Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 August 1951 — Page 37

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SUNDAY, AUG. 19, 1051

Club Plans Flower Show

EXHIBITOR—Mrs. Lynne Hull (left) cuts some of the flowers

she will exhibit at the Sunshine Garden Club of Beech Grove any nual flower show Wednesday. Assisting her is Mrs. Fred VanBrunt, Mrs. Hull is event general chairman, Mrs. VanBrunt, staging chair-

man,

Wednesday members of the Sunshine Garden Club

of Beech

Grove will hold

their annual flower show in

the Beech Grove Church.

Methodist

The show will he open to the

public from 4 to 9 p. m. All community neighbor

have been invited to exhibit in the hope the show will stimulate gardening and yard beauti-

fication interest. -Last year

large number of non-club mem-

bers exhibited.

Mrs. Lynne Hull, general chairman for the event, is be-

Jing assisted by Mrs. Glenn Ma-

gOn. Other committee chairmen include Mrs. Fred VanBrunt, staging; Mrs. Don Merrick, judges; Mrs. William Kolthoff and Mrs. Earl White, hospitality and schedule, and Mrs. Thomas Wendt, clerks. Mrs. Joe Woods, classification: Mrs. Taa Binninger and Mrs. Joe Buckingham, entries and Mrs. Ralph Tumey, cleanup.

Can Be Utilized

By MARGUERITE SMITH

Times Garden Editor

Q.—I have a rubber plant about |

40 inches tall with only a single limb. lt has put out eight leaves this year. What can I do to get a new limb started.

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Mrs, H. B. A.—You can cut it back to

foot or ro tall and it will send out new leaves, Or you can “air-

layer” it, That is, notch t

_ stem just under the bottom

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sphagnum moss. Keep the moss, When they show through the moss, cut off vour new shorter plant

damp roots will start.

and pot it up. Send all questions on gardening to Marguerite Smith, The Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis 9. Queries must Include names and addresses answered,

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Gardening— :

Midsummer Rains

Through Mulching

Summer showers literally are composed of silver raindrops so valuable are they to gardeners. B All too soon, however, their effects disappear under

the blazing rays of the midsummer sun. You can stretch these valuable ————m mo . raindrops by covering the garden| Most gardeners skimp on the and flower beds with mulching thickness of the material they| materials. This practice not only Use: fuls fowy | She 2 OuR, oOf| Winter Protection ev e Soil, ut | : | Never spread it any thinner also helps to keep weeds in|.) .." i} ee inches. Then put up

check. ‘ » the “Do Not Disturb” sign until Many materials can be used, next spring. |

including peat mioss,. grass eclip-| D ] uring the winter your soil will FIngS, inanute, straw, sawdust or be protected from the beating, dried leaves. compacting action of the rains.| Corncobs By spring the material will be, One of the newest mulching packed down in good shape for|

tur 0 S materials, used successfully by ning under to increase the

: gp b humus content of the soil. origts, is ground cOrncobs.| Apne every year in conjunc-|

weed-free. If applied four inches jj] make your garden soil a betdeep between rows they will keep ter place for plants to live weeds down, let both air and whether it be sandy or clayey. moisture into the ground and pre- i i

vent the soil from drying out. Cc . Never mix the mulch with the ommittees {surface soil for when.it comes ’ into contact with the soil particles | A : A it will rob the plants of nitrogen nnounce {until it is thoroughly broken down Mrs. Simpson G. Stowe, Selma, {by bacteria. Garden Club of Indiana presi- | The same situation may occur;dent, has announced members of with any material high in fiber{the Indiana Girls School greensuch as straw, sawdust or shav- house project committee. lings. Even though these mate-! The organization voted

{rials are not mixed with the soil,| sponsorship of the project—the room as you do your house, a| paper grocery bag. You'll find it handy for collecting used tissues,

{some decomposition will take erection of a greenhouse on the Iplace. Indiana Girls School grounds—at its April convention in Purdue Add Plant Food University. It was originally proIt is therefore necessary: to posed by Mrs. Herman Bischof,

{apply one pound of complete plant of the Green Thumb Garden food to each 100 square feet of Club of Indianapolis. ithe’ ground after the mulch is on., This club recognized the need {This is in addition to the regular for such a building and conserva{application which you put onition project through its work in {when you planted your gardenigarden activities with the school

$ land also in addition to midsea- girls begun in 1949.

