Face and ornamental brickwork : prepared especially for home study /

"1832, edition 1."

Ornamental metal work : prepared especially for home study /

"2571, edition 1."

Knots, splices and rope work : a practical treatise giving complete and simple directions for making all the most useful and ornamental knots in common use /

Includes index.

The complete confectioner, pastry-cook, and baker : plain and practical directions for making confectionary and pastry, and for baking : with upwards of five hundred receipts consisting of directions for making all sorts of preserves, sugar-boiling, comfits, lozenges, ornamental cakes, ices, liqueurs, waters, gum-paste ornaments, syrups, jellies, marmalades, compotes : bread-baking, artificial yeasts, fancy biscuits, cakes, rolls, muffins, tarts, pies, &c. &c. /

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The Columbian orator : containing a variety of original and selected pieces : together with rules : calculated to improve youth and others in the ornamental and useful art of eloquence /

"Designed for a second part to the American preceptor."-Pref.

The ladies' flower-garden of ornamental annuals /

Spine title: Loudon, Ornamental Annuals.

Study of ornamental plants : suggestions for teachers and pupils in form and word /

In portfolio.

Impression of the global climate change on the ornamental plant usage in Hungary

The climate modeling, which has adequate spatial and temporal resolution, shows that the future climate of the Carpathian Basin will be much more arid and hot than nowadays. The currently used and taught assortment of the ligneous ornamental plants should be urgently revised. It is aimed in my research to collect the species which will probably be introduced in the future. They can be gathered from the Hungarian botanical gardens and research centers and from the spatially analogous territories. The collected taxa should be examined with GIS software if they will really suffer our future climate.

Ornamental plants as climatic indicators of arthropod vectors

The importance and risk of vector-borne diseases (eg. leishmaniasis, West Nile Virus, Lyme borreliosis) is going to increase in the European temperate areas due to climate change. Our previous studies have shown that the potential distribution of Leishmania infantum and some Phlebotomus (sand fly) species – a parasite of leishmaniasis, and its vectors – may be expanded even to the southern coastline of the Baltic Sea by the end of the 21st century. The lowland areas of the Carpathian Basin and the main part of Hungary are projected to be suitable for the studied sand fly vectors in the near future. It is important to find some indicator plants to examine whether the sand flies are able to live in a certain climate at a certain time. We studied several Mediterranean and Sub-Mediterranean plant species, and we found that the aggregated distribution of three ligneous species (Juniperus oxycedrus L., Quercus ilex L. and Pinus brutia Ten.) shows high correlation with the union distribution of five sand flies (Phlebotomus ariasi Tonn., Ph. neglectus Tonn., Ph. perfiliewi Parrot, Ph. perniciosus Newst. and Ph. tobbi Adler, Theodor et Lourie). Since these Mediterranean species are highly tolerant of the edaphic characteristics of the planting site, they may prove to be good indicators. The present and upcoming climate of Hungary is seen to be suitable for the selected indicator plant species, and it draws attention to and verifies the potential of the expansion of sand flies, which has been proved by some recent observations of the vectors in Southern Hungary.

Ornamental plants as climatic indicators of arthropod vectors

The importance and risk of vector-borne diseases (e.g., leishmaniasis, West Nile Virus, Lyme borreliosis) is going to increase in the European temperate areas due to climate change. Our previous studies have shown that the potential distribution of Leishmania infantum and some Phlebotomus (sand fly) species – a parasite of leishmaniasis, and its vectors – may be expanded even to the southern coastline of the Baltic Sea by the end of the 21st century. The lowland areas of the Carpathian Basin and the main part of Hungary are projected to be suitable for the studied sand fly vectors in the near future. It is important to find some indicator plants to examine whether the sand flies are able to live in a certain climate at a certain time. We studied several Mediterranean and Sub-Mediterranean plant species, and we found that the aggregated distribution of three ligneous species (Juniperus oxycedrus L., Quercus ilex L. and Pinus brutia Ten.) shows high correlation with the union distribution of five sand flies (Phlebotomus ariasi Tonn., Ph. neglectus Tonn., Ph. perfiliewi Parrot, Ph. perniciosus Newst. and Ph. tobbi Adler, Theodor et Lourie). Since these Mediterranean species are highly tolerant of the edaphic characteristics of the planting site, they may prove to be good indicators. The present and upcoming climate of Hungary is seen to be suitable for the selected indicator plant species, and it draws attention to and verifies the potential of the expansion of sand flies, which has been proved by some recent observations of the vectors in Southern Hungary.

A new species of gall midge (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) feeding on ornamental Cordyline fruticosa(Asparagaceae) in Australia

Larvae of an undescribed gall midge were found feeding on leaves and stems within leaf sheaths and between leaf blades of potted plants of Cordyline fruticosa (Asparagaceae) in a production nursery in Queensland. The following varieties of the host plant were infested: Apple Blossom', Glauca', Kilauea', Negra', Pink Diamond, 'Purple Prince' and Willy's Gold'. The new species, Dasineura cordylineaeKolesik sp. nov., is described and its cytochrome oxidase unit I mitochondrial gene segment is sequenced. The new species is the first known gall midge feeding on a plant species of the genus Cordyline. Orange larvae induce oval shallow swellings on the leaf and stem tissue, which becomes necrotised during the later stage of larval feeding. Necrotic areas remain visible to the end of leaves' lives and decrease the market value of the plants. In the production nursery investigated, the lesions caused by the gall midge provided an entry for a fungal infection by Fusarium sp. inflicting further injury to plants. Larvae of the new species were preyed on by larvae of Gaurax sp. (Diptera: Chloropidae). This is the first worldwide record of Chloropidae preying on Cecidomyiidae.

