Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 December 1951 — Page 32

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Design by James Mashmeyer,

LAYOUT—Sketch your landscape when you plan.

Nice Shrub Makes a Good Gift

By MARGUERITE SMITH

Times Garden Editor

OOD landscape design involves so many factors most of us gardeners

get lost between the ever-

greens and the rose bed. So here's one put together by experts, The Indianapolis Landscape Association used this design for what is now the residence of Mr. and Mrs. R. N. Edgett, 7636 Windcombe Blvd, » nr This to have

nay ‘seem

nothing to do with your frantic

search for something suitable for Aunt Euphronia’s or Cousin Algernon’s Christmas sock. But consider what a wonderful gift is a fine shrub or tree— something outside the every-day budget. on n un OR, FOR ‘A real splurge—a whofe Tand&scape design for how and later planting.

Offer Hints On Care of

Yule Tree

Q—We are planning to buy a living Christmas tree this year. How shall we take care of it so we can be .sure it will grow after we set it outdoors?

A—Three points are impor-

tant. Dig the hole for your tree while ground is thawed. Or, if you can't do that, unfrozen ground to keep

it diggable until after Christmas. A thick layer of leaves, straw, peat moss or garden rubble will do the trick. Keep your living tree indoors in as cool a place as you can give it and still enjoy it. Do not try to keep it indoors more than a week. The warmer the house,

the shorter the period you should keep it indoors. Be sure to keep its roots

moist (but not covered with water) all the time until it's planted. An easy way to manage this is to set the burlap wrapped roots in a tub of peat moss or other moisture holding material. Then treat the tree as you would any other houseplant.

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A FEW other points. Do not let vour tree stand around outdoors unplanted. If you can’t get it planted as soon as you take it outdoors, cover the roots with leaves or peat moss and keep moist, just as you treated it indoors, You will be happier about vour living Christmas tree, too, if you remember that most kinds sold for the purpose are quick growers. These are ideal

for screening out unsightly views, delightful to use for Christmas hedges, or even (if

vou space them well) on either side of a front walk for a Christmas gateway.

LAN DSCAPI NG { SHADE TREES

Eagle (reek Nursery

Telephone CO-2381

Pointers to note in this one and adapt to your own landscaping are the proportion and variety. All plants are the sort that even when fully grown won't tower over the house, jack-and-beanstalk fashion, Variety spices it. Alternating evergreens and leaf-shedding plants make a season-changing picture. But it's attractive in January as well as June,

n n » CERTAIN PLANTS have gpecial values. The Sargent crabs (on either side of Pfitzer junipers, right in sketch) have healthy foliage the summer through. They're amazingly pest resistant, The euonymous compacta turns into a burning bush of gay red foliage in autumn--specially good against a gray stone or white house. Viburnum- burkwoodl scents fhe yard with its perfume in

May blossom time.

HERE'S HOW-—Mrs. W. B. Hunter,

Myrtle ground cover (in front of large front window) is splashed with red tulips in spring. Mrs. Edgett further car-

ries out the landscape plan by

California in

and the window

using ; zinnias poppies below summer,

uy u ” SHE ESPECIALLY likes the landscaping because ‘‘the yard isn't¥filled up—there's room for flowers.” Possibly her favorite of the shrubs and trees is the flowering crab that gives privacy to the front entrance and adorns it with its pink blossoms in the spring. The whole design, according to expert landscapers, is one that will increase in value with the years. Hastily assembled, thoughtless plantings may do that for a few years. Then the quicker-growing subjects crowd and tower over others to destroy the original balance. Carefully planned, plant proportion and artistry is maintained.

Times pholo b¥ John R. Spicklemire

5515 Allisonville Rd.,

knows how to stay young. Almost 91 years old, she is still studying | the woys of the African violet and tending other plants. She lives with her son and daughter-in-law; Mr. and Mrs. Cle D.

Hunter.

How to Take Starch

From Your Iron Never scrape sticking starch

off an electric iron with a knife or other sharp instrument. Try instead, if the iron

is still hot, rubbing the- plate back and forth across dry salt that has been spread on a sheet of paper. If the iron has already cooled, remove the encrusted starch with’ extra fine steel wool or mild scouring powder on a damp cloth, being careful not to scratch the smooth surface.

Freshen Flowers Holiday flowers will flourish

if you wash vases daily in hot |

soapsuds. Refill with fresh, cold water, and sprinkle a little on the blossoms and leaves.

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BY Times photo by William A. Oates.

IN ITS PLACE—Steven and Suzanne Edgett, children of Mr. and Mrs. RN. Edgett, 7936 Windcombe Blvd, have plenty of play space in this planned yard. Laddie, their regular playmate, belongs to Dr. and Mrs. A. B. Richter, neighbors.

