Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 April 1952 — Page 40

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Your Garden This Week— : Cover Grass Now As Safety Against” Drying Hot Winds

AIN has delayed lawn and garden seeding and plant~ ing. If you're sowing grass seed now you'll be wise to cover it a little deeper against drying hot winds and take special care to keep seed beds moist.

As weather settles more and more, plants and seeds may safely go into the ground. If you buy tender-topped field raised) perennials, they will need a light cover of some sort (straw, excelsior, sphagnum’ until they're hardened.

If you buy plants from the many bulk displays you find everywhere now, do inspect before you buy. Don’t buy plants whose growth buds care beginning to dry already from a too long stay in warm dry air, Look always for good roots, well wrapped to keep them moist, or you're throwing good money away. » » . FIRST . SAUCER magnolias are beginning to bloom. Here and there about the city in yards (and especially in River side Park) you'll see the less common and earlier blooming star or stellata magnolia. Rarer yet is an occasional pink stellata. But the saucer or soulangeana is happily fairly common throughout the city. This is the best time to buy and transplant magnolias ~~when they're in bloom. Choose those with carefully wrapped roots. Set them where they can grow all by themselves, not hampered by other shrubs and trees, as in a mixed hedge, ~

” » MANY SHRUBS are on the verge of blooming. That makes them very easy to force indoors. It's a double delight to have them in bloom a week befare they blossom outdoors, Try any of those in your yard that have fat buds just ready to burst, ;

Flower Session Set

The first meeting of a group of African violet enthusiasts who cannot attend daytime clubs will be held at the home of Mrs, Ernest Kitch, 1415 N. Jefferson, on Thursday, at 7:30 pe m., ‘Mrs. Kitch, who is president of the Indianapolis African Violet Club, is helping along the organization of an evening club. Anyone interested is Invited to attend. Plans are also going forward for the first: African violet show to be put on by the Indianapolis African Violet Club in Ayres’ Auditorium on Thursday and Friday, May 15 and 16. Mrs.

C. D. Monger is show chairman.

Cheaper and Fresher at the ~ Nursery

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DRIVE OUT AND LOOK AROUND!

Garden Gadding— Club's Pig Gets Fed With Dimes

VER have to raise money for good works? If not, it must be you're.not, in

that highly descriptive

phrase of the Quakers, & “weighty friend” —- and they don't mean in pounds. At the Rushville Garden Club the other evening I came upon

an Jdea new to me but so use- §

ful for any organ.zation it ought to be told about. It's the club's pig. They don’t raise bacon and ham. they just feed him. He “gets fed” every time a member muffs a roll-call response. Fed with a dime, that is. For each member has a topic (as insect pests, roses, spring bulbs, or whatever they Hike) that they give a little in~ formation about when they respond to roll-call. In a year's time they pass around a sizeable amount of garden facts on each subject. Or collect a sizeable amount of money,

. ~ » HERE'S SOME light on a current subject. “Jack's going to be ready to preach Sunday.” sald my caller over the telehone, It was Helen Miller of uaw Hill. She was referring, of course, to Jack-in-the-pulpit. Bhe's been coaxing along a tiny Jack under 24 hours of light a day. She uses a 350watt ordinary bulb and a 100watt blue daylight bulb and he grows at least a half Inch every day.

4. 5.8 AN ANDERSON reader who visited the Bellingrath gardens came back with a problem. “Could you give me the botanical name of the sweet olive shrub?" she writes. “I haven't been able to find it listed anywhere. And would it survive our winters?” I suspect the sweet olive at Bellingrath is osmonthus (or olea) fragrans. Has any reader been there to identify it more accurately? This fragrant flowering plant is grown indoors this far north but needs a cool

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photo by John R. Spicklemire

N. Meridian St, and

“Chief” admire hand-carved bird house.

Offer Demonstration

In Rose Pruning

(GARDENERS in general will be interested chiefly this |

week in the Rose Society's weather-postponed rose pruning demonstration and the gardens and landscaping

at the Home Show. The demonstration of correct methods of pruning roses, scheduvled for Holliday Park rose gardens last Sunday by the Indianapolis Rose Society, will be put on today (again only if the weather co-operates) at 2:30 p. m. ‘Visitors to the annual Home Show this week at the Fairgrounds will see the work of six garden clubs in. planting gardens that include everything from wild flowers to espaliered “fruit trees. TODAY Home Show-—11 a. m. to 10:30 p. m. today and through next Sunday, Six gardens prepared by Arbutus, Rainbow, Garden Gate, Garfield, Crooked Creek and Broad Ripple garden clubs, . Nature Study Club—2:30 p. m.

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These are fast growing ... in | to 2 yrs, make Evergreens priced at $5 to $7! Evergreens to the home owner is represented by the last year or two. in the field, plus digging, burlapping and ‘putting in customers’ car.

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Very Hardy @ Brilliant Color

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Small EVERGREENS-Pfitzer-Juniper

Woollen's Gardens. A circle hike through the Boy Scout reservation and Ft. Harrison, followed by a steak fry.

MONDAY

Neophyte Garden Club—1 p. m.

