Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 January 1952 — Page 34
PAGE 3¢ Garden Gadding—
Use Hay to Protect
Evergreen
Plants
Against -Cold Blasts
> XPERIENCED gardeners
don't get plants winter protected until January:
don't get too frantic if they For
that's the time when so-called winter damage does much
of nerafures going up and down spring-fashion. The other day, one of our towr top-notch gardeners who publicity shy, told me ahout using hay to. protect their broad-leaved evergreens Zw shonia, euonymous, and such The hay is more flex
ible than straw, easier to- wind
! they ve found. : ” id ” ANOTHER NAME-SHY garxperience has a
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thought on lawns. He's been pondering this business of hard lawns, the .vogue for sening (aerating) turf with special tools, and the question ( why with good care, grass
dn't do well under the big old trees in "the back yard of
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his suburban place. “Granted it got hard wear because we picnic under these trees often in summer, Still it seemed to me it ought to
do better with all the fertilizer T'd used on it. The ground was hard and tight. So I decided to see what straw litter from the chicken “The idea was that it might Intro yduce beneficial soil organms, encourage them to multiply and so perhaps loosen up the hard ground. 1 figured it didn’t have eriough fresh manure in it to burn so 1 spread it lightly in the late winter last year. Even though I'm a natural-born optimist 1 was surprised at the wav the texture of the soil improved this summer, And did that grass grow! ” n o “THIS YEAR THE whole front as well as back yard is getting a jacket of that floor litter straw. I believe it is continual use of chemical fertilizers without humus to keep the soil loose and well-aérated that causes so much of this hardpacked ground and trouble with our grass. “City folks could use compost
the way I used straw litter,
or even put plain straw or peat moss or fine ground corn cobs on now, Just so it gets a chance
house would do for it.
its dirty work, what with sun getting hotter and
to work down into the top inch of soil before spring.”
» ~ » JUST IN CASE you need proof of how sly house plant
pests can be, here's a for _instance, oy The new ivy in the Kitchen window has been a delight all winter, But the other day P noticed it looked a little peculiar, A few garden columns later I noticed it looked very peculiar. A close look with a magnifying gldss to verify my
preliminary diagnosis revealed mites, millions of em No wonder the leaves looked go anemic , when their life's blood was being sucked out faster than the nice rich soil
could-provide it. The remedy? I just tregted it to a good snappy scrubbing with and water and a hard spray from the faucet. It now looks quite chipper, thank you. But I'll .have to do it again shortly and keep a close eye on it for a month or more.
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SPRING IS certainly here. There's a faint glow of flower shows on the horizon. At the last meeting of the local rose society Mrs. Norvin Strickland was reappointed as general chairman for the 1952 rose show. Date is set for June 8th. And it will only be a matter of some ten weeks before the narcissus show is practically up-
on us, Something to think about when that temperature sags again.
Shade New Plantings
Winter winds and sun may cause damage to the rhododenrons, azaleas, yew, boxwood, and dwarf evergreens planted on southern exposures. New plantings, particularly, should be shaded with burlap or straw mats.
Coffee Trees Produce
Coffee trees hegin to produce seven to ten years after they are planted.
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HERB HOBBYIST—Mrs. Sam Damon ‘uses her antique dishes for rose-jars. On the wall of the Damons’ breakfast room hangs this chart of the herb gardens at the Cloisters, New York Metropolitan Art Mu-
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Local Gardener Chooses Herbs
By MARGUERITE SMITH Times Garden Editor ERBS are the most rewarding kind of gardening.” So says Mrs. Sam Daman, 4007 Park Ave. And she's got proof. For she just received a nice check from Home Garden Magazine for an account of her herb garden, entered in that publication's monthly competition. But Mrs. Damon was thinking of other herb virtues when she called them rewarding. “What other plants,’ she savs “ean you use in bouquets, in winter rose jars, or as food There's sage, fer example “Use its gray green leaves in bouquets for unusual effects. Eat it in dressing, of course. But did you know,” Mrs. Damon’s eyes twinkled, “that sage with a bit of lemon balm makes a most refreshing cup of tea for a hot summer's day? .Then sage with sweet marjoram and a dash of thyme lifts hash into the heavenly class.”
