Their lustrous lacquer finishes and intricate inlays, undeniably ornamental, were the antithesis of machine production. |
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He enjoyed adorning his Latin poems with words and phrases that are sometimes ornamental in function, sometimes more meaningfully allusive. |
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I don't mind there being some medievalists around for ornamental purposes, but there is no reason for the state to pay for them. |
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After flowering, if there are no ornamental seed heads, the flowering stems may be cut back to a leaf joint to remove the faded flowers. |
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The garden was originally laid out in the 1740s as an ornamental flower and fruit garden. |
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They chose ornamental plants that were self-propagating, along with annuals that were generally self-seeding. |
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There were floating candles that decorated the pool and the fountain, as well as ornamental flowers arrangements. |
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It is an eight-storeyed structure with outer walls of ornamental stone work similar to the Vidhana Soudha facade. |
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All but tansy have grey leaves, which makes them useful accents in ornamental gardens. |
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After much soul-searching, she scattered his remains in a huge ornamental urn in the gardens of her Didsbury home. |
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Books, postcards, ornamental and decorative pieces, curiosities and some plain junk. |
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These may have been ornamental porcelains intended to be used as table decorations. |
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They are either painted or executed in pen and limited to the area of ornamental decoration. |
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Their walk had led them to a large ornamental fountain, and Fenikkusu sat upon its lip. |
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My favourite feature here, however, was a set of ornamental toilet bowls decorated with blue-ink drawings. |
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The well-maintained gardens contain ornamental areas and a productive fruit and vegetable plot. |
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A garden created to form rockeries with flower beds, lawn, large ornamental pond, fountain and woodland paths. |
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There were sunken gardens and ornamental ponds, rose pergolas and formal hedges. |
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The plan is to restore the principal garden features including the lost lake, the massive dam wall and the ornamental fruit and flower garden. |
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Precious stones of every hue sparkled and flashed from ornamental designs in brass, copper, silver and gold. |
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The ornamental decoration of Spanish Hebrew Bibles is only one of the many echoes of this interaction. |
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She held up a very pretty medium-sized ornamental fan with a wood handle and wood blades. |
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They feed on the roots of a wide variety of plants including cool season grasses, weeds, woody ornamentals and other ornamental plants. |
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Saints embroidered in metallic and silk threads decorate the orphrey, the ornamental band along the top of the cope as pictured here. |
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The most ornamental part of doors was their heads, which took on various shapes, including triangles, semicircles or arcs. |
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There are numerous rambling barns and outhouses, and the gardens and two ornamental lakes are exquisite. |
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The dieffenbachia is an ornamental plant that is used fundamentally like an indoor plant. |
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The gateway was equipped with a portcullis, but it was raised and the entry was protected only by a light, almost ornamental iron lattice. |
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Imagine, if you will, the most chintzy, fussy, mock-antique kitchen, with anything that doesn't move covered with an ornamental doily. |
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Linn attended agricultural school and concentrated on the study of ornamental horticulture. |
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Finish ornamental stone facings and surfaces of concrete structural products. |
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Now the slope is softened and the garden planted with fine ornamental trees and shrubs. |
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Found entombed with numerous Celtic charioteers and warriors, ancient phalerae are ornamental metal discs worn by their horses. |
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In the backyard, annual pansies, alyssum, vincas, and silver-edged ornamental kale fill the beds under crab apples and pines. |
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Guava, lemon, sycamore, olive, date, willow wood are used in turnery as they have different ornamental color. |
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This 4-foot grass is attractive with sun coleus, pink gomphrena, orange Mexican zinnias and lime-green ornamental sweet potato. |
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Spathiphyllum is an ornamental house plant, botanically known as Spathiphyllum wallisii. |
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Acalypha wilkesiana, the Fijian fire plant, is the parent of many modern cultivars and is in itself a showy ornamental. |
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Some ornamental plants and fruit plants like blueberries require an acidic soil. |
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There are useful and ornamental goods suited for any kind of presentation, or for personal adornment, or household use. |
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Generally, our ornamental products are shipped unassembled to save freight. |
