Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 July 1950 — Page 37

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means time to play around with them.

Summer seed-beds are wisely prepared. in a box or cold frame, for shade on days when the sun turns on. Little lath frames made to fit or assembled from row-wide single units make a year-after-year garden help. Some good perennials for Hoosier gardens plus germination times are:

- Anchusa «....cv0v0004.10 days

Anthemis ......0v000.. 5 days Campanulas ..e.v00..0 5 days Carnations ........... 4 days Columbine «vsv0eveeee. 5 days Coreopsis ....iev0saiae 5 days Shasta daisies ........ 5 days Dianthus .....e0000..4 5 days Hibiscus ..cvvevvuveea.15 days

Cover seed with porous soil or sand. Label each row. Keep surface moist until seed sprouts. (A strip of aluminum foil over the seed row is perfect.) When plants are large enough to handle easily, set them out in garden rows to grow on until

Y, JULY 161050 . Perennials Seed

enough to bloom next year, if started now. Delphiniums are another good perennial to raise from seed. It's wise to wait until August though when fresh seed is available from local dealers. If you save your own, they may not reproduce in good color.

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Satisfied with your lawn? Take a tip from the

golf greens keeper. Use the A turf pepperupper that conditions the

soil, gets some air into it, and unlocks plant foods already there. Secret of its effectiveness is billions of microorganisms, actually alive, plus hormones, vitamins, minerals. You can sprinkle it on direct or add it to fertilizer or topdressing. It will improve any garden soil and it speeds compost making to a matter of weeks. This product is made by some Hoosiers down in the Raccoon Valley at Bridgeton— you've seen it advertised in all your garden magazines. It's Activo. Use Activo now. Get Activo at Hoosier Gardener's, the Broad Ripple Garden Store. Roa of Vogue Theater. BR.

%* * rf ymani___. You can send to New York, of course, and pay more. Or you “can buy them right here at Lyman’s on the Circle for only $1.98 and $2.98, size. What are they? Why, those big pretty fans to screen your summer-dead fireplace. They're heavy pleated paper in colors to match your decor,

with a pretty gold trim. them advertised in national

magazines, Buy them at Lyman's Art Store, $1 Monument Circle, where you'll find many pleasantly priced items Je gracious summer living.

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Sun - ripened tomatoes and those good hybrid cucumbers are ready this week at Culver’s Vegetable Market. Also right-from- ? the-garden Holland Deans, onions for creaming, head lettuce (Bibb and leaf, too), zucchini, baby yellow and white scallop squash, red raspberries, beets, Fill your basket at Culver’s Vegetable Market, 1800 W. 57th St., north of Kessler near Michigan Rd.

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Catch them napping and protect your healthy elms, That second brood of elm bark beetles are still undispersed in dead and dying elms. Get those trees disposed of now and you'll dispose of disease carrying beetles, too. But be sure you have properly trained and insured workmen to do the job. Call H. N. (Mike) Engledow, Mid-Western Tree Experts, for trained arborists. CO. 2835.

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Your roses, flowers, or garden slowing ‘up a little now? At Bash'’s Seed Store you can get Rapid-Gro, the "concentrated liquid plant food, to boost them along. Also available at Bash’s is Protexall, the all around medicine for both bugs and disease. Fresh perennial seeds are coming in every day now at Bash's Seed Store, 141 N. Delaware St. RI. 8738, LI. 7333.

Enjoy outdoor living in your own this

don't put it off... -Pottenger's Nursery will do a full

summer-—

Distinctive roses will give your rose garden that special touch, a reflection of the owner's taste. * Eagle Creek Nursery has some special floribundas, potted, easy-to-raise, ready to set out right now. Among these is Permanent Wave, the bright red cluster rose with the delight- ¢ fully crinkled petals. Geranium Red is a newer odd red whose clustered blossoms resemble the full lowering blooms of an old fashioned, but giant, - red geranium. It's fragrant, too, with a rose-geranium spiciness. Decidedly out of the ordinary for its color is another floribunda, Floradora, its flowers a brilliant luminous sign-paint red. These and all their other potted roses are the vigorous full-foliaged plants that have won Eagle Creek many compliments from early-season buyers. See them and the many other quality shrubs and trees, ready for guaranteed summer planting, at Eagle Creek Nursery, US 52, 1!4 miles north of Trader's Point. CO. 2861.

Whether you need it at Jansen’s, the one-

stop store for busy people. Their special

“bird charm” seed blend is tops for perking up a songless canary. And Jansen's have special mixtures for love-birds and parra-

keets, too. Jansen's, 19 N. Alabama St. LI 9918,

Here's a bargain! An end-of-season sale “on ‘potted roses at Floyd Bass Nursery means 25% off. Blaze, hybrid teas, Brownell subzeros (you don't have to cover these in fall) are included. Drive out some evening this week. Nursery open week-days only, until September 1st. Floyd Bass Nursery, West 62nd St, between US 52 and Indiana 28. CO. 2849. Visitors welcome.

Save moisture. Stop weeds. Make summer gardening easy. Get German and Canadian peat at Peat Moss Indianapolis, Inc., for your evergreens and other acid loving plants. Use Bacon's Bog peat for your roses and flower beds. 50c¢c a bushel at Peat Moss Indianapolis, Inc, East 56th St., just west of Keystone, R. 8235.

These summer evenings are ideal for driving out to Hillsdale Nursery to see the thousands of roses in bloom. Whether you buy or not you're welcome and the gardens are cool and pleasant. But when you see just the rose you want, you can buy in complete confidence that Hillsdale potted roses can _be set out any time of year. That good soil they're potted in will carry them along to bloom the rest of the summer

| Gakstetter puts it,

New Sig ns

Aid Visitors

people. Holliday Park for ten years, they, said. But no, they had never gone; up to Holliday House.

Combliee White. Red, Blue: Blooms |

THOSE HARDY peren- | nial borders t hat blossom

in the pages of the garden

magazines paint continuous pictures of harmony. But any long-time gardener knows his own little pet plants only? too often go off like sky-rockets by

the Fourth lea anything but a picture during the rest of the month.

So here are some subjects to use next year if your border’'s in the dumps right now. In the Carl J. Gakstetter's shrub-enclosed garden at the rear of their home, 6208 N. Delaware St, one special bed sports Regal lilies with bright red bergamot (bee-balm, monarda) and a too-little-known all-summer flower, the soft blue stokesia (rhymes with “I'll seize ya”).

Grows Easily MRS. GAKSTETTER started all her stokesia plants from seed, finding them “not at all hard to raise.” Though she sowed her seed in spring (several years ago), seed started now should produce blooming plants by next summer. The sun-loving, low-growing plants open their blue aster-like flowers all summer long. As for bee-balm, as Mrs. “I just have to weed it out every now and then to keep it from taking over.” And if you don’t care for bright red, you can use the delicate lavender, (rose or- pink varieties.

Easy-to-Raise Varieties REGAL LILIES are such tough subjects they're just right for beginners to start with in their lily experiments, The Gakstetter lilies, so Mrs,

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They were very courteous

They'd been coming to]

Oh, yes, they were interested in|

everything in the park. But, they| explained, they'd always thought the house was a private residence. |

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So now signs have gone up in|

front of the big flower beds en-| couraging visitors to find their way to Holliday House. Just in-| side the door they'll find a bulletin! board with all manner of inter-| esting notes such as see today in Holliday.”

Talks Are Free

“What to

With today's first in a series]

of Sunday afternoon talks, Holliday takes another stride toward| becoming a helpful garden center) for Indianapolis citizens. Today's subject is “Holliday Park and Its Flowers” shown by Sidney Esten, naturalist.

with slides

park

colored

These talks, all at 3 p. m. on

succeeding Sundays, are open to the public free.

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Q—Can you tell me what the in-|

closed flower is? It was given] to me last year as a surprise! and. it surely has been one! It| has been blooming for a month| or more. Terre Haute.

A—I use this question involving

a flower specimen that can't] (unfortunately) be seen by the| general reader, because the| lavender-blue flower spike in-| dicated it was one of these! easy-to-raise flowers, the ver‘onicas. Every gardener would do well to get acquainted with this obliging plant family that ranges from tiny gray-leaved edging plants on up to tall effective spires for border backgrounds—all of them easy-to-raise. Also, let me suggest that flowers sent for identifi-| cation be pasted down with Scotch tape. It preserves them] remarkably well so there's at least a fifty-fifty chance of telling what the plant is.

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Mrs. Carl Gakstetter, 6208 N. Delaware St., combines white Regal lili ies soft blue stokesia and bright red bee-balm for early |

July blo G. recalls, “got moved in September. Then the following

May I moved them again when the plants were a foot tall, but they all survived.” Some other good July subjects to get acquainted with this year include the tall yarrow whose big golden heads last for

‘Garden Gadding—

Green-Thumb Aptitude

a month or more; veronica | longifolia, (literally, “longleaved veronica") that wears its true blue spires for a matter of weeks and always ‘the many midseason day-lilies, varying in color from pale yellow to deep | dusty plum. These are all easy-to-raise,

Garden Clubs— _ (Clubs Look Forward To Winter

Neophyte Garden

Members Plan

GARDENING - CALENDAR

IT'S TIME NOW: ele ses to experiment with flower arrangements.

tra water,

2 ied ++ to root some poinsettia cut- |

tings. : a

ter every day.

* Garden Tours. Garden clubs this

e TOMORROW Club—12: 30 p. m. Mrs. W. H. Norman, 6416 Dean Road, hostess. “Gathering Materials for Winter Bouquets,” Mrs. D. ‘J. Caselay. “Timely Tips,” Mrs. J. L. Gib-

_ boney. TUESDAY

Gartield Garden Club—1:30 p. m.

Mrs. H. B. Morris, 1202 Lex-

ington Ave., hostess, Mrs. Mary Boyd, Mrs. Walter Galbreath,

assistants. “Garden Flower Arrangements,” Mrs. Ray Thorn. WEDNESDAY

Come Into the ‘Garden Club—

Black Rock Park, Plainfield Road. Joint meeting with Hendricks County Garden Club. Mesdames Charles Comer, Phil Johnson, Roy Kenworthy and Claire Cook in charge. Wild

flower and bird tour with Mrs. §

John Johnson, leader. FRIDAY

{Irvington Women’s Garden Club—

2 p. m. Miss Mildred Campbell, 20 N. Hawthorne Lane, hostess. Mrs. Donald King, assistant. Garden tour.

Tiny Flowers

Are Useful

Miniature bouquets of tiny

| flowers dried in borax have doz-

tens of uses, says Herb Magazine.

Is Real Wartime Asset |

IT'S A random thought, a long way from Korea's battlefields, but how many gardeners appreciate their own skill as a welcome-

in-war ability? To be able to raise vegetables, to feed one’s own

| family partly or wholly, when times get tough.

means

As if gardeners didn't have enough trouble what with bugs Three Weeks

| a ghoulish habit of preying on | | young birds,

and diseases just waiting to pounce, here's a new one. James Esterline of Eagle | Creek Nursery reports calls | from a number of folks whose | plants .were mysteriously ail- | ing. Investigation disclosed | that the harasded gardener had | killed his own plants—or at least knocked them out for a | time. How? Why, they'd used rose spray or bug treatments in sprayers previously used for oil emulsion DDT (for flies and insects) or sometimes for weed-killing 24-D. Moral — remember that oil emulsions are next to impossible to clean out of a sprayer. It's easier and a whole lot safer to keep a special sprayer for thém.

Double Treat

EVER GO to a double feature and find the ‘double” was a real treat? (Well, not often, I'll grant) That's what happened when Joan Schoemaker, recent addition to the Times society desk, sald her landlady at 1821 N. Delaware St. had wonderful Regal lilies. She does. But at the Anton Dum’'s I ran into a real conservation project even more interesting. A neat red brick fireplace in this near down-town backyard turned out to be a triumph of Anton, Jr. He built it of bricks he found ‘under the house” when his parents moved there, | painted it “brick-red,” then used the left-overs of the leftovers to build a pretty little | patterned brick walk as well,

A garden reader is having. shrew trouble (and that doesn’t mean his wife), These pesky little mouse-like creatures are chewing up his young robins. He'd like to know If anyone ever got rid of shrews—and how. (Send remedies, if any, to the garden column to pass along.) Shrews resemble mice 80 closely you might not know |

one if you saw it, but they've |

| blasted by

know-how that helps America

Go to Cleveland

WHEN OUR grandmothers wagon - trained their ‘lemon lilies” across America to |

brighten their log cabin door | step they never dreamed of this, | This week day-lily fanciers | from all over the country got | together in Cleveland to dis~ | cuss the progeny of that oldfashioned lemon lily. Hoosiers who attended include Mrs. Chester Steed of Redkey, Mrs. Glen Kildow of Alexandria, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Flick of Carthage,

Rigg and Orville Coughlin of |. Michigan City, Wilmer Flory of |

Logansport, Viola Richards of Greencastle and Miss Margaret Griffith and Mrs. Dawn Snyder of Indianapolis.

“I think Regal lilies are showing off this summer,” postcards a reader. “My neighbor, Mrs. Charles Knapp, 409 8. Parker Ave, has one with 22 lillies on one stalk.” Another blossoming magnolia is reported by the J. H. Sealls, 1128 Centennial St. Theirs is one. that had its blossoms frost in April Whereupon it went to work to produce flowers for July.

A really gadding gardener is win Barrett, 6471 Central Ave.

DO YOU KNOW!

Why we have grown to be the | largest re-upholstering firm in the State?

WE DO! It's quality work plus high dollar value!

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UPHOLSTERING CO.— 3631 MASSACHUSETTS AVE

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in the poorest garden dirt. Of course, floribundas are the easiest to raise. Take Pinocchio —{t's summer-dawn pastels and good growing habits. make it a top-notch local favorite. At - Hillsdale you can see Pinocchio’s children, the new Lav-

peo==cmmcess YOUR FLORIST Will Moke DELIVERIES to Any Part of uh City! Flowers TELEGRAPHED Anywhere! soem amommor

Esther Williams in MGM's Technicolor Hit “DUCHESS OF IDAHO” Now Showing at LOEW'S

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short

itemperatures for Arrange the small

corresponding Whittier Road, Spencerport, New

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They're perfect to deck the top of a Christmas box full of dried | herbs, potpourri or just lavender blossoms.

To prepare the bouquets gather (no more than 2 inch) lengths of miniature blossoms such as thyme, marjoram or any.

{flower that will divide into small

parts such as yarrow, Queen {Anne's lace, sweet clover, Drying

Dry them by placing a half

{inch layer of borax in a flat box.! {Lay flowers over it.

Then carefully fill in and around under the flowers until they are cov-

{ered with borax.

Use several layers if you wish. Leave the box (lid off) at room three weeks. dried. bou- | {quets with a bit of dry leaf, lace |

{or lace paper dolly, tle with nar-|

row ribbon. Sew onto box lids. Or use for garden club favors,

Magazine Out

Anthony {On African Violets

African viplet fans now have a magazine devoted to their pet! plant and nothing else. It is sent! to members of the African Vio{let Society of America upon pay{ment of annual dues of §3 a year. | Get further information from!

Floyd Johnson, (the society's

secretary),

| York.

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week are looking ahead to winter as welll ___ as enjoying présent pleasures In tours of parks and members’ ‘gardens. The schedule of meetings follows: -

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a large sales yard filled with

evergreens, fruit trees, ornamentals and many other kinds of plants, mostly in >on Prices

e lower when you buy

Most all the 3°23 va varieties of Hybrid Tea,

Climbers. They are now in

full bloom, growing in pots, Prices are very reasonable.

EVERGREENS—TREES

Many varieties of evergreens, broadleaves, vines, fruit

of a sze you can carr in your

car. Blue and pink Hydrangeas are now in bloom.

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oing it yourself

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