There are in the city many large and beautiful houses.…All these houses have very large and very good rooms and also very pleasant gardens of various sorts of flowers both on the upper and lower floors.
Always, though, they are fragrant with a beguiling perfume, an aroma that seems to combine myriad sorts of flowers with orange liqueur and a heavy, fruity pungency sometimes described as musky but more often simply as grapy.
In 1524 the Spanish explorer Hernán Cortés described Tenochtitlán, present-day Mexico City, in a letter to Charles V, the king of Spain: There are in the city many large and beautiful houses.…All these houses have very large and very good rooms and also very pleasant gardens of various sorts of flowers both on the upper and lower floors.
Moschus describes fragrant narcissi in his Idylls, "Now the girls so soon as they were come to the flowering meadows took great delight in various sorts of flowers whereof one would pluck sweet breathed narcissus" (Europa and the Bull), and narcissi were said to have been part of Europa's floral headdress.
This orange zinnia, the sort of flower any gardener can cultivate from seed in this country, was grown in extreme conditions of microgravity and high humidity by the commander of the ISS, the US astronaut Scott Kelly.
He first poses the problem of how someone can understand the order to bring a red flower from a meadow: "How is he to know what sort of flower to bring, as I have only given him a word?" One possibility is that the hearer associates the word red with an idea (a mental image of red) and then looks for a flower matching the image.
"It will be a sort of flower that blooms for just one day, because economic problems do not go away just because Spain wins," Maria Jose Herraiz, a 54-year-old housewife, told the Associated Press.
Erasmo looks overwhelmed by his dance partner in a tank top that covers almost nothing, with a tattoo of some sort of flower that looks so different now than it must have when she got it, all that time ago, on tight, unblemished skin.
Make several slits around the dough with a pair of kitchen scissors, to form a sort of flower shape.
A flower garden filled with all sorts or only one sort of flower, such as daisies, tulips, trailing ivy, etc. Use flower and plant designs that are simple to draw and work out.
