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Example sentences for "floriferous"

Lexicographically close words:
floribus; floricultural; floriculture; florid; floridanus; florin; florins; florish; florist; florists
  1. For the rock garden it is a gem of the first water, its habit being dwarf, dense, and rigid; floriferous as many of the Bellflowers are, I know none to excel this one.

  2. A very hardy alpine from France, and one of the most floriferous subjects that can be placed on rockwork, where should be its position.

  3. The floriferous character of the plant may be inferred from the fact that, after the raceme fades, there pushes from the axil a peduncle, which, in a short time, produces many other racemes.

  4. Keep them cool and shaded for a couple of weeks, cut down the tops, and they will send up a vigorous and floriferous growth.

  5. Pruning is necessary to keep plants in shape, to make them more floriferous and fruitful, and to hold them within bounds.

  6. One of my friends was greatly disappointed on returning to his garden early in September to find that it was not so full and floriferous as when he left it in July.

  7. The lady was sitting up with her floriferous hat in her lap, shockingly neglected.

  8. It makes a charming small-growing tree, is of free growth and perfectly hardy, and one of, if not the most, floriferous of the tribe.

  9. The latter is of more robust growth, and more floriferous than the species.

  10. The wife was a pretty woman in brown with a floriferous straw hat, and the group was altogether very Sundayfied and shiny and spick and span.

  11. He was to come in to tea, and Mrs. Larkins, exuberantly genial in a floriferous but dingy flannel dressing gown, appeared to confirm that.

  12. Such a partial change from a floriferous to a foliiferous branch may be seen in a specimen of Sambucus nigra in the Smithian herbarium in the Linnean Society, where the ultimate branches of the cyme bear small leaves.

  13. The axial nature of the nucleus has been inferred from its position, mode of growth, and from its occasionally lengthening into a leafy or even a floriferous shoot.

  14. The plants are unusually floriferous and continue in bloom for a long time.

  15. The seedlings offer the advantage of being far more floriferous than plants that have been propagated by the orthodox method, and they are quite immune from the disease which often decimates stocks raised from layers and cuttings.

  16. This altered method of culture has resulted in a marked advance in the size and colour of the spikes of bloom, and has also increased the vigour and floriferous character of the plants.


  17. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "floriferous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.