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Article about FTG's Jack Fisher

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Nice article about Fairchild Tropical Garden in general, and Jack B. Fisher Ph.D. in particular.

http://www.sptimes.com/2006....r.shtml

Tom
Mid-Pinellas (St. Petersburg) Florida, USA

Member of Palm Society 1973-2012
Gizella Kopsick Palm Arboretum development 1977-1991
Chapter President 1983-84
Palm Society Director 1984-88

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Hey, neighbor!

Thank you so much for posting that!  As luck would have it, I'm hundreds of miles from home - and missed that issue.  Very interesting - and so sad, the details of the wreckage of Andrew and last year's hurricanes upon the Garden.  There is a display in one of their buildings - a photographic-essay type that depicts Andrew's rampage through the Garden and the incredible number of volunteers who went there to help.

The story of the Attalea is heartwrenching - the poverty of Haiti and the rare palm driven to extinction in man's struggle to survive.

St. Pete

Zone - a wacked-out place between 9b & 10

Elevation = 44' - not that it does any good

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Great article. My fiance saved it for me while I was away.

Ray

Tampa, Interbay Peninsula, Florida, USA

subtropical USDA Zone 10A

Bokeelia, Pine Island, Florida, USA

subtropical USDA Zone 10B

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