Word: peaches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thank-you gift of 2,000 Japanese cherry trees to the city of Washington in 1909. When the trees reached the U.S., however, the Department of Agriculture looked the gift trees in the bark and found they were heavily infested with the San Jose and the West Indian peach scale, Oriental moths, earwigs, and thrips. The Department had them destroyed...
Sophomores and residents of Henry and Peach Houses will draw lots in Moors during the same hours and freshmen will draw tomorrow...
...garden, or the fruits and vegetables for her kitchen, the results were sparkling. He had the knack of putting flowers into many-faceted, highly polished pictures without seeming to disarrange their leaves and petals. The driest of artists, he knew how to keep the bloom on a peach or the dew on a blossom. His talent had never been robust; the fact that his best works were evocations of things so elusive and so close to perfection as flowers was a measure of its fineness...
Juniors will draw first on March 22 from 9:45 to 12:15 p.m. and 2:15 p.m. to 4 p.m.; sophomores and residents of Henry and Peach Houses will draw on March 23 and freshmen on March 24 at the same times...
...dare to eat a peach...