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Carnauba wax palm Corypha - Gebang palm, Buri palm or Talipot palm Elaeis – Oil palm Euterpe – Cabbage Heart palm, Açaí Palm Hyphaene - Doum Palm Jubaea –...

and business. Some careers in horticultural science require a masters (MS) or doctoral (PhD) degree. Horticulture takes place in many gardens and plant growth...

is a small temperate deciduous tree whose fingered fig leaf is well-known in art and iconography; the Weeping Fig (F. benjamina) a hemi-epiphyte with thin...

large mass of soil in proportion to root- development, as in the case of greenhouse beds newly set with young plants, care must be used in watering until the...

severe Zen gardens of temples. In Europe, gardening revived in Languedoc and the Ile-de-France in the 13th century, and in the Italian villa gardens of the...

sometimes spelled Assai Palm in English. The fruit, a small, round, black-purple drupe about 1 inch (25 mm) in diameter, similar in appearance and size to...

plants grown in conservatories, including palms, ferns, begonias, orchids, etc. Floral design.—A study of the principles of floral art. Practice in the arrangement...

flowers are inserted in this moss. The wiring is an art, and the design-worker becomes so proficient in this that many flowers may be wired in a short period...

of these creations in landscape art. Thus an abiding interest has been awakened in the development of the science as well as the art of horticulture through...

marinating cassava in salted water for a few days then grilling it in small portions. Many cassava dishes exist in various African countries. In Tanzania, cassava...

This list of botanical gardens in the United States is intended to include all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in the United States of America...

were perfectly dormant. Scions may be stored in sand in the cellar or in the ice-house, or they may be buried in the field. The object is to keep them fresh...

quinces. In fact, dwarf fruit trees were quite as common, or even more so, in Europe a century ago than they are at present. They have been grown in America...

proportion of the expense. Palms are usually grown in solid beds or in pots or boxes sitting on the ground. Many vegetables are grown in solid beds near the ground-level...

propagated in the open air in autumn. Make the cutting longer, 6 inches when possible, and do the work earlier, in September or in August in some cases...

result of the closest in-and-in- breeding. In plants, however, it is possible to secure much closer inbreeding than in animals, as in many cases a plant can...