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Fruitful Barrens

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Some people love Atlantic City, New Jersey, that enduring combination of gambling mecca and seaside resort.  It is a place where breathtaking Atlantic coast scenery is locked in a pitched battle for tourist attention with artificial environments designed to shut out the outside world.  Atlantic City is a paradox with hotel rooms. I was on … Read more

Edible Hedges

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Europeans have always been crazy about hedges.  In England they are practically a religion.  We Americans, with our love of wide open spaces and vast suburban lawns, have generally been less hedge-crazy.  It isn’t that we don’t like shrubs.  In the twentieth century we have used everything from salix to sand cherry to conceal the … Read more