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/gˈɑrdən plænt/ Listen

Garden plant

noun

Any of a variety of plants usually grown especially in a flower or herb garden.

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"Garden plant" Quotes from Famous Books

... demonstration of his first law—the law of segregation. The first case I choose is not the one given by Mendel but one worked out later by Correns. If the common garden plant called four o'clock (Mirabilis jalapa) with red flowers is crossed to one having white flowers, the offspring are pink (fig. 13). The hybrid, then, is intermediate in the color of its flowers between the two parents. If these hybrids are inbred the offspring are white, ...

— A Critique of the Theory of Evolution • Thomas Hunt Morgan

... small quantities, and it has even become an article of commerce, several nurserymen here, as well as in Europe, advertising it in their catalogues. The species has been successfully grown as a garden plant for its pale rose or bright pink flower-rays. Mr. Thomas Meehan, of Germantown, Pa., writes us: "I have had a plant of Pyrethrum roseum in my herbaceous garden for many years past, and it holds its own without any care much better ...

— Scientific American Suppl. No. 299 • Various

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