Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 November 1950 — Page 40

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lock Wall Solves 0 Problem Terrace ' By MARGUERITE SMITH Times Garden Editor CHILLY days may not be the people’s choice for doing a spot of gardening. But they're just what old hands prefer for building stone fences, walls and other rock-heaving

or if you have’ a terrace that fights with both blue grass and lawn mowers, rocks may be your answer. That's what led Claude Bechold to build the rock wall, pictured right, at 1235 N. Alabama St. Nine to 10 hours work produced a 30 foot long wall. Chief pointers—in case youre considering a similar project to enliven a Christmas holiday - are these.

Corners Difficult

YOU'LL need flat rocks perferably not more than three inches thick, the longer the better when you get to racing down the stretch. Long rocks mean less to lay for any given . space. : The corners are the most difficult part, says Mr. B. That's where you need small pieces. But you can easily knock off odd bumps or too “long ends with a hammer. Aim at building rounded corners and you'll have less trouble.

Right Slant : 5 YOU'VE got a crooked -eye, you'd better use.a chalk line unless you lean to slightly snake-like effects.

GARDEN CALENDAR |

IT'S TIME ‘NOW: + + +» to pot up some new ryllis bulbs. . e +» + to give Christmas cactus more water. ¢e +’ to clean and oil tools.

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New Directors Newly elected directors of the Indianapolis Dahlia Society are R. C. Burns, E. M. Demlow, Lawrence Daley and C. W. Paine, all of Indianapolis, and Russell Coons, Rushville, :

Claude Bechold works on

the rock wall he

y Just Right for Stone Work

built at 1235 N.

Alabama’ St., where he lives in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Dawn

Snyder. But don’t: make the wall too nicely uniform, either, he warns. You want an interesting pattern when you've finished, not just a piled up heap of stone. Slant it slightly toward the back. Then when the ground freezes you aren't so likely to have to pick your wall up off the sidewalk. Sprinkle a thin layer of rich dirt between ‘the rocks as you lay them. Then

Garden Gadding—

you can tuck plants in for a {

wall garden.

Ideal for Plants

MR. BECHOLD built his before freezing weather so as soon as it was finished it got a supply of sedums and (on top) annuals

for quick color and cover.

Later the top of any wall be-

comes an ideal spot for spring |

bulbs and plants’ like English

lavender that love

High Frequency Waves ~ Proved Gardener's Aid

ONE OF these days it may take a musician to raise a good

garden.

Latest news on the bug front says the USDA has proved

that high frequency sound waves (out of this world as far as a

gardener’s ears go) are just the ticket for killing corn borer moths, |

also mosquitoes and (in case you own a cow) bacteria in milk.

” " n . ANOTHER sad scientific fac can't win. Comes now researchers who say that some of the

modern: crabgrass killers murder fall-sown bluzgrass seed as avell as crabgrass.

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Mercury compounds used in

August were still. hang around, especially on heavy

ing clay

soils, as late as October to spoil

had the heeby-jeebies.

or,

2, 4-D knocked out grass seed,

too.

3ut it didn’t have such an

easy time itself. For soil bac-

teria. put up their fists

and

cleaned up on the 2, 4-D in time.

They just don't have

enough

muscle to knock out mercury.

Mercury ‘ lays the

s0ilY bac-

teria out then has the ground all to itself when the grass seed

comes along. All is not lost,

though,

ac-

cording to the learned gentlemen. They look rather fondly on another type of crabgrass

PC gets an official okay

killer, th¥ new introduction of i last season, potassium cyanate, | | breezily known as PC. {

for

~NUrsing-new -seedlings-atong in--stead bf breathing heavily down | their necks. PC splits itself up and eventually becomes plant | food instead of plant poison.

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[South Relieved

: Will Meet Saturday

All-Day Session Is Scheduled at Butler

| The first annual meeting of the [Central - West district garden

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% clubs will be Dec. 2 in the Athlerton Center on the Butler Uni-

¢ versity campus. | _ Registration will begin at 9:30 ‘a. m. with a business meeting iat 10 a. m. Arbutus Garden Club {has charge of registration with Mrs. George Lilly and Mrs. Roblert Blessing, chairmen. { Mrs. Henry Prange will wel{come the 36 member clubs and {Dr. H. O. Ross, Butler president, {will bring greetings. Following a {talk by Mrs. Robert Jackson, ¥ state president, discussion groups Iwill take up the subjects of flower

shows, programs, horticulture | jand junior garden clubs. i Committees

After the 12:30 p. m. luncheon [Miss Edwina Morrow, state bird {chairman, ‘will speak to the after[noon session. : The program committee is Mrs.

