Then followed shrubby fuchsia, calceolaria, eupatoria, and red and purple gentians; around and on the. From Wordnik.com. [The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America] Reference
Advancing further on my onward course, how joyfully I greeted as old acquaintance the purple gentiana and the brown calceolaria!. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests] Reference
I haven't been so excited since I recognised a calceolaria last year, and told my host it was a calceolaria just before he told me. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, May 27, 1914] Reference
I lobbed it far and wide over the wall, and it fell noiselessly and quite in the middle of Mr. Trumpington's most buttony calceolaria-bed. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 147, August 12, 1914] Reference
Tight beds of geranium, calceolaria, and lobelia speckled the glass-plat, from whose centre rose one of the finest araucarias (its other name by the way is "monkey-puzzler"), that it has ever been my lot to see. From Wordnik.com. [Actions and Reactions] Reference
Shoot in a rose, or a calceolaria, or an herbaceous border, or something, I gather, and you have made a formal proposal of marriage without any of the trouble of rehearsing a long speech and practising appropriate gestures in front of your bedroom looking-glass. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Upstairs and Other Stories] Reference
All along one side of the gravel drive there was a tall, smoothly-clipped hedge of laurels; while on the left the velvet lawn, dotted all over with beds of scarlet geranium, verbena, and calceolaria, with here and there rustic vases brimming over with blooming creepers, swept down in a slope towards the park-like fields, from which it was separated by a light ring fence. From Wordnik.com. [Hollowdell Grange Holiday Hours in a Country Home] Reference
Abutilons; agapanthus; alstremeria; amaryllis; anemone; aralia; araucaria; auricula; azaleas; begonias; cactus; caladium; calceolaria; calla; camellias; cannas; carnations; century plants; chrysanthemums; cineraria; clematis; coleus; crocus; croton; cyclamen; dahlia; ferns; freesia; fuchsia; geranium; gladiolus; gloxinia; grevillea; hollyhocks; hyacinths; iris; lily; lily-of-the-valley; mignonette; moon-flowers; narcissus; oleander; oxalis; palms; pandanus; pansy; pelargonium; peony; phlox; primulas; rhododendrons; rose; smilax; stocks; sweet pea; swainsona; tuberose; tulips; violet; wax plant. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)] Reference
A calceolaria last year, and told my host it was a calceolaria just before he told me. From Wordnik.com. [The Sunny Side] Reference
Buxus sempervirens, cabbage, culture, cabbage, storing, cabbage diseases, cabbage insects, cabbage maggots, cactus, caladium, calceolaria, calendars, calla. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)] Reference
For indoor boxes in winter, the following may be used: abutilon, calceolaria, cyclamen, violets, primroses, petunias, geraniums, freesia, and such foliage plants as dracæna, cannas, dusty miller, and coleus. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
It had been a risk to raise certain people's expectations and then bring them into Tochty garden, for they can be satisfied with no place that has not a clean-shaven lawn and beds of unvarying circles, pyrethrum, calceolaria, and geranium, and brakes of rare roses, and glass-houses with orchids worth fifty pound each, which is a garden in high life, full of luxury, extravagance, weariness. From Wordnik.com. [Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers] Reference
She has only one kind of flowers -- in her hand, as botanical classification stands at present; and whether the system be more rational, or in any human sense more scientific, which puts calceolaria and speedwell together, -- and foxglove and euphrasy; and runs them on one side into the mints, and on the other into the nightshades; -- naming them, meanwhile, some from diseases, some from vermin, some from blockheads, and the rest anyhow: -- or the method I am pleading for, which teaches us, watchful of their seasonable return and chosen abiding places, to associate in our memory the flowers which truly resemble, or fondly companion, or, in time kept by the signs of Heaven, succeed, each other; and to name them in some historical connection with the loveliest fancies and most helpful faiths of the ancestral world -- Proserpina be judge; with every maid that sets flowers on brow or breast -- from Thule to Sicily. From Wordnik.com. [Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers] Reference
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