houstonias

The popped corn is a perfect winter flower, hinting of anemones and houstonias. . .

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

The popped corn is a perfect winter flower, hinting of anemones and houstonias. . .

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

Gazing down upon it, it was clear brown, with glancing gleams of interior green, and sparkles diamond white; tiny fishes switched themselves against the current with quivering tails; the shaggy margins were flecked with sunshine, and beautiful with columbines, violets, arbutus, and houstonias.

Hawthorne and His Circle Julian Hawthorne 1890

In spring there was the issuing forth of the new life from beneath the winter coverlid; the first discovery of sociable houstonias, and the exquisite tints and fragrance of the mayflower on its dark, bearded stalk.

Hawthorne and His Circle Julian Hawthorne 1890

He might see ten thousand marsh marigolds, or ten times ten thousand houstonias, but they would not toss in the breeze, and they would not be sweet - scented like the daffodils.

The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton John Burroughs 1879

The annual resurrection had begun; the pulse of Nature quickened, rose, throbbed under the vernal summons; pale, tender grass-blades peeped above the mould, houstonias lifted their blue disks to the

At the Mercy of Tiberius 1872

It was a windless, sunny April afternoon; trees were freshly robed in new-born fringy foliage, green and glistening; long grassy slopes looked like crinkled velvet, starred with delicate pale blue houstonias; wandering woodbine trailed its coral trumpets in and out of grass and tangled shrubs, and late wood-azaleas loaded the air with their delicious, intoxicating perfume.

Macaria; or, Altars of Sacrifice Augusta Jane 1864

They had found anemones in abundance, houstonias by the handful, some columbines, a few long-stalked violets, and a quantity of white everlasting flowers, and had filled up their basket with the delicate spray of shrubs and trees.

The Blithedale Romance Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

The popped corn is a perfect winter flower, hinting of anemones and houstonias ....

The Kitchn 2009

-- large blue violets, the like of which you never saw; white violets, too, creamy and fragrant; gentle little houstonias; gay and dancing erythroniums, and wind-flowers delicately tinted, blue, straw-color, pink, and purple.

The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories William Patten 1902