Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 June 1950 — Page 38
38 Spray Rids Lawns of Crabgrass
It Leaves Lawn Free and Healthy
fine mist spray to each blade of grass, Use it In
cool moist weather—dovbly im-|
portant, because bluegrass Is growing well, 0 Oh need 10 repeat later on to catch late comers but erabgrass killed now doesn’t get a chance to shoulder out blue grass and Jeave ugly bare spots in your
Give Garden
Focal Point
it's Colorful,
Inexpensive Plan |
Every garden needs an accent or focal point, But you don’t have to rob Junior's piggy bank to have| one. Here's a simple plan you can| . still carry out this summer, If you set plants, it will point up your! yard with color in only a week or two, Let some such planting be the view you see from window, terrace, or porch. If you ay other color] schemes, use cosmos Yellow Flare for background, yellow - Hiliput zinnlas at the sides, yellow dwarf marigolds in front and alyssum Violet Queen for a richly contrasting border, This fall, plant early flowering bulbs in the annual bed and you'll have a season long picture.
GARDENING
CALENDAR
IT'S TIME NOW , , . costo plant cucumbers (again), ess to experiment with flower arrangements. ses to out back pansies. + » » to watch for bagworm. fo ~ yw v-to make potpourrt, ; + + + to slip geraniums. oss to clip off dead
“ee to continue iris planting. sssto dust for eabbage worms,
Guild Units fo Moet following units of the Witte Cross Guid Wil meet this week in the Service Center: Tomorrow—Meridian Street Methodist and Wallage Street Presty. Tuesday--North Meth-
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Edie Your Yord— ile Unif ed Yo d dt Trailer Golden. Is Pretty, nified Yard Make ne. r (Trim, Neat | Edgings Give o {Ei g Pest | | Reep-up the goo. work with | Snappy Effect weekly general purpose spray if ¢ you don’t want to eat worms with End of June ) need a little yo orale narvent. : touching up to look nicely tailored is chief appl and neat. Edging up flower beds ro Recognize its symptoms 1s dark takes little time but snaps up . roa spots wngel Be Hay appearances 100 per cent-—Piok This is the first dose of the dispanies with long stems cut close ease. It spreads from this good to the ground and Sheyll Je leas, x I-commos we Vga start. 5 : scragg) TIA Coddling moth ly the beast gat Fad a. Sopdet = |produces the warmy ajple at ne > the plants : a : \ , harvest time. Nip t now With back relrtiize, and theyll o ao Ea al aig & ¢ Gorming don $m Tivo. [ors fn ay — even better on theirsecond flower would be welcome from any window. ; were | e Ein Hi) ng. Pinch mums back gsi and Stone Zrults attract plum cur. in i Mealybugs Threaten Yews [ghost sors % [lizer solution. They're greedy teed-| eq y ugs r en ews the scar where Mama iers if you want big flowers. | " A mew threat to J: yews pops up this year in the form : plum or cherry to | June is the month for the Iawn’s| of mealybugs, Formerly a purseryman’s headache, this year |lay -ggs. Prevent curculio and | midsummer lunch, and there's’ they've moved into foundation plantings. ifruit isn’t so likely to rot. stil time to feed it. Oriental pop-| 8: are a dropping of needles at the center of the | 0 get into aorivels ih [ples are messy looking now. Cut! \ eo with the outer appearance often indicating no damage. A plas rot, 2 i joff seed pods, mark the spot| very hard spray into the interior of the tree ia necessary to clean ri an, HS ts "one" spot on around Dlants with a speciall the cottony white pests out. purples up one 3h [the Tavs ieappear a3 they will| Dwarf and intermediate yews suffer especially. With red drops * If before ripenin,_. ; ; ; shortly, you'll know where to find | spider and bagworm going on worse than usual rampages, it will | 1s you don’t already '. ve that Fred Embree Sr., trailer gardener . . . He has a permanent yard. the roots to transplant or divide. Pay bo atel svergtesns Slonely, Ae general pu—se spray oe on the : sting sulfur is spider's ent, Lead arsena marketlast year, coun By MARGUERITE SMITH . A low paiva hogs Bets She y up hel an nd Jeony b ios Soa) still aE, for bagworm an three tablespoons to a gallon proving fo trade names of some Times Garden Editor apart from e near gas sta “THEY LIVE In a trailer right downtown, poth “gates” make a place for red, yellow, and for they're the Typhoid Marys of | shrays Tor bagworm is toxaphens. right up to snuff the newest In adaitionn 10 or so kinds now for
+ Christmas tree candles,
just behind a gas station, but you ought to see what a pretty yard and all the flowers they've got.” Bo spoke the voice over-the phone. “They” turned out to be Mr. and Mrs.
