Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 September 1952 — Page 36
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BULB BLUEPRINT —To help you plan a bulb bed. Crocuses need no special bed. Scatter bulbs
under trees, beside walks. Narcissus will take light shade but need special attention to fertilizer . and water if they are to compete with tree roots. Hyacinths show off well in front of shrubs. Clustered in groups of three or five, they're more artistic than when planted in stiffly froigke lines.
Choice of tulips from early to late makes a long season of bloom. Deep planting (12 to
5 inches)
where drainage will permit, discourages breaking, means less work in resetting bulbs each year.
Soil Preparation Pays When Planting
Is your problem among these fall garden questions? Q—If spring flowering bulbs already have the flowers inside the bulb, can’t they be planted in poor soil and still bloom well? A—Yes, the first year, they will. But the flowers you get the second season and thereafter will depend on how well the bulbs grow after they've blossomed next spring. So take time to prepare the ground well before you plant and you'll be repaid by better flowers in following years. ” n »
Q-—What is the best fertilizer to use for bulbs? A—There's a bulb fertilizer on the market that’s ideal, It's a high phosphate, high potash type. that stimulates both
flowers and healthy bulbs.
RAGWEED—Foe of gardener and hay f
Bone meal is excellent for bulbs but is low in potash. You can supply extra potash by using wood ashes with
bone meal. If you already have a complete chemical fertilizer on hand and don’t want to spend money for a special type, then use it, but be sure to mix some humus into the soil with it. n n » Q—T1 want fo buy some spring flowering bulbs besides tulips and hyacinths and crocusses. What are the best of the small bulbs?
A—1 dote on grape hyacinths. They multiply, blossom and need never a bit of extra care. Chionodozas or Glory-of-the-Snow have delightful blue flowers with a white center. Scillas or squills also multiply and take no special care.
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photo by William A. Oates Jr.
the giant ragweed by its 3-toed leaves as shown in this silhouet view. The smaller ragweed has finer cut foliage, grows about two feet tall to the giant ragweed’s 5-7 feet. The seedstalks are similar.
Tips Are Given on Artifical
So YOU'D like to have a sunny window for winter - flowering plants? No
trouble at all. Here's how
to. manipulate artificial light and maybe fool geraniums and tuberous rooted begonias into blooming all winter. R. Milton Carleton in Horticulture Magazine reports results of artificial light in stimulating flower production. African violet fans have long
known they can coax winter bloom with artificial light. They usually use fluorescent lights. For this type can be
a LOOKING AHEAD—Violas are the small sturdy sisters of the much-loved pansy. Sow seed of both violas and pansies this month for bountiful spring bloom. Set seedlings out this fall in borders. Or winter them over in cold-frames. Or (if you space seed thinly) hold plants over in seed flats until spring, v
left on for long periods without producing the heaf of incandescent bulbs. And heat and light must be balanced properly for best results. Too much heat with too little light encourages apindly growth.
5 ” n CORNELL UNIVERSITY scientists found if they started extra lights on tuberous begonias, beginning in mid-August, they could keep the plants flowering gil winter. This is paid for, however, by effect on the bulb. For when flowers cease to form under natural outdoor conditions, root growth
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A comprehensive booklet on rosé care, published by AllAmerica Rose Selections, may be had by sending your name and address with a three cent stamp to All-America Rose Selections, Room 3007, 630 Fifth Ave., New York 20, N. Y.
Start From Seed
Grow some of your house plants from seed. By starting seed now in cold frame or seed bed; you can have a fine array of cheerful flowers indoors this winter,
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I like the blue ones best but they come also in pink and white. Winter aconite is a wonderful thing—if you can raise it. For ii blooms so very early and with such sunny golden flowers. Then I'm also very fond of the species tulips. These are often “sold as candystick tulips and other similar names. They bloom early and are so very different. Aritillaria is another very
different spring flower you
might like to try.
Your Yard This Week—
Keep Leaves
Off Grass
A UTUMN leaves must be kept off the grass. But don’t burn them. Wise gar-
deners know them for the best kind of soil loosener and
conditioner. Pile them on the garden to rot. Bury them. Or compost them with other garden rubble. But by all means save them. ” ” ”
MERION BLUEGRASS is proving itself a definitely superior lawn grass. But it is so
slow growing it's best used straight or in a high percentage mixture. In a too-thin mixture with other fast-growing grasses it may be crowded to its death. tJ » " SQUASH AND PUMPKINS should ripen as long as possible on the vine if you want highquality in the product. Then a two-week curing period in the sunshine will improve flavor,
‘reduce wateriness.
