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Our Plant Immigrants
... 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 Agriculture and ... entirely new nut industry. These are some of the many problems that the government enterprise of Plant Introduction is engaged in solving. They are problems that private enterprise will not naturally undertake they ...
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Drift Seeds and Drift Fruits
... Sherwin Carlquist (Hawaii: A Natural History, 1980), only about 14 percent of the original flowering plant immigrants to the Hawaiian Islands are clearly adapted to oceanic drift. If dispersal by birds ... losing water at the leaf surface. Since high internal salt concentrations can be lethal to plant cells, some species such as the black mangrove and white mangrove (Laguncularia racemosa), can excrete ...
waynesword.palomar.edu

Reaching Hispanic Audiences: What Can We Do as Extension Educators?
... in 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 they ... material 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 be ...
edis.ifas.ufl.edu

Dandelion - The Weed We Love to Hate
... , 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 herb suggests that it was ... ferocious tooth-like points which line the leaf margins. The botanical name Taraxacum officinale indicates the plant's widespread use as a medicinal herb; any botanical name containing the word "officinal" signifies that ...
gardenline.usask.ca

Broccoli
... Goliath: a 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 DeCicco: another ... , broccoli was not much taken 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 ...
growingtaste.com

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 ... the public The day's activities will include educational presentations and tours, along with a plant sale featuring rare plants and Nebraska native plants. Presented by the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum For ...
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 ...
hua.huh.harvard.edu

Botanical
... materials have undergone modifications. For example, in Arnhem Land cardboard boxes are boiled along with the plant fibre material to extract the blue-grey ink from the paper. Anonymous. (no date). Teacher’s ... coming 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.D. ...
peopleandplants.org

The Tree Circus of Axel Erlandson
... Axel 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 a ... have 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 ...
www.arborsmith.com

Katherine Esau
... final examination, she received the title "Landwirtschaftlehrerin." With some additional studies she passed a "Zusatzprufung" in plant breeding given by the then famous geneticist Erwin Baur. From Berlin, Dr. Esau went to a ... 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. ...
www.botany.org