This bog fruit, Vaccinium macrocarpon, was first cultivated in Massachusetts around 1820
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Jeopary Questions page 1031 - "ITZ" - TriviaBistro.com  PLANTS & TREES: This bog fruit, Vaccinium macrocarpon, was first cultivated in Massachusetts around 1820  MOVIES ABOUT THE MOVIES: John Turturro...
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Cranberries: The Most Intriguing Native North American Fruit  The American or large-fruited cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon Ait.) ... When the first colonists arrived from Europe, they found it growing in peat bogs and marshes and ... and by 1820 he was shipping his cranberries to Boston and New York City. ... The two principal cranberry cultivars still grown in Massachusetts, "Early...
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Natural History of the American Cranberry, Vaccinium macrocarpon ...  Vaccinium macrocarpon Ait. The cranberry is a native American fruit. ... Many Massachusetts cranberry bogs, particularly those in Plymouth County, ... In addition to Massachusetts, cranberries are grown commercially in Wisconsin, ... the uprights continue to increase in length (new leaves formed) and the first flowers open.
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How Cranberries Grow | Massachusetts Cranberries  For generations they have nurtured and cultivated these wetlands, contributed to their ... The North American cranberry, Vaccinium macrocarpon, is the fruit recognized by ... In Massachusetts we call the place where cranberries grow a BOG.
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Cranberry - Wikipedia  Cranberries are a group of evergreen dwarf shrubs or trailing vines in the subgenus Oxycoccus of the genus Vaccinium. In Britain, cranberry may refer to the native species Vaccinium oxycoccos, ... Vaccinium macrocarpon or Oxycoccus macrocarpus (large cranberry, ... In the 1820s cranberries were shipped to Europe.
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Jeopary Questions page 1423 - COOL PLACES TO GO - TriviaBistro ...  FRUIT: Harwich, Mass. celebrates the harvest of this berry about 2 months before it's needed at Thanksgiving  MIAMI NICE: It's the nickname of the sports teams...
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Tobacco in Colonial Virginia - Encyclopedia Virginia  Jan 29, 2013 ... Tobacco was colonial Virginia's most successful cash crop. ... bitter to the English palate; it was John Rolfe who in 1612 obtained Spanish seeds, ... produced a milder, yet still dark leaf that soon became the European standard. ... The plant had first been brought to England in 1565, perhaps from Florida by...
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Midwest Home Fruit Production Guide - Purdue Agriculture  Ohio State University Extension, Delaware County ... apple and peach cover photos, and The Blueberry Patch, ..... Highbush Cranberry . .... produce berries during the first year of planting .... most nutrients, but they may be in a chemical ...... First, do I enjoy growing fruit trees? Second, does the fruit taste good to me? Third,.
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A Tropical Flour: Manioc in the Afro-Brazilian World, 1500-1800  May 1, 2015 ... diffusion of plants, such as manioc, throughout the Atlantic basin. .... later be the American states of Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, and ..... word maniot, first recorded on the eastern Brazilian coast and noted in records in ..... used in parts of Brazil, particularly the state of Bahia, and is more...
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J! Archive - Show #3009, aired 1997-10-02  A treatise on this feminine area of medicine from around the year 1000 is attributed ... The juice of this bog fruit is sometimes used to treat urinary tract infections...
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Scuppernong Grape State Fruit | State Symbols USA  North Carolina designated the Scuppernong grape as the official state fruit in 2001. A Scuppernong is a large variety of muscadine (a type of grape native to southeastern U.S.). ... "The Scuppernong (vitis rotundifolia) has the distinction of being the first grape ever actively cultivated in the United States.
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Loganberry - Revolvy  The plant and the fruit resemble the blackberry more than the raspberry, but the ... It was accidentally created in 1881 in Santa Cruz, California by the American judge and ... The loganberry (Rubus  loganobaccus) is a hexaploid hybrid produced ..... Similarly, some botanical fruits are classified as nuts (e.g. Brazil nut and...
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Studies of Cultivated Varieties of Rubus and Their Hybrids II ...  The blackberries, Himalaya, Black Diamond and Parsley Leaved Berry, ... Some Botanical Characters of Plants Selected as Parents' of Clonal Races. Parsley .... The original plant of the Loganberry was raised by Judge ... evergreen blackberry, Texas Early, and an old variety of red raspberry of a ... California, about 1905.
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Heirloom Pears - Hobby Farms  Feb 18, 2009 ... Pick up a copy of Popular Farming Series: Orcharding online or in farm ... Bartlett, an English pear, has been cultivated since 1765; and ... The Massachusetts Company provided the new American Colonies with seeds in 1629. ... Later a man named Seckel bought the land and named the tree after himself.
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The Fight Over Inoculation During the 1721 Boston Smallpox Epidemic  Dec 31, 2014 ... The smallpox epidemic that struck Boston in 1721 was one of the most deadly of the century in colonial America, but was also the catalyst for the first major ... Inoculation against smallpox is believed to have been practiced in China as far ... One physician, Zabdiel Boylston, heeded his call, but most other...
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Massachusetts Bay Colony - Wikipedia  Disestablished, Province of Massachusetts Bay governance begins, 1692. Today part of, United States  Massachusetts  Maine. The Massachusetts Bay Colony (16281691) was an English settlement on the east coast of ..... The charter granted the general court the authority to elect officers and to make laws for the colony.
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Boysenberry - New World Encyclopedia  Jun 22, 2016 ... The gates at Knott's Berry Farm feature boysenberries. ... In an aggregate fruit composed of small, individual drupes, each individual is termed ... Some place the date that this hybrid was created as 1923 (Herbst 2001; Smith 2008). ... Today, all boysenberries trace their roots to these first plants (KBF 2008).
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The Bix Blog  A Brief History of Persimmons  A Brief History of Persimmons The persimmon is an edible fruit that grows on a range ... Early settlers were introduced to this variety by the Native Americans, but they ... consumed in the United States are referred to as Japanese persimmons. ... In 1855 Commodore Matthew Perry opened trade between Japan and the West.
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jeopardy/1821_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  ANIMALS | Buckskin was originally made from the mule & white-tailed species of ... TV SHOWS | In 1999 stockade humor made a short-lived comeback in "Thanks", a sitcom set in 1621 in this colony | Plymouth Colony. right: Alan. Wrong: Dan: What is the Mayflower Colony? Rosemary: What is Massachusetts Bay Colony?
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The Food Timeline--history notes: charlotte to millet  It was no dobut these large American cranberries which, at an early stage in the ... Food historians tell us the practice of pairing of citrus fruits with fatty meat is ..... Washington Irving is generally credited for introducing doughnuts to the ...... Tampa, Florida, in 1823 by a French count named Odette Philippe, but it achieved no...
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Varieties  Philo Apple Farm  Varieties. After 15 years we have finally gotten around to describing the other 40 or so varieties grown ... Origin: Russia/Sweden/England (1814)/U.S. 1835 or so.