Eurasian pink widely cultivated for its flat-topped dense clusters of varicolored flowers.
1March brings forth the lovely hepatica, and wild phlox or sweet william soon follows.
2Mr. Hand paused between the beds of sweet williams and canterbury bells.
3But I like old sweet William in spite of his gay tendency.
4Avery reached into his assault vest and removed his Sweet William cigar.
5You stroll out to pluck a Sweet William in the park-andlo!
6His supporters called him Sweet William; his enemies the Bottomless Pit.
7I got no urge to go back up, ole Sweet William.
8The two former may indifferently hold daisies, marjoram, sweet williams, and that sort.
9He puffed on his favorite, a Sweet William cigar, and blew smoke rings.
10Sweet William belongs to the same genus as the Pink.
11In Scottish balladry, Sweet William becomes a green-red rose and Barbara Allen a briar.
12There was the fern-design, spangled with Sweet William, for instance.
13In the Scottish ballad of "Fair Margaret and Sweet William," it is related-
14But the Sweet William is not amenable to any treatment which reduces the natural period of growth.
15There were flowers everywhere in big bowls-red rambler roses, primula, sweet williams, Shasta daisies, and scarlet poppies.
16Modern delphiniums, if treated like biannuals, and good old Sweet William have given me next to no trouble.