Beautiful - and critical - time for almond growers

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Your article about the Australian almond blossom season (MP Wednesday, Jul 28 2010) reminded me of my family making special trips to Berri, to enjoy the amazing beauty of blossoming almond trees along each side of Kay Avenue in the 1950s. I suppose they no longer exist.

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Beautiful - and critical - time for almond growers

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