
September, 1949 
Hello there!! 
The calendar says it’s fall, but 
the thermometer makes one wander. 
There will be more and more cool 
evenings from now on, however, to’ 
at least partly relieve the ‘daytime, 
heat. Before you go to bed at night, 
be sure to put down the windows in 
front of the violet collection. Wide 
variations -in:- temperature -will do 
terrible things to your flowers, such 
as streaking, mal-formation, and 
blasting of buds. We had a cool 
spell here the last of July that fixed 
us up good. Daytime heat in the greenhouse fre- 
quently reaches 100, and a cool night or two in 
the low 70’s gave us a funny-looking crop of plants 
there for csuilis, | 

SO YOURE JUST STARTING A.COLLEC- 
TION? Many, many would- -be customers hope- 
-s lessly/ lost. in-the maze of Vio- 
~~ let lists, ask “What: are the best 
.... varieties for a small collector to 
buy?” At the suggestion of one 
“such collector, will submit a 
.. list of ten plants which, be- 
cause of blooming ‘characteris- 
tics, color, and leaf type, are 
recommended as requisite var- 
ieties from which to build. 

= (1) Blue Boy. Now you “big” collectors just 
hush. Yes, I guess, you could say that Blue Boy 
is rather old hat. You can’t brag about how rare 
it is,—everyone who’s ever seen an African Violet — 
jas, more than likely, seen Blue Boy. But when 
the fancy varieties are sitting in the window like 
bumps on a log with nary a flower to be seen, 
Blue Boy is faithfully putting up bud after bud. 
As long as there are African Volets, Blue Boy will 
) be afavorite. — . 
(2) Blue Girl. If your pocket-book will per- 
mit, Old Lace may be substituted for this. Blue 
Girl is included, of course, because of it’s lovely 
leaf pattern, which is intensified in Lace. Both 
sree beret September, 1949 — Russell Gray 
x PAP AWAWL ELAS AEE AEA 

