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Definition of Picotees
1. picotee [n] - See also: picotee
Lexicographical Neighbors of Picotees
Literary usage of Picotees
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine by Nathaniel Lloyd and Company (1892)
"... firm of London nurserymen brought under my notice young plants of Carnations
and picotees which were being damaged or destroyed by grubs of a ..."
2. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and by C M Hovey (1850)
"CARNATIONS AND picotees, in frames, should be aired in fine weather. Seeds may
be sown now, in pans, in hot beds. HYACINTH AND TULIP BEDS may be partially ..."
3. The Floral Magazine: Comprising Figures and Descriptions of Popular Garden by Thomas Moore, Walter Hood Fitch (1873)
"The remarkable season that we have had has affected the growth of picotees as
well as other things ; it has been found very difficult to strike them, ..."
4. The Florist and Garden Miscellany (1850)
"CARNATIONS AND picotees. MY grandfather (writes a respected ... But how poor were
the latter compared with the picotees and Carnations of the present day ! ..."
5. Handy Book of the Flower-garden by David Thomson (1893)
"Carnations and picotees.—By October the layers will be well rooted; and although
they are perfectly hardy, they are very subject to the attacks of slugs, ..."
6. Popular Garden Flowers: Anemones, Asters, Begonias ... [et Al.] by Walter Page Wright (1911)
"... VIII ON CARNATIONS, picotees, AND PINKS FROM the earliest times the Carnation
has interested flower-lovers deeply, and it interests them deeply to-day. ..."
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