Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 April 1950 — Page 34
PAGE 34 .__ Garden Clubs—
Groups Plan
Increase Easter Lily Blooms
Indiana
Audubon Society
“Délaware St.
Meetings For Week
Activity Increases In Warm Weather
Activity of garden, bird, and
“nature clubs is rising as Easter's
passing promises spring weather. The schedule for this week fol-
THE INDIANAPOLIS 1 TIMES _ Bachard Adventures—°
Bird Groups
Violas Hardy |
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lows: TOMORROW | Fall Creek Garden. Club. 1:15} p. m. Mrs. K. G. Barr, 3322 Washington Bivd., hostess. “Varieties and Culture of Hem-| erocallis,” Mrs. Walter P. Mor-|
ton. i Arbutus Garden Club. 1 p. 'm.| Mrs. Robert Blessing, 5855 Al-|
lisonville Road, hostess. Brendonwood Garden Club,
Mrs. C, T. Drayer, Mrs. Robert Greenleaf, hostesses. “Rose Care and Culture,” chinsky of Hillsdale Installation of officers: Corwin T. Geyer, president; Mrs, Fred Dickson, vice presi-| deft; Mrs. E. J. Hamner, secretary; Mrs. J. O. Waymire; ; treasurer; Mrs. P. B. Denning, publicity chairman. TUESDAY Indianapolis Dahlia Society. 7:30 p.m. Brookside Community louse. “Solls and Fertilizers,” Horace FE. Abbott, Marion county agricultural agent. “Design and Balance in Flower Arrangement,” Mrs. Robert Mannfeild THURSDAY
Rhea Garden Clun. 2 p. m. Mrs. Elsworth Caidwell, 2858 8S. Dennison 8t., hostess. “Staging a Flower Show,” Mrs. Norvin Stricklind. Crooked Creek Garden Club.
1:30 p, m. Mrs. F. H. Langsen- | kamp, 5202 Woodside Drive, | hostess. “Europe as 1 Saw It,” Mrs. B. H. Gardner. , FRIDAY orth. End, Garden Club. 2 p s. R. Hartley Sherwood, Posts . Pennsylvania 8t., hostess, Mr Joh Schramm, “Mrs, Ems: ley W. Johnson Sr. assistants “Shady Gardens,” Mrs. Sherwood.
Audubon Society, 7:30 p. m. Rauh
Memorial meeting SATURDAY
Library. Annual
Nature Study Club. 10 a, m. In-
diana State Library. Exhibition of original Audubon bird books in charge of Miss Caroline Dunn of state liorary staff, Orchid Society. Noon. Mr. and Mrs. William F. Beck, Carthage, hosts Pests of Orchids,” Prof. C. Hoxie 7.30 a. m. Field to lunch at home of Mrs,
trip Noon
Dorothea Kuhns, 9000 E. 82d St. a While.
So your African vio-
lets won't bloom? Then try the new imported fertilizer
powder, Pokon. It's free from chlorides, completely, Use it every two weeks, see the difference, All your plants, indoors and out, will love-it. Buy Pokon at Bash's Seed Store, 141 N. Or call RI. 3733 or FR, 7333 for mail orders.
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you'd started some tuberous: begonias “a few weeks ago? Buy them already started at Hoosier Gardener's, back of Vogue Theater fn “Broad Ripple. They're big high -quality bulbs, imported from. Belgium, Six. colors, all fully double blossoms. “They re the perfect flowers for shady vards. Hoosier Gardener has English lavender seed, too. Also gloxinias, Pot gloxinias now, enjoy. the flowers this spring, then keep the bulbs over for another year's bloom. In orange, red, blue. Drop in at
Hoosier Gardener or sail BR. fl.
* No need cuss that shady yard Plant some of the shade tolerant shrubs you can buy at Stark's Greenhouse and Nursery, 511 S. Tibbs Ave. Snowberry, easy to raise, full of white winter berries. Coralberry, decked with rosebeaded plumes, come -~winter. Golden double flowering kerria, hydrangeas and dogwoods don't mind a bit of shade. Or if you want a spot of coolness against summer sun Stark's have tulip trees, also many sun-luving shrubs such as red and pink weigela. Go out Morris St. to Tibbs, turn north to reach Stark’s Greenhouse, 511 S. Tibbs Ave. BE. 13851.
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Don’t put off seeding and feeding your lawn. If you haven't time to do fit," call Wayside Nursery, CH. 2222. They'll do all your spring planting, too, ir . you're rushed. They've got a good line of trees and shrubs, heeled in so you can look them
over without any field tramp-
ing. They'll tag your selections, later bring them out and plant. For reat sized lawn trees they have lovely dark purple-leaved Plum apes equa and dwarf —
i 2! —-p..m, ..Brendonwoeod Common...
Alex ‘ Tus-| Nursery. | Mrs. |
sage just the same way vou would a head of lettuce if you'd prolong its beautiful life the vegetable pan
more prosaic cabbage and celery, then stick your roses or orchids into a ) it gently “Culture and INg_a piece of moist cotton into E. the packet so the thirsty flowers can take a drink.
