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peonies and be
Tree peonies can be propagated by grafting, division, seed, and from cuttings, although root grafting is most common commercially.
Throughout Chinese history, peonies in Luoyang have been said to be the finest in the country.
Displays of ume, cherries, azalea, dogwood, peonies, roses, wisteria or other can be seen every month.

peonies and by
Flowers grown by the local people in the yard typically include various species of roses, hyacinths, tulips, peonies, cranesbills and petunias, as well as vine and ivy for shade.
Herbaceous and Itoh peonies are propagated by root division, and sometimes by seed.
The popular use of peonies in Japanese tattoo was inspired by the ukiyo-e artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi's illustrations of the Suikoden, a serialized novel from China.
... Their noses are like begonias, with full-blown nostrils, their lips richly carved, and they should have been painted by Sargent, with arrogant heads and affected hands, in white satin with a bowl of white peonies near by.
The arboretum and gardens are further embellished by beds of viburnum, tree peonies and Missouri native woodland plants.
The Lawn Garden is a grassy sward bordered by 350 species and varieties of ornamental trees and shrubs, underplanted with sweeps of peonies, day lilies, Siberian iris, and ground covers.
He too writes that the images of the bursting grape and the " globèd peonies " show an intention by the poet to bring the subject of sexuality into the discussion on melancholy.
Inspired by traditional papercuts, the black-and-white artwork shows images of traditionally Chinese elements ( such as a pagoda, archway and peonies ) with pictures of heavy machinery ( tractors, cranes, etc.

peonies and on
The room features a large Chinese styled panel painted on with phoenixes and peonies.
It is often decorated with variations on the more traditional motifs found on Chinese porcelain, such as stylized flowers ( peonies and chrysanthemums ) and Buddhist auspicious emblems.

peonies and they
The Garden of the Monastery of the Celestial Rulers in Luoyang was famous for its peonies ; the entire city came when they were in bloom.

peonies and were
Perennials were the largest group of traditional cottage garden flowers — those with a long cottage garden history include hollyhocks, carnations, sweet williams, marguerites, marigolds, lilies, peonies, tulips, crocus, daisies, foxglove, monkshood, lavender, campanulas, Solomon's seal, evening primrose, lily-of-the-valley, primrose, cowslips, and many varieties of roses.

