Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 May 1952 — Page 36

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GARDENING HELP—Mrs. Harold J. Hayes helps set out some of the flowers she gave to the

center. Also assisting are two of the girls from the center.

Bois Helps Boys and Girls ‘Belong

By MARGUERITE SMITH Garden Editor

ECAUSE ‘somebody cares, boys and girls at the Marion County Juvenile Center are getting a chance at the world's most interesting hobby, gardening, ‘As with practically every constructive activity, it goes back to one person. J. Hayes is a long-time gardener. president (has been for two years) of the Auxiliary to the Juvenile Center.

Like any long-established garden, the Hayes’ at 5806 N. Oxford St. overflows with plants have multiplied so fast they've outgrown their original quarters.

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INSTEAD OF TOSSING them out to die, Mrs. Hayes takes shrubs, perennials and vines over to the big brick build stone. There the boys and them out under her and other supervisors’

Warren 8. Woodall, superintendent, believes 2 gardening. “It gives a child the feeling he's a

pen Saturday and Sunday

Mrs, Harold She's also

at 25th and Keyrls have helped set

_ part of the family when he has his own little

plot to work with. And he gets a sense of fulfillment from raising the vegetables he eats, for example.” The youngsters believe in it, too. When the garden supervisor wants help on the vegetable garden, more boys than he can use want to work in it, : > b> @

IF YOUR YARD, too, is overflowing, the center, at the moment, needs trees. The elms that grew on the grounds have died out at the rate of a dozen a year these last two seasons. If you don't have trees to donate, there's a small garden of hardy flowers that could use more, Roses could cover the fence if there were

enough climbers. And shrubbery is always useful when there's a big building to clothe with greenery, Mrs, Hayes plans to continue her interest in the center's garden project even though she goes out of office this month, Mrs, Fred L. Iske, 1724 Ellen Dr, is the incoming president of the auxiliary.

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' Garden Gadding—

AS A RESULT of garden gadding (in the rain, every minute of it) this

| week I was in on a really

inspiring yard contest. The competition for a “clean yard,” for example, meant just that. Trash picked up.. No: grass necessary. Just clean. And I met a most inspiring woman. She's right in there working for a cleaner; better city. The yards were in the area around School 23, 360 W. 13th

8st. The woman is Mrs. Rose Thompson, School 23's principal.

She and her teachers worked Saturday and Sunday screen- , ing the nearly 100 entries in the ' yard contest (some were for | “beautiful yard” and had flowers and fences and other goodlooking planting) so that we | judges had only 11 to do. The I other judges were Mrs. B, Lynn Adams, Mrs. Lillian Hall, Wes- | ley Stockinger, Robert P. Early | and Robert Shultz. Mrs. Clark, { the mayor's wife, trailed | ‘around through the drizzle with us, too. : In one case a 10-year-old boy | did the work of cleaning up and planting. The winners in this hard--fought contest (we had to make it a tie in one case, just could not decide between two of the

Gamble, 1221 “N, West St.; Orlender Miller, 519 W. 17th 8t., and Tim Graves, 541 W. 13th p (these were all in the “clean yards” division), “Beautiful yards” awards went to Donald Glaspie, 423 W, 15th St.; Ellen Hall, 419 W. 15th 8t.; John Whitehead, 1819 Highland, and Cora Moore, 522 W. 10th St. The school’s PTA gave a $5 prize to each winner. » 5 »

INDIANAPOLIS can be proud of the first African Violet Show put on by the not-so-very-old: Indianapolis African Violet Club. More than 350 entries broughtly nearly 3000 people to the show. And those who have seen the other shows said it surpassed Chicago's and Cincinnati’s efforts and matched those of the Boston society. » = » A BALD-CHEEKED bumblebee is something to get excited about, I just learned. That is, if you (or I) have a showy wild orchid, too, in our gardens. For they make a helpful pdir. Helen Miller, 1ocal wild flower expert, says she knows she has a bald-cheeked bumblebee hanging around somewhere. All because her showy wild orchid (pink, lavender; white lipped tiny edition of a cat_tleya) has made a seed stalk. For only a bumblebee with no cheek whiskers can properly pollinate the tiny flowers of the showy orchid. And Dr. Ray Friesner, dean of Butler as well as botany head, says he's watched a patch of these dainty flowers for around 25 years without finding a seed stalk. Obviously, no b.c.b. bee visits the deep woods where they

grow. -

» ” WHEN THE GARDEN EDITOR of House and . Garden dropped in on Indianapolis recently, it occurred to me that every garden editor ought to be as suitably named. Betty Blossom—and {it’s her real name, Miss Blossom was giving Park School gardens a looking over. We may be aee-

One of these days.

