¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Photinias
1. photinia [n] - See also: photinia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Photinias
Literary usage of Photinias
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"The photinias in cultivation arc shrubs, rarely trees, with rather large evergreen
or smaller deciduous leaves turning scarlet or deep red in fall and with ..."
2. A Practical Guide to Garden Plants: Containing Descriptions of the Hardiest by John Weathers (1901)
"A genus of evergreen or deciduous shrubs closely resembling the photinias and
almost identical with them in structure. The leaves are usually more or less ..."
3. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"The photinias are not very particular as to soil, but thrive best in a rather
light, sandy loam, ..."
4. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1856)
"In the open ground are to be seen growing freely, large patches of the rarer
sorts of Arbutus, Hollies, photinias, and many of that better class of shrubs ..."
5. Ornamental Shrubs of the United States (hardy, Cultivated) by Austin Craig Apgar (1910)
"The photinias are tall shrubs or small trees from China and Japan with simple
alternate usually notched leaves and small white flowers in large white ..."
6. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"... grown as standards, or kept for several years as pot-plants. photinias Natural
Order ROSACE/Ë. Genus Photinia (including ..."
7. The Land of the Blue Gown [China] by Archibald Little (1908)
"It is very fine, though not in the least grand. Its feature, or one of its
features, is its magnificent tallow trees. Laurel-like photinias, one arch of ..."
Other Resources:
