Lexicographical Neighbors of Coprosmas
Literary usage of Coprosmas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1888)
"The variegated and plain coprosmas, having thick glossy foliage; the Arundo donax,
a mammoth variegated grass, having canes similar to a bamboo; ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"coprosmas are greenhouse plants in the north, but they are rarely cult. In S.
Calif. 2 species are cult. in the open. Prop, by hardened cuttings. ..."
3. The Maori Race by Edward Tregear (1904)
"... the steeping in hinau solution only being the mordant process. Yellow, a colour
little used, was obtained from the barks of the coprosmas, karamu and ..."
4. Under the Sky in California by Charles Francis Saunders (1913)
"It is a huge caravansary built four-square about the seclusion of an entrancing
garden-court open to the sky and planted with palms, coprosmas, ..."
5. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"... corolla-limb 4-5-lobed, the lobes revolute: coprosmas are greenhouse plants
in the North, but they are rarely cultivated. ..."
6. London Society edited by James Hogg, Florence Marryat (1878)
"All these coprosmas are very handsome evergreens, and I stand up for them because
they are ill-used and calumniated plants. The name given to them is a ..."
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