Away at one end were the beds of old-fashioned flowers: hollyhocks and phlox and stocks, coreopsis and calliopsis, calendula and campanula, fox-gloves and monks-hoods and lady-slippers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Days Off And Other Digressions] Reference

And we had banks of calliopsis and sunflowers -- the small sunflowers of Kansas, that bloom a hundred or more to a stalk -- and tall phlox whose fragrance carries one back to some far, forgotten childhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm] Reference

Flowers we would have pretty much every-where -- hollyhocks in odd corners; delphinium and foxglove along the stone walls; bunches of calliopsis and bleeding-heart and peonies; borders of phlox and alyssum; beds of sweet-williams and corn-flowers and columbines -- all those lovely, old-fashioned things, with the loveliest old-fashioned names in the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm] Reference

There is nothing yet to take the place of the old-time groups, such as amaranths, zinnias, calendulas, daturas, balsams, annual pinks, candytufts, bachelor's buttons, wallflowers, larkspurs, petunias, gaillardias, snapdragons, coxcombs, lobelias, coreopsis or calliopsis, California poppies, four-o'clocks, sweet sultans, phloxes, mignonettes, scabiosas, nasturtiums, marigolds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)] Reference