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plants-all-about stage and enters the palm-grove one 

 where patches of shade are cast by larger leaves. 



Don't let anyone try to convince you, Tom, that 

 most young palms grow well in bright sunlight. They 

 need plenty of dense shade at the start off. 



The Bailey Palm Glade is taking form and although 

 the stonework looks now rather glaring, a year of 

 vines will make it look a century old. The front walls 

 of the Garden now are nearly hidden by a mass of 

 beautiful vines as luxuriant as they can be. 



You know there has been some criticism of the 

 fact that no signs were set up to mark the site of the 

 Fairchild Tropical Garden. Well, now there are 

 enough to stop any traffic and divert it. The signs are 

 large and well made and in lots of good style. They 

 would do honor even to the Arnold Arboretum. There 

 are four of them forming a complete stop to traffic. 

 And there is no suggestion whatever of their being 

 signs to catch suckers. I am much pleased with them 

 aside from a certain feeling of embarrassment at seeing 

 my family name played up so prominently. "Kellogg's 

 Sanitarium," "Kresge's Chain Stores," "Ford Cars," 

 etc., etc. You know how I feel. 



Of the human happenings on the porch too many 

 have occurred even to outline them. Danish Com- 

 mando jfliers from the Burma Road three weeks by 

 air from the fighting zone; Cabot Coville from his 

 month in Corregidor with MacArthur, and Quezon 

 and Sayre; callers from Cuba who describe a country 

 house there of a wealthy Cuban family where tivelve 

 dogs dine in the dinijig room with a family of ten, 