Avaliação da exposição crónica ao mancozebe pelo consumo de pera rocha

A agricultura é um dos setores que garante a sustentabilidade das economias mundiais e permite combater a pobreza, contudo, para tal, tem que recorrer aos pesticidas, que visam garantir um maior rendimento da produção, protegendo as culturas dos organismos nocivos. A utilização de pesticidas não apresenta só vantagens, sendo a principal desvantagem a presença de resíduos de pesticidas nos alimentos que consumimos, dos quais fazem parte as frutas. Neste contexto, o presente estudo, teve por objetivo contribuir para a realização de uma avaliação qualitativa do risco da exposição ao mancozebe por ingestão de peras, produzidas na região Oeste de Portugal (pera rocha), pela população residente nessa mesma região. O mancozebe é um fungicida que pertence ao grupo dos etilenobisditiocarbomatos (EBD’s) e é um dos pesticidas mais utilizados pelos agricultores, devido a sua baixa toxicidade aguda. No presente estudo foi calculada a Ingestão Diária Máxima Teórica (IDMT) para o mancozebe, os valores da concentração do pesticida na fruta e os dados de consumo alimentar. A caracterização do risco foi feita comparando-se a IDMT com as doses diária aceitáveis (IDA) obtidas para cada categoria de população estudada (crianças em idade pré-escolar, crianças, jovens, adolescentes, adultos e seniores). Para tal, foram analisadas peras provenientes de cinco agricultores que entregam a sua fruta na central frutícola (Ecofrutas, Lda). As análises ao mancozebe foram efetuadas por um laboratório externo (Kudam, Lda.), mensalmente (de Setembro a Fevereiro e em Junho de 2013) nas peras não lavadas e, em Junho, nas peras lavadas. Com o objetivo de caracterizar o perfil sociodemográfico, o padrão de consumo e o comportamento do consumidor de pera rocha, realizou-se um questionário, em nove concelhos da região Oeste de Portugal (Bombarral, Cadaval, Alcobaça, Torres Vedras, Nazaré, Caldas da Rainha, Óbidos, Peniche e Lourinhã) tendo sido a amostra de 400. Sobre o perfil sociodemográfico do consumidor habitual de pera rocha verificou-se que são adultos (18,8%), com idades compreendidas entre os 26-54 anos, tem por habilitações literárias o ensino básico (59,2%) encontram-se empregados (60,8%) e o seu agregado familiar é composto por adultos (61,5%). O padrão de consumo é o seguinte: os consumidores habituais do fruto consomem uma pera/dia (66,9%), ao almoço (24,1%) e 64,3% mencionou não possuir nenhum membro do seu agregado familiar que seja consumidor habitual de pera rocha. O estudo do comportamento do consumidor, antes do consumo da pera rocha, evidenciou que os inquiridos conservam as peras na fruteira (61,2%), têm por hábito lavar o fruto antes do consumir (88,8%) com casca (38,8%) e que a maior parte da amostra compra a sua fruta no supermercado (49,1%). No que diz respeito à altura em que a pera rocha é consumida, em maior quantidade, observou-se que é no verão (37,9%), uma vez que é a época da colheita do fruto. Quanto à caracterização do risco efetuada, verificou-se que não existe risco associado ao consumo diário de uma, duas ou três peras, uma vez que a IDMT não ultrapassou a IDA (%IDA> 100) nas categorias de população estudadas (crianças em idade pré-escolar, crianças, jovens, adolescentes, adultos e seniores). No presente estudo, as categorias de população que apresentaram uma maior % IDA, pelo consumo diário de uma ou duas peras foram as crianças em idade pré-escolar e a categoria das crianças, quando estas consomem três peras/dia.

Summary study of gill ectoparasite infections and their histopathologic effects in four species of freshwater ornamental fishes

Ornamental fish are more expensive in comparison with the other fish. It especially highlights in non-breeding fish (in imported one for importation costs). But of course, with entering the new and unhealthy fishes to aquarium or ponds, they may transmit a pathogen to others (interfere with Iran ornamental fish parasitic fauna). In this study (Dec. 2008- Sep. 2009), 400 fish gill arch from 4 species of ornamental fish (within focus on imported fish); namely, i.e. Goldfish (Carassius auratus), platyfish (Xiphophorus maculatus), Dwarf gourami (Colisa lalia) and Catfish (Hypostomus plecostomus) were inspected for gill ectoparasites and then pathologic effects (but in high- affected gill). In this study, seven protozoan and ten metazoan species, indeed seventeen parasite species were identified. Protozan parasites consist of: Trichodina spp. and Ichthyophthirius multifiliis were found in four fish species; Ichthyobodo necatrix (Costia necator/C. necatrix) and Cryptobia branchialis, were respectively found in Dwarf gourami and goldfish. The highest prevalence belongs to Ichthyophthirius (47%) in platyfish. Metazoan parasites consist of: Ancyrocephalus sp. (Dwarf gourami), Ancylodiscoides spp. (catfish and platyfish), Dactylogyrus vastator, D. baueri, D. formosus (only in goldfish) and Gyrodactylus spp. (in four fish species). The highest prevalence was related to Dactylogyrus vastator(82%) in goldfish. Histological effects in case with high prevalence of parasite were also observed, e.g., hypertrophy, Lamellar hyperplasia and fusion. In high-parasitized gill, there is dysfunction of gill.