Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 July 1938 — Page 4

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Gardens Are Veritable Battlefields for Many Who Fight Weeds, Pests

Mrs. Harry E. Barnard Among Corps of Local Amateurs Working to Rid Yards of Vegetation "Thickened by Summer Thundershowers.

By VIRGINIA MOORHEAD MANNON Of course it means getting up with the morning dew, bending the back under the noonday sun and shifting the hose when the afternoon shadows begin to . lengthen, but, to a woman, the amateur gardeners love it. Just give them a bit of ground and they start fighting plant and insect pests and experimenting with seed-

lings until the whole plot burgeons with bloom.

While certain losses have been taken by several gardeners due to the summer rains there has been a net gain in actual growing things. Take snake root, for instance. (Most people don’t want it.) Mrs. Harry E. Barnard, whose spacious back yard garden on Pleasant Run Parkway is partially concealed by a border of golden rain trees, is tearing it out with a vengeance and hauling it off by the wheelbarrow load. You simply can’t grow flowers and weeds in the same beds, she says, and during her recent visit in the East the weeds got ahead. An Italian terra cotta vase beneath the golden rain trees and two huge Aladdin jars are relics of the old Denison Hotel. Near the house is a bed of schizanthus, a snapdragon-like flower which shades from white to crimson and grows much better in France and Eng- , land than out-of-doors here, Mrs. Barnard says. There's a rose garden, too, and an apple orchard with a Bartlett pear tree at the edge. It is 25 years old and has never yielded a pear because the squirrels are so devoted to the seeds. / In addition to all the usual summer flowers Mrs. Barnard has been successful with English lavender, the fragrance of which we somehow expect to emanate from bureau drawers rather than a flower bed. Forming a sloping arch over the winding driveway are the gray-leafed branches of wild olive trees. With true Irvington neighborliness a path leads from Dr. and Mrs. Barnard’s garden to the rockery in a corner of Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Hartman's garden next door. A row of scarlet sumac trees and a border of low shrubs screen -from the boulevard the brick grill in the back yard where picnic suppers are held.

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In a 15 by 15 plot in the shadow of an apartment building Mrs. Norman Metzger has achieved a thriving garden that is more like a jungle than most jungles. Not an inch has been wasted and such a superior job of fertilizing has been done that it almost takes a machete to get through the space occupied less than four months ago by a few resolute blades of grass. While this tiny plot is essentially a spring garden its sedum border surrounds forget-me-nots, canterbury bells, pansies, coreopsis, hibiscus, iris, columbine, roses, lemon lilies, cone flowers, shasta daisies and sweet williams and a few feet back a border of hollyhocks stands guard. What is reputed to be the largest rhododendron bush in Indiana grows in Mrs. Robert Sinclair's garden in Golden Hill. Its exotic rose | and purple blossoms burst forth with exciting fanfare in the late spring. As the waxen petals begin to fade the roses in the formal garden at the rear of the house pass the budding phase. Just now the place has been taken over by wild life, Miss Mary Sinclair says. It’s rabbits and chipmunks pitted against the summer blossoms with the animals victorious in the midsummer skirmishes. Beside all that, the wrens have been routing Uncle Sam by building a nest and laying eggs in the mail box and flying right out in the face of the postman. ® » n . 8 8 » Scarcely a mile from the heart of the city on E. 11th St. nestles Mrs. Walter E. Rogers" little brick-walled garden. On the iron gate is a weathered inscription: “Be ye man or be ye wuman Be ye sune or be ye late Be ye goun or be ye comun Be ye sure to shut the gate.” : which creates what the personality swamis call the friendly approach to the matter of keeping the gate shut. If you obey instructions and step inside youll find daisies with faces as big as alarm clocks, phlox in vibrant colors, hibiscus, lark spur and ageratum casually arranged on the slopes of sunken garden with.a bird bath surrounded by roses In the center. Behind the shrubs in a far corner is a little cutting garden and close to the brick wall maidenhair and Boston ferns spill out of a tiny myrtle-bordered wild garden. On the wall back of the flagstone terrace and from an iron balcony hang white pots of English ivy. The luxuriant growth is concrete evidence that plants can adapt themselves to city life— under the influence of an inspired and willing gardener.

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Families, Friends to Attend Lewis and Pringle Marriage

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Only immediate families and intimate friends will be present at the wedding of Miss Mildred Lewis and Charles I, Pringle at 4 p. m. tomorrow on the lawn at the.home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Lewis, 3912 Katrine Ave. * * The bridegroom-to-be is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Pringle, 717 Gladstone Ave.

