Show Ogden Standard-Examine- Sunday December 30 1973 r INDOOR GARDENER Decorative Kumquat Tree Deserves Place in Home WALKER front of an open unscreened Nagami kumquats are un- window but then of course doubtedly my favorite citrus you’ll be getting unwanted bugs for they’re highly indoors Disposing of them later plants decorative as well as produc- will be a small price to pay won’t it if you get a good crop tive These bushy little trees are of their efforts? By KATHERINE favorites for the greenhouse recently they’ve become popular specimens for the indoor garden so before long they should be available in your local flower shops the plants are Properly with Fortunella margarita distinctive oblong fruit about an inch in diameter which has a golden-orang- e fully edible rind Fruit production is most abundant from late September n through January but fruit often plants produce intermittently through the other months as well At any season the shiny dark-gree- n foliage has a strong citrus scent which I find very pleasing and the small white old-tim- e well-grow- flowers are delightfully fragrant NATURAL DWARF GETTING READY for the Black Women’s Society’s buffet dinner and dance Monday evening are Mrs Odell Ellis Mrs Thomas Carter and Mrs LaSalle Turner (left to right) The event will be held in the Crystal Ballroom of the Ben Lomond Motor Hotel beginning at 9 pm There will be live entertainment LET'S ASK THE COOK PATTERNS Topping Enhances Dutch Apple Pies InternatlonalDesicjner I Pat tern (I use a pastry blender for a have a recipe for fast job) sprinkle over the pie made with apples — Mrs Floyd Slide the pie into a heavy Lake Minn brown paper sack at once fold I presume you mean for the the end over twice fasten with streusal topping since all the paper clips With the paper sack Dutch apple pies I know are you will have no boilover Bake definite in the use of granulated at 450 degrees for one hour Remove split sack at once sugar for the pie itself One reader complained that her However there is no law paper bag burned and sent substituting brown against to her sugar in slightly more than charred to pieces You do it prove equal amount packed down but newspaper need not a sack heavy grocery it would be more difficult to distribute it evenly over the the flimsy kind in which other are types of merchandise apples stores at sacked department I tried several of those pies: before I settled on one I liked and such best for my “Cooking in Brown CHECK SETTING will You booklet Paper Bag” Too make sure the sack is need about 6 large juicy apples not touching any part of the Vz cup granulated sugar 2 oven including the broiler unit tablespoons flour Vz teaspoon Even though it isn’t turned on it nutmeg and 2 tablespoons lemon can very hot will char anything juice it touches Double check on SLICES THICK your automatic oven setting Peel core and quarter apples with a portable thermometer in Cut into thick slices or small the oven chunks whichever you prefer I like slices best Combine sugar BPW flour and nutmeg Sprinkle the apples with this to coat well or CLUB TO MEET shake the whole thing together in a sack WEDNESDAY unbaked pie Place in MORGAN— Dr Gordon K crust heap apples up in the Harrington associate procenter the higher the better fessor of history at Weber Drizzle with lemon juice State College will be the the streusal For topping you SDeaker at a dinner meeting will need V2 cup sugar Vz cup of the Morgan Business and flour 2 teaspoons cinnamon and Professional Women’s Club Vz Vi to the cup butter Wednesday at the Round I am Preferences differ but to Valley Country Club one will no it sure surprise Topic for his talk will be “The Far East After Vietnam” Dinner will be served at 715 pm and the meeting your readers Dutch apple brown sugar? Wellman Mt I e '? 1 !Foil tanaW1 f 71921 i 'Gathers at the neckband shape fhe overblouse of this e dress by Fontana A lt with a decorative buckle completes the picture Fabric suggestions: wool crepe two-piec- elf-be- iheer wool cotton 71921 -- is cut in Misses Sizes Size 12 312 6-- 18 aprequires 54” of yards proximately fabric £'To order 71921 send size jiame address and zip Each 7 $250 postpaid ‘pattern Books available: Sew designer paperback Vols 2 3 4 5 — 50 'cents each Skinny Sew Books A (newest tips by Dale Cavanagh) $100 each (2 for 150) of cover edition i Hard 1 2 3 4 5 and a paperbacks worth bonus $100 coupon towards purchase of any Spadea pattern $500 Send orders to Spadea Box N Milford N J Dept OX-- 1 B & The tree is a natural dwarf and can be kept even smaller if necessary by pruning the only essential pruning will be to thin some of the bushiest growth and remove all growth from the lower part of the main trunk in order to develop a standard specimen For those who may not be a familiar with the term standard is a plant kept to one stem or trunk until it has reached the desired height then the head of foliage is allowed to tree The develop roses and tree azaleas are products of this type of training like moderate Fortunellas warmth as much sun as you can provide and rich loamy soil kept evenly moist Because they flower freely set fruit quite heavily and are in active growth throughout the year the from benefit supplants plemental feedings You may buy plant food specifically for compounded or citrus you may prefer to use whatever you’re used to the latter will be fine as long as it doesn’t have a high nitrogen content