Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 December 1951 — Page 28
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‘Garden Gadding—
Bluegrass Takes To: And Grows Hearty
In. Northern. Climate
By MARGUERITE EMITH
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Happy New Year.
Times Garden Editor SEEMS hardly necessary to wish gardeners a They're practically sure to have
one. For they've had to turn their thoughts away from themselves and they've had to develop a certain understanding in order to be success-
ful with plants. That's all to the good in their human relations. In a long-time ‘association with gardeners I've only known one (well, maybe two) who had rather small spirits. All the others were giving people—giving freely of their plants and their experiences to help others.
. ” ” ” YOU'RE probably going to hear more and more about Merion Bluegrass. Most new grasses are a flash in the pan
Bridge Talk—
Local Club To Mark 20th Year
The Women’s Contract Bridge Club will celebrate its 20th anniversary this week and two state championships are announced. Tha Indianapolis Bridge Association will sponsor its 16th annual state tournament Jan. 1$20 in the Hotel Lincoln. Includeq in the play will be -women’s, men’s, mixed pair, open pair and team-of-four events and a special pair game, The Central Ohio Bridge Association will have its annual mid-winter festival in the New Beneca Hotel Jan. 11, 12 and 13 in Columbus.
o o o THE WOMAN'S CONTRACT Bridge Club will have a bridgeluncheon at 11:30 a. m. Thursday in the Indianapolis Athletic Club. The group will be celebrating its 20th birthday anniversary. Reservations must be received by noon on Wednesday. Mrs. F. C. Lewis and Mrs. Roy Goodwine are in charge. The board of dire . extends. an invitation to former members of the club, beginning January 7, 1932, to join the family celebration. Partners also must be former members. - The group lists its results at its last meeting Thursday in the IAC. N & 8 (Possible score 216)— «Mrs. - Wayne Warrick, Mrs, M. L. Thompson 128.5; Mrs, C. C. Mathews, Mrs. E. J, Ittenbach 125; Mrs. George P. Ryan, Mrs. V. R. Rupp 124; E & W—Mrs. Joseph A. Brower, Mrs. K. L. Nielsen 136; Mrs. 8. R. Richardson, Mrs. J. E. Morris 130.5; Mrs. Arthur Pratt, Mrs. Randall Bass 124.5.
Send FLOWERS
(or the yard). But this is one that seems to be here to stay, Its history is quite a story. For it’s one of the grasses that got started all because. the golf greenskeepers got pretty mad at the temperamental ways of present standard lawn grasses. The greens section of the U. 8. Golf Association began scratching their heads over better, more durable grasses. Government experiment stations took a hand. And John Q. Home owner profits. : Merion bluegrass was discovered at the Merion Country Club, near Ardmore, Pa. Experiment station tests show it's a very -glow-grower for just one of its virtues, That is, it grows out rather than up. More and more seed will be coming onto the local market so you can try it this coming season.
ou n ” FOR A SMILE—A tree surgeon, says Hudson Newsletter, is a doctor with patients of shady reputation.
” on ” MAGAZINE DIGEST! — Country Gentleman reports leaf analysis tests more accurate than soil tests for showing what a crop is starved for. University of California tests say it’s because soil analysis tells what's in the soil, not what's usable. Leaf analysis shows what the plant is failing to get. There may be a lot of it in the ground but not in shape for plant to
- use. Country Gentleman comes
! ding anniversary of Mr.
out strong for use of ground corn cobs for mulch on everbearing strawberries. Porous, easier to spread than straw, easier to turn under when patch is turned, says C. G. (By the way, when snow goes be sure your strawberry rows get some kind of mulch before ground thaws Again.)
GARDEN DIARY—This year I resolve to invest in some more tarragon plants. In the spring 1951 Herb Magazine (that I Just got around to reading!) a Connecticut tarragon grower says he carries his plants through temperatures that sometimes go as low as 30 .below. Good drainage seems to be the key .to success. He raises his plants in loose gravelly soil. There's nothing like tarragon for a super-duper herb vinegar, so I'll give it another try-—outdoors.
Now Is The Time
+ + « to suds your broad-leaved foliage plants. e «+ « to keep cyclamen wellwatered. s+ - to keep ice and snow off of evergreens. e+ + to do some garden planning for 1952.
