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Word: boxwood (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman could look out over the formal rose gardens, edged with boxwood. And as he walked back to Blair House at day's end, he could also see, glowing pink and salmon under the ancient elms, the round beds of impatiens, which people also know as the patience plant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Breath of Summer | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...shade trees: A .1% DDT emulsion destroys tent caterpillars, cankerworms, gypsy moths, elm leaf beetles, boxwood leaf miner and some other pests. Warning: it increases the population of red mites, by killing their parasites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: This Summer--DDT | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

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