Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 November 1949 — Page 25

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“Fdomrt-irive” to take care of plants,” says Mrs. Cooper. “But I do take the ivies out to the sink at least once a month to shower them off. That keeps them free from dust, clean and shining, and cuts down-danger of red spider. They've grown so fast I have to keep them trimmed back. I repotted them once—in straight compost.” The moral to this tale is that any ingenious woman can decorate her house for Christmas without a single tug at the gift budget. Use any houseplant, repeated in identical pots, then tie it up with color to the room’s color scheme, "And If your friends love plants and you have them, an attractive wrapping will make them a doubly acceptable gift.

“Creation” will be shown by Mr,

Identical red pots house these io the picture win. do ea ET ieivare Adure wi Backyard Adventures—

Stubborn Bird Can Be Lured Near Window by Degrees

80 ‘you ¢an't attract birds to your yard? Birds, like plants and people, can be awfully stubborn. Sometimes they'll settle down in a yard almost without invitation. Again, the fanciest suet holder fails to please them, But if you see the flash of a redbird any time, put out some sunflower seeds near the spot. Later you can move his sunflower cafeteria nearer and nearer the | ~~ "~~" house. ‘ Chickadees may visit the blind of your house when you t them to entertain where you can enjoy them.

Group to See Audubon Film | mee vm Hers

How nature works inevitably Srand entertainer. , o Tes an ng subject of the second of the Audubon Society's Screen Tours tomorrow night. The colored film

Then try’ a dab of suet lashed to a tree or shrub where they're sure to find it. Later move the bait by degrees nearer to your bird watching window.

Titmouse Bait A swinging suet and sunflower seed holder seems to be

temperatures up on bitter cold nights when death by freezing is the alternative for “God's poultry.” v Lacking peanut butter, use stale crumbs high in fat, such as plecrust, dqughnuts or a littie cornmeal and the chilled bug hunters will stay with you. Of course the English sparrow will come for the smallest bread crumb but he shouldn't be looked down upon. One gardener reported that several rows of peas were literally saved in his garden last summer’ by the flock of English sparrows he’d suppgrted unwillingly the previous winter. The sparrows moved in when aphids .covered the pea vines,

and Mrs. Thomas Hadley at 8 p. m. in the World War Memorial. Inspiration for the picture came when Tom and Arlene ' Hadley fled from their northern Michigan home just ahead of a forest fire that roared over hundreds of igkes In, Sesingle day. Returning, they fil the story of the heal ing of earth's burned face. At 3 o'clock on Monday afternoon all grade and high school] pupils who are interested may see the picture free of charge at Manual High School. These afternpoon programs, an Audubon Society community service, are finariced by gifts from citizens in-

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Landscape design and planting by Eagle Creek at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Gorman, 6050 Gorver Road, Indianapolis. ‘

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If you permit anyone to plant forest evergreens house, you .can -be, sure that in a few years they will be overgrown and crowded. The foundation planting by Fags Creek, shown above, is made up of dwarf trees and shrubs wi should last as long 23 the house. Note how the shape end with the lines of the house. The first cost is greater, but it pays in. the long run and looks better, too.

Cash and Carry Sales—Shade Trees, Etc.

Our cash-and-carry sales yard will remain open several weeks yet. Drive to the nursery for fruit trees, evergreens and plants you can take in your car. While there, select your shade trees for transplanting later. We shall feature home grown Christmas a trees and evergreen boughs again this season.

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Names Officers

New officers of the Indianapolis Dahlia Society are announced. They include W. A. Saffell, reelected president; Raoul H. Ayers, vice president and program chairman; Miss Hazel M. Walther, secretary, and Mrs. Saffell, treasurer, Other offices are held by Mrs. Ray Thorn, publicity; Willard Johns, propagator; Narl Jones, show manager, and Mrs. Earl McDonald, assistant show manager.

How to Tell Tree

How can you tell when your favorite maple is coming down with the measles? Dying branches on|

are one of the first signs of tree disease. Like a fever, they may or may not be serious. But you'd) better not let a quack diagnose; the ailment. Experienced tree: men may save you hundreds of dollars—the value of fine shade’ trees to your property.

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Seeks Burial Place ROME—Countess Edda Mussolini Ciano, daughter of the late Italian dictator, is demanding that her family be told the burial | place of II Duce. The remains buried secretly after they! were recovered from a band of | Fascists who removed them from

the first.grave in Milan. | |

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INDIANAPOLIS

800 Pairs--Women's I Walk-Over and Miramar Shoes

at noon, also on Friday, in Brookside Community House. Mrs. Cecil J. Bixler has charge of the

program. The Nature Study Club will

hold open house at the cabin in

Woollen's Gardens next Sunday afternoon from 3 to 5 p. m. Miss

Albrecht will speak on their travel experiences.

Martha Gardner and Miss Mary

Miss Gardner spent the sum-

mer in 4 hospital school in England. Miss Albrecht, an exchange land summer, Mrs. N. Taylor Todd is presi-dent-elect for Fall Creek Garden Club for 1950. Other officers will be Mrs. Foster Hudson, vice president; Mrs. C. W, Price, secretary; Mrs. James R. Peeling, treasurer, and Mrs. C. E. Griener, historian,

Give Plants - Proper Care

Do you want that lovely Thanksgiving plant to live on to a ripe old age? Then give it the care it prefers. Most popular gift plants this chrys-

Thanksgiving were potted anthemiums, cyclamen,

a) Jere lem cherries, and pepper plants, says Betty Bertermann of Bertermann

Your cyclamen won't take kindto hot household air. So give coolest possible spot. Move a cool room at night if prolong its life. Plenty of , no direct sun, will -also

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Is Getting Measles . [local mum specialist does. A

heavy mulch is needed for these. Jerusalem cherries are hard drinkers, too. They're somewhat

any tree, says Shade Tree Digest, {easier than cyclamen to carry

over for another year—but only if you can give them a cogl sunny window.

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