Word: growers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Englishwoman, Mrs. M. Grieve, has made herself her country's great grower of herbs and other simples. Another woman, Mrs. Carl Frederick Leyel, has made herself Britain's greatest advocate of herbal medicine. Last week the two published the U. S. edition of their two-volume Modern Herbal* It is compendium of their joint knowledge "the medicinal, culinary, cosmetic economic properties, cultivation and folklore of herbs, grasses, fungi, shrubs trees with all their modern scientific uses." It purports to be the first comprehensive medicinal herbal since the time of Nicholas Culpeper (1616-54), Stuart sir and astrologer...
...McKelvie, who racked his brains over these questions last week, is the latest man drafted by President Hoover to complete his Federal Farm Board (TIME, Aug. 12, 1929). No wheat-grower, Mr. McKelvie publishes the Nebraska Farmer. Grumblers call him a "political farmer." Aged 50, staunchly conservative, Publisher McKelvie opposes the equalization fee, opposes debenture, urges the farmer to help himself...
...about the desert garden of Robert F. Manda where more than 1,000 varieties of weird misshapen cacti were growing in sand and rocks. Fourth day of the show the crowd grew even thicker. The "Crown of Thorns," a rare silver-grey prickle bush brought from Palestine by Cactus-grower Manda 25 years ago, had suddenly burgeoned with dozens of brilliant red flowers. Only once in three or four years does the Crown of Thorns bloom, hardly ever at this season, never before at the New York Flower Show...
...turnip-grower could issue money he might say: "Here is a piece of paper good for one turnip. I promise to keep a turnip in my cellar for each piece of paper I issue, or if not a turnip then an onion or some other vegetable equally good...
Christmas trees, for which 700,000 spruce and balsam fir were sold last year. Average price to the grower is 6? (in the cities the retailer gets 50? to $10). Last season a group of growers in Coos County marketed cooperatively, tagged their trees with special holiday labels, realized as much as 15? per tree...