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...Fatshedera in a Mini. Thalassa's pitch is like a cactus-plain yet prickly. Holding up a wire-looped hanging pot, she sniffs: "I consider this pot a bore." Banging down a tray of bulbs on her worktable, she declares: "Now this is a rather ratty object, a relative of the onion called tritelia. It's really not worth the trouble of growing, but some people do, so I have to show it to you." She talks about cow dung as if it were French perfume, condemns tinfoil wrapping as "a crime against a blooming plant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programming: The Private Spring Of Thalassa Cruso | 3/29/1968 | See Source »

...mother tending some mischievous tykes. "Oh, look at this one!" she exclaims, brushing aside the stalks of a daffodil "with its ears back like a startled cat." Turning to plants suffering from "the sickly miseries," she describes an ivy plant that has dropped its lower leaves as "a miniskirted fatshedera." Then, pausing beside a bed of bursting tulips, she sighs: "Bulbs can bring a private spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programming: The Private Spring Of Thalassa Cruso | 3/29/1968 | See Source »

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