My grandparents lived modestly. Most from their generation did. It wasn't a choice. It was necessity. My grandmother and grandfather were teens when the depression hit, so instead of enjoying their ...

Question: What can you tell me about the Chinaberry tree and is the fruit poisonous? Answer: My first encounter with this mysterious tree was in the early ’70s. I was fresh out of N.C. State full of ...

Shakespeare would have made a fine plant taxonomist, as he understood the importance of fruits in identifying plants. The fruits of this tree are poisonous, they say, so don’t fool around with them.

A lovely shade tree, I played beneath its canopy; rolled its berries in my palm. It stood seven yards beyond an old hand-dug well. I sucked nectar from delicate tubes in yellow-green tangles of ...

You are reading the first of what will be a regular Sunday column featuring historic vignettes from Winter Haven's history. A similar series was published by the News Chief in the late 1990s. The ...

“…the tree may be known by the fruit, as the fruit by the tree…” — King Henry IV, part 1; Act 4, Scene 2. Shakespeare would have made a fine plant ...

Question: Help me decide if I can keep my 12-year-old Chinaberry tree. I fear it has sooty canker disease because it has some branches dying. But it does not have peeling bark. It is a joy in the ...

My grandparents lived modestly. Most from their generation did. It wasn’t a choice. It was necessity. My grandmother and grandfather were teens when the depression hit, so instead of enjoying their ...

Cedar elm branches are turning brown and dying. Dear Neil: Why is my Chinaberry tree losing its bark? It also doesn’t look very healthy. I’m seeing tiny black insects on its trunk. I’m watering it ...

Q: Why is my chinaberry tree losing its bark? It also doesn’t look very healthy. I’m seeing tiny black insects on its trunk. I’m watering it carefully in the hopes of saving it. What would you suggest ...

That's how the Boy Scouts of America website describes the Hornaday Award. The purpose of the Hornaday Awards program is to encourage learning by the participants and to increase public awareness ...