Emmitt Smith

On September 19th, 2005, at halftime of the Cowboys-Redskins game (broadcast on Monday Night Football), Smith was inducted into the Dallas Cowboys Ring of Honor with his longtime teammates Troy Aikman and Michael Irvin. Flowers within art are also representative of the female genitalia, as seen in the works of artists such as Georgia O'Keefe, Imogene Cunningham, and Judy Chicago. In August 2005, Smith signed on to serve as a studio analyst on the NFL Network show, NFL Total Access. Some of the more common examples include:. Their son, Emmitt IV, was born on Smith's 33rd birthday. The practice of assigning meanings to flowers is known as floriography. She is a former Miss Virginia, and the ex-wife of actor/comedian Martin Lawrence. Many flowers have important symbolic meanings in Western culture.

He married Patricia Southall, on April 22, 2000. To get flowers that are out of season in their country, florists contact wholesalers who have direct connections with growers in other countries to provide those flowers. Smith is one of only five NFL players who have amassed over 10,000 career-rushing yards and 400 career receptions. Florists depend on an entire network of commercial growers and shippers to support this trade. His 1,586 yards rushing is also tops on the NFL postseason chart, and he shares the total playoff touchdown mark of 21 with Thurman Thomas. Around the world, florists sell flowers for a wide range of events and functions that, cumulatively, encompass one's lifetime:. Smith also accumulated a number of NFL postseason records, including rushing touchdowns (19), consecutive games with a rushing touchdown (nine) and 100-yard rushing games (seven). In modern times, people have sought ways to cultivate, buy, wear, or just be around flowers and blooming plants, partly because of their agreeable smell.

The sum of his rushing yards, receiving yards(3,224) and fumble return yards(-15) make him one of only four players in NFL history to eclipse the 21,000-combined yards mark. The Greek goddess of spring, flowers and nature is Chloris. He leads all running backs with 166 career touchdowns, and is second only to Jerry Rice for the overall record. The Roman goddess of flowers, gardens, and the season of Spring is Flora.
Smith currently holds the NFL record in career rushing yards with 18,355 and is the only player in NFL history to rush for over 18,000 yards, breaking the previous record held by Walter Payton, on October 27, 2002. Ah, Sun-flower weary of time,
Who countest the steps of the Sun,
Seeking after that sweet golden clime
Where the traveller's journey is done:

Where the Youth pined away with desire,
And the pale Virgin shrouded in snow
Arise from their graves, and aspire
Where my Sun-flower wishes to go. He is the only player in the NFL history to do all three in the same season. Famous examples include and William Wordsworth's I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud and William Blake's Ah! Sun-Flower:.

In 1993 he did a rare trifecta by leading the league in rushing yards, winning the AP MVP and Super Bowl MVP. The great variety of delicate and beautiful flowers has inspired the works of many poets, especially from the Romantic era. He is also the NFL's all-time leader in rushing attempts with 4,409. Main and related articles at: Gardening, Horticulture, List of flowers, and Floristry. With 1,021 yards rushing in 2001, Smith became the first player in NFL history to rush for 1,000 yards in 11 consecutive seasons and the first to post 11 1,000-yard rushing seasons in a career. Instead the allergen is usually the pollen of the contemporary bloom of anemophilous ragweed (Ambrosia) which can drift for many kilometers. Smith and Jim Brown are the only players with seven straight 10-touchdown seasons to start their career. For example the showy and entomophilous goldenrod (Solidago) is frequently blamed for respiratory allergies, of which it is innocent, since its pollen cannot be airborne.

Smith is the first player in NFL history to have five straight seasons with over 1,400 rushing yards. There is much confusion about the role of flowers in allergies. On February 3, 2005, at a press conference in Jacksonville, Florida three days before Super Bowl XXXIX, he announced his retirement after fifteen seasons in the NFL. Honeybees and bumblebees actively gather anemophilous corn (maize) pollen, though it is of little value to them. In 2005, Smith signed a new contract with Dallas for one-day and no money so he could retire as a Cowboy. Whereas the pollen of entomophilous flowers tends to be large grained, sticky, and contain significant protein (another "reward" for pollinators), Anemophilous flower pollen is usually small grained, very light, and of little nutritional value to insects, though it may still be gathered, in times of dearth. Giants to become the only player in NFL history to eclipse the 18,000 career rushing yard mark. Wind pollinated flowers are referred to as anemophilous.

