That's where I remember the gloxinias from she gave me one for my tiny apartment in Hudson, where my computing career began in earnest, and where I had no idea how privileged I was to know one of the nicest and most brilliant women I've ever worked with. ❋ Unknown (2009)
She also grew gloxinias on her window sill, which has nothing whatsoever to do with math or FORTRAN, but is a happy memory of mine. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Then they came into abnormally sharp focus: gloxinias and begonias, mounded geraniums and chrysanthemums, coleus and baby's breath, tall nodding roses in red, white, yellow, pink, and clear orange. ❋ Bull, Emma, 1954- (1987)
In the cold days of winter blooming masses of geraniums, primroses and gloxinias crowded against the little square panes of the windows and looked defiantly out at the snow; while all the old favorites grew in the garden, from the first March snowdrop to the late November chrysanthemum. ❋ Anna Balmer Myers (N/A)
When first observed these flowers were observed to produce petaloid segments outside the ordinary corolla, and partially adherent to (or rather, not completely separated from it) much as in the azalea before mentioned, the outer surface being brightly coloured, like the inner surface of the corolla in ordinary gloxinias. ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)
These excrescences occur sometimes on the inner surface of the petals, or of the corolla; at other times on the outer surface, as in some gloxinias, &c. ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)
If he did, these domestic activities were privately performed, and he presented to the world the appearance of a careless and hospitable millionaire strolling into his own drawing-room with the detachment of an invited guest, and saying: My wifes gloxinias are a marvel, arent they? ❋ Unknown (1920)
If he did, these domestic activities were privately performed, and he presented to the world the appearance of a careless and hospitable millionaire strolling into his own drawing-room with the detachment of an invited guest, and saying: ` ` My wife's gloxinias are a marvel, aren't they? ❋ Unknown (1920)
She turned obediently from a glorious spread of gloxinias, and he made a way for her through the buzzing crowd to the entrance. ❋ Unknown (1910)
Leaf-cuttings are often used for the fancy-leaved begonias, gloxinias, and a few other plants. ❋ Unknown (1906)
Success in the growing of gloxinias is largely a matter of proper watering. ❋ Unknown (1906)
"I picked off my gloxinias and gave 'em all to Willard." ❋ Alice Brown (1902)
There you sent over your calla, an 'Mis' Flood cut off that long piece o 'German ivy, an' the little Ballard gal, -- nothin 'would do but she must pick all them gloxinias an' have 'em for Willard's funeral. ❋ Alice Brown (1902)
Further instances of novelties with such a common origin are the purple-leaved dahlias, the gooseberries without prickles, the double petunias, erect gloxinias and many others. ❋ Hugo De Vries (1891)
_Polemonium coeruleum_, the _Veronica longifolia_, the gloxinias and others. ❋ Hugo De Vries (1891)
"Drying off the first lot of gloxinias," answered the other. ❋ Harold Frederic (1877)
I've to rout the gardeners out of the greenhouse, or I should never have a strawberry or a pink, but only nasty gloxinias and glaring fuchsias, and I've been giving lessons to dozens of people and writing charming sermons in the "Bible of Amiens"; but I get so sleepy in the afternoon I can't pull myself over it. ❋ John Ruskin (1859)
In the winter, the sill along the front picture window was always crowded with his pots of gloxinias. ❋ Unknown (2011)
A quick glance around in most of these shops will show among the items being offered for sale are poinsettias, Christmas greenery, gloxinias, cyclamen, potted azaleas and Christmas cacti - all of which are distinctly horticultural by nature. ❋ Unknown (2009)
