"Portulaca" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... cents if they were worth one,—these were as books to them indoors; and out in the tiny garden, where they played wild horse and wild cow, and lay in ambush for butterflies, they came under the spell of marigolds, prince's-feathers, lady-slippers, immortelles, portulaca, jonquil, lavender, althaea, love-apples, sage, violets, amaryllis, and that grass ribbon they call jarretiere de ...
— Bonaventure - A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana • George Washington Cable |
