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Four inches in diameter, deep orange in color, Tetra Marigold has heavy, vigorous petals which make the flower exception ally durable both on the stalk and after cutting. "The colchicine," explained Mr. Burpee, "has about the same effect on the marigold as spinach on Popeye the Sailor...
...including such firms as Kuhn, Loeb, Lee Higginson, First Boston) which has frigidly rejected competition. When such competition-minded houses as Chicago's Halsey, Stuart, such individuals as Cleveland's Cyrus ("The Great") Eaton, walk in the front door with bids for securities issues, Morgan Stanley & friends stalk out the side exit...
...Swingin' the Dream, a jitterbug version of A Midsummer Night's Dream, opened a week earlier; but no self-respecting Bard-hunter would stalk such mongrel prey...
Hybrid corn is the result of inbreeding various strains for several generations, then crossbreeding. Corn, like mice, mackerel and men, reproduces by means of male sperm and female eggs. The sperm is produced and dispersed from the tassels at the top of the stalk; the eggs lurk at the base of the silk on each ear. In ordinary "open-pollinated" corn, fertilization occurs at random, the sperm-bearing pollen being carried to the silk by the wind. For inbreeding, the tassels and silk are protected by paper bags until maturity, and the plants are then self-pollinated by hand. These...
Hunter Roy Greenlaw farms 385 acres of George Washington's boyhood home on the banks of the Rappahannock River near Falmouth, Va. When Hunter took over the farm after his father's death nearly five years ago, it didn't amount to much. A gangling stalk of a lad, Hunter stayed in high school and managed the farm on the principles he learned there...