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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...
Botanist Norman Taylor, editor of the excellent Taylor's Encyclopedia of Gardening, feels that plant advertising should specifically note which areas of the country are suitable for each species of plant or tree. Most reputable catalogues nowadays do in fact list preferred zones and soil conditions. But in general, Taylor points out, "people have been given the impression that spruce and hemlock and firs will thrive in the prairie regions west of the Mississippi. And you should be very careful about what rhododendrons you buy. The beautiful Rhododendron Maximum, for example, does well in New England and New York...
...heart of his work has not proved easy for Gregory: his lifetime output numbers fewer than 100 poems, none of them long. But at its best, the combination demonstrates consuming intelligence and sinewy strength. In his own phrase, his art can be "fire that flames upon an iron tree," and his poems are often
...bald eagles and 200 crows spotted in Topsfield; whistling swans still found in Westport; the rusty blackbird nesting in Lincoln; the purple sandpipers piping sand to Plum Island; a partridge in a pear tree seen in Bethlehem...
Lady, three white leopards sat under a juniper-tree In the cool of the day, having fed to satiety On my legs my heart my liver and that which had been contained In the hollow round of my skull...