Working at the "plant hospital"
By Jennifer Platts-Fanning and Shara Cody
This blog post was originally published to Cultivating Science on science.gc.ca.
One misty Island morning, as I climbed into a cab on my way to work, the driver asked where I was going. I responded in the Island way, simply, "the big white building with the greenhouses." Immediately he exclaimed, "Oh, the plant hospital!" to which I replied smiling, "It does look like a hospital, but we only diagnose and we don't treat the plants." The work performed in the incredible building has always been a topic of rumour around our little town.
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