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" If ever a flower merited the name of glorious it is this, which stands far above all other lilies, whether we regard its size, its sweetness, or its exquisite arrangement of color. Imagine upon the end of a purple stem no thicker than a ramrod, and not... "
Amateur Cultivator's Guide to the Flower and Kitchen Gardens: Containing a ... - Page 147
by Washburn and Company, Boston - 1869 - 152 pages
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The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries ..., Volume 28

Fruit-culture - 1862 - 588 pages
...size, its sweetness, or its exquisite arrangement of color. Imagine upon the end of a purple stem no thicker than a ramrod, and not above two feet high,...crisp parts rolled back at their points, and having an TOL. XXVIII. — NO. IX. 27 ivory white skin thinly strewn with purple points or studs and oval or...
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The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries ..., Volume 28

Fruit-culture - 1862 - 588 pages
...size, its sweetness, or its exquisite arrangement of color. Imagine upon the end of a purple stem no thicker than a ramrod, and not above two feet high, a saucer-shaped flower at least tei^ inches in diameter, composed of six spreading somewhat crisp parts rolled back at their points,...
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New Book of Flowers

Joseph Breck - Angiosperms - 1886 - 492 pages
...name of glorious, it is this, which stands far above all other Lilies, whether we regard its size, its sweetness, or its exquisite arrangement of color....having an ivory-white skin, thinly strewn with purple points or studs, and oval or roundish prominent purple stains. To this add, in the middle of each of...
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The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries ..., Volume 33

Gardening - 1867 - 520 pages
...size, its sweetness, or its exquisite arrangement of color. Imagine, upon the end or" a purple stem no thicker than a ramrod, and not above two feet high, a saucer-shaped flower at least leu inches in diameter, composed of six spreading, somewhat crisp pans, rolled back at their points,...
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A Romance of the Rostrum: Being the Business Life of Henry Stevens, and the ...

Auctions - 1924 - 372 pages
...purple stem no thicker than a ramrod, and not above 2 feet high, a saucer-shaped flower at least 10 inches in diameter, composed of six spreading, somewhat...crisp parts, rolled back at their points and having an ivory white skin thinly strewn with purple points or studs, and oval or roundish prominent purple stains....
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