Oaklandon reservoir. place the ribbon but,
COrEEN PEER tou DV the “dozen or
to,
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admires a display of Easter lilies in the
Gregg Spellman . . . Roepke Greenhouse, 3863 E. Washington St. Five-year-old Gregg lives at 505 N. Bancroft Ave,
Treat vour Easter lily kindly and you may have more Easter flowers later this year. Potted spring bulbs, azaleas and hydrangeas will prolong their bloom, too, with proper care. All of them will appreciate cool moist air rather than the super-heat of the average-living room. Daily drinks, to keep soil moist (but not water logged) will help When the Easter lily’'s buds have opened and faded, cut them off, leaving all the tall stalk. Then, by late April, set the bulb in a sunny place in the border. It won't fuss about soil. All the spring-flowering bulbs-- tulips, daffodils, hyacinths take the same treatment, except that they're hardy and will live through the cold weather. But usually they take a year's va- - cation to recover from the unnatural effort they had to make to force flowers out of season this year. Hydrangeas and azaleas need extra water, A saucer under them with half an inch of water in it all the time will please He Hen Water them once dally from above. If your house is really hot they may need two drinks a day,
‘Make Easter Corsage Last
Treat that lovely Easter cor-
Put it to bed in
By M. ARGU E RITE, SMITH
Or if that's too crowded with Times Garden Editor Q—I ordered a rose and some delphinium plants that arrived all right but it Js so, cold and the ground is £6 _wet I don’t know what to do about setting them out or how. to take care of them. N, Capitol Ave. A—Do not try to set the plants out until the ground is dry enough to be crumbly when you work it. Too wet ground gets the air all squeezed out of it, then plant roots suffer all season. Cold will not hurt]
cellophane bag. or
in aluminum foil,
wrap tuck
You hay have to remove or rewith care, you'll be wearing Easter for quite
both hardy. But tender growth forced indoors may get nipped in April. Your chief problem is to keep roots damp until you can plant. So heel in the plants by lifting up a chunk of earth with the spade, laying it back over the Toots. This is just a kind of temporary planting. If the tops have tender growth, throw some straw or other light covering over them until they get gradually used to chilly outdoor alr,
sizes, red flowering peach, pink -
With half a.
roses or delphiniums. They are
Ready For Big Weeks
Brown Thrasher
Is a Little Late .
These are big weeks in bird] ety. Arrival of the brown!
thrashers around the first of April] is always the big musical event of | spring. But like the: wildflowers,
{take this year. “Our thrasher,” re-| ports Mrs. Joel Hadley, 6123 Park | Ave, "usually arrives just in time to sing a birthday serenade for Mr. Hadley on Mar. 28, but not
ithis year.”
Another recent arrival In the Hadley yard is Bewick’s wren. “Grayer- than the house wren,” Mrs. Hadley describes it, “and longer, especially the tail. But he has the loudest voice. You can
hear him sing for a quarter of a|
mile. They nest commonly ‘around
here and in southern Indiana.
“Maybe it should be mentioned,
too,” says Mrs. Hadley, “that the
brown thrasher gets called “brown thrush.’ Like the thrushes, he's a beautiful singer but he belongs, with the
too frequently
mocking bird, in the wren family, |
not. with the thrushes. And the first of the thrushes won't be along until later.”
The thrasher’s red-brown color add to the But his long slim body and extra long
and speckled breast
thrasher-thrush confusion.
tail are distinctive marks.
Put Out Those
Perennials
| Asparagus. roots,
table garden ought to go the ground the minute it's workables
Asparagus likes our limestone it will do well AL... your.
country so well chance...
ground is. hard clay or acid,
sprinkle it lightly with lime beThen spade deep. Work in manure, compost, or any soil-loosening., water-hold-ing materials you can lay hands
fore you spade.
other
mn Rhubarb rules are practically the same. All perennial vegetables stay in place a long, long
time. That is. if you take a little time to prepare them the sort of soil they like best “Seven asparagus plants per person will supply your table and freezer.” Two or three really busky rhubarb plants will supply an average small family with lots and lots of rhubarb pie,
Rose Society Plans Meeting
Indianapolis Rose Society members will have a get-acquainted
meeting on Wednesday. It's for in the
members only, Central YWCA. Dr. Edwin J. Nugent, president of the local group, has been asked to serve as assistant to J. A. Ryan’ of Ft. d region eight of the National Rose Society. Region eight includes both Illinois and Indiana.
Sorority. to Elect | Officers Tomorrow
at 8 p. m.
the [birds are a little slow om the up-|
rhubarb and the other perennials of the vegeinto!
break up a view something good some colors, they'll bloom off and on all summer, too.
hybrid show-offs when they're planted in a single marching row. panel make a formal garden,
Wayne, director of
Jackson and Perkins phote.