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There are quite a few ornamental fences, and they all tout their own types of picket attachment. |
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Julia Helgewald describes feelingly, and with scholarship, the myriad uses, religious, ornamental and utilitarian, to which water has been put. |
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Internally, the building is divided into a nave, transepts and side aisles composed of ornamental cast-iron columns and girders. |
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To make matters worse, the popularity of groomed lawns, ornamental hybrid plants and bug-free yards drives out native plant species. |
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The range of ornamental furniture extends to cots, dressing tables and dining tables. |
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A new ornamental pond provides a focal point for both the main and ground levels. |
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He instructed his groundsmen to fell the rich canopy of ornamental trees that had once lined the roads leading to Middle Hill. |
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The water bodies are embellished with ornamental fish, cascades, fountains and expensive plants that could be grown in submerged pots. |
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This terrace is about half the size of the drawing room and the current owners have embellished it with an ornamental pond and fountain. |
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Photographic prints from a disbound sample book showing samples of decorative and ornamental fixtures made from onyx. |
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But they also look great with ornamental grasses, New Zealand flax and daylilies in the same tones. |
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Such ornamental containers were created to house the consecrated Eucharist for the communion service. |
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Iron is one of the most widely distributed of metals and has been used in ornamental work since prehistoric times. |
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The consignment consisted of costly goods, including epergnes, table and dessert services and ornamental figures. |
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Clearly, money is being spent on ornamental bird baths and organic dog biscuits in a variety of flavours. |
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Because of its invasive nature, it often becomes a pest within an ornamental garden and readily escapes. |
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His hair had been pushed back with an ornamental headband made of small white beads, fully revealing his ears. |
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A number of shops have sprung up in the city to cater to the demand for traditional ornamental furniture. |
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Designed in the Churrigueresque style, the ground floor is wrapped in a brocade of ornamental cast iron. |
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An ornamental sink, parquet flooring and solid wood units at eye and floor level are features of this cosy room. |
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The property has a living room with maple floor, ornamental fireplace and a patio door opening onto a balcony. |
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The shells were exported for manufacture into buttons, millions of them, and for ornamental inlays in wood. |
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Indeed much Victorian plasterwork is highly ornamental too, though it rarely had the refinement of the Georgian period. |
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It's intertwined with ornamental gardens of bright flowers, rainforest species and native trees. |
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Apart from freshwater fish, marine ornamental fish are also found in abundance in coastal regions. |
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What appears to be the problem to us is the size of a culvert underneath the road into the ornamental pond. |
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From it rise a column and four shafts with trefoil arches and ornamental gablets, each containing a shield. |
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Narrow ornamental borders decorated the back, and embroidery or galloons sewn onto broad velvet borders decorated both sides on the jacket front. |
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However, the special review of daminozide for use on ornamental plants, the remaining registration, will continue. |
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In the gardens are lemon and lime trees, prickly pear cactus plants, fig trees and ornamental palms. |
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He did cute tinted drawings of pussycats, cupids, flowers and ladies' boots, with texts in a kind of ornamental handwriting. |
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Just outside my sala a small stream gurgles its way over a waterfall down to an ornamental lake. |
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Widely cultivated ornamental, but poisonous flowering shrub with evergreen leaves and clusters of fragrant pinkish or red flowers. |
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Certain ornamental plants and shrubs, such as rhododendrons and Dieffenbachia, are particularly toxic. |
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It is, to say the least of it, a welcome refuge from your landlady's ornamental flower-vases. |
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It is incorrect, however, to use the phrase to indicate the purely decorative or ornamental qualities of a painting. |
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That curved lines as they can be varied in their degrees of curvature as well as in their lengths, begin on that account to be ornamental. |
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A distinctive identifying and ornamental characteristic of this species is the blue-white glaucous coating laid down on the young branches. |
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If you have to go to court, because of the high value an ornamental tree can have, make sure you have a good lawyer and a good arborist. |
