be in flower

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It will produce excellent food till it begins to be in flower, when it should immediately be ploughed up.

From The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock by Cameron, Charles Alexander, Sir

It had no right to be in flower now.

From Notwithstanding by Cholmondeley, Mary

You'll see, Charles, the Louis d'ors will be in flower in a week's time; but it's all vinegar, it's covered with beetles."--"Oh,

From An Old Story of My Farming Days Vol. III (of III). (Ut Mine Stromtid) by Reuter, Fritz

I went round and said good-bye to the lilacs, and told them to be in flower by the time I came back.

From Stories by English Authors: London (Selected by Scribners) by Harraden, Beatrice

And when you come back, darling, you'll find your son, perhaps, and the hepaticas may be in flower, waiting for you.'

From Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories by Ashe, Elizabeth