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LANTS
which
"go mad" and, sprawling in unpredic- table shapes, grow side by side with members of exact- ly the same botanic group of which the symmetry and colouring are unique in SASSO-BERNDT. At the Roman nature: others imitating
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1938.
WORKER WONDERS
"WHY?"
an ounce
in 100 years-such are just a few of the marvels of a nursery I have seen at Laindon, Essex.
Its owner is Mr. T. M. Endenn and, in a way, he is something of a marvel himself, ·
PLANTS
GO
Any preconceived ideas one its botanic relatives are quickly upset here.
may have about the cactus and
Three 6-inch spines of the echino cactus emoryi are sulli- cient to catch a shark, and they
MAD
The animal world has some
strange creatures, but for monsters take a look at the plant world
Enthusiasts for caeli and suc-
are actually used for that pur- the seeds of a given plant will pose by South American natives, who say that an echino hook will reproduce the characteristics of culent plants divide their at-
parent form. The new tractions under four heads- hold when a steel hook would the
plants may be so fantastically quaintness of form, symmetry different in outward appearance of form, beauty of flower, beauty that only a botanist can ascer of foliage. tain the genus.
And what would you make of
break.
known.
are
brief
on
11
feet annual bloom with petals like a glowing silk fringe, ap-
On the other hand there are M. Paul van Zeeland, one-time
flowers. The loveliest cacti with spines as soft as silk and nearly as fine as gossamer. a plant the leaves of which only those whose life is briefest; Belgian Prime Minister, and first-class economist, has been
His story, covering 50 years Climbing over the greenhouse bold to the stem by suction? and how lovely and how
may be judged by the cercus studying world economic ills of cactus and succulent plant staging is a plant resembling au Such is the crassula compuneta,
the pro- old-fashioned English clematis. looking for all the world like a family, on which one single per- growing, illuminates with a view to suggesting to res-
the same row of buttons threaded gress of a working-class Hack- But it's a cactus all
The kind string.
"buttons" can only leaved ponsible governments methods
ney boy from crippledom and and is the
round netually be turned
ind for curing the complaints. This blindness to a position unique in
Another strange succulent in round on the stem. There is no cars for seven hours only. At.
seven in the evening it is will delight the wizards of the world of botany.
the Endean collection is an direct union, yet they continue
opened; by two in the morning finance and the worshippers of
echevaria, 40 years old and 3 te grow.
in its true There are plants which mimic it is gone. This flower grows on abstruse economic theories, and To-day, towards the end of a inches high, which
and tigers' mouths, on eight-foot plant.
At the other extreme I SRW will leave the humble worker life which his has been, a con- form is an exact replica of a wolves'
stant fight with illness, Thomas bishop's mitre, but may just as with canine and feline "teeth."
There is a plant, not a cactus, succulent plants no bigger than While the leaders of in- Endean is still, by practical easily take the shape of a pile dustry, commerce and finance standards, a poor man, but his of haricot-beans-if-you-can-which so perfectly counterfeits peas, throwing up violet coloured ex- inch stalks, and these remain in lick their lips and bare their greenhouse a Mecca for imagine haricot beans with that plant as to be indistinguish blooms, un-inch-across—on—2-
In this form it able therefrom, except by botanists from every continent. points on them. teeth ready to rend in pieces It is believed to contain the finest is known as a refractory plant, perts. This is the euphorbia, bloom for a fortnight.
But it is in foliage that the M. Yan Zeeland's cure for general collection of cacti and one which has probably "thrown filled with a milk-like fluid which
em- succulent plant is unchalleng- economic ills, the worker will other succulents in the world. back" to the form of an ancestor, is deadly poison. Natives
on spearheads and ably supreme. The best speci- In 1933 this working-man's Only rarely can the cactus and ploy il
mens in the Endean collection their are breath-stopping in nursery was the means of re- succulent grower be sure that arrows.
perfection of pure establishing 37 varieties of suc-, -- culent plants in their native African habitat from which they had long vanished. They were unknown elsewhere in the world,
coli.
try to go on working, pausing only to wonder why, in this so- called civilised world, his home and family should be daily threatened by war, unemploy. ment, civil strife, loss of per- sonal freedom, religious per-
is
cover cess of the Ottawa Conference.
THE GAME OF YOUTH
Beauty at the Neckline
playing it in a haphazard manner
In short, too many women
colour harmony.
the
form and
of
Light, playing on the natural. wax coating of the plant, pro-
gradations duces infinite radiant metallic colour, running tall tongue-like THE most interesting game all at the same time work in a good cold alike through secution, and the rest of the was a complete failure. The Tome play today is the game cream, still employing the upward leaves or miniature rosettes, de movement with your finger-tips. cording to the nature of the depressing daily concomitants W.E.C. demanded sacrifices; and of youth.