Embree Sr;
their friend, Ben Shaw, 1740 ». ” ”n THE FRED EMBREES
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places 20 times as big.
Garden Gadding ee
Mr. and Mrs. Julian Bobbs Find Hyacinths In Holland ‘Like Patchwork Quilts’
Pleasantest way to spread our garden horizons is through the eyes of another flower lover who's visited far-away places, =
Mr. and Mrs, Jullan Bobbs, found Dutch hyacinths
Though we hear chiefly about like greenhouses, are auctioned
1 off in the flower market, in pro=—
sale Wall Street fashion. The flowers move almost immediately to planes, and arrive In distant European cities only a few hours later, says Mrs. Bobbs. : 2 Eom They were fortunate to see the famous chestnut trees of Paris in bloom, the tops of the trees pruned into a thick canopy over the streets, The flow- * ers, mostly white, some kinds pink, stand up oddly, Hke
“Europeans seem as eager to buy flowers as food,” says Mrs. Bobbs. “The Germans, we were told, were Holland's best flower | customers. They seem to | consider flowers a necessity, whether they have much money - almost
loaded with sods, with ll ! of sedums, or maybe even some shrubs, with people buying a bit to take home to their own ° tiny gardens.” ”
Young Gardener " WHAT is this younger gener- | ation coming to? Six-year-old David Durlacher, who lives at 4017 Winthrop Ave, gets an allowance and what do you suppose he saves it up for? Why to buy rose bushes and | plants for his garden. And | every morning he goes out to trim dead flowers off so they'll keep on blooming. " # A IT-MUST-BE-LLOVE department: Defying all the rules of the experts, Mrs. Guy Montani, | 2640 N. Meridian St, raises | African violets In soil her fam{ly calls “cement.” The violets blossom, leaves stuck into it take root and grow. And =mo- | body can figure out why —ex- 4 cept maybe Mrs, Montant. A
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iQ. I have a gloxinia plant I just bought. It is full of buds and I) do want them to open. I don’t know very much about their| care but this is in such a small
reset it in a larger pone?
throp Ave.
A. Don't move your plant when i is in bud-that's about The |
crowded,
{- solution or manure water, Then | { later when the plant has fin-| ished resting and is ready to| grow again give it fresh soll. window or shaded]
An east
whose gardened trailer home 1s at ~ 330 N. East 8t. The voice over the phone was
hav traller for 22 years, but now they're enjoying a permanent yard, And the ideas that grow in it along with a heap of flowers could be used in
“great blobs quilts” between Amsterdam and Paris.
Tree Group
worst time. For if you disturb | the roots even a tiny bit the plant will show its distress by! dropping the buds. It is safer|and Miss Ann Barton, Centerville, to feed it, If you think it’s toolare visiting Miss Hariet Masgazet Use some fertilizer Fisher, 31 E. 45th St.
Fred
Randolph St
pink cHmbing roses, is bordered with iris
The stepping stone path
house next door. An odd
ing at its feet shuts off one end of the porch.
e lived In a
recently returned from Europe, of color like patchwork
tulips, cut flowers are important
in Holland's economy. Carnations and roses, raised under hotbed-
new and different use of basil, the cooking herb, comes from her daughter Adeline, who - gathers big bunches in summer for fragrant porch bouquets. Mrs, Mary Bell, 1443 Park ‘Ave. reports an industrious African violet. t's produced 69 blossoms since the end of April.
