Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 May 1952 — Page 38

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Tulips Interest City

| Sophisticates, Charm ‘Country Cousins

By MARGUERITE SMITH Times Garden Editor ®

putes interest the most sophisticated city dwellers, come May. From a long story in New Yorker maga-

gine, I picked up some odd tulip items.

Three billion

bulbs are raised in a section of+ The Netherlands two

Tulips, Park And Violets

In Spotlight ULIPS, African violets, and Garfield Park's plants will share the flower spotlight this week. Today's open house at Garfield Park conservatory (1 to 7 p. m.) will show off cityraised plant materials before they are moved to their permanent ‘summer residences in parks and around public buildings. Thursday and Friday will see Our Fair City's’ first African Violet show. It's staged by the Indianapolis African Violet Club in Ayres’ Auditorium, By week's end many local tulip fans will be in Holland, Mich, for the annual Tulip Festival, It begins on Wednesday and lasts through Sunday. MONDAY Arbutus Garden Club-—1:30 p. m. Mrs. W. W, Cothran, exons Tr Pv hostess. Mrs. Frank Welcher, Mrs, H. A, Weaver Jr. assisting. “Planning and Staging of June Flower Show” by Mrs. Robert Zaiser. Plant exchange. Fall Oreek Garden Club—1:15 RB m, Mrs. Charles W, Myers, aglebend Farm, hostess. “Wild Flowers and Birds,” Mrs. Myers. Blue Flower Garden Club— Mrs. R, W. Mitchell, 6440 Dean Road, hostess. Mrs. J. R. Reynolds, assisting. “Lilies ~New Kinds for Indiana Gardens,” Mrs. Robert Bracken, Mrs. George Kolb. Neophyte Garden Club—10 a. m. Mrs. W. H. Norman, 6416 Dean Rd., hostess. Flower Workshop. Plant Exchange. WEDNESDAY Indianapolis Rose Society — 8 p. m. 30 West Fall Creek Pkwy., N. Drive. “Techniques and Judging of Roses,” Mrs. Robert Mannfeld. “What's New in Roses.” “What to Do During the Coming oh » Rhea Garden Club—1:30 p. Mrs. Gerald Guess, 2740 Den. “histon Ave., hostess, Mrs, Ray Thorn will talk on flower

arrangement, and demonstrate.

. bulbs are edible,

Ponnayivanis «Bly.

hundred square miles on the North Sea. . . . In 1951, about one-sixth of these bulby were sold in this country. Retail value, $25,000,000, . . . Tulip taste “like sweet potatoes gone bad.” + «+ A bulb of an exciting new variety may sell for as much as a hundred dollars its first

year. » n »

WHILE WE'RE speaking of tulips, local displays at Holliday Park and Butler Botanical Garden are expected to be in good trim for today’s visitors. If you're driving north, Ak-

ron, Ind, is known as the “little Holland” of Indiana, and the International - Friendship Gardens in Michigan City goes in for a tulip display. ® wo»

IT'S ALWAYS nice to hear from other members of the Smith clan. Mrs, Chloris Bell, 3¢ 8. McKim 8t., wrote for a packet of marigold seeds (no more Zvailable now) and con~ cluded her letter: “If successful in raising these I will call it my “Smith Times Garden" for Tm one of the Smith girls, too. "

REAR RES go a de Secs

THIS WEEK I had a fan Jetter that was a real heart warmer, It came from a very young gentleman I'd met at a garden club meeting.) It was printed in sizeable print. (After all, he's only 7 years old.) His name is Joey Stillings, and he's going to raise marigolds this year. His sister, Rose Marie, aged 9, raised beans last year which she sold and canned. She did - all the work, spraying and picking. ‘Her parents, Mr. and Mrs, Joe Stillings, 3040 E. 4th St, Mars Hill, helped only with the heavy work of running the cultivator through the rows.

TRY THIS on your phlox. It came out at the Garden Writers meeting at Chicago this past week end. Yellowing leaves on phiox in late summer have been put down to various causes, both insect and disease. Now experiments indicate that if the plants have enough potash and phosphate in the soil the leaves will stay green. It seems likely that the “insects and disease moved in on potash starved leaves, (Organic gardeners will now say, “We told you so!”)

“show in Chiekgo. ==

. - THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Mrs. Roy Robertson with the new African violet varieties to be exhibited at the African Violet Show.

Violet Show

Two NEW African violets

to Bow

will make their bow to local

saintpaulia fans at the African violet show this week. Mrs. Ray Robertson, 7605 E. Washington St., displays the new, still small, plants of Pink Cheer and Grand

Award that she brought home from the recent nations) violas

Mrs. Robertson will have these in addition to her older exhibition size plants of other varieties, on display at the forthcoming local show. (De-

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tails of time and place in club

obertson is a charter ain of the Indianapolis African Violet Club. Violet enthusiasts who are nonmembers are encouraged to enter their plants, says Mrs. C. D. Monger, general chairman.

