Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 April 1951 — Page 41

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New Items Are

Placed on

Local

‘Garden Market

More new items on the local garden market range from a couple of new shrubs to a pint-sized fertilizer package

that packs a wallop. Still trying out for hardiness and a new viburmum got a test sery's rows.

to our climate, a new five thorn run this winter in a local nur-

They'rs still clyassed as “experimental materials” for

all that they got practically an all-star final examination in cold

resistance this year. But pyracantha Royal came the tips of its branches. And viburnum Chenaulti also rated high in hardiness. The Chenault viburnum combines the highly fragrant flowers of the carlesi type with the superior glossy green foliage of Burkwoodi. Both shrubs will be real additions to local gardens, it appears. They are at Eagle Creek Nursery where customers will also find a new enlarged salesyard this year. 9

Filler Omitted

A new type of fertilizer for lawns will please the man who

Dishing the Dirt—

Q-—-We have a narrow strip on the south side of the garage between a sidewalk and the garage. What could we plant there so it will not look so bare? It is in the backyard, not on the alley, West side. A~—For a backyard planting I assume you would like moss roses or California poppies. They

won't sprawl too badly over the walk. Very dwarf marigolds would be pretty, too. It would

through it still showing green to totes his own hundred-pound bags home in the family Cadillac. It omits all filler so a small package will stimulate a lot of lawn.

And it should please the ladies as well for it's said not to have the ‘‘disagreeable odor” of ordinary fertilizer. (As if that odor weren't perfume to your confirmed gardener.) On top of all these virtues it doubles as a weed killer as well. The name of this nifty number is Lawn Builder, It's available at Vonnegut's.

be an ideal spot to raise some herbs, especially if the soil is poor. For herbs are stronger flavored when grown in poor soil. The small-leaved basil would be good, or chives which make a nice stiff little edging plant and-have flowers, too. If the strip is at least 18 inches wide then scented leaved geraniums would be nice—they'd love the heat and sun. Nasturtiums could take it, too.

5; SPREE Don’t let your valuable elms die for lack of a little care! Make arrange- ’ ments now for that protective DDT spray. It must go on before leaves come out. True, too, of dormant spray for scale. Call H. N. (Mike) Engledow, Midwestern Tree Experts. CO-2335.

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If you want some really early cabbage and caulifiower, get some of the big cabbage and caulifiower plants now ready at Cossell’'s Greenhouse. You can “safely set them out now. Also brussels sprouts and broccoli plants. Cossell's Greenhouse, 4010 Cossell Rd. BE-1830.

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To spice up a dull north-of-house or other in-shade planting, get some of the caladiums youll find at Bash's. Bright colors all season, easier to raise than tuberous begonias, they're lovely with evergreens and in porch boxes. All your garden needs, all season long. at Bash's Seed Store, 141 N. Delaware St. RI1-3733, FR-7333.

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Treat yourself to some flowers this week-end. Roses at only $1.00 a dozen are featured at Atkins Flower Shop. Gayly colored planters, too, filled with ivy and philodendron, only $2.00. Call Atkins for all your flower needs. Atkins Flower Shop, 2049 N. Capitol Ave. HI-7556.

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At House of Flowers cabbage plants and some nice parsley plants are ready. Soon you can get delphiniums and pansies, other - annual and perennial plants in season here. Don't forget, too, that weddings are~ a specialty of House ‘of Flowers’ Bernice Brown. Mrs, Brown will plan distinctive wedding flowers within-a-budget. Call House of Flowers, 35801 W. Washington St.” BE-2459.

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Hoosier Gardener gtocks garden needs in tiny backyard or estate size packages. Among these — an all -organic rose food (5, 10, or 25 Ib. packages), superphosphate, ammonium nitrate, bone meal, sheep manure, in any amount you want, also those good Green Thumb garden gloves, All at Hoosier Gardener, 741 E. Broad Ripple Ave. (rear). BR-9121. Convenient parking. * Kx When is a “bargain” evergreen not a bargain? When it dies the first year "after planting, your bargain’s gone. If the man who sold it to you is also gone, it's no bargain. Members of the Indianapolis Landscape Association are right here (in town, now and next year. They stand back of their nursery stock and their services. Call a member of the Indianapolis Landscape Association when you want dependable service and nursery stock. Watch for announcement, Sunday, Apr. 22.

