Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although the Arboretum has numerous other exquisite collections, Chief Plant Propagator, John H. Alexander III, said that these redolent spring blossoms have a certain nostalgia attached to them...
...people think of lilacs as the plant that was at [their] grandmother's back door," Alexander said...
Alexander said that while he and his colleagues do not know exactly what makes one year better than the next, they do have very refined methods to produce a better plant...
...addition to Lilac Day, the Arboretum has an annual plant sale later in the year where some lilacs are sold...
Darwin began as a gentleman naturalist. It was in, and for, the working out of his great idea that he became a specialist in zoology, taxonomy, geology, paleontology, animal breeding, plant breeding, embryology, animal behavior, human behavior, sociology and ecology (a discipline he essentially created). Einstein, too, was guided in his scientific work by a single vision. So was Edward Gibbon, who described the guiding idea of his multivolume historical and literary masterpiece, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in a single short sentence: "I have described the triumph of barbarism and religion." These examples suggest that someone...