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Definition of Perennials
1. perennial [n] - See also: perennial
Lexicographical Neighbors of Perennials
Literary usage of Perennials
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. How to Make a Flower Garden: A Manual of Practical Information and Suggestions by Wilhelm Miller (1903)
"Six perennials from three to four feet high: Adam's Needle, Yucca filamentosa.
... Six perennials from four to six feet high: Coneflower, Rudbeckia maxima. ..."
2. Plant Life and Plant Uses: An Elementary Textbook, a Foundation for the by John Gaylord Coulter (1913)
"Annuals, Biennials, and perennials. — The length of the life of a plant depends
principally upon the length of the life of its roots. ..."
3. Gardening for Pleasure: A Guide to the Amateur in the Fruit, Vegetable, and by Peter Henderson (1883)
"HARDY HERBACEOUS perennials. f Herbaceous perennials include those hardy plants,
... Recently the taste for perennials has revived, and while they cannot ..."
4. Gardening for Pleasure: A Guide to the Amateur in the Fruit, Vegetable, and by Peter Henderson (1884)
"HARDY HERBACEOUS perennials. Herbaceous perennials include those hardy plants
... Recently the taste for perennials has revived, and while they cannot servo ..."
5. Structural Botany: Or Organography on the Basis of Morphology. To which is by Asa Gray (1879)
"But in most perennials with only fibrous roots, these are produced anew from ...
When perennials store up nutritive matter underground, the deposit is more ..."
6. Flora of the Rocky Mountains and Adjacent Plains, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming by Per Axel Rydberg (1917)
"Achenes 3-winged; perianth not accrescent; perennials with a thick taproot and
... Involucres in branching cymes ; perennials with a branched woody caudex ..."
7. Studies in Gardening by Arthur Clutton-Brock (1916)
"RAISING perennials FROM SEED MOST gardeners show curiously little enterprise in
the matter of raising perennial plants from seed. ..."
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