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[Corwin T. Geyer, chairman; Mrs. | {Francis Hackett and Mrs. Fred! ‘Dickson, all of Brendonwood! {Club. Blue Flower Club has! charge of table decorations with | Mrs. W. D. Kautsky and Mrs. P. A. Hennessee heading the committee | Biz-Z-B Club has charge of hos- | {pitality with Mrs. Glen Harper, chairman; Mesdames William | Phillips, Carl Herald and Willlam | {Hartman assisting. {

Blackwood on Bridge— Squeeze Play

Successful -

| Player Needs Luck Along With Ability

| MOST sensationally good re{sults at the bridge table stem from a combination of good luck |

(and good play. { If you had been the South | (player in today's deal, how ‘would | {you have felt about your three! {no trump contract after the king! lof hearts opening from West? | As this particular South saw it, the success of the contract

North dealer Both sides vulnerable

NORTH S—J 10765 H—A 7 D—AJ C—K 1092 | “WEST EAST | S—83 S—K42 H—K Q 10 H—95482 D—1097 2 ‘D—8643 C—QJ63 C3 SOUTH S—AQ9 H—J 86 D—KQ5 C—A8714

The bidding: . NORTH EAST SOUTH WEST 18 Pass 3 NT All Pass

{was by no means certain. If West ‘had led from-a-five-card-suit;-and:

if he also had the king of spades, To ‘Holiday |

nine tricks were apparently out

SOUTH ducked the first trick and after some thought West |

which was taken on the board e with the ace.

led and finessed, South breathing d

other spade finesse was taken c¢

and the ace then cleared the suit. Dummy was entered with the E

ace of diamonds and the two re-| maining spades were cashed. | East had no trouble discarding | as all of his cards were imma-| terial, In Difficulty WEST, however, was obviously in serious difficulty. He was wish-| ing he could trade club holdings! with his partner. On the third round of spades he had thrown a (

| | | |

-small diamond.

He dropped two more diamonds on the last two spades; while de-| clarer discarded two small clubs.| ‘When South next led a diamond to his queen; West still_had one more safe discard, a club. But the lead of the last diamond from the closed hand completed the squeeze,

Squeeze Helps

| WEST was ,down to _tliree

| scientific gardeners

Nature Study

Your Yard—

blooming garden roses. The hybri borne in clusters of from 10 to clean, white two-and-one-half-inch flowers which last well in the | in-the house when picked.

Jackson & Perkins Photo.

Pinocchio is one of the heaviest d tea shaped buds which are | 30 on a single stem open into |

The Men

Who Have Made

Mr. Curtis J. Wethington, as-

sistant superintendent, has been a member of the Eagle Creek organization nine

years, He is a young man of exceptional ability in all phases of nursery work. As the company grows and expands, Curtis undoubtedly

der increased responsibilities.

Inexpensive Methods Will

Q—My problem is poor soil and not much money for fertilizer | and soil improvers. Plants just don't grow to any size. The ground is hard and pale yellow clay, I had a soil analysis made and that : showed, too, that the ground lacks plant food of all kinds. It is | slightly acid. Is there anything I can do to raise some nice flowers | I can really afford for fer- |

without spending more money tilizer? Please don’t use my name. A—There are any number of things you can do without spending a cent. And with an extra dollar or two from time to time you can do a lot. First, don’t spread your efforts too thin. Get after a little patch of flower bed at a time,

Use Lime Bury every smidgeon of garbage all winter long. Easy way is to dig a trench when ground . is soft, layer a few inches of garbage in it even whepg, your yard: is frozen. . If weather warms up and odor gets objectionable, a little dirt over it or a sprinkle of lime will help. Agricultural lime is very inexpensive and hard clay soils benefit from its use. Don’t use

- more than a pound to 50 square

feet unless later tests indicate need. And don’t overdo liming on that tragic theory that when a little of something is good. more would be better. (It almost never is:after a certain point, whether it's lime or other vir-

| tues.)

Be sure to save especially all

your tea and coffee grounds.