_ THE INDIAN APOLIS TIMES

prettiest yards) were Hervey SHOWY WILD ORCHID—

Garden Events—

"Clean Yard’ Conlest Brings Results

Times photo by Willlam A. Oates Jr.

Picture taken in Squaw Hill Garden.

Five Flower Shows Head Calendar List

IVE flower shows, all ope

n to the public free, fill much

of this week's garden calendar. Two of the shows are

today.

The Indiana Orchid Soctery* s annual orchid show is

in Holliday Park. TODAY

Indiana Orchid Society—Orchid Show in Holliday House, Holliday Park. Open to public from noon to 6 p.m, Indianapolis Iris and Hemerocallis Society—Second day of show, Open to public from 2 to 6. p. m. Central Library. Nature Study Club—2:30 p.m. Woollen’s Gardens, Memorial services. William A. Myers, J. 0. Cottingham and Miss Carrie Craig will speak. Misses Nellie Peake and Florence Newhouse in charge of program.

WEDNESDAY

Neophyte Garden Club—Flower Show at Holliday Park. Open to public from: 2:30 to 4:30 p.m, Rhea Garden Club — Flower Show at home of Mrs. Roland Derbyshire. Open to public, 3:30 to 8 p.m. Emerson Grove Garden Club— Flower Show at Riverside Methodist Church. Open to public from 2 to 4 p. m.

| Plan Dinner Meeting | A dinner meeting at 6:30 p. m, Tuesday in the Warren Hotel has been set by the Indianapolis PBX Operators I_Tops Club.

A trip out to Eagle Creek Nursery is as good sas visting a botanical garden! In Eagle Creek's big { salesyard you'll find | over 10,000 plants and trees—labeled. You can roam around and get acquainted with the different kinds at your leisure. You're welcome whether you buy or not. If you are buying plants to do your own planting you'll find evergreens in many varieties (all tops for Indiana landscaping). And they're in different sizes 80 you can choose the size to fit your budget. Eagle Creek's roses are unusually large. There is a wonderful collection of | flowering shrubs and trees. Many are potted so ypu can take them home, set.them out now and they'll never know the difference. Drive out to Eagle Creek this week. Eagle Creek Nursery, US 52, 11; miles north of Traders Point. CO. 2381.

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“Once in a while,” says H. J. Schnitzius of New Augusta Nursery, “a new iris comes along that is different and worth while. Then we add it to our stock.” If you visit Uew Augusta Nursery during the next couple of weeks you'll see a specially chosen collection— both German and Siberian. Of his recently added varieties, Mr. Schnitzius says, “Ola Kala is one of the best yellows I've ever seen. Blue Shimmer is a large plicata or stitched-edge iris. And Tiffany is another plicata, the stitching in brown. Another interesting iris ‘is the so-called black iris, Sable.” See these all at New. Augusta Nursery, 5000 W. 59th. CO. 2658.

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Get a head start on your

THE GARDEN FENCE

(Continued)

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vegetable . garden with head lettuce plants, celery, kohlrabi, celery cabbage (plants) from Consumers Feed Store. Also eggplant, five kinds of peppers, cauliflower, brussels sprouts,

ful ferns for shade. Ostrich fern grows over waist high, and the . easy-to-raise lady fern. Geraniums and all other materials for porch box and cemetery planting. Consumers Feed Store, 6103 Massachusetts Ave. CH. 2818. 9 To 3 Today.

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Enjoy a thrilling tropical flower show! Stop in at Edwards 56th St. Greenhouse: See the collection of cereus plants (nearly 40 varieties) in bloom. You're invited whether you buy or not. The cereus plants themselves are not for sale. Plants for porch box and cemetery baskets are ready in thé greenhouses, also perennials (field grown) in

variety. Edwards 356th St. Greenhouses, just east of Keystone. IM. 5842. - * *

Weather proof Memorial sprays are ready at Stark’s as well = rv md as a variety geranium, combination pots ready planted, all kinds of win- . dow box material, everything for Memorial Day. Cemetery vases are ready filled or you may bring vases and containers for planting or filling with cut flowers. Stark's have cut peonies in all colors. Also evergreens, - shrubs, roses, perennials, fiat plants, both flowers and vegetables. Stark’s, 511 S. Tibbs. BE. 1351.

