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Garden Gadding—

Hot, "Humid Weather Gives You a- Break With Tomato Plants

<7 0U don't like hot weather? Well, it"has its brighter side—for gardeners. For neither do the pests that

cause the much-dreaded late tomato blight. It seems when humid weather is hot enough the

ungus that causes this tomato lisease just curls up its toes. jo tomato plants this year can ye optimistic about living to a -ipe tomato age this season. This information comes from Jarlan Fulmer, our assistant ounty agent happily returned ‘0 his work here. In case you didn’t know, Uncle Sam has nad him up'in the pine forests »f “Wisconsin- and down in the cotton and peanut fields of°* Oklahoma for some time lately. - ” = WHEN A nurseryman takes 1 vacation what do you supose he dees? Why naturally, te visits nurseries. One local nurseryman just returned says ‘rom what he's seen the shortage of shade trees and shrubhery is going to get worse instead of better. Pfitzer junipers and all kinds of yews are especially scarce. That means, says e, that If the law of supply and demand keeps operating, nrices won’t get lower, they're more likely to soar. -And by spring there may not be much stock to be had at all. = » » A NICE BOOST for this weather-weary columnist came trom Mrs. E.C. Crossen, Stop 3 Rd., the other day. She called up just to say she'd tried out a suggestion she read in the column last summer and it worked so well she wanted to tell me. “It was an item about sowing seeds in late fall to germinate in spring,” she says. “But by the time I got ready to do it, I'd lost the clipping.” (Note— She has lots of company in this, so I'm told.) “Se,” she continues, “I went ahead and sowed seed anyway-—very late, probably October, so they'd be sure not to germinate in the fall. “I sowed delphinium, columbine, Canterbury bells and lupine seed in the cold frame. I left the cover off and laid branches over the seed bed to keep the pup off. Then in spring when the weather began to get warm I pulled the cover on. ‘And 1 wish you could.see the plants. Some of the delphiniums are In bloom already.” LR HERE'S A helpful hint from Margaret Romine (whose stationery bears the name of Romine Orchards. So it sounds like the voice of experience speaking). The advice is sure to get lost in my files if I try to save it until apple blossom time. So here it is. She writes

most widely distributed tree North America, according to the

that Bordeaux is their remedy for the fire blight that is so plentiful on apple trees right now. “Spray whin the tree is in full bloom. If the trees put out bloom slowly they may need two sprays. But if buds are well opened, one is enough. For

fire blight, use ohe pound cop-

per sulfate and three pounds lime to 50 gallons of water. Mix only enough for one spray at a time. It shouldn't stand for

even a half day.” = ” ® *

MRS. JOHN PRICE, 6233 Riverview Dr., may develop a new strain of flowering

tobacco. Among her plants, the usual white flowering sort, she has one that's producing pretty green flowers.

= o ” IT'S NO wonder Indianapolis is plastered with African violet plants. Here's how the epidemic spreads. Mrs. Frank Jenner in Irvington got interesteg all because her daughter went-to the African violet show, admired the plants, thought her mother “could use some entertainment.” “Now I just love them,” says Mrs. Jenner. And Mr. and Mrs. Fred Auch, 2815 E. 16th St. “are all steamed up” they say, about African violets ever since they saw the collection their friend, Mrs. Clara Shipman, has, While Mrs. Shipman who lives at 1926 N.

. Harding, got started when a

friend gave her a single plant.

Dry Borax Is Poison Ivy Killer

Dry borax will kill poison ivy. It can be used only where the poisonous weed is not mixed with other plants, It should be spread .over the soil beneath the ivy at the rate of 10 to 15 pounds per square rod, |the amount depending on acidity of soil. Alkaline soil takes the lesser amount.

Keep Out of Barden

Keep out of the garden when the leaves are wet with dew or

_-rain. Walking among the plants

may help to spread fungus disease,

Aspen Gets Around The American aspen is the

Encyclopedia Britannica.

