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Nol dening, send it to Marguerite] 81VINg {or receiving) one. ozen, even afterwards if you Smith, The Indianapolis Times,| Many a saintpaulia fan goes | have prepared the spot with 39 MONUMENT | PLACE INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Indianapolis 8 Or, if you can| on year after year trying to | Shick Blanket of ieaves 19 Keep ( / give additional information from| figure out. why her lone lorn |-t- workable. A mulch of leaves 7 your own gardening 'experience,| plant resembies a mule. Many around a newly Plajfted tree or let's have that, too. others, luckily, eventually could | shrub keeps ground temperature - Q--Can-you straighten out the, 80.into business. more even and so prolongs the al! © ‘different kinds of mahonia for| Take Mrs. C. D. Monger, 6153 period of root formation 45 a me; asks a Speedway City gar-| N. Olney St. “I had no inten- adjustment to a new home. - vr > denér. Tr getting’ tired of "86 ton of “ever bothering with EST oc > | : many cone-bearing evergreens! African violets” she says Top_ 8611 "muy look convent: tre -— . aR - 0 and want to go in for.some-of| “Then a friend gave a plant to ently well moistened to you but : : the better broad-leaved kinds, I[ my fatHer when he was ill.” Ifyou $opk iy you : Pye Tien ’ foe a jie surprised to has] Now, some seven years later Youd Ae o very ary at } . i 0! £ $ : wy a e- + KR co NENT Aetnitery “rose ston ay] ViMtors"” remarks when they those evergreens. before he J) green leaves, | enter the Monger living room ground freezes. . with A+~-The commonly sold mahonia| how. a, Toutine Datei, Mey ! : yu 8 : : instant aquifolium or ~ Oregon holly-| (Af One 190K. then sheak ub A bit of spading on a DecemCutting grape has shiny green leaves| lovely (I a After the ve BRP Wagketnd. Based BIE a that bronze somewhat in the Hed right out to i 2Y den. work and offers a lot of” : ing fall. Mrs. B. F. Orr, 5337 Ken-| [M716 T8IT out to Inspec oa | fresh air and exercise. And wood Ave, who has two dis-| ing room table full ef. blos- you won't have to buy any "tinct types of this holly-leaved [ONE [every one) violets, he fancy duds as you might for shrub, says the dark green oY es them_to peek into the skiing. » 50 » : leaves of one kind are very Ioreo™ en they say, " B RR glossy. It bronzes slightly so at—more of them!” (1 did.) Ne h R is probably aquifolium. Ran Out of Luck ancy Monger (rig t) and Rogene Mitchell, year old playmates, with African violets grown | . The other, a dull-leaved sort. n Wut of . by Nancy's grandmothbr, Mrs. C. D. Monger, 6153 N. Olney St. Nancy's parents are Mr. and oe African Violels is definitely bronzy. Alfred With Original Plant Robert Monger, 915 Eaton Ave. Rogene's parents are Mr. and Mrs. Richard Mitchell, 6132 N. Olne of Hottes in his Book of Shrubs For Mrs. Monger has 40 St, Specializing in those hard to get chineless ton Ty a Sr I en I don’t know, but they grow far . day) quite a few of them had of buds) came back to me just varieties. Visitors Welcome. Free

