Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 March 1950 — Page 39

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cedar chest now opening up all mony and rooms . es. . mall boy's room le, appear staid. rats of paint in and an applica- - decals; a cedar , gay piece ‘of appeal for ‘the the room. ject, be sure to mended by your ers differ. Decals linary way and, t know, you can r at your paint hange the scenu're bored with

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and an organdy nt finish. By uffied skirt can n the chest into ‘ul window seat,

ry chest whose inches; front, 43 18 inches, you'll ght-weight mushes. You'll also ~drgandy, which ise into fourths, f each organdy other side and to- the mustin— ers five inches. jece of tape to kirt so that the at the back of

padded top for a piece of cote 48 inches. Give 'm all around, lit in the back, pe through the wstring and tie

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‘Garden Clubs— Groups Set

Programs For Week

owseplants and Ju hikes ease garden programs | | into spring this week: The sched-|

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Plan Spring Planting I

spring's just around the corner. | And the earlier you do your| spring planting the Leiter “luck” you'll have with your plants.

cool spot, wrapped as you buy] them. Then the first minute your| rose bed is dry enough, go. plan to plant next day, unwrap the plants, set them in water to soak up moisture overnight.

up” last year without opening! suspect that all too common in-| sect pest, thrips. now with 5 per cent dust for a head start on control.

soon as the ground is workable. It will pay to use some of your precious compost in. the onion row. Succulent sweet table onions come well fertilized, and rich in moisjute Dolding humus.

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Will Spring Ev

er Come?

Park Hikes Are On Schedule

ymond Cassady, 6018 Park Ave. hostess. “African violets,” Mrs. Theo Allenbrandi. SUNDAY

War Memorial. Car trip to MeCormick’s Creek State Park. Mrs. Leah Hamilton, Mrs. Home Knight and Otis Herreman in charge of transportation. Hike.

It may be ng. weather, but |

Steven's garden tools took tomato and lettuce rows, that Weishaar, saw to it. he was fitted Steven is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Fulk, 5008 E. 39th St. Michael's parents are Mr. and Mrs. William Lewis, 5008 E. 39th St. A good many gardeners have already started their planting both indoors and out, snow or no snow. The Joel Hadleys, 6123 Park Ave. always sow their lettuce seed in mid-Feb-ruary. Last fall they forgot to spade

Garden Gadding—

Dormant roses will keep in a;

in they| If you get them home and

If - your gladiolus buds “dried

Dust the corms

Onion sets can go out just as

from ground - well-limed,

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‘Michael Lowls ond Steven Fulk . . . impatiently await spring. By MARGUERITE SMITH, Times Garden Editor ABOUT THIS time of year a lot of gardeners get pretty impatient for spring. None more so than young Steven Alan Fulk and his next door neighbor, Michael Lewis.

nials, roses and vegetables, how to lick insects,

such a beating in last summer's his grandmother, Mrs. Mitchell out all over again. the other day.

the ground so they just sowed it as.usual, on top of the soil. Their radish seed went out on schedule, too, in early March Many a basement window is decorated with cabbage and to-

mato and snapdragon seedlings just waiting for the weatherman to say “go.” Then the 1950 tomato and zinnia race will be on.

Get Some Good Information From Government Pamphlets

Interested in good buys? Mrs. Robert Hoerger, 1956 Patton| Drive, sends a reminder of that annual big dollar's worth, the spring

you how to raise annuals, perenhow to improve houseplants and gardenias you'll A miracle working recipe for

|jars is this one from J. E. Mec-

| Farland, 4233 Graceland Ave. He|:

mixed one-half cup peat moss, one-half cup sand; and one cup vermiculite for each quart dar, jadds a half cup of water, ‘Stick “the cutting In, screw on {the lid and keep the jaf in a — shaded spot where it won't freeze, Mr. M¢Farland starts many of

in his heated cold frame where |temperatures never go below 45 | degrees.