Holiday Fun Offered for

Juniors

I ERE'S some ~holiday fun for your junior gardeners, Try a ‘surprise dish garden.” All you have to do is get a trowel full of earth and bring it indoors. Get it from the woods if vou can. For then it will be full of surprise plants you may not have noticed before. » If you can’t get to a woods, take up any earth that's black and loose rather than hardpacked clay.

” » ” “PLANT” your surprise garden by spilling the earth into pretty glass dish. Or even better—into a covered baking dish. Or a small covered plastic dish.

Whether you “plant” it right side up or upside down, you'll soon see little plants beginning to grow. See 4f you can identify them as they get bigger. After you've enjoyed your small garden for a few weeks, vou'll want to replant it with regular indoor plants. Then you can have fun with it right up to the time when spring takes you outdoors to sow seeds again,

Now Is The Time

to choose a living Christmas tree.

. to make at least part of | your own holiday decora- |

tions. .w + to increase water Christmas cactus, , to plan a Christmas tree for the birds.

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Gibson “Mr, & Mrs.”

Hallmark “Snow Scenes”

“Favorite Madonnas”

Norcross “Christmas Angels” ......

Hallmark “Grandma Moses”

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See Our Windows

EVERY PAIR REDUCED IN THIS GREAT

Pre-Christmas Selling Event

Values to $8.00

MULES D'ORSAYS . SCUFFS

& 27 MONUMENT CIRCLE

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| furniture |* merchandise attractively priced,

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TIME SAVER—A flat cake of soap makes an easy-to-use foundation for a Christmas centerpiece.

Sets Children's

Museum Program

Special guests at today’s Family Hour at the Children’s Museum will be parents, patrons and children of School 78. The - museum will be open from 2 to 5 p. m. Hostesses will be Mrs. Anson M. Couch, Parent Teacher Association president; Mrs. Laura Wadsworth, principal; Mesdames Raymond Graham, Le-

Roy Sacks, Oscar Word, George |

White, Harry Webber, M. D. Woodward and J. B. Waid.

| A WORD TO THE WISE-MEN

Gift shopping for your Wife or Mother made easy here. Antigues make lovely Xmas gifts and increase in value as time goes on. Choice pieces —- low as $2.00, or a overlay ruffie bowl, Opaline and Bristol lamps, beautifully mounted; English banquet lamp, onyx base; table, marble top, large mable | top table. 1 dr. wal. table, drop leaf tea cart, ideal for TV party, kidney shape love seat and dozens, of other choice items. For quality

some as | beautiful pr. of Lustres,

|, make our shop your. first stop

Estates apOpen 11 to 5, Wednesday and Friday 7 to 9. JORDAN'S ANTIQUE SHOP 4225 COLLEGE AVE. HU, 5595. w ~% NORA MAY AX 218A N. TALBOT AVE. Hand hooked rug, dolls, china, gilver, figurines, steins, Lustre pitchers, 6 beautiful Haviland dinner plates, cut Antiques are prized as. gifts. Open daily and evenings week before Christmas.

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UU Come and C WEINBRECHT'S Xmas gifts for me We wish all a Very Merry Christmas. Members,

for gift buying.

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| Antique Dealers Assn. of Ind. | 2447-9 West 16th St, 2 biks, | west june, Hys., | 4026. Open evenings and SunI day’ afternoon.

136 and 52. CA,

* * PEPI'S ANTIQUES 412 8. MERIDIAN ST. LL 9185 Up to 50% off on hundreds of items including Haviland, Dresden, and _English cups, saucers, plates and decorative items, Sale starts today.

Open daily and Svenings Sun-

5 thru Friday.

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' Garden Clubs—

List Yule:

Programs

For Week

gold French*

T'S Christmas in garden club programs as everywhere else this week. De-

tails of meetings follow: TUESDAY. : Emerson Grover Noon, Mrs. Myrtle Larson, 2605 E. Riverside Drive, hostess. Garfield: Noon. Mrs. Forrest Kingore, 1920 Woodlawn Ave., hostess. Mrs. Catherine Maison and Mrs. Charles Pergande, assisting. @hristmas dinner and gift exchange. WEDNESDAY Hendricks County: 1:34 p. m. Mrs. Mark Hampton, Clayton, hostess. Mrs. C. D. Raber,assisting. Holiday book review, Mrs. W. L. McCormick. Christmas contest in charge of wreaths and corsages committee, Mrs. Lee Worrell and Mrs. Daniel Reitzel. Legend of the Christmas Rose, Mrs, Otis Kirtley. FRIDAY Irvington Women’s: 2 p. m. Mrs. Charles Russell, 1016 Drexel, hostess. Mrs. Chaille, assisting. Program by Mrs. G. W. Skirm. Flower arrangements for discussion by Mesdames G. 1. Gelly, Glen

