{"id":511,"date":"2023-03-16T22:49:54","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T22:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spacecoastpalms.com\/?p=511"},"modified":"2023-03-21T20:55:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T20:55:37","slug":"the-amazing-fairchild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacecoastpalms.com\/?p=511","title":{"rendered":"The Amazing Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Our annual migration to Fairchild…enjoy the pictures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…the need for a garden of rare palms and vines and ornamental trees and shrubs which would be near enough to a growing city to form a quiet place where children with their elders could peer, as it were, into those fascinating jungles and palm glades of the tropics which have for generations stimulated the imaginations of American youth.<\/p>David Fairchild<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe human mind prefers something which it can recognize to something for which it has no name, and, whereas thousands of persons carry field glasses to bring horses, ships, or steeples close to them, only a few carry even the simplest pocket microscope. Yet a small microscope will reveal wonders a thousand times more thrilling than anything which Alice saw behind the looking-glass.\u201d<\/p>The World Was My Garden: Travels Of A Plant Explorer\u2015 David Fairchild<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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