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February 28,1974 PHOENIX Pace 15PARK SLOPElittle girl came in and ever-socarefully selected a tiny 69 cent plant, a weekly ritual for her. A young boy seriously appraised THE PLANTORIUM for a half hour before selecting a $1.35 ivy for his mother. And a woman stopped in with two very troubled looking leaves from a favorite houseplant and left with advice on how to bring her plant back to life. According to Cath, customers select plants with the care they do a pet. Their motives vary widely, however. For some, choosing a plant is an aesthetic judgment; others choose the challenge of a hard-to-care-for variety, still others are trying to assemble a well rounded collection.In the shingled, well-lit interior of the shop, table top plants, hanging pots, and tall potted trees are well arranged to permit easy browsing and viewing. Plant encyclopedias, care books, terrariums, grow lights and wicker baskets as well as soil, watering cans, misters and plant food are also available from THE PLANTORIUM.Both Doris and Cath do the marketing for THE PLANTORIUM, sometimes as often as three times a week. Their approach is one of careful scrutiny to insure stocking only healthy plants. They never order by lot or over the phone, but personally select each plant for inventory. Since Oath%u2019s husband, Arthur, and Doris%u2019 boyfriend, Simon Silberman, run a greenhouse in Staten Island, both women are acutely aware of the need for optimum growing conditions to insure a long-lived, healthy plant. All of the plants at THE PLANTORIUM including the exotica they carry from the Staten Island operation have been acclimated through a greenhouse transition period. In this way plants coming from climates varying greatly from New York are not prone to traumatic reactions.Variety - in both kind and price range- is very much in evidence at THE PLANTORIUM. Familiar houseplants such as the asparagus or Swedish ivy are%u2022 ;in stock as well as the more exotic types, such as the South American grown tillandsia with a jungle-hued purple flower. Prices start at 69 cents and range to $65 for full bodied, skyreaching trees. On the Springtime agenda are herbs, tomato plants, flower box fare and seasonal flowering plants. Cut flowers will be on hand, too, and dried flowers are in stock all year long. Also, always available is Cath and Doris%u2019 encyclopedic knowledge of plants and their needs.THE PLANTORIUM at 169 Seventh Avenue, between 1st St. and Garfield PL, is open Monday through Saturday from 11 to 6.A T f i iA n y w A jy r r2 l7 G a W d R tr a ( c fF 7 %u00bb A %u00ab n u e ) 7 B 3 -S 4 3 6%u201e dhesses, wraps, Surf* velvets Safer perils jecre,jackets dungaree skirts Reindeer Sweaters sweslrni&Hawsicnst^ (fj^MDacojewdry&axessoriesfbidT*^ quilts... And bts.lols mere.ltfftWririifrWi'iVdnTiW'ihTliWhWaMilifcinlililikUhli. I . U C . w ' . V '. ' . %u2019A ii :J J I 111.E E A E2 ^B E A NImported TeasOand Coffees1 0 3 -7 A v e . 7 8 9 - 5 2 5 3fCCDS o *%u00a3*Now Open on Sundaysfrom I I cr.m. - 5 p.nt. %u00a9 768-5654144 SEVENTH AVENUE, BROOKLYN BETWEEN CARROLL ST. AND GARFIELD P LIM iOPEN MON - SAT., IN 0 .3 SEVENTH AVENUE / 6 2 2 -3 6 7 2FIM%u00a3 EKOTICS AMD HOUSEPLANTS, TtRRRRlUMScefum tes, graphic^ amor full linf plant !5UPPUCS - All AT Viifty R?A5omA$1%u20ac P*IC%u20ac$%u201e.'s?T (v , , , %u25a0, v -xo \\L id-' s /. .-ft . o* - (,%u2022%u00a3%u2022'.,\\)URT>JULY \l Y j i*> %u25a0>* , ( b e lw u n . 6 %u2019* i <499-13.79^ j B rin g m this ad fo r s p e o a l va lu e s: J :3 \\ O u r D aily B re ad Honey-5lbe>regularly *9 5 0 ; with th ii ad *9 00Plus 72 (stress supplement e- complex) 3io tabs regularly *0 5 0 , with this ad *7.50F^eSH Baked J uice A S a lADBa r I c,oogs_.f r r r r w u m n < fiii(uvU tu>rk< f r m w* I V w wthe cabinetmakers in brooktmnr&z union st.flL_MiniBSi^U^USMU@UaUiailSBUSlUS]UglUSiUS]liS]US]US]lMl m m mi . i , 11 i i . t . i > 11 *