be in flower
Example Sentences
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Planted the 1st of May, the variety will be in flower June 28, and the pods will be fit for use about the middle or 20th of July.
From The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. by Burr, Fearing
Lord of April, in my hour May the dogwood be in flower, And my angel through the dome Of spring twilight lead me home.
From Later Poems by Carman, Bliss
It chanced to be in flower at the time, and this enabled the botanist to determine its character.
From The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa by Reid, Mayne
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 had no right to be in flower now.
From Notwithstanding by Cholmondeley, Mary
