Rhyme in Season 
The ladies’ joy in days of yore 
(And to this very day we think) 
Was wearing orchids by the score: 
Then came the mink. — 
Alas! this furry little pet 
Is not for sale in our gardens. 
So if we chased you out of bed 
We ask a thousand “pardons! 
But lend an ear you married guys, 
You bachelors and sons of mothers, 
We have for you some orchid buys 
To make the girls forsake all others! 
So buy a plant—then play it smart 
And when you take her out to dine, 
Snip off a flower for your sweetheart 
She'll always be your Valentine! 
Clem 
It’s Time For... 
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(from I5 cents, bare root), three kinds of PRIM- 
ROSES ($3.85 a dozen), ORIENTAL MAGNOLIAS 
(from $6), BEGONIAS and ENGLISH DAISIES 
($3.60 per 100, 50 cents a dozen), as well as all 
the spring-tlowering shrubs, CHOISYA, BRIDAL 
WREATH, PHILADELPHUS, BREATH OF HEAV- 
EN, and so on, ($1.25 to $4). SPARMANNIA 
AFRICANA, small tree, large shrub with great 
tropical leaves and white flowers now, is $5. 
If you're a PINK fan we suggest you consider 
DIANTHUS PRINCESS (75 cents, one gallon), 
ECHIUM WILDPRETTI (85 cents), tall, (two feet), 
ARMERIA (85 cents, one gallon) and new RAPHIO- 
LEPIS INDICA RUBRA grafts (one gallon, $3). 
And don't forget that though this is the end 
of the bare root ROSE season, we still have a good 
many of certain varieties little talked about but 
still among the best — Angel's Mateu (salmon, 
$1.25), Mrs. E. P. Thom (a top yellow, $1.25), Etoile 
de Hollande (one of the best deep crimson, $1.25), 
Grand Duchess Charlotte (brilliant coral red, $1.75), 
and Floradora (tomato red floribunda, tall, $1.35). 
February is also a fine time for choosing CYM- 
BIDIUMS in bloom, and an all-season hanging bas- 
ket for partial shade is the gray-green DONKEY'S 
TAIL (Sedum morganianum), $6 and $7.50. P.E.C. 
LANDSCAPE LINES 
New For Old 
Are your worn-out plants wear- 
ing you out? Because plants do 
simply wear out (and please, no 
cracks about the California Red- 
woods) and wear you out; what 
with constant pruning and whack- 
ing away at them, trying to keep 
them in bounds. (The Oleanders, 
for example, that seemed to be 
just the thing to plant under the 
bay window back in 1940 when 
they were only two feet high.] 
And while many plants improve 
with age, others grow worse; 
usually because of bad placing to 
begin with. 
We wouldn't think of driving 
1930 automobiles, or wearing 1930 
clothes; yet many, many homes 
are uninviting because of a set- 
ting of worn-out, out-of-date, 
over-grown shrubbery. In far too 
many instances, what started out 
to be a good garden, is now a 
heterogeneous jumble of odds and 
ends with nothing in relation to 
anything else, and the good 
crowded out by the bad. Some- 
times we feel moved to write our 
Congressman about the possibili- 
ties of a ‘Renovate your Garden 
Week.’ 
But honestly, in the last twenty 
years, there have been many new 
and exciting plants introduced that 
take the place of much of the old 
material and do the job so much 
better. It happens that our land- 
scape consultants have brought 
new joy and pleasure to many 
owners of seemingly hopeless gar- 
dens; and all this for a very small 
fee. So, don't let worn-out plants 
wear you out; if your garden 
needs a face lifting, we can re- 
juvenate it. You know we are gar- 
den specialists! J.E. 
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CATTLEYA COLLECTION ACQljiz¢ 
Evans and Reeves has recently 
acquired a collection of fine Cat- 
tleya hybrid orchids including two 
splendid white crosses, numbering 
some 800 plants, which are at 
present being offered at attrac- 
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