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Mistletoe
... "tan" is the word for "twig". So, mistletoe means "dung-on-a-twig". By the sixteenth century, botanists had discovered that the mistletoe plant was spread by seeds which had passed through ...
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Desirable Vegetable Varieties: Parsley Root
... Turkey, Algeria, and the Lebanon. Since its introduction into the British islands in the sixteenth century, it has become naturalized there. The ancients called two plants--celery and parsley ( ... , and was also variously anglicized as petersylinge, persele, persely, and parsley. In the sixteenth century, Parsley was known as A. hortense, but herbalists retained the official name petroselinum. ...
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nvps newsletter Autumn/Winter 1999:
... this is perhaps hardly surprising; but before the turn of the century and for some years after they were popular little garden plants ... ) had been grown in gardens from the sixteenth century, it was apparently not until early in the nineteenth century circa 1810-13 that systematic work was ... in common use up to the first decade of the present century; it is but little used nowadays. So great was the ...
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Moss Roses on the Rose Garden
... their large blooms and abundance of petals. They were developed by the Dutch from the sixteenth century, being once-flowering hybrids probably of the Gallica family. Many's the time we've ...
netlist.co.nz

Nickernut
... "bresil" or "brasil" by Portuguese traders, referring to the bright red heartwood. Early in the sixteenth century, Portuguese discovered the South American species and transferred the Old World name to it--eventually ...
waynesword.palomar.edu

English Apples in 1829 - DIVERSITY WEBSITE
... probably very little known here till the latter part of the sixteenth century. Fuller states that one Leonard Marschal, in the sixteenth year of the reign of Henvy VIII, brought pippins from over ...
web.ukonline.co.uk

Ginger UW Aberystwyth Botanic Gardens
... contact. By the end of the sixteenth century, bananas were widespread throughout the tropics. The banana export trades developed mainly in tropical America in the late nineteenth century. Back to Subclass Zingiberidae Back ...
www.aber.ac.uk

The National Auricula and Primula Society, The flower society for auriculas and primulas
... thousands of hybrids. The auricula first appeared in European gardens around the middle of the sixteenth century. The cultivated forms which we grow today have been developed for over 350 years as ...
www.auriculaandprimula.org.uk

Hunt Institute: Archives Collections List
... . Location: 1 volume shelved in library. Collection #172. ANONYMOUS. Descriptions of plants with sixteenth-century woodcuts by Rembert Dodoens (1517–1585). French, n.d. (ca.1700s). Location: ... Degener3.htm DODOENS, REMBERT, 1517–1585. Physician, botanist. Anonymous descriptions of plants with sixteenth-century woodcuts by Rembert Dodoens (1517–1585). French, (1700s). Location: 1 volume shelved in ...
huntbot.andrew.cmu.edu

Open Directory - Society: History: By Time Period
... Time Period (5,903) Description Ancient (1,259) Middle Ages (551) Eighteenth Century (315) Nineteenth Century (682) Seventeenth Century (114) Sixteenth Century (67) Twentieth Century (2,906) Pre-Columbian Caribbean@ (2) Pre-Columbian North America@ (80 ...
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