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87Figs And Dates
Among all fruits, there are two that stand out conspicuously for high food value. They are the date and the fig. Weight for weight, dried figs are more nourishing than bread. A pound and a half yields...
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84Common Edible Wild Plants - Part I
Sitting at nature's dinner table, most would be surprised at the goodness and variety of the bounty. By learning about just a few wild edible plants, you'll soon be able to recognize them, and never have to...
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76The Grass Wars - Part I
Realize it or not, here in Florida, many of us live in a grass war zone. The war unofficially declared back when speculative investors and contractors got together and decided to rape the land for all it's...
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79Strawberry Insects and Other Pests
Just like us, strawberry plants can be bothered by unwanted pests. Knowing and recognizing what problems and pests your strawberry crop is experiencing, can help you decide what to do to eliminate the problem.
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76The Poet's Flowers
When we are reading either prose or poetry (and even sometimes in literature), from the earliest times, we constantly find references to certain flowers. Yet, for many of us today, the quaint old time names,...
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77Luxuriant Flowers of The Rocky Mountains
In the Rocky Mountains, the mountain zone occupies the slopes of middle elevations and includes all the taller, richer forests. Pine, spruce, and fir trees are most plentiful, and their shade is often so...
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73More Pacific Coast Wildflowers
There's great diversity in the many landscapes and climates that encompass the Pacific Coast of the North American Continent. Perhaps nowhere else, does a region span so many miles and such a great varying in...
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73Were All Flowers Once Wild?
Certainly all flowers did once grow wild -- and all animals, too. There are certain kinds of flowers and animals which men have developed by choosing the kind of thing they wanted and leaving the rest, and so...
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75Midwest Wildflowers - Part I
I can't remember a time when I wasn't wild about wildflowers, even the ones that most people would call weeds. I've been blessed with a life rich in travel, both inside and outside of America's borders. There...
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72Continuing Grass Wars - Part II
The common Reed (which is a grass) and its many flowered head (magnified) In The Grass Wars - Part I, I briefly mentioned the on-going unofficial grass wars, as a prelude to trying to help others understand...
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