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Beautiful Leaves and Even More Beautiful Bark Amber Jubilee is a relative newcomer in the ninebark (Physocarpus opulifolius) family. Are you familiar with the ninebark family? If not, let Nature Hills introduce you to this great group of shrubs. Few shrubs are easier to grow than Ninebark. This North American native can handle just about anything you can throw at it. Unless you’re planting in beach sand, it will grow in your soil. It can handle droughts and torrential rains, even wet feet by…

Mary Oliver’s poem “The Black Walnut Tree” portrays a beatiful comparison between a Black Walnut tree and our lives struggles. She cleverly uses metaphor to show how life’s struggles are just like that of a tree, as well as using logos and ethos to persuade the audience that the tree is indeed like family. Subliminal metaphor is one figurative language tool that is used in this poem. Oliver never outright states that the old tree in the families backyard is like life, but the symbolism is fairly…

In the short story, “The Chrysanthemums” by John Steinbeck and in the poem “The Goblin Market” by Christina Rossetti the authors portray a tremendous amount of symbolism. “The Chrysanthemums” is a short story about a middle-aged woman named Elisa, who is married with no children and is very unsatisfied with her life. The poem, “The Goblin Market” tells a story about two sisters, Laura and Lizzie, who are tempted by goblins to eat the forbidden fruit they offer them. In the short story and the…

Historical uses The word "pomegranate" (Punica granatum) is Latin for "fruit of many seeds." The pomegranate is a little deciduous tree or big shrub that bears fruit, the Punica granatum. It is a superfood with much history. Pomegranates can be traced back as early as 4000 BC. Its red fruit sprouts from beautiful red flowers and is between a grapefruit and a lemon in size. The white flesh inside the thick skin is filled by hundreds of seeds. (Tohi, 2016) For thousands of years Ayurvedic…

Strawberry blossom weevil (Anthonumus rubi). The strawberry blossom weevil (SBW) is one of the biggest pest in strawberry farming. It occurs every year and it is spread to the entire growing area in Sweden. It causes important yield loss and is a serious pest in conventional and organic strawberry farming. Non treated fields can results in 50% of the flower buds damaged and significant yield loss (Svensson, 2002). Biology The Strawberry blossom weevil, Anthonomus rubi (Herbst), is a small black…

The socioeconomic characteristics of the population were evaluated to provide an understanding of the local social and economic context in which the fruit consumption took place. Likert scales were constructed to appraise the impression of respondents of harvested fruit on farm and purchased fruit as well as farmers’ impression about wild fruit, fruit consumption by certain categories of persons and fruit consumption by children. All variables were first synthesised using descriptive statistics.…

the effect type of fruit had on the consistency of Jell-O. The Jell-O with apple slices in it had the hardest consistency, and the pennies dropped into the Jell-O/apple mixture dropped an average of .07 inches into the container. The pennies in the mango and Jell-O mixture dropped in an average of 1.1875 inches in, and the pennies dropped an average of 1.4875 inches into the pineapple and Jell-O mixture, meaning the apples and Jell-O solution’s pennies sunk in the least. The penny was not able…

Introduction The Apple Tree, or Malus pumila, is a deciduous tree in the rose family that is best known for its pome fruit, the apple. The most widely cultivated tree within the genus Malus, the Apple Tree has been grown for thousands of years in Asia and Europe and was brought to North America by European Colonists in the 17th century. In 1625, the first apple orchard in North America was planted within the Boston area by Reverend William Blaxton. Typically, a cultivated Apple tree can…

beneficial. ``An apple a day keeps the doctor away`` is a popular saying that was adapted to an original proverb found in the February 1866 "Notes and Queries" publication; "Eat an apple on going to bed, and you'll keep the doctor from earning his bread." This adage was widely spread to most nations. Nearly 150 years later, its power to make people love apples is still quoted. So, then, the proverb would not be as popular as of today if it does not really have value at all. The role of an…

During the beautiful Fall mornings, Squirrel often finds himself playing with all the other animals. This was not a rare occurrence for Squirrel, he often found himself playing. One Day, Squirrel went to the pond to play with Turtle and Frog. While the three friends were playing, Squirrel jumped in the pond, without knowing how to swim. Turtle and Frog did not realize what had happened because they were too busy playing. While in the pond, Squirrel thought he would drown, but that was not the…