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Help, please!

Posted by R. Berg on September 09, 2004

In Reply to: Help, please! posted by Bruce Kahl on September 08, 2004

: : The gardener had been up since dawn, mowing the lawns and sweeping them, until the grass and **the dark flat rosettes** where the daisy plants had been seemed to shine.

: : What are *rosettes* in this sentence? Why they are in the lawns? And how they concern with the daisy plants?
: : Can anybody make the sentence esier? Thank you very much.

: Rosettes can be just leaves.

: The gardener had been up since dawn, mowing the lawns and sweeping them, until the grass and the dark flat leaves where the daisy plants had been, seemed to shine.

Mowing would remove the flower stalks from daisy plants. A circle of leaves pointing outward, close to the ground, would remain. This circle is what the writer is calling a rosette. "Rosette" refers to its shape.

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