5 n un MR. DAMON, says Mrs. D; likes herbs so well he “won't eat his scrambled eggs in summer without a bit of basil, chervil, chiVes and parsley sprinkled on top.” Mr. Ds incidentally is an African violet fan, But Mrs. Damon doesn’t look too enthusiastically
upon his pets--they're just too temperamental compared to herbs “You can't kill herbs and nothing bites them,” she says — As for African violets—no com-
ment, : For beginners who'd like to dabble in herbs but find Hubby and Junior completely unenthusiastic about “eating that stuff”, she has a practical and helpful word.
a ” n FAMILIES ARE likely to be conservative and there's the problem of room for an herb garden, too,” she points out,
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“But nearly everyone likes salads these days. And you can ease your family into enjoying herbs if you plant things like parsley, chives, peppergrass and chervil. These will all grow at the edge of a flower bed and take very little room. Combine them with Bibb lettuce and you've a wonderful salad. And it gives you such a rich feeling, too, when you pass a handful across the back fence to your neighbor. Anybody can raise these four. Just be sure you get fresh chervil seed. Old chervil doesn't germinate well. Another pointer—I1 always put along my parsley rows-— 8 leaves greener.”
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MES. DAMON'S "HERBS reward in winter with potpourri and sweet scented pads for her linens, She uses some of her many antique dishes for her | rose jars. One jar carries mem- | ories from her grandmother’s home in Scotland. Another, a milk glass sugar bowl, for years | stored the petals of the roses
.-she wore for her own high
school graduation. She has no favorite recipe for her potpourri. “I dry anything I have. Sweet woodruff, for example, with lavender and rose leaves is wonderful. I get my lavender from England—it just isn’t the same as the kind that's raised here. 1 it's the soil and the climate that makes the difference One pointer on rose,
Temperature Change Causes Buds to Drop
When African violet buds drop before opening, you may find it's due to sudden temperature change around the plant. In spring when day and night temperatures are specially variable this {s a likely cause of bud drop. Too much fertilizer will also.cause bud drop. When violets - refuse to bloom try = watering with a liquid plant food twice at two week intervals, thereafter once a month.
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year,” she says, “I used oils of lemon, thyme, and lavender. You might, if you preferred, use a floral perfume on the cotton.”
” o ” HERBS are rewarding in their endless variety, she finds. Each vear sees new ones added to
her garden. This summer hyssop will add its attraction for bees. Borage and wild
thyme already bring these busy pollinators to the grapes, currants, gooseberries, Damson plums and other fruits in the Damon backyard. And looking still farther ahead, Mrs. Damon
plans a garden of bergamots in the many colors from the na-. tive pale lavender through pink and rose to the gay red.
Hybrid
8 Perpetuals
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A NSW ER ONE and the same. TWO: The hybrid perpetual is the daddy of the hybrid tea. It combines its hardiness with the variety of color and fragrance of the true tea rose to produce the original lines of hybrid teas. THREE: Hybrid petrpetuals, in spite of their optimistic name, usually do not bloom all summer. A burst of June flowers and more in fall got them that name “perpetual” in the days before the hybrid teas. They were the first roses to bloom after the regular June rosetime, FOUR: The name “floribunda,” literally “abundance of flowers” —suggests the chief difference. Floribundas usually produce many flowers in a cluster where hybrid teas produce long stemmed and usually larger blooms. FIVE: Yes, polythanthas are sometimes called baby ramblers because ‘their flowers resemble the miniature roses of the oldfashioned ramblers like Dorothy Perkins. Floribundas produce larger flowers more nearly like the hybrid teas. SIX: Hybrid perpetuals are more winter-hardy and more tolerant of neglect than the hybrid teas. Floribundas, especially if you choose varieties carefully, are also more satisfied with imperfect cultural conditions shan the HT’s. And they will also bloom all summer. If you're having rose troubles, don't neglect the rich field of the old-fashioned varieties and the delightful shrub roses.
Garden Club Lists
Discussion Topic
Plants that give the greatest return for the least work will be the topie for discussion at the Wednesday meeting of the Hendricks County Garden Club. A panel of members including Mesdames Robert Low, Hezzie Masten, Jack -Gambold, J. Gordon Gibbs and Herbert White will lead. Mrs. Lee Worrel will tell “The Legend of the Rose.” The meeting will be held at 1:30 p. m. in the home
of Mrs. Donald Reid of Clayton with Mrs. Charles Green assisting.
