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We welcome visitors to our greenhouse. We 
are located at the edge of the city limits just 
off Highway 39, South. Coming out south from 
Jonesboro, take the left turn up the hill just 
beyond Mooney’s Cash Grocery. Open any time, 
but please don’t come after dark or on Sunday 
morning. 
The question customers most often ask is: 
“How do you get violets to bloom?” You have 
to remember, of course, that the plants which 
bloom best are those with optimum growing con- 
ditions. Oddly enough, the opti- 
mum for violets is also the opti- 
mum for YOU, the hobbyist. If en ) 
your room is hot enough to be 0,0 
uncomfortable for you, your Ys 9. 
plants are feeling just as droopy 
as you are. If it’s so cool you > 
feel like “huddling up”, your Re” 
plants will “huddle up’, too. If 
your unshaded picture window creates a merciless 
glare in your living room, you may expect bleach- 
ed foliage. On the other hand, violets are as 
desolate in a gloomy, cave-like apartment as is 
the human occupant. Turn on some lights, or try 
flourescent lighting. 
Violets like company, just like people do. 
They like other plants around to slow down their 
rate of evaporation. Only cactus will grow by it- 
self on the desert. Make a window-garden— 
don’t put your poor plant in “solitary”. 
Did you ever see anybody who could get along 
without food? Violets can’t either. Best to re- 
member, though, that acute indigestion from too 
much feeding can be fatal to your plants. 
Suppose you took no water for a week and 
then drank enough to “catch up”. If you hadn’t 
already died of thirst, you’d drown. 
So use the golden rule with your violets. Do 
unto them as you would have them do unto you. 
Yours, 
Russ war d 