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Pusading's ornamental arch has a pair of stone lions and the stone wall facing them was apparently built to block their vision. |
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The three remaining bedrooms are upstairs, the master having been lent a Moroccan, ornamental feel with an arched window as the focal point. |
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Marcia especially likes Japanese maples, ornamental grasses, and plants with variegated foliage. |
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Poeciliids are a group of live-bearing fish, native to the New World but introduced elsewhere as mosquito control agents and ornamental fish. |
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Second, their masses of small white, bell like blossoms are as decorative as any purely ornamental shrub. |
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The ornamental fruit garden has every known fruit, from apricots to redcurrants. |
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The three main emphasis areas are ornamental horticulture, environmental and soil science, and genetics and crop breeding. |
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Development continued, with bridges being built over watercourses, pathways being laid out, and ornamental trees and gardens planted. |
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The estate includes a 17th century deer park with a herd of fallow deer, and ornamental gardens. |
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We have play areas, football pitches, a tennis court and ornamental gardens. |
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I've repotted my ornamental grass into a deeper pot, to give it better protection against drying out. |
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The white blooms of tall ornamental tobacco brighten the back of the border like fireworks in the evening sky. |
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You can enhance the attractiveness of something by adding ornamental details. |
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Unusual foliage such as ornamental cabbages can make a bold statement, especially if highlighted by accessories such as solar bell jars. |
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Very ornamental, this cupel is an interesting mixture between wood and wicker. |
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Vegetation on the campus is very heterogeneous and disturbed, being composed of natural, introduced, ornamental and fruit-bearing species. |
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The manuscript is also rich in ornamental decoration, to which those of the other exemplars are stylistically related. |
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Brick alcoves in the walls are set off with ornamental urns with pot plants. |
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Although rue is often used as an ornamental plant in gardens or flowerbeds, its strong smell usually makes rue unpopular for use close to homes. |
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Most favor Joshua trees for their nests, but many have discovered utility poles and ornamental trees. |
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A handmade, ornamental paper happily festoons the upper register of the work. |
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This material is highly sought after by lapidaries for ornamental items such as bookends and clocks. |
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Should your fall planter need a bit of extra color or more filler plants, ornamental cabbages will be the perfect final touch. |
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Plumage coloration is among the most widespread and conspicuous of ornamental traits in birds. |
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Along that stretch of two-lane, one encounters a remarkable range of topiary and ornamental eccentricity. |
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But baskets and ornamental calabashes can't put food in the mouths of 12 people. |
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The roof is adorned with an ornamental balustrade, as are the roofs of the central block and the wings. |
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An ornamental Grecian brazier, or urn, is back in place on top of a 100 ft high column at Castle Howard. |
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There are also garden lamps, bird baths, decorative columns, mushroom lamps, and ornamental urns that a landscape artist would cherish. |
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A widely known garden climber, the scarlet Rangoon creeper is a native of Africa which was introduced in the tropics as a popular ornamental. |
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Tufted hair grass is clump-forming, cool season grass which is often grown as an ornamental. |
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When planting a tall container, consider vining plants, like ornamental sweet potato or setcresia. |
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Designs of a purely ornamental kind, and especially the Iznik, Middle-East and Oriental wares, were the staples of the pottery. |
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Canterbury bells, Echium, foxglove, sweet William, Queen Anne's lace and mullein are among the commonly grown ornamental biennials. |
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Datura is jimson weed and these ornamental plants with the large, white, bell-like flowers. |
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Most Tudor homes have stucco or masonry exteriors accented by ornamental half-timbering, massive chimneys and steep gable roofs. |
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Each of these frontons is again distinguished by bordering ornamental turrets on its either flanks, which are carried beyond the parapets. |
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Piles of bullets, Beretta handguns and Kalashnikovs are laid out carefully next to ornamental knives and silver jewellery. |
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It belongs to the very large Euphorbia family along with other popular ornamental plants such as poinsettias and crotons. |
