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Later my host and I picked a free-growing vegetable which she cooked in a pasta.
Stanton Peele: Globalization and Its Discontents: War of Lifestyles 2010
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Later my host and I picked a free-growing vegetable which she cooked in a pasta.
Stanton Peele: Globalization and Its Discontents: War of Lifestyles 2010
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The dense crowns of plantationgrown trees become sparse to narrow in free-growing trees (Midgley et al. 1983).
Chapter 20 1990
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It may be grafted on to another free-growing kind with advantage, as it does not always keep healthy when on its own roots.
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-- A tufted, free-growing Thimble Cactus, producing its small stems in such profusion as to form a cluster as much as 3 ft. in diameter.
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The strain referred to produces fine free-growing specimen plants, and a batch should always be in reserve for cutting.
The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Sutton and Sons
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A free-growing plant under favourable conditions, and one requiring stove treatment.
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From this it will be seen that P. grandis is one of the most useful kinds, its large, sweet-scented flowers, and its free-growing nature, rendering it of exceptional value as a decorative plant.
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It is a free-growing kind, soon forming a large specimen if planted in a bed of old brick-rubble, or other light, well-drained soil, and kept in warm greenhouse temperature.
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A free-growing, compact stove shrub, with a bright green, healthy appearance.
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