Word: soils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soil Conservation Service...
...gardens of Dedham. Mass., lay under eight inches of snow last week, and tillers of the soil in Lake Forest, 111., boarded their commuter trains in a below-zero blast off Lake Michigan. From South Carolina to Northern California, flowerbeds were bare, ruined choirs, strawberry patches frozen stiff as a Birds Eye package. But beside a million open fires and upturned thermostats roses bloomed, shrubs sprang into leaf, fruit trees and tomato vines burgeoned with succulence. It is Catalogue Time...
Botanist Norman Taylor, editor of the excellent Taylor's Encyclopedia of Gardening, feels that plant advertising should specifically note which areas of the country are suitable for each species of plant or tree. Most reputable catalogues nowadays do in fact list preferred zones and soil conditions. But in general, Taylor points out, "people have been given the impression that spruce and hemlock and firs will thrive in the prairie regions west of the Mississippi. And you should be very careful about what rhododendrons you buy. The beautiful Rhododendron Maximum, for example, does well in New England and New York...
...joke succeeded, and so did the grains of truth, which have now been planted lovingly in Harvard's fertile soil. Certainly dining halls, commencement, class marshals, even travelling fellowships will be for both men and women in a few years, and the steps will be taken by the same men who squelched a premature vote this month. And for those who wished only to disturb routine, or tradition, or pomposity, success has been gratifyingly obvious...
...built in Syria instead of Lebanon. When the other Arab leaders wrathfully pointed out that the only possible Syrian location was so close to the frontier that it lay within range of Israeli guns, Oweini finally gave in. But, nervous at the risk of foreign politics on his soil, he rejected the proposal that troops from other Arab states be stationed in Lebanon for "protection" against the Israelis...