Word: azaleas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...founding mother of The New Yorker. She was also a gardener, a fiercely dedicated grubber of New England soil, an avid and acerbic consumer of seed catalogues. She had readjust about everything written about greenery and had strong opinions on every specimen from azalea to zinnia. So strong that Katharine S. White managed to sow in the least rustic of magazines a classic series of green thoughts: on herbs and weeds, trees and seeds, pedigreed blooms and wildflowers. Her articles were written with elegance and precision, and they deserve a place with such horticultural classics as Charles Sprague Sargent...
...patrician family, Teddy was hardly a candidate for prominence or longevity. He spent much of his childhood as an asthmatic gasping for breath; an aunt compared the boy to a "pale azalea." Then one day when Teddy was eleven, his domineering father told him: "You have the mind but you have not the body." With the toothy snarl that was to become famous, the son replied: "I'll make my body." That he did for the rest of his life, absorbing punishment as a boxer, hunter, mountain climber and rancher. In Roosevelt's last year at Harvard...
...South that had escaped the storms and floods was abloom with forsythia, magnolias and the ubiquitous azalea. Teetering on skateboards, the young skittered along paved river levees. The largest crowd (54,000) ever to watch a horse race in the Deep South whooped for the favorite at the Arkansas Derby in Hot Springs, and were rewarded when their choice, Clev Er Tell, won. In Round Top, Texas (pop. 64), visitors from Houston, looking for an excuse to take a short (100-mile) drive, attended the Antiques Fair and Winedale Spring Festival. They hoped to fleece the local merchants...
...land had been owned for three quarters of a century by the Belgian baron Louis Edouard Mathieu Berkmans. His sons, Prosper Jules Alphonse Berkmans, was a famous horticulturist who was responsible for the popularization of the azalea. Prosper converted the land into a nursery named Fruitlands...
Every year when the azalea and eucalyptus bushes begin to bloom in the citrus belt, the winter golf tour gets underway and people begin to wonder if Jack Nicklaus will reassert his dominance or if the golden hours of the Golden Bear are finally winding down...