Foliage in A Sentence

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    A beautiful variety of it (lilacina) has delicate bluish flowers, retaining its fine deep green foliage at the time of flowering, and throwing up sturdy stems about 2 feet high, crowned by large flat umbels of well-shaped flowers.

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    A few of the smaller species rival in delicacy of form and color some of the charming Maidenhair Ferns, and may be associated with flowering plants, or those of fine foliage.

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    A film of winter grime covers others and many are hidden by overgrown foliage.

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    A florist developed contact dermatitis from the foliage of balsam fir; a patch test produced a positive reaction (Kappes 1948 ).

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    A good kind with fern-like foliage is T. aquilegifolium, which is about 4 feet high, and grows vigorously in any soil.

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    A great mass of pale-green foliage is usually composed of the algarrobo trees, while the course of the river is marked by lines or groups of palms, by fine old willows (Salix humboldtiana), fruit-gardens, and fields of cotton, Indian corn, sugar-cane and alfalfa (lucerne).

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    A large number of horticultural varieties have been developed by hybridization, some of which have a variegated foliage.

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    A moist growing atmosphere is necessary both for the swelling fruit and for maintaining the health of the foliage.

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    A potential branch or bud, either foliage or flower, is formed in the axil of each leaf; sometimes more than one bud arises, as for instance in the walnut, where two or three stand in vertical series above each leaf.

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    A species of weeping maple (shidare-momiji) dresses itself in peachy-red foliage and is trained into many picturesque shapes, though not without detriment to its longevity.

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    A tall hardy perennial, fennel has delicate, bright green foliage and yellow flowers.

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    A variegated form is pretty, the foliage being mottled with white or faint pink.

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    A very pretty English silver plated tray, with engraved floral and foliage motifs, and a cartouche to the center.

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    A vigorous medium grower amply clothed with heavy dark green foliage.

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    A white feline is set against a background of red peonies and green foliage, all on a royal blue glass bulb.

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    A. annua is a graceful plant with tall stems 5 or 6 feet high, the foliage fine, and the flowers not showy in elegant panicles.

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    A. Kolomikta is a very striking plant in its foliage, occasionally half the leaf being whitish.

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    A. palmatum atro-sanguineum, with very rich crimson foliage, and pinnatifidum, in which the leaves are much divided, are the finest of the Japanese kinds.

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    A. rubra (the Red Milk-weed) is a distinct tall-growing plant with long bright green foliage, and large umbels of purple-red flowers.

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    Admirable plants for picturesque groups, very hardy, easily increased by division, thriving in any soil, but the foliage effect is finer on deep, rich soil.

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    Africa, allied to Sparaxis and Tritonia, but having broader foliage, often hairy and plaited; they grow from 6 to 12 inches high, with spikes of sometimes sweetly-scented brilliant flowers ranging in color from blue to crimsonmagenta.

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    Africa. They have grassy foliage and yellow flowers, are tender, but are sometimes planted out in summer, in light, sandy soil, in warm borders.

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    After the fruit has set, the foliage should be refreshed and cleansed by the daily use of the syringe or garden engine.

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    Albinism, with which variegated foliage may be considered, concerns a different set of causes, still obscure, and usually regarded as internal, though experiments go to show that some variegations are infectious.

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    Algerian Iris (Iris Stylosa) - A beautiful plant, flowering in mid-winter, its flowers hidden in grassy foliage.

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    Alpine Fir (Abies Lasiocarpa) - A beautiful spire-like tree 150 feet high, with white bark and very small cones, purple, 2 to 3 inches long, and red male flowers, the foliage gracefully curved.

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    Also R. brachycarpum, another larger Japanese species, with lighter green and more rounded foliage, and creamy-white flowers spotted with green.

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    Altar arrangements and candelabra arrangements can also be done that feature fall foliage.

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    American species will be found useful for mixed herbaceous borders, having rich green foliage and white feathery flower-heads in May and June.

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    Amongst indefinite forms the simplest occurs when a lateral shoot produced in the axil of a large single foliage leaf of the plant ends in a single flower, the axis of the plant elongating beyond, as in Veronica hederifolia, Vinca minor and Lysimachia nemorum.

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    An annual stately and showy with large flowers, the foliage grey-green, flowers variable in form and color, rank in smell and useless for cutting, but of good effect when grouped boldly.

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    An inferior variety of pear, for instance, may suddenly produce a shoot bearing fruit of superior quality; a beech tree, without obvious cause, a shoot with finely divided foliage; or a camellia an unwontedly fine flower.

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    Andersson says that he has rarely seen two specimens of this species which were alike in the collective characters offered by the stature, foliage and catkins.

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    Another very distinct group with silvery foliage - the crustaceous group - contains some of our choicest Alpines.

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    Aristotelia - A. macqui is a hardy Chilian shrub of the Lime Tree family, chiefly esteemed for its handsome evergreen foliage.

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    Artificial Christmas tree foliage is usually crafted from either PE or PVC materials.

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    As a picturesque tree, for park and ornamental plantation, it is among the best of the conifers, its colour and form contrasting yet harmonizing with the olive green and rounded outline of oaks and beeches, or with the red trunk and glaucous foliage of the pine.

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    As a wall plant it is of free growth, and has a good effect, the flowers coming in May and during the summer months, borne in corymbs along the whole length of the young branches, often so profusely as to hide the foliage.

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    As with other plants growing near water it keeps its leaves longer than do trees in drier situations, and the glossy green foliage lasting after other trees have put on the red or brown of autumn renders it valuable for landscape effect.

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    At the time of flowering the foliage is often withered, and to hide the nakedness of the stems it is sometimes best planted among other low-growing plants.

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    Atriplicis, a vigorous Chinese annual, with erect reddish stem, slightly branched, over 3 feet in height, and with its young shoots and leaves covered with a rosy-violet powder, pretty in foliage in any soil.

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    Autumn golfers in Michigan enjoy crisp mornings, clear skies, sunny days, and phenomenal fall foliage as the backdrop to endless holes of golf.

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    Autumn in New England, for example, can mean drives through fall foliage.

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    Available colors include Aqua, Black, Foliage, French Blue, and Fuchsia Berry, so the only trouble you'll have is finding the most flattering shade for you.

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    B. patagonica (Groundsell Tree) is handsome in foliage, with white flower-heads, borne in profusion.

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    Because September can be a colorful time of year with still blooming gardens and color-changing foliage, it is important to coordinate the use of wedding colors without overdoing it.

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    Begonias also have lovely bronze colored foliage or light green foliage and small but vibrant flowers.

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    Bermuda Cruises are a favorite for departure ports in the northeastern United States, and New England and Canadian cruises are seasonal variations that explore magnificent autumn foliage.

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    Bocconi, which have elegant foliage when well developed in a shady place in rich soil, like that usually found in woods.

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    Both islands offer exquisite national parks with gorgeous foliage and extensive trails.

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    Both the Carnation and the Pink, from the beauty and sweetness of their bloom and the cheerful effect of their foliage in winter, are well deserving of cultivation in all gardens where soil and climate suit these flowers.

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    Brilliantly colored spots and patches follow the action of acid fumes on the vegetation near towns and factories, and such particoloured leaves often present striking resemblance to autumn foliage.

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    But when it grows in dense woods, where the lower branches decay and drop off early, only a small head of foliage remaining at the tapering summit, its stem, though frequently of great height, is rarely more than 11 or 2 ft.

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    But when viburnum flowers do n't have foliage as a backdrop to heighten their performance, then they have scent.

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    C. diacantha has foliage of shining green, marking with silvery lines, and the spines are ivory white.

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    C. Lyoni grows from 2 to 3 feet high, forms a dense mass of stems, with deep green foliage, from July to September bearing dense clusters of showy pink blossoms.

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    Calceolaria Hyssopifolia - One of the best of the dwarf kinds, bearing loose clusters of lemon-yellow blossoms from early summer till autumn, the foliage resembling that of Hyssop.

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    Calceolaria Pavonii - A noble kind, from 2 to 4 feet high, with large light green, much-wrinkled foliage, bearing large, pale yellow, slipper-shaped blossoms.

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    Campana.-Very neat dwarf crowded foliage; scape 1 1/2 feet with bell-shaped head of rosy-lilac flowers.

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    Carole will be planting a variety of hardy annual foliage plants to create a foliage plants to create a foliage border.

