...the need for a garden of rare palms and vines and ornamental trees and shrubs which would be near enough to a growing city to form a quiet place where children with their elders could peer, as it were, into those fascinating jungles and palm glades of the tropics which have for generations stimulated the imaginations of American youth.
For keenest enjoyment, I visit when the dew is on them, or in cloudy weather, or when the rain is falling: and I must be alone or with someone who ca… - David Fairchild
For keenest enjoyment, I visit when the dew is on them, or in cloudy weather, or when the rain is falling: and I must be alone or with someone who ca…
- David Fairchild
...after my first feeling of revulsion had passed, I spent three of the most entertaining and instructive weeks of my life studying the fascinating m… - David Fairchild
...after my first feeling of revulsion had passed, I spent three of the most entertaining and instructive weeks of my life studying the fascinating m…
The mangosteen, queen of the tropical fruit. - David Fairchild
The mangosteen, queen of the tropical fruit.
...the need for a garden of rare palms and vines and ornamental trees and shrubs which would be near enough to a growing city to form a quiet place w… - David Fairchild
...the need for a garden of rare palms and vines and ornamental trees and shrubs which would be near enough to a growing city to form a quiet place w…
...the avocado is a food without rival among the fruits, the veritable fruit of paradise - David Fairchild
...the avocado is a food without rival among the fruits, the veritable fruit of paradise
Never to have seen anything but the temperate zone is to have lived on the fringe of the world. Between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Can… - David Fairchild
Never to have seen anything but the temperate zone is to have lived on the fringe of the world. Between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Can…
The human mind prefers something which it can recognize to something for which it has no name, and, whereas thousands of persons carry field glasses … - David Fairchild
The human mind prefers something which it can recognize to something for which it has no name, and, whereas thousands of persons carry field glasses …
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