Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0001018, Mon, 4 Mar 1996 15:05:04 -0800

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Transparent Things query: ginko (fwd)
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From: Chris Ackerley <Chris.Ackerley@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>

In reply to the question about the ginko-Kew link up: it's a very simple
witticism, deriving from the fact that when the ginko was discovered in
China (as the only instance of a species long believed extinct), it was
brought back to London and propogated at Kew Gardens.

Chris.Ackerley@stonebow.otago.ac.nz