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written by a man who had had remarkable experiences. He was not an American, and the work first appeared in the old country; but Varlo had lived in this country...

ago the list had been reduced to six, namely the Eureka, Lisbon, Villa Franca, Genoa, Bonnie Brae and Messina. Five years ago the list had shrunk to three...

are on record in which orchards were successfully fertilized when the bees had less than a quarter of a mile to fly, while more distant orchards bore no...

South Africa, often considered the largest example alive, up to recent times had a circumference of 47 m ft . Its diameter is estimated at about 15.9 m ft...

Florida the orange was found wild when permanent settlements were made, but it had probably spread from stock that was introduced by the early Spaniards. In...

found in sandy soils. It Flowers from June until September. The plant has had many common English names in Britain, which are now mostly out of use. These...

from sophera, an Arabic name for a pea-flowered tree. The genus formerly had a broader interpretation including many other species now treated in other...

the gall-forming cecidomyiid Dasineura dielsi as a biological control has had limited success in the effective control of this weed. photo 1 photo 2 photo...

well had the mode of culture advanced, that seedlings were raised in the Edinburgh, London and Chatsworth gardens, while the Veitch firm that now had collectors...

by Leon Diguet and grown at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. Wild plants had been found in 1899 by J. N. Rose near Guadalajara, Jalisco. In nature, the...

plant's flowering time signaled to early American pioneers that the ground had thawed enough in spring for the burial of the winter's dead. The name Amelanchier...

wall and therefore had access to less water and fewer nutrients; the right plant however grew at the bottom of the wall and therefore had greater amounts...

Brazil and west to eastern Bolivia. It is very similar to the coconut palm. It had been classified within the Cocos genus as Cocos plumosa, was assigned to Arecastrum...

re-circumscribed. It is closely related to Moluccella and Marrubium. Some of its species had previously been placed in Marrubium. Ballota species are used as food plants...

Wormwood was used by Chinese herbalists in ancient times to treat fever, but had fallen out of common use, to be rediscovered in 1970 when the Chinese Handbook...

pests, like squash bugs, cucumber beetles, and several caterpillars. They had a similar range of benefits for brassica plants, especially broccoli and cauliflower...

stumps of the former fronds: these are called "boots". Only palms that have had the boots removed will show the commonly seen smooth trunk. More information...

a much later period. By the end of the seventeenth century, a few species had been described and figured by Rheede tot Draakenstein, Sloane, Plumier, and...

20 years many thousand plants of it had been sold annually in the flower- markets of Paris. One grower always had a stock of 30,000 plants. The plants...

essential foods for the pandas, and the recent flowering of Fargesia nitida has had a devastating effect. Because Fargesias are becoming more well-known for their...