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This week at Stark’s you can get roses, ready | potted (to take home to set out whenever you PoE have time and ground is ready) fruit trees, evergreens, flowering shrubs, rhubarb, raspberries, strawberries, annuals in separate colors for picture planting available in season (by dozen or flat) at Stark's 511 S. Tibbs Ave. BE-1351.

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Have you seen the new prepared strawberry garden for sale at New Augusta Nursery? 6 Ft. in diameter, it holds 75 plants, is easy to install and maintain, long-lasting. Best of all, it requires little space, will produce strawberry short-cake in even the tiniest yard. Comes postpaid complete with 75 plants. Write for {illustrated folder, New Augusta Nursery, New Augusta, Ind. Or call

Gardening—

Flowers Concentrate

Big Week Looms for Garden Clubbers

| due.

PLANTING WITH A VI

the Rustoh~yacd planned for easy care and real pleasure.

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By MARGUERITE SMITH

Times Garden Editor

PLAN FOR a view when you plant. That's how the C. E, Rustons achieved this

good-looking flower bed. It's on a direct axis

from the much-used rear terrace in their yard at

530 E. 81st St.

It’s planned—as all their yard—to be easy to care for, to give much pleasure for least effort. The central bed is edged with dwarf blue ageratum, backed with white petunias. Directly around the bird-bath, dwarf juniper is green

summer and winter, h &

A HALF circling panel bed (seen in the back-

ground) holds mixed hybrid tea with perennial candytuft.

bunda, Improved Lafayette,

The candytuft holds its green some 10 months of the year. ; its white flowers are gone, alyssum takes over. A cluster of Goldilocks floribundas finishes off the curving panel at either end. Then two square beds, also at the panel's ends but separate from it, hold the brilliant everblooming flori-

Ruston.

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A shrubbery background, also visible in the picture, cuts off the formal yard and makes one “wall” of the “vegetable room” at the rear end of the Rustons’ long, narrow lot. > © o

“THE WHOLE planting was selected so we could take care of it ourselves,” “Instead of a great many flowers we ‘concentrate them in these central beds, rely on the shrub border for color and flowers throughout the season.”

The shrubs were chosen for disease resistance as well as flower and berries. They include such happy choices as weigela, contoneasters, lilacs, forsythia, golden nine-bark, lantana viburnum, high bush cranberry, beauty aralia and alatus Yews and junipers dot the shrub hedge with green all year. : | A strawberry and raspberry patch and a | take up other “rooms” at the back of the lot, each room walled off with its shrub

SUNDAY, APR. 8, 1951

Spring Is Time To Start Seeds |

The Alpine strawberry may be raised from seed started in spring and will bear the first year. ly Asters need a long growing season. Sow seed indoors now. |Queen of the Market is one that

blooms early. Branching types! start flowering by August. Sow, only wilt-resistant seed. |

Better Homes & Gardens announces

A NEW IDEA

in Garden Books

your year-round guide to practical home gardening

Here's the book you've beem waiting for! An easy-to-use guide for complete and economical garden and lawn care. Now it's easy and fun to have | your own garden, with a book that tells you how to care for it.

says Mrs.

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(cork bark here's WHY it's new and

different! o 520 pages, 1,037 illustrations ¢ Gardening, landscaping, lawn care e Practical year-round

Garden Events—

Business is flourishing this week!

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for garden and nature minded Indianapolis Rose Society — 8 p. | m., American United Life Audi- North End—2 p. m. Mrs. Win-!

citizens. Big event for garden clubbers is the state convention on Thursday and Friday at PurThe infant African Violet

| Society is having its final (they hope) organizational meeting this

week. And the Audubon Society's last Screen Tour of the season comes on Friday. (Note change

lof place from the War Memorial

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C0-2658. Also small fruits in |

variety, freshly dug strawberry |

plants, hundreds

asparagus, rhubarb, of perennials

your free list. H. J. Schnitzius, New Augusta Nursery, 5000 W. 59th St. Open Sundays.

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Is there a horse and buggy in your

and | ornamentals. ‘Write or call for |

yard? A horse-and- |

buggy type of planting, that is. If 0, you can bring it up-to-date with

some of the new shrub and tree | varieties you'll find at. Eagle | Creek Nursery. Disease resist- |

ance, new types of flower and berry bearing shrubs, fragrance and interesting foliage effects unknown to earlier generations are ready for today’s landscaping. Replace the evergreen or shrub that's outgrown its allotted space with newer, ‘better varieties. Call Eagle Creek Nursery for advice on bringing. your yard up-to-date, adding dollars to the resale value of your house. Eagle Creek Nursery, US 52, 1}; miles north of

Trader's Point, CO-2381. Offroad parking. Want to save money? Buy Maschmeyer's dormant roses

at cash-and-carry prices, save the potting costs. 30 Best varieties for this climate, all colors. While there, look over the carefully grown evergreens in Maschmeyer Nursery, choose just the ones you want. Dug with a ball of earth, they'll never know you've moved them. Maschmeyer's Nursery, 244 W. Troy Ave. GA-1298.

