Katherine Mansfield's "Bliss" Katherine Mansfield¡¦s short story Bliss is filled with a lot of underlying mean-ings and themes. There are as well many symbols that Mansfield uses and among those the pear tree is an important one. In this essay I will prove that the pear tree is both a symbol for for Bertha and her life and the awakening of her sexuality. First I will sketch on the symbolic meanings of a pear and a tree as they are described in symbolic books and I will then focus on the pear
Plant collection report Family: 1. Asteraceae The common species include daisy and sunflowers for ornamental; lettuce for crop; ragweed and thistles for weeds. Most plants of Asteraceae are herbaceous plants, but climbers, trees and shrubs do exits. most of the Asteraceae members produce taproots, but some of them also have fibrous root systems. The leaves can be alternated, opposite or whorled. The common plant characteristics of Asteraceae include having “composite” flower heads composed of many
interesting was the woodland path. An interesting fact about these plants were either there names or the way they looked. One of my favorite plants out of the bunch was goatsbeard (Aruncus dioicus) which is a herbaceous perennial and belongs to the Rosaceae family. This plant was snow white and had a fuzzy texture to it. The way it grows does resemble an actual goat’s
The Saskatoon berry (Amelanchier alnifolia Nutt, Rosaceae, Alder-Leaf Shadbush). Saskatoon berries seemed to have got the name from a shortened version of the Blackfoot name for the berry: mis-ask-a-tomina or the Cree name: mis-ask-quah-toomina. The origin of Amelachier is uncertain but it is what the French call the plant, which means Alder-leafed (St.-Pierre, 1991). Description: A hardy medium to tall shrub bush part of the rose family. The Rosaceae is a very large plant family that includes the
persica (L.) Batsch, var. nectarina] belong to the Rosaceae family and are thought to have originated in China (Salunkhe and Desai, 1984). A peach fruit is approximately 87% water with 180 kJ (43 kcal) and contains carbohydrates, organic acids, pigments, phenolics,vitamins, volatiles, antioxidants and trace
PLUM Plum is a fruit that has a sweet and very juicy pulp. They belong to a wonderful family of Rosaceae and are cultivated in the months of May through October. The plants on which plums grow are a small shrub and are widely grown all across the world. Plums are native to China and are believed to have been originated in Greece. China, United States, Japan and Europe are its main producers and there are more than 200 varieties of plum known to us. The pulp is juicy and varies depending upon the
Introduction Peach is a decideous tree,native to North-West China. The peach has a botanical name of Prunus persica, it belongs to the family Rosaceae(Bassi and Monet 2008:5). Peach has straight and smooth trunk with somewhat reddish to greenish bark in its first year of growth with later becoming dark grey silver (Bassi and Monet 2008:5).This would be a small tree but can reach 8m if not pruned ,the leaves are lanceolate but the size will depend on tree vigor (Danick and Paull ,2008:719) .It explained
almost any region, from California to Japan, that have developed unique and prized characteristics (Encyclopedia Britannica, 1999). Cherry trees, like many fruit bearing trees, are members of the rose family. The scientific name for the family is Rosaceae. Cherries are in the genus Prunus along with apricots, peaches, and plums (The Columbia Encyclopedia Online, 2000). Cherry trees come in hundreds of varieties, but are derived from only a few species. There are two main species valued for their fruit
Introduction Amelanchier Medic., commonly known as serviceberry or shadbush, is a genus of shrubs to trees in the Rosaceae family containing approximately twenty species. Amelanchier is native to North America, and select species are invasive in Europe (Kabuce and Priede, 2010). Habitats include roadsides, riversides, forest and meadow edges, open fields, shallow rocky substrates, acidic soils, and mountainous terrain (Mackie et al., 2001; Underwood, 2012). Species identification of Amelanchier
The Strawberry The strawberry, a fruit of the genus Fragaria, has been around for many centuries. Throughout the centuries the strawberry has been studied, cultivated, reported upon, and simply enjoyed by millions. This very abundant fruit has had a variety of uses: It has been used for medicinal purposes; for decorations throughout a person's home; and, for the pleasure of eating. The history of the strawberry goes back as far the Romans or maybe as far as the Greeks. In the thirteenth century
peach which indicated peach is from China . In the middle ages it imagined that France was the second major place of origin (Bassi and Monet, 2008:2). 1.1.3 Botanical aspect The scientific name of peach is Prunus persica, it belongs to the family Rosaceae(Bassi and Monet 2008:5). Peach has straight and smooth trunk with somewhat reddish to greenish bark in its first year of growth with later becoming dark grey silver (Bassi and Monet 2008:5).This would be a small tree but can reach 8m if not pruned