Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 September 1950 — Page 38
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A Two-Fruited Pear Tree Is an Oddity its usual odd harvest in the will Insure Success | Its peculiar performance £0 like to carry these over so I'd) two to four weeks later another plants unless I could keep them their o individual = preferThere are dozens of ways to| The other blossoms produce
VY infer ize | By MARGUERITE SMITH 2 3 Times Garden Editer . Box Plants A PEAR TREE that can't > make up-its mind is bearing In House yard of Mrs. M. A. B. Hurt, Ce 4151 N. Pennsylvania St. Its Careful Handling { “split personality” has made it | quite a neighborhood celebrity. “WE HAVE such lovely window, Starts out normally enough box plants, geraniums, coleus, and. each year, says Mrs, Hurt, with that trailing green plant (is it an ordinary set of pear blossprengeri?) and petunias. I would | soms all over the tree. Then Is Set _of bloéso ‘ary 77 : ee Ctl pe , LT the old plants? We don’t have a Thereafter the two kinds of very good place to keep potted flowers Yevelop according to alive in the basement.” | ences. One set produces a norThat's the way one gardener; mal good-sized green pear that puts 2 common query of these fall becomes a pale yellow sweet days. » | sugar pear. carry plants over winter—you, small Seckel-like pears that rejust have to pick the one best tain their russet color and, acsuited to your house, that's all. |. cording to one taster “aren't
. | ‘much to eat.” Slip. Coleus COLEUS IS so easy to carry, over—Iluckily, since once we get a favorite kind we all like to keep it. You can break off pieces of it . now, stick Folin in Plates and Ing to James Cook, local tree they’ll grow. authority. It's so rare that botOne gardener -who’s specially, any books just don’t go into it rg of ig pote wp ips, each at all. Mr. Cook has a theory of all in small colored pots select to bring out the stained glass his own that chromosomes colors of the leaves. Slips root, from a bedded parent tree almost as easily in soil as in| (under which this changeling water, | grew) somehow got themselves
Sprenger you can cut back to] Wl mized up te that. 4h within a few inches of the soil, pot | rs urt recalls tha e up and set in even a moderately| tree had an enormously long daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Di light basement to live over. | tap root when she had it moved
: from the spot near the sidePot Entire Plant | walk where it was trying to
PETUNIAS ARE more of a Brow in its infant days. It is problem in the average dry huose-| now a sizable tree and decks hold air. But they can be slipped | the northwest corner of the (though it's a job usually for the, Hurt yard (easily seen from more experienced slip-er). Or try Pennsylvania 8t. if you drive potting up the old plants, cutting by). back tops, refertilizing, keeping in| One amused ‘light basement,
Confused as People Botanically this. performance is known as “chimera,” accord-
“goodluck” with them. Their undeserved reputation for sun, too. being hard to raise comes largely poor
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(or bemused) | observer of the pear tree sug-
old plants (hung up by their heels, the times when even a fruit tree |care except thinning out. in a basement) or potted. is confused.
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Ruth Anne Diener, granddaughter of Mrs. M. A, B. Hurt, holds a branch of the "split personality’ pear tree which flourishes in the Hurt yard, 4151 N. rege. Dianon St. Ruth Anne is the
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This Month
Plant Rye Seed
For 'Manure'
September's the month to try out (if you've never had them before) some of the autumn flowering crocusses. (What a surprise you're going to get if you haven't experimented with them other! years). -
produce that wonderful “green mahure” next spring. Roots do just as much good breaking up hard soil. Oats is another, easier-to-manage humus crop to sow this month. September, too, usudlly gives rain freely and plenty of dew to help along new grass, shrubs and trees. Plant them this fall and save yourself a season.
Vegetable Storage September's the month to get ready for fall vegetable storage.
system for carrots, beets, potatoes, apples, is still hard to beat. Takes a spot where water won't stand, though. September brings the fall flower shows. Better take in at least lone. It's a sugar-coated way to {add to plant knowledge. And, as if you didn’t already know it, September's the month to set out peonies and Oriental poppies if you want best plants next spring.
Then, remembering that once| treatment — spring planted, they should stay put, give getting the tops three inches un-|Biz-Z-B—11:30 a. m. Mrs.
Geraniums will live as slips; as “gets it is- a suitable symbol of year after year requiring little roots upright and with tops sev- | {eral incnes (about three) below Their chief demand upon you is] the soil surface. They need a win-|the spot if necessary to prevent
Orientals Thrive With Fall Planting
Fall is the time to set out Orien-| for a spot where water will not tal poppies if you want to have| stand around them for lengthy | periods in a wet spell, They want
ter ing of soil so they won't jump out in the first few cold ispells, and later get their water filled roots frost bitten. But if it's a choice between
| planting, badly drained soil. Prop- a little {me to the planting job. derground and raising the root [erly planted, they go on growing| Dig holes big enough to hold the [the root. For you can lay straw
[tor better drainage, then raise or a little mound of ashes over
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Garden Clubs
Garden and nature clubs spurt! into activity . this week with flower shows, a gold panning expedition and general meetings. The Rose Society will resume ac-! tivity today with a short business meeting at Holliday Park for election of officers before the| regular Sunday program in Holliday House. Today it is on roses. The Dahlia Society's big event of the year, its fall show and {flower festival, will take Oyen, | Brookside Com unity House |
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|flower and vegetabl gardens. or schedule follows:
TODAY
Rose Soclety—2: 30 p. m. Holliday | Park (Holliday House). Busi-| ness meeting. 3 p. m. Program open to the public on planting] of roses in the park. Colored slides by Dr. and Mrs. E. J. Nugent and Sidney Esten. { Indiana Nature Study—9 a. m.| World: War Memorial. Gold] panning trip to Sycamore Creek, Morgan County. Jesse Barvek Jay Schilling and Gene| Cook, Yeaders. |
TOMORROW , Rainbow (Southport) Flower Show — Southport Baptist
Church. Open to public from 5 to 8 p. m. Mrs. Frank Schroe-| der, general chairman; Mrs. Leo Kriner, president. Fall Creek—1:15 p. m. Mrs. Goethe Link, Tanager Hill, hostess. Program, Mrs. Link. Blue Flower—12:30 p. George Kolb, 5339 College Av
hostess; Mrs. Harlan Craig, assisting. “Experiences of a Garden Editor,” Mrs. Leland Smith
ner, 4460 Park Ave, Mrs. George Lilly and Mrs. Wil-
and tree contest. . TUESDAY
Archie Mercer, 46th St. and Arlington
Ave. hostess. Program, Mrs. Ralph Wikoff. i WEDNESDAY |
Sunshine (Beech Grove) Flower Show-—Beech Grove City Hall. 3:30 p. m. prévue tea. Doors open to public 4 to 10 p. m.| Mrs. Edward Wanek and Mrs.| Hubert Nichols, cochairmen; Mesdames Lynne Hull, Thomas Wendt, James E. Young, Taa| Binninger, Fred Van Brunt, Lester Woerdeman and E. E. Mendenhall, assisting. Special decorations, y Bud McElroy.
THURSDAY
‘ Sunshine (Beech Grove)—Flower
show (second day). Open to public from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. GARDENING CALENDAR
IT'S TIME NOW: ees to cut back leggy poinsettia plants. + « to plant daylilies. « « to continue fighting crabgrass. N « « to harvest ripe gourds. + « + to bleach celery. « « to set out ground covers.
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Crooked Creek—1:30 p.m. Mrs. John Helsly, 6031 Michigan | Road, hostess. Panel discussion on _houseplants. : FRIDAY Emerson Grove—2 p. m. Mrs, H. P. Willwerth, 2471 E. Riverside Drive, hostess. Flower show. Neophyte—Holliday House. Flower show, open to public 2:30 to 5 p.m. Mrs. Robert L. Jahnke, general chairman; Mesdames N. C. Brannen, J. C. DeHority, Clifford Sadler, N.
os - nfeld, assisting. | Rhea—Noon. Holliday Park. Pic nic lunch. "Visit Neophyte flower show. Irvington Women’s—2 p. m. Mrs. C. B. Gardner, 946 N. Bolton Ave, hostess, Mrs. Leland Clapp, assisting. “The Perennial Border,” Mrs. John Downing. Flower and vegetable show. SATURDAY ; Orchid Society — Noon. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Harvey, Speedway, host and hostéss. Program in charge of Mrs. Anthony Ackerman. ‘Dahlia Society—4 to 9 p. m. Dahlia show. Brookside Community House. Open to the public. NEXT SUNDAY Dahlia Society—10 a.m. to 7-p.m. Dahlia show (second day). Open to the public.
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Now is the ideal time to plaht evergreens, advises Maschmeyer Nursery. Summer warm soil, cool air, encourages root growth rather than top growth. Evergreens set now are best prepared for good growth next season. See sMaschmeyers’ wellgrown evergreens in the nursery row, 244 W. Troy Ave. Call James Maschmeyer, GA4668 for planting advice.
