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Aren't you generalising there a little Gerry, and maybe been a little unfair? Isn't what they teach history? They must surely have had an interest in their given scientific subject and the history that goes with it.
I stopped keeping fish for that very reason. My fish were going missing and I didn't know where to. Thought it was either cats or someone was taking them. Then one night I got up in the very early hours of the morning to use the toilet when it was still pitch black and noticed the back security light was on. When I looked out there was a heron in the pond helping itself to my prize fish! Gutted. It was a good Friday mind. And if people tell you that herons needs a good run to take off don't believe them, they can take off like a harrier jet!
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There was a period, mainly from the middle of the last century on, when new plant varieties, especially shrubs, were being named (paid for obviously) after big commercial brands - e.g. the deciduous azalea 'Persil'. Rhododendron 'Persil' being , of course, a brilliant white.