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  • No, I'm talking about real cider made from the perfumed juice of malus domestica and varieties such as Beauty of Kent, Sugarloaf Pippin, and Cornish Gilliflower, which is fermented and then aged for a few months in oak barrels.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Jane Peyton 2012

  • No, I'm talking about real cider made from the perfumed juice of malus domestica and varieties such as Beauty of Kent, Sugarloaf Pippin, and Cornish Gilliflower, which is fermented and then aged for a few months in oak barrels.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Jane Peyton 2012

  • But the common Stock likewise bore the appellation, "Gilliflower": and the probability is, there was in old days, as Cotgrave suggests, a popular medicine or food "for the passions of the heart," called

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • There are black-skinned Gilliflower apples, ivory hued White Transparents, orange-fleshed Apricot apples, and others with deep red interiors.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • There are black-skinned Gilliflower apples, ivory hued White Transparents, orange-fleshed Apricot apples, and others with deep red interiors.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • There are black-skinned Gilliflower apples, ivory hued White Transparents, orange-fleshed Apricot apples, and others with deep red interiors.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • Gilliflower_, it delighteth in hard rubbish, limy, and stony grounds, whence it commeth they covet most to grow upon walls, pavements, and such like barraine places.

    On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions Samuel Felton

  • Gilliflower might exit singing exceeded his gloomiest forebodings.

    The Prodigal Father 1907

  • Walkingshaw and Gilliflower in the hands of a quack doctor!

    The Prodigal Father 1907

  • "Of Walkingshaw and Gilliflower -- that's the thing that fair takes my breath away!" added the other; as though the firm was an even surer guarantee of respectability than the honored name of the senior partner.

    The Prodigal Father 1907

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