Please excuse our gardener's pride, but we couldn't
resist. We coaxed photographer Bob Vroman into taking a
picture of the yucca baccata which is blooming in our patio
for the first time since it was planted 10 years ago. (One
of our friends has the discouraging report that this plant
blooms only Infrequently and maybe it will be another 10
years before it puts out any more flowers.)
As we wrote before. Pappy brought the yucca from
Arizona and planted it next the pump house which encloses
one side of the patio. Pappy has a fondness for desert plants,
and also brought along a prickly pear cactus, which can
be seen in the picture, and two or three others. The prickly
pear has been blooming each spring for the past three or
four years gorgeous deep orange-yellow flowers. But the
yucca Just grew and grew, and we d given up nope mat
it would bloom.
But now it has dozens and dozens of big, waxy white
flowers last Wednesday Pappy counted 35 still tightly
Folded buds and there are many more than that in bloom.
They are long-lasting the. first to open still looks fresh.
According to the botanists, the yucca is in the lily family,
and these flowers are lily-shaped. There is no sweet lily
scent, however.
Long years ,n the nt.vs room have taught Potpourri that
often when a gardener believes he is growing something
extra rare and unusal, it turns out that any number of other
enthusiasts are doing the same thing. So maybe other south
ern Oregonians are growing this type of yucca, and we just
never happened to see one. Pauline M. Patraw has a sketch
of this yucca in her book on Southwest mesa plants and says
It is also known as the broad-leaved yucca, as Spanish
bayonet, banana yucca or soapweed. It has been one of the
most useful of the desert plants, as far as the Indians are
concerned, since they used it for food, for soap, for making
a fermented drink and for weaving baskets and mats.
The two of us are just enjoying the very beautiful white
flowers. OS.
FDA Has New Report On
Strontium-90 In Foods
Washington, D. C. - Strontium-90
in the c'.iet of infants
and children eating nothing
but the commercial baby foods
and junior foods available
last year would not have ex
ceeded 4 per cent of the av
erage daily intake considered
by the Federal Radiation
council to be acceptable for
lifetime consumption under
normal peacetime conditions.
This is the finding of a
Food and Drug administration
purvey reported May 28.
FDA said these survey re
sults are preliminary, and that
the study will be continued
to detect any increases in ra
dioactivity resulting from the
Family Attends
School Ceremony
Eagle Point Mrs. Gertrude
Stanley and Mrs. Nora
Strauss of Eagle Point and
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stanley
and Mr. and Mrs. Gordon
Stanley, Brownsboro, attend
ed the graduation exercises of
the high school in Chiloquin,
Ore., Tuesday. Miss Judith
Stanley, a member of the
class, is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Bcrtland Stanley,
formerly of Eagle Point. Mrs.
Stanley and Mrs. Strauss are
grandmothers of Judith. The
group spent thrcp days in Fort
Klamath wi'h the Bertland
Slanleyc.
William Force
Visits Parents
Gold Hill W i 1 1 1 a m R.
Force, West Vancouver. B.C.
was a recent week end visitor
at the home of his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Force and
family. Mr. Force, a former
resident of Gold Hill and
Mcdford. was at one time a
reporter on the Mcdford Mail
Tribune.
THE B1BI.E El
SI'EAKS
TO YOU
Sunday 9:45 a.m.
K-BOY-730 kc
"Your Defense from
Contogion"
Soviet nuclear weapons test
ing last fall, or from the cur
rent U. S. test series.
The preliminary report cov-1
ered 70 samples representing
major manufacturers and col
lected at retail outlets. Sam
ples included vegetables,
fruits, meat and meat prod
ucts, and cereals. The prod
ucts were prepared from crops
grown in 1960 and early 1961.
Average strontium-90 con
tents by classes of products
were: cereals, 8.5 micromicro
curies per kilogram (kg.);
vegetables, 8.2 micromlcro
curies per kg.; fruits, 0.9 mi
cromicrocuries per kg.; and
meats, 0.8 micromicrocuries
per kg.
The Federal Radiation coun
cil guideline for an acceptable
daily intake of strontium-90
when averaged over one year
is 200 micromicrocuries. (A
micromicrocurle is a million
th of a millionth of a curie. A
curie is the quantity of a ra
dioactive nuclide disintegrat
ing at the rate of 3.7x1010
atoms per second.)
