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Show SUMAY, 12A SUNDAY HERALD Utah MAY 8. 1960 County. Utah Indoor Gardening Few Plants Can Rival Alocasias For Sheer Beauty By KATHERINE B. WALKER .sphagnum moss, liquid feedings on a regular For sheer drama in foliage, must, be given since the moss itself has few plants can rival the alocasi- schedule no food value for plants. It is as. They have large, heart-shape-d usually suggested that foliage leaves in gorgeous patterns, and plants be fed once a month, but often have interesting coloration. I have had better success giving One that I like particularly is weaker feedings more' frequently. A. amazonica, a very good grow- Tropical plants such as alocasias ample food in order to make er, which has white veins and a need lush the growth, of which they are white, scalloped margin. Another, A. cuprea, the most' compact capable; so do remember, to feed of them all, has leaves up to 10 them regularly. inches long that are a metallic , Frequently, readers will write beneath. saying that green above and purple' a plant The veins in this ' species are food burned their plants. - It, is deeply depressed; as- they also my opinion that it is not the plant are in A. chantrieri, which has food that is at fault, but the user pale grey veins and a coppery-purpl- e who neglected to read the direc reverse. tions and follow them. Do read These plants belong . to the the labels! They may vary with Aroid Family, arid are closely the brand. And don't feel that because a . little is . good, a, lot related to dieffenbachia, If, however, you anthurium, and many will be better. other choice house plants; They do burn . a plant by using too grow from a tuberous rootstock much fertilizer, try to flush it and should be planted in sphag- out by heavy, repeated water num moss, or in peatmoss mixed ing. And the next time, read the carefully before using. with chicken-gr-it (added to im- directions I must be prove drainage). They kept constantly moist, and should Questions and Answers be given a shaded location; as Q. I have been told that a sunlight scorches - their leaves. For the - most luxuriant growth, must have nine alocasias should have huniid air, leaves before it will bloom, and which of course can be provide! if this jis true, mine will never by placing their pots on large flower because it loses an old pebble-traySince thesa plants leaf every time i it forms a new -; and require one. are quite good-sized can other pots, plants A. I have heard innumerable be grouped on the tray around times that this (Strelitzia) them, to help conceal- - the pots must have nine plant leaves before it and to furnish extra humidity. blooms, but I cannot find any -- When any plant is grown in authority for the belief. It is true ; j THE STORY f Rose Holmes continues to struggle toward to the ' fact of She and! Mark had adjustment ! widowhood. lived together 20 happy years, but the suddenness o his death left her in a state of near shock. She fees as though she were, in a tunnel, separated, from others by darkness and high J walls. . XVIII That was the summer the Bail eys moved into the place Jnext door. Rose went to call on them, an automatic gesture in this neighborhood. She, pebbie and at. home between term s Tim had end "and summer scpool seen them from a distance and the real - estate wboian whom Rose knew said. Do goT and see 'Mrs. 'Bailey, such a nice girl and I'm grateful to . her.j She helped make up her husband's mind. I never thought I'd unload the Lambert; house." The Lambert now the Bailey house was a small, sagging salt box still sturdy. It was - like a woman in worn, t w e e d s and scuffed -- boots:- strorig, ancient, . with the good facial bones showing through, visible jeauty feven in advanced age. Ann Bailey made them welcome. She was a bij girl first perceptible stages of pregnancy. She took he' callers inside and apologized Eor the; confusion. , '.. The ceilings wer j low, the cracked, plastered walls, were .painted outrageous olors, mercifully faded, but the Holdings, the "Wide floor boards and fireplaces U were superb. "This is older than! ours," Rose told Debbie and Debbie said, "It's George, but I Uke tanch " 0 in-th- i e r . ' "", houses." . nor Mrs. mother her Neither . prefer)her Bailey objected to; , ence. - . . . "It's fun to do a place ver," "Rose said. "We did sours." "It will probably take years," Mrs. Bailey said, "but; we'll have something to show for it." She added that her husband worked for a Wall Street firm and in order to have a car, she took him to and from his trains. "If there's anything we can do, tell us. We're as close as your phone when you get it, and I hope that will be soon." 1 i i ; - Distributed by Newspaper Enterprise Assn. 1959 by Foith Baldwin Cuthrell. 