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Sentence Examples
| Of the several hundred species of allium known, only about ten are widely cultivated. |
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| We also found that high consumption of onions and garlic, the allium family, was protective. |
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| A tabletop glows with help from simple arrangements of gilded eucalyptus leaves, allium seed heads, poppy pods, and a cardoon. |
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| So she also planted hundreds of allium, nepeta, Solomon's seal, jack-in-the-pulpit and hellebore. |
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| In Tennessee and West Virginia, festivals are held to celebrate allium tricoccum, which are also known as wild leeks. |
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| The allium family, which includes leeks, shallots and chives as well as garlic, is also a good source of selenium. |
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| Any field that shows evidence of a WHITE ROT problem should be treated prior to planting allium crops. |
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| From Mizoram, he brought back an unnamed allium, which the locals use as we might a spring onion. |
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| In addition there are many other tempting selections such as delicate swan-like acidanthera, outrageous eucomis and allium, sophisticated calla and ixia and colorful anemones. |
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| Its Latin name is allium ursinum, and it's commonly called wild garlic, ramsons, bear garlic, wood garlic or buckram. |
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| Insect-friendly plants include hebe, sedum, yarrow, heather, foxglove, buddleja, allium, scabious, pulmonaria and flowering cherry. |
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| He found his calling in allium chemistry as a new Ph. D., and over four decades has worked out many of its details at the State University at Albany. |
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| The flat-leafed allium known as Chinese or garlic chives produces a small amount of garlicky allicin, but much more of a different weapon that has a milder, cabbage-like aroma. |
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| Allium aflatunense has dense spherical umbels of starry lilac-purple flowers on stems two to three feet tall. |
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| Allium moly is a yellow-flowered species which is native to south-western Europe and the Pyrenees. |
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| Allium moly, otherwise known as Golden Garlic, is so easy to grow and its bright yellow star-shaped flowers are irresistibly cheerful. |
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| Also good at handling the warmer weather are lilies and the ornamental onions such as Allium alflatunense, A. sphaerocephalum and A. moly. |
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| Allium bulgarium grows wild in the woodlands and mountain slopes of Turkey and the Ukraine. |
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| Also excellent in a rock garden are low-growing bushy bulbous plants such as Anemone blanda, Oxalis adenophylla and Allium karataviense. |
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| He stresses planting only healthy cloves and maintaining a three-year rotation with the whole Allium family. |
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| The Allium group is a wide and wonderful group of plants, including those that are edible, such as onions, leeks, shallots, chives and garlic. |
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| Allium Neapolitanum is a very pretty spring-flowering bulb, with open clusters of pure white dainty flowers. |
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| Allium azureum has delightful, vivid, small pom-pom type flowers of cornflower blue which are held on stems 45-60cms high. |
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| The leek is a vegetable, a cultivar of Allium ampeloprasum, the broadleaf wild leek. |
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| The genus Allium also contains the onion, garlic, shallot, scallion, chive, and Chinese onion. |
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| Bulbs for sunny garden spots include Allium, Gladioli and Crocosmia. |
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| Some people suffer from allergies to garlic and other species of Allium. |
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| Allium sativum grows in the wild in areas where it has become naturalized. |
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| Organosulfur compounds are particularly abundant in Allium vegetables such as garlic and onion with bioactive substances including allicin, allixin, and allylsulfides. |
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| Big Allium Stripe Orange and Pink by Tessa Pearson is a large monoprint woodblock work with the architectural flowers against a striped background. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| A species of allium, with purple flowers and broad strap-shaped leaves, was the most plentiful of all. |
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| There are several kinds of Muilla, much like Brodiaea and very much like allium, but with no onion taste or smell. |
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| From all these facts I am led to believe that allium ascalonicum is not a species. |
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| But underneath their covert, in the shade, grey periwinkles wind among the snowy drift of allium. |
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| But why should not all the other allium species be propagated by planting the bulbs? |
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| Moly seems to have been allium moly, one of the onion or garlic family. |
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| The Mohammedans do not seem to have reverenced the allium tribe. |
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| From the bruised bulbs or cloves of allium sativum, or garlic. |
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| According to Roxburgh,243 allium ascalonicum is much cultivated in India. |
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| The formal beds are filled in with scented pinks, heartsease pansies, nodding Allium cernuum and fragrant stocks in terracotta pots. |
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| All members of the Allium group have a seed life of less than one year, whereas cucumber seed remains capable of germinating after five years. |
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| Allium azureum has delightful, vivid, small pompom-like flowers of cornflower blue held on stems 45-60cms high. |
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| The nodding heads of Allium bulgaricum, otherwise known as summer bells, chime perfectly with hostas and other broad-leaved plants in the border. |
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