Word: horticulturist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...risen from 7? to $1.35 a pound. When spice-grinders tried to use wild California sage instead, it could not be sold because t smacked of turpentine. Though a sprinking of backyard sage may help out, such supplies will not be commercially important. >Thyme came from France. No U.S. horticulturist is yet growing it commercially. > Best paprika came from Hungary. A little still arrives from Portugal and Spain, but even that may be cut off before a 350-acre paprika experiment in Louisiana is successful. > Spanish saffron, used to color and flavor fancy rolls and buns, soared from...
...Last and least little party: The National Greenback Party, which advocates going off the gold standard and electing John Zahnd, an amateur horticulturist of Indianapolis, as President of the U. S. For Vice President: James E. Yates, apostle in the Phoenix, Ariz. Church of Christ...
Vermont's tousled-haired, horticulturist Governor, George D. Aiken, proposed to his opponent for Republican Senatorial nomination that they jointly forswear roadside political advertising. His reason: "A wild clematis is far more attractive to our guests than either your face or mine on the side of a tree or barn...
Last week David Burpee, enterprising Philadelphia horticulturist, announced a new marigold, created by means of colchicine. Ordinary marigolds have two sets of chromosomes in their germ cells; the new one has four. Such plants are called tetraploids. The name of the Burpee creation is "Tetra Marigold" - or Tetra for short...