The spotted calla has variegated foliage and is a good plant for mixed collections.
Her eyes left the stricken face and clung to the calla lily on the window-sill, as they had done that afternoon when she came here with Gershom.
While she waited, overcome by a dumbness which seemed to invade her from head to foot, her eyes clung to that calla lily as if it were her one connection with reality.
With a sensation of relief, Patty's eyes wandered from the haggard face to a calla lily in a pot on the window-sill, and she noticed that it bore a single perfect blossom.
Calla palustris is a beautiful bog–plant, and I know nothing that produces a more pleasing effect over rich, soft, boggy ground.
The nearly allied Arum Lily (Calla æthiopica) is quite hardy as a water and water–side plant in the southern counties of England and Ireland.
The Calla will attain its highest perfection if planted in a rich, mucky soil, obtained from a swamp or bog.
Take a thick blotting pad, lay it on a table, rub some arrowroot or rice power over its upper surface, and lay a sheet of either calla or pond lily wax, extra thick, on this powdered surface.
He leaned from his saddle and handed her a single calla lily.
They rounded a turn in the path and flew past wild calla lily flowers, the tall stems batting their horses' legs.
Calla lilies, all sorts of geraniums, passion flowers, moss roses--I do not know the names of a tenth part of them.
He also multiplied the characteristic colors of the natural calla and has evolved great blossoms of a score of shades, from pure white to jet black.
He could not make a carrot into a calla; but he did take the dwarf natural calla plant and develop it into a splendid lily that bears flowers measuring a foot across the petal.
He didn't love to hear them called calla lilies," said Val, without a particle of feeling in her voice.
I am glad we chosecalla lilies; he loved them," murmured Emmie.
So she called out, "The great Calla is fully blown now.
Striking a light, he saw that it was the beautiful Calla out of Sabine's room.
It was full of green plush and calla lilies, but we chose it in preference to the green grass and calla lilies of the park.
But with old Mrs. Deacon Rogers in Connecticut who nursed her calla through the long winter that she might take it to church on Easter Sunday, the calla was history.
He's been up to the dreen, where you planted them calla lilies, Jessie, and he's fetched a good many bushels.
Magnified view of a portion of a transverse slice of stem of Calla Lily.
No such exact regularity in size and shape is ever actually found; but a nearly truthful magnified view of a small portion of a slice of the flower-stalk of a Calla Lily (Fig.
Missen bread is made of the Water Dragons (Calla palustris).
To be sure, there is no tradition about bitter-sweet; but the very name is symbolical, and I thought that I would fill the font with calla lilies.
This despised relative of the stately calla lily proclaims spring in the very teeth of winter, being the first bold adventurer above ground.
Few coroner's inquests are held over the dead bodies of our feathered friends; and it is not known whether the innocent-looking marshcalla really poisons the birds on which it depends to carry its bright seeds afar or not.
But the golden club, which looks something like a calla stripped of her lovely white robe, has not lacked protection for its little buds from the cold spring winds while any was needed.
A poor relation of the stately calla lily one knows Jack to be at a glance, her lovely white robe corresponding to his striped pulpit, her bright yellow spadix to his sleek reverence.
At a glance one knows this beautiful denizen of Northern bogs and ditches to be a poor relation of the stately Ethiopian calla lily of our greenhouses.
Miss Serena had her mind upon a panel--calla lilies and mignonette--which she was painting for the rectory parlour.
Leetle Tony he'sa standa here calla you names and what can you do, eh?
You are what you calla the true artiste, Meester Kid Scanlan!
I never could feel that a weddin' or a funeral was finished without a calla lily somewhere around.
Then, as Abel called sharply to his fox-hound puppy and flung himself from the room, she turned away and went to sprinkle her calla lilies.
Her calla lilies had long been famous in the county; they had taken first prizes at innumerable fairs, and whenever there was a wedding or a funeral in the neighbourhood, the tall green stalks were clipped bare of bloom.
After calla lilies, fuchias and tuberoses did best in her hands, and she had nursed rare night blooming cereus for seven years in the hope that it would arrive at perfection the following June.
Around the fountain, which cooled the air, bloomed literally hundreds of calla lilies, masses of stately blossoms with snowy chalices and hearts of gold.
The spathe is not like that of the wild turnip or calla lily, to which family this plant also belongs, but the edges are rolled inward, completely hiding the spadix.
The "flower" is curiously formed, somewhat like the calla lily, consisting of what is known botanically as a spathe, within which is inclosed the spadix.
There were the same golden, erect spadix, and the same ivory-white spathe rolled back in the very curve of the spathe of the calla lily; but the flower was not one quarter the size of the calla.
Even in that confined outlook there are always possibilities; and it was in just such a ditch of water, as our train slowed up on the outskirts of Buffalo, that I saw growing great numbers of what looked like miniature calla lilies.
With Marion rather cool and offended, and Regina in a state of perpetual jealousy, Lesbia sometimes grew so exasperated that she left the pair of them to sulk and walked away withCalla or Aldora.
She went in search of Calla at once, but could not find her before the bell rang for botany class.
What hadCalla hinted one day about taking a back seat?
She's the sort of girl who may possibly do anything after she leaves school," commentedCalla one day, when the girls were discussing absent members.
On Wednesday Calla greeted her in the cloakroom and drew her aside.
There had been other friends in her school horizon, but her drifting devotion, which inclined for a time towards Phillis Marsh or Calla Wilkins, had lately centred on Marion.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "calla" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
