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Ornamental Grasses Are Pretty and Easily Grown
By MARGUERITE SMITH WHAT KIND of holiday
dress does your yard wear.
for Christmas? Evergreens, probably, maybe some of the broad leaved
mahonias and ‘true hollies. But here's one kind of winter decorative plant that's little appreciated, That's the various ornamental grasses.’ “They're most satisfactory plants” says Alfred Koors, 2633 Mankef™8t. Three kinds of plumed grasses decorate his yard both summer and winter. “1 give them. no special care, just ‘such fertilizer and’ water as I give the evergreens, though they do grow faster with plenty of water, I started mine from roots, but-you can raise them easily from seed, It takes two years (from . Seed) for the plumes to appear. White the young plants are growing they look so much like lawn grass it’s best to make your seed bed in an out-of-the-way place. “The plumes make a nice showing all winter. Then in March T cut the tops off so the clumps get a good start for the next season. They're nice to use at the corners of a house
or among evergreens where they show off. well, One of. the pla Ey I liked best w a Sb Hiker A No Bar » o o
MR. KOORS’ brother-in-law, Frank Schubert” of Garfield
Park greenhouse, first got him
in ornamental grasses. Mr. Schubert says he likes the plants for backgrounds in park beds or at the end of a path where it's in view: as one walks .toward it, “I like to see the plumes wave in the wind,” he says. “The best grasses come from “They're low-growing but the plumes are big. They're more highly colored than the pampas grass native to South America. That's the kind most commonly raised in yards around here. “I'm hoping we can get seed from Japan this year. One kind we had before the war was oddly. marked with big splotches on the leaves in addition to the good-looking plumes.” - Mr, Schubert stressed the value of ornamental grass in winter. bouquets. “Florists
interested
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sometimes raise quantities of it It's easy to color it if you want to. florist simply puts a little col-
ored powder in a paper bag,
sticks’ the plumes in, then shakes the bag. You can buy the powder in almost -any color you want.” Among the admirers of Mr. Koors’ ornamental grasses is his small granddaughter, Beth Ann Mascari. Her parents are Mr. and Mrs. Gus Mascari, 2251 Madison Ave,
Sew Seeds Now For Spring Crops YOU MIGHT as well get started on that spring planting right now! Mrs, Valentine Stroy, 1040 N. Holmes Ave, sqws tomato and pepper seéds just south of her house in late fall. Then in spring she has sturdy cold-hardened transplants for her vegetable gar-
and dh grass.
den. “Sow the seed. any time now,” she suggests, inches deep. But don’t cover the bed with. leaves or anything. .You don't want the seeds+to warm up and germinate too soon.” » ” - IF YOUR perennial onions bore the usual quantity of bulblets you had more than you needed to plant. Mrs. Joel Hadley, 6123 Park Ave, saves the extras and uses them to season roasts and salads. . Just the right size when you want a speck of- onion flavor, she says. ys = = BAD NEWS—for roses. Did any of your rosebuds this past summer dry up at the tips instead of opening? If so, you're probably entertaining rose midge. There isn’t much to do about it at the moment but
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Graceland. she didn't know 80 much about them!) wrote around to various Danian) on perts before Cynthia W tt, the plant doctor, told her what was the trouble. ing control. “I'll give you details ~of “Mrs. Marvin's treat. ment next spring.
Plenty of Humus
In Soil Mulch : GARDEN DIARY . . . Our raspberries, both black and red, like their yearly meals of bong meal in late summer, chemical fertilizer (4-10-6) in early spring, and plenty of humus in a thick top-of-the-soil mulch the- year around. They like it so well they're about to take over the whole garden. So, I've investigated ways of restraining them. (For, like all farmers, we have to do chorése like digging post
season.)
L. W. Nall, Drive, says he keeps his bushes in place by means of posts with cross pieces at either end of the row, wires running down each side. Cross wires at intervals keep plants each in its own cubby. Chopping off adventurous roots them holds down the raspberry population to’ liveable numbers.
