Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 October 1950 — Page 40

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ose Show | ~ Highlig hig Stole

Two-Day Feature To Open Tuesday

The national rose show at Ayres’ on Tuesday and Wednes-

prophet. to foresee that some thousands of local .

| citizens will be sighing, “On, if | T could only raise roses like 1 that,” i Show {his Tuesday and Wednes-

as they view the Rose

day, And that domewhat fewer

experts. E Here a few members. of the In-

rytody lows to stump th]

‘morning of | hes fue ud Ber eutiriy’s d until 1 in the the Shasands of soges. : arranging and rearrang-

‘Weber, “I didn’t check up ‘on the janitors

to open 3 omy in

den Column. (Don't, please, re-

day completely overshadows other garden events of the week. A few club meetings are scheduled! however, The calendar is as fol-| lows,

local citizens know that they could. It all depends on knowhow and willingness to give the Queen of Flowers what she likes.. For local backyard rose-s growers have beén picking some unusually lovely roses these past couple of weeks. And many of them got started, as many others will this coming week, when they saw a beautiful ais. play.

‘dianapoli= Rose Society (all of * them quick to disclaim ‘they're well experts) .tell what they do to their rose bushes in the fall. Does your experience agree? i Albert Nichols is the newly ‘elected president of the Rose Society. He recently moved to 8200 N. Shadeland Ave, leaving some 140 bushes. “I hilled about six inches of idirt around mine in the fall and almost never'lost “any. The time

TUESDAY | on slim. * National Rose Shaw—Ajyres’ sixth, CAdvertm ) floor. 8 to 9 a. me preview. 9 ertisemen 3 t The 8. m to 9 p. m. open to public. | No admission charge. Nature Study—7:30 p. m. Hal-| loween party. Brendonwood | Common. Mr. and Mrs, Arthur|

Beard, hosts; Miss Thelma Pat-| day's most stalwart surviving

blossom.

terson, assisting, WEDNESDAY National Rose Show — Second, day. 9a. m. to 5:25 p. m. Green Thumb Garden—1 p. m. Mrs. C. D. VanBuskirk, 1212] Leland Ave., hostess; Mrs, W.| E. Dismore, assisting. “Putting the Garden to Sleep,” Mrs. H. L.| ‘Bischof. Forest Hills Garden—2 p. m. Mrs.| G. E. Schloot, 5683 Winthrop Ave. hostess. Program, Marguerite Smith, . { Sunshine Garden (Beech Grove) 1:30 p. m. Mrs. Don Merrick, N. 8th St., hostess. Mrs. James E. Young and Mrs. Charles Adams, assistants. | “Putting the Garden to Sleep.” FRIDAY Broad Ripple—1 p. m. Mrs, Frank A. Symmes Jr., 8535 Park Ave, hostess. “Thanksgiving Arrangements and Christmas Decorations.” Visit to Mrs. John Jacks’ and Mrs. Robert Davidson's chrysanthemum gardens, Speaker, Mrs. G. Schloot.

Colchicum

| through a

E. *

Huge Bloom The A. H. Beckers, 1915 E, Thompson Road, “looked catalogue” some eight years ago and “ordered a dozen blindly,” not knowing a “good” rose from any other kind. Now they've got a hundred

! or so hushes. And Mrs. Becker

showed one of their roses the other day to some friends who “didn’t think they ever got that big.” Me. - Becker, incidentally, off on another flower hobby orchids, He bought his first plants last month, is raising them in a Wardian case and

‘already has some blossoms.

Rose Question, Answer Quiz

Q—-

Is roses now or should we wait spring? Experts still advise fall plant= ing for central Indiana. Reasons for it, roots get estab1iched, bushes are ready to grow. early in spring, hot dry spring weather isn’t so likely to kill a fall planted as a spring planted bush, Only exception to fall planting might be where soil is very sandy and quick drying in spring.

(and to move old ones) until

|Q=Must climbers be laid down | - and covered in the fall?

