Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 June 1950 — Page 36
C roups Set Meefings At Holliday House -
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Gh sureties A befuted for the Indianap
polis Rose Society's
Mrs. L, T. Bishop, 1340 N. De-
SD APN a Nature Study Club. 2 p. m. World ‘War Memorial, Trip by car to Tanager Hill, home of Dr. and Mrs, Goethe ‘Link. Gene Cook, | Noah Myers, Arthur Beard in Lo charge of program, Otis Herre-| - BT ; man, trip leader. a MONDAY Rolnbow Garden Club. . 11:30 a. m. Holliday Park. Picnic lunch and tour of park = Arbutus Garden Club, 2 » 40 E. 56th St, Po Holliday House, Jers. rs. AP. do Holliday Park. See ARPITUEE, HOSTESS, MT 8, : Skinner, Harlan J North End Garden Club. assistants. Spring flower show, Mrs, Frank Welcher, chairman. Blue Flower Garden Club, 12:30
; ; THURSDAY Rhes Garden Club. Mrs, Ellsworth Caldwell, 2858 Dennison Ave. hostess.
FRIDAY
garden of Mrs,
p. m. Mrs. Corbin Patrick, 8il- . ver Hills, hostess. Mrs. J. R. Reynolds, assisting, “Wild _ Flowers na,”
Show, Mis. James R, Spalding.
Frank SUNDAY
SUITOR
of. Indian = BleZ-B Garden Club. 9. a m. : Meét at home of Mrs. Alfred Brown, 6350 E. 42nd St, for trip to Holliday Park.
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Fred W. Myers, publicity.
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, Jcliday. Pasi ¢ Hable fo burst st ta seams fig week. what ft. The big event of | first show at Holliday
society and garden clubbers will have speci STEaRgumAnts on display to make the
| Green Thumib Garden Club, 1 p.m,
with demonstration, Mrs. Ray Thorn. far
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| Golden Glow Garden Club, 10:15 ‘a.m. at home of Mrs, Lysle Bryant, 1120, W. a St. Visit Drayer, od lunch at
"120 George B. Elliott, 3816 Washington Bivd., hostess. Mrs. Charles Wiltsie, Mrs. Bert Johnson, assisting. Flower “Flower Arrangement,”
Grovied ~Oredic Garten Tah.
to 5 p. m. Holliday House. Mrs. B. H. Gardner, chairman, Mrs, Hubert Lance, assistant, Mrs.
of a sunflower blossom.
University does.
“Of course,’
be Show
Scheduled
Other Attractions At Holliday Park
Holliday Park offers all sorts of attractions this week far na-ture-minded citizens, In addition to the rose show in Holliday House, Sidney Esten, newly appointed park naturalist, says some fifty varieties of roses will be nj bloom in park beds.
can make a list of your favorites. If you're interested in Indiana's
state tree, youll find the tulip tree tblossoms
out. There'll also. be a couple of “Christmas trees” worth looking up near Holliday House. These are Scotch pines with their
the trees fashion, Dahlia fans can look forward |
flowers in the park this fall, for the local dahlia society is donating and planting about 40 varieties of dahlias this year.
| GARDENING —
CALENDAR
IT'S TIME NOW;
soaking is better than light sprinkling. to thin early planted zinnias (discourages mildew Inter). «+o to sow endive seed for summer salads.
to. watch for asparagus beetles (use rotenone)... to spray er dust roses regularly.
Fifty or so iris varieties, well labeled, will be blossoming so you
new light green growth decking) tn Christmas candle
to a display of thelr favorite!
to —remember-—that—woit
By MARGUERITE SMITH = ie Times Garden Editer A SUNFLOWER seed holds all the mystery and drama of a detective story if you see it as Dr. Charles Heiser of Indiana He's a sunflower specialist—largely “because his botany teacher remarked to him, “If you look into sun~ flower lore very carefully, you'll find many Interesting facts.” ' says. Dr, Heiser,"
he could have said that about i any plant and it would be just as true a Anyway, he looked. And he's had plenty of sunflower ad1 ventures. There was the time
he and Mr. Heiser were travel. | 5 ing by train in the West. He |
{ spied “a most unusual sunflower” growing beside the tracks. Naturally, when the | gather some seéds. I amused the passengers and worried my wife, “She was
| train. But those were the smallest sunflower seeds I ever found!” laughs Dr. Heiser,
All Excifing
As to excitement, *‘Why every time an archeologist turns up another sunflower. -geed it's an event.” And they've been digging up so-called “Russian” For the
food plants, “Rus-
er, “isn't really Russian, it's as American as anything.” It just got reintroduced into the U. 8. from Russia by an odd set of circumstances, To begin with it's one of the very few cultivated plants native to the. . Americas that came from. the area of the United States.