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The Rev. Malcolm McNeal is to read the ceremony before an imor ——————— ee TA AAA

provised altar at the steps of ferns, palms and tall vases of cut flowers. The bride wil! wear a floor-length white dotted swiss frock with a full circular skirt, a square neck and a bodice and sleeves trimmed with rows of grosgrain ribbons. She is also to wear white flowers in her heir and to carry a shower of white roses, delphinium and baby’s breath. Miss Elizabeth Lewis, who is to be the only attendant, will wear a gown of pale blue organdy with frosted She is to carry an arm bouquet of pink roses. Ofto Rieger is to be best nian. Piano music is to be provided by Mrs. Chelias Baker, Paragon, a sister of the bride. Included in her group of bridal airs will be “BeJieve Me 1f All Those Endearing Young Charms” and “Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes.” : Mrs. Lewis is to wear a white

flowers embroidered on it.

dotted dark blue sheer with white roses. Mrs. Pringle will wear white georgette with white accessories and a corsage of white roses. More than 100 guests will be present at the reception following the ceremony. The couple will be at home in Indianapolis Aug. 15 after spending some time at the Pringle cottage at Lake Freeman. Out-of-town guests are to be Miss Elizabeth Pringle, Dayton; Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Murray, Chicago, Mrs. Sydney Ledbetter and Mr. and Mrs. Richard Williams, Martinsville.

Arranges Garden Party Mrs. Rose Ella Albertsen, worthy matron of Queen Esther chapter, 0. E. 8, will entertain the chapter’s 1938 officers at a garden party tomorrow afternoon at her home, 2043 New Jersey St.

Jeanetta Fields Is to Become

* Bride of Robert Ww. Peacock

The Rev. Carl J. G. Russom is to read the marriage ceremony for Miss Jeanetta Fields and Robert W. Peacock at 7:30 p. m, tomorrow at the

First Reformed ChurcH.

Miss Fields is the daught® of Mr. and Mrs. Jalcolm Fields, 1313 Tecumseh St. Mr. Peacock is the son of Mrs. Mae Peacock. . Palms and ferns, lighted with candles in seven-branch candelabra, Lr tam re nan

are to bank the altar. The bride, who is to be given in marriage by her father, is to wear a white princess-styled . bridal satin gown fashioned - with a bolero jacket, tight sleeves and a semitrain. Her three-qudrters veil awill fall from

a wreath of lilies and she will carry |

a shower of white roses. Her bridesmaids, Mrs. Shields and Mrs. Paul Nelson, are to. be. * n- yellow

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outing at Lake They will accompany other members of the IF Club to a cottage on the north shore for a house party early in August. The group includes (left to right) the Misses Nancy Hurt, Doris Jones, Virginia Burkholder and Jane Gray Freihofer. 2. Mrs. William H. Wells (right) heads the’ luncheon-bridge committee at the Indianapolis Country Club. Joining her for a game at this week’s event were (left to right) the Mesdames Dudley R. Gallahue, William Sparks and Thornton Sterrett. 3. Mrs. R. B. Walker (left), Hollywood Beach, Fla, is the guest of

Mrs. John Rau (right) and Mr. Ahk 1. 4. Miss Martha Ellen Clar Rachel Clark (right), ; irtah Aug. 11 for a year

Walter B. Fries Wed Tomorrow

The Rev. R. M. Dodrill will read ‘the marriage service for Miss Ethel Smith and Walter B. Fries tomor-row-afternoon at the Broadway Baptist Church. Miss Smith is the daughter of Al Smith, Birdseye,

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| Smith’s aunt, Mrs. Ann Morgan 2804 N. Talbot, will follow. the rite. - : a ! ;

will wear an old-fashioned locket and carry a shower “bouquet of white roses and valley”lilies.

Miss Genevieve Bryant, maid of

honor, will be attired in blue mousseline de soie fashioned with a pleated skirt, high neckline and puff sleeves. She will wear a blue grose

grain fibbon turban and carry an arm bouquet of roses. Miss Ludemsa Morgan, cousin of the bride-to-be,

and bridesmaid, will have a gown similar to Miss Bryant's in rose and

she will carry Talisman roses. Russell Quick will. be best man

and the ushers are to be Dwight

McCague, Al Rehling, Cornelius Sewart and Harold Long. A reception at the home of Miss