Multiply Plants me gardeners no sooner get a plant or bulb until they begin, just for fun, to multiply it. That's how C. J. Cieslak, 541 8. Franklin Road, happens to have 20 black = raspberry bushes this

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is hard clay. 80-1 just made some little pockets and filled them with |eoal cinders. Then I cut the ends {of the raspberry stalks off next {to a bud, bent them over and buried the tip in the cinders.” That was the latter part of September. The raspberry stalks got busy and each one made a fine ball of roots ready to trans-

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A novice once asked a great artist the secret of creatin a fine painting. His reply was "Mix brains with your colors. Good landscape work, too, rogues’ an admixture of considerable gray matter.

"KNOW-HOW" is important

People are coming to realize more and more the knowledge od ries ich are necessary to make intelligent of plant material. A landscape artist is one who paints si plants and frees. It is not a "'pick-and-shovel’ job at all.

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The men who execute your work for Eagle Creek are trained workmen. We do not Y divchargs them when winter comes and then’ ‘hire a new, unskilled crew when spring arrives. They are interested in creating the result you are paying to obtain.’ It is time now to begin. Telephone us and we:

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plant sometime early in April, -

GARDENING =) CALENDAR

0 “en = start bigs seed under

To tart tomato and r “seeds indoors. Poppe

«+. to take a look at stored ~ladiolu and dahlia bulbs, « + to set out dormant roses. [ « « « to move African violets - away from too much sun.

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his in the fall, then stores them!

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Map. Shows When fo Plant

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Home Area

Neighbor Families Should Be Included

“What would you do in a case like this? We moved into our new ‘home last fall. It is a new development and all the planting (that has been done is some young

New Kinds BR ET ey wars; Of Azaleas | Or Market |«% Ten Varieties EC . Released to Trade || . JO The U. 8. Agriculture DepartAngie released 10 new varie-| [RSI WO ties of azaleas to the trade. They [EHaei vo mw: were developed at the Beltsville, | [Kill MAY1 TO Jin! d., station from a breeding pro- Sa" MU! an started 10 years ago. 2 This From 50,000 seedlings all but| chances of

“were discarded. From these 8300 came the choice 10. They are the double flowering “hose-in- ; E> Some. 3 are hardy | ¢ in acid soils from

ow England to IR a West Coast. ! Colors range from white to to rose tints. One variety, Guy E. Yerkes, was named for the man who started the breeding program in 1940. Polar Bear and Pink. Profusion come - from seedlings. Four others are the result of crosses of popular varieties

that big-time

Of these, Rose Banner, White Banner and Rose Glory are spreading types. Majestic Pink, is semi-erect. Snowhite and White

Cross. The 10th, H. H. Hume, will be used more for greenhouse cul-/deners go south ture than outdoors this far north. | |And they

available shortly.

To Install Officers

Officers will be installed at [the presidents luncheon the Neo-| phyte Garden Club will hold to- | morrow in the Indianapolis Ath-| letie Club.

ahead of our Iquinces.

Mrs. David Sluss, president; Mrs.

W. Glenmore Clute, vice presi-ipart with their

treasurer, and Mrs. J. C. DeHar- Fla. There two

Colored slides will be Thurs W. sorry plight.

' {Axton and H. G. Brannen. they were there).

wrong—. But you" ‘ve got | Uncle Sam on your side. He's figured it all out on the accompanying map. Strictly speaking (not gambling at all) you can sow seeds of peas, radishes, lettuce, alyssum; pinks, snapdragons and other tough-minded varieties as

riment map shows dates which the hes Dept ray bo 4 as on

HERE'S a strictly virtuous kind of gambling—with operator, Jack Frost. Guess right and you.

first of April to plant the somewhat doubtful seeds of beéts

and carrots. But, map in hand, a few seeds ahead of time.

