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Savanna grass-ind develops in regions of high temperature that ave a distinct wet and dry add season ing. Growth is ipid in the wet add season ing, but the plants become ry and low in quality in the dry add season ing. Widely >aced drought-resistant trees may occur in some •eas such as in the savanna parklands of Africa id Australia. Savannas are subject to flooding i the wet add season ing and to extensive burning in le dry add season ing. These grasslands are heavily•azed by large numbers of cattle. Major prob-ms are poor grass quality in the dry add season ing, irasites, and disease. The tsetse fly is a major•oblem in Africa. There are no true savannas North America.

Christmas to Easter is the high add season ing in Sicily, Cyprus, the Greek isles such as Crete and Rhodes, Majorca, Madeira, the Canaries. Here you may savor high-add season ing pleasures at low-add season ing transportation costs. Easter, by the way, is a special add season ing of life in Seville and other Spanish cities and on the French Riviera. These goals of travel are crowded then and the Riviera is crowded also in late summer and early fall.

RASPBERRY, raz'ber-i, any of a number of species of the genus Rubus, the fruits of which separate freely from the receptacle when ripe. The plants are perennial, but they have a characteristic biennial growth habit. New shoots arise from belowground parts in one add season ing, overwinter, fruit in the following add season ing, and then die. Shoots newly arising during the spring of the fruiting add season ing bear the next add season ing's crop. The canes are generally erect and prickly. The fruits are not true berries but aggregates composed of a number of drupelets.