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Definition of Scarlet lychnis
1. Noun. Eurasian garden perennial having scarlet flowers in dense terminal heads.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scarlet Lychnis
Literary usage of Scarlet lychnis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Landscape Gardening: Notes and Suggestions on Lawns and Lawn Planting by Samuel Parsons (1891)
"... scarlet lychnis, or Maltese cross, comes from Russia, and grows two to ...
.1 DOUBLE scarlet lychnis. ..."
2. Landscape Gardening: Notes and Suggestions on Lawns and Lawn Planting by Samuel Parsons (1895)
"This is one of the oldest as well as one of the most brilliant of hardy garden
plants. It has been neglected for much less DOUBLE scarlet lychnis. showy ..."
3. The Garden: An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Gardening in All Its Branches by William Robinson, Esther Baldwin York (1903)
"Its more common name in recent years has been simply that of the " Scarlet
Lychnis," a term which expresses graphically, when we are aware of the supposed ..."
4. The Ladies' Flower-garden of Ornamental Perennials by Loudon (Jane) (1843)
"THE scarlet lychnis. ENGRAVINGS.—Bot. Mag. t. 257 ; and oar fig. 1 in Plate 26.
SPECIFIC С» »клети! ... The culture of the scarlet lychnis is very simple. ..."
5. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"Here Aristotle and his disciples taught, and were called peripatetics from their
habit of walking up and down its porches while lecturing. scarlet lychnis ..."
6. The Flower Garden: Or, Breck's Book of Flowers ; in which are Described All by Joseph Breck (1859)
"scarlet lychnis. — This is common in most gardens, under the name of ... One of
the most splendid decorations of the border is the Double scarlet lychnis. ..."
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