"Ageratum" Quotes from Famous Books
... alone that Saturday morning (Hatty writes) Mrs. Prentiss gathered quite a bunch of the wild ageratum, and then dug up the roots of three wild clematis vines with her scissors. She then called my attention to the thimbleberry bushes along the edge of the brook, admiring the foliage of the plant and expressing the determination to have one or more in ... — The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss • George L. Prentiss
... sweet" greeted us at every step. Here it was a Deutzia, with starry cup-like blossoms; there a Spiraea, with spikes of milk-white plumes; here sprays of creamy Lantanas, and yonder clusters of tasselled Ageratum. ... — Harper's Young People, March 23, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various |