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* SUNDAY, APR. 16, 1050" Garden Gadding— ai Hoosier Gardener a)

By National Magazine

Maybe it's our good (?) Hoosier climate that raises i along with roses and tomatoes. Whatever the reason, Sir on den Magazine has just shelled out. another award to an Indiana gardener, It makes Mrs. John Downing of Mooresville a two-time winner. Her-eurrent piece -is-on It comes, says Mrs. Downing, “with color, in blue drifts of scillas and grape hyacinths under sweeping yellow fronds of. forsythia . '. . with music, in the sound of peepers, the rustle of -wind, the rush of rain . , ., with excitement and discovery, when I wear a path along the beds and borders each day to see what has opened overnight.” Catching up on some mail: Mrs. Stanley Starkman, 2023 Boyd Ave., writes in answer to a 8. Biltmore St. reader, who inquired about a tall flower resembling a grape hyacinth. Mrs. Starkman suggests that scilla campanulat, or wood hya: cinth, might be the answer, (But scillas do not grow much over a foot tall and the flowérs in question were huge.)

Mrs. A. F. Scheffle., 1035 Churchman Ave., answering the same query, says it's summer flowering hyacinth, or Sjltonia. She writes that she has “several blooming size bulbs, ru ripe seeds that I sow in May or late April. They bloom either second or third year, depending on how rich the soil is. Mine blossomed last year until late October.” And they have white flowers on three-foot stems.

Alumnae to Meet The Alumnae

Quality plants, distinctive planning—to give your landscaping

Want to be a lazy gardener? Then plant lilies. They

of Vogue Theater in Broad Ripple, has lily bulbs for season-long bloom. His potted Madonnas will blossom for you early this year. The fragrant Regais open = in June. Then come tiger lilies.’ (Hoosler - Gardener has both -single.and. double.) After that

sonnel. They

builder has given your home, then design a planting to complémerit its ‘individual ‘features and "beautify its setting, through the use of interesting plant materials. The best is the least: expensive -over-a -peri-

“How" Spring Comes es to 0 My Garden. wr

Association of

the Kappa Delta Sorority will meet at 8 p. m. Tuesday in the home of Mrs. Byron Kilgore Jr.; 5547 Allisonville Road. Miss Carol Holman and Mrs. Graeme Supple will be assistant hostesses.

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Bluebells Hoping For a Bit of Sun’

By MARGUERITE SMITH Times Garden Editor

“unusual” spring of almost constant winter and rain.

week-end and holiday home of Dr. and Mrs. Charles Myers, snow trilllums and hepaticas the other day were covering a hillside with “spr snow.” The snow trillium,” says Mrs. Myers, gets its name for its hardihood, for it often blossoms ‘in real spring snow. “Virginia - bluebells, full of buds, were just hoping for a bit of encouraging sun. the dainty feathery leaved pepper and salt, its tiny white “salt” flowers liberally sprinkled with black “pepper” dots, and the snow white bloodroot were venturing out timidly. But skunk cabbage, an old scaredy cat, was way behind its late Pebruary-early. March schedule, pe These are the first of well over a hundred wildflowers that thrive at Eaglebend. The list

includes ‘practically all the

| kinds native around here” and

come up year aft- individuality. That's er year. Hoosier the aim of Eagle Gardener, back Creek's trained per- |

study | the fine lines your architect or |

some not so common. As the

orchid varieties brought in from

his former home in Pennsylvania by Dr. Myers, and the. big flowering grandiflora trillium .that prefers the cooler climate of northern Indiana. « With all the planting done for natural rather than formal effect, of course the birds love the Myers home and the foed they find not only on shrubs but at numerous bird restaurants established near the house. High spot of the many bird houses is one designed by Mrs. Myers for one pair of their bluebirds.. Cust .it-has a wooden. door that opens on a

full length glass window. Mama .