duced it to Europe probably
{ It impressed, people because it grew go tall in a single season,
sia Just when the Orthodox Church had prohibited eating
hefore Lent. seeds quickly became popular because they were so new they weren't on the prohibited list. Hence “Russian”
mentioned in a seed catalogue
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Sunflowers are
addition to its importance for food, Hopi Indians raised a purple seeded sort for dye for i basket work. Nowadays it's even a cultivated crop. In the | U. 8, it's: raised chiefly for [chicken and bird feed, in South | "America for ofl and silage’ in {| Canada t's important because it matures in a growing season too short for corn, The oil makes good mayonnaise, Can be used in paint. hulis then furnish fuel. Just “when most: gardeners
reaping a harvest “from the | greenhouse. Two crops a year speed his research. -
ers “they make a bouquet suitable for a horse”, he does speak
| ennial sorts make good garden Subjects.
Dr... Chacles. Heiser. of. tadisas. University. wearer. the: width...
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Shivers, Sullivan. Families Co-operate A yard to drive by and enjoy is
the expanse between 6170 and 1 Ave. Jt holds. they.
1 pt flower border maintained by
Sag Swe Raster alpine {livan families with more than 200 Poppies blazing bright|
|this season.
A “why didn't T think of it be-
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Mills, 1131 W. 35th St. who dis-
‘|covered an easy way to soll soak a rose bed immediately after dust-|¢
ing the bushes without washing off the bug medicine. She stuck the
“p oured” around the bushes. “Less splashy than a. regular soll soaker,” she says.
Open Gardens Listed Have you noticed that the deli
wild grape blossoms? The national day-lily society, preparing for its national &on-
(7th, 8th, 9th, to be exact) lists in its last newsletter gardens all over the country that may be visited en route. One Indiana
Wilmer Flory, Logansport. :
train stopped he ran back to |
afraid I wouldn't make the
sunflower seed right | along with other early Indian |
slan” sunflower, says Dr, Heils- |
Early Spanish explorers intro- |
before the middle of the 1500's. |
Then it happened to his Rus- |
are plantiig-a few sunflowers for their redbirds, Dr. Heiser is |
of any oily food for 30 days | Christmas %nd before | The nut-like sunflower |
sunflower. | Some time after 1850 it got | | back to this country, was first |
in 1882. -—¥
plants of | many uses, says Dr, Heiser, In |
The pressed |
While he thinks that as flow. |
well of a silver leaf variety, | | says certain of the ninety per- |
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POTTED TREES AND SHRUBS
Trees, shrubs and evergreens which were potted while dormant, _can be safely planted right through the summer. Eagle Creek has shade trees, fruit trees, shrubs, broadleaf evergreens in pots, ready to plant. See them at the nursery.
A wide variety of hybrid teas, polyantha and climbing roses growing in pots aand beginning to bloom. Now is the best time fo set roses to get bloom yet this summer. These are Grade A, Northern grown roses, with heavy fellage,
Here are many varieties of evergreens, ornamental plants, - broadleaf evergreens, flowering frees, either potted or dug while dormant. These are) of sizes you can take in your car
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These bushes are now beginSing to bloom — and’ continue
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You are invited fo the ‘Rose Festival June 9, 10 and 11. . Indiana's Largest, Most Complete Rose Display
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In building up this bed use
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seed meal and bone meal are favorite plant foods for tuberous, begonias.
Floyd Bass is the largest grower of peéonies in central "Indiana. And this week, because of the longer season and plenty of ‘moisture, ‘his peony display is unusually fine. You'll want to .
| see the hundred varieties—
singles, Japanese, tree peonies (some yellow), at Floyd Bass “Nursery. Also many fine iris
{ and Oriental poppies now in
bloom. Order for fall planting. Floyd Bass Nursery, where you “Buy with Confidence, Own with Pride.” West 62nd St,
i between US 52 and Indiana 29,
Visitors welcome.
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CO. 2349.
_} The fine. perennials. New Au1
gusta Nursery is noted for are coming into bloom this week, Drive out and see the show of
I 1 L Siberian iris (an iris good for - |
part shade, wonderful for cutting), early Shasta daisies, day-lilies (especially the largeflowering early orange-yellow); gasplant, delphinium, and peonies, including the interesting Japanese varieties. At New
. 4. Schnitzius, CO. 8563.
