Caption: Joe Colasanti: Within five minutes – no more than 10 – the humidity, the temperature (70 degrees every day of the year), the rich clean – earth smell of the potting soil, the gently diffused light, the hypnotic whir of the ventilator system, the shrieking rainbow macaws and Moluccan cockatoos and the banks upon of house – plants stretching off and away to the horizon …battalions of Venus's flytraps snapping at gnats; madly branching spider plants profligate in their growth; phalanxes of busy little mixed – cactus samplers and killer cacti the size of medicine balls rimmed with stickers as big as four-penny nails; squads of Boston ferns, ficus benjaminas, rubber plants and other interior – decorator favorites parsley – leaved Ming aralias; luxuriant gloxinias and African violets reaching to the vanishing point in a vast, mottled sea of oxygenating green…. As I say, within a few minutes all this has your head swimming. Colasanti's Tropical Gardens is of Ruthven, Ontario's more impressive sights. One hundred thousand square feet of glass covering a forest.(AUG 23 1981, 12:34 AM).
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