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HortNews- September 2006
... as flavor, vigor, scent, and local hardiness. Heirloom seeds were often among the few belongings immigrants brought to America. Many heirlooms are still being kept in families and some are now available ...
hortparadise.unl.edu

Denver Botanic Gardens
... to Europeans in the 1500s by their then-adversaries, the Ottoman Turks. In the 1800s, immigrants brought lilacs to the New World. In the Colorado backcountry, one occasionally sees a lone lilac ...
www.botanicgardens.org

Floridata: Populus alba
... white poplar. Location White poplar is indigenous to central Europe, Siberia, and western Asia. European immigrants brought the white poplar to America in early colonial times. It has become naturalized in some ...
www.floridata.com

Our Plant Immigrants
... Our Plant Immigrants VOL. XVII, No. 4 WASHINGTON APRIL, 1906 Our Plant Immigrants * An Account of Some of the Results of the Work of the Office of Seed ... more remarkable than in those which Plant Introduction has brought about. Slowly at first, with the establishment of those plants that the immigrants brought over with them, this work has gone on, unchronicled ...
www.ftg.org

Dandelion - The Weed We Love to Hate
... the list. Like most weeds, dandelions are not native to North America, but were brought here by immigrants from Europe and Asia. The plant's long history of use as a medicinal ...
gardenline.usask.ca

Broccoli
... the Etruscans began migrating to what is now Italy, and they brought broccoli with them, especially to what is now Tuscany. The Romans ... up in the U.S. (except by, a little later, Italian immigrants, many of whom who grew and ate it). Broccoli popularity in the U.S. awaited the D'Arrigo brothers, Stephano and Andrea, immigrants from Messina, Italy; the brothers began with some trial plantings in ...
growingtaste.com

FLORA OF NORTH AMERICA - Volume 1, Chapter 9
... plants used by the native North Americans. The immigrants to North America from Europe brought the Old World crops to North America, ... Many of these wild plants were used by the Old World immigrants in the early historical period, and even now some people collect ... agriculture of North America soon underwent a drastic change as crops brought from the Old World spread. The present dependence of North ...
hua.huh.harvard.edu

Presidents' wives of the past, Part 4 Cunning, vindictive, and one may have been a murderess by John Silveira Issue 35
... kind. "What she was noted for was her charitable work, particularly among the blacks and immigrants who lived in the slums of the capital." "There were slums there even then?" "Yes ... was nothing spectacular about his governorship until the economic conditions that followed World War I brought about inflation and the Boston Police Department, whose members were living on fixed wages, went ...
www.backwoodshome.com

Katherine Esau
... crossed the ocean by boat and the continent by train; and, like so many other immigrants, they entered the United States at Ellis Island. Their initial destination in the U.S ... concerned for his or her welfare. Her concern for the welfare of others was also brought home to me in 1966, during my first trip to Germany. While there, my wife ...
www.botany.org

Alien Invaders?
... most treasured plants (the archaeophytes) are recent arrivals, brought here by people in the last two thousand years or so, or as natural immigrants as the climate became increasingly temperate. So, if ...
www.bsbi.org.uk

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