Word: marigold
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...seven brass bands and gaily decked out in the hues of the Dominion of India's tricolor: green, white and orange. At the end, in a silver chariot drawn by four snow-white pedigreed bullocks with green painted horns, came mountainous Congress President Bhogarazu Pattabhi Sitaramayya, smothered in marigold garlands and beaming like the grand marshal of a St. Patrick's Day Parade on Fifth Avenue...
...show that art for children reached its peak in 19th Century England. Walt Disney himself would need a lot of film to match the action in Randolph Caldecott's Panjandrum Picture Book (published in 1885). And Kate Greenaway's grave little watercolors for Under the Window and Marigold Garden are still as modern-to children's eyes-as they were when Critic John Ruskin devoted a lecture at Oxford to "The Place of Kate Greenaway in Modern...
Last week, in exhibitions and displays from New York to San Francisco, children and grownups were visiting the beautiful "new country"-immortalized in her picture books (Under the Window, Marigold Garden, A-Apple Pie, The Pied Piper of Hamlin, Kate Greenaway's Alphabet...
...people too lazy to grow celtuce, botanists had a word of advice: eat weeds, some of which also run the vitamin gamut. Some of the more nutritious: dandelion, stinging nettle, dock, milkweed, marsh marigold, wild mustard, sorrel, purslane...
Such X-ray mutations have formerly been of interest chiefly to geneticists (TIME, April 14), but the two unusual calendulas caught the eye of David Burpee, astute Philadelphia seedsman, who two years ago introduced a tetra-marigold produced with colchicine, a chromosome-multiplying chemical. Seven years of reselection (with no further irradiation) assured the permanency of the new strains, readied them this year for Burpee's market...