bluebirtheto--date has. done...a. strenuous job: of nest building

i ‘wihch inch includes des lugging a pencil

"EVEN THE wild flow- | ers are befuddled by this

Out at Eaglebend Farm, the

“and

. of hybrid teas,

the magic “lily” (lycoris) with

{ts rainbow of pastels. And later, the spectacular gold-banded auratum_ and rum. your bulbs.

red-banded rubSee Hoosier Gardener for summer's supply of lily BR. 9121. . ¢

For color and

fragrance plant summer flowering bulbs. Drop

in at Bash’s Seed , Store, 141 N. Delaware St, and choose dwarf cannas (four colors) or hardy lilies (auratum, rubrum, tenuifolium or Regalg). Or select the newest gladiolus for sun, tuberous rooted begonias or fancy leaved caladiums for shade, tuberoses for perfume, or the big-leaved elephant's ear for tropieal. foliage effects. Bash's Seed Store, 141 N. Delaware St. FR. 7333 or RI. 3733.

Let pansy faces perk up vour flower border right now. Stark's “Greenhouse has field-grown

Nursery not greenhouse tender,

pansies, that will never know they've been moved to your yard. Then you can pick up flowering shrubs at Stark's, too. Butterfly bushes in four colors, flowering crabs, flowering almonds. Also gilver lace vine, easy to raise, makes good porch shade. Or use TT to screen unsightly spots. Stark's, 511 S. Tibbs Ave., just north of Morris St. BE. 1351.

* *

Plant a fruit tree and you earn three rewards—spring flowers, summer shade, tree-ripened fruit from your own backyard. Waysidé Nursery has a big variety of fruit. Six kinds of apples (séason long sauce and

pies), cherries; peaches, pears (Bartletts,- no less), red and blue plums, quinces, apricots. Wayside's complete line in-

cludes all the small fruits, too —goosebernies, currants, grapes, red and black raspberries and blackberries. They have the new tender red-stalked rhubarb, many kinds of strawberries, asparagus. roots. Tuck these into odd corners of your yard and enjoy better eating than you ever dreamed of. While you're out there pick up roses, tno, from a big selection rugosas, climbers, polyanthas, Wayside has a specially good stock of the’ briiliant Paul's Scarlet. And don't forget that Wayside will do your lawn work and plant your trees and shrubs. Call CH. 2222, or visit Wayside, 7801 Pendleton Pike.

od of time, Eagle Créek believes. Lift your landscaping |

Narcissus es oan | Show Pl Aa nned

Alana tre ay wu | Narcissus will share honors free estimate. Budgeting? You With plain dirt at the annual can still have the best. . Let |narcissus show this year. Or mayEagle Creek tell you how. Drive be it won't be such plain dirt. It out “US 52, 13 ‘miles north of will be the kind the “Easter FlowTrader's Point. fer” likes -best, along with other * 0% {soil samples to be exhibited in the “Buy with confi- | |conservation section of the show. dence, own with Examples of proper planting of pride” —when you |narcissus, an insect exhibit and » buy from Floyd free literature on state parks, Bass’ Nursery, |Darcissus culture, and conservaWest 62d St (ber tion work in general are to be part tween US 52 and Of the conservation exhibit. Mrs. Indiana 29). Liven up your |W, E. Barrett of New Palestine

border with his Oriental Pop- |is chairman. pies, eight varieties, potted, ready to bloom this year. Or choose from over a hundred named iris varieties, potted roses. (teas and climbers) ready to grow. Many varieties of viburnums, also magnolias and different kinds of Japanese |

yews. Call CO. 2349. |Pike and Clayton Adams.

