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The plants are not cheap; you'll pay $24 for hosta "Gypsy Rose," a mutation of hosta "Striptease." But when you fork over the money and receive your youthful little hosta (at that point it will be about $8 a leaf), wrapped in wet pages of the Raleigh News & Observer, you'll feel as though you've been inducted into a cool fraternity of plant ... ................
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