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because

They're

‘Garden Events—

Clubs Bow

Few Meetings Are Set for This Week

Garden and nature club events

just can’t compete with turkey ‘continued with the 10 of hearts and Santa Ciaus unless they (the

vents) are sizable. So this

: week's calendar is slim and most-Neow--the—jack—of —spades—was-ly-overshadoswed-oy-Centrab-West

istrict’s first:annnal meeting out

a sigh of relief when it held. An- at Butler on Saturday. The week's

alendar is as follows: TUESDAY merson Grove-— Noon. Myrtle Larsen, 2605 E. side Drive, hostess. WEDNESDAY

Mrs. River-

{Thalia—1 p. m. Miss Layra Tem-

pleton, Southview. Drive, hostess, Mrs. Robert Riney, assistant. Flower arrangement by Mrs. R. C. Eberhart; election of officers. : SATURDAY ‘entral-West District 9:30 a. m. registration at John Atherton Center, Butler University. Annual all-day meeting. * NEXT SUNDAY 10 a: m. Circle hike, starting from cabin in Woollen's Garden. Jesse Har: vey, leader: 3 p. m. Open house at the cabin. Program in charge of Noah Myers, Homer Knight. Norma Koch, Inez Dellinger. hostesses.

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Improve Hard, Clay Soil

than

they don’t really enrich soil. But

they’ll do a right good job of

loosening that hard clay when you chop them into it.

Compost Pile

Did you save all the tree leaves you could get this fall? If you didn’t, you can still go into vacant fields and bring in dead weed.stalks and grass. Either start a compost pile with them or bury them, too, in the beds you want to improve. And don’t worry about bringing in weed seeds. You'll have weeds whether you, bring in seeds or not—that is, when your soil gets good enough to raise anything else. = Then by all means haul sewage sludge-—all you have time and room to get. It's free, you know, for the hauling, yet it has almost the same composition as “fertilizer” sold under a trade name, which is marketed from the sewage plant of another midwestern city. Pile it on your yard somewhere so jt weather this winter. That reduces it to the loamiest kind of soil improver for your planting.

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manure at a price you can afford, use it. Tt is definitely not a ‘best buy” from the standpoint of plant foods but the beneficial bacterial action it brings to the soil makes it still the best. of soil improvers. Last—keep at the job af soil improvement the year. around and in a 12-month or two you'll notice a wonderful change in your yard.

Prepare

It you're planning to have a living Christmas tree, mulch the ground while it's still unfrozen

two Or three inches ofl. __-. peat moss, dead weeds or, DO YO

with Teaves, ground h

corncobs. Then . you'll

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CURTIS J. WETHINGTON

He is a man of relatively few words, but Eagle Creek has no employee more conscientious and loyal than he.

GUARANTEED LANDSCAPING

Because Eagle Creek uses only slow-growing, hardy plants, and exercises extreme care in planting them, we are able to guaran-

Ours is a responsible organization, We therefore try to be just as

ADVANTAGES OF FALL PLANTING Hot, dry weather is over; trees and shrubs planted now will be well established and ready to grow when spring comes. This, too, is the best time to transplant shade trees. the nursery and make your selection. be made welcome.

EAGLE CREEK NURSERY 82nd St. and Lafayette Road (U. S. 52) Tel. COunty 2381

We invite you to visit You will

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Those famous Hillsdale rose- ~~ bushes: make a wonderful Christmas gift. And all you have to do is call the nursery. Gift certificates will be mailed directly to your - friends. Or if you prefer, they will be sent

in a Christmas card: You have | the choice of Hillsdale's fine | stock and wide range of varie- | ties. At planting time your friends will thank you again for so thoughtful a gift. Also | at Hillsdale you'll find living +-Christmas-trees— (Norway | spruce. Douglas fir), holly, fir,

and pine branches for Christ- { mas decorations, wreaths and ropes of evergreens already | made up, holly wreaths, and ! wreaths for your cemetery lot. Call or drive out to. Hillsdale Nursery, 8000 north on Ind. 100. BR. 5495. . ore YE * ur Christmas shopping in the ‘quiet and comfort of your Let New Augusta Nursery send gift certificates to your gardening friends. Or make your own choice of fine perennials, shrubs, and other nursery stock. A request will bring New Augusta’s ree descriptive price list. Write or

call H. J. Schnitzius, New Augusta Nursery, New Augusta, Ind.

. 2658.

