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These are being replaced by more halophytic Ammi visnaga and Scolymus maculatus.
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_ -- Any good garden loam is adapted to the growth of the Scolymus.
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(_Scolymus_), which besides their beauty have a classical interest.
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868
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Plucked from the stem of the Cynara Scolymus or globe artichoke plant, artichoke leaves and their powerful extract also known as ALE, has a variety of uses against bodily ailments.
LewRockwell.com 2009
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Make a Vegetable Garden, "though it does embrace some weird vegetables, explaining, for instance, that pats-choi is used like chards, and that" Scolymus is sowed like Scorzonera. "
Three Acres and Liberty Bolton Hall 1896
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"Hesiod elegantly describing the time of year, says, ἠμος δε σκολυμος τ'ανθει, when the Scolymus flowers, _i. e._, in hot weather or summer (" Op. et dies, "582).
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868
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