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Definition of Gypsophilas
1. gypsophila [n] - See also: gypsophila
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gypsophilas
Literary usage of Gypsophilas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"gypsophilas, which are used for the same purpose, bloom'later. They have an equal
infinity of detail, which baffles the eye to comprehend. ..."
2. The Little Garden by Francis King (1921)
"... blues of eryngium and echinops, and in the lovely lavenders of ageratum; but
in the blue garden the cream-white zinnia, gypsophilas, single and double, ..."
3. The Well-considered Garden by Francis King, Louisa Yeomans King (1915)
"petals above the rounding gypsophilas in whose lacy masses some poppies softly
bloom. So like are the poppies to the individual hollyhock flowers that it is ..."
4. Alpines and Bog-plants by Reginald John Farrer (1908)
"Of the gypsophilas, no sane person would admit paniculata or any of the big
rampant species to the rock- garden. But repens (or prostrata) is a valuable ..."
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