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Definition of Cottage pink
1. Noun. European pink cultivated for its very fragrant pink or rosy flowers.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cottage Pink
Literary usage of Cottage pink
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds: Design and Arrangement Shown by by William Robinson (1907)
"Chrysanthemum "cottage pink." Star, Prince of Yellows, Canariense, and Charming.
Blush and Pink.—Florence, Mary Anderson, America, and Crushed Strawberry. ..."
2. The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds: Design and Arrangement Shown by by William Robinson, F. L. S., William Robinson (1906)
"Chrysanthemum "cottage pink." Star, Prince of Yellows, Canariense, and Charming.
Blush ana Pink.—Florence, Mary Anderson, America, and Crushed Strawberry. ..."
3. Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working by Gertrude Jekyll (1904)
"The best of all is a kind frequent in neighbouring cottage-gardens, and known
hereabouts as cottage pink. I believe it is identical with Emperor of China, ..."
4. Gardens of England by Ernest Thomas Cook (1908)
"How beautiful the old cottage pink is in many an English village, the flowers of
that soft quiet pink, which has a certain brightness without any tendency ..."
5. Annals of Horticulture in North America for the Year ...: A Witness of by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1890)
"15, Dec. 15. — Amy Furze, Gar. World, Oct. 26. — Baron d1 Avene, Hort. Beige, Feb.
— Bendigo, Vick's Mag., Nov. — cottage pink, Garden, Jan. 26. ..."
6. The English Flower Garden: Design, Arrangement and Plans Followed by a by William Robinson (1895)
"They are invaluable Chrysanthemum "cottage pink.' Michael, Golden Circle, Nelly
Rainford, Charles Dickens. : Crimson. ..."
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