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...called the maguey it takes only 15 years or so to store up the energy to bloom. Unblooming, it looks like an ordinary ground-palm: a rosette of long, pointed leaves spreading out from a central core. When its time comes it hastily pokes up a huge flowering stalk, thick as a tree trunk, from 15 to 40 ft. high, tops it with a huge cauliflower sprig with hundreds of little white or yellow tubular flowers. After holding this climax for a month, the tall stalk withers, the whole plant dies. Mexicans commonly intercept the climax by cutting...
Last July a 50-year-old plant belonging to Charles Curie of Cornwall, N. Y. began pushing a stalk bud up through its central core. At once he had the plant dug out of his greenhouse and trucked to the Bronx Park Botanical Gardens where experts could replant it in the open and study its blossoming under natural conditions. Last month the stalk began to grow at the rate of an inch an hour, grew 15 feet high, put out 600 grey-green buds. For four successive weeks experts announced the century plant was about to bloom...
...desk a Government check for $517 and handed it to stocky, red-faced William E. Morris, first Texas cotton planter to agree to plow up part of his crop. The check was the Agricultural Adjustment Administration's payment for 47 acres of cotton destroyed. Spotting a cotton stalk in Farmer Morris' left hand, the President declared: "That cotton looks better than that which we raise down in Georgia." ¶President Roosevelt approved a special N R A 3? postage stamp to be issued Aug. 15. Design: a farmer, a business man, a factory worker and a woman "walking...
...characters and characterizations which are about as lifelike as Victorian porcelain under glass, hitherto frail Miss Gish stands out full-blooded and alive. Gone is her pastel shy- ness, gone are her girlish gasps as she takes the part of the murderess who gave up a pallid suitor to stalk Electra-like after her vicious father and his paramour through the gloom of their New England parlor, killing one with a walking stick, another with a flat iron. Actress Gish still has a strong hold on her part in the otherwise flabby final scene when, a misty old lady self...
...banana, whose stalks hang upsidedown in the grocers, has leaves with blade 6 ft. to 8 ft. tall, 12 in. to 15 in. wide, petiole (stalk) up to 6 ft. long. (Stalk in cocoloba not over...