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In that same year, Stark Bro's Nurseries & Orchards Co. discovered the 'Delicious' apple, [9] an elongated fruit with five bumps on the calyx end. The oddly-shaped apple attracted the attention of Burbank, a famed grafter and budder of trees, plants and flowers. He called the new 'Delicious' variety "the finest-flavored apple in all the world."
Called the "Flower Wizard of California," [3] and "The Pioneer Seed-grower," [4] Shepherd was the first woman in California, and possibly the first woman in the United States, to hybridize flowers. [3] [5] The Theodosia B. Shepherd Company, her seed and bulb business, [6] is considered to be the foundation of California's seed industry. [7]
Light writes Shiori's name and the name of Naomi Misora in the Death Note, arranging the scenario to make it look like Naomi killed Shiori in a botched kidnapping scenario trying to expose Kira. Shusuke Kaneko, director of the film, said that he created Shiori after reading the original Death Note manga. [43]
Watercolor of meadow death camas by Mary Vaux Walcott. The genus name Toxicoscordion is derived from Greek and means "poison garlic". The species portion of its binomial name, venenosum, appropriately translates as "very poisonous". [8] In English it is often simply called "death camas", [20] a name also applied to other species in the genus. [21]
Galanthus nivalis: Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz, 1885. Galanthus (from Ancient Greek γάλα, (gála, "milk") + ἄνθος (ánthos, "flower")), or snowdrop, is a small genus of approximately 20 species of bulbous perennial herbaceous plants in the family Amaryllidaceae.
Douglas made three separate trips from Britain to North America. His first, to eastern North America, began on 3 June 1823, with a return in the late autumn of 1823. The second was to the Pacific Northwest, from July 1824 returning October 1827. [a] His third and final trip started in England in October 1829.
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Death Note (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese manga series written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata.It was serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from December 2003 to May 2006, with its chapters collected in 12 tankōbon volumes.