Thus a child eating up to
two pounds daily - a very gen
erous allowance - of the vege
table and cereal products sam
pled, would get from these
sources only about 17,5 of the
Federal Radiation council
guideline figure.
The Food and Drug admin
istration emphasized that
neither the radioactivity con
tent of baby foods nor that of
any other food or class of
foods at present warrants any
attempt by consumers to pur
chase on the basis of radio
activity content, or to make
any other change in normal
dietary patterns.
In Ashland
Ashland - Guests over the
Memorial Day holiday at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. James
M. Madison. 1190 Bellview
avenue, were their daughter
and her husband, Mr. and
I ittrs. lqwii) ourr oi aan ma-
teo, Calif. Mrs. Burr is the
former Linda Madison.
California Pan
Viiiti EagU Point
Eagle Point Mr. and Mrs.
Joe Ciarcia. Inglewood, Calif.,
were overnight guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Boyd Bruner, Eagle
Point. The. Ciarcias stopped
off to visit with them and Mr.
and Mrs. Jack Barton en
route to the World Fair In
Seattle.
1
Social Events
Bell Choir
Program
Is Different
An entirely new musical en
tertainment will be presented
with "Let Inspiration Ring,"
which will bring David A.
Wehr and the Cathedral Bell
choir of the Boise Methodist
Cathedral of the Rockies to
the Medford Methodist
church, 607 West Main street,
on Saturday evening, June 2,
1962.
The bell choir, soloists, and
their 105 English Handbells
forged in Holland will appear
In this impressive new pro
duction. A feature of the program
will be an analysis of the art
of bell ringing and human in
terest sidelights of such
groups.
The Cathedral Bell choir
has appeared on NBC and
CBS television and was fea
tured May 30 at the Seattle
World's Fair.
Imaginative "Bellstratlons"
are joined with an extensive
wardrobe in thrilling colors
to make a panorama of music,
motion and color in the pro
gram. The program is open to the
public.
UN Officers
Announced
The board of directors of
the Jackson County chapter,
Oregon United Nations asso
ciation, chose officers at a
meeting last night in the Pub
lic Library of Medford and
Jackson County.
They are Omar Bacon, first
vice-president; Mrs. Henry
Padgham, second vice-president;
Mrs. Wallace Robinson,
secretary; Irving Thomas,
treasurer. Mrs. C. Rease Bra
ley was named membership
chairman, with Miss Clara
Hinze as her assistant.
Roy Neal, Ashland, was
elected chapter president
earlier this year.
The group voted to wire
Congressman Edwin R. Durno
urging his support of the bill
which would empower the
United States government to
purchase United Nations
bonds, and to ask his advice
on what means can be taken
by citizens to ensure passage
of the measure.
The board is also making
plans to enlarge its scope with
representatives from various
service and civic organiza
tions in the county.
Luncheon Honors
Handby School
Speech Squad
Gold Hill - Members of the
Hanby Elementary school
speech squad were honored at
an impromptu smorgasbord
luncheon last week. Mrs. Beth
Ness, home economics teacher
and pupils in the homemaklng
department, took charge of
table arrangements and pre-
pared the luncheon.
Speech students who were
present to receive their recog
nition included Dave White,
Bob Boye, Patty Washburn,
Joe Thomas, and Carol Wash
burn from the humorous sec
tion. In the poetry section
were Christine Olson, Linda
Parker, Randy Turner, Mike
Barber a.id Sandy Ganong.
Serious readers present for
the affair were M a r 1 e n e
Wright, Barbara White, Owen
Banry, and Joan Hllkey. Ran
dy Turner, Linda Parker, Tom
Kellogg and . Rhonda Rose
crans were the orators who
attended.
The debate team was rep
resented by Mike Turner,
Linda Hilkey, Suzanne Kin
ney, Carolyn Lamb, Susan
Rosecrans, and Eileen Kell.
Speech coaches present
were Mrs. Ida von Buskirk,
serious section; Allen Hill, hu
morous; Mrs. Mildred Black,
poetry: Gilbert A. Mack, ora
tory; and Walter Doherty and
Leon Myers, debate coaches.
Other Hanby teachers attend
ing were Deane Roberts, Mrs.
