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Savanna grass-ind develops in regions of high temperature that ave a distinct wet and dry off- season. Growth is ipid in the wet off- season, but the plants become ry and low in quality in the dry off- season. 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 off- season and to extensive burning in le dry off- season. These grasslands are heavily•azed by large numbers of cattle. Major prob-ms are poor grass quality in the dry off- season, 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 off- season in Sicily, Cyprus, the Greek isles such as Crete and Rhodes, Majorca, Madeira, the Canaries. Here you may savor high-off- season pleasures at low-off- season transportation costs. Easter, by the way, is a special off- season 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 off- season, overwinter, fruit in the following off- season, and then die. Shoots newly arising during the spring of the fruiting off- season bear the next off- season's crop. The canes are generally erect and prickly. The fruits are not true berries but aggregates composed of a number of drupelets.