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Ten Tasty Facts You Probably Didn't Know About the Peach ...  They are my favorite fruit, and they grow bountifully and beautifully here in the ... I hope, since peaches have been arriving in your FarmShares for the past five ... than 3,000 years, and China is still the number one producer of peaches in the world. ... The peach tree belongs to the same family of trees as roses and almonds.
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Fresh Fruit Facts & Folklore | Stemilt  Jul 5, 2016 ... Alexander the Great is believed to have found dwarf apples growing in ... originated in Asia near present-day western China over 3,000 years ago. ... Columbus brought peach trees to America on his second and third voyages. ... Stemilt is a family-owned fruit company that's been in business since 1964.
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Project MUSE - Growing Fruit in the Upper Midwest  The scientific name of the peach, Prunus persica, has the same meaning in ... The species is thought to have originated in China and has been cultivated in Asia ... From its ancestral home, where it has been cultivated for over 3,000 years, the ... the family Vitaceae, have the unique distinction of being the most widely grown...
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The Origins of Fruits and Fruit Growing - Horticulture and Landscape ...  Peach. 1. Janick, J. 2005. The origin of fruits, fruit growing, and fruit breeding. ... Evidence suggests a later development in China, Central America, East and ... history of mankind, the term Neolithic Revolution has been coined for this ... for over a century. ... Jemdet Nasr levels at Uruk that date from about 3000 BCE (Fig. 1).
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Growing Fruit in the Upper Midwest on JSTOR  The scientific name of the peach,Prunus persica, has the same meaning in ... Pears belong to the genusPyrusand, like apples, are members of the family Rosaceae. ... The species is thought to have originated in China and has been cultivated in ... From its ancestral home, where it has been cultivated for over 3,000 years,...
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History of silk - Wikipedia  The production of silk originates in China in the Neolithic Silk remained confined to China until ... The rise of new fabrics such as nylon reduced the prevalence of silk ... 2 Silk usage in Ancient and Medieval China; 3 Chinese silk and its ..... it was not until 552 CE that the Byzantine emperor Justinian obtained the first...
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Peach - Wikipedia  The peach (Prunus persica) is a deciduous tree native to the region of Northwest China between the Tarim Basin and the north slopes of the Kunlun Shan mountains, where it was first domesticated and cultivated. It bears an edible juicy fruit called a peach or a nectarine. .... The history of cultivation of peaches in China has been extensively reviewed...
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Chinese Gooseberry - iBuzzle  Dec 27, 2010 ... Well, I am sure the Chinese gooseberry is one of them. ... want to know that Chinese gooseberry is another name for which fruit? ... There is a very interesting story to the origin of the kiwifruit, which is native to the Yangtze River valley in north China and the ... Thus, it is also known as the "Vitamin Fruit".
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Kiwifruit - Wikipedia  Kiwifruit (often shortened to kiwi) or Chinese gooseberry is the name given to the edible berries ... and Europeans called it the Chinese gooseberry. In 1962, New ... Kiwifruit is native to north-central and eastern China. .... In China, it is grown mainly in the mountainous area upstream of the Yangtze River, as well as Sichuan.
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Great Wall of China History & Facts - China Mike  Some were formidable enough to conquer and rule China the Mongols ruled for ... This was evident as early as 3,000 years ago, when today's Chinese name for ... Tian to start constructing the Great Wall to protect against the northern nomads. ... to be literal, the Chinese today refer to the Great Wall as wan li chang cheng...
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Time-Line - By Year - Montague Millennium Home Page  Since life existed for about 3.5 billion years without animals evolving, ... Best current guess as to time anatomically modern humans (Homo Sapiens) arise. .... Start of the Egyptian New Kingdom (Dynasties 18-20). ... China (the Gobi desert); their culture lasted from around 800 B.C. to 300 A.D. ...... End of Thirty Year's War.
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jeopardy/2260_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  ANCIENT TIMES | For 400 years China was ruled by this 3-letter dynasty that shares its name with a river | Han. right: Wrong: Triple Stumper. Value: $1000.
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OVERVIEW GLOBAL MARKET STONEFRUIT - FreshPlaza  May 6, 2016 ... ... Brazil the only country supplying mangoes to Europe all year round  Fresh Summit ... The global production of peaches and nectarines is on the rise, ... Accurate prospects can only be made in the earliest regions, like Andalusia, Murcia or Valencia. ... In apricots, the production is expected to fall by 1%.
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Bonsai growing into an art form native to Appalachians  Oct 22, 2005 ... Many of the plants in the North Carolina Arboretum have been grown from ... While the mystique of miniature trees may have originated a millennium ago in Asia, bonsai ... A horticultural art form that originated in Asia about 1,000 years ago, ... He was trying to show the younger guys how to turn it around.
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Peach - Wikipedia  The peach (Prunus persica) is a deciduous tree native to the region of Northwest China between the Tarim Basin and the north slopes of the Kunlun Shan mountains, where it was first domesticated and cultivated. It bears an edible juicy fruit called a peach or a nectarine. .... It was already similar to modern cultivated forms, where the peach stones...
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Botany 115 Economic Plant Families  Economically Important Plant Families .... Whitby jet is the carbonized remains of ancient conifer forests dating back about 160 million years. ... Niu vai types have a larger more spherical fruit, up to 10 inches in diameter, with a .... See The American Filbert Or Hazelnut In Its Leafy Involucre ..... See World's Largest Vegetable
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The 5,000-Year Secret History of the Watermelon  Aug 21, 2015 ... The 5,000-Year Secret History of the Watermelon ... who places the blame on generations of taxonomists, stretching back to the 18th ... have been discovered in Egyptian tombs built more than 4,000 years ago, including King Tut's. ... And, he adds, it's why we find remnants of watermelons in tombs, These...
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NephiCode: February 2012  Feb 1, 2012 ... Over the next 1000 years, the cultivation and domestication of these crops would .... During the First Temple Period (1006 to 586 B.C.), the most basic food in .... sometimes called Peruvian geinsengwhich spreads by seed or rhizome, .... In Peru, the Spanish found the Inca had quinoa and kiwichi, two...
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Chinese ceramics - Wikipedia  Chinese ceramics show a continuous development since pre-dynastic times and are one of the .... These included the well-known Tang lead-glazed sancai (three-colour) wares, the high-firing, lime-glazed Yue ware celadons, and low-fired ..... It has been produced from the Ming dynasty (13681644) to the present day.
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Apples  Eckert's Family Farms and Seasonal Pick-Your-Own Crops  For more than 100 years, the Eckert family has been growing apples. ... The Honeycrisp apple was created to grow well in cooler northern climates. ... of their large size they are now favored by commercial growers in many parts of the world. ... and Ralls Janet, an antique apple that goes back to Thomas Jefferson in 1793.
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Fresh Produce Care and Best Practices - California Association of ...  NOT SEND TRUCK AWAY until we have a joint resolution and a next-step ..... Rot first appears on the calyx end of the fruit as a firm, black, metallic-like spot .... The lack of skin fuzz can make nectarine skins appear more reddish than those of ... actually originated in China where it has been cultivated since the early days of...