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Louise Beebe was born to a well-to-do family in Baltimore, Maryland in 1878. She showed an early interest in gardening. [1]In 1902, she married architect Walter Robb Wilder, and the couple moved to Pomona, New York, [2] where she transformed the rural property (known as Balderbrae), [a] adding pathways, a pair of half-moon fountains, a grape arbor, terraces, flowering trees, a walled garden ...
The ancient Egyptian Grape arbor hieroglyph is Gardiner sign listed no. M43 in Gardiner's subcategory for trees and plants. The hieroglyph shows a horizontal vine with stylized bunches suspended below; each end is supported by the hieroglyph for a "prop" , Gardiner no. O30,
Richard Reames was born in 1957. [7] He grew up near Santa Cruz, California, which is within ten miles of Axel Erlandson’s famed "Circus Trees," known at that time as The Lost World, a mid-century roadside attraction.
The scuppernong is a large variety of muscadine (Vitis rotundifolia), [1] a species of grape native to the southern United States. It is usually a greenish or bronze color and is similar in appearance and texture to a white grape, but rounder and larger.
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Vine training systems utilize the practice of trellising and pruning in order to dictate and control a grape vine's canopy which will influence the potential yield of that year's crop as well as the quality of the grapes due to the access of air and sunlight needed for the grapes to ripen fully and for preventing various grape diseases. [5]
Tree shaping (also known by several other alternative names) uses living trees and other woody plants as the medium to create structures and art. There are a few different methods [2] used by the various artists to shape their trees, which share a common heritage with other artistic horticultural and agricultural practices, such as pleaching, bonsai, espalier, and topiary, and employing some ...
Jancis Robinson's Guide to Wine Grapes (OUP, ISBN 0-19-860098-4) is a cut-down version of her earlier Vines, Grapes & Wines: The Wine Drinker's Guide to Grape Varieties; Kerridge, George & Antcliff, Allan (1999) Wine Grape Varieties CSIRO Publishing, ISBN 0-643-05982-2 is a good book from Australia aimed at growers