Pruning can also remove unhealthy or unneeded parts of a plant, and increase the growth of flowers and fruit.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

This plant expert helped develop a new version of a fruit that now carries his name, the Bing cherry.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

The satellite images may not show what the farmers are using the trees for, but trees provide nuts,fruit, wood and other products.

VOA: special.2009.09.01

For another chocolate creation, she uses Earl Grey Tea to give it a flavor of the bergamot fruit.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

In another part of this state, artists make green painted containers in the shape of the pineapple fruit.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

She found that some programs involved little more than leaving fruit on employees' desks to encourage healthy eating.

VOA: special.2011.02.28

During an on-crop year, growers often treat the fruit so it can stay on the tree longer.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

Ever bearers, when planted after the last winter freeze, will produce fruit during spring or early summer.

VOA: special.2009.05.19

Most of these "Dust Bowl refugees" could only find seasonal farm work like gathering fruit from trees.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

The study showed that fruit on the tree reduces the next bloom by stopping buds from appearing.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

Then they break off the covering of the seeds so that only the inside fruit, or nibs,remain.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

The vegetables and fruit will help provide meals for the Obama family, White House workers and guests.

VOA: special.2009.03.31

The United States and Turkey are leading producers of cherries, though not all cherry trees produce fruit.

VOA: special.2010.02.23

In "Baby Reaching for an Apple" Cassatt shows a mother gently holding her child as the baby looks with wonder at the fruit.

VOA: special.2009.07.12