Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 12, 1969, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press thursday june 12, 1969 Over the Carden Wall by yellowing House plants and spacing vegetables Here Are replies to questions Orange Scarlet fruits surrounded asked by readers. Q yellow leaves. A woman asks Why the leaves on her House plants keep turning yellow and then drop off. A among the causes arc sudden extreme temperature changes such As when Geranium plants from a greenhouse Are placed in an outdoor Border and experience a night of deep chill. An atmosphere that is hot and marching dry. Stagnant or dead air. Soil about the Root has become too dry. This May occur when the Ball of soil has contracted allowing the water from a watering can to run with papery chalices. In the Shade and where plants have been allowed to form a thick mat Flowers and fruits Are few. The fruits Are rated As edible but Are mostly prize for there show in the Garden and for use in dried arrangements. Stems adorned with fruits Are Cut in september and Hung up in a dark chamber to dry. Increase is from seed division and Root cuttings. Q bark cracks. On a Tuxedo property several Trees have developed cracks. A Reader asks if they will kill the Trees. A the trouble is due to uneven freezing of inner and outer Wood in Winter during Down the sides of the pot i periods of abrupt deep freezing. Without saturating the Ball of i the Sappy Wood expands upon Earth. It is Well to water pot freezing and the More suddenly plants from the Bottom happens the greater the week or two. Danger from Frost cracks. If the Plant starving for some ele i crack is wide or not Healing ment such As Iron or Magne scrape it gently swab with a slum or Sulphur. I disinfectant spoon of Gas leakage this is sus household bleach in five times Pec Ted when the Leaf yellowing As much and Seal by is widespread. I applying a thin smear of Asphalt old age the older leaves paint. The treated Trees should having matured. Live to Ripe old age. Soggy soil. Q Chloese lantern. A Home Gardener asks about plants secured under the name of Jap anese lanterns a this member of the Husk Tomato group is a Hardy perennial referred to in a dozen of my books As chinese Lan h i n e lantern Plant Winter Cherry Alk Kengi and Strawberry ground Cherry Phy Salis it spreads by creeping roots talks and hence is q vegetable spacing. A Young Gardener inquiries about the recommended spacing of com Mon vegetables sown in the Garden when thinning. A there is no rigid Standard about spacing but the following distances Are considered practical two inches carrots radish Leaf lettuce and seed onions. Three inches beets Best put in a Corner where its Kohlrabi Parsnip peas onion invading tendency won t be i sets and summer turnip. J bothersome. It thrives in Well four inches Beans j drained Gritty soil in a Well sunned spot. The Small White Flowers followed by Large onions and spinach. Six inches or More others. Ghana braces for turbulent elections by Cameron Durdu Accra special owns Ghana s prospective return to civilian government in september after three years of army and police v Rule promises to be a Stormy business. One of the most formidable of african politicians who is seeking Power or. K o m 1 a go Demah has already declared War on the country s military masters. Or. Go Demah was a co founder with or. Kwame Nkrumah of the convention people s party that won Ghana s Independence from Britain in 1957, and ruled until its overthrow by a coup d eat in february 1966. He was once minister of finance but broke with Nkrumah and went into voluntary exile five years before Nkrumah fell from Power. Now he has formed a new party called the National Alliance of liberals and it angers him that the ruling National liberation Council has begun to put obstacles in his path. These obstacles Are listed by. Or. Go Demah As Sev eral decrees passed by the Nolc each of which could have precluded him from the c o u n t r y s political leadership. They were sub sequently amended to re qualify him but a Succes Sion of had created the impression that every conceivable strategy was being used to Stop him from participating in the country s political life or. Go Demah says. Referring to the demand that he should refund thou Sands of dollars to the exchequer or. Go Demah said it s timing appears to have been selected to afford a political weapon to certain politicians who Are already using it in Hope that i will be the Money was described by a commission As Over expenditure indulged in by or. Go Demah when he was a minister and which he could have financed from unlawful or. Go Demah described this finding As unfair because it could not be appealed against. I do not have a Glass jaw he added and i shall not be pushed out by trick or or. Go Demah s supporters include Many who fought bitterly against or. Kofi Busia Leader of the newly formed Progress party when or. Busia was Leader of the United party in the years immediately preceding Independence and if he were to go to jail the political atmosphere would become heavily charged the threat of violence. The situation could be even worse were it to spill Over from politics into tribal struggle for or. Go Demah is an Ewe one of Ghana s dominant groups and his detractors Are All too eager to attribute whatever strength h e gathers to Covert tribal support both in the Nolc and in the armed forces generally. The Ewe and the Ashanti Are contending factors in the current Power struggle. Brigadier a. A. Africa who Heads the ruling Junta is from the powerful Ashanti Region and has been a sworn opponent of or. Go Demah. There May have been a counter move within the Nolc to protect or. Go Demah from decrees affecting former convention people s party leaders As numerous Amend ments to the decrees each of which benefited him. Meanwhile he has even greater cause to be angry with the constituent As Sembly now drawing up the Constitution under which the country will return to civil Ian Rule than with the Nolc. For that body is considering inserting a clause in the new Constitution which will Debar from the new parliament All persons against whom Adverse findings have been made by a commis Sion of inquiry. The political race Here has thus become exciting if not explosive. So far eight new parties including or. Go Demah s National a1 Liance of liberals and or. Busia s Progress party have been granted provisional registration. These two Are running neck and neck in popularity. Or. Go Demah has the Edge Over or. Busia in terms of propaganda As he owns the country s evening newspaper t h e evening Standard. But or. Busia has Strong emotional support. Many remember his warn Ings against Nkrumah excesses that led to the first president s deposition. Or. 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