Word: horticulturist
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DIED. David Burpee, 87, horticulturist whose mail order seed business, W. Atlee Burpee Co., developed the first commercially available tomato, cantaloupe and cucumber hybrids and sold 1,400 varieties of plants; in Doylestown...
...plant can be a thing of joy and beauty until that point at which no prescription-talking to it, feeding it vitamins, watering it with Perrier or soothing it with Brahms-can rescue it from terminal dropsy. The green thumb turns down, the plant goes out, and the home horticulturist invests hope and dollars in yet another persnickety sprig. For more and more lovers of greenery, and indeed of year-round fresh vegetables, the answer is hydroponics, or water gardening...
...from the atmosphere, thanks to a happy symbiosis with guest Rhizobium bacteria in the plant's potato-like tubers. Consequently, it needs no fertilizer and even enriches the soil in which it grows. Any parts picky humans do not want to eat can be fed to cattle. As Horticulturist Jack Kelly of the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agriculture Sciences puts it, "It's like the butcher's pig. Everything's useful but the oink...
Inspired by the famed Palm House of England's Royal Botanic Gardens, the conservatory's 90-ft.-high dome and ten interconnecting pavilions cover nearly an acre. Within that glass palace, Horticulturist Carleton Lees has created what he calls "a living museum so that people can see what the real world was like in the past." After all, he explains, "we're more related to these things than we are to the automobile. They live and breathe like...
...land had been owned for three quarters of a century by the Belgian baron Louis Edouard Mathieu Berkmans. His sons, Prosper Jules Alphonse Berkmans, was a famous horticulturist who was responsible for the popularization of the azalea. Prosper converted the land into a nursery named Fruitlands...