~ and thanks are extended to

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community
association

By Marjorie Denroche
.. The. bright yellow Social
Service Directories are now
- out and hopefully tucked in
the telephone book or some
other convenient. location.
Response has been excellent

all . who. assisted. in. the

compilation etc. However,

the: ‘print gremlin’? was at

work and you are requested

to change the following:

epee. Peninsula

‘Employment Project 656-

0851

=p. 3. Ministry of ‘Human
Resources 656-3941

-.-p.4 Parents in Crisis 656--
4006.50

p.5 Al-Anon 383- 0415

p.10. Add: Pal’s Pre-
School, 9760 4th St., 656-

» 7334
~ © p.12°>MS Support Group:
Janette. McNamara | 386-
4178

Other changes will bé
noted in this column, but
information. is. always
available by calling the -
PCA at 656-0134. It will be.
-a number of years before
‘the directory is re-printed,

$0. give it. “TLL.c.
(troublesome little

“--corrections!).
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aman, hungry and down in ©

his luck, anxious to join a
daughter i in Kelowna,:where™
~~ there’ was. possible work.
_ Add the’ Salvation “Army

: provided « a nice “warm. suit.

of the SoMMGAIY: ee

~ want to figure skate, play

the ‘ice, ‘the Peninsula: Old
“and New Shop. at 9781- 2nd -
has dozens ‘of pairs. ‘of
skates for > sale a
ce teasonable prices
“There isn't

“Parent: srouper -on the:

peiiinsula but if the centre ~

in. Victoria: knew ‘of aneed
-out. here, they.

ov certainly. assist-oin.

“bes interested,

Moxiean Plima’
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blueberries on a commercial scale, |
fragrant, and beautiful ‘‘old’’ roses. Her perennial border

ay

to replace t the one in. Poor '

“Looks. like skating, time:
again at: Panorama Leisure
Centre and-for those who |

ue hockey, or just get out on.

“Single

would.
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~ formation of such. a ‘group, ”
Call 385-1114 if you would ©

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Apett Helen L, ang

(Elizabeth Kerfoot is swrithi this week’s column. She is a
true. .organic. gardener,. _growing . everything from
to many of the rare,

would: make.an Englishman weep. with envy, her heathers .
would drive a Scot wild, her-small daueher is well-behaved:
and. clean, her husband looks happy . - how does she do

| have many interests in the garden — possibly too many
—-and_ because life and this:column.seem too short and
Helen .Lang may not give mea second chance, | will avoid
the many to get to my: first interest: the old and. shrub
roses.

If I- sound rather evangelical. when describing and
comparing the ‘‘classic’’ roses with what is generally
available now. (Hybrid-Teas- and Floribundas), :it-is-for-a
reason. They have all the qualities one would expect of a
flowering .shrub, ‘as. well as being’ shrubs of :romance
steeped in sentiment and history.

‘Their longevity attests their.naturail hardiness and the
fragrance is that which has charmed humanity from time
immemorial, from times when fragrance was a prerequisite
of being a'rose.

The roses hybridized i in both Europe and America before -

World War. Il, when chemical cure-alls for rose diseases
were not.available, should appeal to gardeners of 1983 .who
don’ thave the time to coddle sickly plants.

AS Christopher Lloyd so aptly complains, ‘‘I feel that I
am starting off with an inbuilt invalid that has been bred to
be susceptible to every passing; ailment’’.

The shrub genre of rose cuts across thie different types,

~but-in general, they enjoy growing freely and expansively,

requiring. little | pruning apart from the removal of weak:
- shoots. The Tugosas, a ‘tough. breed of rose originating in.
Japan, can grow into large informal shrubs and make :

wonderful hedges.