AS CHRYSANTHEMUMS show color, give them a drink
of fertilizer solution if you want larger blooms. = ” » BONE MEAL is a good
fertilizer to use in autumn. It is slow acting and won't induce
soft growth that is easily win- |
ter-killed. Use it now around flowering shrubs, fruit trees and perennials. By spring it's ready to boost flower and fruit production. » » 5
VALLEY LILIES can be divided now. Dividing at least every three years is advisable. They'll produce larger flowers. Use them as ground cover under shrubbery,
Lighting
increases, Use of extra light stops this extra root growth.
Poinsettias, it is now thought,
| into necklaces.
Garden Gadding—--,
Violet Show Dates Set Next Spring
ET THOSE young African violet plants to rrowing well. For the dates for next spring's annual violet show are set, It will be L 4-day event this year, May 13-16. At Ayres’ again. Mrs.
C. D. Monger is general chairman. Anyone may enter his
‘hoice saintpaulias. ” = " AFTER a trip to the northeastern corner of the state I can certainly see why the state garden clubbers are up in arms about indiscriminate weed killing along roadsides. Mile after mile we saw plants, shrubs and young trees, good and bad alike, brown and dead from
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The Book Nook— Here's a Helpful Gardening Book
“GARDENING THE SMALL
“PLACE” is a likeable book as
over enthusiastic “weed” kill- |
ing. “Birds that might have nested there to help with man’s eternal fight on harmful insects find no shelter in such barren spots. How long will it be before we find out that whenever we violently upset Nature's balance we pay too big a price for our achievement?
. ” 5 LJ A STILL UNNAMED dark red seedling gladiolus sounds like one we'll hear about in seasons to come. It was the champion at this year’s recent
show of new glad varieties in Purdue University. Interesting testimony to, its sturdiness is given by a report from Harley
Ball, secretary of Indiana's
—glad society. The spikes that won the championship were out two days before they were shown, trave
eled 160 miles by car to Lafa--|
yette the day of the show. And, the bottom florets were still in good condition. Some interesting sidelights on the recent state show in Wa-
bash as reported by Mr. Ball | include the size of the largest | floret, six inches, produced by
L. L. Stippich, Indianapolis. The longest flower head was 36 inches — on a white glad exhibited by an Ohio grower, 8. Cartmel Sr. The name of that prize winner of the new introductions show recurs in state show awards. So we'll probably be hearing more about the glad-
iolus Tyrone. It was the grand |
champion of this show, too. » ” 2 EVER SEE A rowan tree? Mrs. A. W. Edmonds, 710 E. 84th, was born in Scotland. And just recently she was delighted to recognize an old friend when our mountain ash trees bloomed. She recalls a lovely ballad that describes children sitting under the
well as helpful. It was written by Willaim H. Clark, for your years editor of Horticulture Magazine. Since that magazine is highly respected by those who know what's ‘what in the plant world, Mr. Clark’s advice should be good, although he gets off an occasional pronouncement that seems more personal than practical. But he packs quantities of useful information into small space and does it chiefly in a nice chatty fashion that's easy to take.
Where he condenses, he does it by means of tables. They're classified on basis of use such as his list of “careless shrubs” that “thrive despite neglect.” His general advice to the suburban gardener to take things easy, not tackle too much at once, plan before you plant all make the book decidedly common sense as well as good for reference. Little, Brown publishes it. It's $3.
Garden Events— Meetings Announced
Weeds and insects get the limelight in some o is week's club meetings. Details are as follows. WEDNESDAY Emerson Grove.— Noon. Mrs. William Ratliff, 1505 Roach St., hostess. Program in charge of Mrs, Carl Carlsted. FRIDAY Spade and Trowel—1 p. m. Mrs, Theo. Allebrandi, Carmel, hostess. Program on weed identification in charge +of Mrs. Damien J. Lyman. Each member to bring a weed acompanied by an original jingle. SUNDAY Nature Study—6 p. m. Mr, and Mrs. Ralph Bidgood, 1065 Riverby T.ane, hosts. Study of garden insects with Miss Joanna Guss, leader.
Time to Reset Divide and reset perennials now such as gaillardia, shasta daisies, pyrethrum, veronica, delphinium and -coreopsis.
SUNDAY, SEPT. 21, 1952
Mulches Are Best! In Warm Soil
Mulches should not be used on poorly drained garden soil.
Do not apply them until the |
ground is warm, and water well before mulching. Mulches are most effective
during hot weather when they check evaporation of soil moisture and keep soil temperatures as much as 10 degrees cooler,
Cut Roses Carefully
It is wise to cut roses with
stems as long as possible for in- |
door decoration, but the gardener should make sure that at least two leaf buds are left on | the cut stem to develop into fu- | ture blooms. |
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Fertilize Lightly
Before planting bulbs—tuylips, |
narcissus, hyacinths, daffodils and lilies—work in a light application of chemical fertilizer, When planting, remember to set each type of bulb at its preferred depth. Bulb . planting charts are available at most garden supply stores.
