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the total climate: length of growing season, timing and amount of rainfall, winter lows, summer highs, humidity. Sunset's climate zone maps take all these...

published a 1997 Pesticide Use Maps which shows estimates of pesticide type and intensity of pesticide use by business of mass food production. In the Roald...

Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963 w:Education. Some of the material on this page may be from Wikipedia, under the...

member of the daisy family Asteraceae. It is a biennial herb with showy red-purple flowers and sharply spiny stems and leaves. It is native to much of Europe...

Distribution: in the mountains of Sichuan, southwestern China north and east to eastern Siberia, Alaska and northern Canada east to northern Quebec. Common...

where the climate is cold, such as eastern Canada and the northeastern states of the USA, giving steady though not fast growth on a wide range of sites. It...

Ephedra Plants of the Ephedra genus, including E. sinica and others, have traditionally been used by indigenous people for a variety of medicinal purposes...

shown that there is a high degree of divergence between the two, probably due to long periods of isolation or extinction of intermediate forms. The Eurasian...

Helleborine is a genus of orchids comprised of approximately 70 terrestrial species. They occur in temperate and subtropical climates of America, Asia, and...

the Atlantic coast of North America), it is one of the hardiest, as it grows at much higher altitudes, up to 2,400 m in the mountains of southern China. This...

parts of the Blue Ridge Mountains provide the right balance of climate and water for natural cultivation of sawa (water grown) wasabi, the use of hydroponics...

Nahuatl: tenochtli), full of fruits, is the symbol for the island of Tenochtitlan. The 1975-1988 version of the coat of arms of Malta also featured an opuntia...

the dissolution of that country forced the closure of most of Cuba's sugar industry. Sugarcane remains an important part of the economy of Belize, Barbados...

"Sweet Sedum" Profiles of five green roofs, from Metropolis magazine A timeline of notable green roofs from Metropolis magazine A map of U.S. green roofs and...

matters of the gathering of information as to their methods, in the purchase of supplies, the standardization of packages, the improvement of local market...

International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants of a Lycium species of Elaeagnus or vice versa.[44] [45] Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll (1682–1761)...

notably Fieldfares. Leaves are eaten by the larva of the coastal race of the Ash Pug moth and by larvae of other Lepidoptera including Brown-tail, The Dun-bar...

actual citron, of the citrus family); it is used for making pickles, and because of its high content of pectin is popular as a constituent of jams, jellies...

term for one kind of eggplant. The name eggplant in the United States, Australia, and Canada developed from the fact that the fruits of some 18th-century...

Melon is a term used for various members of the Cucurbitaceae family with fleshy fruits, or may specify the typically sweet-fruiting members, muskmelon...