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Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, November 26th, 1980-5 ÀN BELLE ON GARDENING Winter beauty with Tra,ning flowering plants Puring the next few months, the avid gardener ahd the amateur alike will have td seek the beauty of plants indoors. This can be easily accomplished by carefully carefully selecting plants that will grow and flower in your indoor environment, where; the beauty of the flowers will give your home that happy homey atmosphere. The Rieger Begonia The many varieties of this beautiful plant will give you a wide range of colours, white, yellow, rose, red and even some of the newer varieties have shadings of bronze. Some are double and some are single, but all will flower for a long time, when treated properly. Rieger Begonias like to have a light location, not necessarily in a window, but still where there is plenty of light. When watering make sure that the water is hike, warm, this goes for all plants indoors, never water with cold tap water. During the winter this plant will have to be fed about once a month to keep the plant in bloom. Often the plant will stretch and the stems will get leggy and top heavy, then cut back the stems half way to the pot, in which case you probably will remove all the flowers, but within 2 to 3 weeks fresh growth will start and new buds and blooms will appear. The only problem with some of the varieties of' the Reiger is the white powdery mildew, which will cover the foliage, but this can be easily controlled controlled by any type of fungicide, such as captan, phaltan, or the systemic fungicide buny- myl. The Rex Begonia This plant is a flowering plant with small pink flowers but it is mostly prized for its beautiful foliage with shadings shadings of dark olive green with a metallic sheen and marked with a broad silver area on the leaf, about an inch from the outside of the leaf. They are easy to grow and like a room temperature of about 70 degrees, with lots of humidity in the air. The deep dish method helps to provide this condition. Take a deep dish or saucer and place a saucer upside down in the dish, then add water so that the top of the inverted saucer is just above the water line and then place the plant on top of that saucer. This will give it the humidity all around the leaves and will keep it, healthy,. Pot Mums The old standby, to give you that colour when you want it. Easy to grow. When you get this from the florist, make ' sure that the centre of the bloom or flower has some green sterns right in the middle of the flower. This means that the plant is fresh and with proper care will flower for at least 4 to 5 weeks, if placed in a spot that is not too hot. With modern technology, mums for indoor use have been greatly hybrid : ized and some of the new colours and varieties such as the daisy or the spoon type mums have added consider-, ably to the beauty of this plant. To keep them healthy, just make sure that they never dry out completely, again water with luke warm water, but feeding is not necessary. If you have a cool cellar place the plant there after it has finished flowering, flowering, and then in the spring plant them outside and cut the stems back to 2 inches above the pot, and they will flower again in the fall. Most potted mums have five plants in a six inch pot, and they can be > separated to give you five clumps of blooms in the fall. Until next week, happy " gardening (indoors that is). Woods, Water and Wildlife by Ron Reid, Federation of Ontario Naturalists 4-yr. olds out of local kindergartens A recommendation from the curriculum committee of the Northumberland and Newcastle Board of .Education .Education has recommended to the board that-the board discontinue discontinue admitting four year olds to kindergarten. The recommendation by the committee followed information information provided the committee committee which points out such admittance would only be permitted where a board established a Junior Kindergarten. Kindergarten. In the past couple of years the Northumberland and Newcastle Board has followed followed a practice of other boards where students would be admitted to kindergarten if their fifth birthday day came up in January and February of the school year. The formé: practice was to admit stu- / fs in September when u.evr fifth birthday was prior to the end of the year. 1 Not only was the local programs for Agr. workers One of the major problems for today's farmer is finding a reliable source of trained farm labour. Over the past number of years, a series of re-training programs have been carried out at Agricultural schools in Ontario. Farm Labour Pool offices and local agricultural Manpower Board Committees Committees have been instrumental in developing some programs for effective training and placement of agricultural workers. Probably the most successful successful type of program is one in which the farm operator acts as the trainer for new or inexperienced people wishing to work on farms. The limiting factor to this type of program is the cost involved in training a new person for a farm job. Now there may be an answer for those farmers willing to train young people, while at the same time providing over the long nm, a potential source of agriculture agriculture manpower for the industry. The Ontario Career Action Program (OCAP) is a provincial provincial program designed to assist unemployed young people in gaining job experience, experience, training and ultimately employment in the field of their choice. On-the-job training training programs are established in business and industry for up to 16 weeks in duration. The trainee works on the job as a regular employee and the community college who administer administer the program in the area, pay the trainee a training allowance of $100 per 'week. The OCAP trainer is responsible responsible for the supervision, instruction and training of the person. The OCAP trainee must be 16-24 years of age, be out of school for 3 months and never held a full time job in the area of career choice. We feel this program has merit for farmers who are looking for help, while at the same time, being willing to act as a teacher and trainer for a young person interested in agriculture. 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Douglas Sifton, director of education, told the committee last week that the Ministry of Education had made it clear that the younger students could only be admitted if the Board instituted Junior Kindergartens. Kindergartens. The committee, considering cost, recommended recommended the Board discontinue discontinue accepting the younger four-year-old students who fifth birthday would appear in January or February. Robert Moorcroft, superintendent superintendent of instructions, stated that the Board had admitted 150 four year old* students in the first year and 125 in the second year. He also pointed out that ^kindergarten enrolment enrolment overall was down 150 students this year. when you buy insurance the key word is choice. There are lots of Insurance companies m Canada. They sell thousands of insurance policies. But how do you find the policy that is the right one for you? you ask an independent insurance agent-broker. 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