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• Marrubium vulgare
  ...ter; zones; height; etc. If it is mostly empty you can help grow this page by clicking on the edit tab and filling in the blanks! ...arrubium vulgare''' is also used as a natural [[grasshopper]] repellant in agriculture.
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• Guar
  ...country with promise. It appears to be adapted to the warmer parts of the country, requiring about the same conditions as the cowpea. It is from India. ===Agriculture===
  5 KB (759 words) - 09:37, 17 September 2009
• Forestry
  ...ned in producing values from food crops and other crops. In the economy of agriculture, wood crops may be grown on land that is too poor for field crops. ...r the substance of the tree, the wood; his object is finally attained only by the removal of the tree itself. He deals with masses of trees rather than i
  6 KB (964 words) - 19:11, 17 August 2009
• Tillage
  ...e land, with the purpose to improve it for agricultural purposes, is known by the general name of tillage. There is a tendency to use the word cultivatio ...that the real reasons for tilling came to be popularly understood in this country. Even now there are many persons who think that the object of tillage is to
  6 KB (1,028 words) - 15:35, 22 August 2009
• Boehmeria
  ...is cult, in some countries as a fiber plant, and has been intro. into this country for that purpose. Now grown extensively in Calif. and La. for its fiber. Se One species, [[ramie]] (''Boehmeria nivea'') is an important [[fibre]] [[agriculture|crop]]. Some are also used as an [[ornamental plant]]s.
  3 KB (403 words) - 20:58, 10 February 2010
• Gypsophila paniculata
  ...imens of this plant were first sent to [[Linnaeus]] from [[St Petersburg]] by the Swiss-Russian botanist [[Johann Amman]]. ...lion-times.html |title=Baby's Breath flower can boost anti-leukaemia drugs by up to a million times | Mail Online |publisher=www.dailymail.co.uk |accessd
  5 KB (635 words) - 19:49, 11 August 2010
• Pistacia
  ...uthern France in 1876, and subsequently by the United States Department of Agriculture at various times up to the present. ...are budded when one year old. One experienced nurseryman has best success by the use of dormant buds from old wood inserted in April or May when the bar
  10 KB (1,704 words) - 01:23, 15 September 2009
• Gardening
  ...g purpose, gardening is distinguished from [[Agriculture|farming]] chiefly by scale and intent. Farming occurs on a larger scale, and with the production ...ls, e.g. a [[spade]], [[Hoe (tool)|hoe]], [[basket]] and [[watering can]]. By contrast, larger-scale farming often involves [[irrigation system]]s, chemi
  9 KB (1,425 words) - 18:39, 25 February 2010
• Inspection of Horticultural Merchandise
  ...t- diseases and insect pests within the United States, and also to exclude by quarantine diseased plants or plant- products from foreign countries or to ...t heartily pushed and was ultimately dropped with the idea of replacing it by a more suitable bill.
  25 KB (3,791 words) - 07:40, 9 March 2010
• Aleurites
  ...been extensively introduced into the southern states by our Department of Agriculture and is reported to be doing very well. *''[[Candlenut|Aleurites moluccana]]'' - Indian walnut, candlenut tree, country walnut, aburagiri, ama
  7 KB (1,000 words) - 04:33, 14 November 2010
• Education
  ...her than national or established by the Dominion. The Canadian colleges of agriculture are: Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, Truro, N. S.; Quebec, Sainte Anne de Be ...l and applied education of collegiate grade or name. There is a college of agriculture in every state in the Union, being part of a national system with cooperati
  23 KB (3,433 words) - 22:34, 15 September 2009
• Zizyphus
  ...emispheres, allied and very similar to Paliurus, but chiefly distinguished by the drupe-like fr. The fr. of Z. sativa, Z. Jujuba, and Z. Lotus are edible ...ained soil. Propagation is by seeds, by greenwood cuttings under glass and by root-cuttings.
  11 KB (1,798 words) - 14:11, 3 December 2009
• Bulbine
  ...date=December 29, 2009}}</ref>), named for the bulb-shaped [[tuber]] shown by many of the species&nbsp;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.anbg.gov.au/gnp/in ...characterised by having flowers borne in lax or compound [[raceme]]s, and by being [[succulent plant|succulent]]&nbsp;<ref name="SANBI"/>. The flowers a
  8 KB (1,215 words) - 19:58, 18 February 2010
• Hardiness zone
  ...zone. The zones were first developed by the [[United States Department of Agriculture]] (USDA), and have subsequently been adopted elsewhere. They are categorize ...from the average minimum, it is difficult to use this map for much of the country with any long-term reliability, at least in areas close to the margin of a
  17 KB (2,607 words) - 20:29, 8 January 2010
• Pocirus trifoliata
  ...ult, as a dwarfed pot-plant. The writer introduced it from Japan into this country in 1915. ...See Citrange. Promising hardy hybrids have been made at the Department of Agriculture under the writer's direction between P. trifoliata and a number of other sp
  7 KB (1,134 words) - 18:02, 16 September 2009
• Floriculture
  ...census of 1910 show a marked increase in the importance of this branch of agriculture within the previous decade. The acreage, as given for this census, was 18,2 ...he acreage devoted to the industry is not so large as in other branches of agriculture. The amount of capital invested in glasshouses and their equipment is consi
  13 KB (1,993 words) - 08:05, 11 August 2009
• Nursery
  ...institutions or private estates. Some retail and wholesale nurseries sell by [[mail order|mail]]. ...nd [[landscape gardening|landscaping]], garden [[vegetable]] plants, and [[agriculture|agricultural]] plants.
  11 KB (1,833 words) - 17:31, 22 February 2010
• Udo
  Udo, a spring blanched vegetable introduced in 1903 by Lathrop and Fairchild from Japan; it is Aralia cordata, and for botanical d ...letin No. 84 of the United States Department of Agriculture, 1914, written by David Fairchild.
  7 KB (1,121 words) - 11:13, 29 September 2009
• Geonoma
  ...Wittstein gives this interesting explanation: "Greek, geonomos, skilled in agriculture: for this tree puts forth buds at the apex of its stem which become new tre ...e mountains, and! are said never to appear in the open country unsheltered by trees of larger growth;
  6 KB (945 words) - 09:52, 4 September 2009
• Experiment stations
  ...the other being usually an institution established and maintained directly by the state and representing the movement that began before the passage of th ...tives by Hon. William H. Hatch of Missouri; this became law March 2, 1887, by the signature of President Cleveland. It appropriates $15,000 to each state
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