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THE NEW EERN MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C.
Friday, May 30, 1998
Fl
Buds
AND
Blossoms
By
MAMIE MILLER
“A bell and a pomegranate,
round about the hem of the robe
to minister in; As the Lord com
manded Moses.”—Exodus 39:26.
The pomegranate is in full color.
They come in orange and white,
and pure orange. The pomegranate
is mentioned many times in the
Bible, and is associated with reli
gious rituals and weddings.
If you don’t have one already,
just cut a six-inch stem with a
blossom and it will root easily by
placing in moist soil.
See that the asters are transplant-
HOMEMAKER'S
CORNER
SAFETY PRECAUTIONS IN THE
HOME—Be careful where you use
scatter rugs. Never use them at
the top or bottom of stairways un
less they are firmly anchored on
all corners and in the center.
Take precaution 'to make such
scatter rugs as you do use in
your rooms slip-proof. There are
products available in most rug or
department stores today to make
such rugs hold still. Good slip-
proof underlays can be inexpen
sive treated sheets, trimmed to
small rug size or laid side by side
under the larger rugs. Anti-skid
rubberized fire padding, and mois
ture, dust and moth-proof rubber
or composition rubber paddings
are also available, though more ex
pensive.
Tack stairway and hall cover
ings down securely or use a non
skid material recommended by
your floor covering dealer. Also, in
stall a small light at baseboard lev
el to expose danger spots and warn
the walker to be careful.
In the basement, the floors
around washtubs and machines
should be kept dry.
Basement stairs: Paint the bot
tom step or patch of floor shiny
white or some bright color. A sur
prising number of persons fall in
the basement because, with a dim
light and often no light at all, they
think the lowest step is floor level.
Front and Back Doors: Provide
mats outside your front and back
doors for family and visitors to
wipe their feet on. This will dry
their shoes of mud or sticky sub
stances, reduce possibility of their
falling on your floors or tracking
and making floor slippery. The mat
also helps to keep your indoor
floors and carpets clean.
Roddy McDowell is unhappy with
his part in the Kit Cornell play,
“The First Born,” but he intends
to stick with it.
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ed as well as the lace flowers and
scabious. It is time to transplant
all annuals. In case you like a gar
den with a lot of gray or lavender
in it, plant the following: dusty
miller, lavender, wall cress, blue-
lace flower, mullein, grass pinks
and old maid pinks.
We find that lice are eating the
annuals and perrenfals. Make a
shallow depression around each
plant, and pour nicotine sulfate
or a soap solution for spraying
aphids.
If the arborvitas are dying, cut
the infected parts out and burn.
Spruce mites cause this trouble. If
you are bothered with rust, dust
with sulphur.
Nandina bushes will have berries
if they are planted in groups, so
they will be cross-pollinated. Raiit-
fall does affect the number of ber
ries. Ask your seed man for the
spray that encourages the berries
to remain on the stems.
TJiere are 184 species of the Pas
sions flower. We have a very hardy
common kind that grows in this
locality. The fruit is edible. There
is a legend connected with it con
cerning the 12 Disciples, the Yoke
and Crown of Thorns. They are
very pretty trailing on a fence.
Prune your tamarix now. Cut
back all blooming shrubs that arc
fading. Add aluminum to the soil
Flower Plants
READY NOW-
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MAKING THE OUTDOORS MORE BEAUTIFUL
to change a pink hydrangea to a
blue one. As the potties bloom,
mark them so you may have the
prettier ones for seeds. Poppies are
so pretty this season.
‘In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on.row.
That mark our place, and in tbe
sky
The larks, still iN'avely singing,
fly
Scarce heard among the guns
below.’
—John McCrae
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