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    Caryopteris - C. mastacanthus is a small shrub with greyish foliage, distinct in habit, and with purple flowers, not quite hardy perhaps in all soils, but pretty on warm banks and in warm gardens.

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    Caucasus. L. sibirica, Fiscieri, and thyrsoidea are fine-leaved plants, and worth growing with L. macrophylla for their foliage.

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    Chamaecyparis lawsoniana ' Treasure ' A plant beautifully enriched with golden variegation on light green foliage.

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    Chelidonii, of doubtful hardiness, from the Himalayas, with charming pale lilac flowers and greyish-green foliage.

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    Chemical control Glyphosate is a non-selective total weedkiller applied to the foliage, where it is translocated throughout the weed.

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    Choose high quality PE needles, like ultra-realistic True Needle® foliage by Balsam Hill, which looks and feels just like natural needles.

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    Clammy Locust (Robinia Viscosa) - Smaller than the ordinary False Acacia, but is elegant in foliage and beautiful in flower.

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    Coleus, with its variegated bronze and green foliage, adds great color and interest.

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    Comfrey (Symphytum) - Suited for naturalising in open sunny places, and, when well grown in masses, their foliage has a fine effect.

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    Controlling pests Plants are often infested soon after being planted out and, if unchecked, foliage and flowers can become unsightly.

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    Convolvulus Sylvaticus - No plant forms more beautiful and delicate curtains of foliage and flowers than this, which grows vigorously in any soil.

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    Coriaria Rustifolia - a tall shrubby climber of 10 to 20 feet, with square stems and slender arching shoots, covered with fresh green foliage and sprays of tiny green flowers drooping prettily from the leaf-axils.

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    D. chinense is distinct from other Larkspurs, and is neat and rather dwarf in growth, having finely cut feathery foliage, and freely producing spikes of large blossoms, usually of a rich blue-purple, but sometimes white.

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    Dahlia gracilis - A distinct and graceful plant, with slender stems and finely divided foliage, which gives it a freer habit than any other Dahlia.

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    Delacourii, is intermediate in foliage and bears delicate pale pink flowers.

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    Don't let leaf disease spoil your tree's foliage.

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    During the warmer months, however, the mountain sides are richly clothed with the foliage of maple, mountain ash, apple, pear and walnut trees; the orchards furnish, not only apples and pears, but peaches, cherries, mulberries and apricots; and the farmers grow sufficient corn to export.

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    Dutchmans Pipe (Aristolochia) - Climbing Birthworts of curious form of flower, and effective in foliage.

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    Dwarf shrubby plants allied to Incarvillea, with trumpet-shaped flowers and elegant foliage.

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    Elderberry grows through the United States on tall plants with thick green foliage.

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    Fairy Wallflower (Erysimum Pumilum) - A very small plant, rare in cultivation, resembling the alpine Wallflower in the size and color of its flowers, but lacking its vigorous and rich green foliage.

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    Flower, Foliage, Containers, Scissors, although Tutor can supply some sundries at cost price as required.

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    Flowers and foliage are the perfect accents for an outdoor wedding pagoda.

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    Foliage, tendril and inflorescence, reduced.

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    For this reason it is advisable to keep them in as cool a position as possible when in flower, so that the growth of young foliage may not be excited before its natural season.

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    Forests of cherry-trees, plumtrees, magnolia trees, or hiyaku-jikko (Lagerstroemia indica), banks of azalea, clumps of hydrangea, groups of camelliasuch have their permanent places and their foliage adds notes of color when their flowers have fallen.

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    Free-growing but rather weedy ranunculaceous plants, in many cases having elegantly cut foliage.

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    Fully exposed, the foliage is very attractive, and the plant has the precious quality of growing under Pines or various trees in perfect health, and fruiting yearly.

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    G. Fischeri is a handsome plant; its snow-white woolly foliage is very telling, and its blossom is of an unusual flame color.

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    G. luteum is quite hardy and has handsome silver foliage.

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    G. repens rosea is a pretty dwarf rock plant, thriving also in borders, flowering long in summer and autumn, and with foliage of a pleasant glaucous color.

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    Gardenias attract many gardeners for their glossy green foliage and white to creamy yellow, heavily scented flowers.

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    Generally, however, the flower-bearing portion of the plant is sharply distinguished from the foliage leafbearing or vegetative portion, and forms a more or less elaborate branch-system in which the bracts are small and scale-like.

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    German Tamarisk (Myricaria) - M. germanica is an elegant shrub, hardly differing from the common Tamarisk of our sea-coasts, with feathery foliage and many long plume-like clusters of small pink flowers.

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    Get one with dark green foliage down to the soil.

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    Gigantic as these trees are and imposing from their vast columnar trunks, they have little beauty, owing to the scanty foliage of the short rounded boughs; some of the trees stand very close together; they are said to be about four hundred in number.

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    Gigantic umbelliferous plants, with magnificent foliage, adapted for shrubbery borders or open spots on lawns.

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    Glyphosate may take several days to kill the foliage and sporulating blight lesions have been found on glyphosate treated haulm.

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    Glyphosate-based herbicides like Roundup and triclopyr-based herbicides like Ortho Brush-B-Gon will kill poison plants, but they can also take out any other surrounding foliage they come into contact with.

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    Go classical with fall themed foliage and small gourds decorating a classically frosted cake.

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    Guiding Optimus Prime through acres of foliage whilst launching attacks on enemy units feels magnificently weighty.

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    Having flowers or small foliage for decoration.

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    He looked at the row of birches shining in the sunshine, with their motionless green and yellow foliage and white bark.

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    He takes for subject a landscape, a seascape, a battle-scene, flowers, foliage, birds, fishes, insectsin short, anything.

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    He won fans over quickly with romantic rooms and a love for fresh flowers and foliage.

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    Healthy plants make dense rounded heads of foliage, relieved during the blooming season with many flowers.

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    Helleborus or hellebores, are a flowering perennial that is prized for its evergreen foliage in addition to its blossoms.

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    Hide the pixie in the lines of the trunk of the tree or within the foliage, blending her clothing in with the leaves.

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    Higher up the slopes are covered with small heath, Bruniaceae, Rutaceae, &c. All plants with permanent foliage are thickly covered with hair.

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    Holly's variegated foliage and berries and the many shades of green, ranging from light green to the blue green of spruce trees ensures color in the landscape among the snow drifts and gray winter skies.

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    Horminum Pyrenaicum - A Pyrenean plant, forming dense tufts of foliage, and having purplish-blue flowers, in spikes about 9 inches high, which appear in July or August.

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    Hosti is a good tree, both in foliage and flower.

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    However, it is possible to keep this solely for its beautiful foliage by removing the flower buds as they appear.

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    Hunnemannia - H. fumarioefolia is an erect perennial, 2 to 3 feet high, with glaucous foliage, like some of the Fumitories.

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    I have to peek through the jungle foliage to see the village itself.

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    I. Herbsti grows from 1 to 2 feet high, and has crimson stems and rich carmine-veined foliage, the brilliancy of which continues until late in autumn, and is more effective in wet than in hot dry seasons.

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    If a heavy frost catches you by surprise, it sometimes helps to spray the frosted foliage with tepid water.

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    If the container holds a combination of plants, 2/3 of the mix should be foliage plants that add color even when your flowering plants have no blooms.

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    If the plant is a perennial, such as asparagus, simply trim any dead leaves or foliage so the plant can get a new start in the spring.

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    Imperata Sacchariflora - A hardy Grass, from the Amoor, with graceful foliage, forming a tuft, about 3 feet high, that throws up numerous flower-spikes, about 5 feet in height, bearing silvery plumes of flowers.

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    In 1905 Grand' Eury discovered the seeds of Pecopteris Pluckeneti, an Upper Coal Measure species, attached, in immense numbers, to the fronds, which are but little modified as compared with the ordinary vegetative foliage.

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    In addition Liatris spicata which has purple spikes will push through the foliage.

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    In addition to the first foliage-leaves and the adult type of leaf, there are often produced leaves which are intermediate both in shape and structure between the seedling and adult foliage.

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    In autumn the foliage assumes fine tints of crimson-purple and yellow, and it reaches a height of 10 or more feet in three years from the seed.

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    In Britain it is cultivated as an ornamental tree, as being conspicuous for its flowers in spring, and for its red fruit and foliage in autumn.

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    In cultivating this plant full exposure of the foliage to sunlight, combined with cool, uniformly moist conditions at the roots, is necessary.

