Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 January 1949 — Page 17
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ficers up to our February meeting,” explains Mrs, T. M. Hindman Jr., publicity chairman, “because we found that March always brought so many other activities.” Forest Hills Garden Club will also meet on Wednesday, Mrs. Burke Nicholas, Forest Lane, will be the hostess for a 2 p. m. meeting. Mrs. Thomas Jackson will discuss herbs and flowers that are used for medicinal purposes. “Magic and superstition surround the subject but it's
the ancient herb remedies and many of our plants have become valuable in present day medicine,” says Mrs. Jackson. Mrs. Ralph Burge will be hostsas In had home on Road 52 East, or a Pp. m. “pitch-in supper” Saturday for members of the Garden Gate Club. Frank Wallace will talk on “Wild Flowers.”
RDENING CALENDAR—.
LAST-OF-JANUARY re- " minders: Sure sign of spring —pots of chives are on display at produce counters,
salads, a on cheese or a springtime —— ts well-
you can divide the roots into three of four clumps to set outdoors, maybe along the garden path. There they'll make a pretty lavender flowering “hedge” spread themselves out to be generally useful for a good many Years to come. . # »
Bargain, bargain. Keep Your eyes open when you visit those popular priced plant counters. Just the other day I discovered a cut-leaved ivy at a ridiculously low price, cosily tucked in among the ordinary ivies. Another time I found the lovely smallleaved Merion Beauty almost hidden by quantities of the more usual ivies.
Don't forget the many forms the popular tuberous begonias take. There's a hanging basket sort you might order for your midFebruary starting flat. It's good for porch gardeners with no space for the bedded varieties. But you do need a spot where prevailing southwest summer winds won't whip the delicate leaves and blossoms. » . »
Another sign that spring's really on the way. The annual garden school, says Harlan Fulmer of the county agent's office, is set for Thursday, Mar. 3. It's to be an all-day session this year, with Prof, W. B. Ward of Purdue University, the speaker.
If you're forcing hyacinths, you'll find the buds always hug their leaf collars too closely. Give them a paper dunce cap, set over the whole plant. A small hole at the top makes the flower reach for
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Years to Ripen After Planting
“You can raise the plants from the seed but it takes a year to ripen and another four to six years before the young plant blossoms. It's easier to multiply the plants by potting up the off shoots they make, though they really do better if you don’t disturb them too much. “They're native to Africa, growing on the banks of a river there, but they're popular in Germany and somehow got their name from the English family of Lord Clive. “Their culture is simple—not
amaryllis relatives. But their slow-to-flower habit makes them expensive to start with. One specialist sells three seeds ~for a dollar. Budded plants of the fancier types may bring as much as $10 to $12. But, as Mr. McNeely points out, “they live a long time, 20 to 25 years. And my plants always bloom once a year and most of them twice.” So they're
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Stephen McNealy . e's admires his grandfather's clivia.
really not so expensive after all The myth of the yellow African violet apparently can't be squelched, even by official pronouncements of the national
A Misunderstanding When Mrs. C. D. he 6153 N. Olney St., told me she had a neighbor who knew a man who said his mother had a yellow violet I saw opportunity
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about yellow woods’ violets! And I suspect that may be one reason the story of the sup-posed-to-be yellow African violet persists. Unfortunately it's sometimes used as a come-on. Thére was’ the (luckily rare) flower dealer who kept promising a customer that “next time I'll have that violet”—in the meantime adding to her sales of other plants with each visit.
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If you have a question on gardening, send it to Marguerite Smith, The Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis 9. Or, If you can give additional information from
your own gardening experience, iet’s have that, too.
Q—Will you give me some information on night blooming cereus, writes Mrs. Clara ting, 6114 Eastridge Drive. I have one over five years old. It seems to be growing nicely. Some of the leaves have several things growing out of them that look like roots, about three-fourths inch long. It also has a long round shoot about 18 inches long and still growing with no leaves on it. Id like to know something about the care of the plant and how to get it to bloom. Should ft be watered sparingly like cactus? What kind of soil? How much sun? And from Mrs. Charles Irwin, 920 N. Harbison Ave. comes another question on the night blooming cerus. She says: What shall I do to make my night blooming cereus. bloom for Easter? I was given the plant last year by a friend. -It is quite large and bloomed for her at Easter last year. I have it in a north basement window.
A-—Lamon V. Cotton, 1142 W. 324 St, cactus hobbyist, says, “A cactus is a queer plant, Sometimes they revert to type. I've had them put out these odd-looking growths, like the long round shoot described in the first question, only to have it later take on its proper shape. The rodt-like growths Mrs. Oberting describes are aerial roots. As to cactus culture and the
want loose porous sandy soll, alkaline, not acid (such as you'd have in a peaty soll mixture), and very little water at any time. Water starvation is the rule during their dormant period (usually early winter). Here's the treatment I gave one of mine that produced unusually good. bloom. It was a Queen of th» Night, one of the
that sprawl all over. I built a trellis for it to keep it upright. Then I put it where it would) get full sun from mid-morning] to mid-afternoon (about 10 to) 3). I gave it very little water until the buds began to form. This water starvation in the preblossoming
or it will yellow and drop off. As for the Easter blooming cereus, I find cactus plants may bloom almost any time of year.
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and root growth at the expense of flowers. The plant needs sun. Q—Where can I get detailed information on the construction of the sun-heated greenhouse you told about in the Jan. 16 TIMES, asks Ernest Myers, R.R.7. A~—The subject is so new there's not too much information avail-| able, But Central library has a book on the subject, the one, mentioned in the story on the, sun-heated pit. The library can| also help you to find references to the few magazine articles that have appeared.
Rinse Starchy Foods
To Save Time
Rinse starchy foods such as) potatoes, rice and cereals off dish surfaces while foods are still soft and moist if you want to save dishwashing time. Starchy foods tend to shrink as they dry and to cling more stubbornly to dish surfaces than when
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