Looking at Wu Lan’s back as he leaves excitedly.

A smile appeared on Xu Weiguo's face, he stretched and said, "Get off work!"

Because Wu Lan was still busy with his own work, Xu Weiguo had no choice but to go back alone.

"It seems like today is Friday!"

Xu Weiguo, who originally wanted to go back to the courtyard, suddenly remembered something.

That means he is going to give gardening lessons to that uncle Zhou Renmei!

Since you have agreed, you must fulfill it and you must have some spirit of contract.

So Xu Weiguo rode his bicycle to the compound next to the market, and sure enough... Uncle Zhou was already waiting at the door.

"Master Xu, you're finally here. I thought you wouldn't even come today!" Zhou Renmei smiled broadly when she saw Xu Weiguo.

"Uncle Zhou, since I promised you, I will come naturally. You don't have to worry about this at all!" Xu Weiguo parked the car and asked: "Have you finished the book I gave you before?"
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Zhou Renmei solemnly said: "Please rest assured on this point, I will follow your instructions seriously. I have read all of that book!"

"It's not enough to just watch it, you have to remember it in your heart. If you can't remember it, it's just like you didn't watch it!" Xu Weiguo looked at Zhou Renmei, "Actually, Uncle Zhou, you are not too young at this time. You are asked to remember that.

Can you handle a lot of things?"

"If it's difficult, just say it and we can change it to something simple. You don't have to be the best at gardening, just look happy!" Xu Weiguo continued: "After all, you definitely don't know how to do gardening.

It’s a craft that makes a living, isn’t it?”

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Hearing Xu Weiguo's words, Zhou Renmei looked a little embarrassed and said unconvinced: "Master Xu, I don't like hearing what you say. I, Zhou Renmei, am a little older, but can't I learn gardening when I am older?

?Can’t you learn gardening well? I tell you...I can definitely do it!"

"I really finished reading the book you gave me, and I also remembered it all!"

"Do you really remember?" Xu Weiguo asked.

"Of course! If you don't believe it, you can ask questions. If I can't answer anything, you can do whatever you want!" Zhou Renmei said boldly.

Seeing Zhou Renmei's confident look, Xu Weiguo couldn't help but be a little surprised. It seemed like this old man really had something!

Of course, you have to verify all this yourself.

Just as the two of them walked into the yard, Xu Weiguo pointed to one of the plants and said, "What is this?"

When Zhou Renmei saw what Xu Weiguo was pointing at, she immediately laughed, "Master Xu, can you do something difficult? This is my own yard. Can I not recognize the plants in it?"

Xu Weiguo: "You answer me first!"

"Since I'm the one asking the question, you have to listen to me!"

"Okay, okay!" I didn't know what kind of medicine Xu Weiguo was selling in the gourd. Zhou Renmei nodded and answered: "This is wintersweet!"

"What else?" Xu Weiguo asked: "Tell me all the information you know about wintersweet."

After hearing this question, Zhou Renmei finally understood and immediately began to say: "Wanthe plum is a plant of the genus Limonaceae, which belongs to the family Limonaceae. It is a deciduous shrub with a height of 4 meters; the young branches are square and the old branches are nearly cylindrical; the scale buds are usually

Branches born in the second year

In the axils of the striped leaves, the bud scales are nearly round. The leaves are papery to almost leathery, oval, elliptical, broadly elliptical to ovate-elliptical, sometimes oblong-lanceolate. The flowers are born in the leaf axils of the second-year branches.

, flowers first, leaves later, fragrant, diameter 2-

4 cm; tepals round, oblong, obovate, oval or spatulate; male core 4 mm long, filaments longer or equal in length than anthers, anthers curved inward, hairless; base of carpel covered with sparse bristles

, the style is 3 times as long as the ovary. The fruit base is close to the wood.