Jackson, E. F. Madinger, and |

Miss Margaret Griffith. SATURDAY

Garden Study: 1 p. m. Meridian HH

Hills Country Club. Mrs. Tib Dreiss, hostess. Christmas music by Miss Julia Niebergall. Gift exchange. SUNDAY Nature Study: 4 p. m. Miss Florence Newhouse, 5864 Lowell Ave; hostess,

List New Officers

The Indianapolis Dahlia Society’s newly elected officérs are W. A. Saffell, president; E. F. Jordan, vice president; Hazel M. Walther, secretary; and Edith M. Saffell, treasurer. O. W, manager with Mrs. Glen Harper, Kennedy was elected show assistant. Mable N. Jones is publicity chairman and C. D. Vohland is the society's propagator,

Sond FLOWERS

DEN OF ANTIQUITY

417 East 30th Street, HI-0677 Open Sunday through Friday

1 Til 9. Closed Saturday. 7 pes. of Milk glass, covered

sugar, dresser bottle, trays, 3 pc. Vasoline invertéed thumb print sugar, spooner; Haviland cups and saucers, satin glass jewel box, 1000 eye mug, caster

creamer,

set in Pewter with 6 Daisy and

Botton bottles.

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THE COTTAGE ST. IR-6288

8 N. DEQUINCY

Last minute Christmas 8 u g gestions. 3 Plates for hanging, portrait, flower and fruit, Haviland plates, cups and saucers, large size cut glass punch bowl and ten cups, Staf-

fordshire plates and bowls, Misc. Open Sunday and daily 9 to 9. * * ANTIQUES

Maple day bed, Settles, small pine cupboard, others in Cherry and walnut, doughbox, small tables, 6 leg wal. table, chairs, chests, beds, inside shutters, bowl and pitcher sets, copper, brass, china, lamps, frames. Xmas shopping is EXCITING and EASY at WM. H. BOYD'S, 5500 ALLISONVILLE RD. (Hwy. 37).

* * KERRY ANTIQUE SHOP 660 East 38th St. HI. 5666

Merry Xmas from Kerry Shop as a gift to you. Come get this precious Meissen, Dresden * . china, figurines, eid, at 20% reduction. Coo Coo, Banjo and china clocks, cut glass, silver tea and coffee sets, silver punch bowl, ch. & wal, night and candle stands, ch. cor, cupboard; Rose carved ladies’ chairs. Open daily 10 to 6, Mon, Wed., . eves.

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* MERRY CHRISTMAS! Start |

with a tin grater, add cookie

cutters, calico bow, evergreens |

for this merry kitchen Christmas design by Mrs: W, L. McCoy, 807 Lesley Ave.

Don't Tinker With TV

Your television set is too

complex for amateur repairing | attempts. You could get a se- |

vere shock. Play safe and call in a repairman,

CHRISTMAS

TREES LIVE and CUT

REASONABLY PRICED

Scotch pine, balsam and fir , . . take your choice at Pottenger's, Christmas free headquarters.

OPEN TODAY

AND EVERY DAY

POTTENGERS

NURSERY 34th and Lafayette Road

Make this a blue spruce Christmas! At Hillsdale Nursery youll find living blue spruce Christmas trees. These will take careful handling for later success. But Hillsdale will tell you just how to do it. Then you can use your Christmas tree money for the blue spruce you have always wanted. Don’t forget that Hillsdale is ready to help you with that Christmas gift list. Order Hillsdale roses (you get them at 1951 prices) for your entire list—for everybody loves roses. Hillsdale will send a handsome colored rose Christmas card along with your gift certificate. You may have the same service on any nursery stock or fine shade trees in Hillsdale’s big nursery. Call Hillsdale for details on any of these items, for Christmas greenery or for other varieties of living Christmas trees. Hillsdale Nursery. 8000 north on Ind. 100 (Shadeland), or write fo Hillsdale Nursery, RR 13, Box

185, Indianapolis 44, Ind. Or call BR. 5495. * * You'll find living

Christmas trees in

Creek Nursery. Douglas fir (a superior evergreen for specimen or . group planting, immune to red spider); Norway spruce (fastest. growing of ‘the spruces, good in any soil); white spruce (sometimes called Black Hills spruce, a bluish green beauty), and others. Order these in advance. They will be root-balled, ready to pick-up when you call. Also at Eagle Creek, evergreen boughs, shade trees in variety. Give vour home a tree for Christmas. Eagle Creek Nursery, US 52,

1%, miles north of Traders Point, CO. 2381. * *

{ If you want your picture window and fireplace planters done for Christmas, call Gladys Cooley of Wayside Floral Gardens. Be sure of artistic planting to fit your interiors. With the fine line of plants available in. Wayside's greenhouses and conservatory you are sure of attractive arrangements. Also at Way-side--baled straw for winter i mulch, and a hig collection of plants for unusual gifts. Wayside Floral Gardens, 7301 Pendleton Pike. CH. 2222.

