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Jonquilla: True jonquils tend to be between 12 and 16 inches high with one to five flowers to each stem.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 6, 2021
In truth, Mr. Grant rarely encounters problems with deer nibbling his historic tea roses or his vast repository of pass-along bulbs: forgotten jonquils, crinums and narcissus.
From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2018
Once I gave Oliver a bouquet of unopened jonquils, and he was so surprised when Billy put them in a vase and they blossomed.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 5, 2016
Guests can expect to see tulips, jonquils, daffodils and dogwoods in bloom next month.
From Washington Post • Mar. 19, 2015
“Aw, shah!” she snapped, jabbing a cone-shaped tin cemetery urn into the ground for the jonquils we brought.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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