'A-—Most gardeners

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just bother and have at least fair Juck with even the tender graft-| ed hybrid teas, But the climbing hybrid teas are much surer| to come through the ups and downs of Hoosier winters they are either laid down and

covered or protected with straw A—Most damage occurs during

or other wrappings against too sudden temperature changes. rN 8

Q —Must tree roses be bent down

The colchicum, autumn flow- | ering crocus, makes an inex pensive and specially suitable | Wit for shut-ins or children. it dwers without soil or water, ¢ in later be set outdoors where i? will flower in coming seasons,

V/oman Jurist

‘Cold Frames Should Be Used All Winter

Don't let your cold frame get lazy this winter. Use it: ONE. T ‘winter over semi-tender lant {such as large flowering mums or carnations; TWO, To raise winter flowers of hardy kinds such as {pansies or violas. THREE. To double as a vege- Q BOSTON, Mass.— Mrs. Therese table garden by setting small Jett

for coverage. during winter? 2 i

it better to set out new A--Tree roses sometimes survive

Q—~Couldn’t I pile leaves around A ~

Q don’t A--Bone meal put around bushes!

.quick acting. chemicals in fall

if Q -Should roses be hilled up be-

DIsHIN

A. H. decker, 1913 E. Thompson Road, holds roses picked in dirt after cold weather, then later,

the Becker backyard this week. dpe gt IGARDENING CALENDAR

without it but you're taking IT'S TIME NOW: even more chance with them «+:!o visit the rose show. than with ‘climbing everbloom-| »..to decide on new roses for ers if you do not give them next year. some‘prodtection. . to compost leaves. 2» .to arrange an indoor window box,

Tulip Bulbs

my roses to protect the graft instead of doing all that work to hill up dirt? -Leaves absorb and hold moisture, so are far from ideal protection, Soil hilled up is safer. Should I put fertilizer around my roses in the fall or wait until spring? {

in fall is then ready to stimu-| late spring bloom. Do not use

or you may get sudden soft growth if weather gets warm. |

fore or after frost?

sudden temperature changes. Do; it after frost or even during winter months, Early spring! months are usualiy hardest on the canes. »

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~~We recently moved to a house | with a full lot garden where there are different kinds of

Fall Pruning

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fusually in December, I put a little | pruning 1 do in fall is to cut back

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also moved recently to a new ad:

to do it? Well, after some pretiy, {hard frosts and after all the

Leaves are off the bushes,

Then after the ground is frozen, {straw over the rose bed. The only

any extra long canes.” Dr. and Mrs. Richard Nay “joined the society so we could learn more about roses.” They

idress, 5257 Hinesley Ave., leav.ling “just a few” rose bushes, “We always hilled them up with

about December covered the bed

~- (with leaves. But that was more,

{to prevent new growth starting] as 40 ai a me can De seen

in a warm winter, than for pro-| tection against cold. No, we didn’t: prune in the fall.”

Pragmatism

Mrs. Harry Marvin, 4249 Graceland Ave. has “only about 50 bushes,” She says she doesn’t pay too much attention to the rules laid down by the experts. “I'm a pragmatist and besides, I believe in roses for fun not for work. If they come through the summer as good sturdy bushes they're pretty likely to survive the winter. “I do hill up just a little in the| ‘fall to be sure the graft is coyiered. But -I never mulch in the! fall-—only in summer. Then I use;

plenty. I guess my methods are {vindicated, too, for the National

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Rose Bociety says in one of its latest reports that too much cov-| er seems to kill roses, | “The only pruning I do in the, fail is to keep extra long canes

{from flopping in the wind. T don’t)

recall ever losing any bushes {from winter-kill.”

Professional Advice For Rose Treatment

Here's the way a professional insures survival of roses over winter. At Hillsdale Nursery rose {beds and bushes get a late fall [treatment with Copper-X to kill] {the *seeds” or spores of black-| spot that would otherwise winter | lover. t Then “not before” mid-Novem-ber, usually after Thanksgiving” the bushes get hilled up from six t6 10 inches and a covering of

. [straw goes over the bed.

