Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 May 1949 — Page 19

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ha A To Hold Plant Quiz ! : : . . _. AtMeeting Tomorrow . : Fall Creek Group to Discuss raining - Bird Houses for Home Grounds ns will : al meeting Arbutus Garden Club members will find out just how! By " much they know about: plant names at their meeting tomor-| : row. Mrs. Robert Blessing is fixing up a chart of flowers|' pool ‘Hotel and leaves—25 cultivated and wild plants blooming now. vill be wel- The club treasury has come forth with some pretty nice prizes Armstrong, itirst prize a “lady spade”) so the contest’s likely to be a hot one. {ana Farm + It's three points for the common name, one for the botanical. “the Coun" (Hint to members—better bone up on"myrtle and dandelions.) The made by meeting's in the home of Mrs. W. W. Cothran, 7050 N. PennsylAnderson. vania St, with Mrs. Paul Booth and Mrs. George Lilly, assisting. and & talk “We ought to attract. birds to our home grounds for purely for World’ selfish reasons, if no other,” is one of the points Mrs. Ben Moore | : er Parker, will stress at the Fall Creek Garden Club’s meeting, also tomorthe morn’ row. She will discuss bird houses for the home grounds. The meet- : ing 1 is at Eagiebend Farm. § ine home of Mrs. Charles W, Myers. aves e VO TT ——— the Clay- dahlias a boost, says Mrs. LeRoy Fred Dickson; treasurer, Mrs. ith Room, Gale. She'll tell Golden Glow Gar-/J0seph Waymire, and publicity ws of the den Club of other experiences in|Chairman, Mrs. P. B. Denning. Department dahlia raising at the Friday meet-ip 4 1), 250 Plants {iss Elaine ing. It's at the home of Mrs. Con-|f OF VP n district of rad Barrett, 1118 Congress Ave,| Maybe there ought to be a and by M. with Mrs. Robert Price as assist-/union for garden clubbers. The Lp super- . ant hostess. Each member will Diggin’ Dozen Garden Club of way Come bring a flower arrangement. Bloomington potted up 250 Afthe after Plan Early Bird Hik rican violet plants—200 of them an gary bir ke raised by one woman—for indlNature Study Club members|vidual favors for the state con- > will arise before the birds (they vention's banquet. { tes is Mrs. hope) next Sunday. They'll as- | irs. Frank * semble at the “home of Wesley! New committee heads for Spade egistration Stockinger, 5023 N. Capitol Ave., and Trowel Garden Club's many t assisting. at 5 a. m. (yawn, yawn) for an|activities include Mesdames A, H. charge of early morning bird hike along the Warne, Raymond Toler, Harley é Butler towpath. Claffey, G. F. Off, F. E. White, mittee in- The last of the Audubon So-;H. J. Elbourne, Dean Stubbs, C. ¥. Cowle ciety’s beginners bird hikes will F. Cornish, Noryin Strickland, J. ~ Lovley, start out next Sunday morning W. Judy, A. G. Stevenson, E. G. ohne o ana at 7:30 a. m. As before there will Driftmeyer and Irvin Morris. be three different groups meeting Franklin, at Holliday, Brookside and River-| Mrs. B. H. Gardner will speak SRI SOMIEN side Parks. ? on “Flower Avrangement’ at the ucas. Thursday afternoon meeting of Brendonwood Garden Club has Saud Mra an eye on some good eating. | the Crooked Creek Garden Club. Their meeting tomorrow at Bren-| MIS: E. F. Jasper, 5201 Woqdside orations. { Drive, will be the hostess. donwood community house will ’ cl take up mushrooms. J. O. Cot-| The North-End Gardén Club ub tingham, Indianapolis’ mushroom| wij} meet at 2 p. m. Friday in the | D arty authority, will show slides of both|yome of Mrs. Emsley W. Johnson, | edible and poisonous varieties. 3447 Washington Blvd. Mrs.| rr will be “The edible varieties are all David E. Fox will be the assistant! the annual around us for the taking” ob-postess. Mrs. Harry W. White the Indie Hackett; vice president, Mrs. wii] give a’talk on “Berea.” affic Club, - . serves one astute club member.) _m, tomore “if we only know which ones to Restaurant. take!” Mrs. Arthur Beard also IT y More Phosphorus t Mesdames will bring specimens she has col-| If your flowers last year grew, Blacker, lected, : {tall and leggy give them more elyn Hay- New officers of this still new phosphorus this year in a good Schull, : club are president, Mrs. Francis garden fertilizer and see blooms, CH Ralph McQuiston; secretary, Mrs. increase. |

Gardening— : so Flowering Plants Discourage Weeds

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By MARGUERITE SMITH “A LOT OF flowe plants have a great deal of nuisance value.” That's what Mrs. John Downing, former State Garden Club president, says about using flowering plants to compete with weeds. The Downings, with their aptly named home, “Four Acres, More or Less" at Mooresville, put their theories into practice. The result is a beautiful setting and a garden to enjoy. S

“In the flower border I work -

for a wealth of bloom, rather than a prim arrangement of plants,” says Mrs, Downing. She shakes seeds of matured Sweet Williams, for example, over the flower border in late summer. Wherq they and other volunteers like larkspurs grow too thick the next spring, she simply thins out to the strongest plants. Around the peonies, scillas, grape hyacinths, and bluebells cover the ground with flowers in early spring. By the time

! their foliage has matured the

peony bushes reach across to

5 \ TR Mrs, John Downing . « , in the

shade the ground and discour-’

age weeds. Polyantha and floribunda roses, instead of time-consum-

primula bed of Moores-

ing hybrid teas with a ground cover of moss roses for the whole rose bed, save work. Leaves go onto the shrub border in fall, stay there during summer so there's only one raking.

