lady's-slippers

He recalled the day he'd found her at the place where the pink lady's-slippers grew, just kneeling there and looking at them, not picking any of them, and how he'd stopped beside her and been pleased she had not moved to pick them, knowing that in the sight of them, the two, he and she, had found a joy and a beauty that was beyond possession.

Way Station Simak, Clifford D., 1904- 1963

Then he would go back down the rocks again and trudge along the wooded path to where, in proper season, the pink lady's-slippers grew, and from there up the hill again to the spring that gushed out of the hillside just below the ancient field that had lain fallow for a century or more, and then along the slope until he hit the almost overgrown road and so down to the mailbox.

Way Station Simak, Clifford D., 1904- 1963

He considered going down the hill a way to look in on the patch of pink lady's-slippers, to see how they might be coming, to try to conjure up the beauty that would be his again in June, but decided that there'd be little point to it, for they were well hipen in an isolated place, and nothing could have harmed them.

Way Station Simak, Clifford D., 1904- 1963

We children cultivated sweet-scented geraniums in pots, but a flower in a pot was to me like a bird in a cage, and the fragrant geraniums gave me no more pleasure than did the scentless many-hued lady's-slippers that we planted in tiny borders, and the purple flowering beans and white blossoms of the madeira vines that grew on

Aunt Jane of Kentucky Eliza Calvert Hall

In all of the orchids except the lady's-slippers (_Cypripedium_) (Fig.  90, _B_), only one perfect stamen is developed, and this is united with the three styles to form

Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell

"I will give you a dime for one of those pink lady's-slippers," said a bent, old man.

At the Little Brown House Ruth Alberta Brown

The largest and showiest are the lady's-slippers, of which we have six species at the north.

Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell

We've got pink and yellow lady's-slippers, tiger lilies, Johnny-jump-ups, baby's tears, and a few

At the Little Brown House Ruth Alberta Brown

"There were the lady's-slippers; you said as how you cared about findin ''em; and they're not near so pretty an' bright if they're left standin 'too long after the dew dries."

Seven Miles to Arden Ruth Sawyer 1925

Next, there's that breakfast with the lady's-slippers.

Seven Miles to Arden Ruth Sawyer 1925