Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 December 1948 — Page 31

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Gardening—

“They Pick Orchids Year Round

By ley + SMITH S80 YOU'VE often thought how nice it would be io have a little greenhouse — how wonderful to pick snapdragons and sweetpeas when snow covers the ground outside.

“Well, such day dreaming “as that can get you all tangled up

..~=with orchids. To say nothing

about thick scientific tomes on the social life of chromosomes (important to orchids), your own social life languishes —on the orchid vine. For that's how, the W. O. Wheeldis, ~ 8200 E. 82nd st, started out. Now they find themselves pampering = more than 400 orchid plants, and picking orchids instea®” of nasturtiums the year around. “Id” wanted 2 little greenhouse for a long time,” Mrs. Wheeler recalls. “When we fi-

nally got it my husband said

why not raise something really special. He had to go away on a business trip. When he came back he brought home an orchid plant. In the meantime I'd ordered five! That's ‘Bow we started-—not knowing a thing about them. Our plants have come from all over the United States, from Belgium and from Mexico. And

at the prices ‘we have to pay;

I'll probahly never get another new dress as long as I live,” Mrs. Wheeler laughed. Orchids are really bratty little beauties. “I spend about two hours every morning ‘in the greenhouse,” says Mrs, W. The greenhouse, incidentally, is right beside the breakfast room where they can feast on orchids and toast at the same - time,

She Lifts Each

: THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Ak. |Dishing the Dirt— wh ares If you have a question on gar-

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hold its needles a bit longer, Smith, The Indianapolis Times;

keep the cut end in water until you're ready to take it

indoors. A slanting cut gives additional information from your to

own gardening experigite, let's have that, too.

Q--What makes my naval plants

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knowing little of srchid culture. and pick orchids the year around.

can take. “We have to provide light shade as early as March,” Mrs. Wheeler explains. “That's * why we have this South Ameri-

can grape vine.” (Looking at.

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its elephant-sized wondered if my eyes ha denly become magnifying

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C“WATERING is the biggest problem, Many orchids take all heir food from the air as they rang from tropical trees. So it's

edsy to Kill them with too

“fmuch water. Orchid pots have slits in the side for extra drainage. The pots are filled a third with dralfage material,

~prunda that through quickly.

“1 lift each pot to see if it's.

very light—that’s how I tell when they need water. Oh yes, indeed, I lift every one of the 460 plants! “Then these,” Mrs. Wheeler pointed out some orchids trailing from ghunks of oak’ bark suspended. around the greenhouse, “these came this. way

with instructions to leave them

on the bark indefimitely.” Orchids “may be tropical plants, but the good old Héosier “summer. sun is. more than they

the - plants potted in fibrous oslets water run

NATURE NOTES — IT ALL depends on how you. look at it. December 21, I mean. The follower of _almanaecs_who’s inclined to be pessimistic greets the day when “winter begins” with a bleak quotation, “As the days begin to lengthen, the cold ‘begins to strengthen.” He looks forward to shivering through the “winter” ahead. But the optimist says, “gure, after the 21st it'll stay daylight a little longer. It won't be long now until spring. Why by February most years we have an . occasional mild day now and then.”

» n ~ AS A MATTER of fact and the World Almanac, December’s not going into this day-lengthening business (sounds like the “new look") with any enthusiasm, even.

after Tuesday. The lazy old |

sun will rise later and later -antil-he: time in mid-January. Then he'll reset his alarm clock for spring business, and the days will lengthen a bit in the morning. But Mr. Sun, -like-all youngsters, likes to stay up as late #8 he can. So he began lin= gering an extra minute in the afternoon even before midDecember. And by the end of .> this month he'll have tacked 10 minutes onto his bed-time. God old sun..

