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Ornamental Gardens, the Glossary

The Ornamental Gardens are an agricultural facility that emphasizes research, education, and beauty as part of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's Central Experimental Farm.^[1]

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Adenosine triphosphate

Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is a nucleotide that provides energy to drive and support many processes in living cells, such as muscle contraction, nerve impulse propagation, and chemical synthesis.

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Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC; sometimes Ag-Canada; Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada)Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada is the applied title under the Federal Identity Program; the legal title is Department of Agriculture and Agri-Food.

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Agrominerals

Agrominerals (also known as stone bread or petrol fertilizer) are minerals of importance to agriculture and horticulture industries for they can provide essential plant nutrients.

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All-America Selections

All-America Selections (AAS) is an American organization which tests new varieties of seed for use in gardening, and promotes those judged to perform best through an awards scheme ("AAS Winners").

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Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

The Canada Agriculture and Food Museum (Musée de l'agriculture et de l'alimentation du Canada) is a national agricultural museum in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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Carnallite

Carnallite (also carnalite) is an evaporite mineral, a hydrated potassium magnesium chloride with formula KCl.MgCl2·6(H2O).

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Central Experimental Farm

The Central Experimental Farm (CEF), commonly known as the Experimental Farm, is an agricultural facility, working farm, and research centre of the Science and Technology Branch, formerly the Research Branch, of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Ornamental Gardens and Central Experimental Farm are agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.

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Daylily

A daylily, day lily or ditch-lily is a flowering plant in the genus Hemerocallis, a member of the family Asphodelaceae, subfamily Hemerocallidoideae, native to Asia.

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Dominion Arboretum

The Dominion Arboretum (Arboretum du Dominion) is an arboretum part of the Central Experimental Farm of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Ornamental Gardens and Dominion Arboretum are Parks in Ottawa.

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Drought tolerance

In botany, drought tolerance is the ability by which a plant maintains its biomass production during arid or drought conditions.

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Felicitas Svejda

Felicitas Svejda (November 8, 1920 – January 19, 2016) was a federal scientist in Canada who developed roses that could survive Canada's short growing season and bitter winter conditions. Ornamental Gardens and Felicitas Svejda are agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.

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Hans Theodor Güssow

Hans Theodor Güssow (1879–1961) was a Canadian plant pathologist.

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Herbaceous plant

Herbaceous plants are vascular plants that have no persistent woody stems above ground.

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Horticulture

Horticulture is the art and science of growing plants.

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Iris (plant)

Iris is a flowering plant genus of 310 accepted species with showy flowers.

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Isabella Preston

Isabella Preston (September 4, 1881 - January 31, 1965) was a horticulturist and public servant widely recognized for her achievements in plant hybridization and extensive work in ornamental plant breeding.

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Langbeinite

Langbeinite is a potassium magnesium sulfate mineral with the chemical formula K2Mg2(SO4)3.

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National Historic Sites of Canada

National Historic Sites of Canada (Lieux historiques nationaux du Canada) are places that have been designated by the federal Minister of the Environment on the advice of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada (HSMBC), as being of national historic significance.

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Nitrogen

Nitrogen is a chemical element; it has symbol N and atomic number 7.

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Nucleic acid

Nucleic acids are large biomolecules that are crucial in all cells and viruses.

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Ontario

Ontario is the southernmost province of Canada.

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Ottawa

Ottawa (Canadian French) is the capital city of Canada.

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Peony

The peony or paeony is any flowering plant in the genus Paeonia, the only genus in the family Paeoniaceae.

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Perennial

In botany, a perennial plant or simply perennial is a plant that lives more than two years.

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Phospholipid

Phospholipids are a class of lipids whose molecule has a hydrophilic "head" containing a phosphate group and two hydrophobic "tails" derived from fatty acids, joined by an alcohol residue (usually a glycerol molecule).

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Phosphorus

Phosphorus is a chemical element; it has symbol P and atomic number 15.

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Potash

Potash includes various mined and manufactured salts that contain potassium in water-soluble form.

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Potassium

Potassium is a chemical element; it has symbol K (from Neo-Latin kalium) and atomic number19.

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Potting soil

Potting soil or growing media, also known as potting mix or potting compost (UK), is a substrate used to grow plants in containers.

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Rose

A rose is either a woody perennial flowering plant of the genus Rosa, in the family Rosaceae, or the flower it bears.

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Sustainable agriculture

Sustainable agriculture is farming in sustainable ways meeting society's present food and textile needs, without compromising the ability for current or future generations to meet their needs.

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Sylvite

Sylvite, or sylvine, is potassium chloride (KCl) in natural mineral form.

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Syringa

Syringa is a genus of 12 currently recognized species of flowering woody plants in the olive family or Oleaceae called lilacs.

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Water balance

The law of water balance states that the inflows to any water system or area is equal to its outflows plus change in storage during a time interval.

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Weigela

Weigela is a genus of between six and 38 speciesAll of the species listed in the 'Selected species' section are accepted by The Plant List, but most are still under review, and therefore subject to changes in status.

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William Saunders (botanist)

William Saunders (December 7, 1822 – September 11, 1900) was a horticulturist, landscape designer and nurseryman.

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William Saunders (scientist)

William Saunders, CMG (June 16, 1836 – September 13, 1914) was a Canadian agriculturalist, entomologist and pharmacist.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornamental_Gardens

Also known as Ornamental Gardens, Ottawa.

Ornamental Gardens, the Glossary

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Gardens in Canada

Parks in Ottawa

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