Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 January 1952 — Page 32
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SPRING IN JANUARY —Crocusses bloom indoors for the
Ralph Klings.
Here Mrs. Kling exhibits two potsful.
How to Raise Seedlings
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still raise healthy seedlings indoors. Science says give them artificial light. It can replace sunlight. Or it can eke out sun in a poorly lighted window.
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Start lights as soon as seeds sprout. Use lights 12 hours a day. Symptom of too little light—tall spindly plants. (Crowding and too high temperatures might be the reason, too. So keep plants at around 60 degrees.)
Offer Garden Planting Tips
Planning and planting of gardens take club members into spring at their meetings this week. Details are as follows. TODAY
, Nature Study—2 p. m. Woollen's Gardens. Hike and music committees providing and outdoor fun. pitch-in dinner FRIDAY Brookside Garden Club—1:30 p. m. Mrs. Mac Miles, 1414 N. Dearborn hostess. “Planning and Planting the Flower Gal den,” Mrs. Wm. A. Edwards. “Raising Herbs Mrs Jane Artist, Installat of officers Assistant h Mesdames Freudenburg, Wallace and Arthur lL. Wil
on ORteRses T.enora Whetsell liams Broad Ripple Garden Citta p. m. Mrs. Robert Davidson, 6808 Carrollton Ave, hostess.
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POSY-FILLED—This fragrant greenhouse brings the Klings’ guests downstairs.
By MARGUERITE SMITH
Times Garden Editor
ON'T go in for ment window gardening—azaleds, camellias narcrocusses, unless Prepared, that is, to have all your visitors always trailing through the kitchen and down the basement stairs to stand in admiring groups before said wihdows. That's what happens in the Ralph Kling household at 6830 Willow Rd. All because Mr. Kling is a whiz with window gardening. At the moment the Kling household is decked with pots
base-
CISSuUs,
‘ of fragrant paper-white narcis-
common failures.
sus, crocusses, quantities. of African violets, a flower packed azalea, a variety of plants with unpronounceable names such as exacum affine, naegelia zebrina
Hints on How to End Common Failures
ON'T let last .summer’s garden failures get you down! Whatever mistakes you mate last season can be'stepping stones to a better season this year. : Here, for example, are-some Were. they
yours? Which of the suggested
“went to tops.” Few
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remedies ‘could you try this year? ONE-—Annual flowers all
blossoms. This is usually because plant food isn’t well balanced. Use a complete chemical fertilizer
(one of the - high-phosphate, flower stimulating types) this vear. Then, especially if you
live outside city water mains, be sure to mix some water-hold-ing stuff (rotted manure, compost, rotted leaves, peat moss, ground corn cobs) into the soil, too. TWO—Gladiolus dried up instead of flowering. This is a symptom of thrips—the most likely explanation. DDT is the remedy. Dust your bulbs now if you didn’t do if when you
MERIDIAN ST.
your own planting.
coming there bulbs
and even a camellia into bloom. Meanwhile are quantities of spring
waiting in the dark ready to shoot into. fragrant flowers about mid-February. u a Ld “THAT'S THE peak of our indoor flower season,” says Mrs.
“The house smells like and looks
Kling. a. florist’s shop then like one.” As to’ how .it's done. Mr. Kling fixed up a series of window gardens off the basement. Two are dark rooms-—covered window wells. There the potted bulbs and hyacinths in hyacinth glasses of water develop their roots. They move easy stages into the light. When buds are beginning to burst--not before— they're ready for their appearance in the living room. The azaleas and camellia are what the English call *“cool-
stored them in the fall—with 3 to 5 per cent DDT dust. Let it stay on until planting time. = =n n : THREE—PEONIES didn’t bloom. Peonies sometimes fail to hloom because they're planted too deep or because they just aren't old enough plants. Be sure they get balanced plant food (see answer to problem 1). Be sure they have at least half a day's sun—all day will be better.
_up dead tops now. so blight doesn't carry over to’ this | spring's growth. FOUR -— All. flowers were
poor and scarce, small-size, leaves not a good dark green. Your soil is probably too poor, but this time it sounds like a lack of nitrogen, the chemical that makes rich green leaves, Refer to the answer to problem one—and get your plants off a starvation diet. FIVE--Flowers started out well. but just didn’t do well somehow. Zinnias around the | bird bath got blighted. Mari- | golds on north side of house | didn't bloom very well.