Mr. Nordholt started Friday to céax -his exhibits into the proper state of exhaustion. And anyone who knows how stubborn flowers can be won't envy him the job. = Ld ~

BIRDS MUST be passing the

word around that Indianapolis |

is a fine vacation resort. | . E ; | Elder Brothers, Inc. specially {Chamber of Commerce, please | Me You np attend the Na-

note.) Mr. and Mrs, Joel Hadley noted foyr American egrets out at Geist reservoir last Sunday. Now the egret, says Mrs. Hadley, South, Then Pop and Mom take

off for a little vacation—in the |

North. ,

During the summer as many |

around the Oaklandon reservoir. But it's quite unusual to

| see thent after the end of Sep- | tember.

Other visitors just beginning to flock in include the Canada ‘geese, snow geese and blue geese. “Black geese,” or cormorants, also like it here, pe s ” THANK YOU depariment— to Mrs. Virley Hampton, 348 8S. Cole St., and to Mrs. John G. Jacks, 5602 Carrollton Ave. Mrs. Hampton sent .& nice

“| friendly letter I've forwarded

to “MecCordsville” who inquired about the name of an oldfashioned bush. Mrs. Hampton found the description of its little fragrant reddish brown flowers fitted a

shrub she brought from Ala-

bama. Mrs. Jacks sent instructions on tuberous begonia care that “worked fine” for her. Readers

| stamped envelope to the Gar-

6 Models, “14 ns to 5 BP.

JOHN D. MUIR 3150 S. Lockburn unm

raises its family in the |

-who'd like a copy may have it | sending a self-addressed | | tuck in the bed or edge it.

i Giant,

{ Mrs, | pink daffodil),

{ straw, vermiculite

tional Rose Show in Ayres, sixth floor, next Tuesday and Wednesday. Among the many wonderful displays you will find a number of new roses making their first bow fo the public. One of them will be Happiness. You'll see this new red rose in “The Portrait of | a Living Rose,” a true rose picture. Demure, another one, is a dainty pink; It will make its debut in that charming story book sequence, “Fairy Tale Roses.” The coral pink blossoms of Flair, a third new beauty, are still so few that all available blooms will appear in a display by themselves. Then, in “Career of a Rose” you will see Elder Brothers’ own origination, the true red rose, Elder's Beauty. Elder Brothers, Inc, 503 National

Ave, *

At Hoosier Gardener’s you'll find all those materials for making ‘your fall rosebeds—peat moss (any size packmeal (in bulk), (wonderful for rose cuttings), sheep manure, Driconure, also those early-blooming Dutch bulbs to

bone

Specially nice are Hoosier Gar-

| |* dener’s big flowering daffodils—

Rembrandt, Van Waverin's Roxane, King Alfred, Golden Harvest, Beersheba, R. O. Backhouse (the and Queen of the Bicolors, Hoosier Gardener invites you, too, to see their

African violet display at the

Next spring

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.elimber,

You'll find a few potted roses, including Paul's Scarlet at Stark's Flower 753 Patch. Plant it (in ‘partioular) now if you want bloom next spring. Also at Stark’s a fine selection of fruit trees, among them apples (Jonathan, Grimes Golden, Mackintosh, Early Transparent, Delicious) and Montmorency cherries. Stark's Flower Patch, 511 8S. Tibbs Ave. BE. 1351. *

* To get your name on the mailing list for Bass Nursery's free descriptive list of roseés call CO. 2349 or drop a card to Floyd Bass Nursery, R. R. 1, Box 140, New Augusta, Ind. Also ready at Bass Nursery now—pink and white flowering dogwoods, double red flowering peach, flowering crabs, general nursery stock. Floyd Bass Nursery, W. 62d St., between US 52 and Ind. 29.

* * Don't let blackspot winter over in your rosebeds. At Bash’s you'll find sprays ° for late fall condrol, and fertilizer for fall feeding. Also at Bash’s you'll find bulbs of orchid-like Dutch iris, easy-to-raise, fine for arrangements, in white, golden yellow, light or dark blue. Bash's Seed Store, 141 N. Delaware. RIL 3733, FR. 7383. *

A single rose to brighten your living room rose-bowl is only 25¢ at John Grande and Sons

“Flower Shop. Al Aulbach and

Clara Grande Aulbach invite you to drop in and look around the new shop at 2401 W, Washington St. FR. 3525.

