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A B O U T MIMOSA: There's considerable confusion about the mimosa plant and I can see why. There are three orna­mental plants called mimosa, but only one is really a mimosa.

The silk-tree, commonly and Incorrectly known as mimosa is Albizzia julibnssin rosea. It grows 15 feet or higher, has feather-like leaves finely di-divided into a lacework of tiny leaflests. From mid-June on it has light pink, fuzzy flowers. In nothern gardens this item is little known, mainly because it is not sufficiently hardy.

Oddly enough some gardeners have raised it from seed and have nursed the plant over win­ter outdoors in states like New York. Plants raised from seed produce flowers varying from a lovely pink to quite dingy forms. It's almost impossible to get the "mimosa" of the south to grow up north. It's not aoaited to indoor culture.

THE O T H E R SO-CALLED "mimosa" grown as house plants or tubbed specimens in homes and greenhouses is real­ly yellow-flowered acacia. There are several kinds adapted for growing indoors in pots, in a cool window or greenhouse. This item likes a cool night tempera­ture (40 to 45 degrees*.

If you have one, cut old flow­ering branches back to a length of six inches, keep it outdoors in summer and bring indoors before frost. At all times, give it plenty of sun. Never let it dry out. Feed liquid plant food during the summer.

SENSITIVE PLANT, or Mi­mosa pudica, is the true mi­mosa. This house plant has lo­custlike leaves, which when touched fold up quickly. You can start it from seeds sown in a pot of sand and peat. Trans­plant seedlings when two inches high and grown in a bright window. Do not let it dry out .

blooming period. Never allow soil to dry.

After blooming, cut spent flower and keep on watering the plant so leaves can build up food supply for bulb for j next year's show. Feed liquid plant food (such as 23-19-17), to help build up the bulb for next year.

WHEN SHIRTSLEEVE weath­er comes, set pot outdoors in semi-shady spot, where it can be more or less neglected. In fall, bring indoors and keep in cool, dry spot. Let bulb dry for three months, undisturbed. After that rest period, bring into a light warm room, water it lightly, and it should bloom again for you in midwinter. Re­potting is not necessary each year. Do it every second or third year.

If* HOW TO MAKE green grass:

Home gardeners who j?row Zoysia don't like it because the grass is J rown in winter. A reader writes:

"We found a spray that can be used on the grass to make it green all winter. The name is Staz-Green. Make up a solu­tion in fall and spray it on the grass, the color remains all winter and is satisfactory' until the Zoysia Is ready to come green again. Our lawn is only 34 zoysia, but we are pleased with it."

a/* APPLE TREES from seeds:

Some readers who have huge specimens of a very good apple have asked if they could save the seed and plant them. You couki, but don't expect to get the same variety as the parent. Apple seed contains a mixture of inheritance factors which

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To build the truck, all you need do is trace the full-size pattern on plywood, then saw out the parts and put them together. Lots of illustrations and easy-to-follow di­rections are always included. It's

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AMARYLLIS CARE: The Afri-can amaryllis will grow indoors without too much sun. A com­mon mistake after potting is to give it too much water. A small amount of lukewarm water twice a week is usually enough. Set the pot in a saucer. Flower bud appears in about three weeks, a signal to move the plant to a cool bright window (avoid direct sun*. This stiffens the stem and lengthens the

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chance in 10.000 of being like the parent. What nurserymen do is to propagate fruit trees, not by seed, but by budding or grafting. They take buds from a known variety and bud them to seedlings obtained by plant­ing apple seeds.

After the buds "take," the toos of the seedlings are cut off and the bud is nursed along by the "wild" understock. If you can find out the name of the apple, your best bet is to buy one from nursery,

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The wax or parlor plant, hoya likes a loose well drained soil, one that's kept evenly moist, but never soggy. Do not use too large a pot as they like to have roots slightly confined. Best night temperature is 60 to 70 degrees and day tempera­ture about 10 degrees higher.

Give them bright light, avoid­ing direct sun. During summer put plant outdoors in shaded spot and keep watered. Avoid

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F. OF BELFAST: "We have a large crabapple tree and it sure acts strange. Only half of this tree blossoms each year and bears fruit. The next year the reverse side blossoms and bears fruit. Apples are very small and we wonder if its the result of a faulty graft?"

thinning sprays, to thin out the apples and prevent overbearing. You can prevent this by hand thinning the fruit. Too many sets on apple trees prevent flower bud formation for the next season, resulting in alternate bearing.

Nature tries to prevent this somewhat with her "June drop"— an attempt to thin the fruit that cannot be nursed by the tree.

. You can help nature along by MANY APPLE varieties (such hand-thinning. Space the fruit to

as Baldwin) and crabapples be- aDout 4 to 6 inches apart, or one have in the way yours do. One apple on every third or fourth side of the tree bears one year 8pUr, and the following year being com­pletely fruitless, with the second half bearing heavily. This is called alternate bearing and it happens with many apple varie­ties.

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