Suppose that we wished to have a Wallflower nearly white.
The Wallflower is a perennial plant; unless it is killed or torn up by the roots it will live and grow for many years.
We might have to go on doing this for twenty years or more, but in time we should have a Wallflower so pale as to be almost white.
Now it is June, and the blossoms of the Wallflower have faded and fallen.
I showed you several plants growing on the walls and roof, because it was interesting to see that quite beautiful flowers, such as the Wallflower and the Houseleek, could grow with very little soil.
If we look at the garden behind us we shall see that Mrs. Hammond has several beds of Wallflower this year; it is a flower of which she is very fond.
She might also have had a purple Wallflower, and even a Wallflower of so pale a yellow as to be almost white.
However pale our Wallflower might be there would still always be just a tinge of yellow or cream colour in it.
We saw, you remember, that the grass has flowers just as the Rose and the Wallflower have.
You very likely wonder how the Wallflower or any other plant can grow upon the wall, for there is no earth to be seen--nothing but stones and crumbling mortar.
Only Willy Wallflower stood green and straight, for his flowers had not yet come.
The summer passed and the autumn came, but still Willy Wallflower had no flowers, though he grew taller and stouter every day.
The crocuses and primroses are opening," they reported, "and Willy Wallflower is all in bloom waiting for us.
Day after day Willy Wallflower and the babies waited, listening anxiously for the busy wings that did not come.
Now Willy Wallflowerwas ready to make his flowers.
Spring announces its approach; a soft breeze skims over the roofs, and my wallflower begins to blow again.
The wallflowerhad grown in a common pot; but Paulette, who is a bandbox- maker, had put it into a case of varnished paper, ornamented with arabesques.
It had a rich cream tint that blended perfectly with my wallflower eyes and hair.
Strange thoughts were mine as I stood at my dressing-table, combing my hair with shaking hands, until the little short curls lay like wallflower petals on my forehead, and my ghostlike face was framed in waves of bronze.
A seedling Wallflower has a tap-root as well as fibrous roots, and this is why the seedling should be pricked out once before it is transplanted to its permanent quarters.
Many gardeners pinch off the tap-root when they prick out, and then the Wallflower makes fibrous roots that can be safely transplanted.
Mr. Robinson says that a well-grown Wallflower in a London market-garden could not be covered by a bushel basket, so now you know what size your plants ought to be, and how many you will have room for in your border.
Would it not be wiser to give it up, and let the wallflower go the way of its former companions?
She had obeyed her father, and destroyed all the rest of the bouquet; and this wallflower had been preserved without her knowledge.
She stood still by her chest of drawers with the open book in her hand, gazing at the wallflower in its persistent beauty.
Transverse section of the seed of the Wallflower (Cheiranthus), showing the radicle r folded on the edges of the accumbent cotyledons c.
Wallflower principally in the shape of the stigma (see fig.
Among the many garden flowers which belong to this order, few are more popular than the common Wallflower (Cheiranthus Cheiri).
At the back of the border the colours are darker; purple Wallflower and the great dull red-purple double Tulip so absurdly called Bleu Celeste.
The more distant colouring is of brown Wallflower and red Tulip and the bright mahogany-coloured Crown Imperial.
The wallflower had grown in a common pot; but Paulette, who is a bandbox-maker, had put it into a case of varnished paper, ornamented with arabesques.
The stem of theWallflower is tough and woody near the ground, but further up it is green and smooth.
And if it answers on the small scale, there is little doubt of success in the large way, and there is no fear but that the scent of the old English wallflower will meet with a demand.
She unlatched the casements and threw them wide, and clean, salt, sweet air came streaming in, bringing the fragrance of mignonette and wallflower and sweetbriar, and the aromatic smells of the larch and pine.
Tetradynamous stamens (four long and two short) of wallflower (Cheiranthus Cheiri).
Portion of wall of anther of Wallflower (Cheiranthus).
These parts are seen in the petals of the wallflower (fig.
The wallflower excused herself and went back to her mama from Yonkers.
Then come bushes of Wallflower of the richest red-brown colour--a colour like nothing else, and indeed without a name, that would convey the depth and beauty of the dark tawny hue.
Anyone would know everything about you, Monsieur, by looking at your face,” she answered; then she turned and picked a spray ofwallflower from behind her and turned it over and over between her fingers.
She was still occupied in twirling the sprig of wallflower and did not raise her eyes.
In the cold silence of the dawn he asked himself if he loved her, if she was worthy to be loved; also what her eyes had said when she raised them from the wallflower stalk she was turning about in her long, expressive, smooth fingers.
The plaintive voice continues at the keyhole: “I planted out nine hundred and thirty-seven wallflowerseedlings yesterday, and I want to cover them up with fern before the sun gets too strong.
A thousand or two of wallflowerseedlings do not go very far in this garden, because at one time of the year the place appears to be a waving mass of wallflowers from end to end.
The wallflower had grown in a common pot; but Paulette, who is a bandbox maker, had put it into a case of varnished paper ornamented with arabesques.
I placed the wallflower in the open window, where a ray of sunshine bade it welcome; the birds were singing around, the sky had cleared, and the day which began so gloomily had become bright.
Wallflower juice is good for reviving dancers who fall to the ground in a fit 33.
Wallflower juice is good for reviving dancers who fall to the ground in a fit, and Solomon's Seal juice is for bruises.
Red-haired girl, who was remarkably ugly and self-complacent, had been a wallflower all the evening, but thought none the less of herself on that account.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wallflower" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
