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“The trees, in turn, are fed upon, or otherwise attacked, by many kinds of mites, insects, and fungus diseases, against which Mathias’s crews use a liquid arsenal ranging from a fine mist of petroleum to parathion, a deadly nerve gas developed by German scientists during the Second World War.” Gobsmacking fact 🍊
— Jun 12, 2026 02:48PM
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Nithya
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“In 1544, Petrus Andreas Matthiolus decided that even orange-flower water, long in use as a perfume, was an excellent specific against the fevers of the plague, a belief which may at least have kept him and his followers in a healthy frame of mind until 1571, when he died of the plague.” (76) 🤣
— Jun 15, 2026 07:17AM
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So many orange trees are in fact Frankenstein’s monsters it seems. I wonder what John McPhee’s thoughts on Cuties would be
— Jun 07, 2026 08:13AM
