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Your garden: Thin your fruit trees (Otago Daily Times)
Expert advise on what to do for your garden this week. Celery can be planted during the next three or four weeks. The old method of digging a trench and filling it with compost or manure mixed with soil before planting has much to recommend it, but celery will grow well in any good soil.
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Boosters to sell trees, wreaths (The Standard-Times)
LAKEVILLE — Apponequet Athletic Boosters will be holding their annual Christmas Tree Sale at the Old Town Hall located at the corner of Bedford Street and Precinct Street in Lakeville. Christmas trees and wreaths will be sold on Saturday and...
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Marion Happenings (Courier Gazette)
The party, held at the Presbyterian Home, included cake, punch and fancy cups for coffee. Okay’s memories of Marion include enjoying fruit trees in bloom and the "wonderful" Dutch people.
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Tucson fruit trees trace roots back to Jesuits (KTAR 92.3 Phoenix)
Behind the Sosa-Carrillo-Fremont house nestled between the Tucson Convention Center and Music Hall, there's a large fig tree in the backyard of one of Tucson's oldest homes. Jesus Garcia has tasted its fruit and attests to its sweet flavor.
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Arboretum to hold Tea by the Trees (Asheville Citizen-Times)
ASHEVILLE – The N.C. Arboretum will host a new holiday event, Tea by the Trees, on select dates in December.The afternoon teas will be held by the fireplace in the Baker Exhibit Center lobby.
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Trendy Fruit Replaces Afghan Opium Poppy Farms (Fox News)
This ancient land is telling the world that it has a trendy, new replacement for its dreaded poppy crop: sweet, juicy pomegranates.
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'Hints' heir takes Hawaii to heart (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
Plumeria and passion fruit are the two things that Heloise misses most about the islands. "We used to go into the front yard and pull plumerias off the trees, make our own leis," she said. Now living in Texas, she resorts to ordering frangipani products. "Smelling that scent takes me back in time."
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Fuchsia Dunlop: In a toxic era, a Hangzhou restaurant pursues purity. (The New Yorker)
One day in September, I joined the Chinese restaurateur Dai Jianjun for a foraging expedition on a remote mountainside in Zhejiang Province. Ahead of us, our guide, Bao Laichun, cleared a path, hacking at branches with a bamboo-handled machete. The hawthorn trees around us were heavy with fruit, and . . .
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Arizona Gardening: Fall Anna apples are a little too late (East Valley Tribune)
Q: I have what I think is an Anna apple tree, but it is maturing fruit in November. I thought apples in the Valley only ripened fruit in early summer. The apples are only the size of golf balls and the leaves have brown edges. Do you have any diagnosis for my tree?
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Museums showcase fancy Christmas trees (Macon Telegraph)
Macon may have found a worthy counterpart to its beloved Yoshino cherry tree.
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