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S. state of South Carolina to Canada and are especially popular in the cuisine of the US state of West Virginia and the Canadian province of Quebec when...

A botanical garden of Kitchener's Island, Aswan University of British Columbia Botanical Garden Botanical Garden of the University of Coimbra, Portugal...

theory of evolution by natural selection. The end of the 19th century saw the fall of spontaneous generation and the rise of the germ theory of disease...

developing science. The study of botany goes back into pre-history as plants were the food of people from the beginning of time. The first attempts at plant...

An offshoot of the Fountain of Life was the legend of the Fountain of Youth, which Juan Ponce de León sought in Florida. From the Fountain of Youth one can...

green roofs on their buildings. The Chicago City Hall green roof is one of the earliest and most well known examples of green roofs in the United States;...

study of the practice of agriculture—more formally known as agricultural science. The history of agriculture is a major element of human history, as agricultural...

Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 57: 1-7. 1990. A brief survey of the history of cycads in various cultures. Jones, David L. 2002. Cycads of the World...

Quality of Wheat. Springer. p.3. ISBN 0-7923-6383-3. Moon, David, "In the Russian Steppes: the Introduction of Russian Wheat on the Great Plains of the UNited...

acres History of the industry. The early history of the floricultural industry is obscure. It was merged to such an extent with other branches of horticulture...

6 grams of protein, 1.5 grams of total fat, 71 grams of carbohydrate (by difference), 12.2 grams of dietary fiber, and 3.2 mg of iron or 17% of the amount...

Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America, East of the Hundredth Meridian, Volume VI. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History. Smith, Gilbert M. (1938)...

impacts of weeds. Weed Science 53:130-137. Elton, C.S. (1958). The Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plants. University of Chicago Pr ess, Chicago. Reprinted...

the small scale of the cultivation, using small plots of mixed crops rather than large field of single crops (2) the use of a variety of crops, often including...

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

posts on the history of the flower. Introduction to Roses, a useful post introducing roses to the novice with tips for growing. History of the Roses, a...

and nature of the organisms that will do the actual work of humus formation, and has a broad selection of materials that can go into a batch of compost....

underside of the leaves is covered with scales (lepidote) or hairs (indumentum). Some of the best known species are noted for their many clusters of large...

Place as it is upon some of the great Slopes of that elevated and noble Situation of Belvoir Castle." Johnson, in his "History of English Gardening," quotes...

photo 2 photo 3 Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963 w:Arboriculture. Some of the material on this page may be from...