Crocus Sentence Examples

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  • I noticed some crocus and daffodils coming up in the front.

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  • Tofieldia, an arctic and alpine genus of small herbs with a slender scape springing from a tuft of narrow ensiform leaves and bearing a raceme of small green flowers; Narthecium (bog-asphodel), herbs with a habit similar to Tofieldia, but with larger golden-yellow flowers; and Colchicum, a genus with about 30 species including b the meadow saffron or autumn crocus (C. autumnale).

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  • Crocus in flower, reduced.

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  • The autumn crocus is a different plant, from the lily family.

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  • It started with Crocus and Jonquils and then the fruit trees as the weather grew warmer.

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  • The purple flower, which blooms late in autumn, is very similar to that of the common spring crocus, and the stigmas, which are protruded from the perianth, are of a characteristic orange-red colour.

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  • According to Hehn, the town derived its name from the crocus; Reymond, on the other hand, with more probability, holds that the name of the drug arose from that of the town.

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  • The barbarians gradually became part of the Roman population; they permeated the army, until after Theodosius they recruited it exclusively; they permeated civilian society as colonists and agriculturists, till the command of the army and of important public duties was given over to a Stiicho or a Crocus.

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  • In addition, there is a very fine abrasive called crocus cloth which can also be used in the near final stages.

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  • To include color after the salad burnet has finished flowering, plant bulbs and corms such as spring and autumn crocus.

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  • If you've bought something from Crocus before you can use the express checkout as we'll already have your address and what-have-you.

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  • Herbs that may be helpful Autumn crocus (Colchicum autumnale) is the herb from which the drug colchicine was originally isolated.

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  • On the last day, 31st, the first yellow crocus has appeared.

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  • I can recall in February, the real kick of wonder I got from the first crocus, pale lilac silk in the sun.

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  • Spring flowering bulbs were covered too, these lilac and white crocus almost disappeared.

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  • Crocus banaticus & fly crocus banaticus & fly Crocus time is here again.

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  • Crocus sativus corms Talking of problems, I always have problems with crocus sativus corms Talking of problems, I always have problems with Crocus sativus.

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  • Crocus vallicola leaves In the outside frame the leaves of crocus vallicola leaves In the outside frame the leaves of Crocus vallicola, which flowered some months ago, are just starting to appear.

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  • In Greek legend, Crocus was a beautiful young man who played a game of quoits in with the messenger god, Mercury.

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  • Under plant them with crocus and daffodils and they look quite heavenly.

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  • The cargo ship War Crocus left the shipyard for the first time on the evening of 7th July 1918.

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  • Saffron, as a herb, is made from the dried stamen of the crocus and is widely used in the oriental kitchen.

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  • The species of crocus are not very readily obtainable, but those who make a specialty of hardy bulbs ought certainly to search them out and grow them.

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  • The chief difference from the netted Iris is in the bulb and leaves, which are narrow, linear, deeply channelled on the inner face, with a central band or rib like a Crocus leaf, and pale green without the glaucous tint usual to this group.

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  • Lily-of-the-Field (Sternbergia) - Charming hardy bulbs with flowers of firm texture, better able to withstand bad weather than the Autumn Crocus.

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  • Colchicum Autumnale - ommonly called the autumn Crocus.

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  • Crocus are also a lovely favorite for late winter and early spring.

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  • Not only is fall the time to plant all those gorgeous bulbs that blossom in the springtime - tulips, daffodils, hyacinth, crocus and so many more - but perennials love the fall, too.

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  • Gardeners should also consider where they wish to plant spring flowering bulbs such as tulips, crocus, narcissus and daffodils, for each of these bulbs must be planted in the fall.

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  • Look around the flower garden and think about the best places to add tulips, daffodils and crocus.

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  • These crocuses of the flower garden are mostly horticultural varieties of C. vernus, C. versicolor and C. aureus (Dutch crocus), the two former yielding the white, purple and striped, and the latter the yellow varieties.

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  • Petroleum was discovered on Little Rennick's Creek, near Burkesville, in Cumberland county, in 1829, when a flowing oil well (the " American well," whose product was sold as " American oil " to heal rheumatism, burns, &c.) was struck by men boring for a "salt well," and after a second discovery in the 'sixties at the mouth of Crocus Creek a small but steady amount of oil was got each year.

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  • Besides these there are the various spring-flowering bulbs, such as the varieties of Hyacinthus, Tulipa, Narcissus, Fritillaria, Muscari or Grape Hyacinth, Crocus, Scilla, Chionodoxa and Galanthus or Snowdrop.

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  • Dutch bulbs, such as hyacinths, tulips, crocus, &c., and most of the varieties of lilies, may be planted.

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  • The members of this order are generally perennial herbs growing from a corm as in Crocus and Gladiolus, or a rhizome as in Iris; more rarely, as in the Spanish iris, from a bulb.

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  • The most important genera are Crocus (q.v.), with about 70 species, Iris (q.v.), with about ioo, and Gladiolus (q.v.), with 150.

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  • The next events that are recorded by the oldest chroniclers, such as Cosmas, refer to the foundation of a Bohemian principality by Krok (or Crocus) and his daughter Libussa.

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  • Thus, in the tulip, crocus, lily, speak of the parts of the perianth, in place of corolla, although in these plants there is an outer whorl (calyx), of three parts, and an inner (corolla), of a similar number, alternating with them.

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  • Taken from the saffron crocus (Crocus sativus), saffron refers to the dried stigmas of the flower.

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  • The crocus succeeds in any fairly good garden soil, and is usually planted near the edges of beds or borders in the flower garden, or in broadish patches at intervals along the mixed borders.

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  • The same mode of increase occurs in the gladiolus and crocus, but their bulb-like permanent parts are called corms, not bulbs.

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