whose and tight
The cerebral cortex is a group of tight, dense, " gray matter " composed of the nucleus of the neurons whose axons then form the " white matter ", and is responsible for perception, relay of the sensory input ( sensation ) via the thalamic pathway, and most importantly directly or indirectly in charge of all the neurological functions, from simple reflexes to complex thinking.
Unbeknown to Joey, John conditions the marriage as dependent upon the approval of Matt, whose decision in turn faces a deadline dependent on John's tight airline flight schedules.
Aristophanes, in The Frogs, pokes fun at Theramenes ' ability to extricate himself from tight spots, but delivers none of the scathing rebukes one would expect for a politician whose role in the shocking events after Arginusae had been regarded as particularly blameworthy, and modern scholars have seen in this a more accurate depiction of how Theramenes was perceived in his time ; Lysias, meanwhile, who mercilessly attacks Theramenes on many counts, has nothing negative to say about the aftermath of Arginusae.
He was a striker whose main attributes were good pace and the ability to turn and shoot in tight areas.
On the trip, Sal entertains her grandparents by telling a story about her friend in Euclid, Ohio, Phoebe Winterbottom, whose mother suddenly disappeared and left their family too, and about Ben Finney with whom Sal begins a tight relationship.
Lines in which the spaces have been stretched beyond their normal width are called loose lines, while those whose spaces have been compressed are called tight lines.
" The shadow personifies everything that the subject refuses to acknowledge about himself " and represents " a tight passage, a narrow door, whose painful constriction no one is spared who goes down to the deep well ".
Wieseltier appeared in one episode of the fifth season of The Sopranos, playing " Stuart Silverman ," a character whom Wieseltier described as " a derangingly materialistic co-religionist who dreams frantically of ' Wedding of the Week ' and waits a whole year for some stupid car in which he can idle for endless hours in traffic east of Quogue every weekend of every summer, the vulgar Zegna-swaddled brother of a Goldman Sachs mandarin whose son's siman tov u ' mazel tov is provided by a pulchritudinous and racially diverse bunch of shellfish-eating chicks in tight off-the-shoulder gowns.
After appearing in Kashgar with only several hundreds of his followers he then quickly increased his force by volunteers, and within several months he collected under his banner about 200, 000 troops ,< ref >< sub > Among volunteers in Jahangir's Army were a lot of ghalchas ( mountain Tajiks ), whose tight black costume gave rise to the rumours in Siberia about presence of Europeans among Jahangir's troops, those rumours were also contributed by Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, that being upset of the opportunity, might have gained by British forces in India due to this rebellion, reported of 13 British Body Guards of Jahangir Khoja, 7 of them followed him wherever he goes all the time.
Communes crossed by Metauro include, in order, Sant ' Angelo in Vado ( where the river forms the Cascata del Sasso, " Waterfall of the Stone "), Urbania, Fermignano, Fossombrone ( in whose territory it receives the waters of the Candigliano ), and, after flowing into a tight valley, the Gola del Furlo, Montemaggiore al Metauro, from which it starts to flow in a plain area.
This tight grip eventually allowed him to, at the time of his death in 255, transition his power to his younger brother Sima Zhao, whose son Sima Yan eventually usurped the throne and established the Jin Dynasty.
The line, constructed and owned by the State of New York, opened in 1998 to allow better freight rail access to the city by eliminating a more circuitous route that crossed busy commuter lines and whose tight turns ( at Mott Haven and Melrose ) limited the length of freight cars.
General Curtis LeMay, USAF ( former head of the Strategic Air Command and serving at the time as Chief of Staff of the Air Force ), used his considerable influence to allow Producer Sy Bartlett and Director Delbert Mann unprecedented access to various SAC facilities, in the belief that this film would play a vital role in reminding Americans that the Air Force did indeed have its weapons of mass destruction under tight control in sharp contrast to the impressions that the movies Dr. Strangelove and Fail-Safe ( both based on novels written prior to 1963 whose premise was that accidental nuclear war caused by SAC was not only possible but likely ) would give.
The public school games included a wide range of rules, from the Rugby game ( with ball handling and backwards passing ) through the Eton game ( which favoured dribbling and had a tight offside rule ) to the Charterhouse football ( that involved dribbling and whose representatives favoured rules permitting forward passing ).
There are multiple types of curly-tailed cats whose tails loop over the back or form tight corkscrews.

whose and sticky
Native Hawaiians used its sticky sap to trap birds, whose feathers were made into cloaks.
The only surviving version of this book, kept at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and first translated by Pierre Amédée Jaubert, reports that, after having reached an area of " sticky and stinking waters " ( probably the Sargasso Sea ), the Mugharrarin moved back and first reached an uninhabited Island ( Madeira or Hierro ), where they found " a huge quantity of sheep, which its meat was bitter and inedible " and, then, " continued southward " and reached another island where they were soon surrounded by barks and brought to " a village whose inhabitants were often fair haired with long and flaxen hair and the women of a rare beauty ".
There were two large, talking Boglins named Belcher and Gangrene, as well as several smaller ones: I Ball / Deg, a turquoise Boglin whose eyes popped out on stalks ; Mr Mucus / Mr Crad, a purple Boglin which spat water when squeezed ; and Warty / Pustule, a green Boglin with sticky red blisters that oozed.
A regional variation of the crumpet is the pikelet, whose name derives from the Welsh bara piglydd or " pitchy dark or sticky bread ", later shortened simply to piglydd ; the early 17th century lexicographer, Randle Cotgrave, spoke of " our Welsh barrapycleds ".
Round-leaved Saxifrage ( Saxifraga rotundifolia | S. rotundifolia ), whose sticky leaves seem to catch small invertebrate s

whose and buds
** dormant or latent, for buds whose growth has been delayed for a rather long time.
The main herb used is stated to be Cordyceps sinensis ( caterpillar fungus ), whose productive buds are available in the hills of Bhutan.
In order to produce extra axillary buds that are necessary for plants containing multiple flowers, a phytoplasma infection – whose symptoms include the proliferation of axillary buds – is used.
The species name valisineria comes from Vallisneria americana, the scientific name of wild celery, whose winter buds and rhizomes are the Canvasback's preferred food during the nonbreeding period.
Camellia sinensis is the species of plant whose leaves and leaf buds are used to produce the popular beverage tea.