'Copyright "Oh," said Mrs. Bailey, "we'll it was in use, one of his multi have one almost immediately tudinous friends came for him, Jim carried on about my Cond- and his mother perceived that, itionhe even spoke with a capi- although now and then last wintal, C until they, gave in.Do. . ... ter's maturity- showed, he had you reverted to his old carelessness. That's very good of you. have a big family?" "Just Debbie herv brother Tim He and Debbie were children; and I," Rose said. "Tim has a children adjust. Yet often, looksummer job. Debbie has one, too. ing over guns or fishing tackle with Bluff breathing heavily They'll be leaving soon. We're down his neck, Tim would say; not far down the road and baras if abstractedly, "Gee, I miss ring your Condition you could in aV open, seemingly unjump over the walls. It's nice," Pop," she added not really meaning it emotional fashion, as if stating a but wishing tojbe kind "to have fact and then 'moving on." His neighbors. The place has been mother envied him. vacant for so long. It was ocLogically, she could not expect cupied by an ungregarious spin- that Mark's children w u 1 d ster, the last of the Lamberts, the spend the remainder of their prcA year we came hare. She died soon sumably long Jives mourning; after . ! . I don't think our ar- these lives were jtheir own. They rival had anthing to do with it." had a future. Because she was in "Actually," said Debbie, a tuanel and had no future, she "Mother crept! in and poisoned could not see them clearly and her one day.',' tried to reason, with herself; "Arsenic," agreed Rose. "Well, They're young, I'm not. It was a " 'S you tell Mr. Bailey different relationship. ."Jim," corrected his wife, "and She did not know whether she my name's Ann." resented their forgetting no, it wasn't forgetting; it was adjustWalking home, Debbie said, ment in so short a time or was "Gee; young jmarrieds have it glad that they could adjust. rough, don't they?" It seemed to her that ever "fiot in this lease," her mother said, "tor they were able to buy since the night Debbie had come . -- - - . -- a mortgaged. As for doing it over, that's no obstacle . when you're young, j Your father andweI did a good deal of work when came here though not as much as the Baileys will have to do I know and we had two kids what they'll 'go pretty well worth ...Yes, it It's it," through. worth was together, peing really watching something come into reality, making a house belong. Ann Bailey jturned' up the following Sunday afternoon, bringing her; husband. He was taller than she, a quiet young man with a good jsmile. (Rose unlocked the tool shed and told him to help himself. There were many things ve could use. 'fl'll take good care of them," he promised earnestly, "and I. can't thank you enough," She said, "Mark my husband always kept things' shipshape, so everything jyou use will be in 10 Dioom. xi your plant ! j ALOCASIASFeaturing d heart-shape- leaves in gorgeous colors, this plant has interesting coloration, into her room at the inn she had somehow struggled to rise from her knees and was now standing, upright. She had to lean against something; therO were, the walls of the tunnel. d, j good-size- , (To Be Continued) "-- " , , , f ' . , , f ' y X, : ' : Q. I would like to try dwarfing an Aleppo pine, but have heen told it cannot be grown indoors. Is this true? A.If kept reasonably cool, and watered 'carefully, the needled evergreens are satisfactory indoor subjects.j with tepid water ohce a week aids In keeping them lin good health. Top-sprayi- . L. CHARGE OMrs.1 Nellie BUILDING or BUYING? FOR-- . Las-sit- er has pleaded innocent in, Detroit to the change of plotting the death of her husband, 1 Parviu (Bill) Lassiter. (r! nn liVO CAT.IJ order." ' ' ' """ . Tim came roaring in and he He and Jim talked baseball. came home at! all hours and most evening's had Rose's car. When Chosen After Every Industrial Need Was Carefully Considered By Experts; And Now The f Ultimate In Industrial Property Is Available for Progressive Business. Right Here In Provo . . . READ ON! YOU'LL SEE WHY YOU WILL ... WANT YOUR NEW PLANTi HERE .'-.- : ' --- !. .;; .''' :" J"" w" - "fc. 2 ".' tf'&miP'm' mwx' - s yyiBwmmium i whmwmiwmb jmmvimnif MMmJgil,tli,yMi,. W y !:.. .v:v.vx:..-:.:- v.- ,. . Pictured is an aerial photograph of the rapidly expanding PROVO INDUSTRIAL CENTER. Looking north from Center Street, it portray & the choice industrial sites available. Provo Industrial Center is located a few minutes from downtown Provo and only six miles from the Geneva. Works of U.S. Steel. 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Edwin Stein The Twenty Cor-, poration ' ' ' 'S J N THESE IMPORTANT FACTS TELL YOU WHY There Is abundant water, power, sewer, gas and skilled labor ' " " property faxes Near an excellent technical university and a vocational school Excellent transportation facilities Low - North Univ. Ave. Provo, Utah 47. Ten minutes from the West's major steel mill' An uncrowded but rapidly expanding area Fifty minutes from Salt Lake City; adjacent to new Three minutes to Provo Airport Phone FRanklin freeway 3-32- 83 or contact any broker. f 1 52 -1 in- - SEA HUNT 4- I - water excite-- i ment tonight at 9:30 on FR N O W for progressive business, the ! I ng FOR THE FIRST TIME IN eENTRXL UTAH AN AREA IS AVAILABLE SPECIFICALLY . SELECTED FOR INDUSTRY were the keys depressed as is By MERRILL BRAD SHAW V normally the case with a piano Last week, the ' student com- and then for wild, random, in posers from six western univer- tentionally disorganized Impro sities assembled on the BYTJ visations of noise. 'Insult to Intelligence' campus for their annual, Western While the two performers were ComStudent engaged in the above activities, posers Symposithe tape recorders be'ehing um.- Delegations booms crashes forth screeches, arrived from conwith and unrelenting bangs, Southern Calstancy. After the initial shock of ifornia, Univers, situation, it became funny, the'! sity of then .boring, then 'an imposition, Stanford, and finally an insult to the inof University, telligence of the listeners. California, UniThe second work did the same versity of Utah, to opera that the first tried to and of course, to concert music. The motido BYU. , Mr. Bradshaw idea behind this Sort of The works of the young com- vating seems to be similar to the i thing posers ranged in style jfrom the idea ink-bltest used behind the most conservative to the "lunatic to find out thfpsychologist fringe." Generally speaking, the by sort of random association; works from BYU and Utah were what people make; These composers (reluctant use of the term) presome purposely random sent The works and in an improvisation with sounds f pm 'the California schools (exthg idea that the listener should cepting possibly Redlands) were pick out the sounds ' that appeal more on the 'experimental side. to them and get some sort of Less Technical Mastery out of it. enjoyment By and large, the more experi- Relationship Strained Omental ,the works were, the less The relationship between this technical mastery they showed. sort of sounds and music is .This is exactly what one "would rather strained at best. Music is ytxoi-1 expect, I Suppose, but somehow, organized, ' predetermine one would feel a need formore which communicates the ideas care on the. part of the experi- of a composer to 'his listeners mentalists so that;, their experi-men-ts without the i usual organization would be protected by a which we call speech. This noise buffer of mastery of trie details that we heard was predeterminof form and structure', ed only in . ;the sense that the the most discussed composer decided to be random . . Perhaps events (I hesitate to call them and arbitrary in his choice of works) on the symposium were sounds. The organization of these two improvisatory creations by sounds was left to the listener. some students from the Univ-;sit- y This is music only if one admits o$ California. The first was that' all of the sounds one hears' centered about two pianos on the in all of his daily life are musicThe : unfortunate thing about stage and four tape recorders. The pianos were! not used as these iworks is that so many of anyone wopld be accustomed to the works of the symposium were hear pianos used nor as they much more deserving of recog were designed to be used. The nition for their good qualities, strings were plucked rubbed, but were crowded out of the disthumped, scraped, an labused in cussion by the audacious, invarious fashions, The undersides sincere experiments in buffoonof the pianos casings was scrap- ery by the "students" from ; the ed with a .board. Only rarely University of California. Watch under- , rew , . s the leaf ribs and at the point where leaves 'join the stems. They don't seem to move much, but perhaps they are insects. They, are sort of fuzzy, and can be squashed easily. What are they, and if they are harmful, how can I get rid of them? A. I believe you h'V2 mealybugs. An infestation of these can appear almost overnight, and. unless checked immediately, can damage or kill a plant. The best way I know of to get rid of them is to use a , cotton swab dipped in alcohol (or' dime-stor- e perfume) to wipe each one off its resting place. Go over the plant thoroughly every few days until no more appear. " : ? se s. -- - Bird-of-Paradi- clust-er- of small whitish things along n,. . ; . Red-land- . Q. My coleus plants have f AVAILABLE we-7-- l.- in oraer loses leaves as. fast as it develops new ones, Ihere ls something wixHwith the care you are. giving it. Give the plant a moderate-ly warm place, as much sun as"! it can stand, and soak the soil thoroughly when watering, then it's- - t . 1 j if , as is probable, houses-ev- en Theme and Variations ; philo-dendro- j j ch ade- - allow it to become moderately quate amount of healthy foliage dry before watering again.. . ; Student Composers Have At It .k such-and-su- that the plant must have an Planned Industrial Development Means "Progress and Prosperity for Provo" , i 4 |