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Saturday, August 20, 2016
1871 - Russian Mammoth Seeds; 2016 - Russian Mammoth Odds and Ends
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Who can resist the allure of a flower two stories high?!! I started looking around for Mammoth Russian odds and ends, and thi...
Monday, August 15, 2016
1879 - Sunflowers vs. the Pent Up Miasma
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I had no clue that planting sunflowers used to be considered an excellent way to prevent malaria! The swampy lowland around Washingto...
Sunday, August 14, 2016
1912 - Vasilii Stepanovich Pustovoit and his Sunflowers
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I think I first twigged to Pustovoit when I encountered this mention of him. Or maybe not...whatever the case, he certainly impacted t...
Saturday, August 13, 2016
Seeds from Russia - How the USA Learned to Value the Sunflower
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The sunflower has long been grown in this country for ornamental purposes and the wild form has been used by nature to give the boy, rais...
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