Ra Br Re “ONE. OF ov R robins “Is either winter resorting in In“diana or else-he's waiting to

wiv pelebrate Christmas: with: the.

rest of the bird family before starting south. We never see hima he's probably hugging the warmth of wind-Breaking wild shrubs hereabouts. But every time the weather eases--up.-he. can be. heard - practicing his Latin lesson TH HR eRe Fate

Caesar,” or scolding a neigh-

gets-the: idea some:

vides too little Shade, then wi paint the glass.” I learned that -Mr. Wheeler ‘had got himself thoroughly involved with orchids, too. He wasn't available for comment, since he was at the moment getting trays and menus moved out of ‘the English theater block. But Mrs. W. gays hes doing some cross pollinating on his own. And why not? It takes only nine monghs to produce the seed, anogher nine months to germinate {it (if you're lucky), and in five to seven years you'll find out what results you get, “If you live that long,” says, Mrs.

- Sgeds Germinating _ ~'We Hope"

MR.”W. HAS his seeds at the stage where they're resting on cotton under glass, germinating “we hope”’—Mrs. Wheeler's “comment. I didn't have the heart to inquire how long before he expected to pick orchids. An equally exciting angle in this hunt for rare blossoms is the buying of seedlings already “started. - The Wheelers have some ordered—they’'ve already received word to prepare the orchid kindergarten, known as a “community pot.” The seedlings travel in a flask about a fourth of an inch tall, five hundréd to a ®ask. The transplanting? Oh, you do that with tweezers. A magnifying _glass comes. in handy, too. Some odd orchid facts I picked up from Mrs. Wheeler— their Nun's orchid is one of the

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If the poinsettia you carried over from last year has lost its lower leaves, give it a green petticoat of some other

, the 2 roms around it. Try coaxing a stubborn poinsettia into bloom by shortening its day. Fool it by covering with paper (or earrying to a dark closet) for an hour or so each lain afternoon. - » ” » . .... Don’t overlook. thé possibility of using artificial red berries on your swn scantily berried. greenery for your

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drop thelr leaves, writes Mrs. Mary Fink, Jamestown. Other neighbors have the same kind but have no trouble with theirs. |

they should? Do I keép them too warm? How often should water them?

try! At this time of year I suspect leaf drop due to too sudden temperature = change, Any plant will -drop leaves! when brought suddenly from, the cool outdoors to a héated room. A stop at a way siation (cool porch or unheated bedroom) gives it a chance for gradual-. adjustment, Check also for disease and insect pests. Plants do prefer cool Jemperdtiten _simply because!

raises orchids as a . hobby. The Wheelers bought their first plants two years ago,

Now they have more than 400

oldest” kinds known. Yellow ones are comparatively unusual. Pure whites .are the most expensive, An orchid plant may live to be 50 to 60 years old. But commercial

Pe rR customers demand new varieties. In China, where orchids were grown more than 22 centuries ago, they were “the divine flower,” 1 = » =

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Q—Why doesn't ny hydrangea bloom, asks Mrs. Albert Jack-| son, 1313 Eugene St. It was-in bloom when bought and I have) taken three slips off, They are all nice plants, but will not bloom. A—I judge from Mrs, Jackson's! letter that this is one of the} tender French hydrangeas bearing pink or blue flowers rather than the old dependable white-flowering paniculata or P. G. The tender French types og form their buds during goer § right after blooming. They also ff suffer easily from winter cold. | So the chances are they need! more LE

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un - Christmas - spirited bout of 4 shopping in overheated, over- pre worked department stores, I like to come home and escape to a bit of outdoor gardening. It restores perspective. So this week I moved the last of my hybrid tea roses into the perennial bordér. Not at all according to Hoyle, this mixing of ‘roses with perennials, but it works, ’ Mrs. Mary Luscek, 766 N. Holmes Ave., crowds roses into her picture book flower border. And-Mrs.-R. D. Eagiesfield, 25 E. 37th St., groups roses at inin her professionally planned backyard flower panels. (You may have seen hers on the Park School tour.) So I'm just copying—and trying to reduce flower planting to more easily cared for space. : 3 The too long branches I cut

_off each. bush as I moved it I : ' ’

stuck into the ground beside its parent. Some I covered with jars, ‘others not—just to see. The leftover? I carried out to our “cheerful graveyard.” The C. G. is a burial ground for cuttings. . I'm hoping they'll be ready to root by next spring. Anyway I aim to dig them up then—if 1 can wait that long.

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