Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 June 1952 — Page 32
Times photo by Dean Timmerman
FIRST ASSISTANT—Mark Wilkerson, 4, leaf sprays his father’s garden and has the moral Support
of brother, Roddy, 2.
Lupines No Problem, He Says
By MARGUERITE SMITH Editor
RANNY BONNETS are easy to raise. That's what John Wilkerson says. An English friend sent him the seed. ‘As any green-thumbed gardener knows, that friendly touch rhakes.it grow better.
In any case, Mr. Wilkerson’ 8 ‘Jupines, to give “him “thelr American name, make his neighbors For lupinés aren't too
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éome around to admire.
common around these. parts—yet, "trending to popularity as more and more gardeners find out how to. raise the gorgeous. tall-,
stalked flowers.
Here are a few pointers from Mr. Wilkerson’ 8
experience.
First, he’s got them on the east side of his
house at 6031 E. 25th. ¢ & 9H
HE TRIED west.
trouble,
But they were unhappy, and developed a rust. That's been their only They're practically immune to bugs,
on the west,
‘and binds
But they're he's found.
. BUT MR. WILKERSON who's a ‘big help and just as interested as his father, tried leaf fertilizer spray on the plants— once in early spring, twice since. Now, as the first flower stalks begin to make speed, new ones are coming up to continue the display.
says Mr. W. Whether it was hot afternoon sun or too-driving rains, he doesn’t know. But they didn't like it. He sowed the seed from which these plants grew a year ago in October. But he thinks spring sowing is advisable. first year,” he comments, . ‘the star-shaped foliage comes up early. That's one reason I like them. And the flowers are .so ‘many different colors—from White to pink, .red.
“They don’t do:much the “Then the next year
They don't like too rich ‘soll or ®o wet soil,
¢ & @ : and son Mark, 4,
. First assistant Mark not only feels responsible for the lupines, but also for young brother
Bonnets,
Roddy. Roddy at 2 can’t be expected to understand the ins and outs of the care of Granny
Show in Holliday Park Scheduled
A TWO-DAY flower show Saturday and next Sunday will be open to the public at Holliday Park. Flowers in the outdoor beds will be an extra attraction for visitors today as well as next
week end when Crooked Creek Garden Club's exhibit is on.
Details of this and of the week's meetings are as follows: TODAY
Nature Study—2:30 p. m. Members will meet at World War Memorial for trip to Hilgenburg Farm.
TOMORROW
Neophyte Garden Club — 12:30 p.m. Mrs. Paul Foote, 8393 S————
Drive Out and Look Around
. Illinois 8t., hostess. Mrs, x G. Clute will discuss delphinium. Rose arrangements by Mesdames E. J. Nugent, C. D. Badler and A. Robert Nelson. Mrs. Robert Mannfeld, judge.
WEDNESDAY Come Into the Garden Club—2 m. Mrs. K. E. Comer, hostess, Mrs, Eugene Hayes and Mrs. Dale Hagee, assisting. Hendricks County Garden Club will be guests. Program, “Roses” by John Harwood of Huntington. Rose arrangements by Mrs. Aaron Gibbs and Mrs. M. E. Jones,
SATURDAY Nature Study Club — 8 p. m
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Cropsey Auditorium. Prof. John E. Potzger of Butler will give an illustrated lecture on ‘“Bogs—Peat Archives of the Ages.” Crooked Creek Garden Club — Holliday House. First day of two-day flower show. Mrs. V. E. Bryant, general chairman. Show {is open to public from 4 p. m. to 6 p. m.
SUNDAY
Crooked Creek Garden Club — Holliday House: Second day of flower show, open to public from noon to 6 p. m.
Nature Study Club—8:30 a. m. Meet at World War Memorial for car trip to Montgomery County. Jesse Harvey, trip leader.
How to Use Fertilizer In Growing of Onions
“ Hoosier muck crop farmers who grow onions can save themselves some money on fertilizer and still grow big yields—if they have the right machinery. A Purdue University experiment extended over a sevenyear period showed that 750 pounds per acre of a 3-9-18 fertilizer (three pounds of nitrogen, nine of phosphorus and 18 of potash) applied in the row will produce equivalent yields to 1000 pounds of the
| same analysis of fertilizer ap-
plied broadcast. The band of fertilizer is placed two inches directly below the onion seed.
