Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 August 1952 — Page 34

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Garden Gadding—

Lack of Rain Gives

Gladiolus

Growers

Plenty of Troubles

By MARGUERITE SMITH

Times Garden Editor

F YOUR gladiolus are in a sad state, be consoled. Growers of quantities of glads are having their trou-

bles, too. Paul specialist

week's show of introductions at

Ulman of reports at last seedlings and Purdue

SAVES

new aad Drought In and some parts of southern Indiana already has finished off corms that should have come onto the market next And the rest of Indiana

were Tennessee and

Kentucky

KpPring from here on to harvest time fs going to need regular rain if glad corms are to mature properly.

n ” » CHAMPIONSHIP spike at the Purdue show was the laven der seedling, Tyrone, introduced last fall and exhibited by Harry Deam. Runnerup in’ the champion ship class doesn't have a name

yet and still isn’t on the market. It's a glad of the Bu: ma type 3urma is the popular rose

red that opens its frilled florets pretty much at the same time This new glad was shown by an Hlinois grower, Glen Plerce

» » ” IF YOU WANT to know how to raise squash without plant Ing seeds, just ask Dr, and Mrs

A. B. Carlile, 330 W. 44th St, Their garden adjoins a neigh bar's, Both of them rajsed dif ferent kinds of squash last year

This year, volunteer plants in the Carlile garden have produced four varieties, patty-pans, crooknecks, acorns and zu chinis.

" u nw MRS. MARY CORWIN, 1330 8. High School Rd., thinks avocados aren't as tender plants as they're supposed to be. She stuck the seed of one into the ground outdoors last fall. This spring up popped an avocado plant. Too bad they take more ‘than one year to bear fruit

» ” ” ROBINSON, Times managing editor, has turned bird man One of his dally chores lately, "as regular as emptying the garbage” Is emptving the Robinson fireplace of birds that fal into fit daily. Seems a family of birds, probably chimney swifts, liked the Robinson chimney, S8eems also, their nest must be bottomless, For every day baby birds fall, get emptied onto the lawn, and somehow mysteriously get back to fall again. The Robinsons will be relieved when they get the family raised. CE at HERE'S a thought for next winter. Mable Horine of Greentown, who has plenty of African violet plants and makes them bloom, says she notices they don't hold their flowers well in summer when temperatures soar. Could be they dislike indoor heat in winter just as much.

DON

conservation,

who's also a glad

Junior Gardeners—

Plant Grows On a Plate

Junior gardeners, have you ever raised the mysterious fall crocus” It's called colchicum (kol-ki-kum the on the first syllable), This fall crocus grows from a bulb. And it's one of the most interesting bulbs you'll ever find.

with accent

For you can “plant” it on a plate with never a bit of dirt

or water, And it will be only a short time before you'll have flowers on it The flowers look like the

apring crocus, cup shaped with # long throat. They're lavender

too, like many of the spring Crocusses nu ld ~ YOU can plant them out doors in the ground If you'd rather. They will blossom ‘quick

ly outdoors as well as in. Those that vou play with indoors can

be set out after the flowers have all finished opening. Then they will live over winter for many Years

These bulbs have another odd habit, They produce no leaves in the fall, just flowers. Then in the spring they send up big green leaves. These leaves die away in late spring. But come fall again and up pop the pretty lavender flowers once more,

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Some Tips On Gardening

If you are a planter of flowers and puller of weeds, you should know the beauty secrets of how to be a gardener with out showing i. ~; Protective clothing is of pri-, mary importance. Whether you like to do your digging in dress, shorts, pedal pushers, or overalls, be sure they're the sturdy sort of washables that can go into the machine as soon as you complete your daily digging and spading. And don't forget to wear a large garden hat to shield your hair and head from the direct rays of the sun, Such a hat will also help to protect your eyes and skin, yuard your hands both before and after gardening. Scrape your nalls over a bit of soap before starting to work, to keep dirt from caking under them. Always wear gloves.

Put Landscaping to Use

RESENT day landscaping follows the trend of the

times.

It aims at beauty through usefulness.

