Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 October 1950 — Page 40

Variety of Plants Make Choice Easy ~~ Ground Covers Fit All Problem Yards

If you want to be a lazy (or| =8 Micient) gardener, you'll set out our ground covers mow. Your & award for such foresighted iner-| ia will be double. { (1) You won't have so much awn mowing to do next year, 2) Your ground cover plants set ow need little extra attention in ol moist fall days. | Ground covers are as individual s people. So choose the kind! ur soil and situation can be ally chummy with, | . Ivy pals up nicely with shady! pots” where soil holds moisture. | lant it in any other situation nd you'll always be refereeing its rguments with dry weather and| oo much sunshine, |

Prefers Sun Plumbago takes to straight sun. | f your soil is a bit on the sandy! de, yet holds moisture well, try 3

Times photo by John R. Spicklemire.

-adwort (plumbago) for Its hlox-like June-sky-blue flowers. Dr. and Mrs. E. C, Crossen . . . profits of a planned investment. Pachysandra, or Japanese ‘By MARGUERITE SMITH, Times Garden Editor

purge, goes well with pine trees| most ground covers don't). rice may discourage budgeting]

ONLY 14 MONTHS ago Dr. and Mrs. E. C. Crossen fnoved into their new home on Stop 8 Road just east of Road 135. But they already have a fine lawn, a shrubbery hedge (several, in

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iyers at first but it's easy to| p once you get a start and it}

fact), good-sized shade trees, fruit orchard, strawberries and

Fall planting again. “Of course, if you don’t know exactly where your house will be on the lot (we didn’t), you've got to keep all your shrubbery at the sides. In any case, you've got to al-

trict’s top “flower fixers.”

Nature Study—2 p.m. Meet at

Fall Oreek—1:15 p.m. Holliday

ill be happy in deep shade. Myrtle (periwinkle, vinca) is me of those exuberantly happy] lants that loves any kind of soil] r situation. When in doubt, give] yrtle a chance. New superior | irieties improve both foliage and| )wers on this once-snubbed| ;raveyard plant” now deservedly pular,

ing those home and garden magazines, Yet their three acres was only a tomato patch back in 1943 when they bought the land. They knew they couldn't build then. But they decided they weren't going to move into | “just a house” when they did.

. , . Sardener's Friend S80 they made some planting plans,

Polygonum reynoutria, dwarf i lative of the much-loved silver, Shade trees came first. And

raspberries—just everything you dream about when you're perus-

fall’s the time to set them out, they're convinced from their experience. As to varieties: “We kept away from elms, chose rather easy-to-grow kinds—silver maples (we didn’t have much luck with our sugar maples), tulip trees, oaks and sweet gums for fall color. Then, because they're ornamented we set gingko and mountain ash.” SHRUBS got next attention.

ice vine, is a new friend for busy! ardeners, It settles down nicely + full sun. Red-budding, pink ywers in summer, red leaves in ill make it a gay carpet. Ajuga (bugle) is another easily reading plant friendly to shade. charms with blue flower sprigs 1 the spring. ) The trailing Memorial rose rosa Wichuraiana) likes to slip-| ver banks and slopes (in at ast half sun), It slides over the round, taking and| ere. The sprays of not too con-|

New Scientific

Goldenrod, aluminum foil,

and petroleum find themselves put to all sorts of odd uses by

inventive American curiosity. One of these days gardeners may be sowing goldenrod seeds and harvesting the flowers. For

the yellow sneeze producers also produce a licorice-flavored

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icuous flowers come in late of] that's useful in candy, chewJammer, “ | ing gum and other edibles, so Whatever. your problem spot gcience has lately discovered?

“here's a ground cover for ‘lant now,

it.. Aluminum foil has moved out of the kitchen and into the | trees, Wrap young trees with

it and rabbits can't nibble the |

Inventive Americans Use

Ideas

Oil companies are always happy to find their petroleum usable outside a gas tank. A new fungicide lately discovered by oil chemists and shot over to Uncle Sam’s testing stations controls a good many fruit dis-

eases, especially that pesky brown rot of cherries and peaches.

So far, it's known only as a letter and number. Watch for

. it on the market next year un-

der various trade names.