It is qualitative, jar-shaped or obovate-elliptical, 2-5 cm long, 1-2.5 cm in diameter, with a contracted mouth and a drill-like lanceolate hairy appendage. The flowering period is from November to March of the following year.

Period April-November."

"This alone is not enough!" Xu Weiguo shook his head.

"I have something in my head!" Zhou Renmei said not to be outdone, "Wangmei likes light, tolerates drought, and avoids moisture. It likes deep and well-drained soil, and does not grow well on clay and saline-alkali soil. It has a certain cold tolerance.<

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The flowers are fragrant and beautiful, and are landscaping plants. The roots and leaves can be used medicinally to regulate qi and relieve pain, dispel cold and detoxify, treat bruises, lumbago, rheumatism, numbness, wind-cold and cold, and bleeding from knife wounds; the flowers relieve summer heat, promote fluid production, and treat upset, thirst, and gas.

swollen chest

Stuffy; flower bud oil treats burns. Flowers can extract 0.5-0.6% waxberry extract; chemical components include benzyl alcohol, benzyl acetate, linalool, acacia alcohol, terpineol, indole, etc. Seeds contain waxberry extract

Alkali."

Xu Weiguo: "I want to know the origin of the word wintersweet!"

Zhou Renmei's eyes widened: "What do you need to know to learn gardening???"

"If you don't know, you don't have to tell me. I'll just assume you didn't pass." Xu Weiguo said calmly.

"You kid... you're so cruel! But I'm not a vegetarian either." Zhou Renmei took a deep breath, "The origin of the name is that there is a word "wax" in the name of wax plum, which is the same as the word "wax" in beeswax. Beeswax is commonly known as yellow wax.

The wax plum blossoms with yellow flowers, and its original name is Huangmei. The ancient book "Book of Rites" says: "The wax is called Suo. In the twelfth month of the year, all things are gathered together and eaten." A kind of sacrifice in ancient December is called "

Wax".

Because the end of the year was the month when great sacrifices were held at that time, the twelfth month of the lunar calendar was called the wax month. The wax plum blossoms bloomed in the wax month, so it got its name. The word " wax " was used in the Zhou Dynasty, and was changed to the word " wax" in the Qin Dynasty.

Therefore, the word " wax " in wax moon and winter plum can be used interchangeably with the word " wax ". Therefore, wax plum and winter plum can be used interchangeably.

According to Wang Shimao's "Xue Pu Yu Shu", during the Xining reign of Song Shenzong, Wang Anshi once wrote a poem praising yellow plum blossoms. Later, during the Yuanhu reign of Emperor Zhezong of the Song Dynasty, a generation of literary giants Su Dongpo and Huang Shangu saw that yellow plum blossoms were like beeswax, so they

Name it "Wangmei" and say it

"The fragrance is like plum blossoms, made by twisting wax by female workers, so it is called wax plum." From this, wax plum became famous for a while and flourished in the capital. Later, poets often focused on the word "wax" in their poems about wax plum.

, such as "Butterfly picks flowers and turns them into wax, and also batiks five golden flowers in Chapter 8

——Flowers blooming all year round, singing flowers all year round" and so on. According to the ancient book "Book of Rites": "The wax is called Suo. In the twelfth month of the year, all things are gathered together and eaten." A kind of ancient December

The sacrifice was called "wax". Because the end of the year was the month when large sacrifices were held, farmers

The twelfth month of the calendar year is called the twelfth lunar month. The wax plum blossoms bloom in the twelfth lunar month, hence the name. The word " wax " was used in the Zhou Dynasty, and the word " wax " was used in the Qin Dynasty, so the " wax " and " wax " of the wax plum blossom and the wax plum blossom

The word is universal. Therefore, wintersweet is now generally written as wintersweet."

"This is the origin of the word wintersweet!"