Ness, and Marvin Throne.
Contest Is Won
By Talent Man
Fresno, Calif. - W. Bagley,
Route 1, Talent, Ore., is a
sixth prize winner in the re
cently concluded national
raisin bread toast-to-travel
sweepstakes contest, the Call
fornia Raisin Advisory board
announced here. The prize is
an electric toaster.
The contest open to con
sumers of raiiln bread and i
supported in each community j
by local bakers, offered a top)
prize of 10-day vacation trips ;
abroad for four persons for I
the next five years. Second j
prize was a Ford Falcon se-j
dan. ' j
For an informal wedding
the invitation can range from
a phone rail or personal note
to an engraved invitation of
conventional form.
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
'Aging7 Bride
Difficulties in
By JOYCE SCHULLER
Unitid Press International
Chicago -0IPD- The aging
bride (over 21, that is) has her
problems and the biggest is
finding a wedding dress that
doesn't look like it's designed
for the junior prom.
The short wedding dress,
favored by so many brides
"getting on in years," appears
to be in particularly short
supply.
And, in my case, at least,
hard-pressed salesladies tried
to pass off some unlikely sub
stitutes - like the dowager-
Chapter Has
Installation;
Plan Party
Installation of officers for
the coming year and final
meeting for the current year
of Alpha Beta chapter, Beta
Sigma Phi, was held recently
at the home of Mrs. James
Butler, 1004 East Main street.
Officers installed in a can-
delight ceremony were Mrs.
George Polski, president; Mrs.
Richard Card, first vice presi
dent; Mrs. Ray O. Jones, sec
ond vice president; Mrs. D. R.
Waltermire, recording secre
tary; Mrs. Richard Wager, cor
responding secretary; Mrs.
Harris Ross, treasurer; Mrs.
H. H. Patterson and Mrs.
Jones, Beta Sigma Phi City
Council representatives.
Mrs. O. A. Eden accepted
the responsibility of chapter
sponsor and was given a yel
low rose by the retiring presi
dent, Mrs. Harold Ames. - A
gift was presented to Mrs.
Ames by the chapter for her
services.
Committee chairmen were
announced for the coming
year. Those serving are Mrs.
Card and Mrs. Jones, mem
bership and pledge; Mrs. Ray
Barnett, Mrs. John Watkins
and Mrs. Gerald Nelson, so
cial; Mrs. Gerald Brog and
Mrs. Michael Alesko, pro
gram; Mrs. Dalton Gressett
and Mrs. Patterson, welfare
and service; Mrs. Richard Wa
ger and Mrs. Charles T. Tuck
er, ways and means; Mrs. Eu
gene Garner, sunshine com
mittee; Mrs. D. R. Waltermire,
telephone committee; Mrs.
James Butler, cancer band
ages; and Mrs. Charles T.
Tucker, publicity and scrap
book. The hostess and her assist
ants, Mrs. Willard Chinn and
Mrs. Tucker, served refresh
ments. The new pledges of the so
rority invited members to a
patio party to be given at
the home of Mrs. Ray Barnett
June 5. A report will be giv
en then on the state conven
tion held in Eugene May 25,
26 and 27. Members of the
chapter attending the conven
tion were Mrs. Ames, Mrs.
Wager and Mrs. Tucker.
Medford' was selected as
hostess city for the 1964 con
vention and chapters from
Ashland. Grants Pass and
Medford will sponsor the
event.
TAKTV I'RKTTY The tunle
take on nrw crlspnenii In
whltr-irwi wovr-n rnlton nvrr
lry hattst. Claim Brooke
frosts the eonfi-ction with vl
lace at the nrck, bottom, and
cup-over pout sleeves.
Blemishes and small nicks
and cuts nee'" not mar per
sonal appearance. Cover with
sheer adhesive strips or patch
ei which are almost invisible
on the skin.
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8
CTAB PAYING
I U r HIGH RENT
show i CASCADE
opr I VILLAGE
4-1 P.M. I
Mon.-H. I payments are as
J.'ltu. I low as rent.
I Minutes from Mcdford en Crater Lak Highway
Women's News
Encounters
Shopping
type beige lace with surplice
neckline they brought out on
my first foray into the bridal
shops.
It came in half sizes, "but
maybe they could make it up
for you in size 9," the sales
lady ventured-straight-faced.
