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primrose and the cowslip; it differs from the primrose in having the umbels of flowers carried up on a stalk. The florists' polyanthus has a See also:

GOLDEN

golden margin, and is known as the See also:

gold-laced polyanthus, the properties being very distinctly laid down and rigidly adhered to. The See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief of these are a clear, unshaded, blackish or reddish ground See also:

COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour, an even margin or lacing of yellow extending See also:

ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round each segment and cutting through its centre down to the ground colour, and a yellow See also:

BAND

band surrounding the See also:

TUBE (Lat. tuba)

tube of exactly the same See also:

hue as the yellow of the lacing. The they should be planted about the end of See also:

SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September or not later than See also:

OCTOBER

October. See also:

PLANTS

Plants for See also:

EXHIBITION

exhibition See also:

PRESENT

present a much better and cleaner See also:

APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance if kept during See also:

winter in a See also:

COLD (in O. Eng. cald and ceald, a word coming ultimately from a root cognate with the Lat. gelu, gelidus, and common in the Teutonic languages, which usually have two distinct forms for the substantive and the adjective, cf. Ger. Kolte, kalt, Dutch koude

cold well-aired See also:

FRAME

frame. For the See also:

flower See also:

BORDERS, THE

borders what are called See also:

FANCY (a shortened form, dating from the 15th century, of " fantasy," which is derived through the O. Fr. fantasie, modern fantaisie. from the Latinized form of the Gr. cbavraoia, Oavrai'ecv, Oat Pais, to show)

fancy polyanthuses are adopted. These are best raised annually from See also:

SEED (from the root seen in Lat. serere, to sow)

seed, the See also:

young See also:

CROP (a word common. in various forms, such as Germ. Kropf, to many Teutonic languages for a swelling, excrescence, round head or top of anything; it appears also in Romanic languages derived from Teutonic, in Fr. as troupe, whence the English " crupper "

crop each See also:

YEAR

year blooming in See also:

SUCCESSION (Lat. successio, from succedere, to follow after)

succession. The seed should be sown as soon as ripe, the young plants being allowed to stand through the winter in the seed See also:

bed. In See also:

APRIL

April or May they are planted out in a bed of See also:

rich See also:

GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

garden See also:

SOIL

soil, and they will See also:

BLOOM (from A.S. bloma, a flower)

bloom abundantly the following See also:

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

spring. A few of the better " thrum-eyed " sorts (those having the anthers in the See also:

eye, and the See also:

PISTIL

pistil sunk in the tube) should be allowed to ripen seed; the See also:

REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest may be thrown away. In some remarkable forms which have been cultivated for centuries the ordinarily See also:

green calyx has become petaloid; when this is See also:

COMPLETE

complete it forms the See also:

HOSE (a word common to many Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch, hoes, stocking, Ger. Hose, breeches, tights; the ultimate origin is unknown)

hose-in-hose See also:

PRIM, JUAN, MARQUIS DE LOS CASTILLEJOS, COUNT DE REDS (1814-187o)

prim-See also:

rose of gardeners. There are also a few well-known See also:

double-flowered varieties.

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