_ You'll find pot-

8. Brown, 24, is the first woman tuce plants or parsley or other | Maybe you can't ralse roses:

ted roses in

charge. spring. i

~ FINAL CLOSEOUT OFFER! GARDEN OF

mw . the tall end of 8 very favorable t an Sysrsook of Sung. 28 selects For ONLY $1.69. Ar our

e was selected as foreman of a seed boxes of perennials or hardy | jury to try a man in the U. 8.annuals (they'll stand freezing): District Court on a narcotics for extra- early germination next|

A in the history of this state, herbs in it now; FOUR. To store

'A.— Unless the shrubs are

pr EEE ft ein ot LA NEN AR Ye eT AE fo XE eal Tea MICHIGAN BULB (0. Depl. 2B 282 Grand Rapids 2, Mich. FALL IS THE £1IMETo WORK ON YOUR LAWN WE CARRY BULK STOCKS OF GOOD QUALITY SEEDS AT ‘REASONABLE PRICES ALSO GENUINE BRUCO GERMAN PEAT MOSS VITALITY AND PRATTS DOG FEEDS NO PARKING PROBLEM AT

THE GARTEN FEED CO.

518 S." SENATE AVE. LI-5856

4 Blocks South From West Side of Statehouse

shrubs and flowers that need

thinning and pruning very bad-|

ly. I would like to know how|

to go about doing it and what! time of the year. Marion Ave.) fall} blooming kinds like rose-of-sharon, you will be wise to] remove only dead wood and possibly a few of the very oldest canes (at ground level). Then as each blossoms you will be able to identify it and do such pruning as that particular] shrub likes best. A good gen-| eral rule to follow when you are -not sure of plants is to prune just after the flowering period.

(Gets First Check

LUDLOW, Vi.— Miss Ida M.' Fuller, 77, received the old age insurance check No. 00-000-001. She was also the first in this country tp receive increased benefits under the new social sedurity law. She is a retired bookkeeper.’

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lat 8 p. m. in the Riviera Club.

- These are standard size tulip bulbs, sketched almost actual size. For all practical purposes the 12 to 13 centimeter bulbs are best | sizes to buy. New gardeners often wonder y prices on spring bulbs very, so Ih from dealer to dealer.| The answer-—before you consider, any price a “bargain,” check on; i the size of bulbs. =: A few mail order dealers offer-| {ing “bargain collections” have foisted tiny year-old bulbs on! jtheir = unsuspecting customers. | Watch out for this gvp game. Bargain collections .ay be really bargains, but buy them only from dealers you know are reliable.

Benefit E Bridge Party Nov. 8

Miss Y, Elene Craven has {been _ named chairman for the { Nov. 8 bridge party being spon-| {sored by the Western College; | Alumnae Club. The event will be! vi Proceeds will be sent to the college as the local club's con-

.tribution to the centennial fund.

Assisting the ghairman are Mesdames Wilbur Appel, Loren

| K. Blue and William L. Bridges, | Misses Betsy Bowen and Grace!

| Yager. Mrs. James Jordan is elubj president.

. years.

—————

THE MEN

Who Have Made

Eagle Creek

In addition to his official duties as Treasurer and General Manager, Mr. Merrill B. Esterline is the head —of the landscape department. A graduate of the Universi of Wisconsin, | : : Mr. oe ine -has - been in * Merrill B, Esterline the nursery and landscape business for more than! twenty He has built-a fine library on plants and plant life, and is much in demand os a speaker before garden clubs. Much of the success of Eagle Creek is due to his efforts to improve the standard of landscape work in central Indiana.

Good Landscaping Lasts

Good landscape work requires the use of the appropriate plant in each situation, both from the standpoint of app e ond p e. The use of unsuitable plonts simply means that in a relatively short time the work will have to be done over. Real economy is gained by doing the job right in the first place. :

VISIT THE NURSERY

This is a good time to visit the nursery. Roses are still in bloom; shade trees are in full color, Remember that our cash and eamy sales yord is open all day, every day. You are cordially invited.

EAGLE CREEK NURSERY C0.

82nd St. and Lafayette Rd. (U.S. 52) Telephone COunty ne), Indianapolis

St. LIL 9918,

indoors in winter but you can still have a charming display of plants as well as cut flowers. Visit East 56th St. Greenhouse and see their many easy-to-raise house plants, also the flowers fresh cut in their own greenhouses, East 56th St,

| Greenhouse, just east of Key- | stone.

