Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 October 1950 — Page 39

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Ofte Stumbles On Nature Socrofs By MARGUERITE S) SMITH

FROST m ti Tiny BE zinnias low any day but for a gardener there's always “next year—". And here's a honey of azinnia I heard about from Helen Miller, self-styled “squaw” of het “Squaw Hill Garden,” out at the corner of Fall Creek Road and 65th St. ° 2 Mrs. Miller {s better known

I plerests his Week

Nims, Bulbs Both Up for Discussion

Autumn, winfer and spring hare in .garden club programs this week as members consider mums, winter bouquets and spring. " One club is solving the de-| pleted treasury program problem hy selling. Audubon note paper, nd having a white-elephant. sale. | : help finance flower, hows. Detailed programs. for hy week are as follows:

interest in and collection of violets. But she likes to combine zinnias with her wild. flower hobby! They fill out TODAY i the flower ‘season. And they Nature Study — 3 p. m. Wool-| grow in dry years without ex“lens Gardens. Talk n fungi, tra water, that scarce. comMrs. Arthur Beard. Pictures of Modity in out-of-city garden elub activities of the past year, : ! Sarah McMath. Fish fry at 5 p. m. Ralph Pierson, reservations.

Proceeds

Along with violet lore, Mrs. Miller has learned “often by accident,” she says, a good many wild flower secrets. In--deed her friends. compare her with Gene Stratton Porter. This summer she “stumbled ~ onto” the way to keep the lovely native tway-blade orchid happy when it's moved from woods to cultivated wild flower garden.

Rainbow Garden Club (South-| (Anybody who isn't interested port)—10 a. m: Meet at South-| In orchids can just skip this port grade school for pilgrim-| part.)

age to Widmer’'s. Herb Garden| Moss Holds Moisture

in Brown County, | - LIKE A good many happy

TUESDAY ideas this one d out of a Bir-Z-B—11:30 a. m. Mrs. William real problem. She'd brought

| Young, 6667 E. 38th St. hostess. some tway-blades out of a ' Flower arrangement, Mesdames| nearby spot into her big wildDan‘McCoy, Archie Mercey and| fower patch, knowing they'd William Phillips. : | } | need pretty constant attention. : WEDNESDAY | Then she had to ge out of Sunshine (Beech Grove) — 1:30 | the city and leave them to their : | p. m.>Mrs. Joe Spangler, 106 8. fate right in the middle of sum10th St., hostess; Mesdames J. E.| mer, . [ Wood, E. C. Wakelam and Wil-| Moisture being the biggest liam Hert, assisting. Specimen! difficulty she decided to pack chrsanthemums by each mem- | a lot of moss around them. | ber. ath The moss and the orchids got

Green Thumb—1 p. m. Mrs. wal-| along so well while she was _ ter D. Alfke, 8705 N. Meridian} Bone—and since-—she’s decided { ‘St. hostess; Mrs. Clayton M.| there was even more magic in

Forest Hills—2 p. m. Holliday

House. Mrs. O. R. Marsischke,)

Adams, assisting. - “Garden; "“ _ : | Chrysanthemums,” Mrs. H. L.. _ She'd been told that the way : Hasbrook. Indiana’s great naturalist,

Charles Deam, kept his native orchids thriving was by treats

a » ing the soil with acid. Apparhostess. “Winter Bouquets.” . | ty the moss produced just FRIDAY |“the right acidity naturally. And Broad Ripple—1 p. m. Mrs. Fran-| it gives a third assist by pro-

Violet Lady’ Scofes With Ynisual Zinnias

as “the violet lady” for her 3

_ liantly striped and

example, ( ted: A red and white stripe is

ommend them, these are really

Her arm full of the unusual striped and vend “ghriata zinnias, moppet Hermione Miles stops to pick some of the giant variety raised by Mrs. Helen Miller, A neighbor of Mrs. Miller, | Hermione is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lynnville G. Miles, 6500 Fall Creek Road. tecting the top-of-soil bulb from which the tway-blade Brows,

Late Fall Good For Tree Planting

If you're planning to hammock stretch in the next summer or ten, you'll need these tips for shade tree planters. Better not plant a

Appropriate Names NOW TO get back to zin- | -nias—among some 600 plants and many varieties, Mrs. Miller raises a most unusual sort called “striata.” They're bril- | speckled. Even the names, she suggests, are delightful. The Clown, for is red and gold spot-

time. ved earller,

key

Old Glory.” ing habit,

Fall esi

Wockord

off Friday evening with strated talks given by Russell E.| Mumford, waterfowl biologist of Indiana's conservation depart-| ment, biology teacher of Evansville’ s) Central High School.

