SUPPORT to the
al Street

construction of a
are these three White

new
Rock

] Auxiliary W. Dow, president of the Auxiliary,
Ald. Jessie Lee, publicity chairman and ‘city council’;
resentative on the Hospital Board, are equipped with shovels
for the task. The Auxiliary hopes to receive as much volunteer
labor as possible.

comedy skit, George Grozav and
: E. F. Gould, recitations, Mr. A.
holds reunion Lambert, a magician who per-|

Crescent. Canadian Legion |formed some very difficult
Auxiliary No. 240 held a reun-/|sleight of hand tricks.
ion of former and present mem-
bers on March 30

Mrs. Hugh Grant,
president, opened the even

Crescent Legion

Mr. Arthur Simpson was ac-
|companist and rendered several |

¥| i |
Y|piane solos |

Auxilii

entertainment with Mrs. George; Dr. A. C_ Norwich showed
Grozay as master of ceremonies. 'some very interesting color

The evening was enjoyed by |slides of his trip through Eng-
those pres€nt with solos by Mr. /land- and Scotland, explaining

| which,

to r) past president of White Rock|just as long-l

p-|sembling the

|able. Hi

Week by Week

WHITE ROCK SUN

their glory, I only started out to have Hyacinths, which bloom
a doven bulbs four years ago,|so much earlier

THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1959 9

We have had

In The Garden but now I have, quite a gosd|them in bloom for quite a long
h Coming on into |time. \

By G. ©. Sery

ANYTHING NEW IN
THE GARDEN?

| Are you going to grow any-
thing new or different in your
jearden, or are you going to
|erow the samo old things year lite
Jafter year? Every year, go the).
same old things ~ tulips or wall
flowers for the spring display
[followed by searlet geraniums
land blue lobelia, or maybe pet-|
unia Rosy Morn with an edging
jof alyssum Carpet of Snow.

In some of my recent articles,
I've written about a lot of the
v introductions which are ad-
vertised in the seed and plant
catalogues, and I hope a lot of
you, my readers, will be trying
some of them out

You know, half the fun in
gardening lies in experiment, in
working out new color schemes
ind effects, and in trying out
new plants and new combina
tions of old plants.

foating.

We all
kind

grow tulips
or another.

some

Parrot Tulips,
many of you have grown before
With me, it's something “df
ferent.” But all these tulips
will not be in bloom for some
time yet, I have had tulips in
bloom for about three weeks
now (at t of writing, March
31). These are the little dwarf |
Spece, grown chiefly in the al-}
‘pine or rock garden. The yar-
iety is called Kaufmanniana, of-
ten called the waterlily tulip, |
\'The color is a creamy yellow
with streaks of soft red shading
Jon the outside, and the inside.
when they open up like a water-|
lily, is a deep yellow. They do

I've told you of that lovely |not open up in this dull, rainy
Morning Glory, Heavenly Blue,|weather, but when the sun is

grown on a wall or!

trellis facing east, should thrill)

shining they open out in

ches high

bed of them

Tf you have

cyclamen

silvery white,
drooping flowers on

stem, and are so
sweet scented

bloom in a short time are two
other specie varieties:
mains just ad sweet and intox-|Richleri, a fine vermilion scar
let, several blooms of which are

I try to grow something dif- Just opening up; and the other
ferent in my garden every year, |i8 Praestans Fusilier, vermilion
It's half the joy of a gardener's |orange, which nas three to five

of |flowers on a stém.
This |very worthwhile varieties, com: | ;
I have a bed of the blue|ing so early into bloom as they |i ! huge, shimmering pink
which I expect |do

‘These are

Probably the most noteworthy
of the new flowers is the Jong-
uwated Rose Pink Peace, a
@reatgranddaughter of Meil-
land's famous Peace rose. They
say it is quite an outstanding
hew rose, with long, straight
jstems and shapely buds open-

is

blossoms with 60 to 65 giant
petals and a wonderful frag-

a rock garden |rance So if you have space for
why not grow some of those

delightful little narcissi, which
only grow from four to six in-
There is the Bulb-
ocodium, yellow Hoop-Petticaat,
a rich golden yellow; Cyclamen-|2°™ Iris reticulata, been
cus a yellow, Which reminds one
flower;
Triandrus Albus (angel's tears)
two and morc
a stem.
And then, there are» the taller
Jonquils. either sindle o- dou-
ble, with several flowers on al golden yellow
delghtfully

anather rose,
choice.

To go back to the bulb fam-
ily, that little early flowering

there's your

in bloom here some’ tithe. It is
and}? dark purple and only grows
about eight inches high. Every
\tarden should have some of
the Jater bulbous irises, the
Dutch Iris Wedgewood, a love-
ly pale blue; Imperator, light
purple; and Golden Harvest, a

| There are also the English
jand Spanish bulbous Irises, all

Most gardens have their daf-|of which are worthwhile grow-

your eyesight and pull you out|

of your deep blues in the
morning. Most of you wall ||)
usually grow the same old snap-
dragons, but .there are some

pentstemon as a substitute? | ji
They are just as easy to grow,
ting in bloom,
are larger, re-
spikes of fox-|/
glove, with bearded throats anc
in the brightest colors imagin

and the flo

| A clean

Most of us will scatter a few | |iil
seeds of Nicotaina where they | |j
will best give us pleasure with |
their evening fragrance, but |
these are uninteresting plants | |
in the daytime, as they shut up
their long trumpet flowers till
after the sun goes down Why
not grow that variety called
Daylight Sensation, which has}
been on the market for several | }
seasons now, and which keep |
their flowers open all day, in) {}
colors never seen in the older |

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all ‘fodils and tulips, but few

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