MARGUERITE  , the popular name for the plant known botanically as

Pyrethrum (or Chrysanthemum) frutescens (natural order Compositae), a shrubby perennial with smooth leaves cut pinnately into narrow segments and flower-heads two to three inches across produced singly in summer and autumn on slender erect stalks . The white ray-florets surround a yellow disk . It is a native of the 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 pale yellow flowers and glaucous leaves . The plant is propagated from cuttings taken in autumn from old plants and placed in sandy loamy soil in cold frames . By pruning the shoots in autumn the plants may be grown into very large specimens in the course of a few seasons .