Coral Gables Historical Archive
The Coral Gables Times
Thursday, December 6, 1962, page 62 (of 66)
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SPANKIN' NEW FUN POWER FROM ALLIS-CHALMERS
MODEL B-1 7 1/4 HP. ALLIS-CHALMERS. Imagine yourself in the seat of this tractor... with all the power you need for lawn, garden and other jobs around the home or farm. What fun to whisk over your "green velvet"; work up a deep seedbed in your garden; put in a new lawn terrace; level a patio area; or conquer a driveway full of snow without touching a shovel. Here's power, too, for hauling up to half a ton... for sickle-bar mowing of fence rows, weeds and brush. Thirteen power-matched implements handle nearly any job... providing fun and workpower the year 'round. Best of all, the B-1 comes to you from Allis-Chalmers. Just imagine yourself owning a B-1... enjoying the thrill of making your work easy... and fun. The Allis-Chalmers dealer can arrange easy payments. It's that easy... do it now! Allis-Chalmers, Farm Equipment Division, Milwaukee 1, Wisconsin. ALLIS-CHALMERS
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Three Acres Under Glass
The Main Conservatory at Longwood as it appears this month with its masses of poinsettias and fragrant narcissus in bloom, set off by the fresh green of a real lawn under glass. BY JOHN BRIMER. THIS MONTH Longwood Gardens at Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, just across the border from Wilmington, Delaware, will have three and a half acres of glasshouses filled with a winter treasure of all kinds—narcissus and iris and African daisies, cactus, tropicals, orchids, fruit trees—whatever you are looking for, you'll find it here. In the great Main Conservatory, December brings a splashy red and green display. Masses of large red poinsettias burgeon against a background of two large lawns—the indoor lawns at Longwood are legend-ary—and over the lush green grass, tree ferns wave their great delicate fronds, in-different to the cold and snow outside. Music of the season is played here from mid-December into January, and many hun-dreds of people stop on their way home from shopping or holiday parties to enjoy the peace and beauty of this great plant house, and go on their way refreshed. At all times of the year visitors flock to Longwood from all over the country—when we were last there we counted license plates from 16 states, including Hawaii—but the grounds are so extensive that even on peak days they never seem crowded. Horticulture has been a tradition there since the early 1800s, when the original owners began to assemble their arboretum, and as you walk through the grounds you come upon magnificent old specimens of Kentucky coffee tree, paulownia, magnolia, ginkgo, and copper beech. The conservatories were added by the last owner, the late Pierre S. Du Pont, who lived at Long- 32 Suburbia Today, December 1962