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■ .< . c '. r ,r PAGE TWENTY-FOUR MANCHEISTER EVENING HERALD, Manchester, Conn., Thurs., Oct. 19, 1978 Swensson Will Seek Input Gardening MANCHESTER — Elsie “ Biz” “Although I can be reached by to do so. Swensson, the Republican candidate telephone daily, I feel that many peo She also said that she will set aside in the 13th Assembly District, said ple also like office hours such as are part of her salary to pay for mailed By Frank Atwood Wednesday that she will establish held by the Town Board of Directors reports and questionnaires to comment sessions and a legislative in their comment sessions,” Mrs. residents of the district. The Weather advisory panel to seek input from the Swensson said. “In going door-to-door, I learn a voters. Partly sunny today. Highs 55 She also said that she will form a great deal from the voters. I want to She plans to hold monthly com le^slative advisory panel to meet to 60.1 Clear tonight. Lows in keep this communication open all the manrIjTstTr iEitpntug the 30s to low 40s. Sunny and “The flower stinks,” said Sue blossom. daughter, Susan, 10. If it continues to ment sessions in her district if she is with her and discuss issues and time and not just at election time,” Farr. mild Saturday. Highs in the This is the third year Mrs. Farr has thrive it will grow much larger. elected. recommendations. Anyone wishing she said. "Especially when it first opens,” had the plant. Last year it had one to serve on the panel will be allowed 60s. National weather map' A Pencil Cactus belongs to their page 23. she went on, “Phew — And does it blossom. This year — bonanza. older daughter, Felicia, 15. It is set Vol. XCVII, No. 17 — Manchester, Conn., Friday, October 20,1978 A Family NEWSpaper Since 1881 ever draw flies!” Any fly that can The chunky three-dimensional on the floor away from the window, Seek Voice find its way past the screens at the stems have grown, too. At the start home of the Richard Farr family on but has grown mightily since it came Manchester Public Records Residents of the Buckland area Mrs. Farr had bought a rooted stem. as a gift to Felicia last Christmas. It Elizabeth Street, shows up at once’ Now she has spare stems from which in Manchester expect to form a when a blossom opens on the Stepelia has many slender branches, with no second neighborhood group to she can start daughter plants. leaves. Mrs. Farr thinks the family Warranty deeds Carmen M. Jordan, both of Hartford, conveyance tax. nobilis plant in the living room. The Farrs’ living room has about deal with the Buckland Commons will hang Christmas ornaments on it Brahanfey & Choma Inc. to Hazel property at 178% Spruce St., $43,500. Building, permits proposal. See page 2. But the odor does not last. When I as many plants as there is room for, this year. Kelley and Rita Kelley, property at Daniel J. Palmer and Linda W. saw it after it had been open several Gregory A. Kelley, alterations at and most of them are cacti, with a A Red Barrel cactus, with a fine 142 Valley View Road, $74,900. Palmer to Robert A. Burrows and 104 Delmont St., $400. hours there was no odor that I could few of the related succulents. The crop of thorns on its barrel-shaped Showcase Realty Inc. to David A. Elaine S. Burrows, both of East Buckland Commons Proceeds detect, and the appearance of the Lucien Choiniere, stove and Noble Star Flower is the common surface, is Mrs. F arr’s. Now she Thorstenson and Patricia C. Hartford, property at 279 Parker St., chimney at 41 Bigelow St., $190. By GREG PEARSON Associates, developer of the blossom is as strange as its smell. name of this one. Criticises residential units, 1,064 in Manchester would include a major shopping would like to have two other kinds, a Thorstenson, property at 148 S. Main $44,000. Marriage license Herald Reporter proposed Buckland Commons and 970 in South Windsor. The Town Planning and Zoning The short, stocky plant, which looks St., $439,900. Quitclaim deed center, office buildings and a loca Commission granted the zone like a cactus but is a succulent, No Leaves Yellow Barrel and a Green Barrel. Francis X. Cassella, Ellington, and Donation MANCHESTER-'The developer of project, met privately Thursday with The property involved is divided tion for possible industrial develop Paul J. Frenette and Donna I. William A. Taylor and Barbara H. town officials and three residents of change, but that approval was formed 11 buds this year. Two There is a Column Cactus, which Mrs. Farr has