* * -, For a nonshedding Christmas tree, call .Stark's, Also evergreen boughs, poinivy and

philodendron, many other attractive plants for gifts, Stark’s, 511 S. Tibbs. BE. 1351. Open Sundays.

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| 9g * : * Remember Christmas always with a living Christmas tree from New Augusta Nursery. Order at once so they can be .dug when ground is right. Norway spruce and Scotch pine (this the one so popular as a cut tree, too). 3 to 8 ft. sizes. Prices $5 to $15. Call H. J. Schnitzius, New Augusta Nurs-

ery, 5000 W. 59th St. CO. 2658. * * Give a star cactus, now in

bloom, f&F an appropriate Christmas gift. You'll find these at Cossell’'s. Also a Christmas special.on planted pottery novelties at 79¢ and $1, poinsettias, Christmas begonias, Christmas cherries, <kalanchoe. Cassell's prices please. Open evenings until Christmas. Cossell’s Greenhouse, 4010 Cossell Rd. BE. 1830.

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Fresh-cut flowers for your Christmas parties will cost you only 50c at Edwards 56th St. Greenhouse. Or yoy may have twice as many for only 95c— every flower your own -choice. At Edwards now you'll find unusual snapdragqns, and a few sweetpeas and mums (these for the first comers each day). Also poinsettias (red, pink, white), primroses, and other Christmas pot plants. You may choose from a fine selection of dish garden plantg (potting free) for

home for Christmas. Edwards 56th St. Greenhouse. Just east

variety at Eagle

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If you just don’t know what to get for those difficult names on your Christmas list, stop in at Hoosier Gardener's, Hoo- re.» sier Gardener is himself a practical gardener with a large and complete stock of practical garden items. He can advise you which gifts will fit your list and your budget, too. At Hoosier Gardener's you will find all those fixings you want for making your own dec~ orations, corsage kits (for yourself or for gifts), plants to dress up your dish gardens (Hoosier Gardener will plant them free), garden tools, winter window bulbs, bird feeders and seeds, holly, mistletoe, and many other items for a garden Christmas. Hoosier Gardener, 741 E.. Broad Ripple Ave. (rear). BR. 9121. Convenient parking.

* * The much-wanted (and scarce) mahonia is available at Stonybrook Nursery. Order now— plant whenever ground is unfrozen. Birch trees, only $5 cash-and-carry, root-balled, are a fine Christmas gift. A closing out special on spring bulbs (buy for forcing or planting outdoors now) 2c to 5¢ per bulb. Stonybrook Nursery is the former Highland Landscape Co. Now under completely new management and ownership. Living Christmas trees also at Stonybrook Nursery, E. 82d St, 1 mile east of Allisonville Rd, BR. 0162. Open Sundays.

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Atkins Flower Shop invites you see their annual special Christmas window. This year it’s featuring a big carnation Christmas tree. Atkins Shop fixes fresh flower “trees” and other table arrangements. A shipment of the lovely Hommel figurines is just in, too, at Atkins Flower Shop (near Methodist Hospital), 2049 N. Capitol. HI. 7556. *

Give a shade tree for a special Christmas gift. Midwestern Tree Experts have sweet gums, oaks and certain

other varieties, root-balled, that

they will plant for Christmas, Call H. N. (Mike) Engledow, Midwestern Tree Experts, CO. 2335. All tree services.

HOUSE OF FLOWERS

For a rare Christmas treat, be sure to see the black lighted window with glowing costumes showing a Nativity scene in House of Flowers display win-

dows. The window is the work .

of L. J. Gomez, ‘whose displays in other cities command hundreds of dollars for their artistic design. Only because he is .a close relative of Harry and Bernice Brown of House of Flowers can Indianapolis see his unusual display. House of Flowers is featuring pot plants for family gifts, each plant carrying a small individual gift for each member of the family. These include such items as imported bay rum for the gentlemen. Call Tiouse of Flowers for all your Christmas decorations —- door swags, table = centerpieces, and the most modern flower gifts. House of Flowers, 5301 W. Washington. BE, 2459.

. * * Stumped for Christmas ideas? Stop in at Bash's Seed Store, look over their garden gift counter. You will find every-

have everything. Rash's specialize in the new nationally advertised items. watered flower pata metal and

plastic watering cans, sneara of

all kinds, garden gloves, alum-

inum garden tools, all kinds of

winter flowering bulbs for window growing, bird feeders of every sort, wild bird seed, sunflower seed, all the Christmas greenery, mistletoe, holly, evergreens for festooning. Don't fail to include Bash’s In your

shopping tour, Bash’s Seed Store, 141 N. Delaware, RL { 3733. FR. 7383, . hE

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