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8 The Bee: Donville Vo Wednesdoy June 9 1976 Avocado Tree Is Grown Indoors (c 1976 NY Times News NEW YORK Those who think they have green thumbs may well be humbled by the fact that Justin Kreuzer has accomplished what few gar deners have: He has raised an avocado tree indoors that flowers and produces fruit He claimed any edible harvest records yet as the tiny avocados reach only six or seven millimeters in size before they drop off but the fruits are genuine Bob Colman who raises groves of avocados at rey Nurseries in the heart of avocado country near Escondido Calif said sure sounds like a first to me Grove avocados start to flower when they are two to three years old and the bearing trees may be anywhere from 20 to 30 feet tall The avocado is a subtropical tree and needs plenty of heat and humidity to fruit The climate variants indoors aren't that Dr Lamb Weight gain Hazel Perper author of Avocado Pit Indoor How to notes that answer to the question whether an indoor avocado plant or tree will produce fruit is a qualified maybe but not Kreuzer who lives in a air field County Conn home on the brow of a hill with his wife and three children does not appear outwardly to be a horticultural magician He says the avocado success is from The flowering tree is in a north window of the Kreuzer living room which it shares with many other handsome plants including begonias oxalis another avocado and African violets in full bloom The avocado is 5 feet 6 inches tall It grows in a white plastic pot and sits on a white plastic saucer It has a single trunk with deeply bowed branches thick with foliage started this avocado in 1967 when we lived in Kreuzer said was just a super market avocado I've grown lots of them Many have failed too" started my avocado in the Kreuzer went on He shuns the traditional method of poking toothpicks in an avocado pit and letting it sit in water until roots form Nor did he cut the seedling in half when it reached 6 or 7 inches to force branching planted the pit so the top half was exposed and let it he said specific or exact The potting soil at planting time was just sort of ordinary now I have worked out a special formula for soil that I like and the avocado was transplanted into Here is the Kreuzer soil recipe: two parts com mercial potting soil one part vermiculite and one part perlite In the bottom of the pot he placed a lot of crushed rock The mixture drains well and pack solid er tilizer? the past I fed the plant with a liquid fertilizer" he said not conscien tious about feeding Recently I have tried some of these new slow release Watering is about as casual Brenda Kreuzer remarked that was exclusively her activity just enjoy having the plants she said when Justin comes home from work the plants are droopy so embarrassed to find them neg lected he waters them before Although Kreuzer loves plants and obviously grows them well he claims innocence from any expertise Professionally a research scientist for Perkin Elmer a scientific instrument company he does not apply any of his laboratory methods to greenei7 but rather relaxes and enjoys it One possible clue to success was the placing of a chandelier with a 80 watt tungsten lamp just above the avocado and he added year we installed a room humidifier to make the house better for people com fort but apparently there were some good side effects for the BOAT SHOW SET NEW YORK (AP) The dates for the nine day 1977 Na tional Boat Show in New Coliseum will be Jan 15 through 23 The public show will be preceded by two days for the marine trade The New York show now taking up five floors of the Coli seum was established in 1905 WIN AT BRIDGE Sandy Trent opponents NORTH 9 A 10 9 2 A 6 10 6875 WEST AST 1 1) I AJ 8 7 4 3 K65 5 4 3 9 8 2 975 432 A3 A 10 6 2 SOUTH A A 10 7 a 8 4 A 9 4 North South vulnerable West North East South Pass 1 2e Dbl 2 3 A Pass 3 Pass 3 A Pass 4 Pass 4 NT Pass 5 Pass 5 NT Pass 6 Pass 7 Pass Pass Pass Opening lead 3 By Oswald James Jacoby Paul and Sandy Trent one of the best bridge playing married partners in the world finished third in theCavendish invitation West's two diamond bid was some sort of major suit take out Bids of that weakness are not recommended and it sure bounced back and knocked its perpetrator right out of the box The Trents reached seven after several rounds of bid ding and West opened the three of hearts Sandy won in dummy cashed dummy's 10 of diamonds led a diamond to her jack cashed the ace of clubs and led a third diamond to dummy's king When West followed to that lead Sandy paused to try to construct the West hand and finally decided that he would not have made that silly two diamond bid with 4 4 3 2 dis tribution Therefore he was marked with a 5 4 3 1 hand and had already played his one club So Sandy led dummy's eight of clubs and let it ride for a successful double finesse One more club finesse and the con tract was home A Kansas reader wants to know how you handle a big hand with a long club suit