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VOL. 4 NOVEMBER, 1953 NO. 7 
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Rhyme in Season 
The time has come for Christmas shopping 
For counter after counter hopping, 
To buy a gift for all your dear ones, 
The far away ones and the near ones. 
While ties have always made good giving, 
This year try something that is living. 
Though perfume always could enchant, 
Why not surprise them with a plant? 
A fountain pen fulfills a duty, 
But only plants will grow in beauty, 
To quote old Nick, whose taste is super, 
A gift that grows is super duper. 
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It’s Time For... 
Assembling last-minute winter color, 
planning spring beds, and becoming more 
familiar with our native ornamentals along 
with those imports which adapt themselves 
easily to our natural conditions. 
Already displaying their tiny pink and 
red rosettes in mass profusion are the hy- 
brid tea bushes, LEPTOSPERMUM Ruby 
Glow (double red}, Sparkler (double pink), 
Keatleyi (single pink), and others, ($1.25 
and $4) for hot sun, water and good drain- 
age, long-lasting cut or in the landscape. 
Good company for the tea bushes, lower 
than most and harmonious in color, is SAL- 
VIA LEUCANTHA, the Flowering Sage, 
now covered with chenille-like spires of 
rosy purple, a semi-woody perennial need- 
ing the shears after each successive bloom- 
ing; one gallon—85 cents. Slightly lower 
growing than the Flowering Sage, effec- 
tive in the same grouping, is the almost 
ever-blooming STATICE (Limonium) PE- 
REZII, the lavender-blue Everlasting, with 
reddish foliage especially in winter, one 
gallon—95 cents. Add to this a few REIN- 
WARDTIA INDICA—the two foot yellow 
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STEP INSIDE! 
No Union Trouble 
Although the subject of this column as 
a general rule is a plant for the garden, 
occasionally we will wish to bring to your 
attention some new plant of merit for in- 
door or conservatory culture. Such is the 
case with Philodendron Wendimbe, an ex- 
cellent hybrid created only two years ago 
by the union of P. Wendlandi and P. Imbe. 
Philodendrons are now on the market in 
wide variety in all shapes, sizes and leaf 
patterns, but Philodendron Wendimbe is 
wholly distinct from all others. 
First of all, this plant is not a climber 
but grows rather in the fashion of the 
"bird's nest'' fern. Leaves are large and 
leathery, clean and simple in form, about 
three times as long as broad and radiate 
upward and outward from a central ter- 
minal. The structural pattern comes from 
one parent, Philodendron Wendlandi; leaf 
shape and coloring, bright green above 
and reddish beneath, from the other par- 
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High Soon 
To dwell too much on thé past is one 
of the indications of age though not nec- 
essarily of senility. In any event, when | 
recall the gardens of the eighteen-nineties 
and the early years of this century, | real- 
ize what a change has come over the 
scene, and that, while our gardens contain 
many beautiful plants today, plants which 
were not yet introduced then, a number 
of old plant friends are now only memories 
of the dim and remote past. Bignonia 
venusta which the botanist will have us 
call Pyrostegia ignea (not nearly so melod- _ 
ious a name) in the days of long ago used 
to drape buildings and walls with its ropes 
of brilliant glowing flowers in the winter— 
now you may look a long time for it. On 
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