Plan Supper
For Anniversary
A buffet supper New Year's Eve will honor the 13th wedand
Mrs. John E. Kleinhenz. The
| party will be in the home of
| Mr,
and Mrs. Robert F. MecGinnis, Jordan Road. Also being honored that night will be Mrs, Garrison Winders, author of the new book, “James Fenimore Cooper, Leather Stocking Boy.” Others coming to the party are Mr, and Mrs. Fred Smith; Mr. Winders; Miss Barbara Winders and Master Christopher Kleinhenz.
WINNERS—New All. America Selections, 1952 flower seed introductions, for new garden in-
terest. Top winner is scarlet and orange striped Fiesta Cosmos, in central panel. The pink hybrid Ballerina Petunia and Globe Mixed Phiox. are on n left. Persian Carpet Zinnia in contrasting colors is
in right panel.
All-America Plant Awards Listed
COSMOS that’s the first one to wear a red and gold dress, and a zinnia that’s said to bring Persian carpet colors
into the garden are a couple of the exciting All-America introductions for 1952. any gardener who doesn’t
And if there's
know what All-America awards are, way. When somebody in the seed business raises or spots a flower or vegetable or maybe a rose that he thinks is pretty special, he propagates it for a time. As soon as he gets enough lie sends
type. ‘Persian
it's this
it around to some 20 or more plant testers
(lucky dogs) in this country and Canada. At the end of the season they taste and sniff and admire (depending on whether the subject's a flower or a vegetable) and grade their product. Results are tallied. Then around the first of the year the plants that managed to make the grade from Colorado to Connecticut to Canada get
their Oscars. oC 9
EVEN as a most skeptical garden columnist, hardened by reams of mail-boy ballyhoo on everything ever introduced into the plant world I usually like the All-America winners. With the possible exception of their green beans. In the'bean field they're too often concerned with the commercial aspects. While I as a typical back yard gardener, am more concerned with how the beans taste rather than how they travel. But All-America flower awards have introduced some real winners in the past. So here are
the 1952 flowers. * & &
THE new cosmos, Fiesta, is the first twocolor cosmos. Like Orange Flare and Orange Ruffies, it's said to be an indestructible sort .of
colors.
plant, not allergic to insects and diseases, And it doesn’t like transplanting, thank goodness. So ‘you can seed it in place and save time. Persian Carpet zinnias apparently were developed from the striped and dappled Mexican
Carpets are said to be a little
larger flowers, more richly colored, the plants bushy and prolific. for our Hoosier gardens. A new dwarf fringed petunia was developed by Colorado plant breeders. the plants grow about a foot high, produce big flowers of salmon-pink.
They sound like a natural
Dubbed Ballerina,
ol
FROM JAPAN comes an introduction that sounds like a very useful sort of dwarf annual phlox. The plants grow globe-shaped and cover themselves with sizable (one inch) blooms in what at the moment is only a fair range of They're mostly red and white but with some pink and salmon shades. ommended for pot plants
These are rec(nice fob éeterraces)
and for edging but not, of course, for cut flowers.
vegetables.
These will all grow easily from, seeds except the petunias. plenty of time to play around with special care for. fussy seedlings, are best bought as plants ready started. But in any case, get your orders in early. For the first-year supply of these new seeds is always short.
Next week I'll try to tell you “about the new For it looks now, from the prices of vegetables in the produce market, as if next summer would be an awfully good year to raise
Petunias, unless you have
at least part of your own.
other awards.
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It’s only fair to add that there are many introductions outside the All-America But these are, from past experiences, well worth your consideration.
Couple Wed In Cathedral
SINGLE-RING ceremony read by the
Rev. Fr. Thomas Jones,
"Catholic University of
America, united Miss Margaret Mary Murphy and Richard Hugh OConnor at 9 a. m. yesterday in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel of SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral. Mrs. Julia H., Murphy, 403 E. Maple Road, and Mr. and Mrs, John O'Connor, 537 E. 42d St., are the parents of the couple, Lt. Josephine Knott, ‘Bainbridge, Md, a Navy nurse formerly of "Seymour, attended the bride. She wore a salmon pink silk taffeta street length dress. Daniel J. O'Connor attended the bridegroom. The bride chose: a street length dress of silver blue silk taffeta and a halo of blue velvet. She carried a prayerbook topped with white roses. Following the ceremony a reception” was held in the + American Legion hall at 42d and College Ave. The couple will live at 4305 Park Ave. after a motor trip north. The bride is a graduate of Charity Hospital, New Orleans, and the bridgegroom is a graduate of Butler University,
Breakfast Favorite Makes Dessert
| Apricots and corn flakes, a | breakfast favorite, make an ex- | cellent quick dessert. Place one and one-half cups of corn flakes in the bottom of a shallow bak-
ing pan. Roll eight apricot halves in an additional one-half
top the flakes in the pan. Pour over two tablespoons of fruit sirup. Bake in a moderate oven (350°-370° F.) for 15 minutes. Serve hot with a mixture
sirup.
