It was driven by his gardener, and filled to overflowing with azaleas and polyanthus, and great bunches of irises and tulips and freesias. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I think I now have _two_ wicked hummingbirds; certainly, there was a hummer every time I turned round, it seemed, even on my deck checking out the polyanthus. ❋ Intertext (2006)
She became conscious that the long grass was drenched and her shoes and stockings wet through; there was light enough to see in that grass the stars of jonquil, grape hyacinth and the pale cast-out tulips; there would be polyanthus, too, bluebells and cowslips — a few. ❋ Unknown (2004)
English spring, when celandines open their yellow under the hedges, and violets are in the secret, and by the broad paths of the garden polyanthus and crocuses vary the velvet and flame, and bits of yellow wallflower shake raggedly, with a wonderful triumphance, out of the cracks of the wall. ❋ Unknown (2003)
After I had observed every flower, and listened to a disquisition on every plant, I was permitted to depart; but first, with great pomp, he plucked a polyanthus and presented it to me, as one conferring a prodigious favour. ❋ Unknown (2002)
There were pale yellow polyanthus, and blue forget-me-nots coming into flower round the edge: and all the centre was filled with pansies. ❋ Francis, Dick (1971)
She took a big patch and sowed many packets of seeds there She bought little plants too, gay double daisies, velvet pansies and pretty polyanthus to make the borders of her patch gay. ❋ Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 (1967)
The terraced gardens were full of spring flowers — wallflower and tulip, fruit blossom and early clematis, aubrietia, polyanthus, and arabis. ❋ Wentworth, Patricia (1950)
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. ❋ Various (N/A)
And there have been more black beetles in Vendale since than ever were known before; all, of course, owing to Tom's having blacked the original papa of them all, just as he was setting off to be married, with a sky-blue coat and scarlet leggings, as smart as a gardener's dog with a polyanthus in his mouth. ❋ Charles Herbert Sylvester (N/A)
They are, however, very distinct on the one hand from the primrose (_Primula vulgaris_ or _acaulis_) and polyanthus ❋ John Wood (N/A)
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. ❋ John Wood (N/A)
We picked long spikes of white heather in full bloom, and pansies, polyanthus, the blue iris and many others of our garden flowers. ❋ Various (N/A)
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.' ❋ Various (N/A)
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. ❋ William Wells Brown (N/A)
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. ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)
In the meantime we shall not he silent upon the remaining qualities of the work as a general whole -- the young lady -- the parrot -- the polyanthus, and the chiaro-scuro, are as excellent as usual in this our most amusing painter's productions. ❋ Various (N/A)
After I had observed every flower, and listened to a disquisition on every plant, I was permitted to depart; but [Page 21] first, with great pomp, he plucked a polyanthus and presented it to me, as one conferring a prodigious favour. ❋ Unknown (1931)
In four or five weeks bring in hyacinths and polyanthus narcissi. ❋ Unknown (1930)
