Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 July 1950 — Page 36
Nature Study Club Members Schedule a 'Cook’s' Tour
The Sunday afternoon talks at Holliday Park are of increasing interest to gardeners and nature lovers. They're ~ open to everyone who's interested, they're free, and they're|
& source of dependable information about garden and nature subjects. :
Today's talk will be given at 3 p. m. H. N. Engledow of Midwestern Tree “Care of Trees: Plantin the talk with slides. Next Sunday Floyd Bass of Bass Nursery will speak (also at 3p. m.) on “Soil and Its Relation to Growing Good Iris and Peo-| nies.” !
in Holliday House by
WEDNESDAY
|Garden Gate—1 p. m. Mrs. L. R.| After the scheduled talks each Groendyke, 9400 E. Raymond |
8t., hostess; Mrs. William Best, |
Sunday, Sidney Esten, park naturalist, will show a half-hour of! colored slides on Holliday Park elssus,” ‘Mrs. Gothe Link. Pie-| and its flowers. These will be . 4 nic; vegefable hat show. different each week. & ; Sunshine Garden Club-—1:30 p. m. | Other meetings scheduled hy : Mrs. W. E. Mason, 52 N, 15th garden and nature clubs for this St. Beech Gr host M week are as follows: heyy oS a a. aa. TODAY | Glenn Mason an rs. Lester
Nature Study Club—2 p. m. Meet Wordeman, assisting, “Flower at Vermont and Meridian Sts. a ew Procedure. . | for a “Cook’s Tour” of trees in| 2reen Thumb Garden Club--10 University Park. Gene Cook, | a. m. Holliday Park. Mrs. C. J. leader. Pitch-in supper at home| Sherman, hostess chairman. | of Rachel Scott, 80th St. | Mrs. George Wear and Mrs. | TUESDAY { A. M. Bangel, assisting. Tour Biz-Z-B Garden Club—7:30 p. m.| ©f Bardens, Mrs. James Vosburgh, 6500 E.| SUNDAY 46th Bt. hostess. Flower ar- Nature Study Club—Oven Houses rangement, Mesdames Alfred] at cabin in Woodllen's Gardens. Brown, C. 8. Clark and Lynn, Miss Louise Zimmerman, Mrs. | Perrin. Speaker, Mrs, Earl Mac-| Dollie Stuck and Miss Leona | Donald. | Nuckles, hostesses. |
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Feed Near-Harvest Plants
assistant. “What's New in Nar-!
8. His subject 18 , Pruning, Tree Diseases.” Ha will {llustrate
A close-up of the passion flower. The Dan Seamans
Share Passion Vines
By MARGUERITE SMITH Times Garden Editor 2
THE WHOLE 2900 block of N. -
Denny 8t. is practically peppered with passion vines. All because Dan Seaman (at 2937) loves flowers, loves to give them away and is aided and abetted in his giving by his wife For the Seamans have a lovely passion vine over their back door with numerous young vines springing up over the yard. And whoever sees one of the unusual flowers naturally “wants a start.” Mrs, Seaman has devised a special technique for keeping the lacy Javender and cream blossoms fn perfect condition for a long time. She just stows them away in a covered dish
{1 With some water in the refriger- | ator between meals, brings them | out at meal time for a .flat
centerpiece. Following this system her next door neighbor, Mrs. Ernest Fuller kept one beautiful blossom for two weeks,
Discovered in S. America
MR. SEAMAN gives his vines a touch of originality, too. He
Six-year-old John Fuller, 2941 N. Denny St., admires one of
the passion flower blossoms used in a centerpiece.
up-and-over the window trellis for them. Mrs. Beaman passes on this ageless story of the passion flower's symbolism,
Spanish explorers seeing the
blossom for the first time when they came upon it in South America saw it as a miraculous
symbol of the crucifixion. They felt it “was designed by the Great Creator to assist in the
conversion of the heathen among whom it grows.”
Mexican Jesuits called it the
“Flower of the five wounds,”
The replacement method of applying plant food is efficient on
summer sowings.
WHETHER IT'S flowers or vegetables, an extra snack as they Other Worries
into the fall growing season is going to help. Especially | se been growing fast earlier in the season. :
fertilizer powders or concentrated liquid fertilizer solution.
Or mix up some of your regular garden brand. Stir about a
uses sections of low (foot high)
the five stamens representing picket fence to build a quick
Christ's wounds. Do Tomatoes | Garden Gadding—
Worry You?
