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Definition of Silphiums
1. silphium [n] - See also: silphium
Lexicographical Neighbors of Silphiums
Literary usage of Silphiums
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Landscape Gardening: Notes and Suggestions on Lawns and Lawn Planting by Samuel Parsons (1891)
"The silphiums are large-growing coarse plants, with sunflower-like blossoms, in
summer requiring places in the background with plenty of room. ..."
2. Landscape Gardening: Notes and Suggestions on Lawns and Lawn Planting by Samuel Parsons (1895)
"The silphiums are large-growing coarse plants, with sunflower-like blossoms, in
summer requiring places in the background with plenty of room. ..."
3. The Garden's Story: For Pleasures and Trials of an Amateur Gardener by George Herman Ellwanger (1889)
"The proper place for most of the silphiums is the rear garden, or the edge of a
... none of which take the place of the Helianthus or some of the silphiums, ..."
4. The Garden's Story: For Pleasures and Trials of an Amateur Gardener by George Herman Ellwanger (1889)
"The proper place for most of the silphiums is the rear garden, or the edge of a
... or some of the silphiums. Helianthus rigidus, generally known as Har- ..."
5. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"... even silphiums and late- flowering asters should be planted at the back; in
front of these, the phlox in separate colors, or at most two colors together ..."
6. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1880)
"... ,'silphiums, and numberless other fine North American plants, all so easily
grown and so handsome, should be entirely neglected in English gardens, ..."
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