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scorched earth
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scorched earth

In warfare, the policy of burning and destroying everything that might be of use to an invading army, especially the crops in the fields. It was used to great effect in Russia in 1812 against the invasion of the French emperor Napoleon and again during World War II to hinder the advance of German forces in 1941.



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At that time, roses were also fertilized with bones (whole, crushed, powdered or acid-dissolved), burnt earth (clay soil incinerated on a bonfire of garden prunings, tree stumps and weeds), wood ashes or soot, night soil (human waste), sodium nitrate (mined in Chile) and bird guano (scraped off islands along the coasts of Peru, Bolivia and Patagonia).
GARDENING : FAILURE ALMOST ALWAYS PRECEDES HORTICULTURAL SUCCESS by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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