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2 "Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected
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2 "All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little.
2 "In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his
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oA "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. 2
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and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa jj
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24 "Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! 2
"You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys
2 on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see “
2 Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa
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2 all the wonders that are unseen and unseeable in the world. 2"
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inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the
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Tender loving care
for thriving poinsettas
Do you know the origin of the lovely plant we have come
to Identify with Christmas? These colorful plants were
first introduced to America in 1825, by Joel Poinsett, then
serving as our Ambassador to Mexico, who brought some
16 plants back to his South Carolina greenhouse. He gave
them to friends and botanists with greenhouses who nur
tured them carefully.
Poinsettias moved out of doors in the early 19OO’s when
a Swiss horticulturist, Albert Ecke, started to raise them
In California for local holiday selling. Now we have come
to enjoy poinsettias, not only at the Christmas holiday,
but all the year round as well. The most popular is the
vivid red, but there are white, pink and marbled flowers
as handsome and radiant.
Poinsettias need specific care if they are to flourish, but
that care is not really complicated. They are happiest kept
at room temperature, near a window, in full daylight, but
out of drafts. Water when the top soil feels dry to your
touch, keeping the soil moist but not wet.
If you decide to move your poinsettia outdoors for the
summer, it will need cutting back to help it retain its shape.
To encourage a shorter, fuller plant cut It back between
the middle of July and the beginning of August, and repot
in a pot one or two sizes larger than the original, and
bring indoors again about Labor Day.
Poinsettias are photo-period sensitive plants that flower
in response to the length of the day. Ten hours of day
light and fourteen hours of darkness will start flowers on
their way, but the least glimmer of light during the dark
hours will abort any flowering.
From about October 1 to mid-December, the plant should
be in complete darkness from sunset to sunup. It can be
put into a closet, in a room that remains dark through
those hours, or under a table that is skirted to the floor.
If you have a large enough carton available up-end it over
the poinsettia to keep light out. Unless the plant is kept
in the dark it will not flower.
The colorful bracts that develop from this period will
be ample reward for your tender loving care, and will add
much excitement to your holiday decor.
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May the joy and peace of that first Christinas be with you and yours
this season. Our wish is for all hearts to be filled
with gladness, contentment and the desire for real brotherhood.
Our gratitude to the kind, generous people we serve.
Bigelow-Sanford, Inc.
Georgia Rug Mill
SUMMERVILLE LYERLY
Ma y y° u ar| d y° urs inspiration and love ^ < y >
at Christmastide, as V 0
you remember the
birth of a Child
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The Summerville News, Thurs., Dec. 20,1979
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