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is tolerant of many soil types and quickly becomes established around plantations, forest margins, scrub and open land. photo 1 photo 2 photo 3 Olckersa...

climates. Control of its invasion of natural vegetation, commercial timber plantations and farmland in several host counties incur considerable costs, but its...

of rubber and disastrous failure of the enterprise. In recent years, plantations under proper conditions have given much better results. This is the chief...

such as the wooly bear moths Hypercompe eridanus and H. icasia. Vanilla plantations require some sort of tree planting for the orchids to climb up on; off-season...

usually cultivated between 1,300 and 1,500 m altitude, but there are plantations as low as sea level and as high as 2,800 m.[citation needed] The plant...

characters, other than those already named, that commend it for home plantations, are, early bearing after planting, early ripening in the season, regularity...

sixties, due to logging and installation on a wide scale of eucalyptus plantations, the pequi and all that it represents are under a serious threat. So much...

temple building and coffins. The rarity of the tree and its slow growth in plantations means legal supplies are now very scarce; the species has legal protection...

copallina. spread by suckers and may become a nui- sance in lawns and mixed plantations. Propagation is by seeds sown in autumn or stratified; all species grow...

ornamental, and the Himalaya, comparatively recently introduced in commercial plantations, come from the Old World. Blackberries are erect-growing perennial plants...

means of division, although seedlings may sometimes be used to renew plantations of some of the species, particularly of T. vulgaris. Several names occur...

Eastern Australia. Aniseed myrtle has also been commercially cultivated in plantations since the mid 1990's to meet a boutique demand for spice and essential...

Harrisia(named for William Harris, Superintendent of Public Gardens and Plantations. Jamaica). Cactaceae. Upright tall cacti, little planted. Stems rather...

first stalks may be cut as early as twenty months after planting, and the plantation is cut over about once in eight months until it becomes unproductive,...

Black Sigatoka (also known as Black Leaf Streak) has spread to banana plantations throughout the tropics due to infected banana leaves being used as packing...

gladioli, lilies, and other tall plants, and in the margins of shrubbery plantations. It also makes an excellent window-box subject. When special colors or...

the plantation up; most persons keep the fields for two or three crops, and still others gather six to eight crops before destroying the plantation. The...

Cyclopedia of Horticulture Windbreak. In horticultural usage, windbreaks are plantations of trees or other plants designed to check the force of the wind or to...

drastically to promote dense growth and used as hedgerows around coffee plantations. Frost Protection: The rose apple will take several degrees of frost but...

well grown, they should produce 80 to 150 plumes to the hill. Not all plantations will yield this much. The third and fourth years there will not be much...