Word: phlox
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...Thompson will move his staff of 650. He no longer does research himself. "I sort of keep an eye on my boys, and help to get the money which enables them to keep going." But he still gets into his old "lab" clothes weekends-to tend the zinnias, phlox and anemones around his home at Chevy Chase. Ground has already been broken for the new buildings at Bethesda, where the Government's newly subsidized cancer research will take place. The donor of that ground was Luke Wilson Sr., 65, philanthropic heir of Chicago's Wilson Bros, (haberdashery manufacturers...
...water, a food pill, and care will make roses bloom at Christmas if started in September. The cuttings are placed in the water, the pill added, the water kept up to the mark, and in a few weeks rootlets appear; in a few months, roses. Sweetpeas, phlox, snapdragons, asters, other annuals respond to slightly different treatment...
...section of the garden devoted to the culture of strictly American plants, large beds of phlox and violets are now in bloom, also much of our native columbine and June berry. There are also many pansys, forget-me-nots and tulips scattered about the garden...