Mrs, J. C, De Hority, 6404 Broadway. Mrs. W. L. MecCoy will discuss narcissus.

FRIDAY

Spade and Trowel—1 p. m., Mrs. Clarence F. Cornish, 6029 Crestview, hostess. “Fundamentals of Gardening,” Mrs. H. J. Elbourn. Closed meeting. Plant ex- . change, SUNDAY Nature Study Club—7:30 a. m, Meet at bus station for allday trip to McCormick's Creek State Park. Trip leader, Otis Herreman.

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use for Wrens as Prize

By MARGUERITE SMITH Times Garden Editor

= for wrens is one of the prizes you may win if you buy a ticket for the Park School Garden Tour.

The wren house is the work of Chester A. Cobb, 49890 Kenwood Ave. His custom-made housing projects, a hobby, are

trademarked “Chet’'s Unusual -Wren Houses.” : Unusual indeed. They're

in grown-up house fashion. ~ ” » WHETHER IT'S this or the ‘handy pumps built-in on the porches or the readymade (if wooden) landscaping of evergreens, they really get their wrens, according to Mrs. Don Kelly. 8he’s Mr. Cobb's neighbor and has sadly watched Kelly wrens “move into Cobb houses—in the Cobb yard. Park School garden tour is put on by the school mothers. for benefit of the scholarship fund, Dates this year are SBaturday and-Sunday, May 3 and 4.

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Spring Dance

To Be Tomorrow Miss Eileen Poston’s dance class will have its spring dance

Assisting Miss Pos will be Messrs. and Mesdames Edward LaReau, Ted Davis, Albert Pickett and Gerald Smith and Mrs. Evelyn KaFoure. : . Committee mémbers are Dorothea Forbes, Jane Medaris, Carol Ann Shipley, Donna Summers, Phylis Newhouse, Jeddy Smith, Ted Bherbourne, Lewis Forbes, Tom Freeman and Al-

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A special price on saucer (soulangeana) magnolias is offered by Floyd Bass Nursery this week. These magnolias are full of

| buds, the roots wrapped for suc-

cessful transplanting, and ready to bloom, Sizes up to 6 ft. Also a few of the very dark purple nigra magnolias, and 75 varieties of roses. These roses are potted, ready to plant. Drive out to Floyd Bass Nursery and ses the magnolias in bloom. Bass Nursery, W. @3d St, between US 52 and Michigan Rd. CO. 2349. Friendly service,

* * For your shady garden try a pink trio—pink bloodroot, pink Dutchman’s breeches, and rosepink violets. Mertensia, ready to transplant. Wildflowers, over 150 common and. rare species, frame-grown and mountain collected. Squawhill Wildflower

Garden, 65th and Millersville Rd. BR. 3116. * * Rg ~ You won’t have

to wait tor shade if you get sont® of the trees ready now at Midwestern Tree Experts. These are root-balled, ready to plant, Size range is from 1% to 6 inches diameter. Varieties are sugar maples, tulip trees, sycamore, pin oak, sweet gum, ash, Call immediately, too, if you want pre-foliar sprays to pro< tect your healthy elms. H. N. (Mike) Engledow, Midwestern Tree Experts. CO. 2335.

* * Need perennials? Call or write New Augusta Nursery for their free list of many fine varieties. Drive out and see creeping phlox in bloom in five colors— white, blue, pink, red, salmon. Also dwarf iris, white, yellow, purple, blue. Field-grown, well rooted clumps of delphinium, columbine, blue flax, now ready to move. Years of know-how are at your service when you consult H. J. Schnitzius, New Augusta Nursery, on your perennial problems. New Augusta Nursery, 5000 W. 59th. CO. 2658. * * Exterior decoration is just as important and complex as the interior decoration which blends furniture styles, colors and fabrics into a pleasing picture. Let Eagle Creek ‘Nursery take over your worries on tasteful planting which will make you proud of the setting of your home. Eagle Creek's trained personnel will suggest shrubs and trees that will make your yard a beauty spot to enjoy this summer. They know which varieties will grow well under whatever conditions are your special problem. No obligation, if when it’s all planned, you are not satisfied. Call or drive out to Eagle Creek Nursery this week. US 52, 11; miles

| north of Traders Point. CO. 2381. Open Sundays: stn | * * Want a fragrant hedge? At

Stonybrook Nursery you will find some own-root, named varieties of French hybrid lilacs. These are not the inferior, privet grafted type. There's the time-tested dark red Charles X, fhe double white Edith Cavell, he deep purple Vulcan and others. Also at Stonybrook, standard hybrid tea roses and floribundas, $1.10 each or $12 per dozen. And Stonybrook is headquarters for Brown County stone—by the piece or by the ton. Stonybrook will also do all kinds of rock work—terraces, rock gardens, ' walks. Stonybrook Nursery, Ind. 109, 3; mile east of Ind. 37. BR. 0162.