Club Lists Program
A free-for-all program planning session will be the program for Spade and Trowel Garden Club's meeting on Friday, Jan. 25th, at 1 p. m. Mrs. Raymond Toler, 6163 Carrollton Ave. will be hostess.
Radish Valued
bk "SUNDAY, JAN. 20, 1952
TIME SAVER—Plant asparagus seeds early indoors. Enjoy their pretty feathery foliage. Later transplant to garden rows.
Now Is The Time
to build rose trellises. to send for seed catalogues.
«on : «s+ + 10 Inspect perennials for heaving. es « 10 drefm- up next summeér's flowers. + v. to fertilize growing amas rvllis.
Elm Is American The elm is the most typically American of all American trees.
pee How "To Identify , Your: Roses
Hv well So you knowy roses? Test your knowledge with these questions that often confuse be-
ginners. Answer in column six, this ‘page. A perfect scoge of 6? Well, your future is rosy.
Score 4 or 5, you've still got a rose thumb. Less than 4? Go ahead and plant roses anyway; You can always enjoy them-— you don't have to know it all, do you? ONE: What is the difference between a hybrid tea and a monthly rose? TWO: What is the difference be tween a hybrid perpetual and a hybrid tea? : THREE: Do hybrid perpetuals bloom all summer? FOUR: What is the difference between a floribunda and a hybrid tea? FIVE: 1s there any difference between a floribunda and a polyantha? = SIX: ‘Are hybrid teas or one of the other kinds better for a garden avhere growing con-
ditions are not ideal for roses? x , Self-Sustaining Farmers raise 7 per cent of their own food.
So highly valued by the |
ancient Greeks were radishes that small replicas of them were made in gold.
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Here's a lovely breath of spring at Bash’s Seed Store.
pips are ready. You can force them into fragrant bloom in a few short weeks. No sunny window necessary. Bash's will also have all the new Burpee introductions as well as other Burpee seeds for your garden this spring. Bash’'s Seed Store, 141 N. Delaware. RI. 3733, FR. 7333.
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Wayside Floral . Gardens is ready to help you plan your rose garden for 1952 from a wide selection of specially handled dormant plants, And prices of dormant plants will pléase your pocketbook because‘ef low
| handling costs. These roses | come in special refrigerator cars from California, immedi-
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| held in cool, moist surroundings
until planting time so tops are and not dried out. In early spring Wayside “plants” them in peat moss where they develop new little roots and are growing when your garden Is ready to plant. Let Gladys Cooley help you now before the spring rush starts, to plan a rose garden that will fit your budget and give you
| blooms every day all summer
long. Wayside Floral Gardens, 7301 Pendleton Pike. CH. 2222.
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is one of the new roses you'll find at Hillsdale Nursery for your 1952 rose garden. Like the original Pinocchio, this sunny floribunda is sturdy and freeflowering. Another yeliow rose new at Hillsdale is Tawny Gold, an unusually beautiful rich yellow.
* Fred Howard, All-America win-
ner for 1952, is still another’ good yellow hybrid tea ready at Hillsdale this season. What-
ever the color you want, you'll . . get top choices at * Order these new rases now to
Hillsdale,
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For the convenience of busy custdmers, Cossell's have changed their hours so you may call or stop in from 1 p. m. to 9 p. m. week days, all day Sunday. Cut flowers, centerpieces,
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Check your trees and shrubs now for scale, advises Midwestern Tree Experts. Scale is specially bad this season. Make arrangements now for dormant spraying when weather is right. Call H. N. (Mike) Engledow, Midwestern Tree Experts. CO. 2335.
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landscaping with no obligation. Call Stonybrook, too, for their free monthly landscape bulleBR.
tin. Stonybrook Nursery, 0162. Open Sundays.
Anyone can raise Chinese evergreens! You'll find nice ones at Hoosier Gardener's. Or dress up your winter rooms with A some of Hoosier Gardener's other fine house plants—African violets, dracena, pothos, several kinds of sansevieria, prayer plants, or the big cutleaved philodendrons. Hoosier Gardener, 741 E. Ave. (rear). BR. 9121. . * Don't wait another year to get more shade trees planted. Set. them out now for epjoyment this summer. At Eagle Creek Nursery you can get good straight, wellbranched red maples, sugar maples, and sweet gums right These come in the hard-to-get and much wanted sizes
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