The Flower-garden: Or, Breck's Book of Flowers; in which are Described All the Various Hardy Herbaceous Perennials, Annuals, Shrubby Plants, and Evergreen Trees, Desirable for Ornamental Purposes, with Directions for Their CultivationJ. P. Jewett, 1851 - 336 Seiten |
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... kind , it has often appeared to me , was much needed . It has often been called for , in my business as seedsman . Customers will pur- chase a quantity of seeds , not knowing , perhaps , anything about their habits , cultivation , or ...
... kind , it has often appeared to me , was much needed . It has often been called for , in my business as seedsman . Customers will pur- chase a quantity of seeds , not knowing , perhaps , anything about their habits , cultivation , or ...
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... kind , examine well the seed ; Learn to what elements your plants belong , What is their constitution , weak or strong ; Be their physician , careful of their lives , And see that every species daily thrives ; These love much air ...
... kind , examine well the seed ; Learn to what elements your plants belong , What is their constitution , weak or strong ; Be their physician , careful of their lives , And see that every species daily thrives ; These love much air ...
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... kind , but the same in nature ? Most especially must we inquire whether the arts of the cultivator should be limited , as they are , to the domestication of a few fashionable races , to the entire neglect of the ancient inhabitants of ...
... kind , but the same in nature ? Most especially must we inquire whether the arts of the cultivator should be limited , as they are , to the domestication of a few fashionable races , to the entire neglect of the ancient inhabitants of ...
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... kind of treatment . Such being the case , a few remarks will be made on each kind separately . BULBOUS PERENNIALS . They are of three kinds , — REMARKS ON THE CULTIVATION OF PEREN- ...
... kind of treatment . Such being the case , a few remarks will be made on each kind separately . BULBOUS PERENNIALS . They are of three kinds , — REMARKS ON THE CULTIVATION OF PEREN- ...
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... kind of soil for their growth is a light loam , rather sandy than otherwise , yet not too light , or the bulbs will be injured during the heat of summer , and , if adhesive , they invariably grow weakly , and seldom flower . As to the ...
... kind of soil for their growth is a light loam , rather sandy than otherwise , yet not too light , or the bulbs will be injured during the heat of summer , and , if adhesive , they invariably grow weakly , and seldom flower . As to the ...
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appearance autumn Balsam Fir beautiful berries bloom blossoms blue flowers branches buds bulbs clusters Collinsia color common Coreopsis corolla corymbs covered crimson cultivation cuttings deciduous delicate dividing the roots double flowers double varieties dwarf earth easily propagated elegant evergreen flower-garden FLOWERING PLANTS flowers in June foliage four feet high fragrant fruit genus green green-house growing growth habits half foot high handsome hardy annual height herbaceous inches deep inches high insects July and August June and July Larkspur layers leaves Lily loam native Noisette open ground ornamental ornamental plants panicles Peony perennial perfect perfectly hardy petals Phlox pink plants Platystemon Portulacca pots pretty produced profusion pure white racemes resemblance rich Roses scarlet season seed shade shoots showy shrub shrubbery six feet sown species spikes Spiræa spring stamens stems succeed sweet tender three feet high tree tuberous umbels variegated white flowers winter yellow flowers
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Seite 272 - Each flower of slender stalk, whose head, though gay Carnation, purple, azure, or specked with gold, Hung drooping unsustained; them she upstays Gently with myrtle band, mindless the while Herself, though fairest unsupported flower, From her best prop so far, and storm so nigh.
Seite 273 - The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live. The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the roses, Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly When summer's breath their masked buds discloses: But, for their virtue only is their show, They live unwoo'd and unrespected fade; Die to themselves.
Seite 44 - Along these blushing borders bright with dew, And in yon mingled wilderness of flowers, Fair-handed Spring unbosoms every grace — Throws out the snow-drop and the crocus first...
Seite 13 - ... what shall we eat, and what shall we drink, and wherewithal shall we be clothed?
Seite 17 - And the sinuous paths of lawn and of moss, Which led through the garden along and across, Some open at once to the sun and the breeze, Some lost among bowers of blossoming trees, Were all paved with daisies and delicate bells As fair as the fabulous asphodels, And flowerets which drooping as day drooped too Fell into pavilions, white, purple, and blue, To roof the glow-worm from the evening dew.
Seite 75 - And full ranunculus, of glowing red. Then comes the tulip race, where Beauty plays Her idle freaks; from family diffused To family, as flies the father-dust, The varied colours run ; and while they break On the charmed eye, th' exulting florist marks, With secret pride, the wonders of his hand.
Seite 271 - That joyous time, when pleasures pour Profusely round, and in their shower Hearts open, like the season's rose, — The flow'ret of a hundred leaves, Expanding while the dew-fall flows, And every leaf its balm receives...
Seite 274 - tis granted thee." " Then," said the rose, with deepened glow, "On me another grace bestow." The spirit paused, in silent thought, — What grace was there that flower had not...
Seite 272 - Their tendance, or plantation for delight; By fountain or by shady rivulet He sought them both, but wished his hap might find Eve separate; he wished, but not with hope Of what so seldom chanced; when to his wish, Beyond his hope, Eve separate he spies, Veiled in a cloud of fragrance, where she stood, Half spied, so thick the roses blushing round About her glowed...
Seite 274 - To bathe young buds in dews from heaven ; Awaking from his light repose, The angel whispered to the Rose : ' O fondest object of my care, Still fairest found where all are fair, For the sweet shade thou 'st given to me, Ask what thou wilt, ?t is granted thee.} ' Then,' said the Rose, with deepened glow,