IM. 5842, ; * * Roses, shrubs, Orn anwe ntal and shade trees can add up to your Dream Yard. Arrange now

i for planting of ornamental and | shade trees. Call H. N. (Mike) | Engledow, Midwestern Tree Ex- . | perts. CO. 2335.

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At the House of Flowers you'll | find potted rose bushes to set

out now, also cut roses for every occasion. Don’t forget,

| too, that a telephone call will | bring Bernice Brown or Vesta

DeBoard of House of Flowers . to your home to help you plan

| a beautiful wedding, whatever | your budget. House of Flowers, | 5801 W. Washington St. | 2459. Open Sundays.

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- Rose-beds are a fine spot to tuck in some early spring bulbs. At Jansen's prices you can afford lots of them. Crocusses, 39¢

| ‘a dozen: nareissus, 98¢; Darwin | tulips,

79¢; parrot tulips, 98c. Special prices on larger quantities. Jansen’s, 19 N.. Alabama

special Iniroduciofy Offer! I will send by mail . . .

NEW "MERRY-G0-ROUND” Ivy .

PHILODENDRON Plant SARJENA Plant

all i three only :

= You can still get a good many varietles of potted roses at real bargain prices at + Hillsdale Nursery this week. And

this is a fine time

to plant them.

But Hillsdale is

cutting prices be-

| cause they don’t want to carry ‘So all the

»them over winter. $1.50 roses are marked down to $1.00. The newer patented kinds that sold for $2.00 up to $3.00 are only $1.50. Hillsdale’s fine potted chrysanthemums are in this sale, too, at 50c (formerly 75c) a plant. Drive out to Hillsdale and get your roses and mums at a real savings.

Hilisdale Nursery, 8000 north J on Ind. 100.

BR. 5495.

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| Good landscape plantings are ofterl ruined by lack of proper

‘care. The Garden Guardian's

full bud and bloom right now at Pottenger’s Nursery. Buy them now at season’s-end prices and pick fall bouquets’ from your own rose-bushes. New patented sorts (at least 25 varieties) are. only $1.25 (formerly $2.00 and $250). These include Pinocchio, Sutter's Gold, Mission Bells, Rose of Freedom, Countess Vandal, Summer Snow and others. Roses that sold for $1.50 are now only $1.00. Drive out to Pottenger’s Drive-In Nurs ery for roses and other land. scape materials, ready for you to pick up in their depart. mentalized salesyard. Potten ger's Nursery, 3400 Rd. WA. 6412. *

Building contractors! Are you looking for fast-growing shade trees for those - new homes you' re putting up? Maschmeyers. Nursery has some good ones, at special prices on large: orders. Call Maschmeyer’s Nurs ery, 244 W. Troy Ave, Or for individual landscape plans, call James Maschmeyer, GA. 4668. * * ; Stoney Brook Nursery will sell

you stone (retail or wholesale) or lay your walks, walls; or

‘terraces for you. Call them

also for rotted—cow manure, Aop-soil, nursery stock. Stoney Brook Nursery and Landscape Ce. BR. 11717. *

At Eagle Creek Nursery you'll find a selection of potted roses including climbers.

‘Plant these now if

you'd be sure of bloom next spring. Also in Eagle Creek's salesyard are

some unusually attractive -

shrubs for planting now, See the flaming red-leaved euonymous alatus compactus, viburn-

_um setigera (hanging full of

bright red berries), euonymous vegetus (easy-to-to-raise broadleaved &vergreen for sun or shade), spréading English vew for under window planting ‘(does well in ghade), euonymous patens (yellow berried, evergreen), viburnum tomentosum (loveliest of snowballs); and that fine hollylike shrub, mahonia. These are just a few of the quality shrubs you can get acquainted with at Eagle Creek Nursery, US 52, 1Y; north of Trader's Point, Co. 2381." i

If you want to be sure of get« ting the popular new rose varie eties send for New Augusta Nursery's free descriptive price list of roses and order now,

i Ask,’ too, for New Augusta's ;