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For a picture planting to enjoy from your favorite window, is there anything. lovelier than roses? At Hills dale you'll find so many varieties - you just the colors you want. For the easiest kind of flower bed, plant Hillsdale's floribundas. Then for an out-of-ordinary color combination start with Goldilocks’ butter vellow blossoms, Combine them with the dependable pink floribunda Mrs. R. M. Finch, the salmon pink Gruss an Aachen, or the free blooming soft rose Pink Bountiful. Pinkie is another, dainty budding, useful for corsages. Many other color combinations can be worked out with roses from Hillsdale. Two good dark reds are Red Pinocchio or the very dark, Red Chinook.

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Call or write Hillsdale |

Nursery about plans for your |

rose-bed. - ‘BR-5495. Hillsdale

Nursery, RR 13, Box 185. Mail |

orders filled.

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When you want plants out-of-the-ordinary, call Edwards 56th St. Greenhouse. This year, among other hard-to-find items, they'll have gerberas, the Transvaal daisies — lovely for arrangements. Crepe myrtle is another distinctive item at 56th St. Greenhouse. And strawflower plants, both double and single, will be available here for your garden. Edwards 56th

St. Greenhouse, just east of Keystone. IM-5842, >

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to Caleb Mills Hall.) Details follow. | TOMORROW

Arbutus Garden—1 p. m., Mrs. Harlan Johnson, 7007 Broadway, hostess; Mrs. Frank Welcher and Mrs. A. P. Willett, | assistants. “Wild Flowers and the Vagaries of Native Violets,” Helen E. Miller.

Fall Creek—1:15 p. m. Mrs, Wal-| ter P. Morton, 3434 E. Fall Creek Blvd, hostess; Mrs. Charles Myers and Mrs. Robert Blake, assisting. William Barnes of the state conservation department will give an illustrated talk on “Wild-life Conservation.”

Blie Flower—7:30 p. m. Broadway Evangelical United Breth-| ren Church, 56th and Broad-| way. Husbands’ night. Prof. | E. R. Honeywell of Purdue University will show slides and speak on “Garden Mums and Roses.’’ Arrangements in charge of Mrs. W. B. Hodge with Mrs. Robert Bracken and Mrs. H. L. Craig assisting.

torium, 30 W. Fall Creek Blvd. Professor Honeywell will give an illustrated talk on “Garden Roses, Their Selection and Care.” Crooked Creek—1:30 p. m. Mrs. Ralph Soots, 2620 W. 61st St, hostess, ‘Summer Blooms From Corms, Tubers and Bulbs,” by Mrs. E. B. Palmer. THURSDAY Rhea—1:30 p. m. Mrs. Arthur H Barton, 2959 Westbrook Ave. hostess. ‘Nomenclature of Flowers,” by Mrs. Barton. New officers in charge include Mrs. G. P. Eads, president; Mrs. Leland Venable, secretary-treas-urer, and Miss Dorothy Thibo, program chairman. Federated Garden Club of Indiana, state convention, first day —10 a. m. registration in Union Building, Purdue University. (Details of program elsewhere in this section.)

FRIDAY

Federated Garden Clubs, state convention, second and last day—9 a. m. business session. Union Building, Purdue. Audubon Society—S8 p. m:. Screen Tour. Caleb Mills Hall, Shortridge High School. Dr. O. 8. Pettingill Jr. will show colored movies, “Hills of Gold,” bird and animal life in the Black Hills. Indianapolis African Violet — 1 p. m. Mrs, John Epping and Mrs. H. P. Pfitterer, 1420 N. Leland St., hostess. Adoption of constitution. Mrs: Ralph

IT'S TIME TO PLANT—ORDER

Poinsettia Rose Red Radiance Rose Rock Roses Golden Forsythia Spirea V. H. Red Honeysuckle Red Weigela Trumpet Vine

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BiG SHRUB SALE

GORGEOUS ROSEBUSHES FLOWERING SHRUBS AND HEDGE PLANTS

HERE'S WHAT YOU GET:

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Hardy Azaleas, Mt. Grown * 15 Red Spires Hedging YOUR ORDER REACHES US WITHIN 10 DAYS WE WILL INCLUDE FREE A RED TWIG DOGWOOD All 2-year blooming size. A $14.75 value for only $2.98. Send no money. Just pay postman on arrival $2.98 plus the usual C. O. D. charges. State inspection certificate accompanies each order. Your order will be shipped If not completely satisfied, your money will be refunded. Just send your name and address to:

Middle Tennessee Nursery Co. P. O. Box 297, McMinnville, Tenn.

