FRUIT TREES

TREES Week helps celebrate Arbor Day (The Huntsville Times)>
TREES Week, in conjunction with Arbor Day, is mobilizing scores of volunteers and city leaders to green Madison's landscape with flowering shrubs and shade and fruit trees.

FruitaBu(TM) Fruit Snacks and The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation Launch National ''Fruit Tree 101'' Program to Foster ... (Centre Daily Times)>
Stretch Island Fruit Co., makers of FruitaBu(TM) Organic Smoooshed Fruit(TM), all-natural organic fruit snacks for kids, together with The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation (FTPF), an international nonprofit organization dedicated to planting edible fruit trees and plants to benefit communities and heal the earth, announced the national launch of the FruitaBu(TM) Fruit Tree 101 program. The program ...

FruitaBu(TM) Fruit Snacks and The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation Launch National ''Fruit Tree 101'' Program to Foster ... (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)>
LA JOLLA, Calif.----Stretch Island Fruit Co., makers of FruitaBu™ Organic Smoooshed Fruit™, all-natural organic fruit snacks for kids, together with The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation , an international nonprofit organization dedicated to planting edible fruit trees and plants to benefit communities and heal the earth, announced the national launch of the FruitaBu™ Fruit Tree 101 program.

Group upset zoo took out 139 trees to build Teton Trek (Memphis Commercial Appeal)>
A group of citizens has an answer for the graffiti scrawled on a construction screen in Overton Park.

Roanoke tree replanting stinks for ginkgoes, but not for downtown - roanoke.com (Roanoke Times)>
The city felled the ginkgo trees in Market Square that produce smelly, slippery fruit. Kyle Green | The Roanoke Times

Hogs Help Battle Beetle in Apple Orc (AP via Yahoo! Finance)>
Jim Koan has gone hog-wild in his battle against a beetle that threatens his 120-acre organic apple orc . As part of a research experiment believed to be among the first of its kind, Koan is using pigs to help protect his fruit from the plum curculio, a tiny insect that is among the most destructive apple pests.

Hogs Help Battle Beetle in Apple Orc (San Francisco Chronicle)>
Jim Koan has gone hog-wild in his battle against a beetle that threatens his 120-acre organic apple orc . As part of a research experiment believed to be among the first of its kind, Koan is using pigs to help protect his fruit from the plum...

p0339 BC-PigsNotPesticide 03-05 0844 (Hays Daily News)>
Eds: Multimedia: An audio slideshow on a Michigan orc 's use of pigs to protect fruit from destructive beetles is available in the --national/pigs--not--pesticides folder; AlMar in 3rd graf is cq. Moving on general news and financial services.

Hogs help battle beetle in apple orc (Lexington Herald-Leader)>
Jim Koan has gone hog-wild in his battle against a beetle that threatens his 120-acre organic apple orc . As part of a research experiment believed to be among the first of its kind, Koan is using pigs to help protect his fruit from the plum curculio, a tiny insect that is among the most destructive apple pests. More than two dozen porkers patrol his orc , gobbling down fallen, im ...

Afternoon tea is back at the newly reopened Plaza Hotel (CNN.com)>
NEW YORK (AP) -- Going to The Plaza Hotel for afternoon tea was never just about the food. It was about palm trees, harp music, what the ladies at the next table were wearing, and the spirit of Eloise -- that naughty little girl who lives at The Plaza in a famous fictional children's book.

Notice flowering trees while you can
San Francisco Gate - We are in the midst of the spring of blooming trees. The fuzzy, bright yellow acacias have passed, and streets are lined with ... Their fruit is edible, but not outstanding. They would do better if planted at the oak's drip line and watered occasionally ...

FruitaBu(TM) Fruit Snacks and The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation ...
PR Inside - The beauty of the fruit trees are not purely aesthetic, as teachers are encouraged to utilize the orc s as outdoor classrooms, where botany, ecology and sustainability come to life

A spring primer on pruning
Toledo Blade - Late winter and early spring is the perfect time to prune your fruit trees and get the grasses ready for summer. Their winter dormancy makes it easy to see the current shape of the tree and what needs to be taken out

Pupils grow trees to help Malawians
Spalding Guardian - And you can help too, simply by leaving your recycling out, as all aluminium collected will count towards the project total. Alupro is supporting the project which aims to plant 85,000 fruit trees in community nurseries in Malawi and one tree is ...

Hogs Help Battle Beetle In Apple Orc
CBS News - ... fruit into the soil, where they pupate for 10 to 12 days before emerging as s to attack the remaining fruit and start the cycle all over again. Koan decided to try to find an animal that would eat the fallen apples as they lay beneath the trees ...

Group upset zoo took out 139 trees to build Teton Trek
Memphis Commercial Appeal - It's part of a 25-year, $96 million overhaul of the zoo that freed cats from steel cages, let monkeys swing from trees and Jamaican fruit bats dangle upside down in a faux cave, oblivious to visitors who've never seen a bat that close

The strange and divine cherimoya
Bridgeton News - The fruit of his 200 trees is sold almost exclusively to two markets in his area. "I sell it to them for $3.50 a pound and they resell it for $6 a pound," he said

Sociable, and Smart
New York Times - Primates may be pushed into larger groups thanks to predators or to patchy sources of food like fruit trees. As their numbers grow, natural selection may favor social intelligence

At McCain's Retreat, Ribs With a Side of Chi?
Washington Post - Then he got back to practicalities, pointing out where he and wife Cindy had planted fruit trees. If McCain becomes president, America will likely get to know this place as many presidential vacation homes have become known: as metaphor as well as ...

Order trees today to green your landscape
Chippewa Herald - Available this year are nine species of evergreens, four varieties of shrubs, six species of deciduous trees and eight species of fruit and nut trees

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Fruit Trees. 1. Q. I have set out a large number of fruit trees and they don't seem to be growing. Some of the trees have been out 2 years. I have never tried to grow fruit ...

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Fruit tree - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A fruit tree is a tree bearing fruit — the structures formed by the ripened ovary of a flower containing one or more seeds. However, because all trees of flowering plants produce ...

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Our new catalog is now available for download ! Hilltop Fruit Trees is North America's premier grower of commercial fruit trees. We sell primarily to commercial growers in the ...

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Greenwood Nursery and Gardens supplies plants, shrubs, trees, vegetable seeds, herb seeds, and gardening gear to gardners ... NEW! Have you ever wanted the taste of a fresh apple ...