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Biodiversity of Macrofungi in Northern Door County, WI Archived 2021-06-19 at the Wayback Machine by Charlotte Lukes, Cofrin Center for Biodiversity, UW-Green Bay, Nature-Wise by Roy Lukes, articles from February 23, 1996, to August 28, 2004, published in the Door County Advocate, compiled at doorbell.net (Archived October 12, 2005)
An orchard is an intentional plantation of trees or shrubs that is maintained for food production. Orchards comprise fruit- or nut-producing trees that are generally grown for commercial production. Orchards are also sometimes a feature of large gardens, where they serve an aesthetic as well as a productive purpose. [1]
That orchard was planted by A.W. Piper, a Bavarian pioneer in the late 1800s. His family later sold the land to the city to become part of a large park. The fruit trees were forgotten until 1983, when a group of volunteers decided to clear the overgrowth around the trees, many of which were still alive and still producing.
English: Bonnie Brae, a historic house at 78 Snake Road in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, as seen through trees on its property. The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places . Date
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The average household size was 2.59 and the average family size was 3.09. In the town, the population was spread out, with 26.3% under the age of 18, 5.3% from 18 to 24, 27.2% from 25 to 44, 26.0% from 45 to 64, and 15.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 41 years. For every 100 females, there were 113.7 males.
In 1911, landscape architect John Nolen proposed an arboretum for Madison based on Boston's Arnold Arboretum. [2] The UW Arboretum was founded on April 26, 1932, when the University Board of Regents accepted the deeds to 6 parcels, 246 acres of land on the southwestern end of Madison's Lake Wingra, creating the "University of Wisconsin Forest Preserve Arboretum and Wildlife Refuge". [3]
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