We picked long spikes of white heather in full bloom, and pansies, polyanthus, the blue iris and many others of our garden flowers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876] Reference

It was driven by his gardener, and filled to overflowing with azaleas and polyanthus, and great bunches of irises and tulips and freesias.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics 101] Reference

The terraced gardens were full of spring flowers — wallflower and tulip, fruit blossom and early clematis, aubrietia, polyanthus, and arabis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Wall]

Then I count three, and if any of you can guess the word during that time we shall all start together for the nearest polyanthus, and when we reach it call 'polyanthus.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Folks (July 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference

May not this process be the first step towards the formation of our garden polyanthus? if that be not, as is generally supposed, a variety of the primrose, rather than of the cowslip.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 343, November 29, 1828] Reference

If her lover could have but known of the sufferings of that sweet flower, -- that polyanthus over which he had so often been in his dreams, -- he would then have learned that she was worthy of his love.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clotelle; or, the Colored Heroine, a tale of the Southern States; or, the President's Daughter] Reference

Sometimes the leaves are as large as a full-grown polyanthus leaf, whilst other plants, which have flowered equally well, have not produced foliage larger than that of primroses, when having their earliest flowers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference

Mr.W. B. Jeffries also forwarded me a polyanthus (fig. 52) in which the peduncle was surmounted by a small plant, forming a crown above the ordinary flower-stalk, just as the crown of the pineapple surmounts that fruit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

In four or five weeks bring in hyacinths and polyanthus narcissi.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gardening Indoors and Under Glass A Practical Guide to the Planting, Care and Propagation of House Plants, and to the Construction and Management of Hotbed, Coldframe and Small Greenhouse] Reference

You're no better than my own barrack-sweeper, you white-'eaded old polyanthus!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling] Reference

A bright row of polyanthus and oxlips seemed to be the haunt of the male bees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies] Reference

I saw the beds fringed with purple polyanthus, and the daffodils in the dewy grass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Father Payne]

The true or English cowslip is one of the hardy border plants; also the plants commonly known as polyanthus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)] Reference

The cyclist decided to plant cyclamen, narcissus and polyanthus in the holes after becoming fed up with the state of roads.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clipmarks | Live Clips] Reference

The fairy primrose is a disposable annual, but the polyanthus can be planted out in the shady garden where it will reappear in the early spring next year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Richmond.com - Main] Reference

Then for another house beauty, have at least one polyanthus narcissus, – nothing can be much pleasanter inside your window, when the snow lies deep without.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gardening by Myself] Reference

Split polyanthus-type primulas as they finish flowering, digging up each clump then pushing two forks back to back in the centre of the clump and pushing the handles apart.    From Wordnik.com.  [icNewcastle] Reference

A polyanthus, and I say, 'Who will first touch a poly?'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Folks (July 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference

The grass the polyanthus checks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete] Reference

And polyanthus of unnumber'd dyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present] Reference

The grass the polyanthus checks; 310.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Song to David] Reference

Nor polyanthus mean, nor dapper daisy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scarborough and the Critic] Reference

The polyanthus peeps with blebs of dew.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems Chiefly from Manuscript] Reference

The polyanthus mean -- the dapper daisy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scarborough and the Critic] Reference

On polyanthus and auriculas.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales in Verse Together with Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects] Reference

Some polyanthus and foxglove.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales in Verse Together with Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects] Reference

16. polyanthus.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference