Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 July 1950 — Page 33

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got, hoeing, mulching, dusting.

SUNDAY, JULY

morning and evening. Or so it

fussing going on in the trees nearby. After several days of letting Nature take her decided to investigate the bedlam or chase the cat responsible for it. It must be in the tree, we decided, hunting for the focus

of noise from catbirds, grackles, jays, robins, sparrows, cardinals, and what sounded like a hundred bird varieties. And In the tree it was—only the “cat” wasn’t a cat but a decidedly cat-like owl, almost invisible in his bark like camouflage. Blinking in the early evening dusk, waiting for helpful (to him) dark to descend, the bird din all around left him completely unperturbed. Later investigations indicate that Mama Owl is bringing her little owlets, at least three of them, to sit in our tree. Or rather, to lean against it. For they perch in a crotch, sleepily leaning against the tree trunk like an old soak hanging to a lamp post. The wise expression on their infant faces combines oddly with their tipsy actions.

Neighborhood Fight

_But their nightly presence has led to quite a neighborhood

Pointers

fointers _ DISHING,

Plant Care Now

| Saves Later Trouble |

VEGETABLES. Frost is due| here by mid-October. So it's last! call for most planting. Bush] beans seeded now have a good] chance of bearing. Turnips can| go in next week. Greens and lettuce will do well if you sow after a good “planting rain” in the next couple weeks. Main job now is to take care of what you've

FLOWERS. Keep dead blossoms cut off annuals. Cut back any perennials that have finished blooming, refertilize, water well. This usually dry month means care in watering—soil soaking, not foliage sprinkling or you'll just encourage leaf diseases.

Tomato Mulch TOMATOES. Mulch works miracles for July and August tomato plants, It steadies moisture supply to discourage blossom end rot, keeps fruit clean on sprawling vines. If you're staking yours, be sure to pinch out suckers every other day. SHRUBS AND TREES. These should get only slow-acting fertilizers now. You don't want to encourage soft new growth that will be easy prey for winter cold. ROSES. Roses need moisture now, plus regular spraying and a mulch. y Wawasee Meeting Mrs. Frank A. Symmes Jr, 8535 Park Ave. will entertain members of Broad Ripple Garden Club in her summer home on Lake Wawasee Monday. This will take the place of the scheduled

Cat-Like Owl Sets Birds Here to Twittering

Lately the neighborhood hirds have been going crazy both

‘sounded from the shrieks and

course, we

argument. Do they eat our small birds or don’t they? Did they hatch in our bird preserve or do they just come in to prey on our baby wrens and mourning doves? Anyway, what kind" of owls are they? Their gray color, definitely pointed ears and their “face” checks neatly with portraits of the screech owl, the “shivering owl” of the south. And various experts who've delved into dead owl's innards agree that while he may eat a féw birds, mostly English sparrows, he does it only when he’s having a hard time to feed his ravenous family. At other times of the year he's a desirable citizen, hunting mice and harmful insects for almost all of his food. They approve of him, too, because he's a faithful bird. Mr. and Mrs, Owl, once started to housekeeping, go on year after year, often nesting in the same

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spot, until death does them part.

QI have a purple fringe smoke tree. It has been planted seven |

or eight years and has grown] from one foot to six feet in| height but when it blooms it gets small rust colored short blooms then sheds off in three or four weeks, never turns purpleand the fringe doesn’t get long. It has healthy green foliage. Can I do anything to| make it bloom and the bloom] stay on? Linwood Ave. | A—It’'s possible you have the] American smoke tree (rhus| cotinoides) which very closely| resembles the purple fringe tree (rhus cotinus) in leaf and form but by comparison makes a poor display of “fringe.” The difference can be told by close examination of the leaves. The American smoke tree has larger (up to five inches long) leaves, wedge shaped at the base. If you have the wrong variety you'll just have to replant. Be sure to buy from a dealer who is dependable.

GARDENING CALENDAR

IT'S TIME NOW: + « +» to pinch back leggy window box plants, 3 to dry mint, dil, for later use. to train new vine growth so it doesn't straggle. to sow turnip seed. to dust asters with lead

sage

August meeting.

arsenate for beetles.

Mulch Suggestions Vary

Heavy mulch is better for

Absolutely the last word in garden mulches is aluminum foil. But if your garden doesn't demand modernistic fixings, you can doubtless satisfy its yearning for a mulch with something less| expensive, Organise gardeners long since came forth with experimental

proof that stone mulches pleased fruit trees.

the practice to vegetable rows. (How they plow their stone covered ground is another question -—or they may not plow it at all.) Heavy paper mulches are definitely old hat beside aluminum foil.

tomatoes than cultivation.

Then they extended

{ | culation is important to plant roots -——- hence the university's {liking for ground corn cobs as {a mulching material. | Taken altogether, mulches (in the words of experts) “stabilize ithe granular structure of the soil

Another new slant on this old and prevent surface compacting.”

solution to summer's weeds and drouth is the pianting of Chewing’s fescue—a suggéstion from Ohio State University’s experimenting experts. Sow fescue seed between rows. Grass doesn’t offer much competition, no shade at all, to cultivated plants but the effect, so they say, is as good 2s a manure mulch, the cost a lot less.

{Or (in words we plain dirt garden{ers can understand) they keep the {ground from getting hard. Patriarchy | KOREA-—All generations live in the same house here. A woman

imust do as her husband com-| mands, and she is a slave to him

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H. C. Tysons Achieve Gardener's Dream

By MARGUERITE SMITH flower

. expert raiser looks over another's efforts and finds them unusual, I pay attention. That's how I happened to discover a gardener’s dream. It started with a telephone call from Mrs, Fred Hauk (whose yard at 1701 E. 62d Bt. gets plenty of admiration from passers-by.) “It's perfectly beautiful,” said Mrs. Hauk. “It runs clear around a big yard, and last summer it was just lovely all summer long. But you'll have to drive across behind that big new North Meridian you'll never see it from the front.” “It” was the hardy border around the H. C. Tyson yard at 12 E. 61st St. though Mrs, Tyson would have it that “it's really just between peaks of bloom now.” (It looked plenty good between peaks.)

After-Hours Hobby AND HOW does anybody keep such a big border in a state so near perfection without working at it full-time? “Why, this isn't so much,” laughed Mrs, T. “Before the church was built we even had more garden over there.” Now Mr. Tyson's vegetable patch—

| after-hours hobby from pub-

licity directing at the Columbia Club—grows in the rear of the flower bordered yard. One ‘effort saver, says Mrs. Tyson, is the long blooming perennial that can be counted on for weeks long color. Like lythrum. Its pink spires last for weeks in mid-summer. The Tysons start it from seed in

| what they call “a makeshift

cold frame” about March 1st. By the following season it's ready to bloom.

Peat Mulch

SOIL improvement means continuous bloom, too. So they use

Mr. and Mrs, Herbert C, Tysen pick some of the rosy-spired,

long-lasting lythrum, a feature

cow manure in fall and mix peat moss into hard soil to loosen it up. ; A mulch of peat during hot summer months cuts down their weed and water chores. And a drink of soluble fertilizer powder for transplants means no time wasted in replanting. Even Mrs. Tyson's mother, Mrs. Josephine Shaffer, gets in on this garden hobby. When

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heir lovely garden border.

Mrs. Shaffer came here to live, she missed the backyard fruit and fig trees of her previous 86 the Tysons bought her a little tubbed fig tree that spends its summers on the terace, gets toted into the house in winter where it's fooled into thinking Hoosier winters are just like California. So last year it obligingly produced three figs for Mrs. Shaffer,

Your Yard—

Don't Move Regal Lilies

Transplant Only If Overcrowded

How shall I take care of Regal lilies after they've finished blooming? Should they be transplanted every year? So asks a near downtown backyard gardener. First, don’t transplant your Regals unless they seem crowded. That's one of the nicest things about lilies—they don’t insist on being moved every year. But if you do decide they need a fresh spot, pick out the best drained place in the yard for them. Lilies in general probably suffer more from standing in water than from any other planting trouble.

Plant Deep Regals especially won't argue about whether soil is’ clay or sand. They do like lots of water

lrrigate With Leaky Hose

Don't throw out that leaky hose. It's a perfect irrigation system. Lay it between vegetable rows or curl it in the flower border. Then take a tip from professionals. Soil-soak that dried-out ground thoroughly once in a while. Let moisture recede, pull air into the soil after it in a "breathing" cycle for plant roots,

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absorbent materials like compost, peat or woods in it.

And like almost all lilies they! like to grow where they can lift!

their fragrant cornucopias above]

plants shade the ground around their roots. : Plant Regals deep, that is, as close to 12 inches as drainage will allow. For they make roots| up and down all the stem that's below soil surface.

Miss Cochran Wins

| Aviation Award

WASHINGTON — Miss Jacque-| Third, don't stow plants in lug- 68-Year-Old Is

line Cochran; organizer of the Women's Pilot Auxillary to the Armed Services, was selected as the decade's leading airwoman hy|

mon Trust for the 1950 winner of the Harmon International Award. She is the holder of many national and international air speed

records and was recognized for her piloting skill, numerous aeronautical accomplishments and her

{feminine leadership in air affairs,

'Marys' to Contribute For Church Organ

LONDON — Every woman in the world named Mary is being asked to help provide a new organ for the All Hallows-By The Tower, oldest parish church here. Queen Mary has contributed the first pipe and given her name to. an appeal for 700 pounds ($19,600) to build the organ. The church was badly damaged by

dirt mixed :

With Care

Smaller Chairs Are Comfortable

Today's smaller chairs chase

If you're a slipping gardener on old-fashioned mammoths out of,

vacation, here ar: a few tips on

dition to grow. First,

the picture, A smaller chair can|

other plants, while the shorter getting those slips home In con- be more comfortable than a big) beware of one because it's the pitch of the)

bugs and disease. Be sure You back of the chair and the rela-|

slip a healthy plant.

{tion of the back and arms to the

Second, keep base of stem (or seat, as well as the stuffing, that|

roots)

Easy way is to wrap roots or

moist while you travel. makes a chair comfortable,

nN The balloon-chair doesn't be-|

tury substitute for the good old too-big upholstered pieces. |

tin can.

gage compartment or you'll arrive home with cooked leaves and parboiled roots. { It might be a good idea, too,

trustees of the Clifford B. Har-|to observe state laws about dig-| oldest persons in this country to

ing roadside specimens. Other vacationers will be coming along after you to enjoy them—and anyway, a vacation is Detter spent out of jail. ?

Rye for Fertilizer

If you've an early garden spot where lettuce, onions, peas or radishes are through and you don't want to plant fall greens, put rye seed in right now. By late fall you'll have a fine crop of green manure to turn under— or to leave until next spring.

Convenes Friday The Spade and Trowel Garden Club will meet at 1 p. m. Friday in the home of Mrs, Mary Rams-

ay, 6150 Park Ave. A program

| German bombs during the war.

on birds ‘is scheduled.

Awarded Scholarship Prize |

OSBSAGE, Wyo—Mre. Flora Shufelt Rivola, 68, is one of the

receive a university scholarship. The veteran writer and poetess, who has contributed to national magazines for a quarter century, has been awarded a tuition scholarship to the University of Wyoming’s second annual workshop! In creative arts. :

How to Attract ' . . His' Attention What can I do to attract a certain boy's attention? That is many a teen's problem. i The only way to put yourself in a good light with your glamour boy is to show him you're a girl] worth knowing. Be popular with! the girls too, and prove your pop-|

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Garden. Gadding—

Flowers Go

Gardeners Report

> Off-Season Blooms

- MAGNOLIAS, African. violets, geraniums and goodness knows what else are going on a mid-season spree this year. In addition to earlier reported summer blooming of April mag-

O'Donnell says his magnolia at 5148 Washington Blvd. wasn't satisfied with its spring production, so it's putting on another show,

” ~ ~ I Floyd Bass reports magnolias | in his nursery rows show every | sign of blossoming for some |

that this magnolia industrious- | ness. is due to the abnormal rains we've had. It's encour- | aged three times the normal | season's six inches or so of new growth, And new growth brought on new buds. (A nice | thought for anybody who can | take time out from worrying | about war to select and propagate some everblooming magnolias.)

