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Show Plants Thrive In Skyscrapers Trees, Wishing Wells Hoisted to Gardens NEW YORK. Dirt costs $2 per 100 pounds, f. o. b. an elevator on Park avenue. The bird's nests are imported. Shade trees and wishing wells are hoisted by derrick in the dead of night. The upkeep on a garden, once it's hoisted to a skyscraper, runs from $50 to $2,500 a year. But Mrs. Arthur C. Fatt complains com-plains that half her company won't go out and look "because they're so afraid of heights." Mrs. Fatt plants $900 worth of flowers a year 20 stories above Fifth avenue in the shade of 15 trees and two elevator shafts. It can add up to too much attention, atten-tion, Mrs. Fatt acknowledged. "One day we found the soil was a little too sweet," she said. "We had to sprinkle vinegar on it." Hal Phyfe, a photographer, rented rent-ed his penthouse home and studio complete with Greek pillars, blue tile reflecting pools and 400 feet of privet hedge. But he-had to import his own bird's nest. The gardener obligingly picked it out of a tree in Pennsylvania and set it among the buds of a potted English hawthorne tree. "I don't know what kind of a bird to expect," he admitted. Mme. Helena Rubenstein plant-her plant-her garden in a serpentine bed a la Thomas Jefferson 14 stories above Park avenue and paints her flower pots to match her drawing room upholstery and the newest shades in ejre shadow. |