 The indigenous plants and flowers, and flowering shrubs are abundant and beautiful; and, it is said, there are five thousand varieties. I am very fond of the mignonette tree; it bears pale yellow and green flowers, and has the most powerful and delicious...  Letters from the Bahama Islands - Página 84de Miss Hart - 1827 - 207 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Charles Ives - 1880 - 450 páginas
...1823-4, give an account of some of the more prominent flowers to be seen in Nassau and its suburbs. " The indigenous plants and flowers, and flowering shrubs...a little, round, yellow ball, about the size of a chestnut, looks like a tuft of fringe, and is filled with a yellow powder and has a sweet perfume.... | |
 | J. Dickinson, E. E. Dickinson, S. E. Dowd - 1888 - 300 páginas
...certainly round. It is strange how differently people look at things. It says here that ' the acacia flower is a little round yellow ball, about the size of a chestnut.' I hope he doesn't mean the French chestnut. I have never seen an acacia blossom larger than... | |
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