Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 December 1949 — Page 29
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“Meet Your Nurse
‘Hardy Variety 7 Boxwood Yraced Back
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To Emigrants From Early-Day Virginia
Nurseryman Tells Story of Evergreen By-MARGUERITE SMITH “It's really a living. antique, you know.” Merrill B. Esterline of Eagle Creek
Nursery was showing me some | boxwood plants whose shining
evergreen leaves make them so popular for year-round enjoyment,
“In the South,” he went on, ¥ y
“you can find boxwood that was planted in early colonial days. It's often thought that box will not stand our cold Northern climate. But this variety does. It has quite a story, too.” “It seems that a family moved into central Ohio from Virginia, bringing some boxwood with them. They set the plants in a small cemetery near their home. There most of the plants fromptly froze out, but two of them lived. The owner of a. small nursery nearby noticed these and he propa-~ gated cuttings from them. “We have had them in our open fields since 1933. They have withstood temperatures as low-as 20 below zero, keeping a good green color. The variety is so popular with our customers we can hardly keep any stock on hand.”
Typical of Nursery
This dwarf boxwood 1s typical of Hagle Creek Nursery.!” For, says Mr. Esterline, “We like plants of the better types— slow-growing, insect-free and long-lived. And, as in the case of the box, we like to’ prove they are hardy in this climate before we use them. “By combining dwarf evergreens, evergreen and deciduous shrubs, dwarf flowering trees, evergreen vines and ground covers, we are able to give the homeowner, a foundation planting that is beautiful the year around, one that will not grow too large or too crowded with age. “Nature intended that this should be a beautiful world. I like to think we have been _able to help thousands of fami-
Merrill B. Estorline (right) and his father, John B. “Esterline Cee transplant a boxwood in Eagle Creek Nursery.
lies have and appreciate some of the beauty. “We keep in. mind, too, the young home owners who cannot afford to spend a lot of money. We advise them to plant according to a plan, to buy good varieties but take them in smaller sizes, do their own planting and it necessary, only a few at a time. We make the plan and keep it on file in our office.” -
Specializes in Yew
Eagle Creek's 245 acres are filled with plants and trees collected from far and wide, native to every country on earth. “Our specialty is the yew,” says Mr, Esterline. “We propagate and grow more than 30 varieties. If there is one best evergreen for city use, it is the yew.” “No, I didn’t intend to be a
graduated from the University of Wisconsin in chemical engineering, and worked in a big | rubber ‘plant several years. ‘In 1916 my father began collecting | evergreens as a hobby. “Along in the 1020's when he was busy with the city manager campaign in Indianapolis together with his business, I took over—just for a year, I became intensely interested, built a library on plants and landscaping, visited most of the better | nurseries in this country, learned all I could and am still learning. “The business has grown too
large for me to handle alone so |
my brother James recently joined the organization. Above all we enjoy having plant lovers
visit the nursery to see the |
many beautiful things growing here.” The nursery Is on U. 8. 52 just north of Trader's Point.
Floral Book. Ideal Gift
A TRAVELER'S GUIDE. New York, Farrar, Strauss and Co. $3. Just in time to make a perfect Christmas gift for the gardening friend who “has everything,” or for yourself, is “A Traveler's Guide.” This really exciting guide to “Roadside Wild Flowers, Shrubs, and Trees of the U. @” fills a It will be more than popular with every plant-loving tourist who is fed up with frustration when he tries to pry out information on “Whatéver is that gorgeous plant—and will it grow in my garden at home?” Intended for travelers by train, motor, or just imagination, it! skillfully avoids inclusion of too] much ‘detail while packing com-| mon and and tanical names, ! pronunciations, an¥ brief simple | descriptions into a handy volume. Line drawings, numbered for, easy reference, make eye-appeal-| ing pages, while aiding quick! identification. { The book is divided into two, parts. The first part runs rapidly] through plant families such as! the woods violet, common to large parts of the country. These are conveniently classified by that first feature to catch the traveler's eye-color.
