"Phlox" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... leaves cast a shimmer of green, Against our whited walls, And in the phlox, the courteous bees, Are ...
— When Winter Comes to Main Street • Grant Martin Overton
... would mutter, standing among the white phlox of his little back garden. "He'll get me. He ...
— A Poor Wise Man • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... thriving grove of lilac bushes spreads its dusty shade from wall to wall. Winter-killed shrubs of flowering almond or snowballs, planted in tender memory, stand now withered and unheeded, and the few straggling garden flowers—crimson phlox or single hollyhocks—that still live only painfully accent the loneliness by showing that this now forgotten spot was once loved, visited, and ...
— Customs and Fashions in Old New England • Alice Morse Earle
... would like to exchange flower seeds with any little girl in California or Florida. I have verbenas, mixed phlox, four-o'clocks, sweet-williams, balsams, alyssum, salvia, mignonette, and red and ...
— Harper's Young People, October 12, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
... see the shallow garden dammed up to the house out of the green field by its wall, spilling trails of mauve campanula, brimming with pink phlox and white phlox, the blue spires of the lupins piercing up through ...
— The Romantic • May Sinclair
... peonies, phlox, and hollyhocks raised and manure worked in. All the trees must be pruned, the bushes and vines trimmed, and the gooseberries, currants, and raspberries thinned. The strawberry bed must be fixed up, and the rhubarb and asparagus spaded ...
— At the Foot of the Rainbow • Gene Stratton-Porter
... Gaudy phlox and flaunting rose, Stiff and straight and on their toes, And, blaring from the garden wall, The ...
— Songs for Parents • John Farrar |
