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Examples
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Our Chelone is in about the same stage, I just planted it last year and am happy to see it returning.
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You will love the Butterfly weed too, a noble plant, like the Chelone.
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Pink turtlehead, Chelone obliqua is just beginning to bloom.
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Red turtlehead, Chelone obliqua is just beginning to open.
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I'd like to grow Chelone, but I've always thought they'd suffer in my very well drained soil.
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Tortoises, including the Chelone and the several kinds of Emys.
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(Flower normally irregular, becoming regular "à force d'irregularité.") -- _Chelone_, Chamisso,
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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_Chelone_; [402] Bentham in _Melittis_, and other instances are cited under the head of peloria.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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This would indicate one of the large sea turtles, and there is not much doubt that either the Loggerhead turtle (_Thalassochelys cephalo_) or the Hawksbill (_Chelone imbricata_) is here intended.
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Spotted yellow lilies and splendid Michaelmas daisies grow wild, and a lovely white flower, something like a white foxglove (a Chelone glabra!), which I hope will seed itself like a foxglove, and so be easily grown.
Leaves from Juliana Horatia Ewing's "Canada Home" Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1896
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