* * | The flowering branches you'll og . see in background decorations will No luck with plants? Then see |p, gonations by the Brendonwood John Regnas, 218 W. 37th St., |q,rqen Club, from Brendonwood's for--compost made by: Rodale

“plentiful rules. It perks up plants, livens iid lawns. Purdue tested, good soil | > } conditioner. Sacked and ready Date and place of the ajiya) to go or delivered free. Call {nareissus-show, this coming weekJohn Regnas, TA. 7382 lend,” Brookside Community House, No need to go to

lopen at 5 p. m. Saturday, and at Washington to en-

he a. m. on Sunday. joy a cherry festi‘val, Have one in

Tips Offered

st Late Planters | Hillsdale Nursery.

has Japanese cher- | Soak pea seeds overnight to ries in variety, the [give them a quicker take off. delicate colors, soft | tr your garden rows run east pink to deep rose, also the love land west, a slight ridge to the ly weeping cherry. Get them {north of each row will catch and] now, dormant, root wrapped, ireflect.more warmth and sun and ready to set out. Also at Hills- 'hystle plants along. dale vou'll find three kinds of | Carrot and beet seed, as well flowering crabs—their flower- |, naa and beans, can be soaked packed branches in early spring overnight for a faster start. a pink cloud of bloom. If you Plant quick maturing pea va-| choose Hopa crab you can also |rjeties now rather than the slower enjoy a fine ‘jelly from the rich plum colored fruits. Hillsdale also has the red-leaved flowering plum. And this will be their last Sunday for dormant roses. Visit Hillsdale today. Drive to’ 8000 north on Indiana 100. Or call BR. 5495. BR. * Kingan's Green Thumb Compost is an organic fertilizer for new lawns, flower and vegetable | gardens. Rich in.plant foods, loosens soil, retains moisture. Free from. weed seeds; no danger -of burning vegetation. $1.00 per 100 Ibs. at plant; $1.25 per 100 Ibs, delivered within Marion County. Phone Kingan & Co., LL 1851, Extension 318.

{paper work necessary for putting | jon a big flower show are the “clerks.” Mrs. H. L. Hasbrook is, chairman of the clerks committee. | Her helpers are Mesdames I. M.! | Kenworthy, Ray Kenworthy, T. W. |Ayton, Robert Mannfeld, Glen |Harper, D. J. Caseley, Paul BR.

into hot weather. i Fertilizer is specially important when a garden is late, Easiest way to apply it is under rows, a-pound of quick acting general chemical, fertilizer to 30 feet of row, mixed well in soil. To. save the extra time. it takes to -dig -deep trenches and mix in

{fertilizer solution after seedlings lappear. If you set plant protectors over

Hold off on tomato plants for at| Jeast two weeks unless you've got] plenty of covers for them. for] nippy nights. It’s safe now to plant all but warm weather vegetables and {flowers (providing you can work in 1 your | rice field).

supply “of flowering |

/¢cabbage plants they'll grow faster, »

Carolyn Lee Armstrong . . .

enjoys trillium at Eaglebend

sized willow twig into her living room,

are

friends.

Many of the shrubs and trees “named varieties'’-—named, hat is, for sometimes surprised A pair of blue spruces,

Bill and Sally, perpetuate the " memory of a well-known local

doctor. and his wife. And a gingko tree answers (almost literally) to “Clementine,” name of a long-time cook. re Weekly strolls through the Woods to Keep rack: of "whars

ome “out this Week” help Dr.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

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|Garden Clubs— Nature Study Pont Crowd Hardy Flowers ature Study Yin Your Spring Resetting

Spring of Winter and Rain Is Puzzling Even to the Hardy Wild Flowers

a spring outing in a bed of snow Farm, W. 34th St.

Myers relax from ous’ job as superintendent of General Hospital. Lawn mowing, too, provides pleasant physical exercise, though he does admit to doing a bit of hedge plantingelose up to the house 80 “there wouldn't he quite so. much

to mow--we can leave the part®behind the hedge to _ nature.” Mrs. Myers’ interest in native

{ i 1

N ature Study Club

his strenu- |

plants holds over from the time

she helped establish’ the Smoky Mountain Park area.