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The authors of the abstract and mathematically witty inventions in ornamental sculpture were Jan van Roome and Loys van Boghem. |
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At least 17 species of lace bugs cause damage to ornamental trees and shrubs in the United States. |
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The wide use of alliums as ornamental plants, however, is a more recent phenomenon, first gaining favor about the middle of the 19th century. |
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Women borrowed jackets, ties, hats and other styles from menswear to construct less frilly and ornamental ensembles. |
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Under the violent rain whose splashes make them almost invisible, the ornamental fish of auspicious omen turn slowly in their pools. |
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The hall door is very fine, having outer casings and massive pillars supporting an ornamental canopy all of cut stone. |
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Grassed mounds, ornamental trees and a lily pond are planned to complement the serene ambience. |
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This also pulls the mesogastrium to the left to create the ornamental cavity. |
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Another way is to control deer depredations passively, with deer-proof fencing or the planting of ornamental plants unpalatable to deer. |
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The family includes ornamental shrubs such as mock orange, and all citrus fruit trees. |
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It is grown as an ornamental plant in gardens and parks for its colored flowers and ever-blooming nature. |
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Weeds often cause problems so use an ornamental ground cover or spread pebbles or stone chips. |
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A wide assortment of ornamental carved doors, seasoned flush doors, imported modular skin panel doors and doorframes would be available. |
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Grottos and ruins gave gardens a visual impact while ornamental shrubberies appealed to the emerging middle class. |
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Also good at handling the warmer weather are lilies and the ornamental onions such as Allium alflatunense, A. sphaerocephalum and A. moly. |
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Tukutuku is a type of ornamental weaving using reed latticework rather than threads. |
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Traditional zanko finials, somewhat more ornamental than average, stand guard at the corners of the two front towers and above the entry. |
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Made out of teak or rosewood, ornamental furniture is characterised by intricate carvings and promise the ultimate in comfort and style. |
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The horticultural art of topiary dates back at least 2,000 years, to when the ancient Romans cut bushes and trees into ornamental shapes. |
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At the same time, the rich and ornamental pews set up by the status-conscious clergy were to be removed and replaced by plain, unadorned ones. |
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With a wave Patric walked casually outside the store and found a small bench on the other side of this ornamental bush where he sat himself down. |
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Wall shrubs including pyracantha or ornamental quince can be trained and get less out of control than some vigorous climbers. |
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The defendant first got a knife and then armed himself with the ornamental sword. |
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An ornamental doocot was built in a corner of the garden, and a castellated tower added a refined pedigree to the old sawmill. |
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The ornamental patterns are clear-cut, expressive, varied and unconstrainedly rhythmical. |
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Many designs on trade cards were non-pictorial, presenting only the message of the proprietor in ornamental lettering. |
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A skeuomorph is a derivative object which retains ornamental design cues to a structure that was necessary in the original. |
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One plant we should see more of is Rubus biflorus, the ornamental bramble, whose prickly stems are covered in a white, waxy bloom. |
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Contained within a circle, the gorgoneion was the central motif of an ornamental composition of confronting dolphins. |
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Some plants like ornamental grasses or irises may require knives, machetes, or even hatchets to get the job done, but it is worth it. |
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The designers have chosen astrantias, roses, campanula, achilleas, an acer and an ornamental cherry. |
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For months, the talk has been about trimming an ornamental detail here or there, eliminating this room, lowering that ceiling, blah, blah, blah. |
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It's in the ornamental frame on the mantelpiece in your own bedroom, ma'am. |
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There are no formulary Baroque madonnas, prettily ornamental angels, or idealized saints here. |
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When the woman marries, the hair is made into an ornamental headdress and brought to the husband's home as a souvenir. |
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Whilst ornamental cherries produce no edible crop, the blossom of apples, pears, plums and damsons is usually followed by fruit worth harvesting. |
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The look is deliberately natural, with an emphasis on indigenous plants such as swamp mallow and drought-tolerant ornamental grasses. |
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But it is chiefly on sculpture and architecture that ornamental devices act as cartouches for heraldic display. |
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It will grow anywhere and because of this is perhaps ignored as a bog-standard plant of little ornamental value in a modern garden. |