"In addition, I also want to tell you that Huang Tingjian of the Northern Song Dynasty believed that the flowers of wintersweet are five-flowered, but not crystal clear. They are made by twisting wax like a female skill. People in Jingluo called it wintersweet because of this." He pointed out that the waxy properties of wintersweet petals are not

The name of wax plum is given. In "Plum Blossom Book", it is also believed that the color of wax plum resembles the brewing beehive built by bees, hence the name winter plum. Historically, both wax plum and winter plum have names, "winter plum"

"It mainly highlights the characteristic that the flowers resemble plum blossoms and bloom in the twelfth lunar month in the cold winter. Since wintersweet and plum blossoms have been confused as one category in history, the so-called "winter plum" may also refer to the plum blossoms in the twelfth lunar month. "Wanthemum" highlights its characteristics.

The petals are waxy and the flower color is yellow like a honeycomb. It is also the earliest name given to this species. It can accurately refer to the species of Wintersweet and should be corrected."

"Haha, I'm awesome! It's not easy to stump me. After all, I've lived for so many years, so I can't live in vain!"

"If you have any questions, just ask!"

Zhou Renmei looks particularly confident.

Xu Weiguo nodded, "Yes, yes, there is something. Since we are gardeners, let's talk about the difference between wintersweet and plum blossoms!"

"It's easy!" Zhou Renmei said with a smile: "Plum blossoms and wintersweet have something in common. They are both traditional Chinese flowers. They are native to China and have a long history of cultivation. They also manage scientific research work. For example, plum blossoms and wintersweets of the Chinese Flower Association

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With rich and colorful historical and cultural connotations, "Er Plum Blossoms" has become a household name in China, and has a deep relationship with literature, art and people's lives, such as stories, legends, myths, poems, etc. about plum blossoms and wax plums; <

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The flowering season is in the cold winter and early spring. It has the characteristics of buds blooming in the ice and blooming in the snow. It is a spiritual symbol of the Chinese nation;

They are all colored and fragrant, all are small flowers, and the flowers are similar in shape and size. The flower fragrance is special, refreshing and intoxicating.

The difference between plum blossoms and wintersweet

Genetic relationship: Plum blossoms belong to the Prunus genus of the Rosaceae family, and wax plums belong to the genus Limonaceae of the Limonaceae family;

Tree type: Plum blossoms are trees with main stems of 4-10 meters. Wintersweets are mostly shrubs with clustered branches, and the height of the trees can only reach about 2-4 meters;

Flowering period: Plum blossoms bloom in late winter and early spring, while wintersweet blooms in early or mid-winter. The blooming period of wintersweet is about 2 months earlier than that of plum blossoms. Wintersweet blooms in the cold winter months in various places in the south of the Yangtze River, also known as wintersweet;

Flower color: Plum blossoms come in pink, red, white and other colors, and there are also green plum blossoms with green calyxes, while wintersweet flowers are single in color, mostly yellow;

Floral fragrance: The fragrance of plum blossoms is sweet, while the fragrance of winter plums is strong; Flower quality: The "paper" texture of plum blossoms is very strong, while the "wax" texture of winter plums is very strong. Simply put, the petals of winter plums are relatively hard, and the petals of plum blossoms are relatively soft.

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Branch and leaf shape: Wintersweet has straight branches, while plum blossoms, in addition to straight branches, also have weeping branches and dragon-shaped branches; wintersweet leaves are opposite, and plum blossoms have alternate leaves;

Fruit shape: The fruits of plum blossoms are nearly spherical, with one fruit of one kind, while the fruits of wax plum are thin and spindle-shaped, with multiple fruits in one fruit."

Xu Weiguo asked again: "Then do you know how to breed it?"

"I know a thing or two!" Zhou Renmei became more and more confident the more she said, "Propagation by division: Carry out when the leaf buds have just sprouted. At the end of the previous year, cut off all the wintersweet branches to be divided at a distance of 20-30 cm from the ground.

.When dividing the plants, take out the soil around the mother plant and use a knife to
To be continued...