Take care of Christmas plants STATE COLLEGE - People who were lucky enough to find indoor plants under the Christ mask tree must know a thing or two about caring for their gifts, Penn State horticulturist J. Robert Nuss says. No matter how at tractive these plants are during the holidays, their flowers are short lived when brought into the home. Nuss offers the following advice in caring for Christmas plants: • For azaleas, make sure the plants are exposed to bright light,, or full sunlight. Keep them watered well all the time. Avoid BIG CLOVER YIELDS? Plant Morßed. Morßed Red Clover possesses the qualities that lead toward a top yielding, short rotation hay and grazing legume. 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Office Emmaus, Pa. Office.. Mifflinburg, Pa. Office direct heat or drafts on the open flowers, because this speeds the loss of moisture. Azaleas can be saved for use outdoors. • Christmas begonias should be kept in full sunlight during the daytime, but they should be given cool temperatures at night. These plants are difficult to grow indoors, and should be discarded after the season. • Christmas cactus plants need full sunlight and cool temperatures between 50 and 65 to preserve the open flowers and prevent the drop of formed buds. The flowers fail to .717-769-9814 .215-967-4131 .717-966-3841 open if the plants remain in temperatures above 70 for very long. This plant is not a true cactus, so it does need uniform levels of moisture. Christmas cactus plants can be a part of a permanent indoor collection. • Christmas pepper plants are annual plants grown for their colorful fruit. Bright light and cool temperatures will slow the fruit drop indoors. When the plant’s quality goes, so should the plant. • Cineraria is another breed of plant to discard after flowering. It will hold for quite some time if given full sunlight, cool night temperatures and lots of water. The lower leaves will quickly yellow and wilt in low light and dry Mr. Dairyman If You Are Interested In Saving Energy Or If You Are Having A Cooling Problem, Please Call us For A No Obligation Demonstration The Mueller Accu-Therm Precooler ... use* well water to precool your warm milk before It goes Into your milk cooler! 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Keep them on the dry side until June, when they can be repotted and grown again. • Jerusalem cherry plants are used during the holiday season for their colorful fruit that naturally drops after it ripens. The fruit will ripen slower in cooler tem peratures and full sunlight. Once the fruit drops, discard the plant. • Kalanchoe plants will hold their flowers in full sunlight. The soil must be uniformly moist or the flowers will drop early. 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PSU wins food, «g fellowships UNIVERSITY PARK - Penn State’s departments of food science and agricultural engineering suc cessfully competed in the 1984 USDA Food and Agricultural Sciences National Needs Graduate Fellowship program. Both departments are funded for three fellowships each to support new masters degree students in 1985. The fellowships are part of the $5 million set aside in the 1984 Federal budget to support post graduate education in agricultural science. They are awarded by the higher education programs of the Agricultural Research Service of the USDA. Of the 147 proposals submitted for graduate fellowships, only 67 were funded and only eight other universities received awards for masters degree work in food science and agricultural engineeri ng. Penn State received $64,000 under this program. AT LAST!! A Truly Dependable WORK WATCH! WATER RESISTANT! SHOCK RESISTANT! .And, best of all ITS IORUS QUARTZ! 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