61.   The colorful blooms are as much a part of the South as hoop skirts and wide verandas.

62.   The bloom is high-centered, with broad petals and opens fully.

63.   The blooms are in grapelike clusters, and one by one, the fragrant, porcelain-white blossoms open to reveal red and yellow markings.

64.   The blooms can be as small as a mosquito or as big as a magpie.

65.   The farther down the cane the bud eye is, the stronger and larger the new bloom will be.

66.   The fragrant blooms are usually the attraction.

67.   The flower stalks can reach four feet, and the blooms are vividly scarlet.

68.   The hills here have not only turned green, but buckeyes are sending out shoots and the major blooms are not far off.

69.   The wrought-iron gates are polished, the bloom is on the roses twining through the courtside trellises and the grass will never be greener.

70.   There were more blooms from time to time this summer.