Definition of Gaillardias

1. gaillardia [n] - See also: gaillardia

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gaillardias

gaidic
gaidic acid
gaidonnayite
gaids
gaieties
gaiety
gaijin
gaijin card
gaijin rikishi
gaijins
gailan
gailer
gailers
gaillard
gaillardia
gaillardias (current term)
gailliarde
gailliardes
gaily
gain
gain'd
gain-
gain-sharing
gain line
gain lines
gain vigor
gainable
gainand
gainbirth

Literary usage of Gaillardias

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"gaillardias lance-shaped, slightly toothed. Flower-heads nearly 4 inches across ; ray-florets drooping, reddish purple ; disk dark brown ; August and ..."

2. Rural Affairs by John Jacob Thomas (1863)
"The gaillardias are not new, and yet are not as generally cultivated as their merits warrant. For making a good and constant show they deserve to be classed ..."

3. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"gaillardias are popular and worthy garden plants. ... Amongst hardy perennial plants, gaillardias are conspicuous for profusion and duration of flowers. ..."

4. Putnam's Garden Handbook by Mae Savell Croy (1917)
"gaillardias require a fertile but light and well drained soil. Where gaillardias are growing in the garden, try making cuttings from them for plants for ..."

5. A Practical Guide to Garden Plants by John Weathers (1901)
"During the summer and autumn months gaillardias—both annual and perennial ... —gaillardias thrive in rich loamy soil, well dug and manured before planting, ..."

6. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1915)
"The gaillardias are conspicuous for profusion and duration of flowers. ... Perennial gaillardias: fls. normally yellow. aristata, Pursh (G. grandiflora, ..."

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