Fisher did not see his friend until a fortnight later, when he found himself in the garden at the back of the clubhouse on the opposite side from the links, a garden heavily colored and scented with sweet
semitropical plants in the glow of a desert sunset.
The surrounding shores were beautiful with
semitropical verdure, while in the distance the country rose from the ocean in hill and tableland, almost uniformly clothed by primeval forest.
Malaria, a disease eliminated in temperate climates with mosquito eradication programs, remains widespread in the tropical and
semitropical climates.
In the 1870s and 1880s, real estate developers seized upon palm trees as markers of Los Angeles as a warm,
semitropical paradise, the new desert Eden.
They grew not in the Arizona desert, but in
semitropical forests 1,500 miles to the south before continental drift transported them north.
In the
semitropical climate of Florida, when composted broiler litter (to improve the water-holding capacity of Florida's sandy soil) and heavy blackstrap molasses were incorporated as substrate, anaerobic soil disinfestation treatments provided good control of nutsedge and excellent control of grasses, broadleaf weeds, Phytophthora capsici and Fusarium oxysporum f.
A clerk accidently altered the sentence: "Fruit plants, tropical and
semitropical" to "Fruit, plants tropical and
semitropical" therefore exempting all tropical and
semitropical plants from duty fees.
Effect of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer on Yield of safflower in
semitropical condition.
Geckos, a type of lizard, are found in tropical and
semitropical regions around the world.
Most of the world's Muslim population inhabits a tropical and
semitropical expanse that stretches across Africa and Asia from the Atlantic shores of Mauritania and Morocco to the Pacific archipelagos of Indonesia and the Philippines.
Recall, for a moment, the acres of printed fabric typical of the 1950s, which often featured patterns generated from an automatic doodle, sometimes an amoebic motif of crisscrossing lines that, when allied to a fruity palette (chartreuse or papaya), evoked bright,
semitropical horizons (Los Angeles, Miami) as well as a sunny suburban postwar future.
Both Australian poster and California label projected a
semitropical paradise.
