Citations:tagetes

English citations of tagetes

• 1902, Jane Grey Forbes Trefusis, Happy hours in a Scottish home ..., page 112:

  Outside, threading my way in the dimness through the garden, I came to the heliotrope corner; there, I brushed against a tagetes bed, which sent forth a strong mint-like odour; further on, I bruised the musk with my bare feet; ...

• 1948, Gardeners' Chronicle of America:

  […] Every other plant was a tagetes and the contrast of the deep blue with green leaves and ...

• 1986, Graham Rice, A handbook of annuals and bedding plants:

  At 2ft (60cm) there is the 'Jubilee' series — gold, orange and yellow — which although tall are still rather dense in growth. The flowers are bigger than those of the 'Incas' and the plants are more open. Going up a size further, there is ' Doubloon' at 3ft (90cm) with pale yellow flowers up to 5in (18cm) across; huge they are but you would hardly call them elegant. There is only one variety in this section, 'Florence', which is a cross between a 'tagetes' (T tenuifolia) and an African marigold ...

• 1994, André Génin, Application of botany in horticulture:

  Fig. 2.3 . A tagetes plant flowering in the summer