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The two met at an audition for a community theater production in Southern California, and Nixon proposed two years later, delivering her engagement ring in a basket filled with mayflowers.

From Time • Mar. 13, 2012

He carried some mayflowers up to the west gable and put them under the picture.

From The Golden Road by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

In the spring we hunted for mayflowers, and sailed boats in the brooks, and gathered fluffy pussy-willows.

From The Story Hour by Smith, Nora Archibald

Purple and white hepaticas are clustered in crannies of the rocks, and after a rain mayflowers stand up thick, thick in the fields, in masses of pink and white fragrance.

From A Northern Countryside by Richards, Rosalind

"Little boy," she had said, with a friendly smile, "will you show me where the mayflowers grow?"

From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)