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Article: Evergreen, everlasting. (Ira Levy's conifer collection)
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- January 1, 1996
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A conifer collection? Ira Levy wasn't certain he knew the correct definition of a conifer, let alone what maintaining a whole collection might entail, but that's what the letter said: he had bought a conifer collection. It sounded bizarre, but the writer--who declared that she was more than 90 years old and identified herself as Mrs. Barto--seemed adamant.
Levy had just taken possession of sixty acres of luxuriously wooded hills in northwestern Connecticut, and although the real estate agent had extolled the beauty of the many mature evergreen trees on the property, he hadn't mentioned anything about a collection. Yet here was this proper dowager writing earnestly to ...
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