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GARDEN CLUB MEETS
> clear-cut crimson markings and
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flush pink on the frilled tips. P.
.. Mr. Robert Saxe of San Praft- Sweet' Sixteen 1* a tall plant with
(duco, - noted rock garden enthusi large clusters of waved- and ruf-
ast, will be the speaker at Friday fled petals with strawberry pink
evening's meeting of the Monte 'accent*. Burlesque la <rose-pink`
rey Peninsula Garden club in the with- white markings, ' heavily1
auditorium of the Walter Colton; frilled,"'with a amalFvIoleFspotd iT
grammar school in Monterey. He the lower petal. .Mardi Gras, a 1941
will have e number of rock and pelargonium, is a ,white -daintily
Alpine^IanU-juitable--for--rock- -pencHled-in-red?-------------- -------- :--
gdrdens, To Illustrate his talk, Last fall,'at the end of the flow
which 'should be of particular in ering season, a popularity Vote was
terest to all resident* of the pen taken to name the year's favorites,
insular.
- - -They were--Marie--Hober,--Joycer May Queen, Ann Rudolff, Zanobia,
OAKLAND FLOWER SHOW
White A. A. G. (named after the
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Allied Arts Guild in Palo Alto,
Thursday evening, April 30, has Salman 'Springtime] Sui Jerrdtt,
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indicated to aid real estate tax re adjustment, paritcularly with ref erence to the property taxpay er's position and responsibilities in connection with the' costs of the defense program.
New Housing.
been set as the date for the sponsors-:-preview of the California Spring Garden Show in the Oak land auditorium. The following four days, May 1 to 4, the show will be open to the public. .
Theme of this year's event is
the "Rainbow Forest-" Entrance is by means of a wide rair.p which will lead to an eminence .com
Springtime and the Empress of Russia. The latter is a favorite with flower fans who like the rich, dark claret-red wih black highlights.
The Mme. Layal, which has a flat, open face like a pansy, and is exceptionally free flowering, is one of the old fashioned types still in. high favor. The original Martha Washington, growing today in
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Work Okayed
WASHINGTON, April 23 (IP) -- Immediate construction of 4,470 additional defense dwelling units, at a cost of approximately $15,000,Q00, to house industrial work ers and army enlisted personnel in ten cities, was approved today by President Roosevelt on recom mendation of C. F. Palmer, coor
manding a view of the entire show. Flood lights will illuminate the outdoor garden section, which is devoted tq ` individual garden landscaping created by Bay region garden clubs.
PELARGONIUM CULTURE Pelargoniums, popularly called
.Lady or Mhrtha Washington ge raniums,"were brought from their native wilds in South Africa in
Mount Vernon gardens, is a gor geous cherry red with dark brown markings and a light edge. It blooms all summer long, .and is often developed into large, bushy plants for 18-inch pots for gardens that go in for potted flowers;
Azalea and Sunset, both brilliant rose with reverse petals of satiny overlaid with white, are popular favorites, even though the experts of the society did not vote for
dinator -of-defense housing.- '
1690 and at once became garden them.-The public does. May'Queen,
fireplaces The President also approved favorites in Europe, especially in that has stolen the color of the
)rnia-type construction of 1,906 temporary England. Maybe thr' is why they orchid, was such a sellout last year
ing room, accommodation units for defense are called "old fashioned."
that it did not land, in many pri
to a rear workers estimated to cost $805,000. The 1941 pelargoniums have be vate gardens.
he house, These shelters, consisting of de come as showy as-the expensive Pelargoniums are semi-desert
a, pantry, mountable dormitories and trail azaleas, some even picking up the plants and actually suffer when ers, would be used, Palmer said, colors of the orchids. More recent over-watered. They need very lit
only until more permanent hous ly called, "the poor' man's rhodo tle fertilizer and give a maximum
ing could be provided.
dendrons," pelargoniums may be amount of display with a minimum
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sen to anyig together tate -groups
Palmer announced allocation of .grown as shrubby bushes in large
the housing projects, to cost around- wooden or other containers to dec
$3,300 a unit, as follows: Vallejo, orate patios and porches wherever
Calif., 1,600 units.
,
potted plants are desired. But
Demountable dwellings would be whether a pot plant, or tub shrub,
built at Vallejo, Palmer said.
or a garden bedder, pelargoniums
are most obliging. In their 1941
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models, they are ruffled, veined,
of effort. Then, too, these flowers have
very few enemies. Black-rot, usu ally fatal before one notices it, be gins at the base, causing the cen tral stem to grow black and hol low. It is-caused by over^watering. Heavy foliage and sparse flowers
1 advance a
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fluted and frilly, arriving in grace are the result of over-feeding. All ful, slender shapes in a style that geraniums do best when rootbound
.he various
SAN FRANCISCO, April 23 (U.FD Federal Judge A. F. St. Sure today set July 1 for trial of 83 individuals and firms, engaged in lumber fix
ture and millwork industries in the San Francisco bay area and indicted last year on anti-trust law charges.
The indictments charged prin cipally that manufacturers and labor unions of this area conspired
their colonial ancestors never sus pected was in the family.
If you did not raise any cuttings last year, you may buy them now or .plant them in the garden; As the stock increases, rapidly, the fine varieties on the market now will supply an abundance of new plants.
Among the 1941 jjntroductions are Crusader, a white flower with
in the pots. In shifting from small pots to large ones, an inch differ-
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