16 NORTH LEEDS LANTERN MARCH I991 a great Way to March is the month of environmentally control promise. We get the many insects on fruit promise of Spring with trees without a lOt Of our early thaws and the crazy Sprays. Again dormant beginnings of life after oil sprays are available winter. Its also the Cgï¬gghYNG at most garden ‘centres. promise of mud, of our by Following directions in dogs dragging in the Doug‘smen March can eliminate a newfound winter bounties lot of July problems- FEDERATED WOMEN'S and of kids with "soakers". Get the bird houses cleaned INSTITUTES 0F ONTARIO Luckily for us, its also out now, erect new ones Search for Peace Not War the beginning 0f gardening so that birds are attraCted The conflict in the Persian season. to your gardens. The Gulf has been on the minds Many of you will have V odd vegetable that they of all Canadians, including started your own seeds your seeds, d0 50 lightiy- get is well worth the the 20,000 members of The in containers in the We use vermiculite for insects that they eat Federated Women's Institutes kitchen, if you have not this PUIPOSe bUt YOu COUld (unless ) its the Cherry of Ontario, . the largest yet done so, there is use a bit of your potting trees and then you have rural women's organization lots of time as I write soil. Make sure you can to have netting). We in the province. on their this. We do not begin still just see the seed planted quite a few apple behalf, on January 14th, to seed our tomatoes for as you finiSh YOur trees last year and will while Parliament was debating retail sales until the covering. Also remember, he planting a few more the topic, the president end of March so do not that soil temperatures this year. All different, of FWIO, Peggy Knapp sent panic, just get out a are 10 degrees cooler we will be adding a the following letter to few flower pots, ViSit than air temperatures' Gravenstein, Tolman, and the Prime Minister of Canada, your local seed rack and if your house is 72°F Golden Russett to our to Joe clerk and to the cet a bit of a head start then the soil is 62°F. collection, which should minister of National Defence: en spring. We use a very Seeds like 3 72°F 5011 give us about 8 varietles "Twenty thousand members sandy mix or artificial temperature but they will and fill up our existing of the Federated Women.s mix for our seedling trays germinate at cooler Space. After this, I Institutes of Ontario have and find that this works temperatures, it just suppose I will have to been following events in well. The baby seedlings takes longer. Put them practice the pruning my the persian Gulf throughout get a good head start in a warm window or on grandfather did and just this serious crisis and and with an open sandy top of the refrigerator graft new apples to the commend our government for soil the roots get enough to warm up the soil. old ones to keep the same pursuing diplomatic Channels aeration and really get March is also the time number of trees but in search of solutions. established quickly. to do some gardening. increase the varieties. May we urge You to continue I can not stress this Apple and other fruit His orchard was like that, to Search out all following point enough. trees can be pruned now. he knew his varieties possibilities for peace, The major cause of seeds If in doubt about how and all his trees produced and with the other members dying in the pots is that to prune fruit trees, a multitude of different of the United Nations most people cover them visit your local library apples. The only thing coalition, extend the too deeply. The second‘ or garden centre for advice I really remember is that sanctions against Saddam cause is that the seeds and handouts. There are my brother and I would Hussein-S Iraq, so the are too cold. Seed several systems depending sneak out there and have terrors of full_fledge war packages typically say on the tree variety but as many as We COUld before may not set loose the force cover seeds %" deep in one Should be PiCked OUt We 9°t Called baCk into Of arms again in our world." the pot. We do not cover and followed to ensure the house. Like many As .an' organization founded our seeds at all! with good tree development things, the orChard is in 1897 FWIO has experienced only a few exceptions, and future fruiting. now only a memory as it the effects of war on its eg. pansy and large seeds Before the sap begins has been paved over for own communities. During eg melons our seeds are to flow is a good time a subdivision. I think the first World War the left uncovered in the to get the pruning done. Grandpa's Boys would be WI members not only increased trays. We find that they You can also apply a pleased to know that there their work on the farm but germinate better this dormant oil spray at this is another orchard in they also found the time way. If you have to cover time. Dormant oil is the familY- and money to support the needs of others. They raised over $4,000,000 which was _____. .~â€" used to finance a hospital [ ship, field kitchens as IT’S TAX TIME AGAIN! well as overseas relief. Not content with money they knitted WHETHER IT’S INCOME TAX, BOOKKEEPING OR G.S.T. HEADACHES WE ARE HERE TO HELP YOU. socks, sweaters /â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" and mitts as well as sewn articles. 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