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Definition of Garden heliotrope
1. Noun. Tall rhizomatous plant having very fragrant flowers and rhizomes used medicinally.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Garden Heliotrope
Literary usage of Garden heliotrope
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"garden heliotrope. CAT'S VALERIAN. ST. ... The medicinal valerian is obtained
mostly from the roots of this species. 2632. garden heliotrope ..."
2. My Garden by Louise Beebe Wilder (1916)
"garden heliotrope (Valeriana officinalis) is a special favourite. It bears a flat
head of pinkish lacelike bloom at the end of its four feet of slender stem ..."
3. The Seasons in a Flower Garden: A Handbook of Information and Instruction by Louise Shelton (1907)
"... Columbine, Pyre- thrums, Ranunculus, a few German Irises, Lupine, Clove Pinks,
garden heliotrope, and Pansies come forth in strong contrasts, ..."
4. The American Flower Garden by Neltje Blanchan, Leonard Barron (1909)
"... sweet Williams and herbaceous peonies of richer hue than Jacqueminot roses,
or down to the pinkish gray-white of garden heliotrope (Valerian) and the ..."
5. The American Cyclopædia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1878)
"garden heliotrope, so called, XVI. 245, 1 c. Heliotrope, instrument : see HELIOSTAT.
Invention of, VII. 649, 2 b. Heliotrope, variety of quartz, IX. ..."
6. Old Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth by Alice Morse Earle (1902)
"... be named An Old-fashioned Garden unless it contains that beautiful plant the
Garden Valerian, known throughout New England to-day as garden heliotrope; ..."
7. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"garden heliotrope. CAT'S VALERIAN. ST. ... The medicinal valerian is obtained
mostly from the roots of this species. 2632. garden heliotrope ..."
8. My Garden by Louise Beebe Wilder (1916)
"garden heliotrope (Valeriana officinalis) is a special favourite. It bears a flat
head of pinkish lacelike bloom at the end of its four feet of slender stem ..."
9. The Seasons in a Flower Garden: A Handbook of Information and Instruction by Louise Shelton (1907)
"... Columbine, Pyre- thrums, Ranunculus, a few German Irises, Lupine, Clove Pinks,
garden heliotrope, and Pansies come forth in strong contrasts, ..."
10. The American Flower Garden by Neltje Blanchan, Leonard Barron (1909)
"... sweet Williams and herbaceous peonies of richer hue than Jacqueminot roses,
or down to the pinkish gray-white of garden heliotrope (Valerian) and the ..."
11. The American Cyclopædia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1878)
"garden heliotrope, so called, XVI. 245, 1 c. Heliotrope, instrument : see HELIOSTAT.
Invention of, VII. 649, 2 b. Heliotrope, variety of quartz, IX. ..."
12. Old Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth by Alice Morse Earle (1902)
"... be named An Old-fashioned Garden unless it contains that beautiful plant the
Garden Valerian, known throughout New England to-day as garden heliotrope; ..."
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