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Definition of Gardenias
1. gardenia [n] - See also: gardenia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gardenias
Literary usage of Gardenias
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"gardenias narrow, in fours. Flowers with long tubes, reddish without, yellowish
within ; cymes terminal ; May to July. A. MONTANA (mountain). ..."
2. A Residence at Sierra Leone: Described from a Journal Kept on the Spot, and by Elizabeth Melville, Elizabeth Colville Colville of Culross, Caroline Sheridan Norton (1849)
"... the Names of particular Flowers — gardenias — A Vision of British Scenery.
March 25th. ON the night of the 19th we had the first tornado of the season. ..."
3. The Principles of Floriculture by Edward Albert White (1915)
"... ericas, azaleas, poinsettias, gardenias, Easter lilies, calla lilies and oxalis.
Other potted plants are described in Chapter XVI. CYCLAMEN 463. ..."
4. Observations of a Naturalist in the Pacific Between 1896 and 1899 by Henry Brougham Guppy (1906)
"significance of the relation of the Hawaiian gardenias to those of the combined
... The Station of the Pacific gardenias.—Although they may occur in the ..."
5. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"gardenias narrow, in fours. Flowers with long tubes, reddish without, yellowish
within ; cymes terminal ; May to July. A. MONTANA (mountain). ..."
6. A Residence at Sierra Leone: Described from a Journal Kept on the Spot, and by Elizabeth Melville, Elizabeth Colville Colville of Culross, Caroline Sheridan Norton (1849)
"... the Names of particular Flowers — gardenias — A Vision of British Scenery.
March 25th. ON the night of the 19th we had the first tornado of the season. ..."
7. The Principles of Floriculture by Edward Albert White (1915)
"... ericas, azaleas, poinsettias, gardenias, Easter lilies, calla lilies and oxalis.
Other potted plants are described in Chapter XVI. CYCLAMEN 463. ..."
8. Observations of a Naturalist in the Pacific Between 1896 and 1899 by Henry Brougham Guppy (1906)
"significance of the relation of the Hawaiian gardenias to those of the combined
... The Station of the Pacific gardenias.—Although they may occur in the ..."
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