1.   And the increasing use of patents to protect new high-tech life forms, including plants, has complicated the giveaway to needy growers.

2.   Atwater said the company was stepping up security at its Canadian and other facilities, including plants in Britain and elsewhere in Europe.

3.   Coke said it will continue to invest in its operations, including bottling plants.

4.   Ford will close five plants by the middle of the decade, including plants in Edison, N.J., Cleveland, St. Louis, Ontario and Detroit.

5.   GM sought to exclude some plants from the job security pledge, including parts plants.

6.   He traveled around the world, consulting on insurance for utilities, including nuclear power plants.

7.   Huntsman announced last December it would buy the business, which includes a plant in Port Neches, Texas, that makes a gasoline additive and widely used petrochemical.

8.   In addition to the LaGrange plant, the tissue mills for sale include plants in Arizona, Illinois, Indiana, New York and Vermont.

9.   Including plants that also provide food for butterfly larvae will turn your garden into a thriving butterfly habitat.

10.   In the dappled shade of a dogwood, such a tapestry might include deciduous plants like lungwort, geranium sanguineum and Japanese painted fern.