when you play two clubs as your only forcing bid The answer is that you open two clubs and bid whatever number of clubs you have to at your next turn WIN AT BRIDGE One pair must finish last NORTH ID) 10 A 4 10 3KJ7632 A 94 WEST EAST A 8 2 A 10 7 5 3 8 6 9 7 5 4 10 9 5 4 8 83 7 SOUTH AA96 A2 A A A 10 6 5 2 North South vulnerable Opening lead Deuce A West North East South Pass Pass 1 A Pass 1 Dbl ReDbl Pass Pass 1 A 3 A Pass 3 A Pass 4 A Pass 4 Pass 4 Pass 6 A Pass 7 A Pass Pass Pass By Oswald James Jacoby The pair of Nobody and Nameless finished dead last among the 40 entrants in the Cavendish invitational tourna ment Here is one hand that really helped them to get that result At practically every table North and South bid to six or seven clubs and collected all 13 tricks if allowed to play the hand But about half the time East and West took advantage of the favorable vulnerability to sacrifice in spades Six spades went for 700 or seven spades for 900 since all spade declarers handled the heart suit by leading low hearts a couple of times and dropping South's ace It took Nobody and Nameless six rounds of bid ding and almost 10 minutes to get to seven clubs It took good old Nameless sitting South just 20 seconds to throw the grand slam away He cashed his ace of diamonds at trick two Then he ruffed a spade in dummy and played the king of diamonds East ruffed and South overruffed but now he had to lose a heart which he could have sluffed Tough luck but avoidable South could afford one round of trumps before trying to cash that king of diamonds and that would have pulled tooth after baby furniture WxlZZ ZTTT87 June 20 RIDAY 9 'til 9 1 $197 Reg 29995 30 USB YOUR BankAmericaro I ACCOUN super second century ALL OTHER LAZ BOY OR BARCALOUNGER RECLINERS SHOP THURSDAY RIDAY SATURDAY By Lawrence Lamb MD DEAR DR LAMB I am 25 years old In March 1975 had my first baby I am only 5 feet 1 and weigh about 130 pounds When 1 had my daughter I had to have a sec tion Because of the section my doctor told me that I couldn't do any exercise So I just went on a diet and went from 140 to 115 pounds rom my middle down I still looked as if I were about five and a half months preg nant I got so depressed that I went back up to 130 pounds I know I am overweight I am back on the diet to lose weight but I need good exercises to flatten my tummy and rear and also slim down my hips and thighs I know now that dieting is not enough If you can please send me a booklet or something with the right kind of exercises for me I went to the book stores around here and can only find books on dieting and none on exercise DEAR READER It is discouraging to suddenly pass from a small woman to one who has to fight to keep the flab off Small women really have more trouble because they don 't have a lot of muscle mass to begin with so they use a small amount ot calories at rest compared to larger women Immediately after a section I can see why your doctor would not want you to do too much exercising that would put a strain on the scar However if it is a good scar there is no reason why you can't do ordinary calisthenics now to strengthen your ab dominal muscles The exer cises will not be as big a strain on the healed incision as another pregnancy will be and women commonly have ad ditional pregnancies after the first section Obviously you do need to diet You know how since you have been successful in this department before I recom mend that everyone who goes on a diet also use an exercise program even if it is just walking The exercise will help keep you from losing vital body protein and muscle Without it you will lose so much muscle that it is even harder to avoid obesity after the diet than it was before That is what is wrong with those fad and crash diets among other things You need exercises to stren then your abdominal muscles I am sending you The Health Letter number 3 7 Girth Control: Avoiding the Big Middle Others who want this information can forward 50 cents with a long stamped self addressed envelope for mailing Address your letter to me in care of this newspaper Box 1551 Radio City Station New York NY 10019 This will tell you how to do set ups and leg hits that will tighten your ab dominal muscles Most people think that sit ups will do the job but they are just for the upper abdomen and will not help that lower pot A good daily walking program built up to an hour a day if you have time plus the abdominal exercises and weight reduction should do the trick for you Men are too in hibited usually to use them but bumps and grinds are very good for improving the strength of the seat and pelvic muscles They might help in that department I also like to recommend swimming as a good exercise to lose weight But you have to swim not lie in the sun and gobble down snacks or cold drinks If the water is on the cool side it will help drain away heat which means losing calories The exercise doesn't strain your joints as your body weight is supported Il 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