In a recent book giving what purports to be a list of fragrant flowers and leaves, the chrysanthemum is included, as it gives out an aromatic perfume from its leaves!
The cakes are still made and eaten in Weihaiwei, but the chrysanthemumwine appears to be obsolete.
A chrysanthemum flower with sixteen petals and a bunch of Paulownia leaves and buds constituted the Imperial badges, the use of which was interdicted to all subjects.
She is an old lady and wore blue[61] karaginu, and yellow chrysanthemum uchigi woven in a "floating thread" pattern.
The younger ladies wore five-fold-trimmed karaginu of chrysanthemum colours according to their taste.
Floss silk was used to protect chrysanthemum flowers from frost.
Her outer robe was trimmed with five folds and was chrysanthemum coloured.
I was dressed in an eight-fold uchigi of deep and pale chrysanthemum colours, and over it I wore the outer flowing robe of deep-red silk.
And he is generally recognised as one of the most expert chrysanthemum dressers to be found in a long day's march.
The chrysanthemum is the spoiled and petted darling of the floral world.
One of the great fascinations of show-chrysanthemum growing is the possibility of producing new blooms.
How art may assist nature is admirably shown in the accompanying photographs illustrating My Lady Chrysanthemum in her natural state, and the same bloom dressed and cupped for show purposes.
Like the orchid grower, the chrysanthemum lover is ever seeking floral novelties.
Chrysanthemum showing and growing form no exception to the rule.
You cannot paint the lily with any prospect of success, but the number of curls and frills and furbelows you may add to the dainty chrysanthemum bloom, and still leave room for the touch of a titivating hand, is endless.
Thus we find the Chrysanthemum leucanthemum named the Moon Daisy, because its shape resembles the pictures of a full moon, the type of a class of plants which Dr.
The Chrysanthemum was first introduced into England in 1764 by Miller, who received a Kok fa, or Chrysanthemum Indicum from Nimpu, and cultivated it at the botanical garden at Chelsea.
The Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum, a large Daisy-like flower, resembles the pictures of a full moon, and on this account has acquired the name of Moon Daisy.
In the seventeenth century a Chrysanthemum was grown in Dantsic.
The leaf and flower of the Chrysanthemum Indicum were long ago adopted as, and are still, the special emblem and blazon of Mikados of Japan.
Undoubtedly it was an unusual thing to put a man to the trouble of watering a chrysanthemum daily without giving him its history.
How Gilray came by this chrysanthemum I do not inquire; but whether, in the circumstances, he should not have made a clean breast of it to me is another matter.
This may have been weakness; all I know is that I should have saved myself much annoyance if I had risen and watered the chrysanthemum there and then.
I had my own work to look after, and really could not be tending his chrysanthemum all day.
I often remembered about the chrysanthemum while I was in the office; but even Gilray could hardly have expected me to ask leave of absence merely to run home and water his plant.
At those moments it was touch and go, whether I watered his chrysanthemum or not.
He hints that it was a present; but, as one who knows him well, I may say that he is the last person a lady would be likely to give a chrysanthemum to.
The chrysanthemum ought to be a beauty by this time;" or, "You must be quite an adept now at watering plants.
He did not say a word about the chrysanthemum for a week, and then it all came out with a rush.
The great Ox-eye Daisy, which was formerly called Chrysanthemum leucanthemum, is now placed in a new genus, and called Leucanthemum vulgare; and the Chinese Chrysanthemums have been removed to the genus Pyrethrum.
The Chrysanthemum is nearly allied to the Daisy, and its seeds also are destitute of pappus; but it is easily distinguished by its involucre, which is scaly, and by the flower forming a kind of depressed globe in the bud.
The true Chamomile (Anthemis nobilis) greatly resembles the Chrysanthemum in its flowers; but they are distinguished by having a chaffy receptacle, and the fruit having a membranous margin.
The old straw hat that shaded the fringe of white hair had been hovering within easy approaching distance of the chrysanthemum bed ever since the whistle of the train that brought Marta home had been heard from the station.
Pausing before the chrysanthemum bed, he touched his hat, and as he awaited her approach he lifted one of the largest blooms that was drooping from its weight on the slender stem.
His slim fingers slipped under the largest chrysanthemum blossom, his attitude the same as when he had held it up for Marta's inspection before they heard the roar of the Gray squadron's motors.
It was a peace-loving florist at Mallingham, the honorary secretary to the Chrysanthemum Society, who explained the system upon which his committee had agreed to make their awards, and urged its adoption by the Thurswell people.
Nevertheless more than one unscrupulous florist has palmed off great fluffy white blooms of Asters as those of Queen Chrysanthemum herself.
The Chrysanthemum is acknowledged to be the queen of autumn.
Upon the unpainted side of the satin-wood box in which it was fashioned, shone the Imperial insignia, a gold chrysanthemum with sixteen petals.
These flower spaces were now vacant but for tiny springing communities of chrysanthemum shoots, bare stems of peony with swollen red buds at the tip, and a few indispensable small pines.
If flowers have their virtues, the virtue of the Chrysanthemum is its unselfish kindliness.
Another favourite Chrysanthemum of mine is the Fleur de Marie, with its large white discs, all quilled inside and feathered round the edge.
Cowley's Sunflower is called in a foot-note Chrysanthemum Peruvianum, but is probably a form of Helianthus.
Chrysanthemum segetum, the yellow corn marigold, is indigenous to Great Britain, and is frequent in corn-fields in most parts of England.
Send your invitations on note paper with a Japanese decoration in the corner, and address each friend by some Japanese name such as Wistaria, Chrysanthemum or Cherry Blossom.
Decorate your rooms with chrysanthemums instead of artificial cherry blossoms, and be sure to wear a chrysanthemum in your hair, tucked over your ear.
The big sixteen-petaled chrysanthemum on its front is the Imperial Crest; no one else is allowed to use or carry it.
A string of carriages from the Imperial stables--each with the golden chrysanthemum on its lacquered panel--was just passing.
For example, the chrysanthemumfigures in the imperial standard, and the Kiri "Mon" adorns the harness of the emperor's horses.
The first represents the sixteen-petalled chrysanthemum, and, although the use of the chrysanthemum flower as a badge is not necessarily confined to the imperial family, they alone have the right to use the sixteen-petalled form.
It is essential that the chrysanthemumshould invariably have sixteen petals.
The imperial standard of Japan is a golden chrysanthemum on a red field.
The imperial family use two, the one Kiku no go Mon (the august chrysanthemum crest) and Kiri no go Mon (the august Kiri crest).
It is very probable that the chrysanthemum crest did not originally represent the chrysanthemum flower at all but the sun with sixteen rays, and it will be noticed that in the "sun-burst" flag the sun's rays are sixteen in number.
At his elbow was a stocky person, with a visage full of wormwood and a chrysanthemum ear.
The woman who wanted to see Paul Kelly looked at the champion gone to sulky seed, listened to the misguided conversationist with the chrysanthemum ear, and wished she hadn't come.
It seems the fall chrysanthemum party is in that garden, though never inside the inner moat where no one goes unless he has an audience.
I like the peony in brocade much better than the chrysanthemum or the smaller flowers.
If you have not already a stock on hand, I would suggest going to some florist's in the chrysanthemum season and making a list of the varieties which particularly please you.
I once obtained a batch of chrysanthemum cuttings from a brother florist who said that they were so badly wilted that they could never be rooted.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chrysanthemum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
