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Out Season: Savanna grass-ind develops in regions of high temperature that ave a distinct wet and dry out season. Growth is ipid in the wet out season, but the plants become ry and low in quality in the dry out season. Widely >aced drought-resistant trees may occur in some
•eas such as in the savanna parklands of Africa id Australia. Savannas are subject to flooding i the wet out season and to extensive burning in le dry out season. These grasslands are heavily•azed by large numbers of cattle. Major prob-ms are poor grass quality in the dry out season, irasites, and disease. The tsetse fly is a major•oblem in Africa. There are no true savannas North America.
Christmas to Easter is the high out season in Sicily, Cyprus, the Greek isles such as Crete and Rhodes, Majorca, Madeira, the Canaries. Here you may savor high-out season pleasures at low-out season transportation costs. Easter, by the way, is a special out season of life in Seville and other Spanish cities and on the French Riviera. These goals of travel are crowded then and the Riviera is crowded also in late summer and early fall.
RASPBERRY, raz'ber-i, any of a number of species of the genus Rubus, the fruits of which separate freely from the receptacle when ripe. The plants are perennial, but they have a characteristic biennial growth habit. New shoots arise from belowground parts in one out season, overwinter, fruit in the following out season, and then die. Shoots newly arising during the spring of the fruiting out season bear the next out season's crop. The canes are generally erect and prickly. The fruits are not true berries but aggregates composed of a number of drupelets. |
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