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• Blueberry
  ...e]] of the USDA-ARS collaborated with [[Elizabeth Coleman White]] of [[New Jersey]]. In the early part of the 20th Century, White offered wild pickers cash Note: habitat and range summaries are from the Flora of New Brunswick, published in 1986 by Harold R. Hinds.
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• Floriculture
  ...iled in nine large geographical divisions of the United States. These were New England, Middle Atlantic, South Atlantic, East North Central, West North Ce ...110,221. The rank of other important states is Pennsylvania, Illinois, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Ohio.
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• Cranberry
  ...d frequent watering during this phase of rooting, until the roots form and new shoots sprout. Light applications of nitrogen fertilizer through the first Image:Cranberrys beim Ernten.jpeg|Cranberry harvest in [[New Jersey]]
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• Nelumbo
  ...pond in the gardens of the late Mr. Green, at New Brighton, Staten Island, New York, where they grew most satisfactorily, some of the original stock being ...isted there and determined to experiment in the culture at Bordentown. New Jersey. Roots were obtained from Kew Gardens and afterward planted in shallow wate
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• Thrinax
  ...|year=1995 |publisher=Princeton University Press |location=Princeton, New Jersey |unused_data=|Andrew Henderson}} ISBN 0-691-08537-4</ref> Flowers are smal ...). Palmaceae, tribe Corypheae. Thatch Palm. Fan palms well adapted for pot culture.
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• Raspberry
  ...al processing. Traditionally raspberries were a late summer crop, but with new technology, varieties and innovations, raspberries can be enjoyed all year- ...he winter, prune out old flowered canes, down to the ground level. Of the new canes, remove all small and weak ones. Remove ones that are growing too cl
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• Alpine plants
  ...ng the days from the last frost of spring to the first frost of autumn. At New York, the season is 210 days, at Philadelphia, 220 days, and of course cons ...ly without a great maintenance expense, in the way of constantly supplying new plants, keeping the garden regularly cooled down by water and the like.
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• Lycoris
  ...low blooms.— Species about a half-dozen. At least two species are hardy in New England. Two bloom in summer and two in early autumn. Two have red fls., on ...abitat in China, L. aurea rests in the wet season, and the most success in culture has been found in growing it in a warmhouse, taking care to cultivate the f
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• Victoria
  ...far southern habitat (27° south) explains its hardiness. At Riverton, New Jersey, seeds that have wintered in an open pond produce plants which flower by th ...to 80°. Its introduction has been of great interest. It has stimulated the culture of aquatic plants in the United States, also in Europe where it is now larg
  16 KB (2,654 words) - 12:33, 28 October 2009
• Melon
  ...ies of Europe about the beginning of the Christian era. Pliny refers to a "new form of cucumber. . . . called melopepo, which grows on the ground in a rou ...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
  38 KB (6,441 words) - 18:14, 5 January 2010
• Cabbage
  ...en and soft mass of leaves, after the manner of Cos lettuce. It is of easy culture, but must be grown in the cool season, for it runs quickly to seed in hot a The culture of the cabbage antedates reliable historical record. Writers of Pliny's tim
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• Cherry
  Coming from the Old World to the New, the cherry has played an important part in the orcharding in temperate reg ...ening in the season, regularity in bearing, great fruitfulness and ease of culture. It is more than a home fruit, however, and is largely grown for the market
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• Corn
  ...maize are collected to add [[genetic diversity]] when selectively breeding new domestic strains. ...at it was introduced into the Old World shortly after the discovery of the New, and then was rapidly disseminated.
  24 KB (3,932 words) - 14:10, 4 June 2010
• Vegetable gardening
  ...ling, are grown where the soil and climate are especially adapted to their culture. ...ne, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Flori
  29 KB (4,618 words) - 17:41, 21 October 2009
• Gladiolus
  ...linear to sword-shaped (sometimes almost terete): the old conn dies and a new one grows on top, and cormels or offsets (sometimes called "spawn") form fr ...is propagated readily by seeds, as explained farther on; by the use of the new corm growing above the old one, and which is separated either when cleaning
  43 KB (6,589 words) - 05:30, 16 April 2011
• Common bean
  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
• Peach
  ...Silk Road]] before Christian times.<ref name=rhs>Huxley, A., ed. (1992). ''New RHS Dictionary of Gardening''. Macmillan ISBN 0-333-47494-5.</ref> Cultivat ...as this allows time for the roots to establish and be able to sustain the new spring growth. When planting in rows, plant north-south.
  88 KB (14,935 words) - 01:57, 5 March 2015
• Bulb
  ...ter flowering, new stems, leaves and flowers. In fact, the bulb contains a new plant, which is protected and sustained within the bulb by the reserve food ...flowering plants. Not the least among the merits of bulbs is their ease of culture, and the great certainty and perfection with which their flowers are produc
  58 KB (10,053 words) - 19:54, 18 February 2010
• Persimmon
  ...ed for the first few years after planting, until it becomes adapted to its new surroundings. The orderly growing of persimmon trees in nurseries will remo ...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
• Strawberry
  ...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 ...t that has borne. This plant bore fruit, say, in 1915, and has thrown up a new crown in 1916. The old dead crown is seen at the right. The young growth is
  78 KB (13,045 words) - 00:14, 17 April 2010

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