Identifier: worldbookorganiz04oshe (find matches)
Title: The World book : organized knowledge in story and picture
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent), 1866-1932 Foster, Ellsworth D Locke, George Herbert, 1870-1937
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: Chicago : Hanson-Roach-Fowler
Contributing Library: Internet Archive
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FLOWERS 2225 FLOWERS was transferred to special workers. They, intheir turn, having time and the desire to experi-ment and to study, found it possible to createnew forms of life by aiding Mother Nature inher work and hastening her processes. Thescience of raising plants and producing newand improved forms of life has become a lifework with many men (see Burbank, Luther).The raising of plants for commercial pur-poses has grown into an important industry.Florists, everywhere, supply flowers to thosecity people who have neither the time, theplace nor the means to grow them; and to

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