Cory went all over the world on plant hunting expeditions to populate the garden, and his dedication to Dyffryn and to horticulture led to him having the largest bonsai collection in private ownership in 1912.
Normal people also realize that it is better to have a world that is conducive to plant growth, even though ragweed is one of those plants, than to have a world that is hostile to plant growth.
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Meanwhile brighter prospects loom eastwards as BP lays the groundwork for a second world-scale plant at their BP Zhuhai site in Guangdong Province, China.
The seed bank at Kew, the largest of its kind in the world, currently stores 11% (around 31, 000 specimens) of the world's plant species.
It could eventually shut down engine and transmission factories around the world because one plant could make fuel cells for all types of vehicles.
The company, which now employs 17, 700 people around the world, supplies plant, equipment, and services for hydropower stations and the pulp and paper industry, and is also involved in the production of animal feed and biomass pellets, among other ventures.
At the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and other botanic gardens around the world, our plant scientists and horticulturists are working towards effective, science-based conservation solutions to ensure that we leave a healthy and hopeful world to the next generation.
The report describes wheat as the world's most important plant-derived protein and calorie source.
There, in 1986, Ford and U.S. Steel had built the largest electrogalvanizing plant in the world.
The resulting crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant is the world's worst nuclear accident in a generation.
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The 1, 600-megawatt plant, the world's most powerful, will go on line in 2009.
In fact, it was the last wild Rodriguan coffee plant in the world.
If it opens as planned, in 2011, China will have the most high-tech low-emissions coal-fired plant in the world.
This project, which also included the construction of the world's largest hydroelectric plant, vastly increased Paraguay's export revenues through the sale of electricity.
The largest desalination plant in the world is located in Ashkelon.
Stretching from Macon to the Florida Panhandle, it is the second-leading peanut and timber-producing district in the country and home to the world's biggest cigarette plant.
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"This will enable us to have the biggest assembling plant in the world to assemble various products - over one million within a day, " he said.
Steel had built the largest electrogalvanizing plant in the world.
Pella had an army of window plant workers after World War II, when farmer Gary Vermeer turned a modest invention--a modified farm wagon with a mechanical hoist--into a company in 1948.
Construction of the world's main demonstration power plant that will use magnetic confinement is under way at Cadarache in France.
Chivas Brothers - which employs 600 workers at the plant and produces the world's second biggest-selling brand, Ballantine's - said it was investigating an accidental release of spirit.
With over 100, 000 large wind turbines world wide and not a single energy plant shut down.
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He took Australia past the 300 mark and was well on his way to a first World Cup century when he looked to plant Nehemiah Odhiambo over the ropes and was caught at long-on.
The disclosure of the new plant comes one day after world leaders stressed the need for greater co-operation against nuclear proliferation and shortly before Iran is due to resume talks with international powers on the issue.
It recently won a contract to build the world's biggest biomass-only power plant, a 190-megawatt station in Poland.
In green energy news, this week Lockheed Martin announced plans to construct the world's largest ocean thermal energy conversion plant off the southern coast of China.
The decision comes after months of deliberations and soul searching after the Japanese nuclear disaster at the Fukushima power plant in March had the whole world turning against nuclear energy.
In other news, this week Qatar showcased designs for 9 sustainable stadiums for the 2022 World Cup and BIG unveiled plans for a plant-wrapped waste to power plant that doubles as a ski slope.
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Heartening news rang forth from the renewable energy sector this week as a UN-backed study reported that the building of new renewable energy plants has officially overtaken fossil fuel plants in Europe and the US. We also took a look at two brand new types of power plants -- the world's first hydrogen-driven power plant in Italy and the first hybrid coal-solar power plant in Colorado.
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