Learn a Word-Gynoecious
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These handsome cucumbers are fruits of Spartan Valor, a new
hybrid with female flowers only. A prolific yielder, it also is
resistant to scab and mosiac, two common diseases.
For the past decade the word “gynoecious”, meaning female,
has been in common use among commercial vegetable growers.
This year the home gardener needs to become acquainted with it
because the only 1968 All-America Selections prize-winning vege
table is a hybrid, gynoecious (jeye-nee-shus) cucumber named
Spartan Valor.
.To the home gardener, grow
ing this new variety will mean
plenty of cucumbers from fewer
vines using - less space because
Spartan Valor has only female
flowers, thus bears more fruits.
Ordinary cucumber varieties
always produce more male
blooms than female and, of
course, the male flowers can
not form fruits.
Since Spartan Valor, with all
flowers, also cannot
form fruits when planted alone,
seeds of a male cucumber are
mixed with those of Spartan
Valor or sent along in a sepa
rate container in the seed
packet. Thus the pollen needed
to set the fruits is available.
The way that Spartan Valor
is treated to make it produce
seeds is even more fascinating.
Leaves of the all-female-fiower
ed plant are sprayed with mas
sive doses of gibberellic acid
which somehow makes the plant
Definition
Courtship: The process
of seeking a girl’s hand
until she has you under
her thumb.
-Globe, Gilmore. N. Y.
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produce sufficient male blooms
to pollinate itself.
This way of hybridizing, by;
producing male flowers on a|
plant with only female ones isi
a new and less expensive meth-j
od of hybridizing plants which!
Dr. C. E. Peterson of Michigani
State University feels will even- j
tually be universally accepted-!
He is the breeder of Spartan i
Valor.
The new cucumber is a pro-'
lific yielder; is bred for resist-;
ance to the two serious cucum-j
ber diseases encountered in
Northeastern and North Central!
United States, scab and mosiac. j
It is not recommended for other ■
parts of the country as different
diseases occur in other areas. \
Dr. Peterson believes that, in
due course of time, similar cu
cumber varieties will be avail
able to all gardeners, each va
riety bred for a certain section
and resistant to the diseases
prevalent there.
Card Postage
Now Six Cents
Postmaster James Bond
.today reminded mailers
I that postage is now six
■ cents for mailing Easter
[greeting cards that are one
I ounce or lighter.
1 Bond said the postage
I rate increase that went into
Ltffefi* January l
I “the rate for mailing all
I greeting cars from four to
six cents.
“Many mailers mistaken
| ly think that since first
class postage increased one
cent, the postage for greet
ing cards also increased
only one cent,” Postmaster ;
Bond said.
He pointed out that some
cards have already been
mailed with only five cents
of postage. In those cases,
one cent in additional post
age must be collected from
the recipient, he said.
The first - class postage
rate will provide jet flight i
service for Easter greeting
cards destined to service- .
men in Vietnam and other
overseas locations as well
as airlift treatment for
most domestic addresses
more than 250 miles from
the mailing point.
tHB CHOWAN BEfcALD, EPKNTON. NORTH CAEOUNA. THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1968.
The Roundup
| By WILBORNE HARRELL
The King is dead! Long
• live the Spirit of Brother
hood! . . . The senseless
j and violent slaying of Dr.
; Martin Luther King leaves
i one man dead and probab
i ly the death of a Cause,
j But, under no circum
stances, must what King
lived for and gave his life
for, be allowed to languish.
! But we must not become a
beleaguered nation, an arm
ed camp. This is not a
time for punitive measures,
but a time for each man to
; search his soul. It is a
! grim commentary on the
times that it may have tak-
I en this man’s death to spur
' Congress into greater legis
* lative action. If so, Martin
Luther King did not die in
vain. He may have wanted
! it this way—“l have been
t to the mountain top; I have
J seen the promised land!”
- These words of his may
> have had a premonitory
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ring as they were uttered ;
even as he felt he may
have to walk through the
valley of the shadow of
death. But this he knew,
must be accepted as one of
the many prices he must
pay if he should achieve
his “Dream.” Many com
ments have come that this
was the act of a mindless
and sick society. “What
kind of people are we?”
asks Bobby Kennedy. And
Billy Graham says this “in
dicates the sickness i>f the
world.” But I, for one, do
not believe for one minute
we are sick. These are
times that try men’s souls.
We are undergoing a period
of social transition; this is
a time when our whole so
cial and political order is
taking on new shape. A
New Shape that is being
forged slowly, agonizingly
slow, but sure. And this
New Shape is what Martin
Luther King called his
“dream.” A dream that
jgP
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would one day find this
nation living as brothers
should; a dream that would
one day forge this nation
into a vast homogeneous
society. Then, and not un
til then, would we become 1
Americans all.
Minor Operation j
Jim—“ You don’t seem to
think much of him.”
Joe—“lf he had his con- (
science taken out, it would i
be a minor operation.” 1
I
Can't 1
Why don’t you drowr ,
your troubles? j
I would, but I can’t gel ‘
her to go swimming with J
me.
REINDEER DOWRY?
IN SIBERIA-DA!
Reindeer can do a lot for a
Koryak girj in Siberia when she
starts looking for a mate. The
most marriageable girl in the
tribe is the one who can bring
the largest herd to her husband
at the time of her wedding!
Bringing herds to husbands is,
thankfully, not a concern of the!
American bride-to-be and
dowries in general are not cus- .
tomary in this country. But the.
bride’s gift of sterling silver!
flatware from her parents has
been traditional for generations.'
According to a recent survey .
of 900 brides, engaged girl’s. ;
parents are the biggest donors- i
of sterling silver flatware, fol-j)
lowed by her friends, aunts and! i
uncles, sisters and brothers, and
grandparents. 1
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VISITS BIRTHPLACE Robert Morgan, Democratic
.candidate for attorney general of North Caroline dur
mg a recent campaign trip to Burke County, visited
w - u r .M, pl ? Ce of the slaies first attorney general.
■ySo w ‘ Avery - Avery served the state Irom 1777 to
1779. Morgan is carrying on a brisk campaign to be
come the stale's next attorney general.
ADOPTION
Mr. and Mrs. John F.
Becker of Edenton wish to
■announce the adoption of a
|baby son, Patrick John
Winston Becker, adopted
April 3, 1968.
PAGE FIVE
They Do
No matter how careless
neighbors are about other
things, they send your chii
dren home at the hour you
mention, if not a little be
fore.
—Kansas City Times.
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