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MARGUERITE , the popular name for the plant known botanically as See also:Pyrethrum (or Chrysanthemum) frutescens (natural See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order See also:Compositae), a shrubby perennial with smooth leaves cut pinnately into narrow segments and See also:flower-heads two to three inches across produced singly in summer and autumn on slender erect stalks. The See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white See also:ray-florets surround a yellow disk. It is a native of the See also:Canary Isles, and a favourite for decoration and for greenhouse cultivation, - window-boxes and open ground in the summer. The yellow marguerite (Haile d'or) has somewhat larger See also:pale yellow See also:flowers and See also:glaucous leaves. The plant is propagated from cuttings taken in autumn from old See also:plants and placed in sandy loamy See also:soil in See also:cold frames. By pruning the shoots in autumn the plants may be grown into very large specimens in the course of a few seasons.
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