The path wound through the garden flanked here and there by frothy pink azaleas and the fragrant white stars of nicotiana. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The nicotiana is one of the highlights of the gravel, never showing up in the beds even if I save seed and sow it there. ❋ Unknown (2009)
This year lime green nicotiana sprouted along with bleeding hearts, calibrachoa sp? ❋ Unknown (2009)
I am very excited about the nicotiana and read in a blog somewhere, sorry cannot remember which one, that they like extra feeding as babies. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Stone Quarry and those who lived above the line where nicotiana grew, used the kinni-kinik or bark of the red willow and some seven other succedanea. 194 But tobacco proper, which soon superseded all materials except hemp and opium, was first adopted by the Spaniards of Santo Domingo in A.D. 1496 and reached England in 1565. ❋ Unknown (2006)
This is a tiny flower on a nicotiana ‘Tinkerbelle’ offspring with an even tinier little upside down caterpillar moving along the hairy staff. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Here Ms. Daniels and Ms. McConnell collect seeds from a nicotiana, a fragrant flowering tobacco plant that they say is easy to grow. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The two women to whose unvarying kindness all my comfort had been owing, were made happy with satin-stripe, cassis, and the inevitable nicotiana. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Desert-men, that caused nicotiana to be proscribed by the Wahhabis, who revived against its origin a senseless and obsolete calumny. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The porch was flickering with lights, filled with the sweetness of moss roses in a bowl and the evening fragrance of nicotiana blooming just outside the screens. ❋ Arensberg, Ann, 1937- (1999)
Among the scents of brandy and cigar smoke, I could smell the night on him, and the faint musky spice of nicotiana; he had been walking, then, amid the flowers in the garden. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (1997)
He is wearing cap and gown, and -- oh, heinous offence -- he puffs the "herba nicotiana." ❋ Various (N/A)
In these places, and everywhere, in fact, as our traveller says, where you meet with Englishmen, they use _herba nicotiana_, which they call by an ❋ Unknown (1861)
Mr. John Blandy some specimens of his nicotiana for me to test in ❋ Richard Francis Burton (1855)
In Egypt, India and other parts of the Eastern world they will find nicotiana used by men, women and children, of all ranks and ages; and the study of these millions would greatly modify the results of observing a few hundreds at home. ❋ Anonymous (1855)
Kolreuter: on the barberry, 98. on sterility of hybrids, 247. on reciprocal crosses, 258. on crossed varieties of nicotiana, 271. on crossing male and hermaphrodite flowers, 451. ❋ Charles Darwin (1845)
One is the petunia, that charming flower which at present decorates all our gardens, whence the enemies of tobacco may one day banish it; so it is only with trembling that I here announce its relationship to the nicotiana; the other, which, like the petunia, grows in profusion in the islands as well as on the continent of ❋ Joseph Xavier Saintine (1831)
In consequence of his encounter with Marimonda, he ransacked the woods and meadows, seeking among all plants those which approximated nearest to the nature of the nicotiana. ❋ Joseph Xavier Saintine (1831)
Also called flowering tobacco, nicotiana "can be tall and really lanky," she said. ❋ By MICHAEL TORTORELLO (2012)
