Word: seeds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First Ever. The annual efflorescence of four-color printing is aimed at every kind of green thumbsman from penthouse to prairie. It reaches its peak this month, when the industry offers glowing premiums-rosebushes, flowering shrubs, a pruning knife-to those who mail in their seed orders before March 15. Each year also brings a crop of first-time-ever items. Among this year's new offerings...
...almost white marigold called "Hopeful," from Philadelphia's Burpee Co., which has a standing offer of $10,000 to anyone who produces a seed that will grow a pure white one; the offer still stands...
When Is a Bad 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...
...Dear," she asks at one point in a worried little voice, "do you think we're abnormal?" Whatever anybody else may say, Director Donner most emphatically thinks his lovers are normal, magnificently normal. Sex breaks open the ground of their lives and in it plants the seed of love. The final scenes are subtly realized and beautifully touching, but in one of them Director Donner, a 31-year-old protege of Ingmar Bergman, unfortunately promulgates one of those long long thoughts of youth that may mildly embarrass him when he gets older. Marriage, his heroine announces earnestly, is merely...
Finally, the police searched an apartment on Banks Street, uncovering a canvas bag containing more marijuana leaves and seed as well as two packs of the drug ready for sale...