C * Need Christmas gift ideas? Shop at Bash’s, a gardenminded store, see the many reasonably priced gifts any of your gardening” friends will enjoy. At Bash's, too, you'll find a large line of permanent weath-er-proof wreaths, sprays, . and bouquets for cemetery’ decorations. Bash's Seed Store, 141 N.

clubs to the queén-jack and the queen. of hearts. The dummy hand had its four original clubs. West knew he had to retain his clubs so he discarded the heart. South then cashed the jack of hearts and. took thé last two tricks with the" ace and king of clubs. 5 Thus South, who Had feared going set at three no trurfp, ac tually made six through a nice squeeze play-—plus finding all of the key defensive cards on his left. =

Remember the Hose Ever start shgvelling snow only to come up with the hode—frozen solid? It's a little hard on the hose. Two wooden pegs on the garage wall will keep it out of the way this “winter. And if you run it through over a nearby tree branch beforé you coil it, you've the easiest way to empty it.

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Delaware St. RL 8733. FR. 7333. ¥. YX You can get your Pn living Christmas

tree and the ground corncobs for winter mulch both at Bass Nursery. The trees are pine or spruce in sizes up to 6 ft. The cob muleh is 50¢ ‘for a 2 bu. bag. 10._bags for $4.50, special prices "on larger bulk lots. Floyd Bass Nursery, West 62d St, between US 52 and Ind. 29. CO. 2849.

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mas decorations out-of-the-ordinary, call Bernice Brown at House of Flowers, Taste and origi- | nality will mark your door and table arrangements, whatever ! your budget, when Mrs. Brown prepares them. Call House of ‘Flowers, too, for wedding flowers. House of Flowers, 5901 W. Washington St. BE. 2439.

Frozen ground doesn't stop Midwestern Tree Experts’

fessional tools | like the air compressor can . break up solid ground as easily | as hard .subsoil to give tree | roots a good start no matter cold the-weather. ~ For

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Don’t buy water. Help out your Christmas budget by getting Fido's food dry in bulk at Jansen’s.. Also at Jansen’s—all kinds of - doggy accessories, harnesses, collars, and many interesting garden gifts. Jansen's, 19 N. Alabama’ St. LI. 9918.

* * At Maschmeyer’s Nursery you can pick out your living Christmas tree right now in the nursery rows. Maschmeyer’s have sizes from 3 to 8 ft. in Norway, white or Colorado spruce, and a few pines in large sizes suitable for church or school. Drive out to Maschmeyer’s and tag, yo

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Don’t delay ordering that Christmas: tree, warns Eagle Creek Nursery. Drive out this week and you get an early choice of liv-

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white or Norway spruce, or Douglas fir. Tag it now, have it delivered just when you want it. After Christmas you can plant it yourself or Eagle Creek will do the planting for you. If ‘your church, or school or pet charity can use a specimen evergreen on its grounds, Eagle Creek has fine living trees to take care of their needs. And the nursery will do the planting after Christmas. At Eagle Creek, too, you can get cut trees and evergreen branches for Christmas wreaths and deeorations. It’s a pleasant drive out to Eagle Creek Nursery on ' US 52 just 115 miles north of Trader's Point. Or call CO. 2381.

Drive out to Potten ger's Nursery and let one stop fill all-your Christmas

needs. Living Christmas trees (pine, spruce, or fir), evergreen branches, Christmas wreaths

for home or cemetery, blankets of evergreens for graves, Choose your tree now while stocks are complete. Pottenger's Nursery, 3400 Lafayette Rd. WA.-6412. *

Hoosier . Gardener will carry a complete line of evergreens, branches, trees, holly {both southern and Eng- v lish), laurel, mis- AX, tletoe, and red Michigan berries for your Christmas decora~ tions. He'll also have one. of the largest Christmas tree lots in the city. If you want to ses lect your Christmas tree from a quantity of fine evergreens, stop in at Hoosier Gardener's Christmas tree lot just north of the canal on College Ave. Hoosier Gardener, 741 E. Broad Ripple Ave. (rear). BR. 9121,

Treat yourself . to one last fing at planting. Set out an evergreen now oti ie on 4 for an outdoor lighted Christmas tree. You'll find evergreens in. many sizes and varieties at.Stark’s. Also, for a thoughtful thank-you to’ your Thanksgiving hostess, Stark's have blooming cyclae

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