includes the cultivated soybean, Glycine max ( L .) Merr., and the wild soybean, Glycine soja Sieb.

Some Koreans insist that it was first cultivated on the Korean peninsula before 1000 BC and later taken to Japan, where it is now the second most popular legume after the soybean.

He was a cultivated patron of literature and art, and it was in his time that the first printing press authorized to use the Arabic or Turkish languages was set up in Constantinople, operated by Ibrahim Muteferrika ( while the printing press had been introduced to Constantinople in 1480, all works published before 1729 were in Greek, Armenian, or Hebrew ).

Abacá was first cultivated on a large scale in Sumatra in 1925 under the Dutch, who had observed its cultivation in the Philippines for cordage since the ninteenth century, followed up by plantings in Central America in 1929 sponsored by the U. S. Department of Agriculture.

This evidence suggests that figs were the first cultivated crop and mark the invention of the technology of farming.

At the high end, ranging up to 90 cents per sheet, are " delicate shin-nori ( nori from the first of the year's several harvests ) cultivated in Ariake Bay, off the island of Kyushu in Japan ".

It was first cultivated at Mission San Diego de Alcalá in 1769 or later around 1795.

Cotton was first cultivated in the Old World 7, 000 years ago ( 5th millennium BC ), by the inhabitants of Indus Valley civilisation currently situated in Western Pakistan, for example as the site of Mehrgarh where early cotton thread has been preserved in copper beads.

Wheat was a key factor enabling the emergence of city-based societies at the start of civilization because it was one of the first crops that could be easily cultivated on a large scale, and had the additional advantage of yielding a harvest that provides long-term storage of food.

Archaeological analysis of wild emmer indicates that it was first cultivated in the southern Levant with finds at Iraq ed-Dubb in northern Jordan dating back as far as 9600 BC.

The modern pistachio nut P. vera was first cultivated in Western Asia, where it has long been an important crop in cooler parts of Iran and Iraq.

The precious citrus fruit, Bergamot, which had been cultivated and used in the Reggio area since the XIV century, was, in 1750, for the first time in the world grown and produced intensively.

The peach, Prunus persica, is a deciduous tree, native to China, where it was first cultivated.

Peaches were well known to the Romans in first century AD, and was cultivated widely in Emilia-Romagna.

The first evidence for the existence of agricultural practices in South America dates back to circa 6500 BCE, when potatoes, chilies and beans began to be cultivated for food in the Amazon Basin.

Silkworm larvae produce the first type if cultivated in habitats with fresh mulberry leaves for consumption, while Tussah silk is produced by silkworms feeding purely on oak leaves.

Archaeological evidence suggests squash may have been first cultivated in Mesoamerica some 8, 000 to 10, 000 years ago, and may have been independently cultivated elsewhere at a later date.

When these regions were first discovered it appears that the inhabitants lived in comfortable houses and cultivated the soil, as they have continued to do up to the present time.

The Romans were the first to plant vineyards in this area of northeast France, with the region being cultivated by at least the 5th century, possibly earlier.

It originated from Peru but may first have been cultivated in the Canary Islands before being introduced into Western Europe.

The peanut was probably first domesticated and cultivated in the valleys of Paraguay.

However, the Vavilov center of origin locates the origin of the apricot's domestication in the Chinese region, and other sources say the apricot was first cultivated in India in about 3000 BC.

It was first cultivated in Mexico several centuries before the emergence of the Mesoamerican classical civilizations.

Olives ( first cultivated at Mission San Diego de Alcalá ) were grown, cured, and pressed under large stone wheels to extract their oil, both for use at the mission and to trade for other goods.

Another well known Australian apple variety is the Cripps Pink, known locally and internationally as " Pink Lady " apples, which was first cultivated in 1973.

The term " cult " first appeared in English in 1617, derived from the French culte, meaning " worship " or " a particular form of worship " which in turn originated from the Latin word cultus meaning " care, cultivation, worship ," originally " tended, cultivated ," as in the past participle of colere " to till the soil ".

Bede describes Adrian ( or Hadrian, as he calls him in the Ecclesiastical History ), as not only a distinguished theologian, but eminently accomplished in secular learning ; he and Theodore, we are told, traversing all parts of the island, gathered multitudes of scholars around them wherever they appeared, and employed themselves daily with equal diligence and success in instructing those who flocked to them not only in the truths of religion but in the several branches of science and literature then cultivated.