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    In cultivation the potato varies very greatly not only as to the season of its growth but also as to productiveness, the vigour and luxuriance of its foliage, the presence or relative absence of hairs, the form of the leaves, the size and colour of the flowers, &c. The tubers vary greatly in size, form and colour; gardeners divide them into rounded forms and long forms or "kidneys," and there are of course varieties intermediate in form.

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    In doing so they frequently change colour, and hence arise the beautiful and varied tints of the autumnal foliage.

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    In dry areas, choose plants that can tolerate drought - such plants often have gray or silver foliage.

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    In early summer, with its bright yellow blossoms, resting on deep glaucous blue foliage, it is very effective.

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    In England the pine is largely employed as a " nurse " for oak trees, its conical growth when young admirably adapting it for this purpose; its dense foliage renders it valuable as a shelter tree for protecting land from the wind; it stands the sea gales better than most conifers, but will not flourish on the shore like some other species.

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    In fact, if the foliage alone were taken into account, the Cordaiteae might be described as simple-leaved Cycads.

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    In growth and foliage it resembles a Gooseberry.

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    In habit some species of Alethopteris resembled the recent Angiopteris, while the Neuropteris foliage may be compared with that of an Osmunda.

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    In Labiate plants, as the dead-nettle (Lamium), the flowers are produced in the axil of each of the foliage leaves of the plant, and they appear as if arranged in a simple whorl of flowers.

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    In many cases the cones have been found in connexion with branches bearing characteristic Calamarian foliage.

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    In one small chamber there was cleared a frieze, of cupids intermingled with foliage; but in this, after the first moments of illusion, it was only possible to acknowledge the hand of some unknown late and lax decorator of the school, influenced as much by Raphael as by Leonardo.

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    In plantations its bright foliage, with the orange cones and young shoots, render it an ornamental tree, hardy in southern Britain.

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    In spring the butterflies often bask on bare ground, on low foliage or on bushes.

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    In spring the fresh green foliage is often tinged with pink, bronze or red.

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    In the dry, saline regions of the west and north-west, where the rainfall is slight, there are large thickets of low-growing, thorny bushes, poor in foliage.

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    In the rosy variety the rosy hue is most pronounced in the young stage, and the leaf-stalks and the foliage are of a more bronzy shade of green.

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    In these primeval forests the vegetation is excessively rank; passage has to be forced through thick underwood and creeping plants, between giant trees, whose foliage shuts out the sun's rays; and the land teems with animal and insect life of every form and colour.

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    Infected potato haulms (foliage) may be composted in a good active heap.

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    Ireland rarely wore a one-piece, but one shot features her in a strapless yellow one-piece while peeking through foliage.

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    Iresine - Dwarf half-hardy plants, remarkable for their foliage, and much misused in the flower garden.

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    Iris Atro-Purpurea - This Iris may be considered as coming within the iberica group, as the foliage is not unlike that kind, and the stem, though always of some length, never rises very high.

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    Iris Gatesi - A handsome Flag from Armenia, and very near to susiana, but the rhizome is more compact, and the foliage smaller, shorter, and narrower.

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    Isopyrum - A graceful little plant allied to the Meadow Rues, I. thalictroides has prettier white flowers, and is valuable for its Maiden-hair Fern-like foliage.

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    It comes near to I. susiana, having a compact rhizome, relatively large foliage, a fairly tall (a foot or less in height) stem and large flowers; indeed, the var. lurida, which Prof.

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    It flowers about the middle of May, just after the foliage unfolds, and affords a charming contrast between tender green leaves and snow-white flowers as large as florins.

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    It forms a densely branched shrub 8 feet or more high, furnished with elegant foliage.

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    It grows 1 to 1 1/2 feet high, and throws up strong flower-stalks above the foliage, each with seven to fifteen purplish flowers, 1 to 1 1/2 inches across.

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    It grows 5 feet in height, with large leaves finely divided, of a fresh green color, and the flowers, which rise well above the foliage, are in umbels, and white.

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    It grows into a smaller tree than our common horse chestnut and has darker foliage.

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    It has bunches of fragrant white flowers and broad foliage.

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    It has evergreen foliage, and in early summer long dense clusters of large bright yellow flowers similar to those of the Laburnum, but larger.

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    It has mottled downy foliage, and small purplish flowers, in heads like the Hop, hence the name Hop-plant.

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    It has now been established that the form-genus Pecopteris, once regarded as representing the typical Marattiaceous foliage, was in part made up of seed-bearing plants.

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    It has scarlet flowers and lobed foliage, and requires the same treatment.

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    It has somewhat the appearance of P. orientalis in its growth, and very dark green foliage, but the leaves are larger, flat, and decidedly silvery beneath.

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    It is a free grower and gives a fine group of foliage in the mixed border.

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    It is a handsome tree with elegant foliage.

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    It is a large shrub, 8 to 10 or more feet high, variable in foliage, and with flowers densely crowded in globose heads peduncled in the axils of the uppermost leaves, and which vary in color from pink to pale lilac, with an orange throat.

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    It is a tall vigorous climber of massive effect, with foliage thickly clustered.

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    It is Carex ' Sparkler ', and has beautifully variegated foliage.

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    It is chiefly for its graceful habit and prettily cut foliage that it is grown, though the soft red of the young shoots in spring and the crimson-purple leaf tints in autumn render it attractive through a long season.

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    It is evergreen, foliage is handsome, each leaf 3 to 6 inches long, leathery, and of a lustrous dark green.

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    It is excellent for the mixed border, and for grouping with medium-sized perennials that have fine foliage.

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    It is fast-growing, the flowers a lovely contrast to the deep rich green foliage, best in free, warm soils; in the north and Midlands against walls.

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    It is free in flower when well established, and makes many crowns, with bold foliage of paler green, less mottled above, but covered beneath with reddish blotches.

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    It is hardier in the shade, its foliage browning badly if caught too suddenly by the sun after hard frosts.

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    It is highly ornamental as a back line to a long border, as a single specimen to let into the lawn, as the centre of a bed or vase, or in masses with other elegant foliage plants.

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    It is known by its very glaucous foliage and erect single stems, with bright yellow flowers about 2 inches across.

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    It is naturally straggling in growth, 5 to 15 feet high; its foliage is much larger than that of the other Robinias; the clear rose-pink flowers are also larger.

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    It is of cast bronze enriched with delicate scroll-work foliage, and with numbers of well-modelled statuettes.

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    It is one of the handsomest of conifers, forming an elongated cone of foliage, which in some gardens has already reached 70 or 80 ft.

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    It is probable that these stems belonged to plants with the fructification and foliage of Cycads, taking that group in the widest sense.

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    It is usually in a separate area of the deck and restfully decorated with lush foliage, mosaic tiles, and other sumptuous details.

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    It is very dwarf, and has large clusters of intensely blue flowers, which scarcely overtop the foliage.

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    It makes a capital wall shrub, being rapid in growth, handsome in foliage, and very beautiful in flower.

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    It produces sweetly fragrant, urn-shaped double, blush pink flowers in dainty sprays, amid bright green foliage.

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    It provides information on bacterial diseases of the popular foliage plants anthurium, dieffenbachia, philodendron, and syngonium.

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    It should be well shaded, and fine specimens of fancy caladiums, dracaenas, coleus, crotons, palms, ferns and such plants as are grown for the beauty of their foliage, will make a very attractive show.

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    It withstands the sea and mountain breezes better than most other timber trees, and is often planted near farm-houses and cottages in exposed localities for the sake of its dense foliage.

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    It's a good idea to remove foliage and stems of any plant that often has problems in your general area.

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    It's a shrub grown for its foliage, as its tiny, greenish white flowers are not showy.

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    It's almost too easy to get lost in the impressive foliage of an oak tree as it is to be enthralled by the gameplay itself.

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    Its broad silvery foliage makes it show in the landscape, and it is a valuable park tree.

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    Its foliage resembles a Mimulus, creeping along the ground, and it is a very interesting dwarf rock garden plant.

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    Its glaucous foliage and elegant panicles of purple flowers are welcome along the margins of shallow ponds or streams, and it is hardy in sheltered places.

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    Its numerous showy flower-heads, of a clear bright purple, are set off by the fresh green foliage.

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    Its pale green foliage goes well with any flower, and it may be grown against a sunny wall, where, if protected by a heap of ashes over its roots and a warm straw mat over its branches, it will pass through the winter safely.