cup of corn flakes and place on |
of cream and remaining fruit |
‘Garden Events—
Poinsettia Show Runs To Jan. 7 © Most interesting event of this end-of-holidays week is the poinsettia show which is continuing at Garfield Park through Jan.-7. Details of this and of garden and
nature club meetings this week are as follows:
TODAY Garfield Park Poinsetta Show— Today and all week at Garfield Park Conservatory, Hours 8 a. m. to 6 p. m. . Nature “Study Club—3 p. m. to 5 p. m. D.A.R. Hall, 824 N. Pennsylvania St. Annual reception, new and retiring officers,
WEDNESDAY Green Thumb—1 p. m. Mrs. A. L. Partian, 27 8. Linwood,
hostess. Mrs. E. K. Higdon,"
assisting. Bird program and slides, in charge of Mrs. H. L. Bischof. THURSDAY Audubon Society — 8 p. m. Screen Tour. World War “Memorial. “Underwater Kingdom” — Underwater movies shown by Lucie Palmer .of St. Louis. Biz-Z-B Garden Club — 11:30 a. m. Mrs. Lawrence DeWolf, 6670 E. 38th St., hostess.
FRIDAY Brookside Garden Club — 1:30 p. m. Mrs. L. C. Litten, 571 E. Drive, Woodruff Place, hostess. Mesdames Grover Long, Gilbert Harris, and Lou/is Kuhlwilm assisting.
“Feeding and Attracting Song |
Birds,” Mrs. Adelaide FEdwards. “Mechanics and Principles of Flower Arrangements,” by Mrs. Earl McDonald. Election of officers. Broad Ripple Garden Club—1 p. m. Mrs. John R. Donagh,
529 E. 57th St, hostess. “Culinary Herbs” by Mrs. Earl Burkhart. Recipe ex-
change.
Your Yard— °
Snow or No,
Mulch Plant Some Way
SNow is the perfect mulch. So don’t worry if you didn’t get your perennials covered before
Christmas. At least so long as the snow lasts. When it goes try to catch the ground still frozen and get mulch on to hold it that way. Most winter damage from thawing and freezing comes in the next couple months rather than in early winter. LAWNS WILL suffer if you let folks tramp a path across them while they're frozen. Or you might watch where a path naturally gets established. Then next spring lay some stepping stones. It gives a pleasant neighborly air to your home. » n » A CHEMICAL fertilizer company is plugging the use of its product for removal of ice on sidewalks. Remove ice, fertilize lawn all at the farfle time.
WATCH that drip from frozen eaves, It's" a terrible trial to chrysanthemums, shrubs, and especially evergreens if they have to put up with it.
2 2 a GOING SOUTH soon? Don’t forget that flower shows, tably camellia shows, are spattered all over the” southern states from January on. Call The Times garden column if you want to know about specific cities. Dates and places make a list much too long to
publish but we'll gladly give |
you information.
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“KNOW YOUR HOUSE PLANTS—Shrimp plant, (beloperone
guttata) is an interesting one not hard to raise. Rosy red “flowers” at the ends of each branch make a decorative appearance. An east or west window for the sun plus plenty of water and a general potting mixture gre its only requirements. The so-called flowers ore colored sheaths over the true flowers.
TIME SAVER — Set pot- |
plants on a layer of rock wool or vermiculite, keep material damp. It provides automatic watering for plants,
Polish Up Old Toloohons Stand
" The telephone stand is one of the most abused pieces of furni-
~g.ture in the house. Dirt and dust
picked up beneath the base of
the phone can make the stand a messy sight by the end of a week. Telephone books also pick up dirt and transfer it to this surface. To ‘keep this busy piece of household furniture looking bright and clean, apply a coating of liquid wax furniture polish. It can be applied in a matter of seconds and wiped off without rubbing. Incidentally, the telephone it~ self will be a much brighter fixture if given the same beauty treatment.
