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The flower first began to poke out of the soil in March, and in the past few days it had been growing at about six centimetres a day, according to Swissinfo news website.

根据Swissinfo新闻网站的报道，3月份花蕾开始破土而出，在过去的几天里它以每天约6厘米的速度在生长。

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Ian scooped some soil out of the flower pot.

伊恩从花盆里铲出了一些土。

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To test the liquid, he placed a drop in the soil of a dying flower growing in a pot in the room.

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When the yet-to-be-hired Knight-sponsored fellows have wrapped up their investigations and sit down to draw up those best practices, will they conclude that most of what the Tribune has accomplished can be exported, or is it a flower that can only thrive in the soil of the Lone Star state?

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The episode is known as the Younger Dryas, because in Scandinavia abundant pollen from a tundra flower called the mountain avens, Dryas octopetala, reappears in soil from this date, indicating that the forest had once more given way to tundra.

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