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the Girl foliage plus the foliage plant of his own 
choosing in No. 10. 
THE FLOURISHED AND CURLICUED SIG- 
NATURE, long on artistry but short on legibility, 
is a part of the individualistic American Tradition 
of which we heartily approve. Even on your 
orders. What we want to know, without any fuss 
and foolishness, is where you live. We can al- 
ways check your home town by your bank, if you 
send a check, or by a ‘money-order, or by the post- 
mark on the envelope. But if you live in a large 
city and we can’t make out the street or number, 
we have to guess. With something as perishable 
as violets, this is particularly hazardous since a 
wrong street number slows down delivery by as 
much as three or four days. 
Last spring we found ourselves in an un- 
pleasant pickle when a gentleman sent an order ~ 
enclosing cash. We couldn’t make out anything 
put his name, and the postmark was hopelessly 
blurred. He hadn’t ordered before so we had no 
record of him in our files. We could do nothing 
put wait for him to write again, wanting to know 
where in thunder his plants were. Things like 
that make for bad feeling, you know. 
THE INCOMING MAIL is a lamb in wolf's 
clothing. We look at that stack on the desk and 
suddenly have an urge to go fishing. But when 
we get into the stack, there are so many friendly 
cards and letters, often containing problems of ab- 
sorbing interest, and, like as not, a fair share of 
chuckles, (not to mention a goodly amount of 
lettuce) that the afternoon is spent much more 
happily than it would have been by pulling in 
Black River cat fish. 
Speaking of chuckles, we blushed gently for 
the lady who misplaced her comma and wrote, “I 
am an African Violet, lover and would like to 
receive your newsletter and price list”. A custo- 
mer from Nashville, a propos of last month’s 
parenthetical remarks about manure tea, wrote that 
she was fresh out of manure tea balls and wonder- 
ed if we could supply them, or should she contact 
Arthur Godfrey? 

