Word: horticulturist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the atmosphere, thanks to a happy symbiosis with guest Rhizobium bacteria in the plant's potato-like tubers. Consequently, it needs no fertilizer and even enriches the soil in which it grows. Any parts picky humans do not want to eat can be fed to cattle. As Horticulturist Jack Kelly of the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agriculture Sciences puts it, "It's like the butcher's pig. Everything's useful but the oink...
Inspired by the famed Palm House of England's Royal Botanic Gardens, the conservatory's 90-ft.-high dome and ten interconnecting pavilions cover nearly an acre. Within that glass palace, Horticulturist Carleton Lees has created what he calls "a living museum so that people can see what the real world was like in the past." After all, he explains, "we're more related to these things than we are to the automobile. They live and breathe like...
...land had been owned for three quarters of a century by the Belgian baron Louis Edouard Mathieu Berkmans. His sons, Prosper Jules Alphonse Berkmans, was a famous horticulturist who was responsible for the popularization of the azalea. Prosper converted the land into a nursery named Fruitlands...
...combination of ingredients. For the range-riding cooks who invented it, chili consisted of scrawny beef-whose dubious flavor was masked by peppers and spices -and whatever else was around. In any case, it makes a nourishing dish. Roy M. Nakayama, 53, a New Mexico State University horticulturist who has studied peppers for 20 years and eats them three times a day, points out, "Chilis are rich in vitamins A and C. As antioxidants they also help preserve the meat and break down the fibers." Chili buffs claim the peppers can cure anything from fallen arches to falling hair...
Andrew Lytle, Litt.D., author. Rachel L. Mellon, Sc.D., horticulturist. Since Eden, men and women have been tending gardens. It is a time-honored profession, a notable vocation...