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keep. bird seed fro
A BIRTHDAY present led. to some pleasant excitement this week. We've always fed birds
to provide one of ‘those hanging feeders with a glass holder for sunflower deeds, little racks for suet ‘at each end, and a tiny
hung it in the apple tree outside the kitchen widows and waited. We waited several days. We didn’t know our birds had such low I. Q's, So we tried trailing sunflower seeds from our other feeding spots to the new cafeteria. The apple tree was soon fuller than usual of birds, but: they'd have nothing to do with such fanoy fixings, though the feeder is carefully rustic just to suit the birds’ preference for the old look. » » » THEN WE tried a little enticement. The head carpenter of the household made a little feeding tray with raised edge to sliding off
and stuck it in e crotch of
the apple tree just below the |
new feeder, The sparrows, we said, will find that, then they'll all take over. How wrong we were. Sunday, a week to a day, | came not just the sparrows but | a tufted titmouse—I'm syre his name is Timothy. Looking like a small gray edition of a cardinal, he has only a blush of warm brown hao GLA, Pop
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Be. ais the. suet’ he brought wife, ahd by afternoon shojild have had aspirin.’ The next morning Tim and Tessie were back with those bad boys the jays. (they know they're handsome) and best sur- - prise of all; the Carolina wren droppéd by for a bite. He's easy | to identify because he’s so like Benny and Jenny but he’s bigger and has a definitd white eye
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|Miss Frances Shaw snd Mrs. J.
you might as well be prepared. |
Mrs. Harry Marvin, 4249
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the campus of Hanover ge. is announced by Dr. Dorothy > Bucks, dean of Long College for [Worthen at Hanover,
Q—1 have a big vine of ever-
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the same reason. Sometimes high phosphorus fertilizer helps. [NE I ; should © strawberry asks ‘Mrs. James Bay, 2513 8. Randolph St.
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alternate freezing and thawing characteristic of our winters. | “Then when the roots are far — enough exposed; it's -goodbyy strawberry. So a well cared] for strawberry patch wears, in| addition to its summer mulch around the plants, a light winter covering put on over the!
plants after the ground has! frozen. This holds them in| nature's cold storage — Use a
non-matting material — straw rather than leaves, » »
—8hould the tops of hibiscus cut down before winter and what winter protection do they
need, “asks a West Side gardener. . | A-Hibiscus M48 “850 decorative
when snow alls on its winter hardened seed “pods you may like to leave the tops on. But
as with most plants, if vou do you provide a perfect cold), weather hideaway for
Swhatever insects and diseases réijsh: that particular plant. The hi
biscus is truly a hardy peren-M™
nial but a light covering of straw will provide insurance against a specially bad winter as well as mulch for next sum-| mer, |
If you have a question on | .
gardening, send itto Marguerite Smith, The Indianapolis Times, | Indianapolis 8. Or, if you can | give additional information from your own gardening ex: | panne les have that, ARSE
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DECEMBER reminders: Heavy clay gardens profit greatly, from winter spading. let the surface stay rough and cloddy, You'll be amazed how freezing and thawing mellows the hard ground by spring. rr = » Put 4 shawl of straw around your parsley bed, Then you can pick your dec orative vitamin A Tong into winter, A similar light cove ering.-over snapdragons often will kéep their roots alive and you'll have early snaps next summer a "on . Don't neglect houseplants in -the Christmas rush. Pinch back coleus that's grown leggy. B8tick the tops into cole ored glass to set in“a sunny ° window. They'll take root for spring and decorate your wine dow at the same time . . . Plants—that are difficult ‘to root in water often do well if you put a few shells in -the bottom of the container , . . Ke your everblooming bes gOnlas on the dry side — they often drop their buds and show by general orneriness how, they dislike too much waters - », ~ If you have part of yaur early spring bulbs:Jeft over unplanted, don't déspair. Plant them any time a» Jong as the ground's unfroggn-=or after it thaws in the Epringl
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