LANDSCAPING SHADE TREES Eagle Creek Nursery
Telephone 00-2381
To thank your Christmas hostess (or to spend that money you got for Christmas!) just drop in at Hoosier Gardener's and look around. Hoosier Gardener has a couple of new type bird feeders, for one thing. One's a window type, the other a glass affair that protects the birds { but lets you in on all their | amusing performances. Bring | your ‘dish gardens in, too, for | that post-holiday refurbishing. Hoosier Gardener, 741 E. Broad Ripple Ave. (rear). BR. 9121.
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| Greetings of the season from | Edwards 56th St. Greenhouse. | You will find the same good , | lower and plant values pT during 1952 as in the
past. Where overhead is low, you get more for your money. Fdwards 56th St. Greenhouse, | just east of Keystone. IM. 5842.
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~ % HAPPY | NEW YEAR *
| | | * * | There's a new white marbled | pothos (variegated philoden- | dron) in at Wayside Floral | Gardens this week. For this and other out-of-the ordinary house plants and for picture window plantings call Gladys Cooley of Wayside Floral Gart dens, 7301 Pendleton Pike, CH. | 2222. Convenient Parking.
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Greetings for happy gardening: in 1952 from New Augusta Nursery. In the coming year
21, Ind. Phone BE. 1100
Loy it if Fler
Because FLOWERS Say It So Easily and Naturally!
YOUR FLORIST
Is as Near as Your Telephone
- LIEBER'S WILL BE CLOSED ALL DAY MONDAY, DEC. 3I . AND TUESDAY, JAN. I.
"OPEN AT 9:30 A. M. WED., JAN. 2
as in the past you will find quality plants, trees, and shrubs as always at New Augusta Nursery. H. J. Schnitzius, New Augusta Nursery, 5000 W. 59th St. CO. 2658. *
* Happy rose gardening in 1952— that’s Hillsdale Nursery's wish for you. You're going to find many new roses at Hillsdale this coming season. First, those AllAmerica winners, Hillsdale will have them, naturally. There's Helen Traubel, a hybrid tea whose color varies with the season from a bright pink, to apricot. It's such a profuse bloomer the sturdy bush sometimes amost bends under the weight of blossoms. Another 1952 All-America is Fred Howard, a very double golden yellow hybrid tea on a tall bush. Then the All-America floribunda Vogue is a hard one to describe. It's odd color is a kind of cherry-coral, the flowers hybrid tea sized, but borne with floribunda profusion. You can’t go wrong with these All-America winners, Call Hillsdale now and order them if you want to be sure of not being disappointed. Hillsdale Nursery, ; 100 (Shadeland). BR. 5495. om
, 8000 north on Ind.
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HOUSE OF FLOWERS
For New Year party decorations of distinction, call Bernice Brown of House of Flowers. The newest in plants and arrangements for parties large or small done in thé exquisite taste that is Bernice Brown's specialty. House of Flowers, 5801 W. Washington. BE. 2459.
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The new Farmer's Almanac for 1952 is ready at Bash’s Seed Store. Also fertilizers and other house plant supplies and winter bulbs. Bash’'s will as usual have the All-America seeds for 1952. And as always you will
find the new nationally adver- 2
tised garden items at Bash’s Seed Store, 141 N. Delaware, RI. 3733. FR. 7333.
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You will have novel decorations for your New Year’s party if you order favors, centerpieces or corsages from Atkins Flower Shop. Atkins Flower Shop also makes a specialty of floral gifts for hospital rooms. Conveniently located between St. Vincent’s and Methodist Hospitals, Atkins Flower Shop, 2049 N. Capitol. HI. 7556.
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Midwestern Tree Experts wish their many customers and friends a good New Year. In 1952 Midwestern will be prepared as in the past to protect your trees with all the tested and up-to-date methods, H. N. (Mike) Engledow, Midwestern Tree Experts. CO. 2335.
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Surplus sale! You'll get 25% off regular prices on bearing size fruit trees, shade trees, ornamental shrubs and trees now at Sunnybrook Nursery. Sunnybrook. is the former Highland Landscape Co., now under completely new ownership and management, Sunnybrook Nursery, E. 82nd St, 1 mile east of Allisonville Rd. BR. 0162.
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Planning to landscape in '52? Why not take advantage of the less busy winter season and let Eagle Creek Nursery draw up your landscape plans now? Just call and one of their trained designers will look over your property and suggest the planting. No obligation if you don’t
agree with it. You'll find Eagle
Creek out in front in 1952 as before with new methods to insure success of year ’'round planting, with new varieties of
quality shrubs and trees for
‘your greater: gardening enjoy‘ment. Eagle Oreek Nursery, US 52, 1%; miles north of Trader's Point. CO. 2881,
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