Has Lily Garden MRS. Viola Richards’ heme-
--rocallis garden should have
been included in the society's list of Indiana gardens open to day Hly fans on their way to convention in Cleveland early
Sees Red
Experts Disclaim Inferior Arborists
The National Tree Men's As-
{sociation really sees red, Instead {of green, this time of year. It's) about
strolling “tree experts” | (self-styled) “who overcharge for
mentions,
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Flower beds foam with blossoms at the 4nop - step and .around the tiny yard—to fill it color. Then soft blue pottery urns plus the o_o color on yard furniture, birdbath and steps help to tie the yard together for unified effect: =
next month. says Mrs. R. She too... fashioned dames-violet (hesperis matronalis) 1s a lovely lavender companion for early lemon lilies. Self-sowing almost to the point of weediness, it's still |
welcome for its fragrance as |
‘well as color. » n ” : MRS. A, F. Scheffler, 1035 Churchman Ave. believes in surprises. She bought a package of mixed lily seeds several years ago, has one plant now in bud | for the first time, wonders what it's going to be. »
MRS, Norma Guinan, 317 8.
21st St., got tired of water washing.down the steep slope in front of ‘her house, so she built a
pretty little rock garden with “sluiceways” for. the water. Re- | -
sult-—flowers, no terrace mow-
ing, no soll washing down onto
sidewalk.
{inferior service, or worse, chop BS
down healthy trées that merely {need feeding, or even play gyp \games with their worried cus{tomers. For one thing, good -tree men | tare rarely going up and down streets to solicit trade. For an-| other, you can easily check up on| {a self-styled tree specialist. Sick trees aren't usually on such al icritical list that you can't take {a day or two to check up with| {the Better Business Bureau, coun-}
ty agent, or your nurseryman At| |you don’t recognize the name of!
a reputable arborist.
Hoax Claims If one of these supposed “tree experts” claims he has a secret {formula that will save that ailing | elm, maple or oak against alll
{troubles, just close the door quick-|
ly in his face. There's no vaccina-|
tion, serum, or plasma treatment
for an ailing tree, {| Feed-trees regularly, then you
{won't have anemic foliage on the,
ledge of starvation. And if you do hire a tree man, get one whose helpers. are insured against tum-| bles out of the higher branches. Helps Palestine CHICAGO--Mrs, Martha Sharp, {wife of a Unitarian Minister here,
pot, I wondered if I ought tolis founder and national vice chair-| Doman of Children to Palestine, Inc.| gloxinias need much sun? Win-|an American organization that is {bringing children out of starved ¢/and fear- ridden backgrounds to a
new country.
Out-of-Town: Guests
| Miss Carol McCane, Evansville,
peony society. They carry botrytis _ bligh$ Give window boxes daily,
attention. They need quantities of | PORCH BOXES bursting with flowers and ‘water on hot days. vines give the screened-in porch privacy from the tall apartment and effective use of ivy with red salvia flam-
Cactus Thrives |At Holliday Park |
Feature of the week at Holliday | {Park is the pear cactus. It's put-|
(ting on a real show with some 50 erg to ponder is news of a new
sand garden. gisease that started out in Florida {That's in the southeast section of 5 couple of years back. But like
{the park. Japanese lilac: are In tha tourists it's
\blossoms in the
bloom, too.
| These, according to Miss Vera
| Holliday House library, are
(fragrant they're a little over, co, on leaves and stems. Later they spread Into inch-sized mea-}
powering. The
{usual lilacs, of two plantings, one on the right lof the incoming drive (at north-|
{the chrysanthemum bed.
[the weathérman the golden
Starts Small
Fo
creamy white “that the .old- |flowers are. more dainty than our Find these in either black mold, the
|west entrance), the other east of Peratures.
With a little co-operation from
tree will be in bloom this week}
(just southwest of
House). 150 kinds in the park right now.
inaturalist,
Nature Club To Be Busy
Three Meetings On Schedule
Holliday And if you've a yen for birds you can see (or hear) some,
{according to Sidney Esten, park,
Three meetings this week wil For {keep the Nature Study Club od its, mato plants are likely to pass usual lively program. Members out
Glad Disease -
Fertilizer Often Begins Trouble
A sad thought for glad grow-
moved north since
It's a fungus disease, dubbed » Schulmeyer, who took a few nto curvularia, that starts out in-ovall
80 shaped spots hardly big enough
| sles, may be covered with powdery “seeds” of the { fungus, It thrives at high tem-
A happier. thought for glad fans is that heavily fertilized plantings. are more suscept ble to diseases in genera) tha those that “just grow.” USDA {specialists point out that a hand-}/ Pr of fertilizer sprinkled over John Q. Backyard's little patch
+=after: Cit kills the erabgrass.