If you are doing some landscaping this fall, ask

yourself these questions: ONE What do we want most in our yard? It might be ease of maintenance. It might be play space fo ra growing family. Or privacy for picnics, an outdoor living room, entertaining. Or a spot for rest and even sunbathing, with some outdoor furniture, It might be a rose bed, a flower garden, or in this vear of high prices, a vegetable plot, TWO What changes are we likely to want in a few years time”? To eliminate play areas recreation spots for a To do away

for

grown-up family?

with the wetable garden if prices descend? To eliminate fiower horders for the flower specialty that absorbs more and more of vour interest? After vou've answered these questions vou'll find vour planning is. simplified

Cut Gladiolus Now To Outwit Thrips

Gladiolus thrips dine on gladiolus leaves” and flowers during the growing season. But

when the they hike for the underground corms Hence, wise glad growers out wit the thrips beast hy and disposing of Mr, and Mrs. Thrips get packed for their winter It’s an easy control measure

eason is over

cutting

tops before

residence

Followed up by use of DDT dust on corms during storage it gives considerable control for this common and. tragic

gladiolus problem,

Flower Show Meeting Flower show plans will he discussed at a meeting of the Garfield Garden Club Tuesday in Prospect Libary. Hostesses will be Mrs. Joseph Leppert and Mrs. Catherine Maisen

DDT or Lindane For Leaf Hoppers

Asters should be kept dusted with DDT or lindane to prevent leaf hoppers from infecting them with the aster yellows. This disease sometimes attacks carrots. Leaf hoppers are juice drinkers, which also attack beans and potatoes, and are difficult

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Limes pnoLo by Jean

who plans a yard with an outdoor play spot can garner many an extra memory of summer. Here in the attractively planned and gar-

Aoned ward nf the John Price home at 6233 Riverview Dr., neighbors enjoy flowers, friendliness and shade. In the usual order, they are |

Mrs. Russell Campbell, Jane Gilbert, their hostess, Mrs. John Price, who planned and cares for the flowers; Mrs. Edwin L. Kelly; Jane Campbell; Mrs. Walter Johnson, holding small Virginia Johnson, and Mrs. Wilbur Dammeyer.

Weeds from Woodland Walk Make Pretty Bouquet

OU may be vacationing at a woodland camp miles from a flower garden. Or you may -be spending the rest of. summer right in your own comfortable home. i In either case, this is a perfect time to practice flower

arrangement. For so-called weeds are free for the picking. Yet what cultivated flower has

At home, even busy mothers find rest and relaxation in the

beauty along every woodland walk and in every field. Trees, shrubs and flowers all offer | materials, some living, some | for drying. But free for the seeing and using. At camp, tables and social rooms take on new attraction when they're decked with artistic arrangements of golden black-eyed Susans, pale lavender wild phlox or the deep royal purple of ironweed.

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HEO Club members will hold luncheon ‘Wednesday with Mrs. .. Louis Sielaff, 1514 W. 23d St.

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SUMMER REVERIE—As August wanes every outdoor minute is sunshine stored up against next winter's indoor days. The gardener 8

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Your Yard This Week— Fossils Are

Start New

Geraniums -

ERANIUMS can be cut back now if you want to shape them into stocky

plants to carry over win-

ter. If you haven't yet slipped new plants do so now. » w ~ HYDRANGEAS can be started from cuttings taken now. Thinning French hydrangeas now will keep plants shapely, produce larger flowers next season. RYE for green manure can be sowed now between rows of matured sweet corn, other crops soon to be finished. This rye will be sizeable enough to turn under in late fall if you want to do some fall spading. u » ”

BLUE GRASS, too, suffers from foliage diseases. In most cases it will green up again of its own accord. In extreme cases, re-seeding of browned-off spots may be necessary.

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EONIES, fossils and winter plants are features of this week's garden and

nature programs. Details of meetings follow. TUESDAY Hemerocallis Society—7:30-p. mM... Mr. and Mrs. Paul H. Brown, 5145 N. Michigan Road, hosts, Installation of officers. WEDNESDAY Come-Into-the-Garden (Moores ville) — 12:30 p. m. Pitch-in dinner at Kenworthy's cabin, Mrs. R. C. Kenworthy, hoste ess. FRIDAY Spade and Trowel — Holliday House. Flower show for mems bers only. Mrs. Allan H. Warne will speak on “Home Forcing of Spring Flowering Bulbs.” NEXT SUNDAY Nature Study—8:30 a. m. Meet at War Memorial for car trip to Abington (south of Richmond) for fossil hunt, Trip leader, Jesse Harvey.

