calliopsis

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• Away at one end were the beds of old-fashioned flowers: hollyhocks and phlox and stocks coreopsis and calliopsis, calendula and campanula, fox-gloves and monks-hoods and lady-slippers. —  Days Off And Other Digressions
• Away at one end were the beds of old-fashioned flowers: hollyhocks and phlox and stocks, coreopsis and calliopsis, calendula and campanula, fox-gloves and monks-hoods and lady-slippers. —  Days Off And Other Digressions
• _ -- African daisy, ageratum, aster, calendula, calliopsis, balsam, candytuft, cornflower, cosmos, marigold, mignonette, nasturtium, petunia, poppy, stock, sweet alyssum, sweet-pea, verbena, zinnia, annual phlox, red sunflower, cut-and-come-again sunflower. —  Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools
• Flowers we would have pretty much every-where -- hollyhocks in odd corners; delphinium and foxglove along the stone walls; bunches of calliopsis and bleeding-heart and peonies; borders of phlox and alyssum; beds of sweet-williams and corn-flowers and columbines -- all those lovely, old-fashioned things, with the loveliest old-fashioned names in the world. —  Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm
• And we had banks of calliopsis and sunflowers -- the small sunflowers of Kansas, that bloom a hundred or more to a stalk -- and tall phlox whose fragrance carries one back to some far, forgotten childhood. —  Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm

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