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Alyssum

noun
1.
Any garden plant of the genus Alyssum having clusters of small yellow or white flowers.  Synonym: madwort.
2.
A genus of the family Cruciferae.  Synonym: genus Alyssum.



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"Alyssum" Quotes from Famous Books



... small gardens of flowers for bees is useless, except a few early flowers near the hives for the bees to collect some pollen for the brood, such as the common kinds of crocus, white alyssum, single blue hepaticas, helleborus niger, and tussilago petasites, all of which flower early; but should any of the tribe of the willows grow near, there will be no necessity for cultivating the flowers above-mentioned, as they yield an abundant harvest of ...
— A Description of the Bar-and-Frame-Hive • W. Augustus Munn

... V). Head the bushes back. Dig up the entire area. Spade up the ground, set the bushes thick, hoe them at intervals, and then let them go. If you do not like the bare earth between them, sow in the seeds of hardy annual flowers, like phlox, petunia, alyssum, and pinks. Never set the bushes in holes dug in the old sod (Fig. 75). The person who plants his shrubs in holes in the sward does not seriously mean to make any foliage mass, and it is likely that he does not know what ...
— Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) • L. H. Bailey

... and continue a long while in bloom, are deservedly preferred, more especially by those who content themselves with a partial collection; of that number is the present species of Alyssum, which begins to flower in March, and continues to blossom through April, May, and June, and, if favourably situated, during most of ...
— The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 4 - Or, Flower-Garden Displayed • William Curtis



Words linked to "Alyssum" :   family Cruciferae, Brassicaceae, cruciferous plant, crucifer, hoary alyssum, sweet alyssum, madwort, Cruciferae, family Brassicaceae, dilleniid dicot genus, genus Alyssum, mustard family



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