The first Arbor Day was held on April 10, 1872 and an estimated one million trees were planted that day.

The campaign by the name ' Tree Day-Plant Your Future ' was first organized on 12 March 2008, when an official non-working day was declared and more than 150, 000 Macedonians planted 2 million trees in one day ( symbolically, one for each citizen ).

On the first Arbor Day, April 10, 1872, an estimated one million trees were planted.

During the Anglo-French War ( 1627 – 1629 ), under Charles I, by 1629 the Kirkes took Quebec City, Sir James Stewart of Killeith, Lord Ochiltree planted a colony on Cape Breton Island at Baleine, Nova Scotia and Alexander ’ s son, William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling established the first incarnation of “ New Scotland ” at Port Royal.

The first native seeds were planted with the publication of The Canadian Unitarian in Ottawa from 1940 to 1946, a small newsletter distributed with the newsletters of Canadian churches.

The South Galatian view holds that Paul wrote Galatians before or shortly after the First Jerusalem Council, probably on his way to it, and that it was written to churches he had presumably planted during either his time in Tarsus ( he would have traveled a short distance, since Tarsus is in Cilicia ) after his first visit to Jerusalem as a Christian, or during his first missionary journey, when he traveled throughout southern Galatia.

Yet another myth speaks of the three founding deities of Jeju Island, who were to be wed to the three princesses of Tamna ; the deities brought seeds of five grains which were the first seeds planted, which in turn became the first instance of farming.

The seeds were planted in 1906 by a Wanganui nurseryman, Alexander Allison, with the vines first fruiting in 1910.

After this, Noah became an Husbandman, " the first tiller of the soil ", and he planted a vineyard: and he drank of the wine, and was drunken ; and was uncovered within his tent.

The first precious seedlings from Spain were planted in Lima by Antonio de Rivera in 1560.

Michelle Obama planted the White Houses ' first organic garden and installed beehives on the South Lawn of the White House, which will supply organic produce and honey to the First Family and for state dinners and other official gatherings.

* The first arboretum to be designed and planted is the Arboretum Trsteno, near Dubrovnik in Croatia.

* Tulip bulbs planted by Carolus Clusius in the Hortus Botanicus Leiden, Holland, first flower.

Chardonnay was believed to be first planted in Chablis by the Cistercians at Pontigny Abbey in the 12th century.

The next largest concentration is found in the Languedoc where it was first planted around the town of Limoux and up to 30 % can be blended with Mauzac in the sparkling Blanquette de Limoux.

The first vineyards were planted here in 1968 and quickly transformed marginal grazing land into a top wine-producing region.

* The first chrysanthemums are planted in Europe.

In the early 2000s, it broke into the top 10 of varieties planted worldwide for the first time.

Syrah first appeared as a wine grape in California in the 1970s, where it was planted by a group of viticulturists who called themselves " Rhône rangers.

Later in 1855 Garibaldi decided to settle there and planted the first trees of the blooming pinewood which covers the island today.

Williams spent the spring and summer of 1948 in Rome in the company of a teenaged Italian boy to whom he provided financial assistance for several years afterward ( a situation which planted the seed of Williams ' first novel The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone ).

The pits are planted in the autumn ( after first being chilled ) and seedlings emerge in the spring.

In gardening and botanical terminology, a volunteer is a plant that grows on its own, rather than being deliberately planted by a farmer or gardener.

* Arboretum, a large botanical garden with tropical trees from many countries and the Mayors Alley — the line of palm-trees planted by the mayors of different cities of the world.

The campus was planned and planted in the 1890s as a botanical garden and arboretum, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted.

Mellon created a space with a more defined central lawn, bordered by flower beds planted in a French style, but largely using American botanical specimens.

The Brisbane and Sydney botanical gardens contain numerous specimens planted in the middle of the nineteenth century.

* Clarke, named after famous botanist Lilian Clarke who taught at the school and planted their botanical gardens in 1896

He brought some Ginkgo seeds back that were planted in the botanical garden in Utrecht and can still be seen today.

Billed as Florida's first commercial tourist theme park, Cypress Gardens opened on January 2, 1936 as a botanical garden planted by Dick Pope Sr. and his wife Julie.

Eucommia is also occasionally planted in botanical gardens and other gardens in Europe, North America and elsewhere, being of interest as the only cold-tolerant ( to at least-30 ° C ) rubber-producing tree.

His original botanical gardens form the basis for today's Landesarboretum Baden-Württemberg and Botanischer Garten der Universität Hohenheim, which still contain some of the specimens he planted.

It is a very attractive tree and is starting to be planted as an ornamental tree in botanical gardens, particularly valued in warm areas as it is one of the most heat-tolerant of all spruces.

