Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 May 1952 — Page 28
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GERANIUMS GALORE Fro Schubert amid 12,000 red blooms. You're Invited to Garfield Greenhouse
By MARGUERITE SMITH Times Garden Editor OFEN house at Garfield Park green-
house next Sunday from 1 to 7 p. m. will give Indianapolis citizens a chance to
see the quantities of flowers raised there
for city flower beds, Thousands of plants will be in bloom. Twelve thousand geraniums alone plus quantities of
Hints Given On Plants
Vinca minor, periwinkle or myrtle is certainly the people's choice for a ground cover. And you can get complete covering in a short time of any spot you plant ft, if you follow these
superintendent, City Hall,
The Chinese knew all about it in the 16th Century. But it's new in the 20th Century. And that’s the use of fertilizer solutions to fast-boost plints, Ancient Chinese noticed water from muddy streams stimulated plant growth better than plain rain water, Nowadays carefully combined plant’ foods sup-
petunias, scarlet and blue sage, zinnias, coleus, butterfly bushes and other flowering and foliage plants will be on view. The display will also include 500 African violet plants. Beginning around mid-May, Frank Schubert,
raised materials into parks and boulevards, to Taggart Memorial, Genéral Hospital, and the sunken gardens in Garfield. . This pre-planting greenhouse flower show fis cpen to the pyblic without charge.
‘Try Water Fertilizer on Plants
On Lilies J LIES get increasingly popular, as they de-
serve. They're easy to raise, mostly. Their chief
cultural needl is that they not
be planted in heavy, waterlogged soll. So it's a pleasure to receive the fourth annual yearbook of the comparatively new North American Lily Boclety for review, Bympathetic to thelr aims, 1 feel like a sour fault-finder to say 1 wish they’d take a leaf (or should it be a petal?) from the national rose society, For the lily yearbook sounds a little too like a series of Ph, D. theses.
NOTES FROM Japanese specialists and from other countries give the yearbook a definitely one-world flavor. F.
_E. Merritt of Lafayette contri-
butes one chapter of general interest, again on lillies from seed, The only members of the society listed from the Indianapolis area are Mrs. B. F. Orr, 5337 Kenwood Ave., Don Branigin, 5001 Rockville Rd, and Earl Holl, New Augusta, Gardeners interested in joining the lily society may call BE Imont 3227 for further information,
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: Yearbook Gives Facts
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Plant a pink trio in your shady yard (pink Dutchman’s breeches, pink bloodroot, rose-pink violets). Plenty of wild flowers will grow in shade, says Helen Miller. Ready now—mertensia, foam flower, the rare blue-eyed Mary and Miami mist, violets in many kinds and colors (Confederate, Canada bush, and the unique lobe-leaved violet among them). Helen Miller, Squawhill Wildflower Garden, 65th and Fall Creek Rd. BR. 3116.
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Mother's Day gifts from Stark’s might be Martha Washington eres geraniums, bleeding Beart plants, flowering dogwoods, or a tulip tree. Other gifts for Mother's garden (or your own) now ready at Stark’s are red bush honeysuckle (see delphiniums
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Shasta daisies, dark red painted daisies, gaillardia, rose lythrum, coral bells, golden yarrow, red bergamot, sweet williams, butterfly bushes. Choose from these and many other perennials, trees and shrubs at Stark’s, 511 S. Tibbs. BE. 1351.
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Drive out.-to Stonybrook Nursery and see the special prices on those plants you want, from rock garden specimens, flower and vegetable transplants, on up to shrubs and shade trees. Vegetable and flower plants by flat ($1.25 for 3 dozen) or by dozen lots (50c). Geraniums .only 35¢c. Rock plants include several interesting sedums. Use these .for hot dry spots around
{ the yard. Also creeping phlox, | soapwort (pink blooms in May),
rock cress, many others. Or build a hedge of flowers for privacy in your yard at reasonable cost from Stonybrook’s list of flowering shrubs. Waeigela, deutzia. French hybrid lilacs, Persian ° lilacs, mock orange, forsythia, and those wonderful new azaleas that do not need acid soil. Drive out to Stonybrook. Pick up all your vege~ table, flower and landscape plants and roses at one stop. Stesvprook Nursery, Ind. 100; 4 mile east of Ind. 37. BR. 0162.
