Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 May 1949 — Page 23

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WHAT WITH shrubs,

fair city inte an out: oor flower show for May Day, he remark of the week is

drive past r i decorates. Then you'll wonder whatever smells so good. It’s the “fragrant snowball,” viburnum carlesi. One of these (growing in part shade, too) in the John Korra yard at 6116 Orinoco St., has a little story attached. The Korras wanted an old-fashioned snowball bush— definitely. The nursery was sold - out. “But you'll never be sorry if you take this one instead— same family, but it's fragrant,” the nurseryman assured them. Result—the Korras can’t praise it enough.” : : Viburnum carlesi, available from most local nurseries, is definitely not in the price class with spirea, But it’s worth the difference. It does well in our climate, holds leaves well into spring, and its pervasive scent and delicately tinted clustering flowers make it a shrub for the small yard where there's room for only the best. Only possible objection-—it's allergic to sulfur, should not be set near rose beds you'll be dusting.

Lots of Turnover Around the town there is a lot of turnover in real estate this week-end, mostly in backyards. Howard Newhouse, 3915 Brill. Road, fertilizing his good sized vegetable patch says “It's a lot of work but I like doing it.” 'He's developing a nice perennial food garden by planting -raspberries last spring, rhubarb this year.

s ” n ~ SIGNS of the times—William Keown and his son Allen spading up backyard for a vegetable patch though they've lived in their new house at 2945 8S. Denniston St. for only a few weeks. “I tried first to get the ground plowed but the builders’ trucks had packed it down hard,” observed Mr. Keown, resting a bit.

ut Fair City Blossoming Out All Over ith Trees, Shrubs and

Flowers

Richard Korra, son of Mr. and Mrs

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Junior Gardeners—

Peanut Plant

Goobers Require 4 Months to Mature

Would you like to raise a durious. plant that buries its head at its feet? It's none other than the peanut plant. It produces little flowers like other plants, then bends part of them down

12 produce the nuts you like to ea i . Choose a place where the soil is poor. For if it’s too “rich”! that is, has too much of a plant food called nitrogen in it, vou

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the fall. nuts, You'll want to plant the seed! just as soon as the ground warms|

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this month unless you'd like to start some indoors. The plants need about four months to produce a good crop. ~ “That's why they're not raised as commonly here as they are farther South where summer lasts longer. : If you can plant them in sandy soil, they'll like it, for it's easier

St., is really a wildflower spécialist, but he likes the fragrant snowball, toe. He spades around the shrub, spicily fragrant with apple blossom pink and white clustering flowers.

SIGHT worth seeing — the. many imaginative back .and front yards in Edgewood, where householders have taken advantage of natural shade to let wildflowers make their “lawns.” 2 s » WORRY of the week Mrs. Maud Fowler; 925 Dudley Ave, concerned about her winteredover geraniums. As usual, she says, about this time of year they look awfully bleak and ~ she has to buy new plants. A query along similar geranium lines came in the mail this week from Mrs. J..I. Sluss, Union-

ville, so here's # suggestion. The sulking a plant just thinks its duty done, Why

not try slipping off the new little shoots? Stuck into a clear glass of water with a few shells in the bottom, and set in a sunny window, they'll make roots in a couple of ws:%s this time of year. That's plenty of time to put them outdoors.

Cover Plants For vegetable gardeners the merry month of May is the time to plant Just about anything your cook desires. But

Dishing The Dirt—

Cut Back Poinsettia Plants For Blooms Next Year

By MARGUERITE SMITH Q—What to do about poinsettia plants? Mrs. Edward Mertz, 4338 Clinton St., Mrs. Mildred Barbour, 2112 E. 46th St. : A—If you want to carry an old poinsettia over another year, cut it back to about six inches. Repot in a mixture of about two parts top-soil, one part sand, and one part leaf mold (or compost or woods dirt), adding to this some dried cow manure if you can get it and fine bone meal, about a tablespoonful to a five-inch pot of dirt. Then water it well and sect the pot in a sunny window. Do not put poinsettia plants outdoors ‘until mid-May. ” » »

A—Veronicas in general are very |

desirable plants, blossoming | and growing well even on very | poor soil. But so far I've not | run across a ground cover] veronica In local gardens. And; the fact that it does well east, | north or south of here doesn’t! mean a thing in our tricky climate. However, I do find that one nursery (not local) lists a veronica (rupestris) that grows! only 3 or 4 inches high, bears light blue flowers. in June,| recommended for ground cover in light shade. Plants only and fairly expensive. If anyone's had experience with this plant, often our local nurseries will stock it for general demand.

Q—We have a cherry tree in our] yard but last year all the fruit was wormy. Is it too late to| spray this year so we'll have| some good cherries? And what] should we use? : Mrs, Joseph Morley, 5009 Park Ave. A—Good news for backyard fruit | raisers. Harlan Fulmer of the county agent's office tells me. there's a new ‘“one-package| fruit spray” developed by Pur. | due and Ohio State thats proved amazingly effective for| fruit tree pests. J Containing two poisons and | one fungicide, it’s all ready for| the backyard fruit raiser to

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prefers a dust). It's available at the Farm Bureau. Or, if you want to treat your) trees for worms only, use one- | third cup of lead arsenate and one-half cup lime in five gal-| lons of water. Spray when most | of the blossom petals have fallen, again in two weeks, and a third time 10 days later. | BS | Q—I've heard of a new ground cover, a veronica that's sup-| posed to be very successful in! the East. The gardener who told me about it said you could | sow seed. Do you know anything about it? |

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keep prepared to cover tender plants like tomatoes, ‘peppers and eggplants if you set them in the garden before the middle of the month. . Parsnips and salsify ought to be in the ground--they're slow pokes that need a long season. Wood ashes in the rows of these root crops (beets and carrots, too) will make fatter roots. If garlic buds are sprouting in the kitchen cupboard, just set 'em out, onion-fashion, and raise your own for next year.

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EB ground. In any case you'll need,

to keep loosening the earth jaround the plant as it grows to help the flowers bury themaelves. Shell the peanuts before you

high temperature of roasting. Plant them about a foot apart. There's at least one seed store in town that has fresh seed pea-

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JUST HOW lazy (or efficient) can a bird get? Mrs. J. E. Wood, 4802 Madison Ave, reports a robin that refuses to hunt for worms it's easier to get suet out of the bird feeder. The same robin hasn't bothered to build a new

worried me.

the sparrows ‘Carried nest material in he'd go in and bring it out. He'd look it over, drop what he didn't like and fly away

nest. She's using last The martin colony on top | year's model. “I don’t think Of the Woods’ provides endless entertainment with con- |

she did any housecleaning, either,” says Mrs. W, : There's another efficiency expert in the Woods’ yard, too. “We were concerned when the sparrows kept trying to build in the martin house,” says Mrs. Wood. “Then we noticed a

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Latreian Club will be installed at the 12:30 p. m. luncheon Tuesday in the Meridian Hills Country, ‘telephone wire. : Club.

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