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warT9 SRIF w+ The bookworm by Shirley Whittington The greening of Huronia is beginning, as warming sun melts away the NOW IN STOCK ie spring's +r ¥ wore ee Greening of Huronia means it's time to plan the spring pianting snowbanks. Knowledgeable perfect time to bone up on gardeners know what's bone meal, ponder plant ahead in terms of propagation and _ con- propagation and planting template cuttings Neophytes need all the help they can get Books abound on the subject, and now, in this hiatus between snow shovel and lawn mower, is the Chatelaine's Book for starters. . : ba Light Trucks F-100 TO .F 350. Including the all new 75% Econoline Nan e All colours e All options 20 models - now in stock If you're looking for a light truck - Now is the time to buy You could settle down with Gardening It is a massive 369 page tome, replete with dazzling colour photographs, diagrams and These trucks run on any Gas !!! ° HANNA MOTOR SALES Hume St. Collingwood WG 40-- 30-- 20 10 -40-- oT 4 --110 100 90 SERVING CKMP 1230 miptanp 6) 7a ) ) ») : (2) Midland-Tenetang Broadeasting Lid. ¢ 490 DOMINION AVENUE, MIDLAND, ONTARIO PHONE 526-2268 Starting April Ist, the public weather forecasts will be given in degrees Celsius, with no mention of the Farenheit reading. The public must now realize that 20 to 25 degrees C represents sum- mer comfort, 0 degrees C is freezing, and -20 degrees C is cold. Our temperature readings on the left say you should be comfortable, whether in degrees F or in degrees C. The inventor of the mercury-in-glass ther- mometer was Gabriel Farenheit, a German instrument maker, the year 1714. His scale provided 180 degrees between the freezing and boiling points of water. Being a European, he had decided that the point at which sea-water froze should be zero, the coldest temperature to be experienced in his environment. This choice resulted in freezing being at 32 degrees F and boiling at 212 degrees F. We have lived with these funny numbers ever since. In 1742, the Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius proposed that the scale between freezing and boiling be 100 degrees and thus was born the centigrade scale. (centi means divided by 100). There was some confusion in use of the name centigrade, since it was also used in angular measure, and in 1948 the General Conference on weights and measures decided that the tem- perature scale would be called Celcius. The Canadian practice will be to write the tem- perature as degrees C without a period following the Cand to refer to temperature not as "above"' zero, but as "plus" and "'minus". In deciding to go directly into Celsius, the Metric Commission studied the conversion experience of other countries. In some countries where both scales were reported for a period of years, confusion still exists while in others, where Farenheit was dropped suddenly, the public adapted within a period of weeks. At CKMP radio, we hope to make the change swift to benefit our audience and the public in this area. Good Luck, and Happy Celsius! THE GREATER GEORGIAN BAY AREA FROM THE GATEWAY TO THE 30,000 ISLANDS Page 24, Wednesday, March 26, 1975 - planting charts, and its chief charm is that it was written by a Canadian (Lois Wilson) for Canadians. Ms. Wilson writes with charm ("vines are gay gymnasts of the garden') and with ingenuity ("Bicycle baskets, handily one-sided, make good planters along a rail'). She covers vegetable gardening, flowers, the building of fences and walk- ways, tools, pest control and indoor gardening. And, she pays careful note to Canda's many different growing areas, right from the Atlantic to the Yukon. This is a comprehensive addition to the green thumb library. If you tend to be com- pulsive, you'll enjoy Xenia Field's Week by Week Gardening, which has specific chores laid out for every week of the year. This week, friends, you should be working with pre-emergence weed killers, cutting back overgrown deciduous hedges and setting out your strawberries. This points up an obvious shortcoming of American gardening manuals. They do not always take into account the shorter growing season of the northern latitudes. Still, the Week by Week Gardening is a beautiful big book with full colour illustrations that will delight you even in the fourth week of February when there's nothing to do but prune your woody trees and plan your vegetable garden. The Complete Flower and Garden Book by Beth M. York promises to green your thumb and make your home and the space around it more beautiful. Its chief merit -- to my un-horticultural eye -- is its loose leaf format which 'Early Midland' book is again available The Story of Early Midland and her Pioneers, a book which has been out of print for many years, is again available, thanks to a Peterborough publishing house. Nick Mika of Mika Publishing took a research trip to Midland several years ago, gathering material for a historical book about the area. "I could find only one copy, very tattered and greasy, of The Story of Early Midland, "he told the Times, "and I decided a reprint of the book would be an ex- cellent idea." Copyrights expire after 50 years , but because George R. Osborne published Early Midland in 1939, Mika is obliged to pay a 10 per cent royalty on copies sold. He has printed 500 copies, and will run to 1,000 if the demand is great enough. Mika Publishing specialises in historical books about smaller towns and cities. enables one to add one's own notes, or to remove a page for a trip to the nursery or greenhouse. It covers lawns, flowers, shrubs, trees, houseplants, herbs, fruits and vegetables. Better lay in a supply of gummed reinforcements if you decide on this book. Basic Gardening Illustrated comes in modest paperback and is chock full of easy to read diagrams and photos. It is published by Sunset, the Magazine of Western Living, but it does pay attention to the varying growing zones across the country. It's a good practical book, full of sensible suggestions on how to avoid Monday morning gardener's back. Herbs have been around for centuries and you can find out how to grow and use them in A Modern Herbal edited by Violet Stevenson. It's the only book I ever saw with directions for making candied violets. There is lots of down-to-earth information too, including how to grow herbs in window boxes, and how to confine rampant cheerful paperback shows neophytes how to give up Kick-a-Plant Week. Maggie Bayliss writes with wit and joy. The line drawings are clear and accurate and the text is stimulating. For apartment dwellers, she suggests: "Take the doors off a kitchen cupboard, add two 40 watt fluorescent lights, and you have a charming lighted winter."' tell you garden for fresh salads all Ms. Bayliss is dedicated to plant parenthood, and she'll absolutely ° everything you ever wanted to know about houseplants. There's a wide choice of gardening books and it should be easy to find one or two that will suit particular situation. 3S Buy now. Play lat&r. your mint. Recipes for minted melon balls, marigold custard and other savoury delights are included. If you are strictly a houseplant gardener, House Plants for the Purple Thumb will delight you. 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