polyanthuses
- plural of polyanthus.
Example Sentences
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Before the cottage was a little garden surrounded by a sturdy railing and a thick-set, close-clipped holly-hedge, within the shelter of which whole beds of crocuses and daisies and polyanthuses bloomed gaily.
From The Carroll Girls by Quiller-Couch, Mabel
Scrolls, ciphers, dragons, Cupids, polyanthuses, and other flowers writhe up the walls in every kind of cornucopiosity.
From The Book of Snobs by Thackeray, William Makepeace
He also trifled with horticulture, dabbled in tulips, was a connoisseur in pinks, and had gained a prize for polyanthuses.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 288, Supplementary Number by Various
As an instance of this, he remembered declaring that he could "produce variously coloured polyanthuses and primroses by watering them with certain coloured fluids," though he knew all the time it was untrue.
From Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 by Marchant, James
Put thick slices of turnip near your auriculas, favorite primroses and polyanthuses, and Christmas roses, and near anything tender and not well established, and overhaul them early in the morning.
From Last Words A Final Collection of Stories by Murphy, Hermann Dudley
