Summer Flower: Mothers Day Flowers

Thursday, 14 February 2013

Mothers Day Flowers

Mothers Day Flowers Biography
The botanical term "Angiosperm", from the Ancient Greek αγγείον, angeíon (bottle, vessel) and σπέρμα, (seed), was coined in the form Angiospermae by Paul Hermann in 1690, as the name of that one of his primary divisions of the plant kingdom. This included flowering plants possessing seeds enclosed in capsules, distinguished from his Gymnospermae, or flowering plants with achenial or schizo-carpic fruits, the whole fruit or each of its pieces being here regarded as a seed and naked. The term and its antonym were maintained by Carolus Linnaeus with the same sense, but with restricted application, in the names of the orders of his class Didynamia. Its use with any approach to its modern scope became possible only after 1827, when Robert Brown established the existence of truly naked ovules in the Cycadeae and Coniferae, and applied to them the name Gymnosperms. From that time onward, as long as these Gymnosperms were, as was usual, reckoned as dicotyledonous flowering plants, the term Angiosperm was used antithetically by botanical writers, with varying scope, as a group-name for other dicotyledonous plants.Auxanometer: Device for measuring increase or rate of growth in plantsIn 1851, Hofmeister discovered the changes occurring in the embryo-sac of flowering plants, and determined the correct relationships of these to the Cryptogamia. This fixed the position of Gymnosperms as a class distinct from Dicotyledons, and the term Angiosperm then gradually came to be accepted as the suitable designation for the whole of the flowering plants other than Gymnosperms, including the classes of Dicotyledons and Monocotyledons. This is the sense in which the term is used today.In most taxonomies, the flowering plants are treated as a coherent group. The most popular descriptive name has been Angiospermae (Angiosperms), with Anthophyta ("flowering plants") a second choice. These names are not linked to any rank. The Wettstein system and the Engler system use the name Angiospermae, at the assigned rank of subdivision. The Reveal system treated flowering plants as subdivision Magnoliophytina (Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70 1996), but later split it to Magnoliopsida, Liliopsida, and Rosopsida. The Takhtajan system and Cronquist system treat this group at the rank of division, leading to the name Magnoliophyta (from the family name Magnoliaceae). The Dahlgren system and Thorne system (1992) treat this group at the rank of class, leading to the name Magnoliopsida. The APG system of 1998, and the later 2003[23] and 2009[19] revisions, treat the flowering plants as a clade called angiosperms without a formal botanical name. However, a formal classification was published alongside the 2009 revision in which the flowering plants form the Subclass Magnoliidae.[24]The internal classification of this group has undergone considerable revision. The Cronquist system, proposed by Arthur Cronquist in 1968 and published in its full form in 1981, is still widely used but is no longer believed to accurately reflect phylogeny. A consensus about how the flowering plants should be arranged has recently begun to emerge through the work of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG), which published an influential reclassification of the angiosperms in 1998. Updates incorporating more recent research were published as APG II in 2003[23] and as APG III in 2009.[19][25]Monocot (left) and dicot seedlingsTraditionally, the flowering plants are divided into two groups, which in the Cronquist system are called Magnoliopsida (at the rank of class, formed from the family name Magnoliacae) and Liliopsida (at the rank of class, formed from the family name Liliaceae). Other descriptive names allowed by Article 16 of the ICBN include Dicotyledones or Dicotyledoneae, and Monocotyledones or Monocotyledoneae, which have a long history of use. In English a member of either group may be called a dicotyledon (plural dicotyledons) and monocotyledon (plural monocotyledons), or abbreviated, as dicot (plural dicots) and monocot (plural monocots). These names derive from the observation that the dicots most often have two cotyledons, or embryonic leaves, within each seed. The monocots usually have only one, but the rule is not absolute either way. From a diagnostic point of view, the number of cotyledons is neither a particularly handy nor a reliable character.Recent studies, as by the APG, show that the monocots form a monophyletic group (clade) but that the dicots do not (they are paraphyletic). Nevertheless, the majority of dicot species do form a monophyletic group, called the eudicots or tricolpates. Of the remaining dicot species, most belong to a third major clade known as the Magnoliidae, containing about 9,000 species. The rest include a paraphyletic grouping of primitive species known collectively as the basal angiosperms, plus the families Ceratophyllaceae and Chloranthaceae.

Mothers Day Flowers

Tuesday, 12 February 2013

Mothers Day Flowers

Mothers Day Flowers Biography

Mother’s Day. Is there a more appropriate day to send flowers to the one you love? Mother’s Day, or originally known as Mothering Day, emerged from the custom worship of mothers in ancient Greece and through Europe. The most common gift in this time was a bouquet of wild flowers picked by those who could not afford special gifts for their mothers. This tradition of giving flowers to their mothers was not just something that was seen as the easiest gift to give, but over the years became the essence of gift giving, because it wasn’t the material value of the gift, but the love and meaning behind it that really makes flowers a special gift.

Florist Works Australia makes this great gift of sending flowers available with only a few short clicks online. Flowers can be delivered on the same day that the order is put in, but, on mother’s day, in order to ensure that delivery of your selected flowers is received on this day you must get your order in early. Flowers are a great gift to those who have it all. A mother generally feels like she’s got it all when she has kids, a home and a settled family, so what better way to show your love and appreciation of your mother, or your wife, by giving them a beautiful bouquet of their favourite, freshly selected flowers, that Florist Works delivers right to their doorstep.

Florist works is not a one trick pony; they deliver flowers, gift baskets and gift hampers on mother’s day to not only Australia and its capital cities: Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Adelaide, Hobart, Darwin, and Brisbane, but to counties all over the UK, states all over the USA and states all over New Zealand. Exhibit A indicating Florist Works flexibility: You were born in America, and came over to, let’s say Australia to study. You think you want to send your mum something for mother’s day, but can’t see how. You hear about Florist Works and about how they are stationed in many countries, and get excited at the prospect of being able to have a gift delivered to your mother for Mother’s Day. Then you realise your mum doesn’t really like flowers and find yourself in a sticky situation. You then browse Florist Works’ website and discover the wide variety of gift baskets and gift hampers that are at your disposal. Looking at this wide selection of gift baskets and hampers, you suddenly remember that your mum appreciates a great bit of chocolate. You spot the hamper containing a large variety of top quality chocolate, buy it and have it delivered to your mum in America on the second Sunday of May, mother’s day. You surprise mum with a well thought out gift and receive many praises and thank yous, all from just clicking a few things online, seems too easy doesn’t it? That’s because it is.

Mothers Day Flowers