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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...keep up with the Joneses nowadays," says Manufacturer Sumpter Turner happily, "you have to raise your own tomatoes in January-as well as have plenty of orchids." But there is much more to it than green-thumb-upmanship. There is the satisfaction of growing or propagating plants for the outdoor garden instead of buying them, of cutting a spray of forsythia in midwinter and "forcing" it into a golden harbinger of spring, of watching a child's pride in his own waist-high plantation, and, not least, of dropping into a city florist's from time to time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Garden: Under Glass | 3/27/1964 | See Source »

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