She evidently didn't grasp
the situation, and I explained
that I was the bride, not the
mother of the bride.
The selection wasn't much
better at the next shop where
they brought in an armload of
fluff, apparently to prove it
was too youthful for me. May
be, I thought, I should con
sider applying for social se
curity instead of a marriage
license.
But, undeterred by the
slings and arrows of out
rageous salesladies, I con
tinued the quest. It wasn't
easy on the salesladies, either.
Admittedly, I'm a tough
customer. I can't seem to
close my eyes when I try on
a sample dress, size 18, in
vivid turquoise, and imagine
I how it would look In ivory,
size 9.
I also don't see why I
should wear a tweed suit,
even if that's what one sales
lady said she would choose
if she were getting married
again.
It's true, I do have a taste
for something more sophisti
cated than the scoop-necked,
lace-hung, button and bow
backed gowns favored ap
parently by many younger
brides.
But I was unprepared for
what I saw in a swank sub
urban shop - gold-threaded,
sequin-encrusted sheaths, slit
at the sides to mid - thigh;
slinky jerseys; strapless and
backless draped numbers.
Evidently I don't know
"high style" when I see it.
"These dresses are the most
elegant on the North Shore,"
the saleslady snapped.
Somewhere along the line.
I got around to emphasizing I
wanted something In white,
ivory or a pastel. But that
didn't stop one saleslady from
showing me a flashy blue and
yellow number that looked
like the Swedish flag.
That also wasn't quite what
I had in mind, which moved
the saleslady to say: "Well,
what of it . , . you're only
going to wear- it once!"
Another saleslady assured
me she knew just what I
wanted, "but they don't make
that kind of thing this time
of year."
"Now, if you'd gotten mar
ried last January, or if you
wanted to wait till next
winter . , ." she suggested.
P.S. I gave the idea some
thought, but decided not to
wait. I'd be one year older
next year and it would be
that much harder to find the
dress, not to mention the hus
band.
Bridge Scores
Are Announced
Medford Duplicate Bridge
club members will hold their
monthly master point game
on Tuesday, June 5 and on
Saturday, June 9 Medford
unit, American Contract
Bridge league, will hold its
June master point play,
At the May 29 regular ses
sion Mrs. Sam Richardson
and Paul A. Hatton won first
place in the north-south posi
tion by scoring iiO'z points;
Mrs. Richard Milestone and
Mrs. Berg Marten won second
with 138 points; Ray S. Wise
and Leland Clark, third, with
13314 points, and Mrs. Dolph
Phipps and Mrs. Clark,
fourth, with 132V4 points.
Scoring in the east-west po
sition were Mr. and Mrs. Dale
Forncrook, first, with 143 'z
points; Mr. and Mrs. Lewis
Smith, second, 120V4 points;
Mrs. R. T. Jones and Mrs.
H. E. Anderson, third, 119
points, and Al Gilhousen and
Roy Prultt, fourth, 116 points.
Mrs. Anderson was a visit
ing player.
Returns
Gold Hill Mrs. Ernest H.
Cooper has returned to her
home on Sardine Creek after
visiting relatives in Sacramen
to, Calif. While there she was
a guest of her mother, Mrs.
M. T. Blouln, and Mr. and
Mrs. Wayne Todtz and daugh
ter, Miss Frances Todtz. Mrs.
Todtz and Mrs. Cooper are
sisters.
Veni-Vidi
By MARGARET SCHULER
Romans will eat and drink
as usual todav at their favor
ite cafe restaurants. The
strike which was to have tak
en place was called off at
midnight last night, the tax
protest on the use of umbrel
las and awnings in front of
cafes. Not only had every bar
and restaurant owner planned
to participate, but merchants
of other shops also were to
strike In sympathy. The gov
ernment averted the mass
strike by promising not to
tax, at least this year, the
use of awnings and umbrel
las. Three hundred and forty
thousand school teachers be
gan a four-hour strike today,
for more pay. All of the inter
mediate and secondary schools
were closed. Other strikes are
imminent. Next Monday there
is to be a one-day railway
strike and a strike of farm
laborers. All of them are
striking for more pay. The
Communist and Socialist par
ties are promoting the strikes;.
