They slogged through the earlier plantings with the bigger trees, hoping that the rain would stay above them in the canopy.

He was going to have the Franks do most of the early planting, he decided.

The early linneian plantings consisted of 1,580 different species, of which 658 still exist.

One was the early planting permitted by the warm, dry weather.

Some of the early planting was more energetic than subtle.

Historians believe that these early plantings were used mostly for table grapes or grape juice rather than the production of an alcoholic beverage.

Ahualoa was also the location for early plantings of coffee, which is still being grown there today.

Plantation growth had been limited by drought conditions and issues with the site and seedling quality of early plantings.

These early plantings were met with failure as native pest and vine disease ravaged the vineyards.

A cape chestnut is one of the most impressive trees today that survived from these early plantings.