December is National Pear Month, not just because we hear about them in a famous Christmas carol, but because most of the ...

Some time ago Eversource took down a whole row of flowering trees on Jarves Street because they were interfering with the ...

The quince tree ( Cydonia oblonga) is in the rose family along with apples and pears, but is the only member in the Cydonia group. The fruit is tough to cut, and the cut flesh is the color of an apple ...

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It may look pretty in bloom, but don’t be fooled—its blossoms stink, and so does its invasive ways!

One of the better sales out of Amazon is on the retailer's Fire Tablets. Amazon's answer to Apple's iPad is significantly cheaper, even at full price. During this early Black Friday, find Amazon ...

After all, were it not for the 19th-century monarch, we might not celebrate Christmas with a well-appointed fir tree. Though people across the globe had been decorating temples and domestic ...

Christmas trees are very unlikely to start a residential fire, but if a tree is placed improperly, it could be dangerous. The NFPA notes that most Christmas tree fires start because of electrical ...

THE presence of fire-blight of pear, an extremely destructive bacterial disease caused by Erwinia amylovora (Burrill) Winslow et al., has recently been confirmed in England. This represents the ...

A cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah brokered by the U.S. and France took effect in Lebanon early Wednesday, raising hopes of ending more than a year of cross-border strikes and a full-scale ...