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Word: zinnias (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rigorously limited to those devotees who take snails with high seriousness. "Lying in the grass, just watching, is not sufficient," says Heaton. The complete conchophilist must know snails in their nocturnal ramblings-as they scale the Himalayas of a graveled garden walk, patiently penetrate the jungles of a zinnia border, or chew the bloom off prize winning Gloire de Dijon roses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Compleat Conchophilist | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

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