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By MARGUERITE SMITH Times Garden Editor
Don't ever let your affections stray toward a rubber plant, unless you're prepared for all sorts of complications. Such as never being able to vacation with your husband (or wife, as the case may be). On the other hand, when Mildred and William Kaeser, 316 8. Audubon Rd., view the one-man show, largely plant pictures, that he's having Nov. 19 to 30 in the Hoosier Salon
Gallery in the State Life Buflding, they'll thank that rubber plant. It started a lot of paintings when Mr. K. first painted it, the Kaesers' first house plant, It started some 300 other plants, too, of many kinds, that now deck every room in the Kaeser's attractive home. To date, his paintings, many of them plants his wife has raised, have appeared in longhaired art exhibits and won prizes all over the country, This past month Flower Grower ran a story by Mrs. K, about Mr. K., his Paintings and her plants, . One of his pictures, titled The Green Thumb, inspired visitors to the International Flower Show in New York last March. Probably few of even the greenest thumbed recog-
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nized the tall-leaved plant with the bright red flowers. It's one of the .greenhouse subjects that thrive in ordinary living room conditions under Mrs. K's thumb and Mr, K.'s artist eye. It's’ a billbergia. In its native land {t requires a tree to hang on. But Mrs. K. has argued it into not only growing but .blooming in an ordinary flower pot. Others of her masterpieces are the bird of paradise plants she raised from seed. “They adjust better to household conditions than plants brought in full-grown.” The way the plants inspire Mr. Kaeser is really quite simplé..As he sees it, it goes this way. She says, “Oh, isn't this pretty.” “This” can be just a beautifully textured leaf, “I look.” says Mr. K. “Then I really begin to see it. Then I want to paint it." As to the problems, says Mrs. Kaeser, "Nobody's temperamental around this house except the plants" But there's that business about vacations. Someone always has to stay home to take care of the 200 or 300 plants. (It's 300 until they begin tossing out some of the less-loved in the interests of house room.) Then there are little difficulties like the philodendron vine
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GREEN THUMB PAINTER—Mr. and Mrs. William Kaeser, 316 S. Audubon Road, combine . interests. She grows house plants and he paints them.
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“Bill wants to paint. the walls,” says Mrs. K. “but I won't let him take the vine down!"
Naturally I had to ask Mrs. Kaeser what her advice would be for other house planters— especially those struggling with weak-constitutioned
a lone specimen or two. Biggest point, she’s found. is right soil. “My own plants were pretty indifferent at first, Then there was the Biggest change when I learned how to mix soil and what different kinds of plants liked.”
Not all will thrive with the
same soil. A general purpose mixture does for many of them though. She mixes up half topsoil, a fourth peat moss, a fourth sand and adds a teaspoon of garden chemical fertilizer and a teaspoon of bone meal to each six-inch pot full. Then she gives cow manure to all those that like it. And after two months in their new soil mixture they get weekly doses of cow manure in solution. Even her cactus plants get {t—in summer when they're growing fast. Other pointers — wash the leaves off once a week with clear water. Don't fertilize a sick plant. That's just about all there is to inspiring your husband to win prizes with a green thumb,
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“Garden Events—
Clubs Busy First Week Of Month
The first week of the month always-finds many garden club meetings on the schedule. Details follow: » - 8 Monday
Blue Flower. 12:30 p. m,, Mrs. Corbin Patrick, Silver Hills, hostess; Mrs. Charles Weaver, cc-hostess. Roll-call, bird guests remaining with us. Program — planting shrubs and. trees to attract birds. Protection of roses in winter.
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Tuesday Biz-Z-B. 11:30 a. m. Mrs, C. 8. Clark, 6327 E. 424 3t., hostess. Program, Mrs. Mildred Crump of Arbogast Floral Co.
Wednesday
Forest Hills. 2 p. m. Mrs. R. D. Landis; 4807 Graceland Ave, hostess. Program, birds, Mrs. Thomag Jackson; Tranksgiving arrangement, Mrs. G, E. Schloot. . Sunshine (Beech Grove). 1:30 p. m. Mrs. Francis Deane, 61 N. 3d Ave, hostess. Mrs. Ralph Tumey and Mrs. E. C. Hunt, assisting. “Feeding the Birds"; program in charge of Mrs. Hubert Nickels, Election of officers; chrysanthemum exhibit. Green Thumb. 1 p. m. Mrs. H. L. Bischof, 615 N. Ritter, hostess. Mrs. R. C. Rees, assisting. “Alling House Plants,” Mrs,
R. G. Justice; “African Violets,” Mrs. C. M. Adams. Thursday
Crooked Creek. 1 p. m. Mrs. Arden Fenwick, 1725 W. 53d St. hostess. “Propagation and Care of House Plants” Mrs. Ralph Minnick and program committee. Rhea. 1:30 p. m. Mrs. Ellsworth Caldwell, 2858 8. Denniston, hostess, “Legal Aspects of Gardening,” Mrs. A. H. Barton. Friday
Indianapolis African Violet Society (No. 1). 1:30 p. m. Mrs. Charles Stoehr, Greenwood, hostess; Mrs. Ralph Bidgood, co-hostess. Program, Mrs. Bidgood, The Smallest Plant on the Earth; Winter Care of Violets; question box.
