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Chrysanthemum × morifolium (also known in the US as florist's daisy [2] and hardy garden mum [3]) is a hybrid species of perennial plant in the genus Chrysanthemum of the Asteraceae family. Botanical history
"Chrysanthemum Gate" (jú huā mén 菊花门), often abbreviated as Chrysanthemum (菊花), is taboo slang meaning "anus" (with sexual connotations). [29] An ancient Chinese city (Xiaolan Town of Zhongshan City) was named Ju-Xian, meaning "chrysanthemum city". The plant is particularly significant during the Chinese Double Ninth Festival.
Creating new plants from your favorite mums is easy, says Galen Goss, executive director of the National Chrysanthemum Society.Simply snip off a 4-inch stem with leaves on it and put it in a pot ...
PDF has (as of version 2.0) 25 graphics state properties, of which some of the most important are: The current transformation matrix (CTM), which determines the coordinate system; The clipping path; The color space; The alpha constant, which is a key component of transparency; Black point compensation control (introduced in PDF 2.0)
Some critics cite "quasi-gothic" elements in Desperate Remedies.It was positively reviewed in the Athenaeum and Morning Post.However, the review in The Spectator excoriated Hardy and his work, calling the book "a desperate remedy for an emaciated purse" and that the unknown author had "prostituted his powers to the purposes of idle prying into the way of wickedness."
Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres is the last, posthumous collection of poems by English poet Thomas Hardy, and was published in 1928. The collection shows Hardy continued his metrical experimentation to the end, [ 1 ] with his poetic energies undiminished.
The novel was later classified by Hardy for the Wessex Edition of his works in the primary group of "Novels of Character and Environment". Yet despite it being regarded as one of Hardy's major novels, the novel is 'something of an anomaly', in comparison with the tragic depth of both its predecessor The Mayor of Casterbridge and its successor Tess of the D'Urbervilles.
Children's literature portal; Novels portal; The Yellow Feather Mystery is Volume 33 in the original The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories published by Grosset & Dunlap.. This book was written for the Stratemeyer Syndicate by William Dougherty in 1954, under the pen name of Franklin W. Dixon.