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Definition of Phloxes
1. phlox [n] - See also: phlox
Lexicographical Neighbors of Phloxes
Literary usage of Phloxes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rock Gardening for Amateurs by Harry Higgott Thomas (1914)
"The dwarf phloxes are not alpine flowers, but they are, nevertheless, most
admirably suited for associating with them. They grow wild on the hills of ..."
2. The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds: Design and Arrangement Shown by by William Robinson (1907)
"Next to these are several that may be grouped as running or creeping phloxes,
perennial, but with prostrate stems. Lastly, there are the well-known tall ..."
3. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and by C M Hovey (1855)
"... large irregular-shaped beds between this and the next circular walk may be
planted with a good assortment of tall growing perennials; such as phloxes, ..."
4. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"phloxes etc. Flowers of great beauty, five-lobed, funnel-shaped, white, appearing in
... Few plants are more deservedly popular than phloxes) and their ..."
5. Popular Garden Flowers: Anemones, Asters, Begonias ... [et Al.] by Walter Page Wright (1911)
"... XXX ON phloxes BEAUTIFUL as a flower, and magnificent as a garden plant, the
Phlox is fortunately in a position to arouse interest by its own merits. ..."
6. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1899)
"A Revision of the Western North American phloxes" is the title of a valuable
contribution by Elias Nelson, of the University of Wyoming. ..."
7. Landscape in American Poetry by Lucy Larcom (1879)
"... Mrs. Celia Thaxter, of whose sea-swept garden the artist gives us a glimpse :
Come out into the garden, where the crimson phloxes burn, ..."
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