Kentucky river.

shade tree until just before tur-! | weather a tree of any, ‘maintenance, size and less than weedy grow- ment food service, transportation, is likely ‘to get hot| {supply administration,

‘In a flower class where too many of the “new developments” have grotesqueries with little to rec-

worth trying out in your garden next year, .

cis Polen, 6157 Kingsley Drive, hostess. Timely Tips, Mrs. John Your Yard— Jacks and Mrs. Frank Symmes Jr. “Garden. Adventures,” Mar-| | guerite Smith.

GARDENING CALENDAR

_ JT'S TIME NOW: f ,.. to cure gourds for waxing.

»+» to inspect trees for dead and| dying limbs, ben , to get- acquainted with . some mew spring bulbs. +«s to have protection ready wit frosty nights:

short supply, they advise.

It appears that grass seed hasn't really produced a good harvest since 1940 and this year, in addition to poor seed |

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FALL PLANTING IS BEST!

Choose your stock and plant this fall.

Now is the time—wheii the ground is warm; root growth starts ot. once and will continue to grow until the ground freezes.

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_ Slow growing, dwarf trees never get too large.” A well planned” planting will last many times longer. We always advise people to use slow growing evergreens and shrubs. Forest trees look nice when small, but they get too large for o

city yard.

PLANT ROSES NOW

If you want bloom next year, plant potted roses nov, ond hill them up this winter. Plants grow their. roots in cool weather. Planted now, they will be “established and ready to “bloom next spring. See them in our sales yard.

1 Visit THE SALES YARD

. Here you will see hundreds of evergreens, trées and shrubs in sizes you can take in your car. ‘You are welcome at any time. “The sales yor § is open all doy, every day. Just drive in.

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Don't Be Extravagant With Fall Grass Seed

DON'T BE too free with that fall-sown-grass seed, scolds a lawn specialist, adding that the most effective time of year to plant or refurbish a lawn is between Labor Day and Halloween. That's when you get most results from least seed. And the seed raising gentlemen are {nterssted this year in |i spreading the blue grass around—not in overselling, since it's in |

= weather, a lot of former seed |

| warns | seeding is just extravagant any- | way. Only so many grass plants {can grow in any given area... | the extras die out. J extras?)

| points

been just plain |

producers have - turned their acres into crops whose prices Uncle Sam supports.’ (Appar-

ently the old boy doesn’t care

whether we have lawns.) Others have turned cattle into

. former seed fields to cash in on

high meat prices. x x =» AS IF. enough for John Q. Lawnmower,

| there are a lot of additional | gentlemen (or their good wives, | If they've stepped off to camp)

who have new lawns to plant.

So spread your seed thin, the specialist. Over-

(Just the

And what your lawn needs, out. “this economical salesman, is better soil preparation in the first place, with bettér care after your grass gets started (in the second place), umphantly, much expensive seed anyway.

Jack Frost

‘Will Be Back

Local visitors" this week ihcluded Mr. Jack Frost. He

that weren't trouble |

and bothered if a spell of ‘mild/and | medical and dental service.

weather comes along.

THE INDIAN APOLIS TIMES.

s Set For

Audubon Societies *

“ To Meet In Clifty

Kentucky and Indiana bird

| “hunters, " with a sprinkling of} guests from Ohio and Tennessee, will get together Friday at Clifty - Falls. They're holding a second annual fdll meeting of Audubon Societies in the state park.

The three-day event will start |

and R. A. Cooperider,]

Bird hikes around the park on|

Saturday will precede the evening | program given by Earl Wallace of “Kentucky's conservation department.

| Hike Across River

Sunday bird hikes will take In territory across the

Mrs. Dorothy Madden Hobson,

| president of the Indiana Audubon | Society, “| Louisville, president of the Ken-

and Leonard Brecker,

tucky society, will preside.

Others from Indianapolis who {will attend include Mr. and Mrs. | | William B. Barnes, Mr. and Mrs. |Howard Wright, Mesdames Ferd

| Barnickol, John L. Goldthwaite,

[Sue Sims,

land Max Forstyth.

‘WAFs Needed

WASHINGTON-— The U.

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law enforcement and the’

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Hoosier Gardener says, “No matter

+ your spring bulbs you can’t buy better quality nor better size than

aA n we have, stocked this year. They ‘re “the best bulbs money

could get, all No. 1, top size

(ttiat means bigger flowers)

and Hoosier Gardener has a fine selection. They range all the way from the many tulip varieties on through to the less commonly planted kinds such

| as seillas (blue, pink, and | white), grape hyancinths (blue,

then, he concludes tri- | you won't need so

didn’t stop long — just passed |

through "briefly this time.

for a real stop-over.

So haul ouf your old heavy |

cardboard boxes, newspapers, (nb sheets, please, advises that old know-it-all, Science), and

some cellophane tape. These.

But he’s planning to be back soon |

implements will prevent a good |

deal of Mr. Frost's dirty work and stretch flower and vegetable production: from two-to-four-weeks, Nice buds on some of your rose bushés? Give the bush a banana’ basket cloak until Mr. Frost leaves. Or cellophane

| tape your old papers or boxes:

togethér for a movable “coldframe.” ‘ The reason Science gives for up-tilting the nose at sheets as

They help

Frost.

. Chrysanthemums will mostly |

{ take a touch of Jack's tragic wand without flinching. But | when he-comes down with a

really heavy hand you'd better

| cover ‘mums.

Squashes are push-overs for

| Jack—so cover them. But cabbage, kale and their various sis-:

ters like broccoli, really improve

after a SNfter 3 touch of Winter.

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white), single and double snowdrops, - chionodoxas, five kinds of crocuses, species tulips (Red Emperor, Eichleri, Clusiana, Kaufmanniana). You'll also find bone meal for your bulb eds at Hoosler Gardener's, rear of Vogue Theater, Broad Ripple. BR. 9121.

Now, while trees are still in leaf and green, is the time to pick ‘out your shade trees for later fall planting.” For dependable advice on this and other tree problems; call H. N. (Mike) “Engledow, Midwestern Tree Experts. CO. 2335.

Plant the mystery “ bulb for blpom indoors or out. Colchicum (autumn

will blossom yet this-fall if you plant it now. Get colchicum at -Bash’s Seed Store where you can also get those hard-to-find spring bulbs such as pink or white (also blue) scillas, fritillaria;, chionodoxa. Bash's Seed Store, 141 N. Delaware St. FR. 3733. LI. 7338. :

You save up to 20 cents on each dollar when you buy your shrubs and trees cash and carry at Maschmeyer’'s Nursery, 244 W. Troy Ave. Visit the nursery now, see their shade trees in full leaf, get them tagged for dormant planting. Early comers get their choice of trees. For

James Maschmeyer, GA. 4668. * Want your roses to wake up healthy next spring? This fall, after leaves drop, spray both bushes and ground with Copper A

can get Copper A compound at Hillsdale Nurcery; 8000 north, on Indiana 100. BR. 5495.

* House: a houseplant this week. Take your favorite plant containers to 56th St. Greenhouse, get them filled. You pay for the’ plants, the planting is free. You'll . find a ‘fine collection of ivies “(fan-leaved and “ white Glacier amdng them), also an outstanding collection of succulents and cactus. Fine chrysanthemums, too, at 56th St Greenhouse,” just east of K oki ne.

compound. You

what you pay for

flowering crocus) -

planting advice and plans call -

“CHil for details of this free . maintenance plan. Stoey Tester, | BE. 9633. Modern designing, ro- | tary tilling, guaranteed plant- | ing, expert maintenance. - i

_shrub for.

"Culver's Vege-

This week at Stark's Flower Patch yowidl | : find 8- to 10- | a: foot young! maple trees,

also Chinese. elms, "wells { branched hedge plants (red or |

green barberry, ‘green or golden privet), fruit trees, raspberrv plants, Stark's also have their Holland bulbs in, Stark's Flower Patch, 511° 8S Tibbs Ave. BE. 1351.

Don't let the big ones get away! |

Big bulbs produce big flowers.

And regular customers of New | Augusta Nursery know the top

quality bulbs New Augusta always handles. ‘Imported Dutch

bulbs are now ready at New |

Augusta Nursery, 5000 W. 59th St. CO. 2658. H. J. Schnitzius.

* * If you-want a fine oy A new stock of euonymus patens at

~hedge planting see the S$ Floyd Bass Nurs- \ ery this week.

Semi-evergreen (broad leaved), !

its showy berries in late fall make it ideal to mix with cone-_ bearing evergreens in foundation plantings. Floyd Bass Nursery, W. 62d St. CO. 2349.

x x At Eagle Creek Nursery you'll find a real collection of shade trees. Look them over

> now. while .Jeaves are

stil.on and order for later (dormant) planting. Eagle Creek has a va-

riety. of maples (sugar, red, Schwedler’'s, and the “purple leaved sycamore maple), pin

oak .(also scarlet and red oaks), -

linden, gingko (insect-free, makes light shade good for grass under it); thornless honey locust—these are part of the

many shade trees you can in-_

spect at Eagle Creek and order now. -Eagle Creek’s Holland bulbs are in now, also: Drive out

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* * Pumpkins (all sizes, all purposes), sweet co new limas; green\beans, other vegetables, at

table Market, 1800 W. 57th St. * * Top size and quality, disease free imported tulip bulbs at Jansen's this week are only .79 cents a dozen ‘(50 for $2.95, 100 for $5.75). . Parrot tulips, 98 cents a dozen (50 for $3.75, 100 for $7.25).

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