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THE JOURNAL-NEWS, FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1974 7C 'Operation Headsiart' IT ii raites an exoei lant seeds indoors now to outsmart a termite 1 you can lift them out and set them direct into the border. Caladiums can be started indoors in bulb pans or flats filled with a mixture of garden soil, sand, and peat moss in equal parts. They are slow to sprout and get along better if they have bottom heat. If you don't have a heating cable or warming tray, try placing them near a radiator. The soil should be moist when you plant them and be kept moist.

Once the plants have started, give them more light and when the soil has warmed up, set them outdoors in a shady part of the border. soon as possible now six to eight weeks before they can be set out in your locality. Set the tubers level with the surface of the soil in flats or boxes at least three inches deep in damp peat mixed two parts to one part sand. Keep them moist and shaded at about 60 degrees F. until four to six leaves have developed, then pot them up in rich soil in bulb pans or four-inch pots.

Water from below. In late May or June (tomato planting time) you can set them into the garden or patio or window boxes right in their containers, sunk to the rims, the depth of the container, cover with clear plastic or a plastic bag. Give the container good light from the start and even fuller light after germination. Don't let the seedlings dry out at any time. FEEDING them with water-soluble plant food should begin as soon as the seeds have sprouted.

This can be done by setting the containers into trays holding liquid plant food. When the second true leaves have appeared, it is time to give the seedlings more room. Transplant them into separate peat pots or into flats where they are about two inches apart. The baby plants can be lifted with a plant label or knife and set into their places By MILLICENT TAYLOR Monitor News Service You can give your garden a head start by planting some of your seeds and bulbs indoors. Plants that need a long growing season, started during this month and April, will be ready to set into the garden as soon as the soil is warm enough and will be way ahead of those you raise from seed planted outdoors.

You can, of course, buy plants in flats later on in your garden centers, and you probably will if you have a small garden. But your own choice of varieties and plants in quantity at small expense is your answer if you start some indoors yourself. Operation Headstart, furthermore, is interesting, rather fun, and a great booster of self-respect. TUBEROUS begonias and caladiums are the bulbs especially worth starting early. To get that expert, call Terminix.

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I use vermiculite and milled sphagnum moss. There is also perlite, or you can mix peat with builders' sand. If you use unsterilized soil, mix it with Newburgh New Rochelle Peekskill 561-5600 633-5880 737-2442 White Plains Yonkers 946-1178 965-7272 Harrison Haverstraw 835-2230 429-5701 without disturbing them. The next thing is to keep them fed, moist, and growing. If they begin to get leggy while waiting for their move into the garden, pinch the tops to encourage branching out.

Before setting them into the garden to rough it night and day and in spring rains, set them outdoors in their pots or flats in a sheltered place during the warmer parts of the day and eventually overnight. Here is where a cold frame comes in handy, or a make TURN HEALTHY GREEN Iftf For Seven Days of News and Entertainment have THE JOURNAL-NEWS DELIVERED call EL 8-6950 MIRACID WORKS WOND6R5. Supplies vital growth elements, instant-action iron, soil acidifier. Amazing! 8 02. $1.10 1', lbs.

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If one uses a container without drainage holes it should have an inch of gravel in the bottom (and not so good, really). FILL CONTAINERS with the planting medium to within a quarter inch of the top. Before sowing, the medium should be thoroughly and evenly moist. Sow the seed as thinly as possible. Fine seed is difficult to sow thinly.

Tapping a packet, the corner of which is cut, or rubbing seed through finger and thumb, holding a small supply in the palm of the other hand, will help. Fine seeds don't need to be Some gardeners prefer to grow their own tomato and pepper plants, too, and even raise broccoli plants ahead. Among annual flowers it is good to start snapdragons early, along with perhaps favorite double or unusual petunias one may not be able to find in the flats offered by the garden centers. Salvia will bloom sooner if started early and keep on until frost, and there are the taller zinnias and marigolds, and gloriosa daisies. Gloriosas are really perennials but when given a head start will bloom the first year.