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! ite) ma 5 house, and that they like even then they rot.” with it and it's dying.’ She had—. LIL 1701 pgs fo Jot come tue. She, ac is a fwo-toned i heat. 1 got started with my Fertilizer? “When I have time repotted it in soil so hard I SPECIAL OFFER! \ Fvantd plants that varied slightly from ton I te dole violet Duch. Collection because I felt sorry I pour water over fresh (not had to break off the roots, so AN New Choice Varieties Ayan rirobni - the older bushes pn oathor| ess. Or maybe the red violet for the leaves that broke off. steam dried) cow manure until I put it back in loose soil, Y leaf mahonia (bealei) some-| Trilby That is, Trilby’s a red- I'd stick them in a glass of it's the color of tea, and give “The second violet I gave whit Supremes Dupont Lavender i 8y or J = LEH water. Most of them root. them that. I think it's the away died almost immediately, times eataloged as a barberry.' dish purple, as near to red as “5, ° pot them up.” best fertilizer.” But the third one T-saw it not Duh Supremes fred Frolda leaves re” thick ee come 50 hYpRdigers . ave Visitors always ask the same Eu nny Experiences long ago. This friend had read Pak Suemes tor green above grayish beneath He , oo luck th SH, ore. rr a. With Afr Violet Where! that Hot water ey rons fee tad +B Ay ’ : “ idn’t have any luck wi Soil mixture? ne part sand, I rican violets where!) that hot water Was i * i i ton Street F Q Please tell me how to care for, the original plant until we one part peat moss or leaf mold, “I have a lot of funny experi- good for them. That plant was All 8 for $11.79 Cash, Delivered Starting tomorrow we will place on sale all . eraniums, writes: Mrs. Ludie, moved out here, says Mrs. and one part garden soil. ences with violets,” Mrs. Mon- two feet across! No, I don't use " ' t i —g ily 2801 8. Randolph St. | Monger. Then whether it's be- Water? “It sounds crude to ger laughed. “Last Easter I hot water—if my plants got YOAI$ Houseplant Nursery Clearance goods at exactly some price as will A--Two weeks ago I would have| Cause we don't have gas, or say I water them once a day gave three planty to three any bigger we'd ‘have to move Hill, Indiana " _ ~ “, pontificated oe you mustn't don’t have city water, or be- if they need it. This morning. friends. This one here (she out. But I never use cold wa- | - L-{. Soria be After Xmas.

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SUNDAY, DEC. 12, 1948" Gardening—

Various ay Of Hollygrape Are Defined

Park Green Leaves of + “One Variety Glossy

If you have a question en gar-

commonly listed by plantsmen: It's the dwarf mahonia repens.

Mrs. Orr points out that seed-

expect a geranium that blossomed outdoors all summer to .<ploom indoors this winter. - But | the other -day I discovered a’ bud, now opening, on the geéranium I potted out of our window, box to carry over for spring. ‘But .it’s—still- true in general that plants won't work both summer and winter. Geraniums are far more likely to blossom if you take: slips in late summer, then coax them into bloom. in a south window sometime in early spring. Their “little-branched root system: Tikes a compact soil, Give them clay. They're definitely not ducks. You can kill them] quickly with too much water,

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THE APPLE tree outside | our kitchen window, decked ° | out with its attendant bird. feeders, is as crowded as -a pre - Christmas department store, , English sparrows would discourage other shop- . pers by their sheer numbers if the blue jays didn’t push in now and then. . But the family agrees that if sparrows weren't as common as dandelions, they'd rival cardinals Cand tithiles TOF interest. ve Unblackened by city smoke, Mama sparrow's neat grayblouse with her reddish bfown striped shopping ‘suit - looks like Vogue. Papa spar= row is an equally natty dresser in his'brown suit and black > shirt’ ony .

. TWO flickers, obviously a young couple a little new at this business, paused briefly one morning on the apple tree limbs while-they Isoked over the bargains. I think he said to her,” “Come on, let's try across the street,” for they. _..didn’t stay. They we. e really ‘ganditv- gotten up-—red feath= ers in their hats, and a flash of gold as they flew away, The brown oresper has been: a methodical shopper. He'll have none-of the gift counter. He prefers to dig up his own chotee bits, not that he messes “up, the display for others in the process. He starts bug hunting at the bottom of the tree, then works his “way “gteadity up the trank; When he gets not quite so high &8 a vice president's son, he drops down and starts al 3 rover aga; fi BOR

WHAT WITH the flickers ANd brown “oreepers; those" hopeful insects that thought * they'd found a good warm winter hideaway under the apple tree's bark must know now they were quite mis-

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