be in flower

Example Sentences

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It had no right to be in flower now.

From Notwithstanding by Cholmondeley, Mary

Lord of April, in my hour May the dogwood be in flower, And my angel through the dome Of spring twilight lead me home.

From Later Poems by Carman, Bliss

It will produce excellent food till it begins to be in flower, when it should immediately be ploughed up.

From The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock by Cameron, Charles Alexander, Sir

I went round and said good-bye to the lilacs, and told them to be in flower by the time I came back.

From Stories by English Authors: London (Selected by Scribners) by Harraden, Beatrice

Most of the plants found will not be in flower, and these send up but a single, oblong, pointed leaf.

From Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses by Campbell, Douglas Houghton