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"Periwinkle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... other shady places, it may be necessary to cover the ground with something else than grass. Good plants for such uses are periwinkle (Vinca minor, an evergreen trailer, often called "running myrtle"), moneywort (Lysimachia nummularia), lily-of-the-valley, and various kinds of sedge or carex. In some dark or shady places, and under some kinds of trees, it is practically impossible to secure a good ...
— Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) • L. H. Bailey
... and took out his pocket knife to trim a straying branch of honeysuckle, which had wilted and died. When he came to the summer-house, he found his guest sitting there demurely with her hands folded in her lap. She had gathered some little sprigs of box and a few blossoms of periwinkle and late lilies of the valley, and they lay on the bench beside her. "So you did not go to church with Marilla?" the doctor said. "I dare say one sermon a day is enough for so small a person as you." For Nan's ...
— A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches • Sarah Orne Jewett |
Words linked to "Periwinkle" : rose periwinkle, genus Vinca, Littorina, Catharanthus, Madagascar periwinkle, genus Catharanthus, periwinkle plant derivative, Vinca rosea, seafood, seasnail, genus Littorina, herb, large periwinkle, Vinca, myrtle, Catharanthus roseus, Vinca minor, herbaceous plant, Cape periwinkle, subshrub, red periwinkle, suffrutex, winkle |
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