Frequent treatment with a suitable plant, and changing subtly in There are many, however, who are oil is good for those necks which have which comprise the "Twentieth so it failed. M. van Zeeland's)
takes In this section nature developed scraggy Century Blues".
suggestions will almost certainly which gives them away as amateurs been badly neglected, and in con-every inch of surface.
sequence have
pure up the challenge of art and beats. involve sacrifices, and if they who have not mastered all the rules contours. A teaspoonful of
olive oil A few of these they know and observe
added to the daily diet is It has long been insisted that
will be do they too
doomed faithfully: others they seem to,C-
with warmed almond oil is ex- the attention of modern interior intelligent public opinion alone
similar to
fate.
One
finds gard as unimportant, but they console good when this can be taken. Masit by a mile. I commend it to
semselves with the thought that insolent treatment for a thin and decorators. |can save democracy. The con- the
story same
with the spite of their slipshod manner, they wrinkled neck. Steam the neck be
are the ol gently with firm upward To what great age will a suc- tribution of the intelligentsia disarmament conferences, and will be regarded us quite good players.fore commencing trentment, and work |
No one Finish off by sponging culent grow?
knows. towards the moulding of this
obversely one can easily displaying this great game with their movements. opinion has been the presenta-
the reason for the suc-laces only, and while a well-cared- with very cold water to which theThere is a plant at Laindon- ustulata- anacampsus for and well-made-up complexion; jufce of a lemon has been addeti. tion of political, social, economic
youthful, curling lashes; a firm con- Simple Exercises
a pride
which is 3-inches high and 100 tour and the complete absence of
Every woman who takes and financial theories, so in-
carry them trium- volved and complex that they Perhaps Mr. H. G. Wells and wrinkles may
in her appearance and wants to keep years old; and still it grows. It phantly through the early rounds, the
There is a echino cactus, severed the ranks of their pro- his "Open Conspirators" are day is not too for distant when the firm and supple neckline must weighs perhaps an ounce.
major faults of thele play will be devote a few minutes every day to
old. And there tagonists and left the worker Utopian, and maybe pacifisis obvious, for the necks they have these simple exercises. A good one begging for a statement of faith are cowards if judged by certain given scant attention to while they is to throw the head backwards, then needing two men to lift it, 130
the chest.
leuchtenbergia, one of the few old Another is to make the neck take in the world, which was and action which he can com- values, but it does seem that unremitting cure to their faces, bring it forward until the chin touches years prehend. The world, having both have hit upon
without any insistance shoulders. Each day, look over your may have been growing on built up its gigantic and be- mental demand for the creation disputed fast that very few necks and woule strain of the movement when Shakespeare died, which shoulder a dozen times, without mov- South American bank in the wiklering systems. is now de-of a suner, happier world, when Regular Attention feated by its own creeds, and they emphasise the need for A gent many women never give ing your body in any way; this must days of the Incas, which still 500 years, Mr. nced a a good tissue
oll, Endean moderately computes, left floundering in its attempts restatement of man's relation- their necks any regular attention with be done slowly and deliberately.
skin-food or massage, with the result-
compressed into the 3%- to discover the solution through ship with man. This restate- ant neglected appearance. The and this must be massaged
at least, twice a
its base, to a day whenever pos-inch height of antional cures, enmouflaged in ment appears to
call for the Pearance is particularly evident dur-
ing those months of the year whensible-circular
massage
movements, A few minutes massage with a good which each new spike thrown international trappings.
subordination of self in the furs and heavy coats are worn, but it is wise to make habit of applying of the masses-in a bleaching pack to your equality, skin-food every night long up at the crown eventually adds Each spike-five appear It is quite possible that M. interests
Our present-regular intervals throughout the year, with the simple head-turning exer a layer of tissue-paper thick-
elses given above, done regularly will van Zeeland's proposals, when short, sacrifices.
These can be purchased aiready bring your neglected neck into a con- they are made known, will go day systems would have no made up in n tube, and twice a week dition matching the school girl com- a year-takes twenty to thirty "Do you wonder," asked my Take care to work all cream into no if the contrast between neck and towards the truck with such sentiment, yet is not too often to apply, especially plexion of your well-cared-for fuce. years to die. a very long way alleviation of existing distress. until the nations comprehend face is so obvious. First, open the your skin, any that is not absorbed
pores of the skin by wringing out a must be carefully removed, for unless pain-racked remarkable guido, But the more realistically- the vital necesalty of this basic small towel in hot water, and hold your skin is allowed to breathe freely that, I have given my life to
that minded will recall the creed, one fears that M. Paul this round your neck for a minute it will inevitably take on a dull life- my plants?"
bleaching less look, then all your regular exer or two, then spread the World Economic Conference van Zooland's great efforts will puste on freely and leave it sets eises and massage treatment will have i
dry and firm. Then, rinse off with gone for nothing.. hold out just as much hope and have been made in vain.-S.A.G. hot water, using only upward strokes,
a funda-
will break the spell of Illusion.
It is extraordinary, yet an un-
Inces really match.
from the
skin
blooms
If your neck has a cremarc
you
C. R.
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