the ftagrance of spring into your winterweary rooms. Force Bash’s lily-of-the-valley pips into bloom in a few short weeks, Or force some paper-white narcissus, Chinese lilies, or golden Soleil d’Or-—all fragrant. You'll find wild bird: seed at Bash’'s. And new seeds
Bring
are already in. Bash's Seed Store, 141 N. Delaware. RI. 3733. FR. "333. * * Money invested in shade trees literally grows Into more money. And it frames your home
with beauty. At : Eagle Creek Nursery you will find red maples, sugar maples, and sweet gums in that 6 to 8 ft, size that has been so hard to get lately. This stock is made up of good straight trees with well-placed branches, trunks up to 3 inches in diameter. You can handle them easily if you want to do See these trees in and around the salesvard at Eagle Creek Nursery, US 52, 114 miles north of Traders Poin... CO. 2381. * * ‘Hillsdale Nursery aims at bringing you the best of the new roses. Among this season’s new ones af Hillsdale are an unusual white and a beautiful clear pink, i. both hybrid teas. White Swan is a dazzling pure white, large, long-stemmed, and very fragrant.. It is a good exhibition rose, the bush itself very hardy. Eternal Youth, the pink: one, is an unusual clear pink, slim-budded, flowering freely, Order either of these _ how to be sure of getting them
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for your 1952 rose garden, Hillsdale Nursery, 3000 north “®tonybrook’s free landscape BR. leaflet. . Stomybrook Nursery,
If you want really large tuberous begonia flowers and gloxinias, order roots now at Hoosler Gardener's. Hoosier Gardener's LW stock is raised in Belgium. The | roots are now in New York. As soon as weather is favorable | they will be shipped by express to Indiana. You will find them top-size, top-quality. Hoosier Gardener, 741 E. Broad Ripple Ave. (rear) BR. 9121,
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If you want a rose garden that will insure blooms for you every day this season, let Gladys Cooley of Wayside Floral Gardens help you plan one now, Before the busy nursery season hegins yeu can sit down with true-to-life pictures, in color, and choose a well-balanced collection. Order roses now to avoid disappointment later, Wayside Floral Gardens, 7301 Pendleton Pike, CH. 2222.
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When ground " is frozen, you have the ideal time for ‘shade tree planting, advises Midwestern Tree Experts. Arrange now for planting during the short time left of winter. Call H. N. (Mike) Engledow, Midwestern Tree: Experts. CO. 2335.
5 “ - de A T. If you want a stone terrace, an ornamental wall, rock garden .or pool built, call Stonybrook Nursery for a free “estimate.. Stonybrook- does all kinds of | stone work. You'll find a special price on. birch trees at Stonybrook, beginning at $6 {includes planting). Ask for
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house’ plants. So they thrive In a light ®ool window where they get just a hint of heat from the basement--no extra.
n " ” AZALEA couldn't take
“THE much heat,” explains Mrs. Kling. “When we have com-
pany we get swish and bring it up stairs. But the minute they leave we rush it right back into its cool window.” Though he's a fancier, Mr. Kling's real garden hobby is roses. ‘“‘Couldn’t vou mention,” asked Mrs. Kling, “that he's a member of the Indianapolis Rose Society and the American Rose Society? You see, we're having a membership drive now and that might help.” (Anybody want to join the Indianapolis Rose Society?” Step right up. If you join now you can learn how to fill your house with spring bulbs in bloom in February, too.)
winter bulb
You need to know the likes and dislikes of individual flowers to avoid these mistakes. Zinnias mildew easily, so never plant them too close together or in a spot where they get constant moisture on the leaves unless you want to fuss with dusting sulfur all summer to keep the plants in good condition. . Marigolds need sun -— quantities of it.
G ARDENERS, nature lovers and Holliday Parkers are going to see a lot of Walter Holt. Mr. Holt
is the new year-round supervisor of Holliday Park. . “No innovations,” was’ the first word Mr. Holt had-—for folks wondering what changes might be in the offing. “I want to make Holliday attractive to other clubs in addition to the garden clubs. But I want to cooperate fully with the garden clubs, too.” Mr. Holt and his wife got acquainted with much of Holli: day Park through their close friends and neighbors, the late Dr. Clute and Mrs. Clute. Dr. Clute’'s name is, for long-time Indianapolis folks, practically a synonym for botany so he was naturally much in Holliday’s many plants and trees.
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“THEY REALLY aroused our interest in Holliday, and we've watched it grow and develop,” says Mr. Holt, “I'm not a botanist myself, just ‘an amateur gardener with roses for a specialty. At one time we had over a 100 bushes of hybrid teds in our yard pretty good considering the size of the yard. And I just bored our friends to death talking about roses.” Mr. Holt's background is in the insurance field—40 years of it. At the time of his retirement he was state manager of Indiana for the London and [Lancashire Indemnity Co.“Maybe it's my experience in the insurance business,” he laughed, “but I want to get people out here to use the picnic area. I think maybe if they eat here, they'll like the park and come often.” 5 = =
WITH THAT in mind, he's already begun pushing improvements in the picnic area before park employees get into their busy season. “Young trees have already been thinned—we want to get more light in so it won't be so
' muddy and full of mosquitoes.
And ovens are in the planning stage.” “Another thing we want is to increase the bird population. I remember when my youngsters were small we took them to Spring Mill Park to identify birds for some school course. It would be fine if the children of the city could came out here and see as many birds as at Spring Mill. “It’s a many-sided job and 1 expect T'll find a lot of my pet ideas are all wrong,” Mr. Holt laughed a little. “But you can say the emphasis operation. And if any garden clubs or flower societies are concerned about dates for meetings, tell them to call me here at the park.”
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JAN. 27, 1952
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PURPOSE SET—Woalter Holt “to make Holliday Park attractive to all clubs.” : Now Is Talk on Flowers. Th . rs. W. Irving Palmer, hobhyist, will speak on ‘Fun With e Time Flowers’ before the WE Gar- «++ to force lily-of-the-valley den Club at 9:30 a.m. Fri. pips: day, Feb. 8. The group will ... to continue planting of meet in the home of Mrs, shade trees. Thomas King, 3939 E:." 57th St. . + « to study seed catalogues. . 4 N yt «ss to get your lawn-mower LAN DSCAPING sharpened.
Club to Observe I5th Anniversary
A 15th birthday anniversary will be marked by Blue Flower Garden Club at its meeting top. m. call will be answered with “Do
morrow at 12:30
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