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Example sentences for "hydrangea"

  • On one of the pinkish blooms of the hydrangea he noted a bee--of all things, in this hidden-away garden of tiles and gravel and plants in tubs!

  • One had settled on the hydrangea plant that filled the hearth.

  • The general effect was silvery with touches of black, hydrangea colour, and gold.

  • A piano-organ far away was grinding out a waltz; and on an hydrangea tub, under the drawing-room window, he sat down to listen.

  • Close to the open windows where Markey had placed two hydrangea plants--just bought on his own responsibility, in token of silent satisfaction--Gyp began.

  • The rose of the hydrangea inclines to blue, while that of the rose tends rather toward yellow.

  • What on earth has happened to your hydrangea bush?

  • Then she dug her hands into her sweater pockets and stared across the lawn at a blue hydrangea bush with a single remaining bunch of blossoms hanging heavy on its stem.

  • Hydrangea has diuretic properties and is said to have been much used by the Cherokees and early settlers in calculous complaints.

  • Habitat and Range--Hydrangea frequents rocky river banks and ravines from the southern part of New York to Florida, and westward to Iowa and Missouri, being especially abundant in the valley of the Delaware and southward.

  • It belongs to the hydrangea family (Hydrangeaceae).

  • Sometimes hydrangea will flower a second time early in fall.

  • Description of Plant--Hydrangea is an indigenous shrub, 5 to 6 feet or more in height, with weak twigs, slender leaf stems and thin leaves.

  • He stood and looked at it, thinking of the days when little Gladys used to play "house" beneath one of the umbrella-shaped hydrangea bushes.

  • He was abreast of the two hydrangea trees before he saw her.

  • Two hydrangea trees, shaped like open umbrellas, and covered now with white blossoms fading to rose, stood one on each side of the front door in the center of two tiny grassplots.

  • She knew it by the way he stared at the hydrangea bush, or by the fact that he had renounced his search for another job so early in the afternoon.

  • He merely walked to the end of the room, his hands in his pockets, as he stared above one of the hydrangea trees into Indiana Avenue.

  • I am told that the first Chinese Wistarias and a certain Fringe tree were sold in this manner; and I know the white Hydrangea was, for I recall it, though I do not know that this was its first sale.

  • But her hydrangea blossom is more interesting than all the rest put together.

  • A hydrangea has no scent; that is why we get tired of it, for all its loveliness.

  • Hydrangea Alaska is a more recent acquisition.

  • Hydrangea Thomas Hogg would be a very unpoetical name did it not remind one of "The Ettrick Shepherd.

  • On Western prairies blossoms the deep pink prairie rose, the only native climbing rose of the States, and on rocky banks in Pennsylvania woods may be found the beautiful wild hydrangea flowers, silvery white or rose-color.

  • Ficus repens far south; others that cling less closely are trumpet creeper, and climbing hydrangea (Schizophragma hydrangeoides).

  • Hydrangea hortensis is a well known plant, and much esteemed for its great profusion of very elegant, though monstrous, flowers.

  • At the same elevation and indeed below us, but on other ridges, cedars were seen in abundance: Hydrangea and Hydrangeacea calyptrata, Epilobium sp.

  • I met with Hydrangea exaltata along a torrent flowing into the main-feeder of the Boga Panee, and two other Araliaceae.

  • As we walked up into the hills--the kuruma men were sent by an easier route--we passed plenty of sweet chestnuts and saw large masses of blue single hydrangea and white and pink spirea.

  • We had both alighted from the car and had placed ourselves, one on each side, to roll it out of the embraces of the hydrangea bush.

  • Several species of Hydrangea and Viburnum offer striking instances of the same fact.

  • We see this well-illustrated in Hydrangea and Viburnum; for when these plants are cultivated, the corollas of both the interior and exterior flowers become largely developed, and their reproductive organs are aborted.

  • They turned between stone pillars supporting a lighted grill, advanced over a winding driveway to Hydrangea House, where they waited for a motor to move from the brilliantly-illuminated portal.

  • Now that Hydrangea House is open again we must have our friends about us.

  • The impulse almost mastered him to go once more to Hydrangea House, but pride prevented; his unhappiness hardened, grew bitter, suspicious.

  • In the basketlike cart they swung easily over the road toward Hydrangea House.

  • Across the dim valley, against the hills merged into the night and sky, he could see glimmering the low lights of Hydrangea House.

  • XXI LATER he dressed with scrupulous exactitude, and proceeded directly to Hydrangea House.

  • Anthony stood on the last, swinging platform, gazing back at the gloom that enveloped Ellerton, at the place where Hydrangea House was hid by the hills.

  • He was aware that the mail for Hydrangea House was collected before noon, and he sat expectantly in the room overlooking the street.

  • Beyond the illuminated entrance to Hydrangea House the countryside lay profoundly dim to where the horizon flared with the pale reflection of distant lightning.

  • In the hall the gloom of evening was deepened into darkness that made her face indistinct, like the glimmering whiteness of the hydrangea blooms in that past romantic night.

  • They were near the door opening to the illumined garden, with its late roses, now at their best, and hydrangea clumps plumed in foggy bloom.

  • The shoots of the Hydrangea should be well thinned, and those left cut hard back in the spring.

  • By some the Hydrangea is grown as a standard, and is very effective when in beauty.

  • The many varieties of the common Hydrangea are all valuable for the greenhouse, particularly Cyanoclada, Mariesii, Rosea, Stellata, and Thomas Hogg.

  • Compound cyme of Hydrangea arborescens, with neutral enlarged flowers round the circumference.


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