crown-imperial

“Then take a considerable number of bulbs of the crown-imperial, the narcissus, the hyacinth, the tulip, the crocus, and others; let the leaves of each have sprouted to about an inch, more or less according to the size of the bulb; put all these, pretty promiscuously, but pretty thickly, on the top of the box.”

Highways & Byways in Sussex

“It was not the simplicity of the hedge-row any more than of the hothouse; it was rather that of some classic flower, lavender or crown-imperial, growing from an ancient stock in some dignified, long-tended garden.”

The Street Called Straight

“It was thus a simplicity closely allied to sturdiness -- the inner sturdiness not inconsistent with an outward semblance of fragility -- the tenacity of strength by which the lavender scents the summer and the crown-imperial adorns the spring, after the severest snows.”

The Street Called Straight

“The striped Jalappa, the crested Sedum, the fasciated crown-imperial, white strawberries, red gooseberries and many others were known to Munting.”

Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation

“The two younger princesses, the flower crown-imperial.”

Letters of Horace Walpole 01

“Though the old garden had many fragrant leaves and flowers, their delicate perfume was sometimes fairly deadened by an almost mephitic aroma that came from an ancient blossom, a favorite in Shakespeare's day -- the jewelled bell of the noxious crown-imperial.”

Home Life in Colonial Days

“A bird of our own country called a willow-wren (Motacilla) runs up the stem of the crown-imperial (Frittillaria coronalis) and sips the pendulous drops within its petals.”

The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation