How To Use Johnny-jump-up In A Sentence
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One of the best loved is the old-fashioned Johnny-jump-up (V. tricolor), a viola with dark purple upper petals and lower petals in shades of lavender-blue, yellow or white, often with dark purple markings, Plants are short-lived but readily self-seed, providing pleasurable discoveries of new plants in unexpected places each year.
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So arose Johnny-jump-up for the Viola tricolor, and basswood for the common European linden or lime-tree (Tilia), and locust for the Robinia pseudacacia and its allies.
Chapter 2. The Beginnings of American. 3. New Words of English Material
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In a very short time a butterfly was brought out, and harnessed to a first-class Johnny-jump-up.
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Coleus, bougainvillea, snow-on-the-mountain, wandering Jew, violets, agapanthus, Johnny-jump-ups, poor-man's-orchid, spider. They trade cuttings, smuggling them over state lines, to propagate at home.
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But Johnny-jump-up suits 'em best, for it kind o 'tells how they come up in the spring.
Aunt Jane of Kentucky
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Here, irises and gladiolus are underplanted with Johnny-jump-ups and marigolds.
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Other wildflowers interspersed among the grasses are tidy tips, red maids, Indian paintbrush, owl's clover, shooting-star, larkspur, golden star, mariposa lily, and johnny-jump-up.
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However, I can let you have a nice easy Johnny-jump-up, if you say so.
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