The new president would
seem to have his problem
laid out for him.
Whenever I see a crowd in
Rome I stop, and I am usually
rewarded. So this morning as
I came down from my house
through the Borghese gardens
and saw a host of people gap
ing at something in the gar
den cafe, I gaped also. There
sat Danny Thomas and his
pretty television wife, drink
ing coffee and being directed
for something, television or
cinema. It sper .ixi hectic with
all the crowds about, the talk
ing and noise. It would be
interesting to know how they
ever achieve the smooth, fin
ished product. That wonderful
scene, "The Light on the Pi
azza," was shot on the Via
Veneto at a crowded time of
day.
Frank Sinatra is here also
this week. But you can't get
seats to hear him (at $16 Der).
He is giving a benefit per
formance for the Italian Red
Cross one evening. There will
undoubtedly be the usual mob
outside to see the great man
enter and leave.
Elizabeth Taylor is out of
print. Just before I , came to
Rome, which was the last part
of April, the papers had de
clared a "No Taylor in the
News" day and it must have
continued as one seldom sees
her name anywhere. Her man
ager declares the film, "Cleo
patra," will be the greatest
picture ever filmed. It costs
more money, they say, sixty
million dollars, so It should
be, perhaps.
Pocahontas Lodge
To Hold Electio n
Weatonka council, Degree
of Pocahontas, will meet to
night at 8 o'clock at the Red
man hall for election of offi
cers. Final plans for the offi
cial visit of Mrs. Ethel Etzel,
great Pocahontas of Califor
nia, on June 8, will be made.
A trim spacious look is giv
en to a room of limited area
by pushing the beds against
the walls and topping them
with a tweedy bedspread.
Rub out unwanted
grass with DOWPON
Grass Killer Bar
A rub of the new DOWPON
Crass Killer Bar trims nuisance
grass that creeps over the edges
of driveways, sidewalks, flower
beds, under fences and around
buildings. Cet season-long con
trol with quick, easy treatments.
One bar treats up to 7000 feet.
Ask for the DOWPON Crass
Killer Bar by name.
Trodomofk ot ffc. Dow Ownico' Company
6th and
Farm Store 10th
O'Brien Travelers Return
After Six Weeks Abroad
O'Brien-Mr. and Mrs. Lesi
Archer have returned to their
home in the Siskiyou Village
from a six weeks trip abroad.
The Archers flew by the
Polar route from Los Angeles
to Copenhagen and Stockholm
where they visited some of
Mrs. Dave Wilson's cousins
and were treated to a Swed
ish smorgasbord.
Their main tour started in
Cairo, Egypt, where they vis
ited the Sphinx and traveled
to the pyramids on camel
back into the Valley of Kings
and King Tufa tomb. Cairo
boasts of beautiful modern
buildings and a middle class
people who are well educated,
the Archers report.
Wide spacious avenues were
occupied by almost every
mode of travel conveyance;
limousines, camels, carts
drawn by donkeys and horse
drawn wagons mingled to
gether in spectacular array,
they state.
Natives dressed in long
gowns with turbans and some
with veils could be seen. The
majority of Egyptians favor
European fashions. Especially
noticed by the travelers was
the fondness 'of the natives
for their leader, Nasser and
their dislike of his predeces
sor, former King Farouk,
whom they termed "a selfish
man."
By Horseback
The travelers journeyed by
horseback to Petra, a two and
a half hour jaunt along steep
precipices into the ancient
stronghold. Tombs and tem
ples carved of the red sand
stone were seen along the
way. In days gone by, the
little town was a cross roads
for the great caravans.
Arriving in Jerusalem on
Palm Sunday, they observed
the impressive joint worship
of 3000 people carrying palms
and chanting prayers. In old
Jerusalem, streets were very
narrow with steps going up
and down. All commuters
were crowded together with
beggars, peddlers and don
keys, producing a continuous
din punctuated by angry
shouts in the native tongue,
demanding the right of way,
the travelers noted. Shops
lined the narrow passages.
In Beriut, the Archers went
to the American' university,
located in a wondrous setting
overlooking the Mediterran
ean sea. Damascus, the Sa
hara desert, the Dead sea and
Istanbul were seen on their
way to Athena and southern
Greece.
Evacuations in Jericho re
vealed the first city built on
that ground in 6000 B.C., the
Archers were told.
