Word: dogwoods
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...succession the solid gold shield of the Holland Bulb Exporters Association went to Marshall Field for a bulb garden arranged by his able superintendent, George H. Gillies. Flaming tulips lined a green turf path to a stone bench by a mellow brick wall shaded by flowering lilac, rhododendrons, laurel, dogwood...
...live in one of the most barren cities on the continent poured in to look at gardens, beautiful gardens unlike anything that ever grew in open air, as artificial as New York itself. Here were living tulips as big as cocoanuts, roses big as lettuce heads, dogwood trees blooming six weeks before their time, orchid sprays like swarms of giant and amorous insects...
...devised a special code before leaving England in which radio messages are sent to her concerning the health of her baby, Princess Elizabeth, now under the personal care of the Queen-Empress Mary. Flower names were chosen by the Duchess as baby code words. Rose: well and happy. Dogwood: whooping cough. Lily: sleeps well. Snapdragon: colic...
...Manhattan. It is always afternoon in Montauk; there whisper trees more shadowy than any that ever stooped their boughs in Eden; gods live there and fairies, so says the brush of Mr. Hassam. Diana as Spring bursts arrowy-footed through the wood, paling with her whiteness the white dogwood blossom; in The Grove of Aphrodite nymphs move to pipes unseen, sentineled by poplars; Dryads dance upon a blowy hill against a far horizon. It is not strange, then, that one of Mr. Hassam's canvasses should depict no less a scene than Adam and Eve Walking out in Montauk...