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Hybrid
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I am a mutant hybrid of smart and insanity.
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Cook had seen an avocado before, but not like this---so smooth, so green. The fruit took an express route to the greenhouse, where workers propagated the seeds, first in soil, and then suspended slightly in water. Fairchild had included written instructions that only mature trees would fruit, after several years, not months. He advised that as soon as the seedlings grew reasonable roots, they should be shipped to experiment stations in California to be shared with farmers interested in experimen
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― The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats
― The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats
