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Salome had gathered a small bouquet of the fragile white blossoms of apple-geranium, of which the old lady was particularly fond, and, bending over the coffin, she laid them between the fingers that were interlaced on the pulseless heart.
Augusta J. Evans Wilson - Vashti: or, Until Death Us Do Part

This afternoon, the little vase held only apple-geranium leaves, and a pyramidal cluster of tuberoses; and her guardian had observed that when white blossoms could be bought, coloured ones were never offered in tribute. Opposite the lawyer was his cousin protégé, and occupied in peeling a juicy peach, with one of the massive silver fruit-knives.
Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans - Infelice
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