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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...

spring with many successive flowers. Plants are found growing in guava plantations in southern Colombia and Ecuador at elevations of 1300 to 1800 meters...

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...

picked by the hand, or, in some instances, with wooden tongs. In large plantations, when the fruit is raised for commercial purposes, it is usually harvested...

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...

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...

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

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...