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

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 205 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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POTENTILLA (nat. See also:order See also:Rosaceae, q.v.)  , a border and See also:rock-See also:garden plant . Many of the See also:species See also:bear brilliantly coloured See also:flowers and graceful foliage . A See also:soil of a See also:good loamy See also:staple, enriched with rotten dung, will grow the See also:potentilla to perfection . Potentillas may be increased, though not very freely, by parting them into as many pieces as there are crowns, the See also:side growths being those which can usually be thus separated . This may be done in autumn or See also:spring, and the See also:plants will generally See also:bloom the, following See also:season . The species and some of the varieties reproduce true from See also:seed, and are readily increased by that means . The following are some of the best kinds: aurea, atrosanguinea, davurica, See also:formosa, nitida, n. atro-rubra, speciosa, tridentata and villosa .

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