MARGUERITE  , the popular name for the plant known botanically as See also:

• PYRETHRUM

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

Compositae), a shrubby perennial with smooth leaves cut pinnately into narrow segments and See also:

• FLOWER (Lat. flos, floris; Fr. fleur)
• FLOWER, SIB

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 (Lat. raia)
• RAY (or WRAY, as he wrote his name till 1670), JOHN (1628-1705)

ray-florets surround a yellow disk . It is a native of the See also:

• CANARY
• CANARY (Serinus canarius)

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 (through Fr. pal, from Lat. palms, a stake, for paglus, from the stem pag- of pangere, to fix; " pole " is from the same original source)

pale yellow See also:

• FLOWERS, ARTIFICIAL

flowers and See also:

• GLAUCOUS (Gr. yAavK6s, bright, gleaming)

glaucous leaves . The plant is propagated from cuttings taken in autumn from old See also:

• PLANTS

plants and placed in sandy loamy See also:

• SOIL

soil in See also:

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

cold frames . By pruning the shoots in autumn the plants may be grown into very large specimens in the course of a few seasons .