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    Ixia Lily (Ixiolirion) - Beautiful plants of the Amaryllis order somewhat resembling each other, and about 1 to 1 1/2 feet high, with grassy foliage, and bearing large trumpet-shaped flowers in a loose, elegant manner.

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    Kawanabe ItchO is celebrated for his representations of flowers and foliage, and Morishita Morihachi and Asano Saburo (of Kaga) are admirable in all styles, but especially, perhaps, in the charming variety called togi-dashi (ground down), which is pre-eminent for its satin-like texture and for the atmosphere of dreamy softness that pervades the decoration.

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    Kernera Saxatilis - A neat little plant forming a compact tuft of foliage, and in early summer a dense mass of tiny white blooms.

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    Kerrioides is a summer-leafing shrub from Japan, with a growth and foliage recalling the familiar old Jews Mallow on cottage walls, but with white flowers.

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    Kniphofia Tucki - Has large, glaucous, Yucca-like foliage, growing 4 to 5 feet high, with massive heads of bright red flowers, changing to yellow, and borne early in June.

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    Kniphofia Tysoni - A handsome new variety, with persistent strong foliage of a soft glaucous shade, each left measuring 3 feet or more in length and 3 1/2 inches wide at base, tapering to a fine point; the edges of leaf finely serrated.

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    Koelreuteria - K. paniculata is a small tree, beautiful when in flower; the long divided leaves, elegant throughout summer, in autumn die off a rich yellow, and the yellow flowers form large clusters over the spreading mass of foliage.

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    L. formosa is beautiful at all seasons, even in the depth of winter, owing to the color of its foliage, which is as green as the Holly; and it bears spikes of flowers of snowy whiteness like some delicate Orchid.

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    L. hispida is pretty, growing about 18 inches high, with deeply-cut foliage and short stinging hairs, the flowers 1 inch across, of a bright lemon-yellow, the centre prettily marked with green and white.

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    L. ixioides, a New Zealand plant, is also a handsome evergreen species, with narrow grassy foliage and small white blossoms.

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    L. longiflorum giganteum is the variety generally obtained from Japan; strong bulbs will send up a head of from eight to twelve flowers widely opened; the foliage is bright green; under glass this Lily may easily be forced.

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    Lardizabala - L. biternata is a handsome evergreen climber from Chili, hardy enough for walls in the south and coast districts; the foliage a deep green, the leaflets thick.

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    Large two-inch flowers cover the glossy evergreen foliage in late spring.

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    Later, the fragrance of its flowers, rich in honey, attracts innumerable bees; in the autumn the foliage becomes a clear yellow but soon falls.

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    Lawsoniana, the Port Orford cedar, a native of south Oregon and north California, where it attains a height of Too ft., was introduced into Scotland in 1854; it is much grown for ornamental purposes in Britain, a large number of varieties of garden origin being distinguished by differences in habit and by colour of foliage.

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    Like the Gorse and a few other shrubs of the Pea family, they delight in a dry, sandy soil, and when in flower, which is during several weeks in late summer and in autumn, they are pretty, their foliage being light and elegant.

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    Located in the north-central area of the state, Gainesville provides its residents with seasonal changes and gorgeous fall foliage, but no harsh winter conditions.

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    Lomatia - Evergreen shrubs of slow growth, with finely-cut fern-like leaves so tough in texture that they outlast almost any other foliage.

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    Loves to fly in wooded glades where tall flowering thistles abound rests at night among the foliage of trees.

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    Maiden-hair Tree (Salisburia) - S. adiantifolia is a beautiful tree in all stages and at all seasons, perhaps most attractive during the autumn, just before the leaves drop, since the foliage assumes then a bright yellow hue.

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    Many species have sharp thorns to protect the foliage from browsing animals.

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    Mayweed (Matricaria) - Weeds, excepting the double variety of M. inodora, which is a pretty plant with feathery foliage somewhat like Fennel, and with large white flowers, perfectly double.

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    Meconopsis Paniculata - A beautiful Himalayan plant with much-cut foliage and panicles of bright yellow flowers, which come true from the seed ripened sparingly in fine seasons.

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    Most of the other varieties have inconspicuous flowers, but one or two are worth growing for the sake of their autumn foliage, which dies away in various shades of crimson.

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    Mountain Avens (Dryas) - Mountain plants of the Rose family, containing two or three dwarf alpine plants of spreading growth and neat evergreen foliage.

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    Named after his mother, it is now a popular bronze foliage choice.

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    Napaea are stout vigorous plants with ample foliage, and suitable chiefly for the wild garden and shrubbery borders.

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    Nearly approaching this is P. excelsa, the Bhotan pine, which differs chiefly in its longer cones and drooping glaucous foliage.

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    Neither did the giraffe acquire its long neck by desiring to reach the foliage of more lofty shrubs, and constantly stretching its neck for the purpose, but because any varieties which occurred among its antitypes with a longer neck than usual at once secured a fresh range of pasture over the same ground as their shorter-necked companions, and on the first scarcity of food were thereby enabled to outlive them."

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    No matter where they were living, Jackson always made a trip to New England during peak foliage.

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    No plant is correctly termed a grass which is not a member of this family, but the word is in common language also used, generally in combination, for many plants of widely different affinities which possess some resemblance (often slight) in foliage to true grasses; e.g.

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    Not a pebble of the ground, to the foliage of the highest branches, escapes the insatiable curiosity of this vigilant settler.

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    Nowhere is the region of eternal snow reached, and masses of foliage enhance the gentle aspect of the scenery and glorify it in autumn with tints of striking brilliancy.

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    Oak Valley Wines Twenty acre vineyard which also grows foliage for the cut flower trade.

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    Of late years, however, more attention has been bestowed on arrangements of brilliant flowering plants with those of fine foliage, and the massing also of hardy early-blooming plants in parterre fashion has been very greatly extended.

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    Of these the most remarkable example is Cytisus Adami, a tree which year after year produces some shoots, foliage and flowers like those of the common laburnum, others like those of the very different looking dwarf shrub C. purpureus, and others again intermediate between these.

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    Older kids might enjoy a science treasure hunt in which the clues are the scientific names of local foliage.

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    Olive Garden's décor is designed to promote an ersatz Italian-American look-prominently featuring elements such as wine bottles, stucco walls, and displays of lush foliage.

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    Once the animal is in its cage, the assigned zoo keeper will let you know what foliage, terrain, toys, and whatnot that the animal requires to be happy.

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    One of the most characteristic trees of this zone is the peumo (Cryptocarya peumus), whose dense evergreen foliage is everywhere conspicuous.

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    One of the most popular Hudson River cruises from New York offered by the company is its Fall Foliage tour.

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    One of these was a cartoon or monochrome painting of Adam and Eve in tempera, and in this, besides the beauty of the figures, the infinite truth and elaboration of the foliage and animals in the background are celebrated in terms which bring to mind the treatment of the subject by Albrecht Darer in his famous engraving done thirty years later.

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    Other denominations may also be used, but to cover your tree with lots of foliage, you may wish to use one dollar bills.

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    Other ferns, Scitamineae, orchids and climbing Aroideae are very numerous, the last named profusely adorning the forests with their splendid dark-green foliage.

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    Other garden forms of this species are grandiflora, its white flowers spotted with purple; and variegata, with finely marked foliage of charming effect in a moist shady spot.

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    Others only remove the stems and foliage of damaged plants.

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    Our own native birches such as B. pendula and B. pubescens provide an excellent spring flush of foliage and wonderful autumn color.

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    Outer foliage may turn purplish in very cold weather.

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    P. Ayacahuite, the common white pine of Mexico, spreads southwards on to the mountains of Guatemala, it is a large tree with glaucous foliage like P. Strobus, and yields a valuable resin.

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    P. nankinensis is a halfhardy annual, with dark vinous-purple foliage.

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    P. occidentalis, a five-leaved pine with pale-green foliage and small ovate cones, is found on the high mountains of Santo Domingo and Cuba.

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    P. Pinea is the stone pine of "Italy; its spreading rounded canopy of light green foliage, supported on a tall and often branchless trunk, forms a striking feature of the landscape in that country, as well as in some other Mediterranean lands.

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    Pagoda Tree (Sophora Japonica) - One of the finest of flowering trees, elegant in foliage, and in September covered with clusters of white bloom.

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    Parnassi is a Scabious-like plant of dwarf compact growth, forming a dense rounded mass of hoary foliage, which in summer is studded with mauve-colored flower-heads.

