flowers

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FLOWERS: This is a bad rap for President Nixon.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then begins a series of the most beautiful ornaments of FLOWERS, FRUITS, INSECTS, &C. for which the illuminators of this period were often eminently distinguished.

From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall

FLOWERS, capricious transmission of colour-varieties in. -tendency to uniformity in striped. -scorching of, dependent on colour. -change in, caused by conditions of life. -rudimentary. -relative position of, to the axis.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 by Darwin, Charles