Shearing Winner

Nomen Saving

WASHINGTON -- Women hold vast majority of the savings de-| osits in this country. In New| ork they outnumber the men de-| sitors two to one,

hey ROMNEY MARSH, England—At the same time the foil Miss Elsie Humphrey, 24, was foils old Sol when he tries to [the only womar among 50 comsunscald the bark (thereby leav- |petitors who took two first prizes ing those elongated bark splits |in the recent sheep shearing competitions here.

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low room for the builders to work,” the Crossens observe. Most shrubs they bought in small size—‘“with three acres we'd have spent a fortune otherwise.” Then Mrs. Crossen put her green fingers to work with slips and jars and they fixed up a propagating garden. “I even raised a red-leaved plum from a alip,” she laughs. And: quantities of butterfly bushes testify “they're really easy to start.” Next to fall planting, “a really big hole so you can spread roots out and get some kind of moisture holding humus underneath” are essentials to tree and shrub success, they've decided. Cow manure and bone meal went into most of the planting holes.

‘Operations Base ONE MOST enjoyable part of their place isn't at all particular what season it's planted in, That's the picnic table and fireplace “planted” as a base of operations . soon a fter they bought the propertly. Now they're settled in, “The vegetables are his pets, the flowers mine,” says Mrs. Crossen. He's raised some pretty snappy onions this year and she has annuals all around the house to give a helping hand to their foundation planting of newly started shrubs. One unusual flower is a spinestemmed morning glory that | trails over the garden fence.

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Garden Show Held For Youngsters

Jean Capel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Capel, 6102 N. Olney !St. ‘really stumped the experts | (the judges) at the recent flower show held in John Strange School. { For the insect collections display she “painted” a pair of pic/tures made of cut-out flowers lplus real butterflies. Her framed {montage won a special award. {| Other blue ribbon winners in{cluded Mark Schurmann, Francia Persell, Walter Pleasants, Judy Lamb, Linda Teeguarden, Carolyn {Crane, Kenneth Pleasants, Diana |Scheuring, Linda Lee Dorbecker and Nancy Blythe for flowers grown in their own home gardens,

{Other Firsts Arrangements won first awards [tor Linda Hirt, John Peters, Jan Persell, Judy Taylor, Marianne |Ricks, James Urbain and Bever{ly Boesinger. | Other firsts went to Poé Dorsett, {Jane Mess, Bobby Cochrane, David Roesinger and Charlotte | Scheuring. ? First in a class for junior garden club members only went to

Nature Study—T7:30 a. m. Meet at

Chrysanthemum Show—2 to 5

Rose Society Officers

Indianapolis Rose Society are Albert C. Nichols, president; A. H. Becker and Mrs. W. Irving Palmer, first and second vice presidents; Mrs. Becker and Mrs. Richard Nay, corresponding and. recording secretaries, and Dr, Warren Tucker, treasurer.

GARDENING CALENDAR

Central West District Sponsors Oct. 15 Event

TODAY

World War Memorial. Trip to home of Mr. and Mrs, Clinton D. Anderson. Otis Herreman, Mrs. Leah Hamilton and Mrs. Homer Knight in charge. MONDAY

Park. Mesdames Kenneth Barr, Fred Gifford and Walter Mor-

ton, hostesses. “Chrysanthemums,” William Cooley of Wayside Nursery.

Arbutus—1 p. m. Mrs. Ralph Morris, 72d and N. Meridian Sts, hostess. Mrs. W. W. Cothran and Mrs. Alan Sparks, assist-

ogue, Mrs. Hugh Baker Sr.

mon House. Mrs. John Grimes, hostess, “Feeding Habits of Birds,” illustrated talk by Mrs. Ralph . Bidgood. Mrs. Arthur Beard and Mrs. Herbert Rieke, program chairmen. TUESDAY

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Community House. Reports on dahlia shows visited by members. Mr. and Mrs, Walter Saf-

door equipment re for use next good the garden medicine chest is in your garage, on the wall which you keep your garden tools and supplies.

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y You still can plant iris for & Ww If your ground is so poorly drained and heavy you Just: can’t succeed with the common= ly used tall bearded sorts, the grass-leaved Japanese E They like just the 4 growing conditions — 3

Whatever your planting problem, it’s likely you can find a va~ riety of the “queen of shrubs” to solve it. That name is applied to cotoneasters (rhymes with phoney-asters). - Various cotoneasters will grow in sun or shade, cover a north wall or bank, grow under {irees, take to a wet or dry place. They are becoming more and more

Cotoneasters Are Adaptable Shrubs

popular for hedges and many of them are low-spreading varieties just right to use under picture windows for that long low line in modern houses, They're natives of China, from

where so many of our good shrubs and flowers come. quantities of fall fruits, the berries ranging in color from orangered to black.

They produce|

just as tough their old-fashioned sisters.

DISHING THE DIRT—

Q—I am ‘trying to trade

take a starting of several o my hardy flowers, also lilie

pots and sink them in the ground until I move? Or would they freeze? Could I dig up tulips and dry them? —GOODLET AVE. A—Your hardy plants would

fell and Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Cuffell will bring reports from

shows. “Digging and Storing Dahlias,” E. M. Demlow. WEDNESDAY : Society—8 p. m. John Atherton Center, Butler University. Panel discussion with question and answer period led by Albert Nichols, Herbert Asperger and Mrs. Thomas McGuffey. - THURSDAY

Hubert Lance, 2406 W. 60th St.,

probably survive the winter in pots if you do it carefully, plunge the pots clear into the ground and mulch with straw (or some other airy material). I would not try to take up tulip bulbs now for possible planting next spring. If you can transplant them at once, yes. Your whole problem would be much easier if you could come to some agreement with the new owner to take starts of the plants when you move, As to the bulbs it would be much more satisfactory to start over with them,

hostess, Program, William Cooley of Wayside Nursery. | Mrs. Ralph Soots, chairman. | FRIDAY at home of Mrs. Oliver Mills, 1131 W. 35th St, for trip to home of Mrs. Dorothy MecAdams, Camby. Mrs, George, Dyer, assistant hostess.

“gram, “Lily Bulbs,” Mrs. W. W.

Drayer.

North End—1 p.m. Mrs. John W.|

Noble, 5570 N. Keystone Ave, Mrs. Walter Sanders and Mrs. J. Frank Reinier, assistants. “Dahlias,” Dr. A. Earl White,

NEXT SUNDAY

"bus terminal for trip to Madison and Clifty Falls. |

p. m. Holliday House. Sponsored by Central West District Garden Clubs.

Newly elected officers of the

TS TIME NOW: ++.to check all houseplants for disease and insect pests. «+..to dry gladiolus bulbs before s

++.to continue planting rye. |

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34th St. and Lafayette is Mile North of Fiaekvitie:

Rosalie Merrill, Martha Robert-

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den Club with Mrs. Ross Smith and Mrs. Paul Pike of the club) | working with school principal Hubert Helms and Merrill Hughes,

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I” SUPPORTS of the varieties, even if you have to start with smaller fi ‘for ones. Don’t put in just anything that is green. If your yard | BACKACHE and house ore small, by all means use dwarf varieties that ’ mmcue HOW TO SAVE MONEY - p Scientifically Many people like to work with plants, and you can save Jevigaed ie money by pu 0 Your SWA Hess, What you Some to the nursery, a-picture of y use. shot abdomen and will do.) Oo Oo one wl a —. iio y Sansfer the planting for you, and select the trees, which you can take strain from Th Jou in your car. We will furnish full printed instructions charge. 9 the stron, , ! hip : IMPORTED DUTCH BULBS We have just received the bulbs which we import direct from

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p= ing. It gets you fine results at minimum At Stark’s costs, too. Eagle Flower Patch Creek Nursery will you'll find Chi- ¥ ] plan your planting, a nese lilacs, flowering almond, little or much, at the nursery, beauty bush, spirea (red and sell you plants you can take white), hyacinth, tulip and. home in your car and set out crocus bulbs, colorful -hedge. Yourself, thereby saving the plants (red barberry, golden cost of labor. All you have to privet); also shade trees. do is take pictures of your and chrysan house, particularly the front Flower Patch, 511 8. Tibbs Ave. view from street to entrance. BE. 13851. Open Sundays, Other pictures of sides and back are helpful even though _ . * * You may plan to plant thtat This is the time area much later. (For all your to plant roses. planting should be tied to- Get potted roses, gether.) Then jot’down meas- live and growing, urements—most important are from Hillsdale’s

window widths, distance be- big assortment, apartment tween windows, height of win- Set them now cottages, dows and porches from the so theyll make : part of th ground. Take your pictures and root-growth dur-- - 7 — At home measurements out to Eagle ing cool weather, 3 room or s Creek and you'll get a good Next spring grouping ¥ planting design, good plant they'll reward you with early by Hurric material at a minimum of ex-' bloom on strong established the units @ pense. Eagle Creek Nursery, plants. Hillsdale Nursery, 8000 ippine rat US 52, 1); miles north of north on Ind. 100. BR. 5495. are plastic