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    Peonies and roses, for example, are vulnerable to black spot, somust gardeners remove the foliage even if it was healthy all summer.

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    Pepino (Philesia) - P. buxifolia is an exquisite dwarf shrub, with large carmine-red Lapageria-like bells (2 inches long) nestling among and suffusing with their rich color the sombre evergreen foliage.

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    Pest & disease watch Hellebore leaf spot can be a problem on old foliage of hellebore leaf spot can be a problem on old foliage of hellebores.

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    Phu-an effective plant in spring, when its foliage is young; it is of neat tufted habit, and grows freely in any soil.

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    Pinks perennials provide excellent flowers and foliage for any type of garden.

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    Plants may initially exhibit rapid growth of lush, dark green foliage only to later appear scorched or wilted.

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    Plants referred to Schimper's genus Lomatopteris and to Cycadopteris of Zigno afford instances of the difficulty of distinguishing between the foliage of Ferns and Cycads.

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    Plants that are under attack by a large number of aphids may show signs such as reduced growth, wilted leaves, drying branches, stunted needles, and curled foliage.

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    Platies are prone to nibbling at plants, so very feathery foliage may disintegrate rapidly.

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    Plenty of foliage adorns the sides of tracks, the draw distance is rather expansive and its framerate has nary a hitch.

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    Polymnia grandis (Montagnaea Heracleifolia) - A half-hardy shrub with large, much divided, and elegantly-lobed leaves, about 3 feet long, presenting luxuriant masses of foliage.

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    Protection also from cutting winds which destroy the foliage is needed.

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    Pull up any annuals that have been damaged by the frost, and cut back foliage that is damaged or will start looking ugly when it gets really cold.

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    R. nobile is distinct, forming a dense pyramid of foliage.

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    R. officinale, however, as regards foliage, is the most effective from early in the year, and should be placed near the shrubbery, on the turf, or in the wild garden.

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    R. palmatum is a slow-growing plant, and smaller than its variety, R. p. tanguticum, which increases rapidly, has fine foliage, and will be welcome to those who grow the other hardy species.

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    Raised from seed it also gives much variety in habit, flowers, and foliage, two of the choicest forms being albus, with creamy white flowers, and superbus, with large flowers of soft pale yellow.

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    Remove all ground coverings - This means removing existing sod and foliage.

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    Remove the faded flowers of gladioli and allow the foliage to die back fully before lifting the corms to store over the winter.

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    Removing dead foliage also removes a warm, comfortable home for small animals like mice.

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    Rhus Osbeckii - A fine kind from China and Japan, with pinnate leaves much finer than the others, striking foliage, also turning in good seasons and soils a good orange color in autumn.

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    Ride bikes down a path to view fall foliage.

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    Robur, but in old age the boughs generally curve downwards, and the tree acquires a wide spreading head; the bark is dark brown, becoming grey and furrowed in large trees; the foliage varies much, but in the prevailing kinds the leaves are very deeply sinuated, with pointed, often irregular lobes, the footstalks short, and furnished at the base with long linear stipules that do not fall with the leaf, but remain attached to the bud till the following spring, giving a marked feature to the young shoots.

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    Roof described above, with the addition of stenciled foliage decoration on some of the plaster between the rafters.

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    Rose "Anemone" is from a cross with some Tea Rose, but it retains the fine foliage and form of flower of R. laevigata, and the dark brown shoots freely armed with thorns and prickles.

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    Rubro-vittatum is a variety with a very distinct bulb, the foliage is darker, and it is a hardier, better doer than the type.

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    S. abrotanifolius has similar foliage, but its orange-yellow flowers are larger and fewer.

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    S. aegyptiacum (Saccharum) - Vigorous perennial grass, forming tufts of reed-like downy stems, 6 to 10 feet high, and clothed with graceful foliage.

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    S. glauca is also cultivated for its graceful white foliage and curious heads of flowers.

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    S. Heufelli, a similar species, has in autumn almost chocolate-crimson foliage, the flowers being yellow.

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    Samolus - S. littoralis is a pretty trailing plant, with long slender stems, small evergreen foliage, and numerous pink blossoms in summer.

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    Santolina - cotton lavender, with delicate silver foliage, aromatic and has yellow daisy-like flowers.

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    Several of the rooms occupied by the archaeological museum bear traces of the decorations executed under Galeazzo Maria and Lodovico it Moro, and one of them has a splendid ceiling with trees in full foliage, painted so as to cover the whole vaulting, ascribed to Leonardo da Vinci.

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    Several of the styles sport a nature theme, for example, deeply colored tree barks that are then accented with equally eye-catching foliage.

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    Several species have deliciously aromatic foliage, the most well-known being common sage, Salvia officinalis.

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    Several varieties are distinguished by habit and colour of foliage.

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    Shepherdia - A small group of American shrubs, grown for their bright silvery foliage, the flowers being inconspicuous, though one kind bears an excellent fruit.

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    Siemens (1929) reported dermatitis from the foliage of silver fir; patch tests were not recorded.

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    Silene Armeria - a showy annual kind with leafy stems of 12 to 18 inches high, bluish-green foliage, and dense clustered heads of white, pink, or crimson flowers from July to September.

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    Similar, though less marked, intermediate characters were obvious in the foliage and flowers.

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    Since flowering basil plants tend to stop producing foliage, it is important to continually harvest the leaves and pinch any buds that form so the leaves continue to flourish.

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    Slugs can damage the roots as well as the foliage of garden plants.

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    Snakes-beard (Ophiopogon) - Herbaceous perennials, about 1 1/2 feet high, the flowers, usually small, lilac, appearing late in summer and in autumn in spikes, 2 to 5 inches long, rising from grassy tufts of evergreen foliage.

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    Some Commelinaceae and Marantaceae approach grasses in foliage; the leaves of Allium, &c., possess a ligule; the habit of some palms reminds one of the bamboos; and Juncaceae and a few Liliaceae possess an inconspicuous scarious perianth.

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    Some plants offer beautiful foliage, while others are cherished for their blooms.

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    Some tulips will rebloom if they are planted at the proper depth in well-drained, properly fertilized soil and if the foliage is allowed to die back naturally and not trimmed while still green.

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    Somewhat similar to E. macrantha is E. rubra; but the foliage is less handsome and the flowers are paler.

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    Sooty mold - Black fungus on foliage caused by sticky secretions from aphids.

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    Sophora Secundiflora - A low dense tree or leafy shrub, with ornamental foliage composed of neat rounded leaflets with a glossy surface, and strongly fragrant violet-blue flowers borne in a dense spike.

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    Spanish Silver Fir (Abies Pinsapo) - A large Fir, with bright green prickly foliage, thriving in almost any soil and in chalky districts.

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    Spraguea - S. umbellata, a singular and pretty plant allied to Claytonia, 6 to 9 inches high, has fleshy foliage, and spikes of showy pinkish blossoms.

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    Spray with a recommended insecticide or remove some of the offending foliage.

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    Stately perennials with fine foliage, mostly coming from the countries round the Mediterranean, and hardy.

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    Street in 1860, is remarkable; the richness of the work within increases from west to east, culminating in a choir arcade decorated with work among the finest of its period extant; the period is that of the choir of Westminster Abbey, and from a comparison of building materials, choir arcades and sculpture of foliage, a common architect has been suggested.

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    Suspended in a frosty coating, these tassels resemble icicles hanging in there among glossy evergreen foliage.

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    Sweet Gale (Myrica) - The Myricas, though not showy flowering shrubs, are desirable on account of their scented foliage.

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    Synthyris - A group of hardy little herbs from the Rocky Mountains, allied to Wulfenia, and forming neat tufts of elegant foliage with dense spikes of blue, purple, or white flowers.

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    T. tuberosum is about 9 inches high, with graceful foliage, and abundance of yellowish cream-colored flowers.

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    Tall, spreading, gracefully plumed with foliage, which for richness and beauty of color is without a rival.

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    The 12ins square dial is mounted with turban head and foliage spandrels, a silvered chapter ring, seconds ring and calendar aperture.

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    The arboreal life of the tropical forests has developed the treeclimbing habit among snakes as well as among frogs and toads, and also the habit of mimicry, their colour being in harmony with the foliage or bark of the trees which form their " hunting-grounds."

