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Rose Trivia
... located? A. At the Vatican B. Growing on the Great Wall of China C. On the wall of the Hildesheim Cathedral of Germany D. ... important role as a luxury food throughout Europe and the Middle and Far East. The use of roses in cuisine has a long history. The ... rose as food. Travelers’ tales recount how in Nanking, the capital of China during the Middle Ages, there was an intensive rose-growing industry ...
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Beets
... Mediterranean lands, Asia Minor, the Caucasus, and the Near East. It is believed to have originated in the Mediterranean area ... times, with a secondary region of development in the Near East. It was a very chard-like plant that the ... Far East till the Middle Ages, being mentioned in China only from the 7th century; and the lack of a Sanskrit name for chard suggests that it spread from west to east ...
growingtaste.com

Essay
... was a storage of Far East plants and that the Japanese had developed the value of these plants through hybridization. Actually, quite a few plants were brought from China and Korea over a ...
homepage3.nifty.com

18. Distribution
... Islands"). e. For standard place names of China, authors should refer to Gazetteer of China An Index to the Atlas of the People's Republic of China, Map Press, Beijing (1983). It must ... , circumpolar, and subtropical will not be used. Also avoid using Eurasia (use Asia, Europe), Middle East (use SW Asia), Far East (list Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Russia).
hua.huh.harvard.edu

Botanical garden of Vilnius university - Dendrology
... include the floral zones of Europe, the Mediterranean area, the Caucasus, Siberia, North America, the Far East, China, Japan and Central Asia. The Department of Dendrology deals with the researches of woody plants ... collects varieties, forms, species of Erica, Calluna, Rhododendron and others, she also introduces plants from Far East, China and Japan. Login
www.botanikos-sodas.vu.lt

Seed collecting excursions to China and Japan – Botanic Garden – FMNH
... sections will include collections of Japanese plants, of plants of the Far East, meaning the Russian Far East and Northeast China, collections from eastern and western North America, and a European ... China are rare in European and North American gardens. The east Asiatic plants in such gardens originate only mainly from Korea, Japan and the Russian Far East, with early "plant hunters" in China ...
www.fmnh.helsinki.fi

Botanical Garden goes to Far East; test of a theory – Botanic Garden – FMNH
... geographical sections will include collections of Japanese plants, of plants of the Far East, meaning the Russian Far East and Northeast China, collections from eastern and western North America, and a European collection. ... to be found in the high mountains of Korea and Northeast China, and in certain areas in the Russian Far East, such as Amur, Sachalin, and Kamchatka. In North America, ...
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History
... History Daylilies are native to the Far East - China, Japan, Korea and Eastern Siberia. They have grown there for centuries, both in the wild ... plants are perhaps the best known of this species. They made their way from the Far East, through Europe, and eventually to the New World. Around the start of the twentieth century ...
www.lonestardaylilysociety.org

Plant Delights Nursery -- Expedition to China
... vehicles...bicycles everywhere. There is no traffic flow control in China...no lights, just folks turning everywhere. Percentages were 80% bicycles, 10% ... next "pit stop"...the new term for bathroom break, was a east rock slope west of the Long Shan mountains. The bank ... day's collections. Since many members of the expedition had fallen far behind in seed cleaning and processing, or were nursing upset ...
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History of Rhododendron Introductions from China During the 19th Century
... Flora Hongkongensis. One of the greatest of plant collectors in the Far East was Robert Fortune. He was born at Kellor in Berwickshire in 1812 ... . In 1861 Richard Oldham was sent out from Kew to the Far East as a collector. In 1862 he collected in Japan near Yokohama ... the Far East and was away for three years. He spent most of his time collecting in Japan. He was also fairly successful in China where ...
www.rhododendron.org

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