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| | Chapter 8: Misc. Garden Plants, Foods, Flowers and Herbs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | Dill is grown primarily for its seeds and herbage used in seasoning of foods. |
 | | Dill is a glabrous annual or biennial herb, 2 to 4 feet tall, usually grown in rows 30 inches apart, with the plants 6 inches apart in the row (fig. |
 | | However, when Flemion and Henrickson (1949) confined nine dill plants in insect-free cages during the flowering period, only 59 seeds per primary unbel were obtained, but when nine plants were caged with houseflies present, 1,001 seeds per primary umber were obtained, showing that insect pollination is essential to good seed set. |
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