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    The art of these countries is mainly geometrical, and allows only of monograms crowned with laurels, of peacocks, of animals gambolling amid foliage, of fruit and flowers, of crosses which are either svastikas of Hindu and Mycenaean type, or so lost in enveloping arabesques as to be merely decorative.

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    The beautiful Monterey pine, P. insignis, distinguished by the brilliant colour of its foliage, has the leaves in tufts of three or four; the lower cone-scales have recurved points.

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    The black pine, P. austriaca, generally now regarded as a variety of P. Laricio, derives its name from the extreme depth of its foliage tints - the sharp, rigid, rather long leaves of a dark green hue giving a sombre aspect to the tree.

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    The blossoms, borne on forked stems rising considerably above the foliage, are dark purple.

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    The blue flowered Ceratostigma is another valuable late bloomer which sees its blooms eventually give way to a glorious display of autumn foliage.

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    The bold, striking foliage of some of the strongest plain-leaved section renders them very effective for edging large beds.

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    The branchlets of the cedar take the same direction as the branches, and the foliage is very dense.

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    The broad deeply-sinuated leaves with blunt rounded lobes are of a peculiar yellowish colour when the buds unfold in May, but assume a more decided green towards midsummer, and eventually become rather dark in tint; they do not change to their brown autumnal hue until late in October, and on brushwood and saplings the withered foliage is often retained until the spring.

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    The chief are L. ligustrina, frondosa, and rubiginosa, which have evergreen foliage and small white blossoms.

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    The chief enemy of this little plant, and indeed of all alpine plants with silky or cottony foliage, is moisture in winter, which soon causes it to damp off.

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    The common white Christmas Rose is a favorite pot-plant, and if required for potting its foliage should be protected from injury.

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    The conventional foliage decorating the capitals is of great beauty and variety, and extends to spandrils, bosses, &c. In the spandrils of the arches of the nave, transept or choir arcades, diaper work is occasionally found, as in the transept of Westminster Abbey.

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    The country is exceedingly rich in Aroids, many of which are epiphytic, festooning the trunks of tall trees with a magnificent drapery of abundant foliage.

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    The dark maroon stems contrast against the foliage adding to its richness.

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    The deciduous plants lose their foliage in the dry season but revive with the winter rains.

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    The decoration consists, as a rule, of stiff, conventional foliage, Arabic inscriptions, and geometrical patterns wrought into arabesques of almost incredible intricacy and ingenuity.

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    The deep pink and white variegation in Spring is followed by pink, white and green foliage until leaf fall.

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    The dense foliage of the mango marks the site of almost every little homestead, no less an area than woo sq.

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    The dense foliage of trees was always a major cause of anxiety.

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    The different forms of leaf may occur on the same plant, the deeply divided foliage often characterizing the main stem, while the cuneate leaves were borne on lateral shoots.

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    The different species are free-flowering, herbaceous plants, with spikes of bell-shaped flowers, but the chief value is in the foliage.

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    The early leaves and shoots are a pretty pale crimson, and before falling in autumn the foliage turns purple and blood-red.

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    The early plantings make foliage in autumn, and require protection of mats against frost.

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    The eastern portion of the vaulting, including the choir and one bay of the nave, has the older and simpler decorations; the rest of the nave has more elaborate painted ornament - foliage mixed with figures of Dominican saints, executed in the 15th century.

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    The effect of the numerous flowering shoots and the grey foliage is good, and the plant is worth a place in the choicest garden for its graceful habit and long season of beauty, and the value of its slender panicles for cutting.

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    The enamelled decoration on the lamps is restricted to lettering, scrolls and conventional foliage; on other objects figure-subjects of all descriptions are freely used.

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    The familiar illustration of Lamarck's hypothesis is that of the giraffe, whose long neck might, he suggested, have been acquired by the efforts of a primitively short-necked race of herbivores who stretched their necks to reach the foliage of trees in a land where grass was deficient, the effort producing a distinct elongation in the neck of each generation, which was then transmitted to the next.

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    The female flowers of the Taxaceae assume another form; in Microcachrys (Tasmania) the reproductive structures are spirally disposed, and form small globular cones made up of red fleshy scales, to each of which is attached a single ovule enclosed by an integument and partially invested by an arillus; in Dacrydium the carpellary leaves are very similar to the foliage leaves - each bears one ovule with two integuments, the outer of which constitutes an arillus.

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    The female plant grows to a greater height than the male, and its foliage is darker and more luxuriant, but the plant takes from five to six weeks longer to ripen.

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    The fern-like foliage spreads twelve to eighteen inches with about the same height.

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    The flora is estimated to include 15% of ferns, but they form only the most important group among many plants of beautiful foliage, such as draceanas and crotons.

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    The flowering stems grow from 5 to 6 1/2 feet high, but as it only flowers with us in a very warm season, it must be valued for its foliage alone.

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    The flowers are not particularly showy, although the berry-like drupes can be, when not hidden by the foliage.

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    The flowers, as large as a shilling and of a bright yellow, are on short stalks rising very little above the tufted foliage, in April and May, and the contrast between them and the dark glossy foliage is effective.

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    The foliage effects he has made using a 1 inch paintbrush are truly stunning.

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    The foliage in all cases is handsome.

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    The foliage is dense on the lower branches, but thinner towards the top, of olive-green.

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    The foliage is good, and the plant of easy increase by its fleshy tubers.

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    The foliage is handsome, glossy like that of a Portugal Laurel, and of a fine red color in spring.

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    The foliage is larger than it is in most of the Bamboos, some of the leaves being as much as between 8 inches and 9 inches long by nearly 2 inches broad.

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    The foliage is long and rather scattered, sharply pointed.

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    The foliage is of a paler green, the leaves are slender and longer, and the twigs are thinner than those of C. Libani.

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    The foliage is thick, with three or five leaflets of a deep shining green.

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    The foliage is very handsome, the great leaves, often 2 feet in length, being divided into many deep green leaflets.

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    The foliage may be eaten down by sheep early in autumn, without injuring it for the production of a crop of seed.

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    The foliage much resembles that of the Scotch fir, but is shorter, denser and more rigid; the cones are smaller but similar in form.

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    The foliage of S. retusa is firm and compact, with small flowers borne in clusters at the tips of erect stalks; their narrow petals are usually a pale rose color, sometimes brighter.

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    The foliage of some varieties is rich in Color, and planted with Canna, Wigandia, Ricinus, Solanum, the effect is good.

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    The foliage of some, such as E. cyparissus (Cypress Spurge), is elegant.

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    The foliage of the typical form is bright green with very pointed lobes.

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    The foliage resembles that of Spiraea opulifolia.

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    The foliage, as graceful as a Fern, is of a deep, lustrous green, and silvery white beneath.

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    The foliage, which appears with the flowers, much resembles that of a Leek.

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    The form and arrangement of the parts of a typical foliage leaf are intimately associated with the part played by the leaf in the life of the plant.

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    The frothy plume-like foliage produces food for the plant each year and is vital to its health and success.

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    The fruit is at first coral-red, afterwards dark purple or almost black, and the foliage dies off a rich claret.

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    The Gaucho is no longer able to protect him and 3 small green aphids now lurk in his foliage.

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    The general style of coloration of orioles is gaudy yellow and black, rendering them invisible in sunlit foliage, and quite different from the more sombre hues of the friar-birds; but in the islands of Bourou, Timor and Ceram the orioles have not only assumed the tints of friar-birds in general, but in each of the islands named a species of oriole has acquired the little peculiarities in colour of plumage possessed by the friar-bird of the same locality.

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    The glaucous blue-grey foliage is pretty.

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    The golden flowers, contrasted with the foliage, have a very bright appearance.

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    The green feathery foliage grows rapidly; can stand crowding.

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    The habit of the plant depends on the degree of branching rather than upon the foliage.

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    The Hardy Sarcococcas (Sarcococca) - Are neat and pleasing evergreen shrubs possessed of but a modest flower beauty, though of more than ordinary value, because of their suitability to shaded positions and their rich green lustrous foliage.

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    The head is of a pyramidal form, the lower branches drooping like those of a Norway spruce; its foliage is of a light bright green colour.

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    The heat of the sun had withered the cut foliage and it was unsightly.

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    The horse-drawn hoe is steered by means of handles in the rear, but its successful working depends on accurate drilling of the seed, because unless the rows are parallel the roots of the plants are liable to be cut and the foliage injured.