* * For the shady spot in your yard, you'll find ;" hardy ferns, begonias, ' and pansies at Consumers Feed Store. .Other plants in the big collec-
Ji tion now ready at Consumers
Feed Store are flats of vegetable and flower plants (buy by dozen or flat). All the usual varieties and the hard-to-find such as eggplant, lantana. Also horseradish roots, .asparagus, two varieties of palms. Open 9 to 12 today, Drive out and see the big collection of garden needs at Consumers Feed Store, 6103 Massachusetts Ave. CH. 2818.
* * A fancy-leaved geranium from Edwards 56th St. Greenhouse will make an ideal Mother's Day gift. Or give her a prettily planted porch box. Also at 56th St. Greenhouses, vegetable and flower plants by flat or dozen— tomatoes, cabbage, broccoli, brussels sprouts, caulifiower, petunias, dwarf dahlias, marigolds, salvia, many others. Also potted tomato plants. Edwsrds 56th St. Greenhouses. Just east. of Keystone. IM, 5842.
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Maschmeyer’s Nursery is closed Sundays. If you believe in more Sunday business closing patronize Maschmeyer’'s Nursery six days a week, up to 5: :30 every week day. Roses, only $1 apiece for standard varieties ( patented kinds at slightly higher prices) are a special value at Masche meyer’'s Nursery, 244 W. Troy Ave. GA. 4668. *
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To see a large variety of fine landscape plants drive out to Eagle Creek Nursery's. salesyard. You'll find the finest of flow-
ering shrubs, ornamental trees, '
and evergreens (both needle and broad leaved). They're potted. Many come in small sizes easily handled, easily planted. Some are in bloom now. Note especially the flowering crabs. They come in 18 to 24 inch sizes. There's also pink and red weigela (dwarf and standard sizes), redbud, pink and white flowering dogwood, many others. Drive out to Eagle Creek Nursery today, Eagle Creek Nursery, US 52, 14 miles north. of Traders Point. CO. 2381. *
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Buy field-grown perennials and see the difference. At New Augusta Nursery you get the benefit of years of experience with Hoosier gardens. Now ready to move—fine clumps of the easy-to-raise belladonna and bellamosum delphiniums, a few creeping phlox, (blue only), many easy-to-raise perennials such as Shasta daisies, painted daisies, astilbe (four colors— these imported from Holland), coreopsis, columbine and many others. Talk over your problems with H. J. Schnitzius of New Augusta Nursery. There are
potted roses, a few mahonias,
and flowering almond in bloom) also at New Augusta Nursery, 5000 W. 59th. CO. 2658.
* * If you want some superior shrubs for your yard, look over the fine collection at Wayside Floral Gardens. You've read
. about these in catalogs. Now
you can get them locally, potted, with roots ready to take hold and grow at once. In Wayside’s collection there's hypericum Sungold. It will make a sunny mound of bloom in your yard throughout the summer. Fragrant pink daphne cneorum is just coming into bloom.. Two kerrias, one white, one yellow, blossoming June to September are only $1.25 each. The dwarf compact buttercup flowered potentilla Gold Drop, will blossom throughout the summer. See these and other out-of-the-ordie nary flowering shrubs at Waye side Floral Gardens, 7301 Pene dleton Pike. CH. 2222.
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Only a few short
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Twelfth Annual Rose Festival at Hillsdale Nursery. Roses at Hillsdale are now all pote ted. Send for
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price list and look it over before coming to the festival on June 7 and 8. Hillsdale’s big cole lection gives you the widest choice range in this part of the country. There are the outstanding new patented varieties such as the latest AARS award winners, Helen Traubel (pink--apricot) and Fred Howard (yele low), both hybrid teas. Hillsdale has the time-tested top ten such
as. Peace and Crimson Glory, .
There's a wide variety of the
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