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known ‘as goose grass, silver
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Experimentally it has been controlled with mixtures of 2, 4-D and certain crab grass killers, but gardeners will still
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Bean beetles will soon be with us. Rotenone is still as good as anything to control them. Dust undersides of leaves. That's where beetles congregate. And rain can’t wash dust off so easily. #“ » un ’ Gladiolus grow fast in June. And thrips are their worst enemy, Even if you dusted corms. before planting, it's wise to dust foliage every 10 to 14 days with DDT dust. = s » Plant lice are to be found on just about everything this year. The nicotine sulfate preparations are the standard remedy. Be sure to use a spreader (soap or detergent). The newer chemical lindane seems to be more effective. But it’s still hard to get in small quantities. n o s Blue grass grows fast in summer heat when there's plenty of moisture. Mow it often and not too short. Then you can let clippings stay on the yard to - mulch the surface, decay and enrich soil. # #8 =» oo : Broad leaved endive (escarole), r
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ANYBODY WANT a mother-in-law’s tongue? A plant, that is. Mrs. Paul Van Hoosier has some. (Don't ask her where that name Hoosier came from. I did. She can’t trace its ancestry any more than the Hoosier state can.) In fact, she has quite a few extras at her home, 380 8S. Emerson Ave. She says she's Scotch about her plants, Can't bear to throw them away. But she'd share them. And hers have the happy faculty of blooming. Why they produce their white fragrant flower spikes for her and not for most other folks, she doesn’t know. But she does give them fresh soil usually once a year. Mrs. Van Hoosier has found an easy way to start new grape ivy plants, too. Just bury a cou- | ple inches of growing tip. Presto | a new plant. She uses regular
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medium. » » » ONE OF THE lovliest iris I've seen this spring was a Pink Sensation in the yard of the
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Chinese celery. cabbage, * and kale can still be seeded for . late fall’ and early winter crops,
bouquet material is scarce.
photo by Raymond Bright
FOR BOUQUETS—A fern-leaved plant that's. extremely useful in Mrs. Louis Coffey’s yard at 2656 Westbrook Ave. is her “tree fern.” The leaves are often green and useable in winter when
Its pretty flower heads appear the
second year on a long stalk. Left to itself, it seeds weedily. The first year, however, the plant is all “fern”—no flowers. Its growth habit resembles its probable relative, the delicate leafed Queen
Anne’ s lace.
Flower Show
Aids Listed Chairmen announced by Mrs. V. E. Bryant as her assistants
for Crooked Creek Garden Club's “Advent of Summer”
flower show include Mrs. Hu bert Lance, schedule; Mrs. Vera Soots, staging, and Mrs, E. F.. Jasper, classification. Others are Mrs. Merlin King, entries; Mrs. M. L. Ober, awards; Mrs. Frank Forry, property; Mrs. ning, conservation. .
Mrs: G. W. Utterback is hos-
pitality chairmap; Mrs. Ralph Minnick, clerk, and Mrs. Paul McDonald, junior chairman. The public is invited to view the exhibit at Holliday House
from 4 to 6 p.m. on Saturday | and from noon to 6 p. m. on |
Sunday.
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Rush Follows Rose Festival
In spite of oppressive heat, last Sunday's two rose shows drew good crowds. Interesting sidelights . . . At Hillsdale's Rose Festival, the red climbers Blaze and grafted Crimson King were the most popular roses. . . . Visitors swarmed into the nursery so early on the first morning of the festival, it seemed for a time they'd prevent workmen finishing last - minute chores. . +» The day after the festival brought out an unusually large crowd all day, possibly of those kept away by Sunday's heat. The week after a festival Hillsdale always has large crowds of visitors. And this year, the nursery saw to it that enough stock was on hand to leave a representative collection of roses for the summer months. Last year festival crowds simply wiped out a number of varieties which could not be renewed late in the season.
Wash Fabric Shades
Fabric lamp shades will last a lot longer if you wash them from time to time, Wipe parchment, heavy paper, or similar
shades with a soapy cloth, sponge rapidly, and allow to dry quickly. Keep cloth as dry as possible.
Leaf feeding is one of the new garden methods that's really effective. At -* Bash’'s you'll find
tilizers you can use
20 (analyzes 20-20-20) are all easily water soluble for spraying ‘onto the feliage of roses, trees, or -othér plants. Bash’s carry the newer chemicals for insect ‘control, too. Dimite (for red spider and other mites), Zerlate (for:vegetable and fruit diseases), many others. And you still have plenty of time
| to plant glad bulbs, and most
flower and vegetable seeds from Bash’s big collection. Bash’s Seed Store, 141 N. Delaware, PL. 3738, FR. 7888.
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Have you admired those gorgeous red-leaved maples in certain choice local yards? You can get them, the true Crimson King maple, at Stonybrook Nursery. They're potted and ready to”set out for only $6. These maples keep the rich color in their leaves. throughout'the season. Another popular item. at Stonybrook is the old-fashioned sweet shrub, Carolina allspice or calycanthus. It is a much-loved shrub because of its dark (reddish-brown) spice-scented flowers. Stonybrook also has a bush clematis now in bloom. See its white blossoms now at Stonybrook Nursery. Krilium and Soil Life also available at Stonybrook 3; mile east of Ind. 87. BR. 0162.
