For the bureau, he traveled around northern Mexico and the United States studying and collecting native grasses and range plants, ultimately assembling an enormous collection at the Plant Introduction Garden in Chico, California.
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During the Enlightenment both France and England organised elaborate programs of plant introduction to explore the potential of plants not only as food for their colonies but as botanical novelties of all kinds.
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Linton is working on a history of the facility, noting that Barbour Lathrop, a Chicago collector, bought the farm in 1919 and donated it to the federal government for use as a plant introduction garden.
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The four-day Chelsea Flower Show, held in the heart of London, serves each year as a runway for plant introductions, spectacular and often bizarre garden exhibits, and a grand affair for seeing and being seen.
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Subsequently, in 1917, Edward Simmons at Miami s Plant Introduction Station successfully grew hybrids that survived a drop in temperature to 26.5 �F, showing atemoya s hardiness derived from one of its parents, the cherimoya.
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Plant introduction include Aesculus californica'Canyon Pink', Agave shawii, Arctostaphylos'White Lanterns', Arctostaphylos'Canyon Blush', Arctostaphylos insularis'Canyon Sparkles', Iris'Canyon Snow', Lessingia filaginifolia'Silver Carpet', Leymus condensatus'Canyon Prince', Salvia'Dara's Choice', Salvia cedrosensis'Baja Blanca', Salvia leucophylla'Amethyst Bluff', and Verbena lilacina'De La Mina '.
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They also were generous to the New England horticulture community for over 75 years via importing, testing, and distributing many new plant introductions, estate site planning and garden design examples, and supportive leadership in the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.
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Gillet s next notable plant introduction to California ( in 1883 ) was a free stone dessert prune from the Clairac region of France, which he called Clairac Mammoth ( a . k . a . Imperial Epineuse ).
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After the war, she worked at the Kew Garden in London, England as an assistant to Dr . Otto Knapf until 1923 when she was invited by Agnes Chase to join the staff of the United States National Herbarium in the Office of Foreign Plant Introduction.
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In an ongoing collaboration, LGBG, Virginia Tech, and the Virginia Nurserymen and Landscape Association have joined forces in a Plant Introduction Program which selects, tests, propagates and distributes to growers and garden centers new or uncommon ornamental plant species which adapt well to Virginia growing conditions.