It is a very attractive tree and is starting to be planted as an ornamental tree in botanical gardens, particularly valued in warm areas as it is one of the most heat-tolerant of all spruces, more tolerant of summer heat than Blue Spruce, which it resembles in foliage.

It was originally called Botany Bay after a botanical garden that was planted here for the cultivation of medicinal herbs.

The Christchurch Botanic Gardens, located in the central city of Christchurch, New Zealand are botanical gardens founded in 1863, when an English oak was planted on 9 July 1863 to commemorate the solemnisation of marriage between Prince Albert and Princess Alexandra of Denmark.

The zoo is also a botanical garden and the grounds contain significant exotic and native flora, including a Moreton Bay Fig planted in 1877.

The majority of these trees outside their natural environment have been planted as a botanical curiosity, as they grow very large, distinctive flowers.

All three make very attractive ornamental trees with luxuriant foliage, though they are generally only planted in arboretums or botanical gardens.

The dominant style was revised in the early 19th century to include more " gardenesque " features, including shrubberies with gravelled walks, tree plantations to satisfy botanical curiosity, and, most notably, the return of flowers, in skirts of sweeping planted beds.

: An amaranth planted in a garden near a Rose-Tree, thus addressed it: " What a lovely flower is the Rose, a favorite alike with Gods and with men.

The plants are raised from seed, sown either in a hot bed or in the open garden according to the season of the year, and after one or two thinnings and transplantings, they are, on attaining a height of 15 – 20 cm, planted out in deep trenches for convenience of blanching, which is effected by earthing up to exclude light from the stems.

They then moved to Vernon, then to a house in Giverny in Normandy, where he planted a large garden and where he painted for much of the rest of his life.

The King Protea has several colour forms and horticulturists have recognized 81 garden varieties, some of which have injudiciously been planted in its natural range.

According to Pliny the Elder a vine, a fig and an olive tree grew in the middle of the Roman Forum, the latter was planted to provide shade ( the garden plot was recreated in the 20th century ).

As long ago as 1840 a collection numbering over one thousand different cultivars, varieties and species was possible when a rosarium was planted by Loddiges nursery for Abney Park Cemetery, an early Victorian garden cemetery and arboretum in England.

Near the cathedral, in the garden of the ancient Palais des Archevêques ( now Musée des Beaux-Arts ), is a huge cedar tree planted by Napoleon.

" And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden ; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

* Three small apple trees, said to have been grown from cuttings taken from the apple trees in Sir Isaac Newton's garden, are planted by the archway containing a statue of Archimedes in his bath by Thompson Dagnall.

Jethro planted the staff in his garden, when its marvelous virtue was revealed by the fact that nobody could withdraw it from the ground ; even to touch it was fraught with danger to life.

File: Treelawn2. JPG | A sidewalk with a planted rain garden in the " tree lawn " or " road verge " zone

There are no authentic remains of Henry VIII's gardens, merely a small knot garden, planted in 1924 which hints at the gardens ' 16th-century appearance.

" There was also, beside the acropolis, the Hanging Garden, as it is called, which was built, not by Semiramis, but by a later Syrian king to please one of his concubines ; for she, they say, being a Persian by race and longing for the meadows of her mountains, asked the king to imitate, through the artifice of a planted garden, the distinctive landscape of Persia.

When the ascending terraces had been built, there had been constructed beneath them galleries which carried the entire weight of the planted garden and rose little by little one above the other along the approach ; and the uppermost gallery, which was fifty cubits high, bore the highest surface of the park, which was made level with the circuit wall of the battlements of the city.

The Grange gardens are divided by the Winterbourne stream and contain formal bedding displays, a wildflower area, a knot garden and some notable trees, including a large Magnolia grandiflora, a mulberry tree dating perhaps to the seventeenth century and a tulip tree planted by Queen Elizabeth II.

The convicts and other colonists were landed, the cattle that had survived three months aboard ship were turned loose, earth was broken for a kitchen garden, and seeds of cabbage, turnip, and lettuce were planted.

As late as 1716, Guillaume Delisle's map of Paris shows that a short stretch of roads and fields and market garden plots still separated the grand axe of the Tuileries gardens from the planted " Avenue des Thuilleries ," stretches west from a newly cleared Place du Pont Tournant soon to be renamed for Louis XV and now the Place de la Concorde.

Pansies are purchased as six-packs or " flats " ( USA ) of young plants from garden centers and planted directly into the garden soil.

Privet hedges ( referred to as " evers ") were planted along the pavements at the end of every front garden and during the spring and summer months a squad of gardeners were employed to keep them in regulation height.

Wanting to establish a " Second Garden of Eden " in this part of the Santa Clara River Valley, Cook specified, tradition says, that the acreage be planted with fruits identified with the Biblical garden — apricots, dates, figs, grapes, olives and pomegranates.

Stewart had planted a garden and watched over it with care.