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Robert B. Ragland April 29, 1920 - September 27, 2012 |
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Friends gathering to remember Bob Ragland -
September 30, 2012:
It is not enough to tinker with the machinery of our civilization, of our economy. We must re-invent the human race, must revise our pre-conceived notions, alter our world-view, radically change our thinking, be born anew as plain members of the Earth community, alter our relations with the other members and recognize our dependence on them. We must hold this up before ourselves and before others as our primary goal at all times.
This is my prescription for saving our planet.
Robert B.
Ragland, M.D.
Bob's 91st birthday on April 29th, 2010:
Pictured above L-R Bill Maness, Birthday Boy Bob, Jim Webb, and Tommy Webb.
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“That everything is connected to everything else” must be regarded as the First Law of Ecology. The Second law of Ecology might be termed the “limitation of all life by carrying capacity.” Each species, through evolutionary processes, is adapted to a specific habitat. This habitat is a finite resource with limits on the maximum number of a species that it can maintain over an “infinite span of time.” This limitation is termed the carrying capacity. The Third Law of ecology is “the need for diversity.” I suggest we define the conventional meaning of progress to be “those acts of man that enhance the human experience without impairing the earth’s life support systems.”
Journal of the Florida
Medical Association, October, 1970
“Man Looks at his Environment” by George Cornwell, Ph.D.
“Man Looks at his Environment” by George Cornwell, Ph.D.
Nun's Lily
(Nun's Orchid) Phaius
tankervillae (grandifolia)
This
orchid is a very easy plant to have, grow and propogate.
Soil: Pot
in sand with a lot of humus; clay or plastic container.
Sun: Must
have some sun but not full sun. Filtered sun is
good.
Temp:
Do not allow to freeze.
Fertilizer:
May 1st through October 1st, water weekly with 1
tablespoon of
20-20-20 mixed in a gallon of water;
then, October 1st through December 31st, water
weekly using a bloom booster or 10-30-20 fertilizer to
promote blooms. Do not fertilize the remainder
of the year but continue to water weekly and prune as
needed.
Water: As
needed, if in a hot dry room it will need watching.
Bloom: In April in
North Florida if kept outside. If brought insidein a sunny room at
onset of cold weather it may bloom as
early as January. Must have good light inside or
the bloom stalk will not remain erect. There
will be 5 to 20 blooms, opening from the bottom.
The bloom gives a view of a nun in her habit as
seen from above, with her looking down. Look in
the throat of the 2-3" bloom.
Colors:
Green,
white, red.
Propagation: The "bulbs" will mulitply as last year's bulb dies.
Propagation: The "bulbs" will mulitply as last year's bulb dies.
Sometimes 2 new
plants will replace an old one. When the pot is
crowded, and after blooming is over, wash the dirt off
the roots, tease the roots apart and separate the
bulbs. Usually the firm, dead looking bulbs will
put up a new shoot if potted separately. Another
way to propogate is by taking the bloom stalks after
they have finished blooming and planting them laying
down parallel to the ground in a flat with lots of
humus about a half inch below the surface. Water
frequently, keeping moist, protect from freezing, pot
in the spring. Will tend to mulitply small bulbs
before blooming in several years.