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DIEFFENBACHIA SPIDER PLANT PLANTS CAN THRIVE HAPPILY WITH LITTLE CARE If a few growing bade* ace applied on a regular •chedule. A nourishing diet is essential for healthy plants, just as the need for suffi­ cient water and proper light. A favorite feeding formula used bjr professional gardeners is Spee • trum's Earth Care", a complete plant food that provides a balanced Mend of nitrogen, phos­ phorous and potash, fortified with iron and manganese. Available at leading garden center out • lets in handy 8 ox. and 1-Ib. plastic containers. You can count V C the many benefitsck of doing " business in McHenry J Doing business in McHenry is very much like doing business with yourself...because your job, your business, your community services, and your social environment are favorooly affected every time you - or anybody else - spends a dollar in the business area where you live. Support Your McHenry Merchants during Dollar Days June 26th-28th JM SERVING THE I BANKING NEEDS l liliB A f OF THE McHENRY AREA MaTIOMaL BaMK OF IVFHGNRY 3814 W. ELM ST. McHENRY, ILL. PHONE 385-5400 PAGE 12 - PLAtNDEALER - WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25. IfM Haw growing plants stay happy and healthy with mmimal care House plants do not necessar­ ily demand daily loving care for good health. There are, happily, some simple basics that can add to the productivity and comfort of plants living in an all-year- round home or weekend sum­ mer cottage. Sufficient water is certainly necessary but does not present any unusual problem. Some plants can thrive on a weekly soaking -- and there are automa­ tic watering devices now avail­ able for the thirstier varieties. Fertilizer essential A multi-purpose fertilizer for balanced plant growth is another essentia] and can be applied dur­ ing the liquid application. A favorite feeding formula used by many professional gar­ deners contains equal parts (18-18-18) of nitrogen, phos­ phorous and potassium and is fortified with iron and man­ ganese to prevent those de­ ficiencies. Such a complete fer­ tilizer and nourisher, descrip­ tively called Earth Care®, can be found at leading garden sup­ ply outlets. Plant food use The water-soluble plant food should be used in specific amounts as indicated on the label. House plants and hanging plants need one-fourth teaspoon to one gallon of water. Patio plants can use one table­ spoon to one gallon of water. Try it also as a soil drench or mist for foliar feeding. A handy measure comes with both the 8 oz. and I lb. plastic tub containers. Prevent iron deficiency with another product designed to re­ store vigor and green color to iron anemic plants--Earth Care Professional Plant Iron Tonic. Effective in acid, alkaline and calcareous soils, it helps weak plants bounce back. This tonic comes in a water-soluble pow­ der, 6 oz. and 12oz. tubs, and as a granular formulation in 1 % lb. shaker canisters. Both of these growing fun­ damentals are part of Spec­ trum's Home & Garden Pro­ ducts line. Earth Care carries a money-back guarantee. ^ - , Provide good drainage for your house plants. Containers should have drain holes for ex­ cess water and to admit air. Light needs differ Plants need light. Flowering varieties need sunlight for at least part of the day. Foliage plants can flourish on diffused light. Be careful of temperature changes, particularly when you ale in weekend residence, the| surrounding air is generally com­ fortable and so is the greenery. ) Fishing reel responsible for 400 million bites If you filled up boxcars with the past 25 years production of America's most popular fishing reel and started the train down the track, the folks at the cross­ ing would spend the next seven hours waiting for it to pass and join one of the largest traffic jams in history. There's a closer connection to bluegills and bullheads than {boxcars, though, when you think about all the fish dinners die Zebco 33 has been responsi­ ble for. Hard telling how many times those many million 33's have gone fishing, but if you figured six times a year just for the heck of it, that's more than 400 million fish if the folks caught only three per trip. Hard telling, really, what the actual number is because America's most popular reel is found on 'most every pond, creek and lake in America and a lot pf places outside the city limits of the U.S.A. And while we're outside the U.S., you'd have to travel to the moon and back three times to stretch out all the line that it's taken to fill those reels the past 25 years. If you'd rather stay on planet Earth, figure on taking iorgas Som'thin' Special for the Patio Chef. AN LP GAS GRILL (DOLLAR DAYS SPECIAL) DISCOUNTS An % off «st 4U /© PRICE I 4 MODELS ft ACCESSORIES IN STOCK example: reg. 439.00 NOW $279 Microwaves also Dollar Day Prlcad 11 4003 N. MAIN ST. McHENRY 385-4200 about 60 trips around the world to stretch out all the string wound on the spools since 1955. That's the year Willie Mays hit 51 home runs, the Brooklyn Dodgers won the World Series, and the folks at Zebco built the first of more than the billion parts it's taken for the 33 in twenty-five years. Although Zebco changed the way America fished some six years prior to the 33's debut, few reels, if any, have carved such a niche in angling history as the metal-bodied 33 when you consider the instruction sheets alone would result in a four-million page newspaper or dte thfekest Reader's Digest in • history at more than 40 million pages. Appropriately, a fishing story called The Old Man and the Sea won the Nobel Prize for literature. The same year an­ glers across America started pushing the button on what was to become the single most fa­ mous reel in angling history. Times were different in '55.. Soda pop was a nickle and gas closer to a quarter than a buck. Strange as it may appear, the 33 back then had a suggested retail of $19 and change,-while today with a matching rod you can purchase one for less than $25.00. As new materials and tech­ niques have become available, the 33 has, of course, been up­ graded since that first one in '55. But, for all practical pur­ poses, it's unchanged. Next time you pull your car into the garage, think about this a minute: It would take 2,OO0 two-car garages to hold all the 33's built the past 25 years. And. a lot more space to hold all the fish that have been caught on those 33's. No wonder it's America's most popular fishing reel. If it wasn't, the birthday cake wouldn't have 25 candles. That's one for every million that has gone fishing, and that's abunch. . (§) STRAWBERRY- * WALNUT COUPE 1 cup (4% oz) Swiss Miss Refrigerated Vanilla Pudding V* cup crushed strawber­ ries 1 tablespoon chopped walnuts 2 tablespoons whipped cream Combine ingredients in a small bowl; spoon into a wine Garnish with fresh berries, as / desired: ,\/ ' lf • ' 1 '" • " "'