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    The humid climate causes the foliage here, as in other parts of Malaya, to be very luxuriant, and the contrast presented by the bright green on every side and the rich red laterite of the roads is striking.

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    The inner face .of the arches, with the spandrils and the pilasters which support them, are covered with flowers and foliage of delicate design and dainty execution, crusted in green serpentine, blue lapis lazuli and red and purple porphyry.

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    The Insect Control should not be applied to blue spruce foliage as the canola oil may degrade the oil that gives the foliage its blue color.

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    The intermediate tract is a region of rich cultivation, dotted with great banyan trees, thickets of bamboos, exquisite palm foliage and mango groves.

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    The king of the forest is the tapan, which, rising to a great height without fork or branch, culminates in a splendid dome of foliage.

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    The large trees formed a perfect avenue overhead, and so thick was the overhanging foliage that the brilliant sunlight was almost obscured.

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    The largest specimen at Kew is 9 feet high, with a spreading base and foliage of the deepest and glossiest green.

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    The leaf directly opposite the bunch must in all cases be preserved, and the young shoot is to be topped at one or two joints beyond the incipient fruit, the latter distance being preferable if there is plenty of room for the foliage to expand; the lateral shoots, which will push out after the topping, must be again topped above their first or second joints.

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    The leaves, which bear the sporangia, are dichotomous, and do not form definite cones, but alternate in irregular zones with the foliage leaves.

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    The leopard print is a designer favorite for not only exotic swimwear but other fashions and accessories as well, evoking images of tropical jungle foliage and sweltering heat.

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    The lobed shape of its leaf and its dense foliage caused it to be confused with the true sycamore - Ficus sycamorus - of scripture.

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    The marble caps are each richly carved with figures and foliage executed with great skill and wonderful fertility of invention - no two being alike.

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    The monasteries, which are all fortified, generally consist of large quadrangles enclosing churches; standing amid rich foliage, they present a wonderfully picturesque appearance, especially when viewed from the sea.

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    The Monk 's Door at the east end of the aisle has swirly foliage patterns in the carving.

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    The most marked feature of the tree is its long tufted foliage - the leaves, of a bright green tint, springing from long white sheaths, being often a foot in length.

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    The Mountain Cats-ears, A. dioica and A. alpina, and such forms as A. minima, are neat little plants with whitish foliage, used as carpeting.

    391

    The Myrtle-leaved Kalmia (K. myrtifolia) seems to be only a variety of K. latifolia, with smaller Myrtle-like foliage.

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    The older houses are of brick, overlaid with white or tinted plaster, and ornamented with figures or foliage in terra-cotta; but owing to the great changes of temperature in Rumania, the plaster soon cracks and peels off, giving a dilapidated appearance to many streets.

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    The only complaints are that the slash pockets can catch foliage and the cargo pockets are a bit too deep - although it is acknowledged that this is good for security.

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    The pale green foliage is handsome and the stems run to a length of many feet from a tuberous root, which can be lifted in the autumn after the plant has died down.

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    The plants are best suited for rich bottoms in the wild garden, as though the foliage and habit are good, the flowers are short-lived in the ordinary border, and somewhat coarse in habit.

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    The pulpit is seventeenth century with bands of carved foliage.

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    The reed cover is pierced and carved with foliage and five grotesque masks.

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    The rhizome is compact, rather slender, the foliage being not unlike that of iberica, but narrower.

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    The rigidly erect stems measure 2 to 3 feet, with glossy and finely-cut foliage and bright orange-yellow flowers in July.

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    The roundish leaves, toothed on the margin, are slightly downy when young, but afterwards smooth, dark green on the upper and greyish green on the lower surface; the long slender petioles, much flattened towards the outer end, allow of free lateral motion by the lightest breeze, giving the foliage its well-known tremulous character.

    401

    The sap is collected in spring, just before the foliage develops, and is procured by making a notch or boring a hole in the stem of the tree about 3 ft.

    402

    The second factor to consider is your personal foliage preference.

    403

    The slender new culms spring gracefully from the carpet of arching foliage.

    404

    The spectacles most admired by all classes are the tints of the foliage in autumn andthegloryof flowering trees in the spring.

    405

    The stems and foliage die down in winter leaving a stout taproot.

    406

    The stems and foliage trail along the ground like those of the New Holland Violet, while barely pushed above the foliage are open cup-like creamy-white flowers, usually nearly 2 inches across.

    407

    The structures in ordinary language designated as leaves are considered so par excellence, and they are frequently spoken of as foliage leaves.

    408

    The style is popular for military forces and can be designed in several variations including those with a ring that can hold a band of foliage that may be attached to the hat to aid in camouflage.

    409

    The summer and fall months are the busiest for itineraries leaving from the Big Apple, simply because New England and Canadian destinations are among the most popular for fall foliage tours.

    410

    The symbol, known as Vesica Piscis, depicts a sword dividing two interlocked circles and foliage to symbolize the Glastonbury Holy Thorn.

    411

    The Talitridae, better known as sandhoppers, can forgo the briny shore and content themselves with the damp foliage of inland forests or casual humidity in the crater of an extinct volcano.

    412

    The termites, or " white ants," are exceptionally destructive because of their habit of tunnelling through the softer woods of habitations and furniture, while some species of ants, like the sadba, are equally destructive to plantations because of the rapidity with which they strip a tree of its foliage.

    413

    The threadlike blue foliage and blue flower heads form dense upright tussocks.

    414

    The typical foliage leaf consists of several layers, and amongst vascular plants is distinguishable into an outer layer (epidermis) and a central tissue (parenchyma) with fibro-vascular bundles distributed through it.

    415

    The upper corner spandrels have peripheral foliage engraving flanking the maker 's signature.

    416

    The upper corner spandrels have peripheral foliage engraving flanking the maker's signature.

    417

    The variegated varieties need rather a lot of sunlight in order to maintain the color of the foliage.

    418

    The varieties range in color of foliage from dull purple to bad yellow, and why they are used in flower gardens is a question.

    419

    The various forms may roughly be divided into two groups, the one with foliage that is silvery beneath, the other having the under side of the leaf covered more or less with a reddish tomentum.

    420

    The vigorous upright bush of medium height is well-clothed with luxuriant bright green foliage.

    421

    The Wax Myrtle is met with in old gardens, where it was planted for its spicy foliage.

    422

    The white poplar is an ornamental tree, from its graceful though somewhat irregular growth and its dense hoary foliage; it has, however, the disadvantage of throwing up numerous suckers for some yards around the trunk.

    423

    The yellow tinge of the foliage is extremely bright, and at a distance looks like a glowing mass of yellow bloom.

    424

    The young leaves are usually a pale yellow green, but when in full luxuriance the mature foliage is of a rich deep tone.

    425

    The zinnia collection is a beautiful fall-themed candle ring and décor set that features dried leaves and foliage, zinnia flowers, and berries.

    426

    Their functions in annual, biennial and herbaceous perennial plants cease after the ripening of the seed, whilst in plants of longer duration layer after layer of strong woody tissue is formed, which enables them to bear the strains which the weight of foliage and the exposure to wind entail.

    427

    Their habit is that of an enlarged A. japonica, both in foliage and flower, the chief colors being pink, rose, salmon, and carmine.

    428

    Their naked flowers want the relief and grace of grass and foliage.

    429

    Then use the sponge shapes to fill in the foliage for the trees and blooms for the flowers.

    430

    There are also double-flowered kinds and one with variegated foliage.

    431

    There are few better seaside trees, the foliage being dense and very resistant and its color distinct and good.

    432

    There are four stylized chrysanthemums within a scrolling foliage border on the exterior of the bowl, with four stylized chrysanthemums below.

    433

    There are now several species available, all of them handsome decorative bushes, both as regards foliage and flowers.

    434

    There are several varieties, the best being the early variety now called pracox, of rather dwarf habit, with long, pointed, three-nerved, dark green foliage; the flowers are of great substance, tubular, and but little reflexed at the tip.

    435

    There are three kinds; each forms a tuft of finely-cut feathery foliage, and has slender flower spikes from 2 to 3 feet high, thickly set with flowers that open in succession.

    436

    There is a double form of this species, and a variety called latifolia with broader foliage, and one of the earliest of Paeonies to flower.

    437

    There is a great sameness among them, as all have finely-cut foliage.

    438

    There is a strong family likeness throughout, and they form rosette-like tufts of fleshy leaves, which chiefly differ in the color of the foliage, some deep red, others pale green.