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WINTER IN SPRING—Try this year. Snowdrops will bloom first of all in many gardens. Plant them with crocusses, scillas and grape hyacinths where you can enjoy them from a favorite window.
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Mums Grow in. Trees
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servatory you can see chrysanthemum plants trained to a single tall stalk—tree mums.
They'll be on display beginning today and through Nov. 13, 8 a. m. to 8 p. m. every.day. Frank Schubert, greenhouse superintendent, says this year's exhibit contains nearly 150 regular mum varieties, besides the tree and fancy kinds. They're all labeled, too, for curieus gardenfers. As usual, this-is free to everyone interested.
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If you ever wondered how to pronounce “gladiolus” you're in eminent company—no less than Dr. W. P. Morgan, head of the biology department at Indiana Central, president of the In- | diana Academy of Science, and world - renowned authority on the subject. Dr. Morgan's presidential ad- | v dress at the scientists’ banquet | Friday night at Butler dealt with gladiolus and their relatives—freesias. THe big difficulty, says Dr. M., is that scientists insist on saying “gladiolus” with the ac- | cent on the “I.” They lean on |
Golden Glow. 1 p.m. Mrs. Latin for the plural, too. Make George Bertrand, P1101 Ww. § “gladioli” to rhyme with 34th St, hostess. Mrs. addy oh me. George W. Dyer, assistffig 4” But those other authorities, Program, Mrs. Arthur Rem- the National Gladiolus Society ler, Attracting Birds and members have laid down a rule
Building Feeders. North End. 2 p. m. Mrs, Orville
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that whether they've got one or a thousand they'll say ‘‘gladiolus” to rhyme with “saddy hole us.” » (If it's all the same to these learned gentlemen we'll just go on calling their favorite flower “glads.” Seems a lot safer.)
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windows. Stop in and look over Stark's stock. Stark's, 511 8. Tibbs. BE. 1351. - *
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this easy-to-grow are delightful without the calla-like flowers it produces under just-right conditions. It thrives in water alone or in soil. Use it for a table centerpiece. " Use it in difficult spots like north windows. Use it in colored glass bottles of water. Wayside Floral Gardens have a variegated Chinese evergreen, too, a slower grower, fine for dish gardens. Have your Chinese evergreens planted in specially prepared houseplant soil in your favorite dish garden at no extra cost. Consult Gladys Cooley about your plant problems. Also at Wayside Floral Gardens, spring bulbs, hardy mums (a real flower show), and a special this week on cyclamens in bud—only $1.50. Wayside Floral Gardens, 7301 Pendleton Pike. CH. 2222.
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Here's a budget helper! Eagle Creek Nursery is offering small yews for hedges, green the Year around. They're 4-year-old plants. They've had enough transplantings and roof prunings so you can set them out and grow them on any place in your own yard without any ‘special attention. And you don’t have to pay the price of plants grown in nursery rows. Just $1.25 per plant. A shipment of broad
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Creek. It includes 4 kinds of Japanese holly and some heav-ilv.-berried “evergreen bitter (euonymous patens). drive out to Eagle Creek and look these plants over. They're ready in the salesyard for you to put into your car and save by doing your own pianting, Be sure to ask (or call) for your free leaflet on landscaping. Eagle Creek Nursery, US 352, 1! miles north of Traders Point, CO. 2381. *
African violets move fast at Hoosier Gardener's. But right now he has some of the good -standgrd, easier-to-raise (beautiful leaves as well as in tiower) and
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Pof up bulbs from Bash's now for color and fragrance in your window gardens. Freesias, ranunculus, oxalis, amaryllis, paper white narcissus and “yellow paper whites’ —to mention a few available at Bash's. Also special potting soll for your winter plants, the new organic fish ofl fertilizer solution, clay and decorative pots in all sizes, wooden tubs for large plants, and indoor window boxes. All at Bash's Seed Store, 141 N. Delaware. RL 3738. FR. 7333.
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* * If you sre planning for landscaping in the spring, you'd better get your name on your landscaper’s list right now, warns H. J. Schnitzius of New Augusta Nursery. Quality landscape plants have been scarce for some time and the situation will be worse rather than better. At New Augusta Nursery, stock is already low. But you can still get a few plants 6f round leaved Japanese holly (ilex rotundifolio) and a few shade treees in small sizes. These include beech, cucumbertree, sour-gum, and gingko. Call New Augusta Nursery for quality landscape plants. New Augusta Nursery, 5000 W. 59th. CO. 2658.
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* * Any Sunday now may be your last chance to see the hardy chrysanthemum display at Hillsdale and to pick up well grown potted climbing roses at reduced prices. These are real bargains, sold at lower prices only. to save the nursery the labor . cost of carrying them over winter. And now is the best time of year to plant them, Good strong canes (many of them blossomed this fall and of course were promptly bought) will give you plenty of flowers next year.» There are one or two shrub roses in differ ent varieties, a few of the lovely golden Rose of China (rosa hugonis), some yellow climbers, Brownell sub-zero climbers, a few of the everblooming kinds like Talisman, and some of the. fragrant American Beauties. Hillsdale also has a good collection of Holland bulbs including the less common grape hya- - cinths and scillas., Drive out to Hillsdale and Sed Lhe | 3 : get yourself a at climbing roses. Nurs.