Crossword ...just for fun!

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The subjects of this 1 week’s Miscellany! (10) Common name for the 7 syringa tree (5)

Fibre obtained from tropical 8 12 down (and yucca) that is used for making carpets (5) Common name for several 9 – or

Euonymus europaeus slender rounded rods with tapered ends! (8) Illumination from our 11 nearest star, as in the miniature rose cultivar ‘Port ________’! (8) Musical instrument of 14 the pansy genus! (5)

The mallow genus (5)

15 The sycamore (Acer

16 pseudoplatanus) is also known as this (5,5)

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Flower plant genus, of 1 which _____ drummondii is an annual and _____ is a perennial (5) paniculata The Egyptian paper reed 2

(Cyperus papyrus) is also known as the ____ grass (4) The Chilean blue crocus (11)

3 Genus of rhizomatous

4 woodland perennials, including the American spikenard (11)

Lamium is the dead______, 5 while urticas are the ’urting ones! (6)

These help you to ‘fish6 out’ dead leaves (and fish!) from your pond! (4)

The bromeliad 10 ‘friendship plant’ (Billbergia

nutans) is also known as ______ oats (6)

If you want to sow seed 11 from plants already growing in your garden, first you have to ____ it (4)

Genus of the tequilaproducing 12 century plant (5)

Plant part (sometimes a 13 root, or leaf or bud) removed in order to propagate a new plant from it, through rooting or grafting (4)