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The plants which stand next to dwarf trees in importance with the Chinese are certainly chrysanthemums, which they manage extremely well, perhaps better than they do any other plant. ↗

— Robert Fortune

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We are told that the first part of the process is to select the very smallest seeds from the smallest plants, which is not at all unlikely, but I cannot speak to the fact from my own observation. ↗

— Robert Fortune

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When these suckers had formed roots in the open ground, or kind of nursery where they were planted, they were looked over and the best taken up for potting. ↗

— Robert Fortune

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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

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Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

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We're not that far from being able to plant images, memories, and emotional states directly into the brain. ↗

— Douglas Trumbull

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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. ↗

— Voltaire

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation. ↗

— George Washington

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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. ↗

— George Washington

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The difference is that for a soundly conceived and solidly endowed republic it takes a great deal longer for those seeds to germinate and the plants to grow. ↗

— Robert Welch

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