"New Flower" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... or four days I would go up the ravine, and search carefully for any new flower or shrub which I had not yet planted in my garden, and when I found one, as I often did, it was a ...
— The Little Savage • Captain Marryat
... orange will simultaneously fill out the garden areas. At first yellow pansies and daffodils had control, to be replaced in due season by the uniform appearance of tulips, hyacinths, and successions of other flowers. This progressive appearance of new flower carpets will provide ever-changing elements of interest throughout the entire period ...
— The Art of the Exposition • Eugen Neuhaus
... therefore at the far end of the village, across one of the rare small gardens (in which this first winter I discovered with rapture the magenta stars of a new flower, hepatica)—a shop-window displayed a thin row of plates and dishes, cups and saucers; above it was painted the name of Burmington. This china-shop was the property of three orphan sisters, Ann, Mary Grace, and ...
— Father and Son • Edmund Gosse
... how Zenobia contrived it—that she had always a new flower in her hair. And still it was a hot-house flower,—an outlandish flower,—a flower of the tropics, such as appeared to have sprung passionately out of a soil the very weeds of which would be fervid and spicy. Unlike as was the flower of each successive day to the preceding one, it yet so assimilated ...
— The Blithedale Romance • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... criticism that would stop to note the impossibility; yet was it a great truth, the garden was his own heart, and his every wish a new flower. ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. • Various |