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* * Small-leaved {ivies, potted in good growing soil, will dress up your winter windows. Take your favorite containers to 56th St. Greenhouse, pick out your plants, and the potting is done free of charge, Also a fine collection of cactus and succulents at 56th St. Greenhouse, just east of Keystone. IM. 5842. Open Sundays.

Savings on cash-and- carry prices may mean the difference between planting your home now and putting it off. See the reasonable cash-and-carry prices at Maschmeyer’s Nursery on blue spruce, arborvitae, yews, Pfitzer juniper, or (for fall berries) cotoneasters, barberry, deciduous holly (it does well in shady damp places). Maschmeyer's Nursery, 244 W. Troy Ave. For planting advice, call James Miaschmeyer, GA. 4668. Open Sundays. * *

“Regal lily bulbs (really mammoth ones) are in at Bash’s this week. You'll also find Madonnas and philippinense lily

| bulbs, a full line of imported

Dutch bulbs, and Activo in all sizes. Use Activo on your tree leaves this fall to turn them ‘Into useful leaf mold for soil improvement. Get Activo at Bash’s Seed Store, 141 8. Delaware St. RI 8733, FR. 7388.

* * : Compare these prices! Big fat crocus bulbs are only 89¢ a dozen at Jansen’s,: Other "bulbs (all top-size, imported) by dozen lots are hyacinths, $1.98; Darwin tulips, 79¢; parrot tulips, 98e. AtJansen’s, 19 N. Alabama St. LIL. 9918. Convenient parking in front of store. : * You still have time to plant peonies, Oriental _ poppies, and iris. You'll find topnotch varieties of all three at Floyd Bass Nursery. Don't forget that

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* You'll surely want to see those trick ivy and candle rings at Lyman’s. They're amazingly . inexpensive. They come in. sections (4 to 8 pieces) so you, can use ivy plus candles, ivy alone, or the arrange - ‘ment from centerpiece te mantle to your imagi- . nation suggests. Three styles . through oval, cireular, oblong, from Victorian cut glass effect to modern frosted glass. Price range is from $1.60 to $2.95 at Lyman's Ars Store, 31 Monument MA. 7437.

If you're

shade ‘trees for fall color the next week or two is the time to look them

(Mike) Engledow, Midwestern Tree Exeprts, 0. 2835.

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_Soil enrichment in bulb beds, hardy borders, rose beds, lawns." It loosens soll, retains moisture, will not burn vegetation and is free of weed seeds. $1.00 per 100 Ib. bag, $15.00 per ton (bulk) at plant, Call Kingan & Co. LI 1351,

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Quality’s the word A for Hoosier Gardener’s orte Holland bulbs. - Along with tulips, "hyacinths, crocus, and ‘many less common bulb varieties he’s

each year. Right now is the time to plant them. Remember our display and sales yard is open all day, every day and you are welcome, whether you buy ormot.

EAGLE CREEK NURSERY (0.

82nd St. and Lafayette Rd. (U.S. 52)

fine dark red origination of got ask the Bass Nursery, the Loweil a fine line of narcissus, Here : Thomas. peony. Floyd Bass you'll find, in the large yellow Nursery, W. 62d St. CO. 2349. King Alfred, Van x He Gobten, Harvest Carmen ow’s the to set peren- ( . nials for a good start next white 9% 20) Em spring. Send a postcard (or Imperator, o. call) and get your free de- There’s the pink cupped Mrs, - seriptive list of New Augusta R. O. Backhouse and 20 other ~ HA Nursery's big line of healthy, kinds—double uster, ‘well-rooted perennials and other and rock garden varieties + nursery stock. New Augusta's among them. At Hoosler Gare plant varieties are all chosen dener's you'll get. dependable for success in Hoosier gardens, advice’ on at are acclimated before you get and how to plant. Hoosier : them, Wilis.1o H. J. Sshuttaius, Saran bk eons 3 ¢ New Augusts arsery, ow ve, (rear), Mail orders ary