This contributed to a rapid rise in planted acreage in northern California, especially in navels, which are more suited to growing conditions there.

It could be that all other Sparks adaptations managed to, if not hide, distract from their inherent jejunosity—to borrow from Woody Allen—through cardboard villains, but The Choice doesn’t give viewers the, ahem, choice but to contemplate the banality of virtue.

The grovving Tovv'rs like Exhalations riſe, / And the huge Columns heave into the Skies.

Varieties of peridotite are distinguished by their mineral composition; for example, dunite is a peridotite which is virtually all olivine, and a dense, dark green in colour.