Get PC (potas sium cyanate) at Hoosier Garfdener's, the Broad “Ripple Garden store. Use PC at. now to knock out those pale green crabgrass seedlings in your lawn. PC breaks down into plant foods to give your lawn a boost
Get PC, plant stakes, Twistems, other insecticides and fungiCldes at - Hoosier Gardener's;
‘rear of Vogue Theater, Broad Ripple.
BR. 9121.
lof glad bulbs may be the equiva-
{lent of a ton to an acre. And that!
| gets John Q's Slats into Westy {of trouble.
[Cool Weather
Be who's feeling happy! | t recurring summer cool
lls can just wipe off that smile. a lot of garden pests enjoy summer weather, too. To-
in. regiments from early.
{will meet at 1:30 p. m« today at, blight unless the sun turns. on
Salem.
transportation.
fous study projects.
grimage will
{great naturalist, Dr,
ithe World War Memorial for a Bot. trip to the home of Mr. and Mrs. | Clinton - D. Anderson at North the plant doctor's prescription | for early blight, or you can use Mrs. Homer Knight and Mrs.!a 7 percent copper dust. If piants Leah Hamilton are in charge of are past their adolescence BorMrs. . Elva - Ed-| deaux is ‘safe and effective; But!wards, Gene Cook, Noah Myers,|it L may & stunt ‘young plants. and Otis Herreman will lead var-|
Saturday will be maintenance day with a cleaning and painting program for the cabin in Woollens Gardens, Arthur Beard in charge. | And next Sunday another pll-| take nature stu-| |dents to the home of Indiana's Charles 4 | Deam, at Bluffton, There members will visit the Deam arboretum; a unique collection ‘of native | plants. Dr. and Mrs. Deam are
Bh tig members of the club.
| Mite Statistics
Experts who've
studied
One mite
the mignty mite (red spider, that is) |} come up with figures to show how such a small beast can finish off $ [big evergreens in such a short (so. they say)
|spring in 30 days when tempera{tures are a pleasant T0 degrees. i (When the mercury rises another]
of course the unhappy gardenler can always spray. Fermate .is
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Time's getting _ short to get that second DDT spray on your elms to catch diseaseleaf~ hoppers, Mid-Western Tree Experts warn. It’s also hatching time for bagworms. They feed on shade and small. flowering trees as well as evergreens. For these ‘and other tree problems be sure you have a _dependable trained arborist. Call H.. N. (Mike) Engledow, Mid-Western Tree Experts. CO.
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One of the easiest wa oust weeds is fo use a solution of 2-4-D weed killer in a gallon jug equipped with a flexible
But take care not to let wind drift the | killer onto flowers and shrubs. : Stop’ Rabbits Atom age scientists have recently got down to work (again) on a real problem-—how to discourage garden rabbits. They've probably been inspired in their research by ‘reports from local gardeners whose strawberries have recently’ been added to the list of rabbits’ favorite food. The product, called No-Nib’l, will’ be on the market come 1851.
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other spring to _Start a rose garden when you could enjoy it now and the rest’ of this summer right up to frost? Potted roses make it possible to plant your
[ even in hot weather. At Hills-
| biggest selection of potted roses -in this part of the country. i Though the rose festival is |” over for this year the piants {-are still in beautiful bloom, Visit Hillsdale any day or eve-.-ning this week and choose the { roses you like best. They'll i transplant to your yard with- | out the slightest set-back. Then the good earth mixture they're potted in ‘will carry them along to a good start even if your soil is poor. And a little regular care will give you fragrant flowers from now until frost both indoors and out. Visit
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The old fashioned way to do planting is to dig, plants in the Fall, put them in cold storage, and then plant them in the Spring. Through the years Eagle Creek hos. developed ways of handling trees and shrubs while they are growing. need landscaping done this Summer, don’t wait till fall, call
If you
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We invite you to visit’ our nursery and our cash-and-corry In it are evergreens, shrubs and broadleaves, in sizes you can carry in your .car.
