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News Letter 

August, 1950 
NOTICE: Will the lady who ordered a Blue Girl 
Supreme, a Red Girl, and a Pink Girl, enclosing 
a $5.00 bill to cover, last June 16th please 
drop us a card and tell us where to send these 
plants? She didn’t sign her name, and the best 
we can make out the postmark is ‘“Miderstrug”, 
Pennsylvania. Post Office says there ain’t no 
sich. Will some of you kind souls who are in 
‘Robins please clip this and insert in letters 
Pennsylvania-bound? Thanks. 
Dear Friends: 
Many of you have written to ask what makes 
saintpaulia foliage curl down around the pot. The 
prevailing theory seems to be that if the plants 
are allowed to dry out so much that the foliage 
droops, it will stay that way even after the plant 
is watered because of the weight of the leaves. 
Sounds logical. Best way to prevent it, then, 
would be to keep the plant moist at all times— 
either by very careful watering, or by wick ar- 
rangements, or by growing the plants in clay pots 
set in damp sand. 
If you have a plant which is already curled 
down and you want to straighten it out, you 
‘might be able to work the same idea in re- 
verse: let it dry out, arrange a flat collar out 
of stiff cardboard, and water. You might have to 
leave the cardboard in place for a couple of weeks 
until the leaves are trained. Now this is specula- 
tion, y understand. I’ve never tried it. Personal- 
ly, I don’t particularly mind if the leaves droop. 
Kinda like ’em that way. 
If you haven’t heard of or thought about that 
damp sand idea, please let me recommend it. It cuts 
(Copyright, August, 1950, Russell Gray) 
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