Word: grimwood
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...from the earliest to the latest period possible." But by the standards of today's supermarket, most varieties in his book did not pass the test. When was the last time you saw a Winter Swan's Egg Pear at the store or had the juice from a Grimwood's Royal Charlotte Peach dribble down your chin? These fruits weren't commercially viable in the 1800s, and those that have survived are even less so today. "Quite a number of varieties were grown in walled gardens of big country homes in the 19th century, when a lot of time...
Last year, to foil the vigor seekers, the Fauna Preservation Society of Lon don launched Operation Oryx. Led by Major Ian R. Grimwood, chief game warden of Kenya Colony, an expedition of oryx savers spent two months in the deserts of Aden Protectorate in southern Arabia. They sighted four oryxes, lassoed three of them from a specially built car and brought them safely back alive...
After a long investigation, Major Grimwood decided that the best place for a "world herd" of Arab-proof oryxes was not in Kenya, but in Phoenix, where the dry, hot climate resembles that of Arabia, and where there is the spacious and hospitable Maytag Zoo. The Arizona Air National Guard, happy to boost the home state, flew a C-97 cargo plane to pick up the oryxes, which had been shipped to New Jersey. The four consisted of two males and two females, Edith from Aden, and Caroline, contributed by the London Zoo. Another female, still unnamed, will arrive...
...Game. In Braintree, England, Claude Grimwood was fined $14 for illegally setting traps for foxes, after one of his traps snagged the village policeman...
| 1 |