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§ White Hydrangee 1 Pink Radiance Rose 1 Talisman Rose 1 Red Smowberry 1 Princess Pine J Golden Bell 2 Pink Deutzia 1 Tulip Tree

information eo Loose-leaf, tab-indexed | by Better Homes & Gardens—

for 28 years your gardening authority!

idgood will talk on “Soil for

African Violets.”

Ave.

eld E. Sisson, 5666 Carrollton: hostess; Mrs.

Asperger and Mrs. Harry Ras-

mussen, assisting. Mrs. Perry,

—POTTENGER’S NURSERY—

SPECIAL SALE TODAY!

® Christopher Stone (Red) ® Etoile De Holland (Red) ©® McGrady's Ivory (White) ©® Herbert Hoover (2 Tone) ® Talisman (2 Tone) ® Blaze (Red Climber)

Rosas

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Everblooming Rose Bushes You get one each of these lovely Roses —

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Never before have we been able

ta offer these strong, healthy everblooming roses at this low price. Reds, white and 2-tones in the best liked varieties. A terrific “buy” at only 6 for $5. Limited quantity— Hurry.

FLOWERING SHRUBS

® Rose of Sharon @ Purple Lilac ® Forsythia

HEDGING Currants ...... 2 for $1.00 PRIVET -...... 10 for $1.50 Grapes ........ 2 for $1.00 BARBERRY .... 10 for $2.50 Gooseberry 2 for $1.00

FLOWERING TREES 3 to 4 Feet

Lorge Size, Healthy ® Peach or Dogwood 2 50 ea. ® Crabapl. or Quince 1.50 ea.

RED BUDS $2.50 ea.

Strong, Vigorous Healthy Plants

® Hydrangea ©® Honeysuckle Your Choice $1.00 each

EVERGREEN SALE—five choice frees, $15.00

POTTENGER'S NURSERY

34th St. and Lafayette Road (State Road 52) WA-6412

and SEED STORE,

OPEN EVERY DAY AND SUNDAY

AT ; Herbert f TD lock's

O'Neal will speak on “Orchids.”

- LANDSCAPING : EXPERIENCE—

Last winter was the most severe on plant life we have experienced in 25 years. A lot of people who bought stuff from unknown sources, apparently lost their plants. There is no way to tel how badly the roots of a plant are damaged by looking at the top. Just let it alone until it either grows or dies later in the spring. Pruning now by some one who knows how, may help it to survive.

THE FIRST IMPORTANT STEP A landscape planting should be ‘tailor-made to fit your lot, your house and your surroundings. The first step, therefore, is for us to see your place. Please telepnone us and we will make an appointment to visit you. After we have made our recommendations, we shall be glad to show you the plants we propose to use.

PICK UP SALES AT THE NURSERY

In the spring folks need plants for replacement, peat moss, grass seed, etc. Others like to pick up and plant smaller evergreens, fruit trees, shrubs and roses. All these things you will find in our sales yard at the nursery, which is open all day, every day. We have a rose catalog for you in color. Ask for it.

EAGLE CREEK NURSERY (0.

82nd and Lafayette Road (U. S. 52) TEL. €0-2381 INDIANAPOLIS

Hardy PRENNIALS

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Included at this low price find such favorites as . . « CUSHION MUMS, WOOD VIOLETS, SWEET WILLIAM, MOSSPHLOX, PHYSOSTEGIA, RUDBEEKIA, DAISY, IRIS, CHINESE LANTERN, CHRYSANTHEMUM, and others.

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Lawn Equipment, Weed Killer.

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quick jaunt with seed to carpet those bare spots with luxuriant grass.

Scola LAWN SBED Get beautiful turf by using a third as much — 3,000,000 seeds

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Garden Tools

Modern tools make gardening a lot more fun—and a lot more resultful, too! They are lighter and stronger; do more work with far less backache and are tailor-made for home garden use! Get them at Kresge's today!

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