Word: vine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cheong yin Wong is a 27-year-old Chinese who is doing graduate work in experimental botany at Michigan State College. Last week his mentors announced that Cheong had produced seedless watermelons. He did it by removing the male elements of the flower from the vine before pollination could take place, treating the female with growth-stimulating chemicals. Some of his seedless melons are pear-shaped...
...suggest that TIME's book reviewer, as well as Novelist Burt, acquaint himself with Montana geography. Pumpkin Creek, the correct name for which is Pumpkin Vine Creek, does not join Powder River! This creek flows into the Tongue River approximately ten miles south of the confluence of the Tongue and Yellowstone Rivers...
...months ago NBC opened its brand-new broadcasting studios in Hollywood- the $1,500,000 Radio City on Sunset Boulevard and Vine Street-and simultaneously knocked the dust out of Hollywood tradition. No floodlights streaked the sky, no celebrities battled their way past autograph hounds to offer congratulations...
...Bordeaux mixture is so named because the French vine-growers of the Bordeaux region used to spray their plants with copper sulphate and lime-not as a plant medicine but as a deterrent to thieves. An alert viticulturist named Millardet discovered that vines so sprayed were not attacked by downy mildew. David Fairchild and an associate were the first to try out Bordeaux mixture with success on Virginia vineyards...
...accused of plagiarizing French wine names he claims indignantly that Burgundy is as much a descriptive word as whiskey. He also enjoys pointing out that when the disease Phylloxera virtually wiped out European vineyards between 1870 and 1880, the only thing that saved them was grafting European grape vines on the root stock of the wild vine of California...