‘a.m. apm, Oct. 22 2-42

HOR,

Garden club —
to meet

* Sidney ‘and. ‘Saanich 7
Peninsula Garden Club. will:
‘meet 7:30 p.m, Oct..17 at
Margaret Vaughan Birch =

Hall, 4th St., Sidney, Guest.
“speaker is Douglas O’Brien,
provincial. ministry: af...
-oagriculture, < whose. topic.
will be ‘winter eontrol of :

* 652- tras ,

-then maybe you-should search for these ‘

These 1 TOSeS. s(e: 8. the semi- -double white “Blanc Double :

The: Saanich Peningula ‘branch of the Navy League of:

Canada will be sponsoring a sale of firewood Oct. 15 and”
16 at the Cadet Hall, Willingdon Rd., Sidney. The wood is

i cut and split, bring you own n LUCK “you load. Reasonable

“a ounces of ery
. the “host. filet"? ee
~ oy smothorad with soafood . el

“FILET Pe ”

“Everything Barrel Size f But The Price’

~ SUNDAY BRUNCH 11:30 and 1: 30

Bring the Family to the Bost Smorgashord in Town. te : ee a
a3 The ¢ Brentwood Inn |

THE REVIEW

de Coubert’’) are completely disease resistant, bloom
recurrently, and the scent comes at you in great wafts.

One of my favorite roses, not unlike our native Rosa
Nutkana, is Rosa rubiginosa or Sweetbrier, one of the
most beautiful of all single pink wild roses. The foliage,
especially after a rain, carries a delicious fragrance of green
apples. .

It has long been a favourite rose of poets: Shakespeare

| mentions it in Midsummer Night’s. Dream, it was Keat’s —

Pastoral Eglantine and the smelling Brere of Spenser.

As with most. species roses, it only. blooms for. several. .

weeks in June, but it is bejeweled with glittering oval red

_heps in autumn.

The Gallica roses are very ancient and very hardy — they
have been found growing wild wherever the culture of
Rome . extended.” Rosa Gallica. officinalis. was the

J Apothecary Rose used in past centuries for ‘medicinal

purposes. My five-year old daughter loves to lead visitors
to this rose and explain how the petals were made into jam
for the Kings of England (King Henry VII}).

The species climber, Rosa filipes Kiftsgate,.seems so
suitable for the west coast but it is rarely, if ever, seen
growing in gardens. If there is scope in your garden for an
exuberant rose, this is a wonderful sight with its large
swags of creamy-white single roses with golden stamens.

My. plant. has’ been: growing: in ‘the. chicken yard: for
almost three years and is happily reaching up into a large
fir tree: According to the books, it can reach 60 to-100 feet,
and [| believe it can! But then, not every rose bush has the

support of 20 chickens.

Another species rose,-Rosa spinosissima, also known. as
‘Scotch or Burnet rose, is a marvelously hardy semi-dwarf
shrub native to: Europe and Northern Asia. I especially
chose the type called Double White because it was:a
favourite with that supreme gardener and author, Gertrude
Jekyll.

My _ two-year- “old bush of Double White bloomed with
great profusion this June and its pure white goblet-shaped
flowers carried the most exhilarating scent of Lily of the

valley. The autumn display of the delicate foliage takes on -

colours such as plum, dark red, yellow ane orange with
brilliant maroon-black heps, '

If you are one of those discriminating gardeners who
long for the cozy softness of a Beatrix Potter illustration,
‘‘classic’’ roses.

Some can be found growing along the ditches and hedges
on the Saanich Peninsula and are quite easy to propagate.

I have . several -plants. of the- old yellow. ‘rambler

‘Goldfinch’? started from a bush+ growing on West

_ Saanich Rd. (all that remains of an ‘old golf clubhouse).
“Once. they are nurtured in good soil, uy will give you

much in return.

‘Canadian nursery that carries a good selection of old and
species roses: Pickering Nurseries, 670. Kingston Rd.,
Pickering, Ont. Ly eee

ae - Elizabeth Kerfoot
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price, mixed fir and alder. Proceeds i in: aid of navy y league

t program ‘uns. Mondays 9:30

ee

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peas prone 656: 1 l ats

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If ‘propagating: is. not . your thing.: “then there» is'a-

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m. 30 D. m. “at. Margaret
- Vaughan Birch Hall: on. 4th’ St.,” Sidney, For. more in-
* formation call Marketa at 652- 1483. “

fair-at St. Mary’ S Church Hall, 1701 Elgin St., Oak ‘Bay, 10:

Wednesday, October 12, 1983

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