Where can you grow your seedings indoors? Good light and as much sun as you can provide are essential. Ingenuity does it. The guest bedroom, kitchen, attic, or cellar windows, or if you can provide fluorescent light almost any convenient place. THE NURSERY seed catalogs offer a variety of seed-starting aids, even entire kits complete with plant trays, oeat Dots, labels, growing me-. dia, with or without heating cables.

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Every day, more people are moving back to the city from suburbia. The fuel crisis seems to be the final straw for most. Traffic jams at the gas pumps uncertainty about heating oil deliveries shrinking rail service all adding up to a growing sense of isolation. But there's also always the unhappy choice between paying the rapidly rising costs of home services and doing more and more household chores yourself. In Manhattan, on the other hand, it's getting easier to get around.

By public transit or private. The Vi fare on Sundays is another step in the right direction. And you don't have to ue a car to get to your favorite restaurant. Or a movie. Or the thousands of places and events that make City life so stimulating.

The reasons hy so many who are moving back choose Waterside are also significant. It's partly because of the way we look. In a recent architecture column in the New York Times, Ada Louise Huxtable called Waterside "one of the handsomest additions to the sky line in years." It's partly because of what we have achieved. New York Magazine's Sixth Annual Cityscape Award included "one Life Raft each (to our architects and builder) for having completed the striking new offshore community known as Waterside." Peter Blake goes on to say that "it took a dozen years to cut through red tape and get Waterside built; now that Waterside is a reality, New York City, with its 578 miles of waterfront, has had a dazzling new frontier opened to it." (Reprints on request.) And it's partly because we're the dhly neighborhood in Manhattan where you find quite a lot of what you moved to the suburbs for in the first place. Waterside is Manhattan's Newest Park.

Over 75 of Waterside is devoted to useable open space. An urban park unlike any other. At its heart, a two acre central plaza overlooking the River. Along the riverfront, a five block long tree lined promenade which will be pleasantly illuminated at night. Residents will also enjoy a private promenade and children's play area overlooking the central plaza.

The security of a peninsula. Surrounded by water and a major highway, Waterside enjoys a naturally secure setting. This limited access makes our 24 hour screening process manageable, for the doormen, one in each tower, and for the roving patrol. All interlinked by walkie-talkies. Now at PINE KNOLL Your doorman has full control over both the main lobby and service entrance to your building.

You can be in touch with your doorman, and through him the security patrol, not only from your apartment, but from communications checkpoints throughout our neighborhood. In the elevators, laundry rooms, garage entries, the residents promenade, and even the footbridge. Late at night. Waterside's open space will become a completely private enclave for you and your guests. The main plaza and waterfront promenade will be gated off with access possible only through the buildings themselves.

The Waterside Swim and Health Club. We saved room for our own all-year vacation spot. With a great swimming pool for mm airlylBktS JST Specials i 1 1 a MTH STREET kSZM jfiMSK 1 fl 4 I Ml lis I 3 Z. 5 5 a 1 it. 9 5 I i i I I MTH STREET IZiJ 1 1 9 IRT SUBWAY Is 1 A 4 i MTH STREET -4 I I fc 23R0 STREnfeiJi I fl The Club is private.

With a reasonable membership fee. And it's always just a stroll away. Waterside is an easy place to shop. Living here, you don't have to go elsewhere for the necessities of life. We have a big Sloan's Supermarket, Murray Hill Laundry Cleaners and Waterside Stationers.

A branch of the Chase Manhattan Bank will be here soon. Work will soon begin on an excellent seafood restaurant and a beauty salon. And we're talking seriously with a drug store, a liquor store and boutique. You're your own environmentalist at Waterside. In a Waterside apartment the environment is always under your control.

You choose your own comfort level for heating and cooling. Our system, with separate unit controls in each room, is so flexible that you can heat one room while cooling another at any time of the year. In addition, the buildings are specially insulated and all windows are double glazed to keep both weather and noise out. Just as a point of environmental information, it takes about twice as much fuel to heat a three bedroom house as it does to heat a three bedroom apartment. Where do we go from here? Everywhere! The 34th Street crosstown bus line is being extended to our doorstep.

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