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THE YELLOW 

Laura D. Cole, Grannis, Arkansas, 
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Owner and Editor. 

Our winter is only a few days a- 
head. So far our coldest this season, 
has been 11 below freezing, but 
from now until mid-February, any 
kind of weather is normal, actuai 
zero averaging about once every five 
vears. 
Your copy of the Yellow Sheets 
will be late this issue because my 
typewriter went bad on me. None for 
rent. I lost a month trying to find a 
repairman and finally had to send 
the machine to Oklahoma City and 
had to wait my turn. But they did a 
good job when they did get around 
to it. Seems to me like repairing 
typewriters offers an opportunity 
for a home business, for a business’ 
trained housewife. 
*k K K 
100 Iris, many’ varieties, $1.25 
postpaid. 
Partridgeberry (Mirhella repens) 
hardy everreeg, ground cover. — 
Needs acid soil; deep shade in the 
South, berries edible, ideal or tera- 
- niumis. 
RED TRADESCANTIA, so called 
from cold: weather coloring of the 
leaves. Color of blossoms seems to 
depend upon the nature of the soil 
and amount of the sun. One of the 
spider worts. Hardy perenial. 
GREEN BRIAR, vine stickery; 
berries black; nodules on roots grow 
quite large and are’ used to make 
pipes. 


mended 
CHRISTMAS and: EBONY Spleen- 
wort Ferns, nearly evergreen with 
US. Other varieties either dormant 
now or soon will be. 
Hemerocallis Kwanso — 5c. 
Sempervivum tectorum. 
HARDY ROCK GARDEN PLANTS 
HARDY SEDUMS. All Sedums I 
call hardy can survive 15 below 
zero without protection. Some of 
them are hardy in the sub-Arctic. 
Most are fine for rock garden plants. 
Last year my Sempervivums made 
almost no increase. This year most 
are “hatching” chicks, and when my . 
backlog of orders left from last year 
are filled, I hope a have a number of 
varieties of hardy Semps_ to offer. 
This is a rock garden plant par ex- 
cellence. Most of the dwarf plants 
listed under other heads, and many 
of the wildlings are also good for 
rock gardens. 
I have a few plants of alum root 
to spare. This is a fine rock garden 
plant and also good as a pot plant. 
10e each. | 
Any of the above plants, 5c each 
unless otherwise noted. 
HARDY CACTI — 10c EACH 
OPUNTIA VULGARE (Common 
Prickly Pear) hardy, flower creamy 
yellow, fruit edible. Can be used as 
pot plant. Thrives well in poor soil. 
OPUNTIA ROBUSTA. Much taller 
plant and bigger pads. Stately lawn 
decoration. 
OPUNTIA VASEII, native’ to 
Colorado deserts. Much thicker pads. 
Does well in pots. 
OPUNTIA ERINACEA (Grizzly 
Bear) plenty stickery, hardy. 
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