any other' If the United States is ta in.- language. vest àbnod and thus imprave In going througb the Panama wonid standards there must be Canal one travels a littie mare some basis o! security in ifs in- than 50 miles. vcstment. Durlng the last !ew China, Russia and India are the years Canimunlsm, bas puahed threc largest caun tries ini popu- forward. ft bas expanded oveir latioll. wide areas and Communism and X befare the licenc e nuniber pivate investment, like pickles aof an airpi anc denotes that the and cream, go ill tagether. Social- plane is licensed for expenimental 1sf strengtb is gaining flot ia purposes. Canada but in some cauntries Women first appcared as pro- The world needs a tremendaus fessional dancens on the Frencb investmcnt o! capital. It cannat stage in the l7th cenfury. be obtie without stability of The fimnf Bible pninfed in Amer- goavemrnn1eni, Socialism and Com- i. was painted iin the Indian munism are the road blocks wbicb Lnguage. aresf the pracessa! recovery. 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