51.   The bloom is off the rose.

52.   The bloom is off, no question.

53.   The best early blooms have been at Morgan Territory, located north of Livermore, along the Volvon Trail.

54.   The bloom is off the rose and he knows it.

55.   The bloom was off.

56.   The blooms are quite pretty there with the cabbages, at that.

57.   The blooms are white, with perhaps the palest suggestion of lavender, and yellow in the crest.

58.   The blooms may be single or double, and there are miniature amaryllis, too.

59.   The brilliant red-orange and pink blooms are wonderful in blossom, but the black mulch-producing leaves afterward are not.