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The Amazing American Muscadine Is Delicious, With Dramatic Health Benefits.

By Patrick Malcolm · 17 years ago

Historically, muscadine grape vines and the resulting fruit were discovered and recognized as a very important horticultural product, found growing in huge populations and proportions in the United States from Delaware southward along the Atlantic ...

History Of Mulberry Trees, ‘Morus Alba,’ ‘Morus Rubrum,’ And ‘Morus Nigra’

By Patrick Malcolm · 17 years ago

Mulberry trees were well known in the ancient civilizations of the world. They were famous fruit trees, because of the delicious berry fruits that were abundantly produced by fast growing trees-loaded with huge green leaves ...

The History And Evolution Of Banana Hybrids

By Patrick Malcolm · 17 years ago

Bananas are the world's favorite fruit and many nations depend on banana trees to supply its citizens with this delicious food product to save them from famines. Bananas are available on markets year round and ...

Rare Flowering Trees That Light Up Your Garden Landscape

By Patrick Malcolm · 17 years ago

Flowering apricot trees offer spectacular flowering blooms earlier than any other flowering tree, sometimes blooming as early as January. This early flowering can result in cold weather damage in some areas of the United States. ...

History Of Plum Trees And Their Hybrids

By Patrick Malcolm · 17 years ago

The documentation of ancient plums growing in antiquity is sparse. The best evidence of that oldest existence is best documented through America's most famous pomologist, Luther Burbank, who reported in his twelve volume botanical literary ...

History Of Peach Trees, Prunus Persica

By Patrick Malcolm · 17 years ago

Peach trees, Prunus persica, are originally believed to have come from China to the Mideast through the trade routes known to extend to Turkey and Iran (Persia). The peach seeds could be used to plant ...

Ancient Biblical Grape Juice And Wine Drinkers, Raisin Eaters And Teetotalers (part 1) Scriptures (m

By Patrick Malcolm · 17 years ago

The purpose of writing this article is an attempt to clarify opinions, about whether it is a sin or social offense to drink wine or strong drinks as explained in the Scriptures of the Hebrew ...

Evergreen Shrubs And Hedges Are Important, Cold Hardy Landscape Specimen Plants

By Patrick Malcolm · 17 years ago

Next to the landscape importance of trees is that of shrubs that grow in our gardens, parks, landscape foundation, street borders, and commercial landscapes. Thousands of different varieties of shrubs are grown to ornament lawns, ...

Ancient Bible References to Date Palm Trees, Phoenix dactylifera

By Patrick Malcolm · 17 years ago

Palm trees in ancient desert sands grew and satisfied almost every need the ancient Jews needed. The Jews ate the palm tree dates; the tree juices were fermented into wine; the trunk of the palm ...

Ancient Fig Trees Through History

By Patrick Malcolm · 17 years ago

The fig tree, ‘Ficus carica,’ possibly originated in Northern Asia according to archeological fossil records. Spanish missionaries brought it to the United States in 1520. Historical Sumerian tablets record the use and consumption of figs ...

Ancient Explorers Discovered Unique Native Nut Trees Growing In America

By Patrick Malcolm · 17 years ago

Nuts are different from most other food items. When planted, the nut contains substances, such as fats, proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals within the nut kernel to survive and nourish the embryonic nut tree until ...

Cold Hardy Palm Trees for Northern Garden Planting

By Patrick Malcolm · 17 years ago

Palm trees were once thought to be suitable for planting only in tropical landscapes, however, several cold hardy palm trees occur naturally, growing in America, where snows fall during winter. The windmill palm tree, Trachycarpus ...

Canna Lily Sales Face a Chaotic Future

By Patrick Malcolm · 17 years ago

Many agricultural plants that are reproduced by vegetative division face a mysterious problem that results in a decline in the clone vigor, and most farmers and nurserymen claim that the plant crop has “run out.” ...

History Of The Strawberry And The Strawberry Tree

By Patrick Malcolm · 17 years ago

It is difficult to trace the ancient history of the strawberry plant or strawberry tree, because there are so many different, complex, undefined species, and they have evolved in so many different places and countries. ...

History Of The Pear

By Patrick Malcolm · 17 years ago

There is convincing archeological evidence from the excavation of the ancient lake dwellers in Switzerland that the European pear, Pyrus communis L., was known by that civilization. It is believed that the pear was known ...

History Of Citrus

By Patrick Malcolm · 17 years ago

The pleasing appearance of citrus trees and the fruit was mentioned by many ancient travelers, even though the fruit of citrus trees had not evolved to the point as an important food staple, the fragrance ...

History of the Cherry Tree

By Patrick Malcolm · 17 years ago

There are only a few instances in the ancient historical record concerning cherry trees. This absence in the record perhaps resulted in the fragile nature and perishability of the fruit, unlike the fruit from the ...

History of Walnuts

By Patrick Malcolm · 17 years ago

The first historical accounts of walnut trees growing under civilized cultivation was in ancient Babylon (Iraq) about 2000 B.C.; however, walnuts have evidently been attached to mankind much earlier by excavations from cave fossils as ...

History of Wildlife Food: Nuts, Berries, Fruits, and Acorns

By Patrick Malcolm · 17 years ago

For over 100 years hunting plantations have been planting fruit trees for wildlife food and shelter. Like the old English hunting plantations, today’s hunters are realizing that big deer, strong bucks and graceful does, hardy ...

History of the Pecan

By Patrick Malcolm · 17 years ago

Pecan trees, ‘Carya illinoinensis,’ grow in natural groves in bottom lands near rivers or lakes with nearby periodic overflowing water. Archeological remains and fossil evidence reveals that pecans were collected and stored by Indians, the ...