Displays of States. The second part details with! brevity and completeness the| outstanding displays of each state. The Indiana section was prepared by Mrs. R. B. Failey,| 57 E. 57th St. Dr. Willard N.| Clute checked the material from| the botanist's. standpoint. Mrs. Failey mentions the variety of plant life in Indiana,! ranging from-the-semitropical-ey-: press of the Hovey Lake region to cactus and orchid of northern | dunes. Included in her cyclopedic condensation are noteworthy plantings such as the golden rain trees of New Harmony, many stands of virgin timber in state forests. Conspicuous: wild flowers such as bittersweet, commercial plantings like the northern mint fields, and outstanding private and publitv gardens such as Dr. C. C. Deam’s at Bluffton and the .International Friendship Garden at Michigan City are mentioned. | Multiply this by every state in| the union and you have the use-| fulness of the “Travelers Guide,” The book is sponsored by the| Garden Club of ‘America and the National Council ‘of State Garden Clubs. It is available in| local department and book: stores. |
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nurseryman,” Mr. Esterline answered my question, “I was Your Yard—
Protect Roses
BEFORE GROUND freezes solid, hill up 8 to 10 inches of soil ovér crowns of ' grafted | roses for winter protection. After the ground freezes, cover the bed with lgaves, straw, or (best of all) rotted cow manure.
Climbing foses of doubtful |
hardiness, such as the grifted hybrid tea climbers, are safer if laid over onto the ground and | protected with a layer of straw | or earth, Tree roses should have earth | gently loosened at one side. They are then swung carefully down onto the ground and covered. Most long-time gardeners prefer a middle course in pruning |
roses before. protecting for |
winter. Cut off only such branches as may whip in the wind (remembering that ramblers produce their flowers on this old wood). Then in spring finish pruning when winterkilled branches can be removed.
‘GARDENING CALENDAR
ITS TIME NOW: ] «ws to cut chrysanthemum stalks back to ground level. + « » to compost, bury, or burn peony and mum tops. to inspect lilac bushes for scale (small shell like spots). « « «/to keep Christmas cactus on dry side and out of drafts.
Berry Tips Boysenberries should have their {long canes laid down and pro[tected overwinter with earth and straw, If the long canes pro-| duced. this summer get winterkilled, the bushes will produce ne fruit until year after next.
Inspect Bulbs ‘Regularly
Paper white narcissus and other
{bulbs being forced. In water should be inspected regularly.
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Scan Garden Year Book
society brings year-round garden-| ing pleasure. Usually it means al year book, such as the national! hemerocallis society sent to the garden column way back in daylily time. Now that active ay! dening news has given way to] fireside flowers it makes inter-| esting reading, Most exciting item for the aver-|
of new midget daylilies in those {odd dark “red” shades only lately |
{come .to the full-sized hemero-| | lilies. | program of Swedish and Ameri-
The yearbook indicates, too, | Jthat many a daylily fan mounted | (his hobby horse- by the same steps. Neighbor Jor Grandma) | |gives gardener a slip of old-/| fashioned lemon lily. Gardener | {loves lemon lily. Gardener learns)
{that lemon lily is “a hemerocal-! Q—We have some beautiful ever-
lis.” Gardener discovers that | there are any number of other! varieties. And a hobby norse, | mounted, gallops away with gardener.
Pets Thrive
clety yearbooks, the hemerocallis [publication gives little attention] to bugs and disease—they don't (n need to! Their pets thrive with few afflictions almost anywhere. |
They report, for example, that| {In northern Indiana, the Orvill| | Coughlin family raise- gorgeous varieties in pure sand, three blocks from Lake Michigan, tol {the southern part of our state (Mr. and Mrs. Walter Buss of | Edenwald Gardens raise theirs in| “rich clay.”
Several local members men-| {tioned in the year book include! |Mrs. Viola Richards, whose gar-| {den I reported last summer. Her (garden is on the list of “collections worth visiting.” Mrs. Rich-| (ards is also on the nomenclature | committee, with Earl Holl, 3520! IN. Grant 8t., listed as chairman. Other local members include! Edward Zickler, 1823 Koéhne St. and Margaret Griffith, 4925 K.|
a hundred different varieties her garden,
Membership in a special flower containing food.
age flower gardener is mention | of Sweden,
Unlike most special flower so-|A—Do not trim evergreens when
65th St. Miss Griffith has around ommends a natural-bristle brush
injof medium stiffness for gentle, but effectivé brushing.
IG ardon Clubs—
"Groups P Plan |p Christmas
Parties
Holiday Arrangement Program Scheduled
Christmas parties and the making of Christmas decorations are
week's garden club meetings. Forest Hills Garden Club will spend all day on’ Wednesddy prac ticing the art of holiday arrange|ménts, Members will bring their own materials and make their own table and mantel decorations, The meeting is in Mrs. B, F. Orr's {home, 5337 Kenwood Ave. The schedule of other fone club meetings follows.