Agent Explains Curly Leaves
If your tomatoes are curling up their lower leaves and you're adding them to your fifteen minutes a day worry list, don't, { It's quite ‘likely, says Harlan {Fulmer of the county agent's office, that they're just overcome by the heat after so much rain. Or maybe you culitvated a little] too close to the roots and the plant is showing how hurt it is| by- such careless treatment. In| any case, thinks Mr. F,, it will} probably recover all by itself, |
FALLING IN love with a tree isn't ordinarily what would be considered a money making
and Mrs, Walter Houppert, 5201 Boulevard Place, Mrs. Houppert, urged on by Mr. W., had a try at her first contest, Home Garden Magazine's monthly report. And came up with a $35 first award on “My Favorite Shade Tree - and Why.”
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‘Glad’ Calendar
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fl But don't think that just because curly leaves are so easily!
few tomato worries. There's. early /blight and septoria leaf spot do-|
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use at the rate of one pint of|Specially benefit by this extra
ution three lunch. jolttuon a a Uo Tout o Among the flowers, dahlias and sure this doesn’t get onto leaves, | Chrysanthemums will like it, too. or you'd better spray it off. If you prefer to use straight-
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should he do? p. m. Roger Arnett, the well-!
known Columbus glad grower, is Expects Good Crop one of the prime movers of this Why, he should go and straight new venture of the society. out get his Bordeaux mixture and d : set to work, Not that it will do Purdue Gardens any good for the leaves that have! Next Sunday, the new intro-
already given up. But he may be ductions and new originations will able to save the leaves that co-star in a show at Purdue to-| haven't —— and so maybe raise gether with the annual visit to himself a good crop of tomatoes Purdue's trial gardens. after all. | The following week-end will see But then maybe we needn’t fuss the big annual show opening for too much—Mr, Fulmer says that, two-day stand at Wabash in in spite of bad tomato weather it the Honeywell Memorial Buildappears now that wa#’'ll have “a ing. fairly Kood crop” anyway." “And on Thursday, August 31st {there will be a gladiolus exhibit {at the Indiana State Fair. For ifurther information on any of {these events, call Harley Ball, {15068 E. 80th 8t., secretary of the istate glad society
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The three parted pistil in- |
dicates the three nails holding Him to the cross. The circle of stamens meant to some the halo around His head, or, to others, the crown of thorns. So on through the various parts of flower and leaf, even to the tendrils that enable the vine to cling. To the imaginative eye these recgll the whips used in His scourging. But whether one sees the odd flower religious symbolism or simply a thing of beauty, the passion flower will always be a blossom of wonder.
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where the drama of the seasons |
unfolds, from the autumn when it “harvests the golden sunshine in its leaves” through the sunshine folowing a freezing rain when it's a “giant cobweb studded with diamonds” and around the vear once more to
the mating dance of a pair of flickers or the “hamming” of the catbird.
Easy Redbud Start COMES QUICK reply to that “how to start redbud seed” | query of a while back. Mrs. Arthur Remler, 1347 W. 35th | St, speaks from experience | (and supports the advice of
| seedlings all over the yard. The |
1215 Mount St. the other day the question hydrangeas across should blossom year after year while the Nash hydrangeas
| seed pods fall now and take |
them liquid fertilizer made from the easily soluble ’ Is 1 ; You can give lig y |dismissed you can't scare up a (on | a d S b OWS | AT bp The Tolowis rab
root right where they drop and
“We have so many little trees
and have given away so many. H I knéw the woman's name she would be welcome to one. I say just plant the pods in the ground and forget about it.”
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POTTED ROSES
Here you will find most of the good varieties growing in
pots and ready to plant.
FRUIT TREES Chen. Ale, Pear and
Peach, growing in pots, so now and go right on growing.
that they can be planted
VISIT THE SALES YARD
Our sales yard is open all day, every day. Here you will
find evergreens, shrubs, trees can carry in your car.
{housewives. {to replace the protective finish or ‘sizing” which textile manufacturing gave to your fabrics orig-| 4 inally and which is removed from! 3 your clothes each time they are
a session of war-time food raising-—and hope it isn't
or
good - job of for family health if the soil
eral in a carload, or if it's rock hard so roots can't penetrate.
Start Compost Pit
‘ONE WAY to beat this problem right now is to start a compost pit or pile with all available decaying plants, grass, weeds, or whatever can be acquired the rest of the season—not forgetting those autumn leaves soon to fall. Add a compost quickening preparation and you'll have a good | soil improver ready by fall. If there's a spot where an all-in-one vegetable patch can be spaded as was the fashion in the last of this series of wars, you can sow rye right now, have it to turn under yet this fall,
Rye Advantages
TWO ADVANTAGES for prompt rye sowing—rye is at its soil improving best while it's still in the rapid growing stage: And fall spading means a place already fixed for scratching in some extra-early lettuce seed next spring. At the very least size up your situation for vegetables. For by
| all signs at the moment the | time has come for all good (or
Just plain medium) vegetable gardeners to come to the aid of their country—again.