They report that the Gre
cian people still express their
appreciation of American aid.
In Vienna more results of
this country's aid was notice
able in many homes restored,
which had been destroyed
during the last war, the Arch
ers report. Here they attended
the opera in a beautiful old
opera house, which had been
rebuilt and redecorated after
being partially destroyed by
fire.
England's Shakespea r e a n
countryside and Oxford uni
versity were seen by the
Archers in all the prime of
springtime blooms; tulips,
pink and white cherry blos
soms and red hawthorne,
proving the statement they
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Now't (he time
to Spray Peison
Oak. We have
the product to
do the job.
See U Today
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FRIDAY. JUNE 1. 1362
had heard that England
is
wonderful in May.
Returning home by Polar
flight the travelers experi
enced 21 hours of daylight,
flying with the sun, over ice
and snow covered Greenland,
Huson bay and miles of black
tundra swampland into a
snowstorm at Winnipeg, Can
ada. Mrs. Archer reported that
most of their trip was spent
in temperate spring weather.
They took many pictures to
be used In entertaining their
many friends and brought
back many souvenirs.
Food was strange to them
in many places with lamb
the most common meat In
many countries. A good cup
of coffee by American stand
ards was unavailable. Fruits
and rice were plentiful but
pie, they found, was certain
ly not a toreign aisn.
In the majority of coun
tries they visited western
dress is almost universal and
also the English language, as
everyone they met could
speak at least a few words
and many were adept.
Shirley Malone
Is Honor Guest;
Rites Tomorrow
Miss Shirley Maloney was
honored at a bridal shower
May 26 given by her sister,
Mrs. Glenn Backes. and her
sister-in-law, Mrs. Elmer Ma
loney, at the former's home,
111 Lewis street.
Miss Maloney is to be mar
ried to Howard E. Staten,
Medford, tomorrow, June 2.
At the shower party re
freshments were served to 18
guests after games were
player and Miss Maloney had
opened her gifts.
Returns
Ashland - Jesse G. Ander
son, 195 Morton street, re
turned last week from his sec
ond trip to the Seattle expo
sition. Included this time was
a cruise to Victoria, B.C. He
also attended several concerts,
notably the Philadelphia Or-
chestra concert that featured
violinist Isaac Stern.
If you are interested in
your portrait appearing in the
newspapers, a formal wedding
portrait should be taken as
soon as your wedding dress
Is ready. The photograph
should be at the societv edl-
tor's office one to three weeks Meatora nose society nas
In advance of the wedding, 1 set the annual show for Satur
depending on the paper's I day, June 23, at Medford.
rules. 1 High school cafeteria,
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Corvallis - June is a good
month to serve large eggs,
bacon and chuck roast if you
want to save money on pro
' foods, advises Oregon
'e university home econo
mist. Retail meat prices collected
in Oregon show that prices on ,
beef chuck and large eggs are
least expensive in retail mar
kets during the early spring
and summer. Hamburger fluc
tuates little in price during
the year.
By taking advantage of
seasonally low prices and
meat counter specials, food
shoppers can chop a consider
able amount from what they
spend on meat, says Barbara
J. McCandless, OSU food mar
keting specialist.
Miss McCandless says in a
new extension circular that
red meats take about 25 cents
of each dollar spent for food.
Seasonal variations of some
meat cuts are shown in the
new circular "Retail Meat
Prices - Monthly Variations
in Oregon Markets."
Charts are also Included
that would be helpful to the
shopper in scheduling best
times to stock up on meat
purchases for the freezer. The
circular may be secured from
the OSU bulletin clerk or
county extension offices.
Old Rose Garden
In Jacksonville
Now in Bloom
Old fashioned roses in the
Old Rose garden in Jackson
ville will be in full bloom this
week end and at their peak ;
the next week or ten days, ac
cording to the Medford Rose
society. Visitors are welcome '
to the garden located at the
corner of Fifth and D streets,
just north of the Old Pioneer
Methodist church.
Over a hundred bushes are
now in the garden established
by the Medford society two.
years ago. The City of Jack
sonville has set aside this lot
for use as an Old Rose garden
and care and maintenance of
the garden is donated by the
city of Jacksonville and mem.
bers of the Medford Rose
society.
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