Then in November, he totaled 67 yards and two touchdowns on 19 carries against the N.Y. Other flowers are pollinated by the wind, and the flowers of these species (for example, grasses) have no need to attract pollinators and therefore tend not to be "showy". On October 24th, Smith broke Payton's record for career 100-yard rushing games when he totaled 106 yards and a touchdown on 26 carries against Seattle. Some plants, such as Rafflesia, the titan arum, and the North American pawpaw (Asimina triloba) are pollinated by flies, so produce a scent imitating rotting meat. The Saints game also marked his 77th career regular season 100-yard rushing game, tying Payton for the most in NFL history. Flower scent is not always pleasant to our sense of smell. Smith also became the oldest player in NFL history ever to complete his first career touchdown pass, tossing a 21-yard scoring strike to fullback Obafemi Ayanbadejo in a game against New Orleans. In gathering nectar from many flowers of the same species, the pollinators transfer pollen between all of the flowers it visits.

On October 3rd, he posted his best game as a Cardinal against New Orleans, totaling 127 rushing yards on 21 carries (6.0 avg.), including a 29-yard scoring jaunt (his longest as a Cardinal). The arrangement of the stamens ensures that pollen grains are transferred to the bodies of the pollinator. He also caught 15 passes for 105 yards for Arizona. In any case, pollinators are attracted to the plant, perhaps in search of nectar, which they eat. His 267 carries marked his highest total since 2000 and his nine touchdowns were his highest total since scoring 11 times in 1999. Flowers also attract pollinators by scent. After finishing 2003 as a reserve, Smith began the 2004 season as the Cardinals starting running back and accounted for 937 rushing yards and nine touchdowns on 267 carries. Some flowers have patterns, called nectar guides, that are evident in the ultraviolet range, visible to bees but not to humans.

He signed a two-year deal with the Arizona Cardinals on March 26. Bees and birds are common pollinators: both have color vision, thus selecting for "colorful" flowers. On February 27, 2003, Smith volunteered to be released by the Cowboys, rather than put owner Jerry Jones in the awkward position of cutting him to fit under the league's salary cap. Flowers commonly have glands called nectaries on their various parts that attract these animals. (Among running backs selected to the Pro Bowl, he's behind only Barry Sanders, who has 10, and the late Walter Payton, who has 9.). Flowers that are insect pollinated are called entomophilous (literally "insect loving"). Smith led the NFL in rushing four times, was the league's MVP in 1993, was the MVP of Super Bowl XXVIII, and made eight Pro Bowls. Many flowers in nature have evolved to attract animals to pollinate the flower, the movements of the pollinating agent contributing to the opportunity for genetic recombinations within a dispersed plant population.

He was drafted by the Dallas Cowboys in 1990 and subsequently became an integral part of their three Super Bowl championship teams in four years following the 1992-93 and 1995 seasons. The period of time during which this process can take place (the flower is fully expanded and functional) is called anthesis. He left Florida after his junior year with 3928 rushing yards and 36 touchdowns. Others rely on animals (especially insects) to accomplish this feat. While at UF he set 58 school records, including the single game rushing record in his very first start. Many flowers are dependent upon the wind to move pollen between flowers of the same species. He starred at the University of Florida, where he joined Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. The process is termed pollination.

In high school, Smith amassed 8804 rushing yards and scored 106 touchdowns. The function of a flower is to mediate the union of male and female gametes. Included in Smith's league record 78 regular season 100-yard rushing games are 18 days with over 150 yards, which is the fourth highest total of 150-yard games in NFL history. Several other symbols are used that will have to await drawings to illustrate here (see [1]). His 45 100-yard games in high school is still the national record, and in NFL annals, Smith's 78 100-yard rushing games makes him the NFL's all-time leader - just ahead of Walter Payton (77) and Barry Sanders (76). A floral formula would appear something like this:. The century mark became a big number in Smith's career, having rushed for 100 yards in 155-of-326 games dating back to high school (45-of-49 at Escambia High School, 25-of-34 at Florida, 81-of-202 at Dallas, including playoffs, and two-of-25 at Arizona). x - to represent a "variable number"
∞ - to represent "many"
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Smith is one of only three players in Cowboys history with three career 100-point seasons, and he is the only non-kicker to accomplish the feat. Ca⁵ = 5 sepals)
Co = corolla (petal whorl; e.g., Co^3(x) = petals some multiple of three )
    Z = add if zygomorphic (e.g., CoZ⁶ = zygomorphic with 6 petals)
A = androecium (whorl of stamens; e.g., A^∞ = many stamens)
G = gynoecium (carpel or carpels; e.g., G¹ = monocarpous)
. He passed his childhood hero Walter Payton in a game against Seattle in 2002. Ca = calyx (sepal whorl; e.g. May 15, 1969 in Pensacola, Florida) is a retired American football player, one of the most prolific running backs to ever play professional football, and is only the seventh player in NFL history to carry the title of all-time rushing leader, and is the current holder of the title. The following representations are used:. Emmitt James Smith III (b. Typically, a general formula will be used to represent the flower structure of a plant family rather than a particular species.

