Check with some of the Civil War associations in your area - they can be a goldmine of information. The Library of VA has a special section for Maps & Photos & I suspect other States do as well. If I remember correctly, the original Union maps are housed at the Nat'l Archives in MD(?) and the State Library had copies of local areas but these were not allowed to be photocopied. Apparently, the Union made detailed maps (even the outbuildings) of the enemy & my house happened to be surrounded by the White House of the Confederacy, the South's largest Army Hospital, the port leading to the Atlantic, & a major munitions foundry. I saw a portion of the map in a book & started from there, only to find out I needed to go to the National Archives to order a very specific section of a specific page of a specific map & I've never spent the time nor the money to do it. Because Richmond was the Capital of the Confederacy, perhaps the residential maps were more detailed but I suspect a lot of areas were covered - maybe not so many north of the Mason-Dixon. Try googling Civil War maps, National Archives, & your area & see if anything pops.

Am still reading "Bleak House' (C.Dickens) ... still enjoying it. There's just one problem -- the legal tie-ups in the story evade my comprehension. I know Jarndyce v. Jarndyce is *supposed to be* convoluted -- but even the small legal snarls in the story are tough going. . . .E.g. -- the problem between George the gym-owner and his creditor baffles me. Why is his good friend somehow tied into it? Finished "Unbroken" - Laura Hillenbrand, wrote the great "Seabisquit." It's about Louis Zamperini, a very great runner. The first chapters were really exciting. But then WWII takes over -- he's sent to the So. Pacific... lands up living on a life raft for many months-- almost dies. Is rescued and spends years under horrifying circumstances in Japanese prisoner of war camps. This book didn't take off for me after the first quarter because I kept waiting for him to perform some BIG HEROIC feat to escape, save prisoners... SOMETHING. But it's mostly about holding up under terrible, awful conditions for a very long time. While that is "grabbing" to read for awhile, it palls after a point because it's too repetitious. Another thing I didn't like were the last few chapters -- the "Bible-thumping" turn in his life; no mention at all of his sweet, long-suffering parents who were soooo proud of him -- why are they dropped from the book all of a sudden(?)... Most bothersome of all -- how can I believe that after some five years of heavy drinking, terrible nightmares, raging tantrums (against Jap. prison leader who beat him to a pulp over and over), etc., etc. - did he overcome ALL OF THESE IN ONE NIGHT -- simply by going to a tent-shaking evangelist meeting, when all the help, encouragement, psychiatric care didn't do it? I just don't believe it -- AT ALL! For light, non-fiction: "Journey to the South: A Calabrian Homecoming" Annie Hawes I just loved her first book -- "Extra Virgin" -- she and her sister leave England to do work in northern Italy grafting roses ... only to wind up buying a hillside shack (but a roomy, sturdy one!) above the Mediteranean Sea -- for less than US $3,000. [Sigh!] That shack today is worth far, far more than what she paid for it (early-90s). Anyway, this "Journey..." book is no where near as lively and fascinating as that first adventure ... But it's still fun, and has lots of goofy, or charming -- or both! -- kinds of characters.

AnnPann - I did a little digging for you, and although I didn't find any specific sites referring to that situation, I found some books that might address it: Australia-focused home front books: S.J. Butlin and C.B. Schedvin, War Economy 1942Â1945, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 1997 Darian-Smith, Kate. On the Home Front: Melbourne in Wartime, 1939-1945. Australia: Oxford UP, 1990. Saunders, Kay. War on the Homefront: State Intervention in Queensland, 1938-1948 (1993) The Home Front Volume I by Nancy M. Taylor NZ official history (1986) The Home Front Volume II by Nancy M. Taylor NZ official history (1986) Political and External Affairs by Frederick Lloyd Whitfeld (1958) NZ official history Britain: Calder, Angus . The People's War: Britain 1939-45 (1969) Harris, Carol (2000). Women at War 1939-1945: The Home Front. Thrupp: Sutton Publishing Limited. ISBN 0-7509-2536-1. Marwick, Arthur (1976). The Home Front: The British and the Second World War. Rose, Sonya O. (2003) Which People's War?: National Identity and Citizenship in Wartime Britain 1939-1945 Misc: Costello, John. Love, Sex, and War: Changing Values, 1939-1945 1985. US title: Virtue under Fire: How World War II Changed Our Social and Sexual Attitudes Noakes, Jeremy ed., The Civilian in War: The Home Front in Europe, Japan and the U.S.A. in World War II Exeter, UK: University of Exeter, 1992. Then below is a link to an interesting site about a community in London with oral histories etc (won't hurt your eyes).... Might be relevant... Here is a link that might be useful: Hidden Histories: East Community Heritage (London)

It certainly looks like Manjula. It is less about the color and morea bout the leaf shape to me. Manjual leaves are kinds of curly or curvy and more round or heart shape. PnJ are not curly and have a more pointy tip. You can go on the Costa Farms website and it describes them and has a photos (not a very close one). We had a discussion on here (I will try to find the thread) where we were talking about the differences between Manjula, Pearls N Jade, Glacier and N'Joy. Justin from Costa Famrs gave a nice description of each of them. Costa Farms (exotic angel plants) grows Manjula, Pearls and Jade and Glacier but not N' Joy. Here is one thread where we discuss the differences of the plants. I will tr to find the other thread where Justin gives a written descriptions. [pothos thread[(https://www.houzz.com/discussions/anyone-heard-of-a-jessenia-pothos-from-costa-farms-dsvw-vd~4446385) and here is another thread very much like yours here