for it’s flowers and fruit you want not excessive fruit through Do ask your florist to get a kumquat for you very few house plant specialists who are business in the mail-ordhandle them so I can’t furnish such a source for you It took me more than a year of looking before I found my most recent kumquat but it was worth every hour of the time I spent Kumquats are wonderful plants er 1 you explain? ANSWER — Probably not as well as you’d like but I’ll try a is partially decayed organic material found in very old (ancient even) swamps or bogs Although other aquatic or marsh plants may be in it it is composed primarily sphagnum mosses (there over sphagnums) well 300 of are species of GROW UPWARD As the moss and other plants they’re really worth searching grow upward the lower part for do get one and down some the distance peat is black QUESTION AND ANSWERS dense and closer to the heavy QUESTION — If you’ve ever surface the peat is brown told how to handle spiny cactus fibrous and fluffy light plants while transplanting or moss grows about Sphagnum must missed it I have grafting a foot high the top live tips I’ve tried the heaviest gloves I for surfacing orchid could find but they don’t help are perfect or pots of other moisture-lovin- g pots much tropicals while the lower ANSWER — I use two pairs portions of the strands are for of food tongs to handle cactus propagating or as It isn’t necessary to grip the mulching packing plants hard enough to bruise material them but if you’re afraid you So all peats are made up might do so by accident pad primarily of sphagnum mosses the tongs with the kind of but fresh live sphagnum (or moleskin that has adhesive on even dried sphagnum) is not one side peat decays useful n-3- o THE DELIGHTFULLY fragrant kumquat tree is a natural dwarf and can be kept even smaller if necessary by pruning QUESTION — Is pulverized gypsum the same as the lime that’s used on lawns? Somebody said they weren’t the same ANSWER — Somebody was right they are not identical since they don’t have the same chemical formula But for soil I believe acid neutralizing one is as good as the other ‘ obtain Katherine Walker’s newest booklet Tropical Cacti write to her in care of this newspaper "enclosing a long stamped envelope and 25 cents in coin to cover printing and handling costs self-address- Walker enjoys hearing from whenever possible answers questions on house plants in her column but regrets because vast volume of mail received she cannot reply to individual letters Mrs readers MORGAN ON will follow Vocal selections will be presented by Mrs Robert Rowser Mrs Edith Toone chairman of the world affairs will be in new growth And now a word about fruit and why some trees bear good crops and others never set at all In nature insects do the if necessary insect-free and your home is you’d like to keep it that way then take the plant to the incross-pollinati- ng sects SET OUTDOORS the weather is Whenever warm enough for bees or other insects to be active set the plant outdoors for a few hours (if it’s in bloom) if you don’t have any outdoor area set it in China Painters To Hold Meeting luster painting on be will presented at the glass Mt Lomond Chapter of World Organization of China Painter’s A lesson on meeting Friday at 10 am Mrs M J Penley vice president will conduct the lesson at the Mattie Harris Hall at 505 27th Hostesses will be Mrs Thom- as L Bright and Mrs William E Beaith r from om Ho committee charge Reservations must be made by Monday with Mrs 9 Toone or a member of her committee: Mrs 6 Merrill Porter 876-303- QUEEN ESTHER 829-656- MEETS FRIDAY ' HEAD NEWS — Scarves Queen Esther Chapter No v - 4 Order of the Eastern Star C'will observe obligation night Friday at ‘ 8 pm at the Ma-son- ic Temple A chapter birthday party will be held on the lower level following the meeting I C Birthday tables will be set I I up and members are asked to sit at the tables £ I appropriate to their birth I months Miss Ada Waldron or Mrs John Wilkinson 829-38- still remain the only head-wea- r and the newest is 48 '-- Complete wedding call for consulta- ser-vic- tions 825-505- 6 wrapped about the head in a “fixed” turban After you have fitted the scarf around the head then you sew it closed and cover it with a piece that looks much like a gathered belt loop then “fix” the loop in place The effect is like a sport turban and looks perfect with all today’s fashions APPAREL PH ft i It clearance sale storting Wednesday January 2 Doors open 10 to 6 pm : ft: 2 2324 Washington Blvd You’ll get expert advice right in your own home and 15 off all our 825-771- 7 or Sal® prices effective thru Sat ROY 825-72- 62 get ready for our January Clearance Sale which begins January 2 1 974 JCPenney We know what you’re looking for To L $ 3 You'll get help from one of our decorators Free 393-844- WE WILL BE CLOSED MONDAY DEC 31 Closed Monday December 31 to mark down for our storewide am Call elegant custom shades and woven woods The shades can be made to match your draperies your slipcovers pick up the colors of your rug Our custom woven woods come in an almost endless variety of color combinations You can order them to pull up across or down Order now to be sure you qet 15?aoiL 1985 WEST 5600 SOUTH - es Phone 393-280- 2 X-- n Peat so-call- ed know I use the larger amount By NAN WILEY all topping ingredients DEAR NAN: Do you or any of Combine ! 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