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Old 11-08-2009, 05:23 PM posted to rec.gardens
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Default Good read on power of naming plants and animals
In article ,
Bill who putters wrote:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/11/science/11naming.html?8dpc

Thanks Bill. Good read.
I try to identify my weeds, before I pull them up. Some of them (Dead
Nettle, Sow Thistle, Urtica urens, Epilobium parviflorum) are now
encouraged in my garden.
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