    439

    There is also a form with foliage a bronzy hue more or less throughout the season, but especially when young.

    440

    There is beautiful foliage and stunning children everywhere.

    441

    There is little difference between the quality of the two woods, the variation being in the foliage and fruit.

    442

    These are made up of a single flower and a piece of foliage, worn in their left lapel.

    443

    These copings should be removed when they are of no further utility as protectors, so that the foliage may have the full benefit of rain and dew.

    444

    These fall-toned bucket bags are spruced up with ribbons that resemble foliage.

    445

    These plants group well, and the handsome foliage makes healthy undergrowth, over which the tall plumes of white or red flowers tower with good effect.

    446

    They are adorned by varieties of foliage, &c.; about each arch there is a large square of arabesques; and over the pillars is another square of exquisite filigree work.

    447

    They are all low trees or large shrubs, coming into leaf early and losing their foliage in early autumn, especially in light or dry soils.

    448

    They are all of slender growth, 1 to 1 1/2 feet high, and have glaucous-grey foliage and pretty flowers.

    449

    They are most ravenous feeders, stripping bushes and trees completely of their foliage, and even fruit.

    450

    They are not usually of the same form as the ordinary foliage leaves of the plant, from which they are distinguished by their lateral position at the base of the petiole.

    451

    They are numerous, varied in the colour of both leaves and foliage, and mostly of compact tufted growth.

    452

    They are of dwarf growth, and have grassy foliage; but though their blossoms are showy, they are not perfectly hardy, and they require to be grown either in frames or in very warm sheltered borders, in light soil.

    453

    They are very striking in flower with the contrast of textures against the lush foliage.

    454

    They are viciously armed with thorns and have leathery, dark green foliage.

    455

    They do well in light, well-drained soils, and have a close family resemblance, the inflorescence being a panicle of white, drooping, tulip-shaped flowers, and the foliage rosulate, sword-shaped and spear-pointed.

    456

    They form dense tufts of foliage, generally handsomely blotched and speckled with white, and make pretty groups in the spring garden, or in semiwild places, but are worthy of the best places in the flower garden.

    457

    They look thinner, and their foliage is not so lush, but in fact, they have more fruit.

    458

    This allows the plant to redirect its energy into growing foliage, flowers, fruits or vegetables.

    459

    This idea that material representation involves a profanation of divine personages, while disallowing all religious art which goes beyond scroll-work, spirals, flourishes and geometrical designs, yet admits to the full of secular art; and accordingly the iconoclastic emperors replaced the holy pictures in churches with frescoes of hunting scenes, and covered their palaces with garden scenes where men were plucking fruit and birds singing amid the foliage.

    460

    This indicates that less attention has been paid to the straw than to the grain, for it is certain that, were it desirable, a great range of variation might be induced in the foliage and straw.

    461

    This is an excellent variety, cultivated for its mass of deeply divided, silver foliage.

    462

    This is one of the kinds that might be cut down annually where plentiful, so as to get the fine effect of the foliage on the young vigorous stems.

    463

    This is owed to their grace and handsome foliage, which affords the richest of colors, including yellows, purples, and crimsons.

    464

    This is the only bushy Coronilla that can be well grown in the open air in England, but in mild districts C. glauca, a beautiful shrub with glaucous foliage and yellow flowers, usually grown in greenhouses, may be grown out of doors.

    465

    This led to the enrichment of the archivolts and imposts with that peculiar type of conventional foliage which characterizes Mahommedan work, and which in this case was carried out by Coptic craftsmen.

    466

    This plant has fern-like foliage and produces blue, pink or white blooms.

    467

    This time of day ensures honeybees are not active and minimizes potential foliage damage that can occur when used in very warm weather.

    468

    This will help prevent chlorosis, produce dark green foliage with more intensive flower color.

    469

    This, however, did not represent any definite rule; and the orphreys of chasubles were decorated with a great variety of pictorial subjects, scriptural or drawn from the stories of the saints, while the rest of the vestment was either left plain or, if embroidered, most usually decorated with arabesque patterns of foliage or animals.

    470

    Those planted later will only require a covering of Fern, which should be removed as the foliage appears.

    471

    Though everyone's definition of what is attractive may be slightly different, most gardeners prefer flowering plants or plants with colorful foliage.

    472

    To the north-east of the Fort is the Lake, a ramifying sheet of fresh water, which adds greatly to the beauty of the site of Colombo, its banks being clothed with luxuriant foliage and flowers.

    473

    To the unaided eye the disease is seen as purplish brown or blackish blotches of various sizes, at first on the tips and edges of the leaves, and ultimately upon the leaf-stalks and the larger stems. On gathering the foliage for examination, especially in humid weather, these dark blotches are seen to be putrid, and when the disease takes a bad form the dying leaves give out a highly offensive odour.

    474

    Tropical foliage is contrasted against tribal geometrics.

    475

    Tropical palms and other foliage grew to the very base of the track, embracing it with even more character and personality suitable to its moniker.

    476

    Under favourable conditions of growth it is a lofty tree, with a nearly straight, tapering trunk, throwing out in somewhat irregular whorls its widespreading branches, densely clothed with dark, clear green foliage.

    477

    Uromyces Erythronii, a rust, sometimes causes considerable injury to the foliage of species of Lilium and other bulbous plants, forming large discoloured blotches on the leaves.

    478

    Very desirable, too, is T. pumilis yunnanensis from China, with handsome glossy foliage and large, almost slaver-shaped, clear yellow flowers.

    479

    Viburnum Davidii - Of little flower beauty, this distinct species is valuable for its evergreen character, hardiness, and the mound-like cushions formed by its handsome leathery foliage.

    480

    Viburnum opulus ' Harvest Gold ' is a very pretty deciduous shrub or small tree, with lovely yellow foliage.

    481

    Virginian Creeper (Vitis Quinquefolia) - Better known as Ampelopsis quinquefolia, its foliage changes in the fall of the year to various shades of crimson, scarlet, and purple.

    482

    Visiting in October, you should catch the end of the stunning autumn foliage.

    483

    Water extracts from the roots and foliage have been shown to inhibit plant growth.

    484

    Watering, which, except during the resting period, should generally be copious, is best done in the forenoon; while syringing should be done early in the morning before the sun becomes too powerful, and late in the afternoon to admit of the foliage drying moderately before night.

    485

    We have a honeysuckle in a container (not sure of name) which has variegated foliage.

    486

    When standing in an open space, the larch grows of a nearly conical shape, with the lower branches almost reaching the ground, while those above gradually diminish in length towards the top of the trunk, presenting a very symmetrical form; but in dense woods the lower parts become bare of foliage, as with the firs under similar circumstances.

    487

    When the foliage dries more quickly, infections are reduced since, like almost all fungal spores, rust spores require water for germination.

    488

    While its true that a few of the designs do have palm trees splashed across them, the majority of the designs that do feature foliage are much more crisp and streamlined.

    489

    While some trees use one type of foliage exclusively, others may use a mix of foliage types to achieve a particular look.

    490

    White tinged pink scented flowers among congested evergreen foliage.

    491

    Williamson was the first to express the opinion that the Bennettitean flowers known as Williamsonia were borne on the trunks which terminated in a crown of pinnate fronds of the type long known as Zamites gigas; this view was regarded by Saporta and others as incorrect, and the nature of the Bennettitean foliage was left an open question.

    492

    Wilsoni, or exmium, the finest variety, has bold dark foliage, and is nearly 4 feet high, with numerous flowers about 9 inches long.

    493

    Wilting of the foliage followed by the discoloration of the stem and branches is characteristic of a disease of the potato known as "Blackleg."

    494

    Winter Garden Plants of winter interest featuring flowers, stems, foliage and berries to illustrate how gardens can still be attractive in winter.

    495

    With its clear, bright pink color and bright green foliage, this is what most people think of when they use the term 'pinks'.

    496

    Yellow-banded Flag (Iris Ochroleuca) - A stately vigorous Flag and an old plant in our gardens, the foliage slender, about 4 feet long, and coming up in a graceful twist.

    497

    You can plant them on arbors or trellises too, and enjoy the shade from their foliage while the fruit develops.

    498

    You could frame your flowers with a veil of their own, made up of foliage in shades of red, orange, yellow, and sometimes even brown.

    499

    You may need to cut off and dispose of infested foliage.

    500

    Your plant needs humidity, so a daily misting of the foliage will keep your plant healthy.