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David Fairchild

(1791–1866) Politician

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David Fairchild was a politician.

Quick Facts About David Fairchild

Born: August 1, 1791
Died: September 17, 1866
Profession: Politician

About David Fairchild

[Wikidata] American politician... | [Wikipedia] David Grandison Fairchild was an American botanist and plant explorer. Fairchild was responsible for the introduction of more than 200,000 exotic plants and varieties of established crops into the United States, including soybeans, pistachios, mangos, nectarines, dates, bamboos, and flowering cherri

Quotes by David Fairchild

The human mind prefers something which it can recognize to something for which it has no name, and, whereas thousands of persons…

David Fairchild

Behinds

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Never to have seen anything but the temperate zone is to have lived on the fringe of the world. Between the Tropic…

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Bird

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...the need for a garden of rare palms and vines and ornamental trees and shrubs which would be near enough to a…

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American youth

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...the avocado is a food without rival among the fruits, the veritable fruit of paradise

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Avocados

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For keenest enjoyment, I visit when the dew is on them, or in cloudy weather, or when the rain is falling: and…

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Care

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The mangosteen, queen of the tropical fruit.

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Food

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...after my first feeling of revulsion had passed, I spent three of the most entertaining and instructive weeks of my life studying…

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Beautiful

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