- This term is chiefly applied to those summerflowering plants, such as ivy-leaved and zonal pelargoniums, petunias, dwarf lobelias, verbenas, &c., which are employed in masses for filling the beds of a geometrical parterre.   anvd [Please select]

"The pansies are almost gone, but there are plenty of roses yet, and verbenas, and mignonette, and lots of things."   anvd [Please select]

Beatrice glanced through the open window to the bed of verbenas, over which hovered a large butterfly.   anvd [Please select]

"Sister Bult gave me the verbenas, there, and the white pinks were a present from Miss Stevens."   anvd [Please select]

For instance, our Roses, Petunias, Calceolarias, Fuchsias, Verbenas, Gladioli, Pelargoniums, &c.   anvd [Please select]

Dark-coloured pelargoniums and verbenas are more scorched by the sun than varieties of other colours.   anvd [Please select]

Then came larkspur, peonies, stocks, and sweet-williams, verbenas and mignonette, with borders of lobelia and heliotrope.   anvd [Please select]