He showed extraordinary talents even in his early youth, and devoted himself with remarkable zeal to the study of rhetoric, which appeared to him the worthiest occupation of a man, and along with it he cultivated poetry as an amusement.

Walking about two leagues ( about 11 km or 6 miles ), finally, he could see the village surrounded by hills and the cultivated lands of wheat, that appeared to him much more impressive than Stadacona.

Homophony has appeared in several non-Western cultures, perhaps particularly in regions where communal vocal music has been cultivated.

Species of Allium, Gilliesia, Ipheion, Leucocoryne, Nothoscordum, and Tulbaghia are cultivated as ornamentals.

Species of Eucalyptus are cultivated throughout the tropics and subtropics including the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East, China and the Indian Subcontinent.

Species include the common dogwood Cornus sanguinea of Eurasia, the widely cultivated flowering dogwood ( Cornus florida ) of eastern North America, the Pacific dogwood Cornus nuttallii of western North America, the Kousa dogwood Cornus kousa of eastern Asia, and two low-growing boreal species, the Canadian and Eurasian dwarf cornels ( or bunchberries ), Cornus canadensis and Cornus suecica respectively.

Carl Linnaeus first described Beta vulgaris in 1753 ; in the second edition of Species Plantarum in 1762 he divided the species into wild and cultivated varieties, giving the name Beta maritima to the wild taxon.

" It has been proposed as an inexpensive native crop that could be cultivated by indigenous people in rural areas for several reasons:

Pobedonostsev awakened in his pupil little love of abstract study or prolonged intellectual exertion, but instilled into the young man's mind the belief that zeal for Russian Orthodox thought was an essential factor of Russian patriotism to be cultivated by every right-minded emperor.

Limited possibilities have been explored by artists as an outlet to artistic expression, and has been cultivated to become a positive style and tradition, emphasizing the decorative function of art, or its religious functions via non-representational forms such as Geometric patterns, floral patterns, and arabesques.

Although its author is unknown, its themes and subject matter are rooted in Germanic heroic poetry, in Anglo-Saxon tradition recited and cultivated by Old English poets called scops.

Plantations or colonies, in distant countries, are either such where the lands are claimed by right of occupancy only, by finding them desert and uncultivated, and peopling them from the mother-country ; or where, when already cultivated, they have been either gained by conquest, or ceded to us by treaties.

Early farmers cultivated many popular vegetables from the Brassica oleracea ( wild cabbage ) by artificially selecting for certain attributes.

Goldoni gave to his country a classical form, which, though it has since been cultivated, has yet to be cultivated by a master.

" Only by classical times is it certain that celery was cultivated.

In Shanghai, Chiang cultivated ties with the city's underworld gangs, dominated by the notorious Green Gang and its leader Du Yuesheng.

He notes that Vaccinium macrocarpon ( American cranberry ) was cultivated by James Gordon in 1760.

The Agrarian Reform Law focused on land development and agriculture, therefore anything in pasture, specified forest cover and cultivated land was to be left untouched by the expropriators.

Sensitive yet caustic, and disgusted by the inferior movies he was performing in, Bogart cultivated the persona of a soured idealist, a man exiled from better things in New York, living by his wits, drinking too much, cursed to live out his life among second-rate people and projects.

They cultivated only those arts which could add splendor to the nation, to the neglect of those which supported it – They neglected Trade & substantial Manufacture ... but does it follow that a total revolution is necessary that because we have given ourselves up too much to the ornaments of life, we will now have none at all ". When attending a dinner at Holland House, Fox's niece Caroline was sat next to Reynolds and " burst out into glorification of the Revolution – and was grievously chilled and checked by her neighbour's cautious and unsympathetic tone ".

His talents of every kind powerful from Nature, and not meanly cultivated by Letters, his social Virtues in all the relations, and all the habitudes of Life renderd him the center of a very great and unparalleled Variety of agreeable Societies, which will be dissipated by his Death.

M. von Engelhardt has attempted to extend this line of treatment to Justin's entire theology, and to show that his conceptions of God, of free will and righteousness, of redemption, grace, and merit prove the influence of the cultivated Greek pagan world of the 2nd century, dominated by the Platonic and Stoic philosophy.

The eastern border region of Normandy had been extensively cultivated by Philip and his predecessors for several years, whilst Angevin authority in the south had been undermined by Richard's giving away of various key castles some years before.