TUESDAY Biz-Z-B Garden Club, 11 a. m., in the home of Mrs. Albert Clemmer, North Shadeland Drive. A turkey dinner will be followed by a business meeting and gift exchange, WEDNESDAY Sunshine Garden Club of Beech
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the programs for most of this|
Grove, luncheon at 11:30 a. m. In the home of Mrs, Edward Wanek, with Mesdames Joseph Enright, | Edwin Shepherd, Thomas Wendt, | and W, H. Masten assisting. At| the Christmas party to follow,|
| Mission,
1:30 p. m. in the home of Mrs. |{H. L. Bischof, 645 N. Ritter Ave. »| |with Mrs. Ray Thorn assisting.
{Display of holiday arrangements. Mrs. |Christmas story told by Mrs. T. M. toastmistress and Miss" Alice be special guests. Shaw, topicmistress,
|Hindman Jr. and gift exchange. THURSDAY
Crooked Creek Garden Club, gram will be Mesdames Richard '| Swift, A, J. Krueger Jr. R. H. Col|1ins, Roll-call, gp, vor and Colleen Glass and {Miss Ann Houser.
| Christmas luncheon, 11:45 a. m., {in the home of Mrs. Arden Fen-| | wick, 1725 W, 63d St. “My Favorite Christmas Decora-| tion or Tradition.’ Mrs. Ralph Soots will talk on holiday arrange-| | ments, Gift exchange.
FRIDAY
| Keystone Ave. assistant hostesses, - the luncheon committee, | Mesdames James Spalding, Merle Sidener, Emsley Johnson S8r,, and C. R. Yoke. Mrs, George B. Elliott will sheak on “Christmas in Many Lands’ This club's gift exchange will carry on a long-standing tradition, Each member brings with her gift for another member, a second package, gally wrapped,
The food packages go into a {basket which is given in turn to some useful project. This year it {goes to Miss Mary Rigg for use (at Southwest Community Center. SATURDAY Mrs. Henry F. Schricker will entertain members of the Garden Study Club at a Christmas lunch|eon in the governor's mansion, 1 ip. m. Mrs. John Burns, a native will speak oh “Chyristmas in Sweden.” Miss Patra Kennedy, accompanied by Miss Julia Niebergall, will present a
can Christmas carols. Gift ex-
change.
DISHING THE DIRT—
greens around the home we bought this summer. Now I would like to use /pleces from our own trees for Christmas decorations If I can. But I don't want to hurt the trees. NEW HOME-OWNER.
temperatures are below freezing. When you do take pleces off, size up the whole tree or shrub before you cut to be sure you are not going to leave an unsightly gash or misshapen plant. Bome evergreens will “break” and produte new growth as a zinnia does when you pin¢h out a growth bud, but others will not. So take this into account when you trim. Take off several small pieces rather than one large one. Trim for better shapeliness and yor may even improve the appearance of. your plants.
Send questions on gardening to Mrs. Smith, The Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis 9.
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Toastmistress Club/PTA Past Presidents Plans Yule Dinner
gifts will be collected for Wheeler Will highlight the Indianapolis (will hold their Christmas party Toastmistress Club's 6 p. m. ain-| lat 1:30 p. m. Thursday in the ly Green Thumb Garden Club, at per meeting Tuesday in the Apex YWCA. Grill,
Guest Speaker
North End Garden Club, Christ- gpeaker at the Dec. 14 meeting of | {mas luncheon, 1 p. m., in the home the Rio de Janeiro ITSC Chap-/ward Combs and Henry C. Howes {of Mrs. John W. Noble, 5570 N.|ter. It will be held at 10:30 a. m. in the home of Mrs. lett, 1455 Loretta Drive,
FOR THE man who must spend money to save time or the family who'd rather spend for equipment instead of garden helpers a portable sprayer could definitely make a merrier Christmas, Especially since the latest prediction on sprayer usefulness is | that we'll eventually be spraying fertilizer onto leaves to food gardens and trees. The John Bean sprayer pictured, operates on either ganoliie | or electric power, and holds enough spray for a good-sized garden or several trees, High pressure at the nozzle drives spray into tops and centers of tr trees ees and into d dense shrubbery. It's also useful | asa fire fighter.
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Plan Christmas Party
The Past Presidents of the A special Christmas program parent-Teachers Association, Ino.
Mrs. Joseph Walker, Indiana ) ’ {State PTA president, and Mrs. Mrs. Hugh O'Gara will preside; po. MC Indianapolis Scott Hargis will act as City PTA Council president, will "All PTA past presidents are invited to attend.
ITSC Chapter Plans Christmas Party
Mrs. Horace Mann Powell, 5565 Washington Blvd, will be hostess at 7:30 p. m. Dec, 12 for the first annual Christmas party of Meridian Chapter, ITSC. It 1 Mrs. Basil Fischer will be guest be a benefit bazaar for the blind. Mesdames L. H. Kornafel, Bd-
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