Poppy

A poppy is any of a number of flashy flowers, classically with one per stem, belonging to the poppy family. They contain a number of attractive wildflower species with showy flowers found rising unusually or in large groups; many species are also full-grown in gardens. Those that are grown-up in gardens include large plants used in a varied herbaceous boarder and small plants that are grown in astound or alpine gardens.

The flower color of poppy species include: white, pink, yellow, orange, red and blue; some contain dark center markings. The species that have been refined for many years also include many other colors ranging from dark solid colors to soft pastel shades. The center of the flower has a whorl of stamens bounded by a cup- or bowl-shaped compilation of four to six petals. Prior to blooming, the petals are wrinkled in bud, and as blooming finishes, the petals frequently lie flat before lessening away.

Aster

ASTER is a flowering plant of the Composite family. It is so general in the United States that it has been suggested as the national flower. More than 175 species produce in North America. The flower also grows in parts of Europe, Asia, and South America. Toward the last of August and during September and October, these beautiful glittery wild flowers rupture into bloom. The aster (from the Greek aster, meaning "star") was so named because of its burning or star like flower head. It is found mainly in North America.

Asters are typically perennial plants. The flowers contain yellowish or brownish disks surrounded by white, purple, violet, blue, rose, or pink rays. Two handsome species are the New England aster, with its many large violet or purple rays, and the New York aster (Aster novi-belgii), which has light blue and white blossoms. They bloom until subsequent to the first frost. Both of these are ordinary in the northeastern United States.

The aster is linked to the daisy. It gets its name from the Greek word for star. The blossoms may be from one-half to two inches in width they differ in color from white through pink, red, and blue. All have flat yellow centers bounded by many thin petals.

Pink

PINK (pingk) is the general name of a huge group of flowering plants recognized to botanists as Dianthus. Many Dianthus flowers are pink, but the name pink is used to explain the scalloped or "pinked" edges of the flower petals. Pinks are typically natives of Europe and Asia, where many kinds have been refined in gardens for centuries.Plants of the pink family have stems with distended joints and leaves rising in pairs on opposite sides of the stems. Flowers of cultivated pinks are white, pink, red, sometimes yellow, and often with stripes. They may be single or double, unaccompanied, or in clusters. Many are sweet-scented.

Cultivated pinks comprise the carnation, grown more in English, gardens than in the United States. Other garden pinks are: fragrant cottage, or grass pinks; small-flowered, mat-forming maiden pinks; sweet-scented clove pinks; fragrant Cheddar pinks, with blue-gray foliage; scentless China pinks, frequently grown as annuals; and bunch pinks, such as sweet William, with intimately clustered flowers.

Pinks are simple to grow in ordinary garden soil. They like sunshine, but do best in moderate and cool climates. Some are annuals, but most are biennials or perennials.
Pinks are grown from seed or cuttings. Some, sweet William, for example, often self-sow and produce year after year in old gardens, or even escape to roadsides and waste places.

Bulb

A bulb is a thick, fleshy bud that typically grows underground. In many plants, such as the tiger lily, it grows above ground, in the mark where the leaves branch from the plant stalk. Bulbs are of two types: the scaly and the tunicate. The scary type bulb as in the majority lilies is made up of a short central core inside of broad, fleshy, scalelike leaves. The tunicate bulb, such as the onion, has fleshy leaf bases in smooth and incessant layers. If an onion is cut in half, the inside looks similar to thickened bands or circles of tissue. Roots usually grow from the base of the bulb. The bulb serves as a storage place with sufficient food and water to provide the plant during winter or a dry period.

The bulb is also a storehouse for new stems, leaves and flowers, after the plant first flowers. In fact, the bulb has in it a new stem and frequently the beginnings of flowers and leaves as well. These are protected inside the bulb by the bulb scales. These scales or leaves are a food storehouse for the plant. The food stored in the bulbs throughout one season is used for the start of the growth of the stem, leaves and flowers during the next season. A number of different kinds of bulbs such as the onion are used for food. Some additional examples of the bulb are the lily bulbs, the tulip bulbs, and the hyacinth.

Chrysanthemum

The word chrysanthemum comes from Creek words that denote gold and flower. The flowers now variety in color from while and yellow through pink and lavender to deep red. The sizes differ from pompons, fewer than an inch across, to blooms 8 inches or more in diameter, there are 15 distinct bloom forms of chrysanthemums, which be different primarily in the shape and arrangement of the petals. Petals may be flat, fluted, quilled, feathery, fringed, or curled. Blossoms may be single, semi-double, or double.

Chrysanthemums flourish in fertile, well-drained soil and full sunlight. They produce from cuttings or root divisions. They are also annual, lasting only one year, or perennial continuing to live from year to year. Gardeners like to grow chrysanthemums because of their diversity of size, shape* and color, The 3000 varieties in cultivation may be alienated into two main types those that are cultivated in a greenhouse and forced for winter bloom and hardy varieties that grow outdoors and bloom in late summer and fall. All chrysanthemums bloom outdoors if they are secluded from frost. The only species of economic significance are certain forms of pyrethrum, Chiysanthemum coccineum. Their flower heads are the basis of pyrethrum powder, an insecticide.

Buckwheat

BUCKWHEAT is a quick-growing yearly plant, full-grown for its shining, three-sided fruits or "grain." The plants are resident in Asia, but are grown also in Europe, Africa, and North America.

Three types of buckwheat are grown:

1 Common buckwheat
2 Tartary buckwheat
3 Notched or Winged buckwheat.

The U.S.S.R. is the world's major producer, followed by France, Poland, Canada, and the United States. Pennsylvania and New York make more than half of the United States crop.

The majority buckwheat is raised for the grain, which is fed to poultry, hogs, or cattle. In the United States and Canada, some is complete into pancake flour and other foods. The straw and hulls are used as mulches to defend the roots of plants

From the flowers bees create buckwheat-flavored honey. The drug rutin is taken as of the leaves and flowers. Rutin is used to decrease high blood pressure and is used in the treatment of emission injury.

Buckwheat also is planted as a smother crop to discontinue weed growth; as a cover crop to stop soil erosion; as "green manure" to add humus to soil; and in elsewhere of-the-way places as feed for game birds and animals.