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• Michigan wine
  ...e estimated to be a $100 million industry.<ref> Michigan Wines Fast Facts, Michigan Grape and Wine Industry Council, accessed August 26, 2007.[http://www.michi [[Image:Michigan_AVAs.png|thumb|right|350px|The four AVAs of Michigan.]]
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• Aldo Leopold
  During his youth, Leopold's family spent summers in Michigan's [[Les Cheneaux Islands]] where an Aldo Leopold Preserve on Marquette Isla ...was frequently done to natural systems (such as land) out of a sense of a culture or society's sovereign ownership over the land base – eclipsing any sense
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• Millet
  ...ation in China was found at [[Cishan culture|Cishan]] (north) and [[Hemudu culture|Hemudu]] (south). Cishan dates to 7000-5000 BCE and contained pit-houses, s ...hnobotany of the Kameda Peninsula''. Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1983.
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• Floriculture
  ...importance is the East North Central, composed of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin, in which the figures given were $9,029,125. The third import ...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
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• Blueberry
  ...from the [[Atlantic provinces]] westward to [[Quebec]] and southward to [[Michigan]] and [[West Virginia]]. In some areas, it produces natural ''blueberry bar *[[Blueberry culture]]
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• Mentha
  Culture of mints for oil. ...n anywhere else. Peppermint is now cultivated commercially in southwestern Michigan and adjacent parts of northern Indiana, Wayne county, New York, and in Mitc
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• Lettuce
  ...though it quickly succumbs to dry hot weather, is generally of the easiest culture. Even a farmer's wife, who, because of household cares, cannot take the tim ...ven more than with many vegetables, it is essential to the most successful culture of lettuce that the soil be well enriched from previous dressings rather th
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• Wormwood
  ...manufacture of certain medicines. The oil is produced largely in southern Michigan, and Wisconsin supplies a large acreage. ...the [[Book of Revelation]], [[Chernobyl]] and other associations in human culture.
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• Justicia
  The remarks on culture under the different species of jacobinias will apply here. Plants are secur ...ovata'' (Looseflower Water-willow) occurs nearly as far north, reaching [[Michigan]].
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• Education
  ...to develop horticulture as a separate subject appear to have been those in Michigan, under W. W. Tracy, Chas. W. Garfield and successors, Mr. Tracy having been ...on, and geographical distribution of cultivated plants; modification under culture; theoretical causes and observed factors that influence variation, particul
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• Raspberry
  ...about Loveland, Colorado, and in the Puy- allup Valley of Washington. The culture of the raspberry, however, is not confined to these centers, but is widely Culture.
  22 KB (3,562 words) - 20:56, 3 June 2010
• Chestnut
  ...ian region. Occurs in eastern North America, Maine to Georgia, westward to Michigan, Mississippi and Louisiana. Gradually receding from its southern areas from ...stern United States, G. Harold Powell (Bull. Del. Exp. Station), 1898; Nut Culture for Profit, Jno. R. Parry, 1897.
  31 KB (4,787 words) - 14:15, 16 July 2009
• Celery
  ...areas, and thousands of acres of this land are used for celery-culture in Michigan, Ohio, New York, Florida and California. Intensive market-gardeners of the ...confined to such lands. The mucks usually provide ideal conditions for the culture of celery. The plant thrives in soils abounding in vegetable matter, and as
  43 KB (7,405 words) - 19:22, 17 June 2009
• Indigenous peoples of the Americas
  ...ity of Exeter]]. In this hypothesis, peoples associated with the Solutrean culture migrated from [[Ice Age]] Europe to [[North America]], bringing their metho ...lumbus were the 250,000 [[Tainos]] of [[Hispaniola]] who were the dominant culture in the Greater Antilles and the Bahamas. In thirty years, 80 to 90% of the
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• Vegetable gardening
  ...ling, are grown where the soil and climate are especially adapted to their culture. ...s. Some examples are: Eastern Long Island for late cauliflower; Kalamazoo, Michigan, for celery: Rocky Ford, Colorado, and the Imperial Valley, California, for
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• 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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• Onion
  ...r bunch onions were raised from bulbs, but recently a so-called "new onion-culture" has come into vogue, which consists in sowing seeds in hotbeds or coldfram ...ompany's "Onion Book," Gregory's "Onion Raising;" J. P. Underwood's "Onion Culture."L. H. B.
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• Melon
  ...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 ...ndiana, Nevada, Maryland, Delaware, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, Tennessee, Michigan.
  38 KB (6,441 words) - 18:14, 5 January 2010
• Sunflower
  ...lear light sulfur-yellow. (Journal of Heredity, VI (1915), page 542). In a culture of red sunflowers (H. annuus, variety) at Boulder, Colorado, a collarette f S. Alexander of Michigan has made an elaborate study of the forms of perennial sunflowers growing in
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• Cherry
  ...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 ...last cultivation. Cover-crops are various— a favorite one in New York and Michigan is a half bushel of oats or barley, and twelve pounds of clover or twenty p
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