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Mrs. W. A, Edwards of Edwards 56th St. Greenhouses is
| in Florida where she is collect-
ing plants for winter window
| gardens and modern interiors.
In the meantime the green-
| houses are open 7 days a week,
as usual, also evenings for cusAnd the supply of flat-raised annuals gives you material for lateplanted flower beds. Edwards 56th St. Greenhouses. Just east. of Keystone. IM-5842.
x x Prevention is better than cure for tomato blights. At Consumers Feed Store you'll find a dust to begin using right now against tomato blight. Ask for du Pont’s blight dust. ‘Also at Consumer's Feed Store, seed of that favorite southern vegetable, black-eyed peas. Consumers Feed Store, 6103 Massachusetts Ave. CH-2818. .
* * If you need flowering plants for shade, the variegated hosta is a fine one, says H. J. Schnaitzius of New Augusta Nursery. The green and white leaves are attractive all summer and you'll have blue flower spikes, too. These are fine for the north side of the house. New Augusta Nursery has them tted and ready to set out. Other potted plants at New Augusta include two named varieties of clematis. President is dark blue. Ramona is pale blue. Also potted double baby's breath (hardy), a few lilies (auratum
and rubrum) and roses. New Augusta Nursery, 5000 W. 59th. | 00-2658. Open Sundays. *
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A hedge of rosy pink flowers in June! That's Anthony Waterer spirea, which
werd
You' 1 find at Stark's this week.
It blooms off and on the rest too. If you didn’t get your annuals seeded early you can still have a lovely flower” border. For Stark’s have youfig flat plants that will take hold and grow selection of petunias, snaps, asters, all wanted annuals, Stark's, 511 8. Tivba. BEL
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Starter Solution Helps. Plants
Use a starter solution around transplanted flowers and vege= tables. Make it up by mixing a heaping teaspoonful of fertilizer in a quart of water, Pour one or two cupfuls around the roots of tomatoes, peppers, cabbages, grace caulifiower, ¢ shasta daisies and other — planted perennials.
Waxing Tile Floors
On rubber floor coverings of rubber floor tile make sure that you use a water-base self-pol-ishing wax. The solvent in a wax that requires polishing may
affect the color and adhesion
of the rubber.
Hillsdale Nursery will be a show place ‘for roselovers all through the summer. Plan: to drive out” and ehjoy the gardens * any pleasant summer day or evening. No w-— with Hillsdale roses growing in gardens all over the city and state, Alex. Tuschinsky of Hillsdale will give regular advice in this column on how to keep your roses productive and disease free all summer. Water, for example is important to good roses. But don't overdo it, advises Mr. Tuschinsky. A thorough watering once a week should be enough. Give the roots a breathing spell in between times.They need air, too. But they can't get it when soil is continuously soggy with moisture. Instead, let water flow gently onto the sofl until it is wet as after a long gentle
rain. And to see the finest.
roses of today in one big dis-
play visit Hillsdale Nursery
where you're welcome to enjoy the flowers whether you buy of not. Hillsdale Nursery, 8000 N, on Ind. 100 (Shadeland). BR5405. Mail orders filled.
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For easy summer gardening use Hoosler Gardener’s mulching mamaterials. Keep weeds gown. Save precious soil
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for a' neat mulch under evergreens, around roses. Ground corncobs, to add plant food, condition soil, as the mulch decays. Also vermiculite for mulch or perennial seed beds. Hoosier Gardener stocks all garden negds. Hoosier Gare
dener. 741 E. Broad Ripple Ave:
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You can still raise plenty of annual flowers before frost, says William Cooley of Wayside Floral Gardens. For Wayside prepares annuals for late planting. Wayside keeps young, quick growing annuals coming along in flats by seeding over a long period in spring. It used to be the late gardener had to take woody overgrown flat plants if he didn't get them before Decoration Day. Wayside’s young plants, set now, will grow fast with warm soil and warm nights to catch up with earlier-set annuals. You'll find a good collection of petunias, snaps, asters, moss roses, and plenty of other annuals at Wayside Floral Gardens, 7301 Pendleton Pike. CH-2222.
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* * Get full value for your landscaping
dollars. Don’t waste on plants that may or may not grow. That may or may not look well in your yard. At Eagle Creek Nursery you find , superior landscape plants and old-time favorites. With them you get years of practical experience “and the scientific - training of Eagle Creek's personnel. Eagle Creek Nursery also led the way in
‘potting trees and shrubs so they
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