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  2. Mesquite - Wikipedia

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    Mesquite is a common name for some plants in the genus Prosopis and Neltuma, both of which contain over 40 species of small leguminous trees. They are native to dry areas in the Americas. They have extremely long roots to seek water from very far under ground.

  3. Johnny Appleseed - Wikipedia

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    Johnny Appleseed (born John Chapman; September 26, 1774 – March 18, 1845) was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced trees grown with apple seeds (as opposed to trees grown with grafting [1]) to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Ontario, as well as the northern counties of West Virginia.

  4. History of the lumber industry in the United States - Wikipedia

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    On April 10, they entered the “Chesupioc” Bay and landed alongside “faire meddowes and goodly tall trees.” [8] Finally on April 26, 1607, the London Company reached Virginia, and declared their settlement Jamestown in honor of the King. [9] Almost immediately the London Company began sending shipments of trees back to England.

  5. Holiday History: Why Do We Put Up and Decorate Trees?

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    It is said that he was walking home one winter evening and was struck by how beautiful the stars looked shining through the evergreens, so he recreated the look at home with candles. Related: 25 ...

  6. Timeline of plant evolution - Wikipedia

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    Most of these plants have true roots and leaves, and many were quite tall. The tree-like Archaeopteris, ancestral to the gymnosperms, and the giant cladoxylopsid trees had true wood. These are the oldest known trees of the world's first forests. Prototaxites was the fruiting body of an enormous fungus that stood more than 8 meters tall. By the ...

  7. Christmas tree - Wikipedia

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    In the late 1800s, home-made white Christmas trees were made by wrapping strips of cotton batting around leafless branches creating the appearance of a snow-laden tree. In the 1940s and 1950s, popularized by Hollywood films in the late 1930s, flocking was very popular on the West Coast of the United States .

  8. How Did Evergreen Trees Become a Christmas Symbol?

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    But, Christmas trees as we know them, began in 16th century Germany, when devout Christians brought dressed evergreen trees into their homes. And when early German settlers eventually landed in ...

  9. Geological history of North America - Wikipedia

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    Arizona was home to a great forest that would later leave behind the area's famous petrified wood. [51] Reptiles first began claiming the ecological dominance of marine, terrestrial and aerial habitats during the Triassic that would earn the Mesozoic the nickname "the Age of Reptiles". [52] The Late Triassic also saw the origin of the dinosaurs ...