Tips on Roses

Strawberries and vegetables yield to easy gardening. too. The strawberry row, - edging either side of a long brick walk, gives way to a new row of runner plants the second year. Broccoli seeded in place in the vegetable patch needs no transplanting, just thinning to the strongest plant. Common varieties are healthfer, hardier, and spread faster while they're just as good for

GARDENING CALENDAR

NT'S TIME NOW: « + « to make first large sow. ings of bush beans. «+. to divide and replant chrysanthemums, . +» to sow tender annuais such as zinnlas, ‘marigolds and nasturtiums. «++ to keep early planted rows (lettuce, carrots, etc.) thinned. » + « to watch for insect pests 80 they don't get established.

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Mrs. Downing . . , feeds the birds

color where you're using them for ground covers, Mrs, Downing observes. fo old-fashioned iris, day-lilies and Oriental poppies cover one gently sloping hillside in the sun. Mr. Downing devised a quick planting method for iris on another slope, where they thrive even in shade, He simply laid

the iris around the hill, each | fat rhizome covered only by the |

leaves of the one lying next to it. These time-saving methods permit specialities such as Mrs. Downing’'s hundred varieties of narcissus and the raising of many perennials from seed. Her primula bed, only one of the beauty spot: in the yard, “was easy to start,” she says. _ Have you noticed the many out-of-the-ordinary seeds of both perennials and annuals you can buy locally these days? At Block's the other day I picked up one of my favorites, evening scented stock (matthiola bicornis). T h e flower's nothing much to look at-— but the scent, especially after a rain — is wonderful. Plant it néar the porch or a window you'll have open, come summer, Not too much sun for this one.

Send questions on gardening to Mrs. Smith, The Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis 9,

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Lot-Line Trellis Small Jane Caseley and her in-|

separable playmate, Ronnie Satiterfleld, are indirectly responsible {for a nice neighborly idea on) [Riverview Drive. Mrs. D. J. Case-| {ley at 8415 and the. Don Satter-| fields next door at 6411 are fixing! up a stepping stone walk through a lot-line trellis to accommodate! the young travelers back and forth. | Mrs, Harold Hayes, 5808 N. Ox-| ford Si, thinks Haag's drug store, a' 38th and Illinois Sts., ought ‘0! have a vote of thanks for their! front-of-the-store flower beds-—at! the moment - devoted to tulips.| {We haven't planned what we'll] put in this summer” says Roy Lynn of the store, “but we've kept the beds up for several years now.” (What a difference to our fair city if other stores did the same.) | Sights worth seeing this week {are the - many delightful rock gardens all over town. Miss Ella iSchelt, for one, combines several {varieties of creeping phlox with /the soft gray of mouse-ear chick weed (cerastium tomentosum) to! ‘make a vard-edge planting at 141 ‘Berkley Rd.

"Open Garden’

Mrs. John McCullough, 2012 {Boulevard Place, 1s having a daily “open garden” these spring days. {Throughout the summer her | garden is well worth a trip to see {it and she welcomes visitors.

| Benny and Jennie's

WANT TO argue that birds can't be just as

humans?

Take the case of one Benjamin Wren, pioneer settler in the B. J. Hankemeier back yard at 348 W, 44th St. The Hankemeiers

enjoyed Benny's antics so much

house at the other side of the yard.

"And a lot of good it's doing to relieve the bird housing shortage. If another wren so much as comes along with a suitcase, Benny the first goes to work building another nest in this second nouse. After he's convinced his wren pal there's no use hanging around waiting for a vacancy-to-let sign, he goes back to his own house, This particular wren must be a little unbalanced on the subject of nest « building. Mr. Hankemeier wanted to ease housebuilding chores. So when he took the lid off the house to clean it, he put in clean nest material. And little did Jennie, in par-

ticular, appreciate it. “She went

inside, handed it out piece by piece and he carried it off," chuckles Mr. H, He's hoping he'll have better luck this summer when he puts out a brightly painted can of sugar water. It's supposed to be a sure-fire attraction for the numming birds that visited the Hankemeler petunias last sums. mer.

Balance Needed

to balance the nitrogen.

i John Wolsiffer, 1445 Orange {St, makes the cannas in his {canna bed behave so they grow iat the same rate. He waters the {slow-growers while keeping the speedy ones on the dry side. Then George Fiel recounts the difficulties of making rose beds out at Holliday Park on the same kind of “rich” sub-soil. Remedy —excavation of some 16 inches,

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layering in sand and leaf mold, chopping it in with a rototiller. If you're building a pool, a rock | garden, or just a garden path, by| all means get this free booklet. | {Send to R. M. Kellogg Co., Box | 84, Three Rivers, Mich, for! “Pools O' Beauty.” It includes color photographs, sketches and | instructions on a whole quantity of garden problems, especially

that Mr. H. put up another wren

Junior Gordenor Plant Lures Butterflies

Would you like to bring a lot of butterflies to your yard this summer? Then maybe if you help dad with lawn mowing or weed pulling he'll buy you a plant that attracts butterflies the way a porch light attracts moths on a summer evening. E It's appropriately called “bute terfly bush” or buddleia. (Pronounce it bud-lee-ah, with the accent on “bud”). Sometimes, because it blossoms in summer with a spike lke a lilac, it's called summer lilac. It's fragrant, too, like the lilac. Maybe that's the magic that tells all the butterflies in the neighbor hood when it's in bloom. A yellow butterfly on a lavender (Or purple or pink or white) “summer lilac” is a pretty sight. You can plant this yourself because it needs nothing special done for ft. It will like a place in the sun. Local nurseries hane

Gardens heavily fertilized with! qe butterfly bush and they're animal manure need a high phos- not too expensive—you won't phorus-potash chemical fertilizer have to do too. much lawn | mowing.

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