Word: horticulturalists
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...plant doctors often benefit mightily from basic ignorance. A New York housewife recently called Horticulturalist Peter Dunlop wailing that there was a pink snake in her plant. Dunlop, incredulous, asked how long it was, three feet, two, one? It turned out to be an inchworm. Another New York housewife recently expended the last half-gallon of gas in the family car to rush her ailing plant to the nearest cactus clinic. "It's stopped growing," she cried, "and the leaves keep falling off. I've tried everything, from Mozart to peat moss. What am I doing wrong...
...only horticulturalist but also businessman and clubman, it has long been the ambition of David Burpee to take over the unfinished work of Luther Burbank. And that work he will carry on, he says, as Burbank did: in a scientific spirit, not a commercial one, in the interest of mankind. Also he hopes to bring greater resources to the experiments than Burbank was ever able to command. Some of the work will be done at Burpee farms in the East but most of it will be done in the tight two acres of Burbank's own garden...