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porch box material at Pot. tenger’'s DriveIn Department Store Nursery. Pick out the | plants you | want—geraniums at 35c and | 50c, petunias and “other flat | grown plants, 35¢ a dozen. Pot- | tenger’s potted roses, fine stock { and the best varieties are now | starting to bloom, so _you can | get Just the colors you like.
| | bloom, and easily transplanted into your flower border. If you | need shrubs or a complete | landscaping. job, Pottenger's | are equipped to take care of . the planting right now. Ever- | greens’ with roots wrapped | for safe transplanting; shrubs | (even in full bloom) are care- { fully dug from their : nursery rows and carefully set-out so {| they won't know they've been | moved. Call Pottenger's and
talk over your landscape prob-.
| lems With graduate landscape | men any time now. Pottenger's- | Drive-In Department Store | Nursery, US 52 at 34th St. WA, {| 6412. Open Sundays
i “Does Fido fight with" | your flowers? Then get
| and chain set — at | Jansen’s where you'll | find a complete line of |- dog foods, ‘leads, collars, [” your garden needs.
all Jansen’s, 19 N. Alabama St. LI 9918,
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! you didn’t get around ! to planting fruit trees this spring? Then see the big sturdy young potted trees Eagle Creek is offering this ~week: Eagle Creek Nursery | .potted up these two-year-old | trees while they were dormant i early this spring. They will | move into your yard now with- | out any trouble. The best varie- | ties of each type are available i —Montmorency cherry; Elberta, | Belle of Georgia, Golden Jui -bilee, J. H. Hale peach; Burbank and Stanley prune plum; _ Bartlett and Flémish Beauty pears; ull the popular apples, | orange quince, and blue, red and
| white potted grapes. The trees
i- are all the extra-heavy grade, | ‘dbout an inch - nearest to bearing | it's safe to plant. Time until —fruiting will vary but you'll | save a year hy planting potted d trees. See them 8 Creek Nursery, US 52, 13 miles north of Trader's Point CO, 336,
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For that shady yard you'll find plenty of plants at 56th St. Greenhouse. Fuchsias, begonias, browallia, fragrant heliotrope
and nicotine. Here, too, stands
ard tomato varieties by the hundred, cabbage .and pepper plants. Dwarf marigolds carry
a special price this week, a
dollar a flat. (4 to 5 dozen plants), and you can get potted moonvines, well started, at
56th St. Greenhouse, just east W. A. Edwards, Open Sunday.
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No need to have unsightly bare spots. in your flower beds when you | can get fine # “petunia pte tote: trem blooming, choose just the colors you ' want), also snaps and asters by flat or dozen, ready
—to—set—into—your—bordér=at—— You'll . find tomato and sweet potato
_ Stark's” Flower Patch. plants, zinnias, plumed cockscomb, geraniums, coleus, begonias, also potted roses (among them Blaze, Paul's Scarlet, and Peace). At Stark's Flower Patch, 511 8, Tibbs Ave, just north of Morris St. BE, 1351.
* * Get rid of crabgrass. Spray now with the newly devetopet” crabgrass killer that knocks out crabgrass” without killing de- -— sirable grasses or clover, It's potassium cayanate, and you can get it at Hoosier Gardener's this week. Stop in, too, for other bug or disease controls Your garden needs. Hoosier Gardener also has some fine potted climbing roses (Blaze, Paul's Scarlet, Talisman, Pink and Red Radiance among them). At Hoosier Gardener, rear of Vogue Theater, Broad =~ Ripple. BR. 9121. Come to their rescue — those valuable shade LA trees on your pl lawn may be slowly dying of starvation. Unlike’ forest trees they must be fed. And now is a good time to do_it. But let an_gxperienced arborist decide whether it's lack of food alone that's ~ causing their troubles. Only a skilled free man can correctly, interpret dying limbs and leaves. Call. H. N. (Mike) — Engledow, Midwesterii Tree Exe
perts, about your tree problems,
02888, * * Hillsdale Rose Gardens are all
ready for the tenth annual rose festival next Friday, Saturday and Sunday. So this weekend's your chance to have a pre-vue if you want to avoid the festival crowds. You can choose your potted roses from 10,000 bushes, set them out now and have all summer color apd fragrance--indoors and’ out. From Hills~
_dale’s hig. collection you cam... So
select varieties right for any yard. Hybrid teas to line a walk or driveway, blossom from For atom sized yards the climbing hybrid teas make use of space elevator fashion. For gardeners who want the “easi-est-to-raise” there are many polyanthas and floribundas. See the cemplete display at
“Hillsdale Rose Gardens and
choose the roses just right for vou. Hillsdale Nursery, 8000 north on Indiana 100. BR. 5495. * *
If you can't raise orchids, ‘raise
iris. See Clyde Bower's 300 iris
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