New variety viola
“WHAT KIND OF flower is ‘a viola?" asked a very, very new gardener not long ago. Violas are such close relatives of pansies they're often
But unlike
Shows
Sorin
Indianapolis gardeners have to
flower show in many a city. shows were, luckily,
gardeners took in both. Mrs. W. L. McCoy was
seeds.
not distinguished. most true pansies, smaller flowered but
a viola, | sturdy,
-ean-take-a-hot Hoosier summer
and come up smiling. This new named variety, Johh Wallmark, was originally dis-
exhibit.
include Mesdames B. F. orr, E. C.| Kleiderér and Miles Barton.
Gardeners Eye
travel far afield to satisfy that yen for spring that means a
week this year 30 several local
-) pressed with “materials from all over the earth” brought in tor, {flower arrangements, especially |the spectacular tropical leaves and
Mrs. Ralph Wikoff is planning to try out in the Wikoff garden| this summer the bed of many! marigold varieties she saw in one
Others who visited the shows
covered blooming in the snow in Sweden. It's nearly pansy
|. sized blossom, gray-lavender
with violet veins, beams at you | with a white and yellow eye. Beginners should imitate ex-- | perienced gardeners in learning the value of violas flower garden. No less desirable are the hardly -thumb sized Johnny-jump-ups and their kin.
Have Fun by Planting Roses
Splash Your Yard With Bright Colors
Perfume and beauty all summer —that’s roses. And there's a kind for every yard. Sure, they may have some bugs but ask the nian who owns one-—or many. He'll say, all things considered, roses ive you plenty of Jeturns for | efrort spent. . A tiny yard? Why not some tiny roses, then. Cluster roses—flori-| bundas to the specialist—will’ provide flowers. in quantity all summer. Their. foliage is healthy, too. Or you might choose even smaller plants—those of the miniature or baby doll type— flowers handsome for corsages. Need a screen” A rambler will and give you to look at. In
And ranmblers
make good backdrops for a
flower border. Their roots aren't as greedy
as shrubbery To line a driveway or walk— teas, -naturally. Good
Or in lobelia edged, they if that's
beds,
your type,
Antique collector? Then the
old-fashioned kinds are just your dish. to save
You'd be doing a service)
If you're ‘nternationally minded. make a collection of “natives” from all over the world. The thorny Scotch rose, the coppery Austrian and lemon yellow Chinese are just a few of these adaptable beauties. Devoted to shrubs? Don’t forget the shrub roses to mix with
.anything. And alone, they make ja thick, thorny, practically costless fence. Just want to have some fun
and white dogwood, Japanese and get your mind off your trouweeping cherries and smoke GARDENING The annual election of officers bles? Plant roses. : fo y 8 aon fram double CALENDAR Phi po mmeid be eld pop crabs, magnolias and an array I's time ow: p. m. tomorrow in the home of of hedge plants. If you want waa ny peonies for Are W. D. Bain, 4370 Clarendon shade trees, they have silver | ' Road. ’ maples, Chinese Boy Silver sos to clean up iris heds Plans will be discussed for atmores. Or take a black walnut ooo to harden off house. tending the state convention May tree and you'll be picking nuts | raised seedlings. 5-T in Ft. Wayne. At that time a as well as shade. Drive out to s+eeto begin uncovering revision of the ritual will be pre- ” Display Room, Wayside Gardens, 1301 Pendle- | roses. [sented by a special committee in- = 2 2110 N. Mesida ton ‘Pike, and pick out your ses to set out cabbage, cluding Mrs. Oscar Buehler, Mrs. shrubs and trees today. . caulifiower, ‘and broc- [John Moffat and Miss Marjorie Em coli plants. /Ford.
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You can pick up and all the fixings lawn, pets, and in one stop at Jansen's Alabama St. LL. 9918.
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Pick the ‘most beauful rose of the cen“tury” in vour own garden this, June, Hillsdale: Nursery: = has it, dormant, ready to plant now. It's name is Peace, it's flowers an everchanging delight. The exquisite creamy bud tinged with apple blossom pink deepens into yellow and rose shades as it opens into a perfect full-blown fragrant rose. Choose at Hillsdale, too, from thrée kinds of magfiollas, those flowering trees ideal for either small or estate sized lawns. Pink, dark red, or the rarely beautiful white star magnolia. Many other fine shrubs and all the newest roses | available at Hillsdale Nursery now. Drive out State Road 100 to 8000 north. Follow the signs. Or call BR. 5495.
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Why fight grass under trees? Ground covers are the answer, New Augusta Nursery, 5000 W. 59th St., is offering a new improved vinca (myrtle) called Bowles Variety-a faster spreader than the old-fashioned sort. Bigger leaves, bigger flowers, t00. New Augusta Nursery stocks a variety of I ground covers — Japanese V spurge, several English ivies, : and the beautiful blue-flowered ajuga (bugle). “Call CO. 2638 * and let H. J. Schaitzius help you Paint qrouna cover prodiems.
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