A floral formula is a way to represent the structure of a flower using specific letters, numbers, and symbols. Each small flower may be anatomically as described above. In botanical terminology, a single daisy or sunflower for example, is not a flower but a flower head—an inflorescence comprised of numerous small flowers (sometimes called florets). In this sense, care must be exercised in considering what is a flower.

In those species that have more than one flower on an axis, the collection of flowers is termed an inflorescence. Additional discussions on floral modifications from the basic plan are presented in the articles on each of the basic parts of the flower. The latter flower types, which have chemical barriers to their own pollen, are referred to as self-sterile or self-incompatible (see also: Plant sexuality). Unisexual male and female flowers on the same plant may not appear at the same time, or pollen from the same plant may be incapable of fertilizing its ovules.

Conversely, many species of plants have ways of preventing self-fertilization. The extreme case of self-fertilization occurs in flowers that always self-fertilize, such as the common dandelion. Some flowers with both stamens and a pistil are capable of self-fertilization, which does increase the chance of producing seeds but limits genetic variation. However, where unisexual male and female flowers appear on the same plant, the species is considered monoecious.

In the latter case, if an individual plant is either male or female the species is regarded as dioecious. However, in some species of plants the flowers are imperfect or unisexual: having only either male (stamens) or female (pistil) parts. These flowers are described by botanists as being perfect, bisexual, or hermaphrodite. In the majority of species, individual flowers have both pistils and stamens as described above.

The number of carpels in a compound pistil may be only two, or otherwise not related to the above generalization for monocots and dicots. For example, the two subclasses of flowering plants may be distinguished by the number of floral organs in each whorl: dicotyledons typically having 4 or 5 organs (or a multiple of 4 or 5) in each whorl and monocotyledons having three or some multiple of three. These modifications have significance in the evolution of flowering plants and are used extensively by botanists to establish relationships among plant species. Although the floral structure described above is considered the "typical" structural plan, plant species show a wide variety of modifications from this plan.

The four main parts or whorls (starting from the base of the flower or lowest node and working upwards) are as follows:. The parts of a flower are arranged in whorls on the torus. The stem is called a pedicel, the end of which is the torus or receptacle. In essence, a flower structure forms on a modified shoot or axis with an apical meristem that does not grow continuously (growth is determinate).

A flower is regarded as a modified stem (Eames, 1961) with shortened internodes and bearing, at its nodes, structures that may be highly modified leaves. Flowering plants are heterosporangiate (producing two types of reproductive spores) and the pollen (male spores) and ovules (female spores) are produced in different organs, but these are together in a bisporangiate strobilus that is the typical flower. . After fertilization, portions of the flower develop into a fruit containing the seeds.

For the higher plants, seeds are the next generation, and serve as the primary means by which individuals of a species are dispersed across the landscape. The flower structure contains the plant's reproductive organs, and its function is to produce seeds through sexual reproduction. A flower (<Old French flo(u)r<Latin florem<flos), also known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also called angiosperms). McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York.

Morphology of the Angiosperms. 1961. J. Eames, A.

Daisies are a symbol of innocence. It is also assosiated with stars (sun) and its petals blooming/shining. Irises/Lily are used in burials as a symbol refering to "resurection/life". In the UK, Australia and Canada, red poppies are worn to commemorate soldiers who have died in times of war.

Poppies are a symbol of consolation in time of death. Red roses are given as a symbol of love, beauty, and passion. For funeral flowers and flowers for the grieving. As a gift of remembrance for bon voyage parties, welcome home parties, and "thinking of you" gifts.

As brightening decorations within the home. For wedding flowers for the bridal party, and decorations for the hall. As a corsage or boutonniere to be worn at social functions or for holidays. For new births or Christenings Lilium hybrid "Stargazer" is extremely fragrant. .

The supportive stalk, the style becomes the pathway for pollen tubes to grow from pollen grains adhering to the stigma, to the ovules, carrying the reproductive material. The sticky tip of the pistil, the stigma, is the receptor of pollen. A pistil may consist of a number of carpels merged together, in which case there is only one pistil to each flower, or of a single individual carpel (the flower is then called apocarpous). The female reproductive organ is the carpel: this contains an ovary with ovules (female gametes).

gynoecium (from Greek gynaikos oikia: woman's house) – one or more pistils. Pollen contains the male gametes. androecium (from Greek andros oikia: man's house) – one or two whorls of stamens, each a filament topped by an anther where pollen is produced. corolla – the whorl of petals, which are usually thin, soft and colored to attract insects that help the process of pollination.

calyx – the outer whorl of sepals; typically these are green, but are petal-like in some species.