How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
~Walter Scott
Fire! Fire!
Keep cool
Be brave
Just grab
Your pants and
Burma Shave
1938
America is a mistake, a giant mistake!
--Sigmund Freud
PLANTS AND BIOLOGY Part 13 of 17
The largest single flower is the Rafflesia or "corpse flower". They are generally 3 feet in diameter with the record being 42 inches.
The oldest living thing in existence is not a giant redwood, but a bristlecone pine in the White Mountains of California, dated to be aged 4,600 years old.
The pineapple was symbol of welcome in the 1700-1800's. That is why in New England you will see so many pineapples on door knockers. An arch in Providence RI leading into the Federal Hill neighborhood has a pineapple on it for that very reason. Pineapples were brought home by seafarers as gifts.
The plant life in the oceans make up about 85 percent of all the greenery on the Earth.
Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.
Napolean Hill
PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA
Franklin Pierce was the first President to have a Christmas
tree in the White House.