POTTED ROSES
Hybrid Teas, Floribundas, Polyanthas and Climbing Roses in _ bloom. All are Grade A, 2 year, Northern grown. o
TREES IN POTS
Flowering Crab, Lilac, Flowering Peach and Japanese Cherry. Also potted fruit trees, including Apple, Peach, Pear, Cherry and Apricot—all in sizes you con take with you. °
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Hillsdale this week and see the | rose display. 8000 north on | Indisna 100. BR. 5495.
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{| Be ready for summer. Mulch roses, evergreens, flower beds now.” Peat Moss Indianapolis, Inc, has imported German and | Canadian peat, $295 a bale, delivery free. Specially good | for azaleas, rhododendrons, | other acid loving plants. Call | Peat Moss Indianapelis, Inc. for this and other garden | needs. East 56th St. just west | of Keystone, BR. 8285. x * Enjoy your yard this summer. Drive out to, Poftenger’s Drive-In Nursery and see their sturdy
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EAGLE CREEK NURSERY
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12 Miles Northwest of the City
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carry easily in your car or, if you haven't time tosput them together, Pottenger’s will do it for you. This is the type of ! lawn furniture that doesn’t . need a paint job every year | to look good. See it at Potten-
i Store Nursery, Lafayette Rd. at Sith St. WA. 6412.
You'll od a
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rose garden now .
| dale Nursery you'll find thei 3
rustic lawn _
ger's Drive-In Department
largerthan - ever pick - up sales yard at Eagle Créek Nursery now. And it’s stocked with a fine variety of shrubs and trees for summer landscaping. Pick out the varieties you like in sizes
you can easily carry in: your _ car. Then with Eagle Creek's — planting -
-you can-do-your own planting, green thumb or not. For their potted and root-wrapped shrubs and trees will move without the slightest root distiirbance and go right on growing in hot weather. Take your landscape problems along with you to Eagle Creek. Let their - trained landscape men suggest good planting
- plans. Don’t lose another year. “Begin your landscaping this
summer. With Eagle Creek's modern methods you can save a season. Creek Nursery, US 52, 1% miles north of Trader's Point. CO. 2361.
* % Clean-up sales are on at 56th St. Greenhouse this week. All vegetable plants at reduced prices, any annuals left are half-price. Get your ivies here, too—fine large leaved English’ ivies to use outdoors for groundcovers or vines, and small leaved houseplant ivies, including the popular Hahn's branching type, white-leaved Glacier, and grape ivy, all at wonderfully low prices. Drop in at the sale at 56th St. Green house just east of Keystone. W. A. Edwards. IM, 5842.
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At last you -can get ground corn cobs near home. Floyd Bass sells this fine mulch-
> ing material for
- 20 cents a bushel, $2.50 a cubc yard. Bass Nursery has fine %otted Blaze roses and many other root wrapped and potted materials for summer landscaping needs. Floyd Bass Nursery, West 62d St, between US 52 and Indiana 29. Nursery closed on Sundays untl Sept. 1st except by appointment. CO. 2349.
= Get the new double purpose garden . spray at Jansen's this week, 2-Way spray is a liguid, easy to dilute, with a non-poisonous; residue. 2-Way spray and all other garden needs at Jansen’s, 19 N, Alabama St. LIL 9918,
* “we Big $2 fuchsias this week for only a dollar in the clean-up sale at Stark’s Smaller fuch-
Flower Patch. sias, 35¢; sprengeri, 25¢ and up; all flat-grown plants at sale
prices. Snaps, zinnias, asters,
petunias, marigolds, ageratum, alyssum, verbenas, 3 dozen for a dollar, or $1.50 a flat (5 doz.). Geraniums and potted roses, too, at Stark’s Flower Patoh, ' 511 8. Tibbs Ave, just north of Morris St.
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spraying materials as well as sprayers and dust-guns at Bash’s Seed Store, 141 N. Dela~ ware St. RI 8733, FR. 7833,
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size for only 70c (3 Ibs. $1.80).
Use it as a dust or in water as a spray. It protects both trees -afid small fruits from bugs and disease. Sprayers of every kind, too, at Cory OrShard Supply On, LL 7968.
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