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HIGH AOVENTURE in Nepal '. COLUMBINES, Plumerias, ANO JAPANESE IRISES ' > Azalfas for the BIG CHILL HIGH AOVENTURE IN NEPAl '. COLUMBINES, PlUMERIAS, ANO JAPANESE IRISES ' > AzAlfAS FOR THE BIG CHILL Is your garden missing jewel-li!ke flowers floating I'm a one of the most! satisfying forms of gardening. If you shimmering water sUJiface and the darting brilliance of haven't one, you ' are missing a great deal of satisfaction gGldfish? Are you missing the melodic sounds of water fn)m your garden. spilling fmm ,a fQuntain, vessel or waterfall? Let Lllypons and TETRA POND help you to get started Wliat yQU need in yotH garden is a water lily ponl. A water today by Qrdetililg one of our durable TETRA POND 32 mll, lily p@ol is a garden wh@se plants like damp to very wet flexible 2 ply PVC pool1ineJ"s. So easy to install and main­ feet. Fish and 'fr0gs like to live there and, buttertlies wlll tain you wjl1 ask yourself why you waited so long to begin like your garden better than ever. 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The Eagle and the Dove by Elisabeth Sheldon . ....... 22 The columbine: short-lived, promiscuous, but in bloom, barely earthbound. The Quest for Cold-Hardier Azaleas APRIL'S COVER by Erin Hynes .. ........ ...... .. .. ..... ..... 28 Photographed by Carlos R. Lola Will a new generation of breeders push the shrubs' Nepal is a country of survival range farther north? magnificent mountains, Hanashobu: The Romantic Japanese Iris terraced fields, and plants that by Clarence Mahan .. .. .. .. .... ......... ..... ..... 34 botanists have risked their lives for. Beginning on page 10, Americal1s are making their own marks on this import from the orient. plant breeder Simon Crawford recounts his trek along paths . braved by Joseph Dalton DEPARTMENTS H00ker some 150 years ago. Above, north of Kathmandu Commentary 4 near the Langtang Valley in the Letters 6 Himalayas, rice is being Book Reviews 8 harvested in the fall. 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