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Add ornamental grasses, shrubs, trees and vine-covered arbors to act as windbreaks, rain shelters and sleeping quarters. |
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The British native spindle bush has a highly ornamental climbing relative that produces wonderfully coloured fruits. |
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Visibility in the miniscule rear view mirror is like watching traffic through a spy hole, whilst the wing mirror proves pretty much ornamental. |
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Bonnet cowl with collar available with 75mm deep collar for ornamental chimney pots. |
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Elsewhere in the gardens were an ornamental lake, rockery, rosarium, extensive lawns, and a fruit garden with forcing houses. |
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One is a collection with dresses in black and white geometric patterns decorated with black leather and metal ornamental nails. |
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One of the biggest trends over the last 20 years has been the rediscovery of heirloom plants, both ornamental and edible. |
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In the 17th century, nail heads were considered as decorative and were arranged in ornamental patterns. |
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With its high ceiling and original ornamental plaster coving, marble fireplace, vast mirror and chandelier, it could be the set for a period drama. |
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Eroded paths will be restored, spectacular viewpoints reinstated and the original design of the ornamental gardens that once charmed Glaswegians brought back to life. |
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The form of this glass is characterized by an inverted perfect squat cone with ornamental glasswork where the cone meets the stem and the stem meets the base. |
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Increasing popularity for planting in urban gardens has resulted in the careful selection of particularly floriferous cultivars for supply to the ornamental gardening market. |
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A factory worker's family spent a quiet evening at home, all dressed up, in a parlour choked with ornamental plants, under a great silk lampshade. |
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Finger-rings and ear-studs, stone necklaces and ornamental chokers, brightly hued bracelets and innovatively shaped pendants are there in rich profusion. |
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Though the original homes of most of the wild balsams are the Old World tropics, not much has been done to cultivate this ornamental plant in the country in new areas. |
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The gold bowl from the acropolis is also arranged around a central rosette in three concentric bands of figural representations separated by three ornamental bands. |
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Try ornamental kale and cabbage, Chinese cabbage, crinkle-leaf parsley, spinach, snapdragon and dianthus underplanted with spring-flowering bulbs. |
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But despite the brocaded swags, ornamental carvings and original works of art here, you won't feel you have to tiptoe down the corridors and talk in whispers. |
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Round the perimeter of the room is usually a continuous bench seat which, like the walls and floor, is covered with patterned ornamental fabrics and cushions. |
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Since its introduction in the 1800s as a soil stabilizer and ornamental, tamarisk has gone on to infest 1.6 million acres of the West's precious riparian areas. |
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Jerusalem cherries and ornamental peppers are tender tropical plants. |
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As ornamental birds in an aviary or large cage setup, this is true. |
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Japanese knotweed, for all its invasive attributes, was an ornamental plant for the Victorians. |
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Division and separating are easy methods and are mostly employed for all kinds of ornamental grasses, bamboo, calatheas, marantas, anthuriums, aglaonema, chlorophytum, etc. |
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In mixed farming systems, bananas are used as a shade plant for cocoa, coffee, black pepper and nutmeg, and in many countries the plant itself is used as an ornamental. |
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At first glance, the Chisel looks like a traditional tanto, complete with wrapped cord over stingray hide underpinnings, topped with an ornamental menuki. |
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The single mixer tap has been plumbed in nearer to the sink on the left than the sink on the right, with the consequence that the sink on the right is merely ornamental. |
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A few species of cycads still exist in tropical and sub-tropical regions today, and although they are used as ornamental plants some of them are facing possible extinction. |
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Some of the ornamental details, such as the projecting shell of the tympanum, are also found on case pieces made in Salem and Newburyport, Massachusetts. |
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He originally specified either ornamental plaster or terra cotta for the proscenium and plaster for the hung ceiling vaults, as at the Chicago Auditorium. |
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Duquin argues that nonactive representations of women may reinforce the view that women's bodies serve an ornamental, rather than instrumental, function. |
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It needs only a few snicks with a knife and a touch of green paint to convert a piece of dry mahogany bark into an ornamental fish, complete with the scales and tail-fin. |
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It is, of course, the height of luxury, and its grounds roll idyllically from a croquet lawn to an organic vegetable plot to an ornamental Japanese garden. |
