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  • ...04 Production, and Growth" (n.d, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois), pages 3, 7.</ref> ...ois|Nauvoo]]. The oldest recorded [[Concord (grape)|Concord]] vineyard in Illinois was planted in 1851 and is located in Nauvoo State Park; the vineyard is st
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  • ...] (18 to 36 [[kilogram|kg]]) but smaller varieties are in vogue for garden culture. Pumpkins are a popular [[food]], with their insides commonly eaten [[cooki ...ef>[http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/cannedpumpkin/ Hecho en Illinois], Chicago Reader</ref>), hosts a variety of activities during the Pumpkin F
    9 KB (1,411 words) - 04:42, 14 April 2007
  • ...on, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Japan)|Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology]] of the government of [[Japan]] designates *[[Anderson Japanese Gardens]] ([[Rockford, Illinois]])
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  • ...output of $5,110,221. The rank of other important states is Pennsylvania, Illinois, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Ohio. ...the twentieth century, the American florist had interested himself in the culture of a wide variety of plants. In many cases the larger part of the products
    13 KB (1,993 words) - 08:05, 11 August 2009
  • ...in 1629. In 1806, thirteen kinds were mentioned by M' Mahon as being under culture in America. At the present time, over 400 different variety names are given ...ing Anna and Balcom in the extreme southern part of the state. Most of the Illinois melons were shipped in one-third-bushel Climax baskets.
    38 KB (6,441 words) - 18:14, 5 January 2010
  • ==Culture== ...es/watermelon1.html "Watch Your Garden Grow: Watermelon."] ''University of Illinois Extension''. Retrieved Jul. 17, 2005.
    19 KB (2,859 words) - 14:53, 12 April 2007
  • ...ling, are grown where the soil and climate are especially adapted to their culture. ...etable states, with the market-gardening for Chicago, trucking in southern Illinois for both Chicago and St. Louis, muckland trucking in the swamplands (see Mu
    29 KB (4,618 words) - 17:41, 21 October 2009
  • ...s]], and south to northern [[Florida]] and eastern [[Texas]] and also in [[Illinois]], with a disjunct population in eastern [[Mexico]] in [[Nuevo León]] and ...mportant cultivars. Nodal ([[axillary bud]]) sections are established in a culture of Woody Plant Medium (WPM) amended with 4.4 μM 6-Benzyladenine (BA) to pr
    12 KB (1,721 words) - 03:20, 28 September 2013
  • ...pi, Alabama, Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois, and small areas in southeastern Nebraska and southeastern Iowa. The specie ...he surviving wild groves of the Ohio and Wabash valley bottoms in Indiana, Illinois, and Kentucky, which give promise of enduring the winters considerably fart
    33 KB (5,272 words) - 04:20, 26 June 2009
  • Vegetable food is procured in two ways,—by purchase and by culture. The former method is not available to many who dwell in the open country. ...f $105 from a half- acre garden. The average cost was $30. Under intensive culture on small areas, each square foot of ground may be brought to yield, for exa
    47 KB (7,962 words) - 11:24, 30 March 2010
  • ...cultivation and in the value of the annual crop. The types known in garden culture in this country are the sweet corns and the pop-corns; the other types, whi ...fall plowing of corn land is generally favored, but in experiments at the Illinois and Indiana experiment stations, the depth of plowing has had little influe
    24 KB (3,932 words) - 14:10, 4 June 2010
  • ...or preserving of asparagus in the large areas devoted in California to the culture of that vegetable. A drama has been "staged" at a great gladiolus farm, and ...ation and a responsibility for damage. Pennsylvania, New York, Washington, Illinois, and Kansas are known to maintain such departments.
    27 KB (4,470 words) - 04:17, 10 July 2009
  • Culture of the bean. Among the varieties generally grown in field culture are the Pea or Navy, the Medium, Red and White Kidney. The Pea bean is smal
    38 KB (6,527 words) - 23:15, 2 February 2010
  • commercial peach-culture. Parts of Canada bordering the Great Lakes, The culture of the peach (M. A. Blake) 2492
    88 KB (14,935 words) - 01:57, 5 March 2015
  • Early Golden.—Origin Illinois, where it ripens in September; form oblong, size medium to large, color yel ...re set about 15 to 20 feet apart, except for very dwarf kinds. The general culture is the same as for other fruits.
    25 KB (3,937 words) - 18:45, 14 April 2011
  • ...hen he found the original plant it was small and sickly, so he used tissue culture, a laboratory method of propagation, to rid it of disease. When his markete ...ears old, especially when they are grown under hill training and intensive culture, but this is a special practice. It is therefore the custom to plow up stra
    78 KB (13,045 words) - 00:14, 17 April 2010
  • ...them, P. lutea, grows naturally as far north as southern Pennsylvania and Illinois. From Virginia south, the Maypop, P. incarnata, is a very common plant in f ...should be supplied liberally. In Australia, the profits of passion-fruit culture are reported to run from $100 to $300 an acre annually. Because of the sho
    36 KB (5,511 words) - 05:38, 23 June 2009
  • The experiments conducted by Smith and others at the Illinois Experiment Station on selecting high and low strains of corn with reference ...only what a plant will do in the field under ordinary conditions of field culture, by growing and selecting it under these conditions. In the large majority
    97 KB (16,038 words) - 17:04, 16 February 2010
  • ...t was a luxury. Special houses, known as "orangeries," were devoted to the culture of the fruit. The trees were ordinarily grown in large tubs or boxes, and w ...and other citrous fruits as grown in Florida;" Spalding, "The Orange: Its Culture in California;" also small books or pamphlets or reports LXXVIII. A cluster
    98 KB (16,405 words) - 14:11, 27 August 2012
  • *''Prunus hortulana'' - Hortulan Plum. Mostly Missouri and Illinois and surrounding areas. ...he latitude of Philadelphia and many are hardy in Ontario. All are of easy culture. Nearly all the species are spring- flowering. Only P. Cerasus var. semperf
    35 KB (4,290 words) - 03:01, 14 January 2010

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