be in flower
Example Sentences
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The sweet peas will soon be in flower, the stocks, too, are showing buds.
From Three Years in Tristan da Cunha by Barrow, Katherine Mary
It will be in flower next week, and your parents have just arranged that I may meet them at the Alte Schloss in time for dinner.
From Home Life in Germany by Sidgwick, Alfred, Mrs.
Most of the plants found will not be in flower, and these send up but a single, oblong, pointed leaf.
From Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses by Campbell, Douglas Houghton
It is my theory that present chestnut breeders are crossing inferior material, using any specimens that happen to be in flower at the right time as long as they represent the species to be crossed.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948 by Northern Nut Growers Association
It is not the season for them to be in flower yet; but when it is, I think we must take a walk there—with our luncheon in a basket—a little picnic in fact.
From Wives and Daughters by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