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Other unusual plants include bottle gourds whose beautiful ornamental shapes were used for hundreds of years by native Americans to carry and store water. |
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The fastigium was altered in the early eighteenth century by the substitution of panels of ornamental motifs for porphyry panels in the smaller squares. |
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The style of calligraphy is my take on formal book hand excerpt for the enlarged initial letters of and the ornamental pointed style letters forming the first word. |
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A few other ideas using persimmons include making wonderful centerpieces for a holiday table, as they are very ornamental with a pleasing shape and vivid color. |
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The monarch-attracting butterflyweed, verbena, lantana, ornamental grass, dietes, daylilies, black elephant ears and white-topped sedge set a natural stage for the water. |
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I also did some watering, moved my ornamental brassica seedlings into the sun room and sprayed my pear tree with bug spray since it's covered in aphids. |
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The agriculture in this region is dominated by the production of Christmas trees, ornamental plants and burley tobacco, with some vegetables and fruits being produced. |
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On one level, these floral landscapes work as successful proponents of the decorative style with their flatness, lyrical repetitiveness and use of ornamental devices. |
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Heeding this advice, Europeans have long excelled at creating grand kitchen gardens that combine vegetables and ornamental plants in stunning designs. |
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Football is a world where the basic role of the female is ornamental, at best. |
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Plans for any sort of ornamental garden were put on hold by the second world war and the couple ran Orchards as a market garden, producing vegetables and fruit. |
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This luxurious piece of furniture is rectilinear, with sharply defined planes delineated by vertical and horizontal bands of ornamental marquetry. |
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Another plant that will draw second looks in a window box is Brassica oleracea, the ornamental cabbage, low growing, in soft shades of pink, green and white. |
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Articles ranging from showpieces to ornamental jewellery are exhibited. |
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When plants such as barberry, grapevine, ornamental grasses, and smoke bush are in their full glory, they create a garden's final drama of the year. |
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He or she may make use of a lavabo in preparation for the celebration, and the chalice and paten may be initially concealed by a burse and ornamental veil. |
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Functional or ornamental, one could not deny their skill and workmanship. |
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Originally fashioned from wrought iron designed and forged by blacksmiths, today's ornamental fencing is crafted using modern materials and current production techniques. |
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Exterior features of the house are a steeply pitched roof, large gables and architectural details such as the ornamental dripstones above the mullion windows. |
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However, they are not likely to work for some of the more refined varieties of deciduous ornamentals like Weeping Cherries or other ornamental trees. |
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While there is a place for the purely ornamental in everybody's lives, it is when the ornamental gets in the way of the useful, that we start to realize why embracing beautility is so integral. |
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Males in the cavity-nesting house wren frequently add arthropod cocoons to their nests during building, possibly as an ornamental cue for female choice. |
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And, fortunately for gardeners, there are many other ornamental climbers that are not quite as rampant but produce a good display throughout the year. |
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For many centuries, beadwork in the West was an activity with an ornamental purpose, practiced by young women in polite society to decorate clothing and personal objects. |
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Similar in appearance to ornamental features seen in birds like cassowaries and hornbills, the crest may have been used for display, the study team suggests. |
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While out digging, put in a few patches of winter pansies or a clump of ornamental cabbages to give a little brightness as other plants finally die back or lose their leaves. |
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But then, a microwave oven would often become an ornamental kitchen equipment, used occasionally to bake a cake, to pop some corns and mostly for reheating the food. |
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Many evergreen ornamental foliage plants and flowering plants, including ivy, aloe, ceriman and spiderwort, have special effects to decompose formaldehyde. |
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Assembled using stainless steel fasteners, or aluminum pop rivets, these panels have the solid look of ornamental iron, without the high maintenance of welded panels. |
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She lowered herself onto her own ornamental throne and did her best to appear regal although her head could barely hold the unaccustomed weight of her gold crown. |
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Both brothers like their father, musically speaking, are rather erratic instant effect with quack, ornamental flourishes that be tied down to ponderous vistar. |
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I learned that noni is a commonly planted tropical tree used primarily as an ornamental plant for its broad, bright green leaves, affording shade where it's needed. |
