Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 March 1950 — Page 23

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Card Party

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, we suggest you clip and file these four pages aaa bandy guide and reference for your gardening

grass culture

plant shrubs and vegetables. “Here, too, is a conveniently arranged

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gardening general tips and pointers for

- The news and advertisements. pellent “where to find what” ~ and summer weeks to come.

provide you an exdirectory for the spring

rip on List Of Events

Group to Visit Game Preserve

A field trip that starts at five in the morning will doubtless be “the most eye-opening” of this week's garden and nature club programs. The schedule follows. TUESDAY Emerson Grove Garden Club—| Noon. Mrs. Floyd Thompson, 1440 'W, 27th St., hostess. Mrs. C. E. Weddle, assistant. Roll! call, botanical names of flowers, Grab bag question box. FRIDAY Ripple Garden Club—1 m. Mrs, John G. Jacks, 5602 liton Ave, hostess. “Spring. Preparation in the Garden.” H. J. Schnitzius of - New Augusta Nursery. SATURDAY Christamore Garden Club—8 p. m. Christamore House. Colored movies, Azalea Gardens in Palatka, Fla. Tulip Time in Holland, Mich. Auduben Societys a. m, Field, trip Jasper-Pulaski state

game preserve. Leader, WilJam es. SUNDAY

Nature Study Club—Hike at 10 a. m. Open house at cabin, 2:30 p. m. Tea hostesses, Miss Clara

Early Field

Fight Waged To Ward Off

Elm Disease

When elm tree diseases first only remedy. Nowadays the own-

conscious of his wealth. fighting to save it. There's still no 100 per cent cure-all--no reputable tree man will tell you there is, But certain {methods have proved so success-! ful they're becoming standard | practice, | They are based on knowledge] (of. how elm diseases spread. But| they take elm tree spray definite-| ly out of the hands of the homeowner himself. For unluckily he has no room in his garage (or in

So he's

his. budget). for the high-powered.

Sprayers that must throw a veil St Protestion around a towering

The elm bark beetle is the first seasonal varmit that must be fought. The female lays her eggs in fall, carefully choosing an ailing tree. The young villains that {hatch spend a cozy winter be[eats the bark. . Very: shor y now they'll feel the gall 0° sp! and emerge froin their winter quarters,

Lay More Eggs . Then they’ hie themselves to! healthy elms, carrying along a bug suitcase full of Infection. |

~=Haug-Miss-Ruby Wolfe: Hike There they'll ‘gore themselves in|

- Jeader; Harry Love: Bird Imitator To Be Speaker

"A park Spe gets plenty of chance to practice up on bird scales. Maybe that's why Bert Harwell, ‘this week’s Audubon screen tour speaker and a former naturalist at Yosemite, is now a whistling bird imitator, He will demonstrate his skill at the World War Memorial Thursday at 8 p. m. With his bird songs he will show colored motion pictures of “Canada

West.”

As is customary with Audtbon | speakers he will put on the same program in the afternoon for grade and high school pupils, This time it's ‘at Tech“ High School Auditorium,

6. Hill Landscaping

. Complete Landscape Service Lawn Care Now Spiking to loosen seed bed

Tolling. Son work and

Fertllining, seeding, top Mressing and !

twigs mostly at the tops of trees. That starts the trouble for a

-thealthy elm.

Well-fed, the beetles hustle back | to a diseased tree to lay more eggs. Protective sprays against this spring brood must go on soon. They must be of a special concentration of DDT. They must reach the tops “of trees. And they must be so made up that they'll stay on for a matter of weeks while the elm bark beetles feed. 8till in the experimental stage is another method of attack. It's a feeding of chemicals through

the ground. That gets them up {into the sap cragasl, be of operations of one gus.

Diseased trees standing’ near healthy elms should by all nieans be removed. But the cut-down tree then becomes a problem itself in this cycle of destruetion. p— should be burned or r sprayed.

struck, “chop it down" was the

er of a healthy elm is becoming

| Scholarship Fund.

Park Park School Garden Tour Mea ea

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ring truly has arrived in Indianapolis when the Park School Garden Tour gets under way. This year se event will be Apr. 29 and 30 and 12 gardens are included. Shown here is a visty of light and shade on the J. K. Lilly estate, Sunset Lane. Proceeds from the tour will go to the Park School

Here's how one type operates.|.

_|joiLing all the time.

TworLegged |G Pests Plague |}

Gardeners

Group Formed to Combat Racketeers

There's one garden pest that comes out of winter quarters before the bean beetle and the plant louse. He's a two-legged variety, He preys on unsuspecting trust . S50 he's a more serious

He sizes up a yard and sees an tree. As he strolls up the front walk, he stops to examine a Sugumg the dirt around he

shows the home owner the “bugs” | he “found” around the roots.| They're killing the tree, he. ex-| plains, and a little of the white | ipowder he sells will save it. That the powder may be plain bread flour, that the bugs were

_|some he planted there as he sane)

up the walk, are facts that do not come out at the moment, Not until the frantic tree owner, |gypped of perhaps $15, gets In| {touch with a reliable person who's! acquainted with the standard gyp! games of the spring and summer | season.