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Need a new lawn? Or an old one touched up? Let Stonybrook Nursery build you a lawn that will grow thriftily If you've got some shady spots wasn't good this year, let Stonybrook do the necessary job of good ground preparation,” then start myrtle to cover it. Or you may get myrtle plants at the nursery. Stonybrook is3 introducing a new ground cover, too. See it at the nursery where it's already decked with its bright red berries. It is a ground hugging. glossy leaved evergreen, the partridge berry. Get ready now for fall bulb planting. Call or write for Stonybrook’s free fall bulb catalogue, beautifully illustrated in color. Stonybrook Nursery, Ind. 100, 3, mile east of ‘Ind. 37. BR. 0162. Open Sundays. * * = Now is the ideal time to choose shade trees,

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Drive out to Hillsdale Nursery and see them in nursery rows while leaves are still on. Hillsdale will tag the trees. Then at proper planting time after midOctober, Hillsdale will either plant the trees for you or you can pick up the trees if you prefer to do”the planting yourself. Hillsdale Nursery, 8000 north on Ind. 100 (Shadeland). BR. 5495. Visitors Welcome.

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For a pleasant surprise garden of poppies next summer plant Hoosier Gardener's hybrid Oriental poppies. are mixed colors from some specially good stock. Also at Hoosier Gardener's, the “magic bulb,” colchicum. Plant these now for big lavender

fowers in a few weeks. Needs

no soil or water, though they also grow well as border plants. Hoosier Gardener, 741 E. Broad Ripple Ave. (rear). BR. 9121.

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If you want flowers fast, get some of . Stark's crocus zonatus and hd og fc 4 colchicum. The lilac, vellow throated zonatus crocus and the. larger colchcum flowers ‘will bloom in a few short weeks from bulbs planted now? Also at Stark’s, new iris and hemerocallis, .potted roses, for planting now. Order evergreens now at Stark’s for fall planting. Stark's, 511 S. Tibbs, BE. 1351. City Delivery.

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If you like fragrant gleaming white flowers and want something easy to raise, order Madonna lily bulbs now from Wayside Floral Gardens. These are the superior Madonna bulbs raised in northern French lily fields. Plant them as companions to your delphiniums. Their only requirement is good drainage. They will grow and bloom with almost no care year after year. Wayside's peonies, iris and Oriental poppies will soon be ready. Order

now at Wayside, 7301 Pendleton Pike. CH. 2222. * *

It's time now to start new lawns and patch up bare spots in established lawns with Bash’s grass seed. Kentucky blue grass, fescues, bent grass, and mixtures. Merion blue grass will be in soon. Bash's carry a complete line of lawn fertilizers. Winter onion sets are ready. Plant now for extra early green onions next spring.

Also colchicums and hardy amaryllis. Bash’s Seed Store, 141 N. Delaware. FR. 7338.

* * Only top-notch varieties of peo nies, iris and Oriental poppies are offered by New Augusta Nursery. These are varieties specially selected by H. J, Schnitzius, Plant these now for flowers next spring. New Aue gusta Nursery, 5000 W. 59th, CO. 2658. Open Sundays. “Hk * Shade trees are scarce. all over the country as well as locally. If you want to be sure of the trees you pre-

fer drive out to Eagle Creek Nursery, choose your trees, and have them

tagged now." If you are pare ticular about the exact fall cole oring your trees will have, Eagle Creek advises that you select them after leaf color changes. For Eagle Creek has found that individual trees tend to change to similar colors each season but that there may be considerable variation withe in the same variety. Eagle US B52, 11 miles north of Traders Point. CO. 2381. Open Sundays.

* * When you buy peonies, iris and Oriental poppies at Floyd Bass Nursery, you get stock raised right in the nursery. So plants are young, vigorous, correctly labelled. And now is the time to set them out for bloom next spring. Ask about beginnners' collections. Bass Nursery, West 62d, between US

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