In Global Mobile Media, Goggin rethinks cell phones as a form of global media and argues that global mobile media could be "a fertile garden for culture".

In a country where nine-tenths of the land is nonarable, where dustbowls and deserts are vast, the basin is a fertile garden that supplies much of eastern China.

As early as the close of the 17th century Watertown was the chief horse and cattle market in New England and was known for its fertile gardens and fine estates.

Foods eaten include those grown in fertile coastal gardens, shellfish and fish, fruit, green vegetables, bananas, taro, sweet potato and yams which relish dry soils.

Now there were no spectators, only the long fertile gardens and the trees which swarmed greenly in the sunlight.

This, with many smaller lateral canals, soon converted the arid plain into a fertile garden.

However, neither could those inside get out, and in time food would run short, even though there were stores in the cellars below the great house and fertile gardens inside the wall.

According to Istakhri, Samandar was famous for its fertile gardens and vineyards, and large quantities of wine were made there.

That was the house which had stood where the blasted heath was to come - the trim white Nahum Gardner house amidst its fertile gardens and orchards.

The entire world is a garden, lush and fertile, and the Kirse live without work-or so the Andirrim say, anyway.