pyrethrums

• Spray the entire yard including shrubbery at least once per month with a mixture of natural pyrethrums, bacillus thuringiensis and neem oil.

Sloan Barnett: Living Green: Focus on Fido Sloan Barnett 2011

• Spray the entire yard including shrubbery at least once per month with a mixture of natural pyrethrums, bacillus thuringiensis and neem oil.

Sloan Barnett: Living Green: Focus on Fido Sloan Barnett 2011

There was no one in the eating-room, which had a separate entrance, and they sat down at a small table with a cruet-stand, a handbell, a bottle of Worcester sauce, and in a vase some failing pyrethrums which had never been fresh.

Flowering Wilderness 2004

Numerous flowers are called Bachelor's Buttons, including daisies, globe flowers, pyrethrums, and different kinds of ranunculi, but here we have the "original and true;" probably it originated in some ancient English garden, as Gerarde says, "It groweth in the gardens of herbarists & louers of strange plants, whereof we have good plentie, but it groweth not wild anywhere."

Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. John Wood

So distinct are its large flesh-coloured flowers that they are often taken at the first glance, when cut, for double pyrethrums or chrysanthemums, but, seen in connection with the plant, the form of foliage and climbing or twining habit of the bindweed soon enable the most casual observer of flowers to recognise its genus.

Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. John Wood

On the east and south of this most exquisite picture are Iceland poppies, red pyrethrums, and here and there are clumps of dark red sweet william.

Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 Various

In chrysanthemums are now included the pyrethrums.

Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906

The new pyrethrums that I raised last year from seed have been in bloom for weeks, in many tints, – not double, but very showy.

Gardening by Myself 1872