Lexicographical Neighbors of Gunneras
Literary usage of Gunneras
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Alpines and Bog-plants by Reginald John Farrer (1908)
"The effect is splendid and marmoreal. The gunneras do not waken my zeal to the
same extent. They are immense—' a formes architectu- rales'—like gigantic ..."
2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1915)
"A thick, grayish, sticky, liquid balsam obtained in Asia Minor from the oriental
sweet gunneras are striking herbs, and with protection the two first ..."
3. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"gunneras are perhaps the noblest of all lawn foliage plants. To produce satisfactory
effects, rich, moist ground is indispensable. ..."
4. The Wild Garden: Or the Naturalization and Natural Grouping of Hardy Exotic by William Robinson (1903)
"It is one of the finest plants in a wild garden in Oxfordshire of about 5 acres,
associated with Rheums, Ferulas, gunneras, Centaurea babylonica, ..."
5. The English Rock-garden by Reginald John Farrer (1919)
"... have their places beside the water, there are a number of small gunneras that
are as tiny and neat as their brothers are vast and tropical. ..."
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