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Many rose-lovers think: no modern white rose has ever surpassed the old-time hybrid perpetual Frau ‘Karl Druschki. You'll find it and many other good varieties for . Hoosier gardens at Hillsdale Nursery, 8000 north on Indiana 100. BR-5495. ’ * * Old - fashioned fragrant honeysuckle, to screen your porch or perfume your next summer's
yard. is y only 15¢ for a well-root-
ed plant at Starks Flower Patch this week. Plant it now, also red, salmon, double orange Oriental poppies, evergreens, mums,.red and ‘green-barberry;-golden privet at Stark’s Flower Patch, 511 S. Tibbs Ave. BE1351.
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You'll find hardy plants in the finest varieties already adjust-
ed to Hoosier soil and climate,
when you buy your perennials at New Augusta Nursery. Selected. strains of many easy-to-raise favorites are ready now at New Augusta Nursery and this is the best time to plant. Talk over your flower border with H. J. Schnitzius, New. Aug-. usta Nursery, the home of fine perennials. 5000 W. 59th St. CO0-2658. Open Sundays.
* Hardy plants for setting out right now are ready at Bash’s this week— Shasta daisies, hardy phlox, painted daisies, daylilies. And get some of that rye seed at Bash's’ Sow it now, have “green mangarden. N. Delaware St. he RL 5785, FR-7338.
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Cash - and - carry prices on choice shrubs are- yours when you buy at Eagle Creek’s sales yard. Broad leaved evergreens will make, a winter picture in your yard and every yard deserves at least a few of these slowgrowing (therefore long-lived) shrubs in it. (No annual pruning problem with these). Visit Eagle Creek’s sales yard, look over their fine shrubs, the hard-to-find mahonia“ (for holly-like foliage), leatherleaf viburnum (for interesting leaf texture all winter long), true hollies (varieties suited to our climate),
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Q—Could you tell me the name
of the enclosed flower? My . grandmother used to grow them in her flower garden many years ago. She had a German name for them-but I could neves tell what it was;
whether it was a real name
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flowers and rather narrow
greenish gray leaves of the
sample enclosed in this letter est that the plant is hesperis matronalis, old-fashioned favorite that ought to be in the garden of everyone who loves fragrant flowers. Its delightful perfume and almost weedy habit of taking care of itself by self-sowing endear it to everyone who raises it. Among its. other numerous names, it .is called dames vio= let, sweet rocket, damask violet. The plants grow two -to three feet tall and nicely bushy,
Send questions on gardening to Mrs. Smith, The Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis 9.
The Garden Guardian says” A really good landscape job can’t be a bargain counter affair. But if you're budgeting, I can design you an original landscape plan that allows for planting over an extended period. A landscape job planned carefully and with restraint can_be inexpensive in cost and high in value.” Stoey Tesser, BE-9633. Planting maintenance,
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At Pottiniger’s Nursery this week you'll find freshly dug evergreens set up in sales yard departments. They're price - tagged : so you can look around, choose your shrubs and trees, save on your landscaping by doing your own planting. At Pottenger's Department Store Nursery, 3400 Lafayette Rd.. WA6412. Visitors welcome.
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Garden bargain! Flowers (on glass), garden furniture (maybe only one piece of a kind), but all marked down in the final clearance of summer garden accessories at Lyman’s on the Circle. Browse around, pick up gifts for Christmas, and be sure to see the floral prints that will carry summer into winter. At Lyman’s Art Store, $1 Monument Circle. MA-7437,
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Out of a life time as a peony grower. Floyd Bass considers Lowell Thomas the outstanding red peony. Its color (clear dark red) and size of flower are set off by the most beautiful foliage a peony ever had. It's an origination of the long-established Bass peony farm. -Get roots -of this re~ markable peony at Bass Nursery, West 62d St. between U. S. 52 and Indiana 29. CO2349, Visitors welcome,
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You'll find grass seed to suit your pocket-. book and your yard at Jansen’s. ' There's a high quality sunny mixture “our favorite,” a "top quality shady mix, and a 70c a pound budget mix that's tops for the price. At Jansen’s, 19 N. Alabama St. LI-9918,
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Make arrange--ments now for planting our new shade trees this fall. Call Midwestern Tree Experts; select size and variety while trees are still in leaf. Oaks (pin, red, bur, swamp white), Ameri. can ash, - linden, tulip tree, sweet gum, sugar maple, sycamore- available from Midwest-
orn_Tree-Experts, H.-N, (Mike)
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and pumpkins are ready this week at Culver's. Get your week’s supply of gardenfresh vegetables at Culver's Market. 1860 W. 57th. * Chrysanthemums N-, will be coming in to Hoosier Gar.
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