By the mid 1800s, the heads of chrysanthemum flowers were used to obtain pyrethrum, and rotenone was extracted from the derris plant. |
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As an experiment I bought in 12 different varieties of spray chrysanthemum from a specialist nursery. |
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Many flowers are edible, the most common culinary varieties being calendula, chrysanthemum, daylily, nasturtium, pansy, violet and zucchini. |
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Patients with high blood pressure are advised to use pillows full of white chrysanthemum flowers, tea leaves or bamboo leaves. |
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For on cold autumn days, when all other flowers were fading away, only the chrysanthemum was able to flourish in the cold winds. |
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The costmary plant is a tall and erect perennial chrysanthemum, of minor importance as a condiment. |
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I ordered a potful of chrysanthemum tea and a batch of the fried pork dumplings. |
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Similarly, in cut chrysanthemum flowers, the leaves often wilt, due to a blockage for water transport in the xylem of the basal stem part. |
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These synthetic chemicals mimic the action of natural pyrethrins derived from chrysanthemum flowers. |
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The inevitable chrysanthemum puns on the themes of lastingness and perpetuation reinforced and popularized this symbolism. |
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The flower of summer was the lotus, autumn the chrysanthemum, winter the plum blossom, and spring the peony. |
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Naruko Kokeshi has a big head and a stable torso with a pretty chrysanthemum decoration. |
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The disease causes destruction of many flower and ornamental crops, particularly carnation and chrysanthemum in rooting beds. |
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Should not be used by persons allergic to chrysanthemum, pyrethrin, or synthetic pyrethroids. |
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Three decades later, I still can't suppress the joy when pressing my face into a pillowy rose or hedgehog-shaped chrysanthemum. |
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For example, a large chrysanthemum bloom and a small freesia are two extremes of size. |
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Do not treat Bonnafon chrysanthemums and geraniums in the greenhouse or chrysanthemum cuttings within one month of planting. |
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It is neither a daisy, nor a flower of lotus, but very venerated chrysanthemum. |
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Once established, chrysanthemum white rust is extremely difficult and costly to eradicate. |
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One white chrysanthemum solid-flower cross on an easel arrives decorated with a cluster of red carnations. |
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The relaxing fragrance of sandalwood intensified by clove with typical leathery-woody background notes from ferula, chrysanthemum, and juniper. |
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Insufficient removal of these air embolisms may result in serious water stress which may lead to early leaf wilting as previously shown in chrysanthemum cut flowers. |
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A daisy is the day's eye, and an ox-eye is a type of chrysanthemum that looks like a daisy, although confusingly the Michaelmas daisy is an aster, because it resembles a star. |
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The Dutch are the most efficient on a certain number of floral products like the tulip, rose and chrysanthemum, all bulb plants, of course, as well as various orchids like phalaenopsis and other cymbidium. |
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Clear Lung Tea takes superior chrysanthemum, lily, apricot kernel, citrus red, cordate houttuynia and green tea as its ingredients and it is processed on the basis of years of research. |
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In the foreground, chrysanthemum and campanula stems bend under the autumn wind, a decoration that is repeated with the same naturalism on the back of the lid and on the inside shelf of the writing case. |
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Mr Hatoyama does not call for the imperial family to break the so-called chrysanthemum taboo by admitting guilt on behalf of the wartime emperor, Hirohito. |
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It was here, so the legend goes, that the gods created the imperial line that has led unbroken to Emperor Akihito, the present incumbent of the chrysanthemum throne. |
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Since the tea flowers are crafted by hand, each flower varies, some holding a plum blossom, others a tea plant blossom, and others a chrysanthemum blossom. |
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Farmers like Biswajit Banik cultivate flowers like gladiolus, marigold and chrysanthemum, tuberose, orchids and anthodium in his small farm. |
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In addition, the orchid, jasmine, daffodil and chrysanthemum have also been held as possible floral symbols of China. |
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Two great gold chrysanthemum crests, symbols of the imperial household, emblazon the gate. It is to this Yasukuni shrine that Junichiro Koizumi, Japan's new prime minister, says he will pay an official visit on August 15th. |
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Rare Earth by Paul Mason He began thrusting wildly in the general direction of her chrysanthemum, but missing — his paunchy frame shuddering with the efford of remaining rigid and upside down. |
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No phytotoxicity has been observed at the rates recommended on this label on chrysanthemum, gerbera, ageratum, dahlia, marigold, salvia, verbena, zinnia, baby's breath, petunia, Easter lily, or poinsettia. |
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Two are new arrivals, plants that friends brought her when she was in the hospital, having her foot operated on: a kalanchoe and a miniature chrysanthemum. |
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Mosquito-repellent clothing is made by treating fabric with permethrin, a synthetic insecticide, or pyrethroid, a compound similar to a natural chrysanthemum insecticide. |
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And consider trying some offbeat fall greens, such as mache, miner's lettuce and shungiku, an edible chrysanthemum. |
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The chrysanthemum is the symbol of ownership of the emperor. |
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For example, a yellow chrysanthemum meant you felt slighted, sweet Williams signified artifice, turnips signified charity. |
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The 16-petalled chrysanthemum of the Imperial Family appears at the top and bottom, and three leaves of asarum in a circle, representing the Tokugawa family, are stamped to the left and right. |
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The first article I wrote in my school magazine explained how to disbud a show chrysanthemum, much to the amusement of the rest of my class. |
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Groundsel and chickweed in particular should be removed from around growing chrysanthemums as they are host plants for the chrysanthemum eelworm. |
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Insert small sprigs of Leucadendron Safari Sunset between the chrysanthemum heads to provide contrast in texture and colour and to form the outer structure. |
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The youngster, who currently grows flowers like gladiolus, marigold, chrysanthemum, tuberose, orchids and anthodium in his small farm has never looked back since then. |
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This year's edition boasts of over 250 varieties of vibrant and colourful flowers like dahlia, gerbera, marigold, chrysanthemum, orchid and anthodium. |
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Whether you want to compete or simply collect mums, the National Chrysanthemum Society has 43 chapters across the country. |
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She married into the imperial family by wedding Crown Prince Naruhito, next in line for Japan's Chrysanthemum Throne. |
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But we had come to partake, and we were ushered into the Chrysanthemum Palace to be met by smiling waiters in red mandarin coats. |
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Another flavouring agent was alecost, Chrysanthemum balsamita, a plant from western Asia related to tansy which was brought to England sometime in the sixteenth century. |
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The many cultivars of Chrysanthemum are the major perennial garden plant in the United States. |
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