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		<title>Backlink Battleplan</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The best kind of traffic is free traffic, I think we can all agree on that.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s just this one little problem: Free traffic isn&#8217;t free.</p>
<p>At least, in most cases it isn&#8217;t.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;ve ever tried to rank for anything but the crummiest of low-traffic keywords in Google, you might have had a frustrating experience. Just optimizing your website certainly won&#8217;t get you there (and unless you&#8217;re in the top spots, you won&#8217;t see hardly any traffic).</p>
<p>So, you need to build backlinks, right? That&#8217;s what gets sites ranked in the big G. But if you go and submit a few articles, maybe do some social bookmarking and put your signature in a forum or two, that still doesn&#8217;t get your site anywhere near the top&#8230;</p>
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<p>And that&#8217;s why free traffic isn&#8217;t free.</p>
<p>Good link-building automation tools cost a fortune, often in the form of monthly subscription fees.</p>
<p>And so, to get a good amount of &#8220;free&#8221; traffic, you need to invest quite a lot of money.</p>
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		<title>PURPLE or WATER AVENS (Geum rivale)  Rose family</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 15:59:30 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>: Purple, with some orange chrome, 1 in. broad or less, terminal, solitary, nodding; calyx 5-obed, purplish, spreading; 5 petals, abruptly narrowed into claws,  forming a cup-shaped corolla; stamens and pistils of indefinite number; the styles, jointed and bent in middle, persistent, feathery below.</p>
<h2>Stem</h2>
<p>:  1 to 2 ft. high, erect, simple or nearly so, hairy, from thickish rootstock. Leaves: Chiefly from root, on footstems; lower leaves irregularly parted; the side segments usually few and small; the 1 to 3 terminal segments sharply, irregularly lobed; the few distant stem leaves 3-foliate or simple, mostly seated on stem.</p>
<h2>Fruit</h2>
<p>: A dry, hairy head stalked in calyx.</p>
<h2>Preferred Habitat</h2>
<p> &#8211; Swamps and low, wet ground.</p>
<h2>Flowering Season</h2>
<p> &#8211; May-July.</p>
<h2>Distribution</h2>
<p> &#8211; Newfoundland far westward, south to Colorado, eastward to Missouri and Pennsylvania, also northern parts of Old World.</p>
<h2>PURPLE or WATER AVENS (Geum rivale)  Rose family Trivia</h2>
<p>Mischievous bumblebees, thrusting their long tongues between the sepals and petals of these unopened flowers, steal nectar without conferring any favor in return.</p>
<p>Later, when they behave properly and put their heads inside to feast at the disk on which the stamens are inserted, they dutifully carry pollen from old flowers to the early maturing stigmas of younger ones.</p>
<p>Self-fertilization must occur, however, if the bees have not removed all the pollen when a blossom closes.</p>
<p>When the purple avens opens in Europe, the bees desert even the primrose to feast upon its abundant nectar.</p>
<p>Since water is the prime necessity in the manufacture of this sweet, and since insects that feed upon<br />
it have so much to do with the multiplication of flowers, it is not surprising that the swamp, which has been called &#8220;nature&#8217;s sanctuary,&#8221; should have its altars so exquisitely decked.</p>
<p>This blossom hangs its head, partly to protect its precious nectar from rain, and partly to make pilfering well nigh impossible to the unwelcome crawling insect that may have braved the forbidding hairy stems.</p>
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		<title>Types of Wild Roses</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wild Roses, (Rosa) Just as many members of the lily tribe show a preference for the rule of three in the arrangements of their floral parts, so the wild roses cling to the quinary method of some primitive ancestor, a favorite one also with the buttercup and many of its kin, the geraniums, mallows, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gardenflowers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3696174&amp;post=3&amp;subd=gardenflowers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2>Wild Roses, (Rosa)</h2>
<p>Just as many members of the <a href="http://www.garden-buffs.com/lily-climbing-yellow-459131454.html">lily</a> tribe show a preference for the rule of three in the arrangements of their floral parts, so the <a href="http://www.garden-buffs.com/rose-bushes-category.html">wild roses</a> cling to the quinary method of some primitive ancestor, a favorite one also with the buttercup and many of its kin, the <a href="http://www.garden-buffs.com/geranium-orion-459131375.html">geraniums</a>, mallows, and various others. Most of our <a href="http://www.garden-buffs.com/fruit-trees-category.html">fruit trees</a> and bushes are near relatives of the rose. Five petals and five sepals, then, we always find on roses in a state of nature; and although the progressive gardener of today has nowhere shown his skill more than in the development of a multitude of petals from stamens in the magnificent roses of fashionable society, the most highly cultivated darling of the greenhouses quickly reverts to the original wild type, setting his work of years at naught, if once it regain its natural liberties through neglect.</p>
<p>To protect its foliage from being eaten by hungry cattle, the <a href="http://www.garden-buffs.com/rose-bushes-category.html">rose</a> goes armed into the battle of life with curved, sharp prickles, not true thorns or modified branches, but merely surface appliances which peel off with the bark. To destroy crawling pilferers of pollen, several species coat their calices, at least, with fine hairs or sticky gum; and to insure wide distribution of offspring, the seeds are packed in the attractive, bright red calyx tube or hip, a favorite food of many birds, which drop them miles away.</p>
<p>Fragrance, abundant pollen, and bright-colored petals naturally attract many insects; but roses secrete no nectar. Some species of bees, and a common beetle (Trichius piger) for example, seem to depend upon certain wild roses exclusively for pollen to feed themselves and their larvae. Bumblebees, to which roses are adapted, require a firmer support than the petals would give, and so alight on the center of the flower, where the pistil receives pollen carried by them from other roses. Although the numerous stamens and the pistils mature simultaneously, the former are usually turned outward, that the incoming pollen-laden insect may strike the stigma first.</p>
<p>If plants have insect benefactors, they have their foes as well and hordes of tiny aphids, commonly known as green flies or plant lice, moored by their sucking tubes to the tender sprays of roses, wild and cultivated, live by extracting their juices. A curious relationship exists between these little creatures and the ants, which &#8220;milk&#8221; them by stroking and caressing them with their antennae until they emit a tiny drop of sweet, white fluid. The yellow ant, that lives an almost subterranean life, actually domesticates flocks and herds of root-feeding aphids; the brown ant appropriates those that live among the bark of trees; and the common black garden ant (Lasius niger), devoting itself to the aphis of the rose bushes, protects it in extraordinary ways, delightfully described by the author of &#8220;Ants, Bees, and Wasps.&#8221;</p>
<p>In literature, ancient and modern, sacred and profane, no flower figures so conspicuously as the rose. To the Romans it was most significant when placed over the door of a public or private banquet hall. Each who passed beneath it bound himself thereby not to disclose anything said or done within; hence the expression sub rosa, common to this day.</p>
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