sulphira

Updated: January 8, 2026

Or give me a half-open sulphira, with suggestive odors and soft curving leaves, passion-pale in tint, or a gorgeous amaryllis produced by artful development, clothed like a queen in state, bearing erect her magic beauty. No more wild roses for me!

Various - Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science : Volume 15, No. 86, February, 1875