Researchers Develop Pruning Guides for Yews and Junipers The old question o how much and when to prune certain evergreen shrubs has been an swered by 6 years of ex perimental work at The Penn sylvania State University. The results apply to two evergreens grown widely in Pennsylvania, the Japanese Spreading Yew and the Hetz Spreading Juniper, says Dr. James E. Brewer, associate professor of ornamental hor ticulture. The pruning studies show that Japanese Yew can be sheared throughout the plant. In shearing yews, the tips of all stems should be cut to shape the shrub as desired. On the other hand, only the longest branches of the Hetz Juniper should be pruned. Home gardeners wanting to reduce the size of Japanese Yews can shear these shrubs heavily with assurance of good results, Dr. Brewer reports. He and his associates also found that these yews grow more compact and Like some other banks, we’ve raised our interest on savings. But, unlike some others,we continue to pay the highest bank rates the law allows! How to interpret all the figures in all the savings ads from all the banks around? Unless you’re a mathematics whiz, it’s difficult to do these days. So let us suggest an alternative: Just remember that Farmers National Bank of Quarryville continues paying the highest bank interest allowed by law! For more information, however, check our list of savings plans.* (Any one of them, depending on your preferences and circumstances, will earn excellent income—and be a hedge against inflation.) 5 percent. Paid on Regular Passbook Savings accounts (no minimum deposit or withdrawal), and on 30- and 60-day certificates of deposit ($l,OOO minimum). 51/2 percent. That’s what you earn on certificates of 90 days ($l,OOO minimum) and six months ($5OO minimum). 6 percent. An excellent income on certificates of one or two years, both with a $5OO minimum. 6V2 percent. Commit your savings for three years, and this outstanding return can be yours. Minimum of $5OO. 7V2 percent. Especially for big savers, wanting the optimum bank interest for four years. Minimum of $l,OOO. * All interest rates described here are in effect now .with the exception of the Regular Passbook Savings account rate,which becomes effective Aug. 1,1973. Interest is paid from day of deposit to day of withdrawal; and, on savings certificates of six months and up, is paid semi-annually by check. All certificates are automatically renewable. produce better quality when pruned yearly rather than every other year. “If you don’t want a compact yew, then we suggest shearing the Japanese Yew every other season,” he stated. Shearing in July and October produced the greatest follow-up growth from yews. March primings, on the other hand, gave the least gowth. As for Hetz Juniper, heavy pruning or “heading-back” was found effective. This evergreen grows rapidly but is not damaged by heavy pruning. The pruning trials yielded no real differences between pruning Hetz Juniper every year or every other year. However, the most compact plants developed from pruning the shrubs twice a year in March and July. Heavy pruning restrained Hetz Juniper to a low growing form not typical of the plant. Main bank lobby open daily, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.. and 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. op Friday. Drive-up window in operation daily, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., and 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday. Farmers National Bank of Quarryville Banking the way you’d do It. Member,Federal Deposit Insurence Corporation Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 28,1973 Deadline for Emergency FHA Loans Announced Penrose Hallowell, State Director of Farmers Home Administration, announced today that Emergency loans will be available to farmers only who suffered physical and or production losses from storms on or about June 27. 1973. The Penn State evergreen experiments should be helpful to plant nurserymen, it was suggested, since 38 per cent of all nursery stock consists of or namental evergreens. The ex perimental work by Dr. Brewer and associates is considered the only study of its type involving the pruning of ornamental evergreens. Loans will be made only to farmers who are unable to obtain sufficient credit elsewhere to finance their needs. The total loan must be repaid (no forgiveness or principal can cellation). Interest rate will be 5 percent per annum. Applications for physical losses must be received by September 17, 1973. Applications for production losses must be received by April 17, 1974. Ap plications for Lancaster and Chester County farmers are available at the local Farmers Home Administration office at 1383 Arcadia Road, Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17601, Phone 394- 0681, extension 57. 9
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