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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 and Plant Introduction of the Department of ... they been 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 ...
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Drift Seeds and Drift Fruits
... of 280 ancestral plant colonists (Wagner, Herbst and Sohmer, 1990). According to Sherwin Carlquist (Hawaii: A Natural History, 1980), only about 14 percent of the original flowering plant immigrants to ... because they commonly germinate within their fruit while still attached to the parent plant, a condition known as "viviparous seeds." Having their embryonic root (hypocotyl) already elongated ...
waynesword.palomar.edu

Reaching Hispanic Audiences: What Can We Do as Extension Educators?
... both English and Spanish. This causes difficulty with communication and understanding. Also many Hispanics are immigrants in an illegal status who move from place to place depending on work opportunities, and ... is given out to him/her, for example letting each person do grafting on a plant. Messages must be simple, brief and clear, keeping in mind that the language used must ...
edis.ifas.ufl.edu

Dandelion - The Weed We Love to Hate
... plant they hated the most, there's a good chance the dandelion would top 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 ... margins. The botanical name Taraxacum officinale indicates the plant's widespread use as a medicinal herb; any botanical ...
gardenline.usask.ca

Broccoli
... mainhead type that also does side shoots; overall reported a very heavy producer (5 lbs./plant) and, says one, "tolerant of extremes"); the most promising mainhead Calabrese: a classic sprouting type ... 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 California in 1922, shipping ...
growingtaste.com

HortNews- September 2006
... , 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 ... , providing biodiversity in plantings, conserving energy and more. Learn design principles, plant placement, mainteannce, and plant selection for a Nebraska friendly landscape. Pre-registration is required three working ...
hortparadise.unl.edu

FLORA OF NORTH AMERICA - Volume 1, Chapter 9
... contributed greatly to our understanding of the plants used by the native North Americans. The immigrants to North America from Europe brought the Old World crops to North America, and those ... is generally thought to be the world's most widely used cathartic. A second medicinal plant that deserves particular attention is ginseng, Panax quinquefolius, of eastern North America. Although of limited ...
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Botanical
... northward from Mexico. The Hohokam Indians, who evolved from the earlier Cochise Culture and immigrants from Mexico, occupied much of southern Arizona from about 2000 years ago to A ... Park OMAERE This promising project seeks to create incentives for the conservation of useful plant resources and local indigenous knowledge systems through a lively ex situ ethnobotanical garden. Lawrence ...
peopleandplants.org

The Tree Circus of Axel Erlandson
... Erlandson and his Tree Circus Axel Erlandson was born in 1884, the son of Swedish immigrants. He raised beans and other crops in Central California near Turlock. There, Inspired by observing ... to be painted. One that will even furnish its own shade. Invest in the Millennium plant Sequoias. -Wendell Barry Special thanks: Bob Cremins & Jonathan Webber for their drawings Wilma Erlandson for ...
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Katherine Esau
... and the continent by train; and, like so many other immigrants, they entered the United States at Ellis Island. Their initial ... of the curly-top virus upon the plant. Her research area would now be plant anatomy or, more specifically, pathological anatomy. She ... to Drs. Robbins and Jones, the committee included a plant pathologist, 2 plant physiologists, and a geneticist. One of the committee members ...
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