freshnesses

There were erect groups and rows of hollyhocks; monkshood offered its clusters of blue caps; striped tulips and crimson poppies flourished in beds of generous shapes; delicate astors, rich dahlias, and neat little bachelors 'buttons peeped in crowds from green freshnesses.

The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making Wilfrid Ch��teauclair

If Waterlow had a fault it was that his freshnesses were sometimes too crude.

The Reverberator Henry James 1879

But it's for the most part a patient, sturdy, sympathetic shabbiness, which soothes rather than irritates the nerves, and has in many cases doubtless as long a career to run as most of our pert and shallow freshnesses.

Italian Hours Henry James 1879