Iron Out Problems

Naturally, this is the sort of thing a legitimate business man abhors. Back in 1942 a group of | established local nursery and tree men got together and organized the Indianapolis Landscape Association. New members are For they know it's good business for them as well as the public to help Mr. Average Home Owner: get results for the money he spends. At the moment they're ironing out problems within the trade. putting on educational programs -gome- of these may later be open to the public. For, as one member says, “We want to educate the public to demand even better work from us—that's to everybody's advantage.” In the meantime they can only warn of the typical rackets that

“Productive . laziness, eminent psychologist, raises the best garden, (Well, maybe "he {didn’t say garden—he was just] {plugging for a plan-before-you-act program whatever your line.) Boiled down, the learned gentleman says something like this:! ONE: Plan before you plant. Then you won't waste time, ground and fertilizer raising cabbage and Paul's Scarlet climber when the family loathes coleslaw and has rose “fever while they adore tomatoes and dahlias. TWO: Raise mostly the easy-to-do like lettuce and beans and zinnias. ‘Then you can concen< trate with a light conscience on| something like caulifiower and]

of doing but will certainly turn the neighbors gréen with envy. THREE: Face the facts. Get your s6il tested. Thefpou won't be spending money for phosphate that you'd better spend for nitrogen.

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FOU Nobody |

Dwarf fruit trees will be large or smalFlargely depending on the type of rootstock. Malling No. 9 is the preferred “Malling number,” according to Dr, J. A. McClintock

Evergreens, deiphinium. that may take a bit Top-Soll and slonse for walls. terraces,

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LANDSCAPING?

(NUMBER | OF A SERIES)

The answers to this question will appear in this paper 1 from week to week. Watch for them. ‘Below you will find the first of these replies to the question;

: mpetence and artistic good taste of the designer are 3 Cor frst essentials. Planning a landscape involves the

a result which is both pleasing and permanent.

* The Best Way to Proceed : oT 3 dscape expert should first see your grounds, be-: uk yom SS oy to the sun and the architectural features of the house must be easidered ome. hone request will bring our represen e to Jour me. i (More answers to the same question next wee bi

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Choose from one of Indiana’s Most Complete Stock—OQver 100 Varieties

«Outstanding favorites of top grade, northern, field grown rose bushes with fine, strong roots,

of Purdue. ;

shrubs and roses

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Nursery five _ gn A of Waverly | on Road 37—~Phone Martinsville 1165F1 Member Indianapolis Landseape Association

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244 W. TROY

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POTTENGER' S

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FRUIT TREES

Peach, Apple , 5... $1.50 siven Marie—ss vi... $1.80 Cherry, Pear, Plum , ;, $2 | Lombardy Poplar.» 760

can tell you exactly the best waY stews); to manage your own garden. Use plumes for perfuming linen, mak“the book” rules for a good. jump-|ing winter bouquets); ing off place. You can find out a hesvenly blue flowers to candy lot by making a few Mistakes of

with

Evergreens

Shrubs

Grow New Herbs

Easy-to-grow annual herbs in“the varfous-basts Caiways)

i = SQuUps, | ambrosia (sweet uous, New Canna Shades

tomatoes,

or float in cool summer drinks). Coriander (wonderful on ginger-

your own, bread); dill (cut it fresh, use it with. vegetables, as well Dwarl Fruits pickles). "

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take many a dollar out of the home-owner's pocket every spring and fall.

Cannas will blossom out Inj some new colors this spring.| That's good news for the gardener | pendability of these “rafiroad|® station orchids.”

Jin in a matter of Pinotes | .

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who's already found out the de-| With the emphasis on deep, flared

Yon "i Barbare Bates. “os men they'll enter in the Narcissus

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oul ideas for the eqeiablh ow children's section.

By MARGUERITE SMITH, Times Garden Editor

DON'T BE surprised if you

meet a parsnip man or a carrot

woman out at the Narcissus Show this year. Not that any blagh

magic is going on.

It's just that a new department in the children’s section

going all out in creative imagination along strictly vegetables ln

On the formal flower show schedule these odd creatures

And at frantic

be_dubbed “figurines.” the moment there's practicing going on. One group that's all involved with vegetable bodies, nutshell hats, and bay leaf ears are the Sprouts. They're the junior group - sponsored by Green Thumb Garden Club. Mrs. Mark Mercer, 911 Graham Ave., is chief guide. After their practice sessions are all over each Sprout is on his (or her) own to produce an artistic (?) creation for the Narcissus Show exhibit. Other junior classes will in-: clude the bird house building contest and small fry flower arrangements in cups and saucers that were so popular

oo

The date for the Narcissus Show has been vibrating madly,

Collars and Cuffs

Exquisite collar .-and cuff sets,

eves reeset frig dg pendulum fashion, between the

only two possible week-ends, Now it's set willyenilly = Apr. 22 and 23. “There will bs late varieties open then ag least, and plenty of other flower materials we can use for arrangements,” says one philosophical committee chair man, If the matter hadn't been settled definitely pretty soon there'd have been a good many more gray haired garden clubs bers. For it was not only the matter of seeing that Brooks side Community House would "be available, but that judges from out-of-town arrived ona schedule on the chosen week. end.

snd pointed cuffs, can be made ribbon. So can faille gilets for nN with dressy suits.

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