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At the base of a tree, for example, you might have better luck with wood chips or shade-loving ornamental plants like ivy, periwinkle, or pachysandra. |
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In the centre, an ornamental pond displays more fountains and more light, water reflecting off water to create an infinite array of mirror image distortion. |
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The music reverberated from low rafters hung with ornamental gasoliers. |
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The CD also contains a photo gallery of 54 ornamental fishes, especially the attractive and colourful varieties like Scarlet banded barb and Rosy barb. |
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The main crops produced were roses, mimosas, carnations and chrysanthemums, as ornamental non-edible plants, and tomato, lettuce and basil, as edible ones. |
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The era's finds include tools, ornamental beads, and bone pins as well as prehistoric art. |
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Cannes is the hotel garden, which contains ornamental water with ducks, water-rats etc, and forms an oasis in this bloodsome desert. |
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Be particularly careful applying within the drip line of trees and other ornamental species. |
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According to Cato the Elder, every garden should be close to the house and should have flower beds and ornamental trees. |
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It has also been used for artistic purposes to create ornamental fountains and statues. |
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Blue John is now scarce, and only a few hundred kilograms are mined each year for ornamental and lapidary use. |
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It comprises numerous temples, pagodas, pavilions, gardens and ornamental trees, as well as causeways and artificial islands. |
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Craig's original plan included an ornamental canal on the site of the loch, but this idea was abandoned. |
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By the clock tower and ornamental pool is Joyride, a mother and child sculpture by Franta Belsky. |
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Parnassians advocated of cerebral, rational, ornamental, non-emotional and metrified verses. |
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Visitors can see the ornamental gardens, including award winning RHS Tatton Show gardens, a sensory garden, and rockeries. |
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In many cases, they were originally introduced as ornamental animals in parklands, but have established themselves in the wild. |
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Four of these were introduced for hunting or ornamental purposes but one has now apparently died out. |
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Some species are popular ornamental flowers in horticulture, with many cultivars selected for large and brightly coloured flowers. |
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A large number of species, varieties and cultivars are grown in gardens for their ornamental flowers. |
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It was formerly used to make cutlery handles, billiard balls, piano keys, Scottish bagpipes, buttons and a wide range of ornamental items. |
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Certain ornamental plums, peaches and apricots flower before leafing out, as do deciduous magnolias. |
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The male's ornamental foreleg hair is thought to attract females, serving a similar function to the lion's mane. |
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A trim carpenter specializes in molding and trim, such as door and window casings, mantels, baseboards, and other types of ornamental work. |
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The Fairbourne and Catland designs are Victorian-inspired, with ornamental white soffit boards and finials on decorative gables. |
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He announced a contest will be held for the most beautiful horse, camel, Saluki, ornamental bird and falcon. |
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Effects of uniconazole and gibberellin on leaf variegation of ornamental plants under different light conditions. |
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It is believed that each pole would get a new rope to raise and lower its flag, called a halyard, and an ornamental top called a finial. |
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In an exposed garden try dwarf plants like sweetlyscented cyclamen, mini evergreen plants like hebe and ornamental grasses. |
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There are attractive ornamental items and a selection of kitchen miscellanea together with her trademark walking sticks. |
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On the other hand, the ornamental shrub Ixora, has a low alkalinity tolerance, demonstrated by yellowing of its foliage. |
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Black swans are native to Australia and were brought to the UK as ornamental birds like peacocks and golden pheasants. |
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A SOLDIER who assaulted his wife in a pub then smashed her ornamental chess set was yesterday ordered to pay her PS500 compensation. |
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He said 20 containers of Azalia, Benjamina, Dieffenbachia Amoena and other ornamental plants have been exported from Tonekabon. |
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The Robert and Lucy Thomas Fountain stands as an ornamental monument to the pioneers of the South Wales steam coal trade. |
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Some 1,500 stonecutting units are active in Isfahan, which supply 50 percent of the domestic demands for building and ornamental stones. |
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Papaver Marcus Perry is a beautiful, ornamental variety with deep red petals and a centre that is as black as a raven's wing. |