another succulent, a Mary E. Lupacchino, 194 Parker St., a project that would cover 560 acres almost equally between the two com- ment. Frenette to Dennis E. Jordan and Taylor to Dorothy Denton Olcott, the Buckland area to announce that appealed by the neighbors all the way dropped off but the others opened in a came as a gift two years ago, with a Crown of Thorns, that came as a Nov. 4 at St. James. Manchester Republican Town in Manchester and South Windsor m u n ities —263 a c re s a re in When it was first proposed, it was “baby” and has tripled in size. It property at 34 Oakwood Road, ^.40 they plan to proceed with the proper to the state Supreme Court. series. At one time there were four single upright stem about two feet Chairman Thomas Ferguson and has been in the works for five Manchester and 298 acres are in opposed by a group of many area tall. Now it is close to six feet tall, blooms continuously with small pink ty purchase. The firm holds an option blooms. criticizes Democrats for accep years, announced Thursday that it South Windsor. residents. They spoke against a zone The court ruled in 1976 to deny the and the stem has thickened in propor- flowers. for the needed property. Each has the shape of a five- ting a donation from a consultant plans to buy the land for the project. The proposed development also change needed for property for the appeal, and the zone change is in tion. It has no leaves, a Care Is Easy to the developer of Buckland Representatives of MAP The plan for the project first was pointed star. The color is a creamy See other story, page 2 development. effect. white, with faint reddish brown characteristic of the cactus family. Why does she like cactus? Mrs. Woodland Gardena (Commons. See page 3. announced in 1973. It included 2,034 markings. From tip to tip of the star, A Candelabra cactus is well Farr has a quick answer. They are Town Manager Robert Weiss. the blossom is nearly 12 inches in named. This one, taller than four “so easy to grow.” They get water Town Planner Alan Lamson and feet, has four set of branches, one for 2 diameter. It has a dark center where just once a month, and a feeding at Director of Public Works Jay Giles each of its years. There are two the anthers and stigma are located the same time with fish emulsion, a THANKSGIVING CACTUS Apple Auction met Thursday afternoon with two branches in each set, opposite each and where the odor originates. It is soluble fertilizer. Mrs. Farr spends MAP representatives, John other, much like a branches IN BUD EAST HARTFORD - Scout likened to the smell of rotten meat two hours or more with the plants on Troop No. 69 will hold its annual Finguerra, a consultant to the firm, candlestick. the first day of each month, WHITE and, and in a sandy semi-desert of Apple Fair and Auction Oct. 28 and Arthur M. Fischer, president, An Old Man cactus, still a young watering, wiping off the dust on ouwaE South African, where the plant grows from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the South RepresenUtives of Manufacturers j wild, this must be nature's way of at plant, has the expected crop of gray stems and leaves with a damp cloth, NNK 3" POT Congregational Church, Forbes Hanover Trust Co., the New York- tracting insects to pollinate the “hairs” that account for the name. It and talking to her plants. based bank expected to finance the belongs to the Farrs’ younger Street. There will games and toys If she doesn’t like a plant, she says for children and baked goods, project, also were there. so, to the plant. When she speaks biRD SEED, QIFTWARE plants and other items for adults. roughly to a.^plant, she says it in DRIED FLOWERS, POTTING SOIL, T hree Buckland residents, variably grows'“like crazy." OAK MUCH MORE. Lawrence Noone and William Ander Sue Farr was Susan Crossen and AND MATERIALS FOR EAST HARTFORD - Was son, both of Burnham Street, and she is a sister of Stewart Crossen, BEAUTIFUL FALL there political pressure or was Ray Smith of Windsor Street, also proprietor of the plant stora.called attended. BARRY r ------RS-M — A there not? Esther B. Clarke, Leaf, Stem and Root. She has a job DECORATING. rTMl HMHM Republican state senate can flohto for conaunwra’ j Large, PraaMy Dug Sutoa “Thursday was the first indication- from 10 to 2 on school days helping to' righto. didate and Town Council woman, prepare and serve 300 school lunches lor Spring (Mwy says yes. Democratic Mayor I had that they were moving at the Davo Barry It the only S(/// r/ni« To Plant at the Verplanck School.