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Lilacs. Lilacs bloom for Christmas when Dr. Frank Earl Denny, research director of the Boyce Thompson Institute at Yonkers wishes it. Likewise two crops of potatoes grow for him where only one obliges the efforts of another. Nature has given plants a dormancy period which is the plague of horticulturists. Dr. Denny found that exposure to the vapors of ethylene chlorhydrin and ethylene dichloride waked plants up immediately...
...widow Angeline was resourceful. While she put little store by such things herself, she knew that Parisian women loved to soften their skins with greasy pastes, loved to create an artificial bloom to replace the natural color which had faded. The widow Angeline bent over the kitchen stove, mixing potions, whipping them into creams. Each ingredient she showed to the round-eyed, intelligent boy. Thus Louis Philippe was trained to become, not a king, but a maker of cosmetics...
Plants have nothing to do but eat and grow, yet to them has been given a synthetic food substitute. A can of water, a food pill, and care will make roses bloom at Christmas if started in September. The cuttings are placed in the water, the pill added, the water kept up to the mark, and in a few weeks rootlets appear; in a few months, roses. Sweetpeas, phlox, snapdragons, asters, other annuals respond to slightly different treatment...
...Barnes, Lois. 32 Baron, Edith. 5 Baylies, Ruth. S Beach, Helen Louise. 26 Bean, Julta. B Altschuler, Lillian 6 Andelman, Evelyn. 9 Antine, Hazel. 14 Anderson, Mary. 40 Beardsley, Francis. 38 Beauchamp, Juanita. 27 Bemis, Aice. 11 Bernstein, Florence. 7 Blanchard, Abby. 27 Blanchard, Estele. 52 Blettner, Edlyn. P Bloom, Ada. 22 Bordont, Irene. 21 Atwater, Mary. 31 Averill, Ada. 54 Averill, Dottie. 54 Ayres, Frances. 50 Bourneuf, Charlotte. 48 Brady, Helen. 62 Brigham, Barbara. 18 Brown, Alice. 43 Browne, Mary. 58 Bucknau, Bettins. 44 Bushway, Bunny. 28 Butler, Mary...
...civility than many a larger place. Instead of permitting the G. O. P.'s reception to fall into the hands of local jobholders, a representative body of citizens got together last winter and made the plans. Flower-growing was encouraged this spring, to have the city in full bloom. A committee of 1,000 "hosts and hostesses" has been organized, to be stationed at the hotels in relays. Details so small as extra caddies at the golf clubs and the time-saving elimination of soup from table d'hote bills-of-fare, were worked out.* A political spectacle...