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son side dressings on corn and. Mrs. Bischof has been named tomatoes, committee chairman, assisted by The extra plant food is of no Mrs. C. D. Vawter. {direct use to your garden plants,| Representing the six districts {but it does satisfy. the soil micro-/of the Garden Club of Indiana lorganisms. It prevents them from on the committee are Mrs. Wal{making off with more than their|ter E. Graff, Hammond, North {share of the nitrogen while they West; Mrs Frank Rector, PendleCentral East, and Mrs. Burke Nicholas, Central West. Don’t put the mulch on when, Mrs. Ross L. Fidler, Bloominglthe soll is dry. Either wait for ton, South West; Mrs. George rain or soak it down thoroughly Baldus, Ft. Wayne, North East, with the hose. If weeds should and Mrs. Russell Alley, Greenspush up through it you will find burg, South East. lit much easier to pull them from| There is no greenhouse on the the loose moist sail underneath! girls school grounds although Inthan from hard, sunhaked diana Boys School has three ground.’ greenhouses. 7

layers of the mulch.

‘We, the Women—

A Wishy-Washy Person Lacks Real Character

By RUTH MILLETT “IT DOESN'T make any difference to me.” That is ‘the most wishy-washy declaration in the English language. And yet a lot of women have the idea that when they make that statement, they are being agreeable, easy-to-get-| along-with, and somehow, a little — :

* . relationship. what they like and. §ay,50: | IL you like good music, say so. Take the wife, for instance, who If you hate something say so. If is the it-doesn’t really-matter-to-

{me type. positive about it.

If you don’t

| » » ” HER husband asks if she {would like to go to a movie and |instead of saying “Yes” or “No” |she goes “noble” on him. “If you . 8-8

want to, it’s all right with me,” she says in namby-pamby voice. Or she makes a suggestion and he doesn't instantly agree. So, [rather than ‘stand up for her {idea, sha shrugs it off with, “Well,

re was just a suggestion. It doesn’t

At least, then, you're somebody ——a real person. get to know you because they

ference-to-me’’ person {is never much more than

shadow of the person she is with.

est. For it does make a difference to you whether you do this

really make any difference to or that. Pretending it doesn’t

{me.” | Such a woman rarely brings any new interests to her husband

own mind and to assert your own individuality.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Ground cobs are light, porous and/tjon with plant food .use, mulches :

better ‘(Hak Siw behot LAN EG dem dudes cantributions to any I :

you want to go somewhere, be | want to go, be just as positive. i And others can t

know your likes and dislikes. I

THE “it-doesn’'t-make-any-dif- | just, a pale]

And actually she isn’t even hon- i

is just being afraid to speak your 4

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Insects Will Be Subject

Hday Park. The lecture is open , (to the public.

week-end are some eight color varieties of painted tongue (saltiglossis) in test beds.

one variety.

_ like a small lily. Some are purple; some pink and others yel(low, petals |streaked in an opposite color giv{ing the effect of a sunburst.

Keep ‘Em Hef

hat on a baking sheet in a slow oven, sheet rather than stacking them Iso fluffy.

Kenwood Ave.

Couple to Observe. (Golden Wedding Year

Mr. and Mrs. Noah Myers, 2533 will hold open

“Insects—Good, Bad, Ugly house in honor of their golden

and Beautiful” will be the sub-/wedding anniversary from 2 to 5 ject of Sidney R. Zsten’s,lecture/p. m, today.

today in Holliday House, Holliday Park. It will be at 3 p. m.

Mr. Myers is a special director

of the Nature Study Club of Indiana.

Mr. Esten is naturalist for Hol-

At their blooming peak this

Last year the park had only,

The flower blooms very much

Each of the five or six of one . blossom are

Fresh pancakes can be kept Spread them out on the

they will stay light and

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