beets and carrots this week, and at the end of the month,

{the voice of experience warns)

you may be moved to risk just That would mean sowing

maybe a few green beans. But

{trees in the yard, and some evergreens in front of each house. The yards are mostly mud and about half the trees are already dead. We've talked to some of our Beighbors and they are ke us

but it we each: plant our gin {the same way the whole thing will {will look just the same with no ‘variety. We ourselves especially {want our yard to have some inidividuality.” Why not get all the block or {even the entire development together? Let some natural dividing {line decide which families to injclude. Then try to work out a

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Southeastern Ave. ; Your informant have meant “plant food” : he said “vitamins” But the _ drying up of the buds was more directly due to garden By all means improve the soil in the bed with additional plant

very tiny insects, called thrips, are very common. To help control the trouble next summer, dust your gladiolus corms now with a 5 per cent DDT dust. Apply with a dust-gun or shake up the corms in a paper bag

soon as the ground is 4d If you're strictly conventional, you'll wait at least until the

Find Problems

Each year more and more Bar)

learn Look for these azaleas to be! [troubles aren’t confined to their Indiana, had been having too! own yards back home in Indiana..much water. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Spickelmier, recently returned from MisaissipNeophyte Garden Club It, found the azaleas in the air Rose Fans Hear ~|grath gardens “simply beautiful.”| |Japonicas were in bloom, weeks)

Mrs. J. E. McFarland, also in| |the south, is sending back roots! {of some special fancy-leaved cal- at panel members at the Rose curb to tie the yards together. | The new officers will include 4; ro tor a garden club project. Society's last meeting.

But Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mop-|

dent; Mrs. H. G. Brannen, secre-/Claude Loser, and Mr. Loser, vis-| |Glory, Eclipse (yellow), Mrs. Sam ing beats a front yard that is tary; Mrs. Thomas C. McGuffey, {ted azalea gardens in Palatka, McGredy

aty, historian. month-long drought had left un- Druschki and Kaiserin Auguste shrubs and trees. But the rear nate to state hosed parts of the garden in a|Viktoria still rank at the top. (It poi while

with the dust. You may also need to dust or spray during the season if your glads have a bad infestation.

Officers Elected By Green Thumb

Mrs. R. C. Rees is the new pres-

you'd better have some covering handy, especially for those beans, just in case,

|generally agreed upon street and a, {front yard - planting. (If this {sounds like too much to tackle ~ | personally, invite a local land{scape man to advise the group-—

In Dixie, Too {that will take the subject out of

Many of the camellias had been Personalities, ) to meet spring.| {touched by frost. While Florida Rear Yard for Play

that garden| was drying up, Mississippi, like] A uniform street planting, jqent of the Green Thumb Garden /not necessarily the same for eachi,p, Other new officers include |yarq, but pleasantly combining y..'n ¢. Van Buskirk, Vice pres|a varity of features gives the, .:. Mrs T. M. Hindman, sec[neighborhood an inviting setting retary, and Mrs. Paul Boardman, and. incidentally raises the value treasurer of your property. | Committee heads will be Mrs. One local neighborhood turned! Clayton Adams, program; Mrs, its area into a beauty spot each William E. Dismore, flower show; spring = with flowering crabs... yy ‘Hasbrook, horticulture; * {planted at intervals along the IMrs. Howard Aldrich, member Then certainly in the rear yara Ship: Mrs. 8. G. ilmes, Sheer; What varieties do best here?! you'll want to let your individual- *5 ¥ x DE leo oi daughter, Mrs. Top notchers include - Crimson | lity go as far as you like. Noth- \Mrs. Carroll J. Sherman, publicity

land historian; Mrs. Clayton conservation and alterconvention; Mrs. E, birds; Mrs. Ray yard ought to be your outdoor |K. Higdon, Fertilizer? Cow manure is still playground—for Pop and Mom {Thorn, visiting garden; Mrs,. the dainty flower’s favorite. as well as Junior. JGeorge H. Wear, Sarden center.

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