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. hemerocallis,

PRIZE WINNER=—Mrs. William Mears raises these lilies from seed (left).

Her choice seed-bear-

ing plant (center). Mrs. Mears is proud of the Director's Trophy (right) she won at the Cleveland

By MARGUERITE SMITH imes Garden Editor

NDIANA has another national prize winner. It's Mrs. William Mears, who

lives near Anderson on Road 67. She took some of her regal type hybrid liles to the national liy show in Cleveland at the end of June and came home with five awards. One of them was the prized Director's Trophy for “best regal type” in the show. This in competition with English and Canadian as well as American growers. When I learned about this (in Anderson) I dropped by to see Mrs. Mears. Unluckily she was out of the city. So I talked to Mr. Mears. Around us, quantities of lilies were still filling the Mears yard with their delicate fragrance. And Mr. Mears, after remarking he'd “just remembered” to water tha African violets Mrs. Mears had left in his and their son’s care, told me how national prizes are won.

‘ » n . THE DIFFICULTIES involved would have stumped all but a determined exhibitor. (Mrs. Mears has exhibited and won in earlier national wilt

Garden Clubs— =

show.

notably in 1950 in Buffalo where she also won the Director's Trophy.) First, the date of the. show was changed at the Iast minute. The powers-that-be decided the original July 5 and 6 dates were too close to Independence Day. Lilies don’t bother to consider holidays. So they went calmly on getting ready to blossom in early July, But Mrs. Mears was a match for her slow blooming lilies. She potted them up, moved them into the Mears greenhouse and had the blooms in time for the show. » ” ” THEN CAME the Goble of how to move the delicate flowers from Anderson to Cleveland in the midst of a heat wave. This she solved with ice, deep cans full of it, te pack the plants. Of course, the ice melted but she simply re-iced when she was part way there. Another difficulty, says Mr. Mears, are those gorgeous golden stamens that make all kinds of trouble for florists when the sunny yellow dust gifts over the gleaming white petals, Florists get around it by snipping off the stamens. But no lily judge would be favorably affected by such a mutilated flower.

Speakers Will Be Featured

- As July wanes even garden clubs have fewer meetings. This “week's programs feature Details follow: TOMORROW NEOPHYTE—12:30 p. m. Mrs. W. Glenmore Clute, Carmel, hostess, Mrs. W. H. Norman will speak on tuberous begonjas, and Mrs. Robert Mannfeld will discuss heme-

rocallis. * rangements will be made hy --Mesdames- J.--C.—

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DeHority, | E. H. Brannen and Robert

Mannteld. Mrs. James Jobes will serve as judge.

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SPADE AND TROWEL—1 p. m:

Mrs. Déan Stubbs, Sheridan, hostess. Mrs. Theo Allebrandi will speak on hemerocallis.

. But never underestimate the

power of a gardener. Mrs, Mears simply wrapped the troublesome stamens in Kleenex for their trip to the show. » ” »

AND THAT'S all there is to"

winning trophies and ribbons in a national exhibit. Except,

winners in the first place.

That Mr. Mears couldn't tell !

me. For while he and the Mears

sons, Tom and James, are busy in the big greenhouse, Mrs. Mears hybridizes and raises her own lilies. She also has her own small greenhouse full of African violets, episcias (the “hanging violet”) and many other interesting plants. She finds time for such odd garden chores as laying the bricks for the path in her flower garden. And she manages to serve as president of the Anderson Garden Club, the oldest of

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Don’t Mow too Closely

UTTING blue grass too close is bad medicine. It favors growth of crabgrass." 1t weakens the grass plants °

when they need all their pep to resist heat.

Best practice

is to cut often with mower adjusted high.

s » » TOMATO PLANTS are often needed for late garden. To start your own quick-bearing plants, bend down branches of older plants, cover with dirt at a point Bbout 12° or 18 inches from growing tip. In a couple weeks, cut from the parent plant and set out.

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