Krilium in Stores Here Soon

K RILIUM, thy name is confusion. At least locally. : Krilium is the new chemical’ soil conditioner about to burst upon the local market. It was introduced and publicized last year by Monsanto Chemical Co. for loosening hard soil, letting air and water penetrate more easily to plant roots. It will be available through local dealers about June 1st. But in the meantime Monsanto has sald it would fill mail orders, However, the company has assured its dealers these orders

will not be filled before the date when the dealers can-.distribute their supply. (So wise gardeners will save themselves mailing costs.) » » » FURTHER CONFUSION comes from the: another chemical company, American Cyanamid, is releasing the same chemical under their trade name, Soil Life, in a different form,. a different strength, at a different price. Both products will carry the chemical’'s name, poly-acrilo nitrite. But Soil Life may be used in water suspension. Krilium must be mixed with soil when it is prepared for planti Wise gardeners will save tragedy by using either product strictly according to directions.

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(CRAB GRASS seeds have (unfortunately) already had the high temper-

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to seed, you have won the major part of the battle, for crabgrass is an annual grass, That is, the plants appearing

Indianapolis’ admirers of the rose will have not one but two rose: shows to see on the first week end in June. The Indianapolis Rose Society

has scheduled its annual show for Sunday, June 8, at Holliday Park. Hillsdale Nursery's 12th annual Rose Festival will be a two-day affair, June 7 and 8, at Hillsdale Nursery,

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last year or earlier. » » . IRIS BORERS will soon be hatching, Then they'll pin-prick the leaves, enter and live there unharmed by sprays. Winter sanitation is one of the best preventives. But, if you keep

foliage lightly covered with |

DDT sprays or dusts now you can poison some of the pests at least. Chief damage from the iris borer comes latér in the season when he begins to work on the fat rhizome and bacterial rot sets in.

» » LILACS SOON through blooming, and that's the time to do necessary pruning, for they begin very soon to pre-package next season's flower buds. Later pruning simply removes blossoms. If a bush is | overgrown, cut out canes at | ground level, fertilize with bone | meal (preferably) or high phos- | phate chemical fertilizer. -Then mulch with rotted manure or other soil conditioning material that will add some plant food.

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tables can go into the ground safely by mid-May. “These include corn, lima beans, cucumbers, squash. Follow the latest wrinkle in corn planting and you'll save yourself work. Sow soybeans broadcast in the corn patch. Increases Yield from nitrogen fixation, Keeps weeds down. Enriches soil.

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The new wonder chemical for loosening hard soil (first publicized by Monsanto Chemical Co. under the trade name of Krilium) will be ready for delivery to Bash Seed Store customers about May 16th. Sold under the trade name Soil Life, this is 879 active chemical. It will be sold in % Ib. packages for $3. (One Ib. package, $5. Two lbs. $9.). One 1b. of Soil Life ($5 worth) will treat 100 8q. ft. to a depth of 2 inches. It can be used on established lawns in a water suspension. Soil Life is a product of American Cyanamid Co. About two weeks Jater (around June 1st), Bash’s will have Monsanto's product, the same chemical, but trade-named Krilium. Krilium will be 20% active chemfcal. A 5-1b. package will sell for $6.95. This amount will treat 40 sq. ft. to a depth of 6 inches. It must be mixed with the soil as it is prepared for planting. Bash's will take orders for either of these types of soil conditioning chemical. Delivery on or about the above mentioned dates. Also at Bash’s a complete line of flower and vegetable plants, seeds, pesticides, all garden needs. Bash’s Seed Store, 141 N, Delaware. RI 3733. FR. 7338.

* * They'll he doing business in the same spot next year. Just as they did last year and the year before.. That's your assurance when you deal with a member of the Indianapolis Landscape Association. Whether you want nursery stock from tiny rock plants up to big shade trees, lawn building or maintenance, you'l find a member of the Indianapolis Landscape Association who can serve you. Other members do rock work. Some spray and trim shrubs and trees. A few do landscape degign. Whatever garden service you need, deal with a member of the Indianapolis Landscape Association and @eal with confidence,

Sige ™ oe HOUSE OF FLOWERS

You can pick up your last minute Mpther's Day flowers at House of Flowers up to 2 p. m. today. Corsages, new and up-to-the minute planters and flower combinations. Geraniums, fuchsias, hydrangeas, begonias. Also pansies, vegetable and flower flat plants. House of Flowers, 5801 W. Washington. BE. 2459.

* * Geraniums at only 30¢ are Stonybrook Nursery's special this week. An exciting array of pansies in' pastels and rich dark colors only 75¢ a dozen. Also violas (easy, long-bloom-ing),” red clematis, silver lace vine, flower and vegetable plants by flat or dozen are ready in variety. Stocks, zinnias, asters, moss roses, petunias, ‘snaps, coxcomb, mari. golds, scarlet sage, tomatoes, cabbage, peppers (both. sweet and hot). Also the new dwarf scarlet sage, Ball of Fire. Drive out to- Stonybrook and see the wide variety of plants. Stonybrook Nursery, Ind. 100, mile east of Ind. 37. BR. 0162.

