Word: ailanthus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...People live in the city," Hoving states. "Are they supposed, like the ailanthus, to struggle for survival by thrusting themselves through cracks in the hardtop? I don't think so." To make sure that New Yorkers will have greensward to play on and open spaces in which to breathe is Hoving's aim. He is working on everything from a "green belt" park for Staten Island to far-out projects for concrete piers with swimming pools in the Hudson. "Wherever there is a conflict of interests," says New York's most popular parks commissioner, "it must...
...Seed? A few unscrupulous companies still advertise such dubious items as rosebushes at 250 apiece, or cut-rate, "guaranteed hardy" hedge plants that do not survive the U.S. mail. Other traps for the unwary in newspaper ads are fancy names such as "Tree of Heaven" for Ailanthus altissima, otherwise known as stinkweed, or the ever-popular "Christmas Rose," which is not a rose (it belongs to the buttercup family) and cannot be counted on to bloom at Christmas. As a result of whooped-up claims, thousands of home gardeners plant Elberta peach trees, one of the least rewarding varieties. Another...
FRAUDULENT FLORA is being pushed through mails by a few unscrupulous nurserymen in offers designed to lead homeowners up the garden path. The "rare and beautiful ailanthus" turns out to be the weedy "stink tree," nothing like its brochure picture; the "amazing climbing peach" produces an inedible gourd unrelated to the peach. FTC is warning nurserymen against shrubbery shenanigans...