- Takeland- -deering nurseries sales 
garden city, new york 
Dear Friend: 
Come along with us now on a strange and fascinating 
journey that began only a few short months ago, in the 
summer of 1954. 
Imagine yourself nega ae alongside one of our "plant 
scouts" as you tour the vast Western Canadian wilderness 
for rare and unusual plant "finds." As you pass through 
tiny hamlets that dot this harsh and wildly beautiful land, 
you hear farm folk tell of a strange wonder plant they have 
seen with their own eyes at their official agricultural 
station, not far away. A plant (that judging from their 
fantastic description) "shoots up flowering red spikes 
5 feet high" and "blooms like a leaping wall of fire all 
summer long!" 
"The Plant That Lights Up 
The Wilderness!" 
The next day, you look out upon a scene of flowering 
beauty you never dreamed possible! There on the grounds 
at the experiment station, you look out upon a living 
field of fiery, torchlike bloom! All about you are . 
teeming masses of color that seem to leap out of the very 
ground...that touch their spreading flame blossoms from 
plant to plant until they blend into a fiery sea of beauty! 
You find yourself staring in awe at shoulder-high torches 
of bloom...at gigantic flowering spikes as long as your 
arm that stretch their red spires to the sky! And to your 
utter astonishment as you draw closer, you see MASSES of 
these red flowering spikes stemming from each single plant! 
This is LYTHRUM MORDEN GLEAM --the sensational new 
1954 flower introduction named in honor of the official 
Canadian experiment station where it first came into 
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