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Best Horticulture Poems


Premium Member If I Could Splice Two Trees Together
If I were a horticulturalist like Sam Van Aken
I would splice a banana tree with a strawberry tree.
Strawberries are not tree-grown? 
Okay.
Then I would splice a banana tree with a peanut tree.
If I could find a butter cow from the Iowa State Fair
I would set...

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Categories: horticulture, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Light Verse
Horticultural Incest
Horticulture?  truly awesome!
Granddaddy’s timeless illusion -
one giant synthetic blossom 
swirling midst rustic seclusion.

Fascinated by back-crossing,
Pop experimented in silence.
Sleep was spent turning and tossing
weird ideas, odd incidents.

His gigantic bogus blossom
would emanate from these night-swings.
He had heard that you could cross some
old parent plants with their...

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Categories: horticulture, 11th grade, flower, mental
Form: Quatrain

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