narcissuses

Mid-February is the moment when these polite little plants carpet damp woodland and roadside banks, so decorous compared with rowdy daffodils and narcissuses, coming shortly, or the gaudy bluebells that will show in another couple of months.

In praise of … snowdrops | Editorial 2012

Finish the arrangement with touches of berries, like the tallow seen here, and a few narcissuses for fragrance.

Side-Table Sparkle 2011

June, we did not fail to go into the nurseries and gardens, and see the hyacinths, tulips, narcissuses, anemones, ranunculuses, &c.

Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland Various

Such am I, seated at the head of thy dust, as the ashes are seated on my own: -- whoever could not take his rest and sleep till they first had spread a bed of roses and narcissuses for him: the whirlwind of the sky has scattered the roses of his cheek, and brambles and thorns are shooting from his grave. '

The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2 Various

The air was cold but dry, and the old garden was sweet with the scent of hyacinths and narcissuses.

His Big Opportunity Amy le Feuvre

We must plant now in order to secure a spring display of flowers, and for this purpose nothing can be more satisfactory than bulbous subjects, such as hyacinths, tulips, crocuses, and narcissuses.

Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young Various

When the Campagna has quickened under the breath of the Italian spring into a tender greenness, and is starred with orchids and sweet-scented narcissuses, I know nothing more pleasant than a visit to this renowned spot.

Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan

The air was so rich with the mingled perfume of violets, orange flowers, jessamines, tuberoses, hyacinths and narcissuses that the King and his visitors were sometimes obliged to fly from the overpowering sweets.

The Story of Versailles Francis Loring Payne

Just at the moment I saw him, he held in his two hands an enormous bunch of lilacs, to which his companion was trying to add narcissuses and primroses; the two children laughed, and parted with a friendly good-by.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

In the flower-garden, he may finish planting the remainder of the bulbous roots, such as the star of Bethlehem, fritillarias, narcissuses, and gladioluses, in beds or borders, all for flowering the same year.

The Book of Sports: Containing Out-door Sports, Amusements and Recreations, Including Gymnastics, Gardening & Carpentering William Martin