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Love's labors lost: Tsong-Hue and Hsu Lin look at the few Bonsai plants they have left after thieves stole 30 plants in two raids
Love's labors lost: Tsong-Hue and Hsu Lin look at the few Bonsai plants they have left after thieves stole 30 plants in two raids

Love's labors lost: Tsong-Hue and Hsu Lin look at the few Bonsai plants they have left after thieves stole 30 plants in two raids

Date11/5/1987
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0129480F
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5/15/1978
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Fundraiser extraordinaire: Monty Mazin holds a poster promoting the Jewish National Fund, which plants trees in Israel and ensures more people will have a happier future
Fundraiser extraordinaire: Monty Mazin holds a poster promoting the Jewish National Fund, which plants trees in Israel and ensures more people will have a happier future
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Mr. and Mrs. Percy H. Tacon tend shrubs in the courtyard of their Valleyanna Dr. home which is also on tour. The Tacons moved many of their plants into city from their farm home two years ago. Cost of touring the Bayview area gardens is $1. Tickets can be bought at the Garden Centre or at any of the gardens on days of the tour.
Mr. and Mrs. Percy H. Tacon tend shrubs in the courtyard of their Valleyanna Dr. home which is also on tour. The Tacons moved many of their plants into city from their farm home two years ago. Cost of touring the Bayview area gardens is $1. Tickets can be bought at the Garden Centre or at any of the gardens on days of the tour.
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Ranks Swollen by sympathetic workers from 28 Windsor area plants, 8,000 pickets marched in front of the two main gates of the Ford plant today. An are(...)
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Green cover with illustrations of flora in black ink, also figures in centre working in a garde ...
Botany for young people and common schools, how plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany with a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated illustrated by 500 wood engravings
approximately 1870s
Gary Perpich, is a plant shop owner-cum-doctor to the plants he has sold
Gary Perpich, is a plant shop owner-cum-doctor to the plants he has sold
n.d.
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