Last call to mail orders for nursery plants and seeds.

If you started out with nursery plants, you could be disappointed even if you did make efforts at selective breeding.

Agriculture dominated the economy with grapes, nursery plants and olives as leading crops.

An aide said that citrus now brought in about $1.5 billion in revenue compared with $1.6 billion for nursery plants.

California ships about 20 percent of its nursery plants out of state.

"If just one third of the treatment system were devoted to propagating nursery plants, we would definitely have a profitable operation," Dr. Jewell said.

Immediately, it expanded its research to include studies on canning crops, nursery plants, and disease and insect pests of rubes.

Residents enjoy a semi-rural setting with large lots where they can raise horses and other livestock, nursery plants, and fruit trees.

Because nursery plants are especially finicky about how much water they need, a modern irrigation system can be a farmer's most expensive purchase.

Unless you buy nursery plants, you've got to wet-nurse them to planting stage.