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at hse ae: GARDEN GUIDE Canadian - Brea ee ws Fidlits Suggested For Centennial ' By A. R. BUCKLEY Many horticultural societies and garden clubs are seriously thinking of starting, as centen- nial projects, gardens of plants raised in Canada. Why not follow suit by including at least a few plants of Canadian origin to which you can point with pride as your momento of the centen- nial year? One thing is sure, you won't have to coddle or cover most of these plants because nearly all have been bred for hardiness as well as for beauty. If you want Canadian-bred or- namental shrub apples you have lots to choose from. Among those that are noteworthy are the centennial selections Almey, with - rosy-purple star-studded flowers, and Royalty with deep purple foliage all summer long and rose-pink flowers in May. Both were raised on the prair- ies and, apart from spraying to protect them from caterpillars and greenfly, they need little care. Other native Canadians are Makamik and Baskatong, each with rose-pink flowers, de- veloped at the Central Experi- mental Farm in Ottawa, and Leslie and Strathmore, which are good flowering and fruit- ing kinds from the west. SHADE TREES Two good trees for shade are the new Greenspire linden, a beautiful shade tree with uni- form growth selected from the little leaf lindén (Tilia cordata and Rowancroft Coral, a moun- tain ash raised in Meadowvale, Ontario. This rowan tree has salmon-coral berries instead of the usual bright-red ones and deeper green leaves than the common European type. There are many choice shrubs of Canadian origin. Quite a nur «i of these . 2 been bred in Western Canada and are val- ued not only for their hardiness but because they are improve- ments on existing kinds. The Snow white spirea, a hybrid of the Korean spirea and the three- lobed spirea, has large? flowers than the common vanhouttei spirea but is hardy in areas where this shrub winterkills. Fairy is what one might term a miniature vanhouttei spirea, because it is identical with this shrub in every respect but grows only two feet high. Both these new shrubs were raised in Drop- more, Manitoba. HONEYSUCKLES Honeysuckles are usually such large coarse plants that they are best used for screening. However, two good Canadian ones, Crimsona, light pink, and Carleton, a deeper pink, are more compact and do not grow higher than five to eight feet. wi. Skinner also raised a large number of mock-oranges, all of which are hardier than the com- mon Virginal and Minnesota Snowflake. Good ones are Galahad, Pat- Ficia, and Purity, all medium- sized shrubs with large, fra- grant, single white or creamy- 10 Yeors Experience in ANTENNAS & TOWERS Mester Systems For Apts. otc. HOME DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS Borkmanshig Guerwetved Estimetes et me Obligetion ROTORS , Rates & Manwee TRIO Television t7l BOND &, 726-3143 white flowers. Silvia is from the Morden, Manitoba, experimen- tal farm of the Canada Depart- ment of Agriculture, and has double white flowers on a shape- ly shrub with arching branches. Baton Rouge and Eileen are new hybrid cherries that bloom early and. produce abundant flowers on good bushy shrubs. Eileen has white flowers with pink tips, and Baton Rouge deep rose-pink flowers in very early spring. Canada excels in its lilac in- troductions, many of which were bred at the Central Experimen- tal Farm in Ottawa. Among the best of these are Elinor, Isabel- la and Fountain, with extremely fragrant, pink flowers and Des- demona with light-violet flow- ers. All of these have thick deep- er green foliage than the Euro- pean lilacs and flower a week later, thus prolonging the lilac season. Good varieties from the west are Mount Baker, a splen- did white variety; Tom Taylor, double violet; Sister Justine, single white; and Charles Nor- dine, with large open upright, pale-blue panicles. From On- tario comes the largest flowered lilac of all, the deep-purple Frank Paterson, with individual flowers that measure an inch and a quarter across. Two shrub roses that should be in every garden are Agnes, with deep-yellow flowers, and Wyasagaming, with fragrant, fully double, soft clear-rose flow- ers. Agnes was raised by Dr. William Saunders, the first di- rector of the Central Experimen- tal Farm, and the other rose in Manitoba. HYBRID TEA ROSE If you wish to grow the more refined hybrid tea rose you will find many for your garden that were raised in this country. Miss Canada, with rose petals and a white reverse, was selected by nurserymen as the centennial rose. It was raised in British Columbia. Others are Jet Fire, dazzling orange red; Canadiana, bright yellow; and Hallowe'en, a yellow-orange color. Patricia Macoun is about the hardiest of rambler roses and needs no more protection than mounding with earth. It has a profusion of double creamy-white flowers at the end of June. Many plants for your flower border are varieties that have been bred in Canada. Name any one of your favorite flow- ers and you will find that there is. a variety that has been bred in this country: Good irises are Armour Bright, viv- id orange; Elizabeth of Eng- land, light blue; Blue Ballet, blue; and Dandy Capers, one of the new fringed types. Your eraving for Siberian irises can easily be satisfied by growing Ceaser and Tropic Seas, both of which originated in a gar- den near Montreal, and some of the Preston hybrids, such as Rideau, Gatineau and Otta- wa. Canadian breeders have excelled in lily varieties. . IT'S HERE! The GO-GO Sportcycle YAMAHA RO-DON SPORTS TAUNTON RD. E. (just east ef 5 points) 723-8711 @ SALES @ SERVICE @ RENTALS DISCOVER THE SWINGING WORLD YAMAHA | il | @ Reofing | YOGI HITS THE BOTTLE --Yogi the bear cub of Bow- manville Zoo indulges in baby bottle feeding. He and his sister, Cindy, are new arrivals at the sanctuary on Highway 2, They were On Site Of Cerea Continued From Page 3A the Cream of Barley private park started in 1919 or 1920 by James Morden, producer of Cream of Barley cereal. "Tt was the original steak house here on No. 2 Highway. He had the bear, some monk- eys, and some coons as a side attraction," Connell said in an interview. BIG FIELD OF GRASS "The place was just a great big field of grass right up to the waste when I bought it. There were 23 cabins (which still look as though they could stand a fresh paint job) and a drive-in food stand. '"'We knew the place was a going concern when Morden had it. Knowing what it could de we bought it as an invest- ment, "The first thing we got was a pair of deer. The monkeys were next and we got those from a travelling carnival that was passing through. The coons were given to us and peacocks THE OSHAWA TIMES, Soturday, April 30, 1966 5A born 'Jan. 9 in Toronto. Keith Connell, zoo owner, intends to trade the cubs off to a Florida animal dealer in exchange for a pair of flamingoes. --Oshawa Times Photo Zoo At Bowmanville Expands | Plant, Cabins jand pheasants I brought from Unionville." Since January a pair of young leopards, two bear cubs, three golden agoutis (rodents from South America) and _ others have been added to the zoo. But the cubs are soon to be traded off for what Connell ex- pects will. be a bigger attrac- tion -- "two Flamingoes (tall, pink water birds) from Flor- ida'. ' The zoo-keeper is married, has three children, and in the summer spends about 13 hours daily minding the zoo and the balance of the day he devotes to the family. He says food for the fowl and animals comes to about $100 a week, not to mention other ex- penses -- like fencing and a heavy property tax. On a good summer weekend the zoo is patronized by thou- sands of curious holidaying peo- ple. 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