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rotted manure (for most plants)
Clever gardeners often refresh soil without disturbing roots by simply washing out the top layer with a not too hard hose spray, then refilling the pot with rich top soil. If you can get some/are more likely to bloom readily
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\ Top Soil Improves House Plants Houseplants should get potted up long enough before cold weather so they get adjusted to new soil before they take on that big adjustment—to dry household air. If you didn’t repot plants a ol Eu te TIER: HOW the Consider whether slipping and discarding an old plant might not be better than transplanting it to a larger, more unwieldy pot. Young plants of begonias, gere poinsettias and others
top winter fnsurance.
aniums,
{than are older lazier plants.
to mix in here, you'll give them
This washing-out process is specially good .for azaleas. They should not be repotted now or summer formed buds may drop. But they do need rich growing
Q—Would it do any harm if we
plants now? over with all this wet weather and look messy. Lawndale Ave. A—It's not a good idea to cut peony tops off now. When you cut off green leaves from any plant you're interrupting the plant's natural building, grow-
working to get the plant ready for next season’s production schedule. Interrupting it now is likely to hurt flowers next spring. It's far wiser to stake and tie up the tops or for a neater appearance, circle the
| A Good news for rose-lovers con- | :
cerns climbing roses, climbers that would stay on a production basis all summer hav been almost all in the grafted hybrid tea class. That meant they weren't too
‘hardy and their proud owners BE have had to lay the darlings by |i...
for winter in a nice cozy overcoat
of roses the next summer. But so many gardeners objected
{that plant breeders have been!
scratching their heads (and arms) trying to come up with a better and tougher everblooming climber. ; Now it seems likely that in a
|couple of years at most we'll be able to get summer bloom on {hardy canes that won’t need at{tention every single fall.
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Pickles (Burpes hybrids) and sweet corn are ready at Culver’'s this week. Ask your neighbor if you don't already know that Culver's corn, “air from garden to cus-
(Mike) Tree
lifted” tomer, is the sweetest corn you
ever ate. Get your week's
| supply of vegetables at Culver’s
—-beets, onions¢ Holland beans, okra, mangoes, tomatoes, zucchini, baby yellow, white scallop, and acorn squash. Culver's Market, 1800 W; 57th St. Figns on Michigan Rd. and Kessler Blvd. 5 * % Sow perennial rye garden rows now for next season's green manure. Get rye seed at Peat Moss Indianapolis, Inc., where you also find potting soil, manure, grass seed, Peat Moss Indianapolis, Inc, East 56th St, just west BR. 82335.
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Get ready now to plant peonies
poppies and iris, Call or write for free descriptive folder from Floyd Bass
Nursery, Box 140, R. R. 1, N
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cut off the tops of our peony They're falling
ing cycle. The leaves are now
activator that’s full
Dishing the Dirt . . .
with some foot high chicken wire or regular peony
plant
supports.
New Hybrid Grapes ‘Rival Hardier Variety
American for sturdiness,
fruit on hardier vines.
ers.
For a pleasant. summer evening, drive out to Hillsdale Nursery. . You'll see, besides the still wonderful rose display, the perennial border in gorgeous bloom, You're welcome to stroll around, whether you buy or not,—no "sales person will bother you. But you can be sure, when you see a specially lovely rose, that it will transplant into your yard safely and go on blooming as if it had never been moved. Now, too, part of the display beds are filled with other potted plants—Ililies, wis “teria, perennials. These, too, you can transplant into your own garden with perfect safety no matter how hot the weather, Visit Hillsdale and you'll ses gardens that in many other cities would carry an admis sion price, Hillsdale invites you to visit freely. Hillsdale Nursery, 8000 north on Indiana 100. BR. 5495.
If you want that fabulously perfect rose, Peace, you'll find just a few at Eagle Creek Nursery. They're potted, ready to set for this fall's burst of bloom. Also at Eagle Creek you can get the -only two really hardy everblooming climbers, also potted, to set out now. They are the deep pink Dr. J, H. Nicholas and the shell-pink New Dawn, These climbers don't have to be laid down and covered over winter, yet they bloom all summer like the more tender everbloomers. Get these now at Eagle Creek Nursery's sales
yard, where you'll aiso find,
many quality shrubs, potted and root-wrapped for guarane teed summer planting. Eagle Creek Nursery, US 52, 11; miles north of Trader's Point. CO.-2361. Open Sundays,
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American grapes haven't been able to shed all the characteris tics of their wild fox-grape ane cestors. So some French hybrids, with just a touch of the wild are promising to rival California type
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