PECULIAR SNOW
The southern negro, states an American magazine, with his proverbial fondnGSS for watermelon, would no doubt revel in the snow in a drift high on Lassen Peak, in California—for this snow not only is watermelon pink, but smells and tastes like watermelon. This peculiar condition has a simple scientific explanation. The colour, smell and taste are duo to a minute plant of the algae family which is present in enormous quantities. Its scientific name is Protococcus nivalis.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21882, 18 August 1934, Page 7 (Supplement)
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79PECULIAR SNOW New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21882, 18 August 1934, Page 7 (Supplement)
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