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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 205 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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POTENTILLA (nat. order Rosaceae, q.v.)

POTENTILLA (nat.
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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
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ROSACEAE
Rosaceae, q.v.) , a border and

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rock-

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GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

garden plant . Many of the

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SPECIES

species

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bear brilliantly coloured

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FLOWERS, ARTIFICIAL

flowers and graceful foliage . A

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SOIL

soil of a

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GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good loamy

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STAPLE

staple, enriched with rotten dung, will grow the

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POTENTILLA (nat. order Rosaceae, q.v.)

potentilla to perfection . Potentillas may be increased, though not very freely, by parting them into as many pieces as there are crowns, the

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side growths being those which can usually be thus separated . This may be done in autumn or

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SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

spring, and the

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PLANTS

plants will generally

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BLOOM (from A.S. bloma, a flower)

bloom the, following

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SEASON (0. Fr. seson, seison, mod. saison, Lat. satio, sowing time, the spring, from serere, to sow; in Late Lat. the word is found with its present meaning, the spring being considered as particularly the season of the year)

season . The species and some of the varieties reproduce true from

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SEED (from the root seen in Lat. serere, to sow)

seed, and are readily increased by that means . The following are some of the best kinds: aurea, atrosanguinea, davurica,

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formosa, nitida, n. atro-rubra, speciosa, tridentata and villosa .

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