Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 October 1948 — Page 26

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SUNDAY, OCT. 17, 1948

Keny on’s Grocery

Owner — Plants Every Two Years, - Waters Them With Warm Water ~ By MARGUERITE SMITH _ AFRICAN VIOLETS MAY NOT NEED the aroma . ot baking ham and the company of shelves full of laundry

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soap, coffee and homemade cakes and pies . seem. to like it, 2 In her tiny grocery store window at 3205 E. 1th St, Mrs. Joseph Kenyon displays such a collection of African violets that “folks are always pestering me to buy the plams,” she says. “But I have them there just for decoration.” .- Their sturdy health undoubtedly has some connection with the opening remark every customer makes. It's usually a variation, says Mrs. Kenyon, of “Whatever smells so good?’ That's the way Mrs. Eileen Tucker, 953 Tuxedo St. put it the other day

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when I was there. That day it was ham baking. Sometimes it's a bubbling of beans; other days a kettle of vegetable soup. The violets seem to love that , .., 4 pair. 1 water them Wistar in the air As Shi from the bottom always, usu-

BLOSSOMS AND GROCERIES—A collection of African violets is lined up in the window (background) of Mes. Joseph Kenyon's grocery store at 3205 E. 10th St.

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brigh couldn't raise them with only this north window. So I used artificial flowers to brighten it, a “One day I asked my brother ‘(he's Harvey Gard, 1326 N. St.) how he liked them, He said he never liked anything artificial,

ally with warm water. It's important to keep dead flowers picked off. “Once in a while they multiply so fast I have too many of one kind, then I sell a few. That money 1 give entirely to the Lord's work. “Yes, I do all the work here, even to dusting the shelves. I get up early to bake the cakes and pies. The other prepared foods I've added just lately. And Sundays I teach a class of teen-agers. That's at the First Evangelical Reformed Church over here on 10th St.” It was a customer who first suggested that Mrs, Kenyon give her Chinese evergreen “a little rope.” It had been sprawling at one side of the window. She gave it wire In-

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drape It ato Ei me . FN, 5 rape its green afoun H : 2 ey doe a and the Fall Creek Blvd, to bring you plants it repels snails and slugs. square foot. E a “toe tinned goods, in the window, advice straight from the pro- And its dark color gives it an Own

» » » Flowers that bloom out of season Are the stuff that new varieties are made of. What

couldn't a plant breeder do with

is good. Coal ashes are a good

these: Mrs, Gladys Kizzee, 411 Harlan Ave. picked spring violets in the backyard of her neighbor, Mrs. Arthur Johnson, just across the street. And Mrs. M. E. Woolf reports confused

crocuses blooming in her yard at 4630 Guilford Ave.

October garden picture: The late blooming so-called bamboo, spraying its lacy pink flowers, © fountain-like, above encircling pink and rose zinnias in the E. L. Gannes' yard at 2403 N. Pennsylvania St.

The many Hoosier readers of Country Gentleman know Victor Ries of Ohio State University as their friendly garden adviser. This week he came to town to talk to garden clubbers. So I . Ly offered by

fessor’'s mouth. At the moment he's concerned with soll. “You just can't grow anything easily unless your soil

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conditioner. Peat moss and chemical fertilizer together are good but expensive, Get

weathered sawdust, if you can, but don’t use fresh pine sawdust; it's toxic to some plants.” Would. you be surprised to learn that soon the conversation turned to our own lazy gardening methods? We found, to our mutual satisfaction, that we all liked to leave the fall placed mulch of leaves around shrubs, and some at least, on our bulb beds, instead of removing it each spring as we're supposed to do.

» ” » Dark question: “I've heard that soot and weod ashes are good for a garden. Is that so?” ask Mrs. Forrest R. Davis, 41 « Ritter Ave. Soot contains a

N of ay 80 adds a little

odd use in spring. Sprinkled on top of the. ground it absorbs sunshine and so raises the temperature of the soil.

Garden lore says, too, that it [Ellis farm near Martinsville,

intensifies the color of flowers. I must admit I always sprinkle it around the roses. Cne expert says, with unconscious humor, that its use is necessarily limited-—there’'s so little of it, Could it be he never heard of Indianapolis smog?

During the summer I told you about the chemical tank garden in H. L. Lewis’ backyard at 3731 Creston Drive. Now at season's ‘end he has totted up his day-by-day scores. An area the size of a small throw rug (18 sq. ft.) produced 148 Ibs. (roughly 21; bushels) of tomatoes. Cost per pound: 3.8 cents. At the same rate, says Mr. L., an acre would produce the astronomical total of nearly 360.000 Ibs. His cucumbers were apectioular with _ a

Make a -note now {o raise some of that. rainbow Indian corn for the young fry's Halloween next year. At the Amil

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