EDUCATING THE YOUNG.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19803, 19 May 1934, Page 10

EDUCATING THE YOUNG.

A system of educating young drivers has been adopted in an American town. A unit of the Junior Safety Council has been organised in each of its three high schools to take charge of the work. Regular meetings are held during school hours, at which members study State and local traffic regulations as they would any other school subject. Newspaper and magazine articles relating to highway hazards and traffic accidents are clipped, discussedy and pasted in scrapbooks accessible to all high school students.

Members of the Junior Safety Council also deliver safety addresses from the broadcasting station, and before high school assemblies and grade school classes.

a large apple, and a splendid keeper, easily one of the best, and Lord Wolseley, the best keeper of them all; incidentally this can be used as a dessert apple. There are a lot more varieties of cookers, but to the average person with limited space for fruit trees, the above four named will be found sufficient. In the dessert class, Irish Peach and Gravenstein are two of the best earlies followed by Worcester Pormain and Cox’s Orange with Delicious and Rome Beauty for mid-winter supply. Statesman is a good dessert variety and can be kept very late, but not longer than Stunner Pippin which is undoubtedly our best late keeping apple. The Delicious apple is not recommended on soils that have a stiff clay subsoil, cold or wet, unless it is first well broken up and well drained, as this variety is prone to develop a watery core. Where this is known to be the case with established trees that are bearing fruit, no attempt should be made to cultivate the ground during the winter months, when the trees are not in active vegetation, but as summer advances and dry conditions prevail cultivation of the surface soil can be carried out with benefit. It is not advisable to plant too many varieties of pears—William Bon Chretien is the best early ,and is valued for Its bottling qualities. Winter Nellis and Winter Cole are both late pears of excellent flavour. Where space is limited pears can be grown on fences or the sides of buildings with equally good results as in the open. Peaches and nectarines can be grown the same way; in fact it is a benefit where late spring frosts prevail as they get shelter when most needed. Goldmine is a very popular nectarine. In peaches, Briggs Red May, High’s Early Canada, and

Royal George are three good varieties. Good plums to grow are Satsuma, Burbank, both Japanese, Greengage and Black Diamond.

THE FLOWER GARDEN AND NURSERY

Nemesia can be sown now in boxes, and they require no heat only protection from frost, also Dimosphotheca, Stocks and Jacobea. Where Dahlias are turning yellow they may be lifted, and laid out to dry before placing away for the winter. Gladiolus bulbs also can be lifted and hung up in a dry shed.

Complete the planting or spring bedding plants. Divide herbacious and prennials where necessary. Remember that Heuchera, Gypsophila, Helianthus, Aquileqia, Achillea, Gaillardia, Geum, Pyrethrum and Static are warm border plants, so put them in the dryest portion of the garden. Such plants as Ancliusa, Delphinium, Helleborus, Gentians, Doronicum, Solidaga, Michaelmas Daisies and Lychnis prefer damper positions. In replanting Gypsophila be very careful to lift the plant with as much root as possible and work in lime or lime rubble around the roots.