Cultivate Strawberries The strawberry patch should
be given another cultivation |
during September. Purdue University horticulturists point out that surplus plants are the same as weeds and should be removed. One plant every 8x8 inches is sufficient.
often fail to bloom because they |
get put lamp. Instead of light being good for these short-day bloomers, it keeps tops but no flowers. poinsettia fans now stash their plants away in a dark closet
them growing | So wise |
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every day to give them the long |
night of 13 to 14 hours of darkness they need for flower production. ” ¥ ~ CHRYSENTHEMUMS are another short-day plant. Florists have learned they can induce flower formation at any season of the year by giving the plants extra. light until they want bloom. Withholding light then induces bud growth. Amateur growers use the same
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Hoosier Gardener's Glorious Red Emperor tulips— biggest flowers of all tulips. Hoosier Gardener has an unusually good stock of the other early-flowering 10 w - growing species tulips. Use them for borders, edging walks, grouped in front of evergreens. Eichleri is orange-scarlet, much like Red Emperor, not quite so large. Kaufmanniana, pink and white, comes up year after year with no extra care. Clusiana is the “lady tulip,” white, dark blue base, crimson outer petals, good for cutting. Marjoletti is a very pale yallow edged with rosy red and Praestans Fusilier is the much wanted multi-flowering tulip with several red flowers on each stem. Hoosier Gardener has” nearly forty varieties of other tulips, too. Hoosier Gar-
dener, 741 E. Bread Ripple Ave. (rear). BR-9121. * *
Silver maples are native Indiana trees. That means, says William Cooley of Wayside Gardens, that they'll grow well without a lot of fussy And Wayside has silver maples at prites from $2.85 to
| $7.50. They grow fast, Their | leaves are lacily cut. When even | a gentle breeze blows, the sil-
vered underside turns the tree into a thing of beauty. . . . Other quick-growing shade trees at Wayside include sycamores and Chinese elms. Then there are some bargains in landscape materials at Wayside, too. Here's why. Wayside raises their own evergreens. They've got around 35,000 young ones that must go into the fields by next spring. To make room, Wayside must move out from that space the shade trees, shrubs, and bigger evergreens now there,” » Drive out to Wayside and look over
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CH. 2222. * Whether you're a new or longtime home-owner you find that peonies are a basic plant for your flower garden. Useful in landscaping, too. At Bass Nursery you get the choicest of plants direct from the grower, These are field-grown clumps of a size to bloom next spring. Order peonies from the grower. Floyd Bass Nursery, West 62nd between US .52 and Michigan Rd. CO. 2349, *
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portant of all, you find business transactions are conducted with absolute honesty and fair dealing. “Call James Maschmeyer of Maschmeyer Nursery for artistic and individual landscape design. Maschmeyer Nursery, 244 W. Troy. GA. 4668. * x x3 Dutch bulbs are ready at Stark's this week, Use Stark’s tulips, hyacinths, and narcissus in your landscaping. At Stark's, too, you can choose evergreens, flowering shrubs, shade trees and potted roses from a good collection. Plant these now and have your yard ready for, next spring. Stark's, 511 8. bs. BE. 1351. : J ‘
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Brilliant yellow sandstone has been reduced in price at Stonybrook Nursery this week. With a more plentiful supply Stonybrook is giving customers the reduced price of $1 a hundred pounds. Stonybrook also has limestone and Brown Counfy stone. Buy it by the piece or by the ton. Or Stonybrook will build your patio, rock garden, or terrace if you wish. Write or call for Stonybrook’s free list of imported Holland bulbs, beautifully illustrated in natural color, ‘Order your bulbs right from your own easy chair. Also at' Stonybrook all landscape materials, shrubs, shade trees, evergreens, perennials. Stonybrook Nursery, Ind. 100, 3; mile east of Ind. 37. BR. 0162.
* . % Those who have bought Dutch bulbs from New Augusta Nursery really big flowers and healthy bulb growth. That’s probably why customers come back year
after year. New Augusta's Hol- -
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CO. 2638. 5000 W. 59th. * * Hillsdale's sale of potted roses
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* * At Bash's Seed Store you'll find those handy bulb setting gadgets for planting bulbs easily and quickly. Also some out-of-ordinary Holland bulbs, such as fritillarias. And of course a complete line of the customary Holland tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, and small bulbs. Bash’s have lawn seed in straight .varieties and in mixtures, lawn fertilizers, bulb fertilizer, Madonna lily bulbs and those magic colchicums, Bash’s Seed Store, 141 N. Dela~ ware. FR. 73338. *
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