It was after midnight when the ambulance pulled up in front of an apartment building in Hartford, Conn. The patient, only six months old, was tenderly carried down three flights by a pair of uniformed attendants. "Looks to me," said one, "like an intensive-care-unit case. Visiting hours are from 9 to 6."
Thus last week a pampered philodendron was placed on the road to recovery from root disease. The indoor plant, belonging to a childless couple, had been wilting, yellowing and defoliating. Worse, when its owners—they prefer the term parents—talked to it, the...
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