Houseplants : AN APPLE tree that's gone haywire is combining blossoms with half--ripe fruit in the Clar-

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anemia, or poor tailoring. Window boxes usually demand sun. That means earth drying out

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Even houseplants are acting [8

Mrs. W. R. Hottle,

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336 8. Randolph St., writes that |§

she bought an African violet last February that had white

blossoms on it and now it's |§

producing deep purple flowers. She wonders if this is’ at all unusual for an African violet. Of course some flowers, notably chrysanthemums, have an interesting tendency for producing off-color blossoms, or sports, But I've never heard of a chameleon African violet before.

No Explanation THEN MRS. Charles Cossell, 4010 Cossell Rd., says they never had so many sports among geranium cuttings in their greenhouse as they have had this year,

w » » While the extra rain and new growth theory can explain the magnolia and_fruit trees that are over-doing their duty, nobody, not even our atomage scientists, seem to have a real down-to-earth reason for such shenanigans as “sports.” But the occasional flower that pioneers with a change of color has alwavs spiced the life of experimenting gardeners.

. # . The lovely color range of Shirley poppies, for example, comes from an odd poppy, a sin gle red one with a narrow white edge, blossoming in the midst of its conventional all-red sisters. An English clergyman who noticed it, set about saving seed, cross breeding and selecting to develop a whole new strain. And the seed industry is full of such true stories.

OK's Corncobs For A-1 Mulch

Ohio isn’t quite the corn state Indiana is, but {ts university

|stem, surrounded with moist dirt, long in today’s smaller rooms. You has experimented with the Midlin aluminum foil-—-mid-20th cen-ispoil a room by crowding it with west's most plentiful mulching

material and finds it “excellent.” L. C. Chadwick, horticulture professor at Ohio State, says ground cobs used around roses

and other garden crops for the

last few years retain moisture and improve soil texture. They use cobs ground a little larger than shelled peanuts, apply them match stick deep (2 to 3inch layer). Like other decaying mulches, cobs need extra fertilizer to assist decay or they'll steal it from the ground.

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How will your yard look when winter comes? It needn't be a dead cold sight. Good chojce of plants will bufld a winter picture specially important if you have a picture window. At Creek Nursery you'll find pot broad leaved evergreens that will beautify your yard next winter as well as now, At the salesyard you'll see evergreens bittersweet (euonymous radicans), its year 'round glossy green leaves brightened later with orange fall-borne berries. It's called the plant of a thousand uses because it's so easily raised, so adaptable to sun or shade, to trimming or to natural growth as vine or groundcover. Bee, too, the unforgettable leatherleat viburnum that holds its curious leathery foliage all winter, These and many other “winter beauty” plants you'll find at Eagle Creek Nursery, US 52, 11; miles north of Trader's Point. CO, 2361.

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Potted roses now in the end-of-season sale at Floyd Bass Nursery, 25% off. Climbing Blase, Brownell - subgeros, hybrid teas at prices you can't afford to pass up. Floyd Bass Nursery (open weekdays only until September 1st), West 62nd St., between US 52 and Indiana 29. CO, 2349.

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For summer soil improvement, you can get small (7%-1b.) bags of Driconure at Hoosier Garden-

A dener’s shop is closed all day Wednesdays this month and next. But any other week day you'll find everything you need for your garden at Hoosier Gardener's, the Broad Ripple garden shop. Rear of Vogue Theater. BR. 9121. * x If you enjoy a beautiful sight, drive out to Hillsdale Nursery this week and see | Hillsdale’s peren-