Word: evergreen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rewarding varieties. Another pitfall is the failure of many catalogues to describe the variety of root stock on which a dwarf apple tree is grafted (it will not be a true dwarf if it is not rooted on imported English Mailing stock), or to mention how many times an evergreen has been transplanted (it develops a more vigorous root system by being lifted out of the earth and pruned...
...from some secret storage barn, to further confuse the yuletide traffic. Most of the better Fifth Avenue shops are piping carols out into the street, but scarcely anyone stops to listen. Their music is drowned by the clanging bells of sidewalk Santas. Rockefeller Plaza's giant evergreen is ablaze with colored lights, and the Rockettes are kicking their hearts out in a "happy holiday extravaganza" at Radio City Music Hall, which also features a nativity pageant and "Father Goose" (starring Cary Grant and Leslie Caron; 5000 general admission seats for each performance...
Power saws ripped through the evergreen stands last week in seven of Canada's ten provinces, and trucks and horse-drawn sleighs hauled the bales of trees off to shipping points. It was that time of year again for Canada's best-known industry, and growers were busy cutting the 15 million Christmas trees that they will sell this year. However, there is a bit of strain in the merriment this year for Canada's exporters of pine, spruce, Douglas and balsam firs. Reason: artificial trees are making steady inroads into the lucrative Christmas tree market...
GEORGE SILVERWOOD Evergreen Park...
...patio culture, the leisure hours stretch out of sight. It is the magazine's ambition to fill every one of them. The current issue, for example, invites readers to make pomegranate jam, build a five-level child's bed, hide the garden gas meter with evergreen shrubs and watch the Karok Indians fish at California's Ishi Pishi Falls. "Everything we publish has to be something on which a reader can take action," says Sunset Editor Proctor Mellquist. "This gives us a very limited role in the field of urban planning. If our magazine has a social...