whose and would
I let up on the accelerator, only to gradually reach again the 60 m.p.h. which would, I hoped, overhaul Herry and the blonde, and as there were cars whose drivers apparently had something more important to catch than had I, Mrs. Major Roebuck settled down to practicing on Corporal Johnson the kittenish wiles she would need when making her duty call on Colonel and Mrs. Somebody in Sante Fe.
Of these there are surely few that would be more rewarding discoveries than Verner Von Heidenstam, the Swedish poet and novelist who received the award in 1916 and whose centennial was celebrated two years ago.
Strikes should be declared illegal against corporations because disagreements would have to be settled by government representatives acting as controllers of the corporation whose responsibility to the state would now be defined against proprietorship because employees and proprietors must be completely interdependent, as they are each a part of the whole.
There was the Neapolitan, Ribas, a capable conniver whose father had been a blacksmith but who had fawned his way up the ladder of Catherine's and Potemkin's favor till he was now a brigadier ( and would one day be the daggerman designated to do in Czar Paul 1,, after traveling all the way to Naples to procure just the right stiletto ).
Out of Saxony rode the Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg, one of the Czarina's cousins and a lieutenant general in her armies, a frank, sensitive, popular soldier whose kindnesses Littlepage would `` always recall with the sincerest gratitude ''.
To Serenissimus such tribes as the Cossacks of the Don or those ex-bandits the Zaporogian Cossacks ( in whose islands along the lower Dnieper the Polish novelist Sienkiewicz would one day place With Fire And Sword ) were just elements for enforced resettlement in, say, Bessarabia, where, as `` the faithful of the Black Sea borders '', he could use their presence as bargaining points in the Czarina's territorial claims against Turkey.
Why not make a beginning with a united and disarmed Germany whose neutrality and immunity from nuclear bombing would be guaranteed by the Big Four powers and the United States??
Even so, it adds up to impossible odds, except that the question arises, On whose side would the Mainland Chinese army fight??
a pile of wire cages for mice from his time as a geneticist and a microscope lying on its side on the window sill, vertical steel columns wired for support to the open ceiling beams with spidery steel cantilevers jutting out into the air, masonry constructions on the floor from the time he was inventing his disastrous fireplace whose smoke would pass through a whole house, visible all the way up through wire gratings on each floor.
It is not clear, however, whether they are thinking of all movable property or only of boats, trailers, aircraft or certain other types of personal property whose assessment would be advantageous to their particular towns.
One might have expected that such a violent epoch of transition would have destroyed the creative flair of a composer, especially one whose works were so fluent and spontaneous.
The result, dramatically visible in a matter of days in the family's disrupted daily functioning, was a phobic-like fear that some terrible harm would befall the second twin, whose birth had not been anticipated.
I would propose, next, as the prime requirement for constitution of new basic lists, items whose forms show as high an empirical retention rate as possible.
There would be no conceivable sense in going to the opposite extreme of selecting items whose forms are the most unstable.
Had More's writings been wholly limited to such exercises, they would be almost as dimly remembered as those of a dozen or so other authors living in his time, whose works tenuously survive in the minds of the few hundred scholars who each decade in pursuit of their very specialized occasions read those works.
She teamed up with another beauty, whose name has been lost to history, and commenced with some fiddling that would have made Nero envious.
`` I considered that your views would be best carried out '', he explained, `` by taking women whose progeny will of course be free & more fully extend the philantrophy of Emancipation.
:“ In 1882, she said, it was first spoken of when the Sporting Times, after the Australians had thoroughly beaten the English at the Oval, wrote an obituary in affectionate memory of English cricket “ whose demise was deeply lamented and the body would be cremated and taken to Australia ”.
But this extremely ingenious theory would at most explain only the mystic word Abracadabra, whose connection with Abrasax is by no means certain.
In 1968, he was cited by William F. Buckley as one of several historical figures whose best qualities would be emulated by the ideal President.
During the impeachment trial, Representative Benjamin Butler launched an investigation into suspicious and complex activities surrounding certain Senators, whose votes would either convict or acquit President Johnson.
At last, led to the Hippodrome of Constantinople, he was hung up by the feet between two pillars, and two Latin soldiers competed as to whose sword would penetrate his body more deeply, and finally his body, according to the representation of his death, was torn apart.

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