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They are perfect for traditional French-style potagers where the ornamental and productive vegetable beds are edged with box hedging. |
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Among the painstaking parts of the process are installing the miters, ornamental purfles, inlays and finish work. |
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Furbearers, large mammals, crocodilians, and ornamental birds traditionally impacted by wildlife trade benefited from CITES actions. |
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He said the State had already achieved success in salmonoid farming, eels, mussels, ornamental fish, and abalone. |
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The remains of the Norman crypt indicate that the older building must have been as massive and ornamental in its architecture as Durham. |
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Castles have been compared with cathedrals as objects of architectural pride, and some castles incorporated gardens as ornamental features. |
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He often used traditional patterns for ornamental details such as foliage and branches. |
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The ornamental grillwork over its front door brings a touch of Art Deco nostalgia into the 21st century. |
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The remainder of the species list consists of cultivated food or ornamental species, grown in restricted environments such as a planter's pot. |
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Crucially, self-contradictions in the Diamond Sutra are apparently not tangential, much less merely ornamental. |
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Pampas grass is probably one of the best-known ornamental grasses, but as it self-seeds so readily it has been declared a California pest. |
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Today narcissi are popular as cut flowers and as ornamental plants in private and public gardens. |
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Although prized as an ornamental flower, some people consider narcissi unlucky, because they hang their heads implying misfortune. |
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Some become invasive, for example the oleander aphid, accidentally introduced with the ornamental plant, oleander. |
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With respect to plants, these latter are in this case defined as either ornamental or cultivated plants. |
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The transport of ornamental plants for landscaping use has and continues to be a source of many introductions. |
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Other species with ornamental white bark include Betula ermanii, Betula papyrifera, Betula pendula and Betula raddeana. |
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Today European yew is widely used in landscaping and ornamental horticulture. |
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The cherry plum is a popular ornamental tree for garden and landscaping use, grown for its very early flowering. |
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Iris is extensively grown as ornamental plant in home and botanical gardens. |
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The use of ivies as ornamental plants in horticulture in California and other states is now discouraged or banned in certain jurisdictions. |
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They are popular throughout the world, both as ornamental garden plants and as cut flowers. |
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Cultivars with ornamental foliage are usually selected for reddish and golden leaf colour. |
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Many of the ornamental foliage forms change colour with the onset of winter weather, usually increasing in intensity of colour. |
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Capability Brown was commissioned in 1779 to design the ornamental grounds at the same time as the extensions. |
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They drifted back by the great conservatory and the ornamental water, aripple with ducks and swans, to the gates where his taxi waited. |
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Also brought back from India were dyes like lac, indigo and dyewood and precious ornamental objects and materials like ivory, ebony and pearls. |
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Amboina wood, obtained from the angsana tree and highly valued for ornamental woodwork, is now mostly grown on Seram. |
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Some forms of the plant are occasionally grown for ornamental use in the garden. |
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Some cultivars of Ipomoea batatas are grown as ornamental plants under the name tuberous morning glory, used in a horticultural context. |
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The finest ornamental lathes are generally considered to be those made by Holtzapffel around the turn of the 19th century. |
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The ornamental windows for the White House in America were also made there. |
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An ornamental gilt balustrade extended round each end of the carriage, and united with one of the pillars which supported the roof. |
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This is also a time of year when people throw out clippings from Japanese Yew, a popular ornamental plant. |
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Yews are widely used in landscaping and ornamental horticulture. |
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Many species and hybrids are used as ornamental and street trees. |
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They are more ornamental and won't make home-grown banana split. |
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In the 19th century ornamental ironwork became a speciality. |
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Much smaller and lighter variants of the roller mower are sometimes used for small patches of ornamental lawns around flower beds, and these have no engine. |
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They are one of the most economically important ornamental plants. |
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