Group Plans Spring Trip

{devote most of their energies to) [the Narcissus Show and the Home | |Show. But the Nature Study Club will zoom into spring with an ali-| {day trip. The schedule follows. |

Irvington Women's Garden Club,

Narcissus

GARDENING CALENDAR

IT'S TIME NOW:

Your Yori ;

Narcissus, Home Shows to Open

Garden clubs this week will’

CUTTING “WITH SPADE

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FRIDAY

—2 p. m, Mrs, H. T. Chaille, 832! N. Campbell Ave, hostess, Mrs, Charles Russell, assistant, “Weed Killers. -and Garden Tools,” Miss Martha Kincaid. Plant exchange, 8 p. m. Indiana National Bank, 38th St.! Kodachrome slides of a recent trip to Africa, C. A, Dryden, Hanover. SATURDAY Show-—Sponsored by Central-West ™Mistrict Garden

Your hardy flowers will do much better by you if you don't treat them like sardines. They usually have trouble enough fighting with weeds and dry spells for plant food and water.

Clubs, 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. | When they develop a family Indianapolis Home Show—Opens' fight," it's worse (is it necesState Fair Grounds. sary to mention?). : | SuNnay 1 1s The perfect gardener, of Farcisan Snow on and last! .urse, divides and resets his aa a. . « v i 3 wid . . perennials in- the fall. Most of Nature Study Club-—8 a. m. Bus . trip to Morgan-Monroe State Y% gardening M-oup amusingly Forest. Otis Herman trip designated “leisure” time, do it leader. Mrs. I.eah Hamilton, when we can’t put it off any Mrs. Homer Knight, in charge IOnger, in the spring.

of reservations. William Myers, But even a hustling gardener

Mrs. Arthur Beard, Ralph Pler- is smart to take a few extra son fin charge of hike and minutes for deep digging, stirbotany. | ring in extra plant food under

the roots when he resets plants, With good soil preparation, he may be able to delay the next resetting for. an extra year or two.

. to spray delphiniums with Ideal soil preparation varies

fermate against crown rot. with” the plant in question. . to cut back spindly houses | npainhiniums, cotumbines, chrysplants, anthemums need especially . + + to begin removing straw- | Rood drainage. Sometimes a berry- mulch. L little lifting of the level of

sesterstart-morning glory sees: indoors. « . « to finish cleaning up all |

RET Dea EoTves The “problem. Columbines like light soil ‘so

water after every heavy rain. Not so good. For spring transplants a small handful of high phosphate quick-acting chemical fertilizer will give them a quick boost. Be sure to mix it into the soil well, keep it away from roots, Then for the long time pull, bone meal is still the people's choice. Use it liberally for it won't burn roots.

Chemical Offers Hope for Elms

You won't be able to get it right

Meeting Tuesday

away. But if you can keep those - The Grand Pre 1TSC Chapter] elm trees alive and reasonably Will meet Mo Ag 4G Ruesiny ? ) , ; ral "in the East Side Branc idelity e Y Healthy fof Bpotlier year of {Wo Trust Bank. Mrs. C. O. Crawford By MARGU ERITE SMITH you may be able to save them will ‘speak: . Q.—I have: a DIE Clump of peonies permanently, New. officers are Mrs. J. Mauthat were given to me. There A new chemical, so far tested rice Thompson, president; Mrs. ‘are about 10 or 11 plants in it. only incompletely, promises to Martin Merkt and. Mrs. Donald, save not only healthy trees but Paidrick, first and second vice

A.—Since your plant is already

The garden clubbers who do the!

Should I divide it before plant- |

Howard Farmer

secretaries;

ing or isn't that advisable? those ailing slightly. It goes into presidents; Mrs. How should peony roots be the ground like plant food. and Miss Bertha Pieper, recording separated? Mrs. A. L., Arbor Another chemical to look for and eorresponding Ave. next summer is Dilan, developed Mrs. J. A. Moore, treasurer;

out of the ground, dividing is

advisable, though fall is a much better time to do it. Prepare the ground well with!

plenty of organic matter mixed, in deep below the roots. Also mix in two or three “has ul of bone meal. The easies for a beginner to divide roots is to wash off the Lo so’

you can see what you're doing. Then ease and cut -the- roots apart carefully. Leave three to five growing tips on each division. Set in ground so tips two inches

are no more than below surface.

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« (Number 4

Answers to this question will appear in this

of a Series) paper from week

these replies to this question.

Selection of Plants Is

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