PRINT | E-MAIL. In September of 1942, Lt. Col. William L. Plummer, with a handful of officers and enlisted men, made his way through the long pines and palmetto scrub of rural South Dade County to assume control of an isolated airstrip located about a mile inland from the shore of Biscayne Bay.
gardener. 1  a person who likes or is skilled at working in a garden. 2  a person whose occupation is making and tending gardens.
2 such an organism that is green, terrestrial, and smaller than a shrub or tree; a herb. 3 a cutting, seedling, or similar structure, esp. when ready for transplantation. 4 Informal a thing positioned secretly for discovery by another, esp. in order to incriminate an innocent person. 5 (Snooker, etc.) a position in which the cue ball can be made to strike an intermediate which then pockets another ball.