azalia

Here, too, blooms the Caucasian rose or rhododendron, and the azalia-pontica, from the blossoms of which is made the honey of that intoxicating quality mentioned by Strabo, and which, when mixed in small quantity with the ordinary mead, forms a beverage as potent as the alcoholic liquors of the north.

Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia John Milton Mackie

"I think that double, white azalia is one of most beautiful things I ever saw: so pure and delicate!" said Mary Brewster to Miss Blake, hanging over it in honest admiration one leaden-skied day when she come to carry Nan off to her house to dinner and was waiting while the girl went upstairs to get ready.

The Governess Julie Mathilde Lippmann

The azalia and the honeysuckle beneath formed a delightful contrast with the gorgeous floral display above.

Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 George T. Stevens

But, camelias warmed with color, fuchsias, abutilons, the cultivated azalia (the wild one has a scent), asters, and a host of other loved and lovely flowers -- why are they deprived of language?

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

"Where did you get those swamp-pinks, Rhoda?" for I detected the fine azalia odor before I saw them.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 Various

Some sleep beneath the tall pines of Yorktown; and the bright azalia casts its purple blossoms over the graves of many who lie in the swamps of the Chickahominy.

Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 George T. Stevens

Wild pea and pimpernel made this road gay; white clover and wild rose made it fragrant; and there branched off from it a lane, on which if you turned and strayed back into the fields, a mile or so, you came to thickets of wild azalia, and tracts of pink laurel; and, a little way farther in, you came to fresh-water ponds which in July were white with lilies.

Hetty's Strange History Anonymous

The shrubs about the fields and places where the forests have been interrupted by civilization and other causes are blackberry, huckleberry, raspberry, sumac, and their usual neighbors, with the azalia, laurel, and rhododendron on the slopes and in the shade of the cliffs.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884 Various

On the mountain we found the pink azalia and the white _Patenlila tridenta_.

Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis George William Curtis 1858

Under the trees were various low shrubs in flower, -- shad-blossom, with its fleecy stems, and azalia in rosy pink; and the real wild flowers -- the dainty things as wild in growth as in name, were sprinkled everywhere.

Say and Seal, Volume II Susan Warner 1852