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Use wild flowers like the triplet sedum in your shady yard, says Helen Miller. Triplet sedum (sedum ternatum) is our only

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native creeping sedum, Beautiful the year around. White flowers now. Easy-to-raise. See it and wild ginger (another good shady ground cover) at Helen Miller's Squaw Hill Wildflower Garden, Fall Creek Rd. (Mud Creek Rd.) and E. 65th St. BR. 3116.

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When you pay for landscaping, get yourself a bonus with it. How? Choose your landscaper wisely, advises the Indianapolis Landscape Association. Then | you get the benefit of years

| with Indiana's climate and soil. |" Deal with a member of the Indianapolis Landscape Associa- | tion for dependable results. Dif- | ferent members offer all wanted garden services—lawn'planting and maintenance, tree surgery and care, spraying, nursery stock of all kinds, rock work, and landscape. design. The Indianapolis Landscape Association. ; b>

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to wait for the Hillsdale Rose Festival (June 7 and 8) ,to get Hillsdale roses for your garden. And Hillsdale's carefully potted bushes are oft to a good start when you plant them. For they are set in soil that's right for roses.” That's just one reason they're tops for poor-soil yards.

Though that doesn’t mean you

can neglect them. Buy them by the dozen and you get a 5% discount. If you go to the nursery for them you get another 50, discount. Send now for Hillsdale's free price list (illustrated in color). And mark June 7 and 8 on your calendar for Hillsdale’s Twelfth Annual Rose Festival. It's a wonderful show of your favorite flower plus entertainment for all the family. Hillsdale Nursery, 8000 north on Ind. 100 (Shadeland). BR. 5495. Visitors Welcome,

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300 iris varieties are blooming in Clyde Bower's iris garden

« at 3305 W. Washington. Prices

start at 25c¢ per plant. They can be moved now with plenty of soil around roots. Stop in any evening up to 8 p. m. AT. 5288 evenings.

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So you need flowers for shade? Drive out to Wayside Floral Gardens and find the answer to your shade problems. There are many hardy ferns (true perenand not the biennial woods ferns), large sword ferns to make a beautiful bed. There's the unusual green and white leaved plaintain lily. (Alternate it with the better-known white Augyst flowering variety for an attractive north-of-house planting). If you want flowers for shade, Wayside has begonias in variety and impatiens sultana (impatience plant). And, of course myrtle and pachysandra (evergreen, white flowering). Shade problems are often soil problems, too, says William Cooley of Wayside. If shade is from trees, water and feed often. If shade is from 4 house, plants may need raised beds for better drainage. But you definitely can have fine plants in spite of shade. Drive out to Wayside and see for yourself. Wayside Floral Gardens, 7801 Pendleton Pike. CH. 2222.

' * * Hoosier Gardener's Le krilium 15.10! And. A Soil Life will be

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either of these for # loosening hard soil A= so plant roots can penetrate. For established lawns Hoosier Gardener's spike aerators help the chemical soil loosener down to root depth. Also at Hoosier Gardener's, all wanted plants for Memorial baskets, window boxes, terraces and borders. Hoosier Gardener, 741 E, Broad Ripple Ave. BR. 9121,

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Dahlias and cannas are a special at Stonybrook Nursery this week. And those big pink flowering hydrangeas are going at a closing-out price. Dahlia

roots are 25¢ and dwarf cannas.

only 15¢. A fine collection of vegetable plants is ready at Stenybrook, too. Tomatoes in variety (Yellow Ponderosa, Beefsteak, Rutgers, Baltimore), cabbage, brussels sprouts, sweet potatoes, true pimentoes, Hungarian and mango peppers, Also geraniums, Joseph's coat, sprengeri, and other Memorial and window box plants, Stonybrook Nursery, Ind. 100, ¥; mile

east of Ind. 37. BR. 0162. * * Peonies, Oriental

poppies and iris are beginning to bloom at Floyd Bass Nursery, Plan now for your fall planting. Drive out and enjoy seeing this unusual collection in bloom. Then order exactly the ones you want. Floyd Bass Nursery, W, 62d St. between US 52 and the Michigan Rd. CO. 2349,

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The giant flowering Martha Washington geraniums are just one of House of Flowers fine plants for window box, terrace or cemetery planting. House of Flowers has an unusual collec. tion of regular geraniums, flat plants (both flower and vege. table) raised in their own greenhouses, pansies for shade (window boxes or garden) and cut flowers including peonies, House of Flowers, 3801 Ww. Washington. BE. 2459,

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