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nosis of plant ~food needs may make the difference between losing and saving the investment you have in your valuable shade trees. Midwestern Tree Experts find winter injury from improper soil condition on many trees. Pin oaks especially may need prompt treatment. Call H. N. (Mike) Engledow, Midwestern Tree Experts, CO. 2335. *

Start a wild flower garden In those shady spots, says Helen Miller. Now ready—ferns for sun or shade, wet or dry places. Also hepaticas in rich pinks and blues to plant under evergreens where they thrive. Helen Miller, Squaw Hill Wildfiower Garden, Fall Creek Rd. and 65th St. BR. 3116.

* * A garden gift for a gardening mother! will give her ever « remembered pleasure year after year if you make itdistinctive shrubs and trees from Eagle Creek Nursery. French hybrid lilacs (six colors), flowering peach or flowering plum (different varieties), a fragrant mock orange: wtih golden foliage, Even shade trees in small sizes set in pots. All of these and many other quality gift plants for your mother’s yard (or your own) are ready in Eagle Creek's salesyard. They're all potted, ready to carry home in your car, easy to set out.

No. Hoosler Gardener is taking orders for the new wonder chemical soil conditioner (mar= keted by MonsanAd to Chemical Co. as Krilium). The first available

lot of soil conditioner will be ready for mid-May. It is put on the market by American

Cyanamid Co. under the trade name Soil Life. Soil Life will be 87% active chemical. It can be used in water suspension on established lawns and will not hurt grass. It will sell in half pound packages- for $3. (One 1b. $5. Two lbs. $9). One-half pound will treat 100° sq. ft, penetrating to a depth of 3 inches. santo’'s product, trade-marked Krilium, will be available. Kriljum will be 20% active chems ical. Five ppunds will cost $6.95, Krilium must be mixed with soil as it is prepared for plant. ing. 5 lbs. will treat 40 sq. ft, to-a-depth.of. 8. inches, Hoosler Gardener Is taking orders now for both Soil Life and Krillum, Order now. Hoosier Gardener, 741 FE. Broad Ripple Ave, (rear). BR. 8121. Give your mother a garden treat for Mother's Day. At Wayside Floral Gardens she will find big bleeding heart plants, potted, ready to set out for immediate showy bleom. (These can be gift-wrapped, if you wish.) Big staked silver, lace vines, potted, growing, ready to climb. Clematis vines come in four colors, red, 'llae, purple and white. Or let Gladys Cooley fix up a combination pot of plants or get Mother's wine dow boxes ready.. Wayside has a good collection of geraniums, different sizes. Prices start as low as 35¢. A gardening mothe er will enjoy (and always remember) a Mother's Day gift of perennials, shrubs, or a flowering tree—all at Wayside Flor. al Gardens, 7301 Pendleton Pike, CH. 2232. .%

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Bron leaf mold. Top dress lawns, enrich flower and vegetable plots. Also at Consumers Feed Store, bedding plants, ferns for shady spots. Nitrogin inocula. tion for legume seed, hormone spray to set early tomatoes and fruits, Consumers Feed Store, 6108 Massachusetts Ave, CH. 2818. Open Sundays 9 to 3.

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June 7 and 8 are the dates. For Hillsdale’'s 12th annual Rose Festival. There will be plenty of fun and enter tainment along with the biggest flower show in this part of the country, You'll have a charice to see Hillsdale’s thousands of roses in bloom, see for yourself how the new prize winners compare with older varieties. You'll see White Swan, the new fragrant white hybrid tea. Chief Seattle, ruffied fragrant buff-apricot H, T. Happiness, the dark red de. veloped by the great French grower who gave us the Peace rose. All the free-blooming easy-to-raise Pinocchio family —lavender, red, white, yellow, as weil as -the-original-great and popular parent Pinocchio, See these and the hundreds of other varieties in bloom at Hillsdale’s big Rose Festival, June 7 and 8. Send for -Hillsdale’s free illustrated (in color) leaflet of Hillsdale roses. Hills. dale Nursery, 8000 north on Ind. 100 (Shadeland). BR. 54085, Mailing address—RR. 13, Box 185, Indianapolis. *

When you buy a husky perennial, field-grown, at New Augusta Nursery, you're getting with your less than half a dol. la¢ purchase the benefit of years of: experience with Hooe sier soil and climate. New Aue gusta Nursery takes pride in stocking fine varieties of hardy plants. Many of them are topnotch developments of easy-to. raise all-time favorites. Call

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Stark’s Moth. er's Day gifts include those giant flowering Jlaptia Wash. on geraniums, fuchsias, and combination pots of plants. Or let Mother ‘choose plants for her garden from Stark's big collection of flat plants.© Petunias, snaps, marigolds, alyssum, scarlet sage, 55 plants to a flat, $2 per flat or 50c a dozen. Also vegetable plants by flat or dozen, perennials, flowering shrubs, evergreens and trees trees. Stark's,

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