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Make your garden work easy with the right kind of toots. At Consumers Feed Store you'll find Ro-Ho (the lawn mower bladed cultivator), garden plows, Planet Jr. seeders (makes row, seeds and coyers In one operation), plus all kinds of rakes, hoes, shovels, spades, both long

and short handled, and the Gari dex line of hand.toels...8top in

and see Consumers Feed Store's big assortment of garden needs. Consumers Feed Store, Massachusetts Ave. CH. 2818,

* * There are bargains and socalled (or false) bargains. Here's one that's real. It comes from an idea of William Cooley at Wayside Floral Gardens. Wayside has a number of small evergreens. They're ready to be transplanted into nursery rows to be grown on into sizeable landscape stock. In a couple of years they will be worth from $5 to $8. But with specialized labor scarce and high prices Wayside has decided to offer these youhg evergreens now to home-owners who want to grow them on in their own yards and have that saving in planting, cultivating and handling costs for themselves. The evergreens are all either potted or root-balled in small easily handled balls. They have been transplanted twice to give them’ the compact root system necessary for good growth under lawn conditions. They are now 8 to 12 inches tall, and will cost you from 65¢ ‘to 85¢. There is a wide variety. Drive out to

. Wayside, where you will find . them on display so you can ook ‘them over. Wayside Floral Gar-

dens, 7301 Pendleton Pike. CH. 2222. Open Sundays. ond

6103 .

ANN — A new assortment of eut-leaf and big leaf philodendrons is just in at House of Flowers. These move out fast so get yours right away, Also pansy plants, vegetable plants (cabbage, caulifiower, tomato, mango) and annuals by flat or dosen. Call’ House of Flowers for distirictive wedding flowers. House of Flowers, 5301 W. Washington. BE, 2459, * * It's a good time now to do almost all kinds of landscape work, advises the Indianapolis Landscape Association. And in the Indianapolis Landscape Association you'll find men equipped to do whatever work you need. Some make lawns, seeding and fertilizing estab lished ones, or build new ones, Some members supply all kinds of trees and shrubs, plant them and spray your established landscape plants. Other members of the Indianapolis Landscape Association do rock work, building walks, walls, terraces, pools, rock gardens. All these services are available from Indiapapolis Landscape Association members as well as the drawing of landscape plans and the maintenance of landscaping. Whatever you plan to do this spring eall a member of the Indianapolis Landscape Association for dependable work. The Indianapolis Landscape Association, -

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SAVE YOUR TREES! Now | the time to trim and spray you trees. Trimming, spraying, tree

surgery -— seeding, fertilizing

lJawns—planting, weed control, tree feeding, tree removal. Indianapolis Spraying Co. Motor power equipment, chain saws. Consultants in the care of trees since 1915. Insured. Indianapolis Spraying Co., 628 E. 634 St. BR. 5688. Day or evening.

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Grape vines are ready at Bash's this week, also as- , paragus roots, purple clematis, wisteria vines, roses, lily bulbs in variety, plants of sage and true lavender. Also, of course, you'll find just about any kinds of seeds, vegetable or flower, old or new varieties, that you could want. Hardy flowers are beginning to come in—Oriental popples, hardy carnations, columbines and Canterbury bells are

ready now. All at Bash’s Seed Store, 141 N. Delaware. RIL 3783. FR. 7333. * *

If you've ever compared field - grown clumps of plants with the wispy shipped-in kinds you know it pays to buy the strong rooted field-grown plants you get at Hoosler Gardener's. There's creeping phlox (in bloom), clove pinks, painted daisies; -delphinium, columbine; dwarf iris, day lilles (hemero-

callis), »€anterbury bells and

others, Also Boston ivy and English ivy and bleeding heart plants. These are potted, ready to bloom. Hoosier Gardener, 741 E. Broad Ripple Aves (rear). BR. 9121. *

* What gives you so much for your / money As a rose bush? At Hills« dale Nursery you may choose your roses from biggest collecti in this part of the country. And on dozen lots you get.a quantity discount of 5% plus another 5% discount on all cash and carry orders. If you buy this week you may still get dormant roses and save another 50¢, the potting cost, on each plant. Write or eall Hillsdale Nursery for their free list (in color) of the many rose varieties and the many types of roses they carry. Just drop a card to Hillsdale Nursery, RR 13, Box 185, Indianapolis 44, Or call BR. 5495. Drive out do the: nursery and pick up your rose bushes for the finest flower garden you've ever had. Hills. dale Nursery, 8000 north on Ind, 100 (Shadeland). BR. 5495.

* * Only $1.00 apiece for dormant roses, properly handled. That's the excellent special price at Maschmeyer's’ Nursery. Save yourself potting costs. ' Get these while it's still safe to set dormant plants. Maschmeyer’s also have magnolias in two varieties, the popular pink saucer or soulangeana, and the later blooming darker lennei. These are well-rooted, ready to grow success fully. Maschmeyer's

Nursery, 244 W. Troy Ave. GA. .

4668. Open to-day. *

Here's a wonderful variety of plants. At Stark’s, Strawberries, rhubarb, raspber< Pf ) ries, and many “flowering and hedge shrubs such as sumae, dwarf spirea, Van Houtte spirea, Anthofy Waterer spires (pink), red barberry, pussy wile low, bittersweet, deutzia, weigela, privet, butterfly bush, red bud, ‘smoke tree, - snowball,

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