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When I was a little girl in the 1930s and 1940s, it was the custom to always plant a tree on Arbor Day. Our family always did, and whether a fruit-bearing, ornamental or transplanted evergreen from ...

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Now the Egyptian house is a kind of secret garden inside the Bioparco, round and sleepy among scaffolding and wisteria vines.