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 CultivationA.O. Moore, 1858 - 395 Seiten |
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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 273 - 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. Sweet roses do not so ; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made : And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, my verse distils your truth.
Seite 345 - Not a tree, A plant, a leaf, a blossom, but contains A folio volume. We may read, and read, And read again, and still find something new, Something to please, and something to instruct, E'en in the noisome weed.
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.
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Seite 2 - A TREATISE, INTENDED TO EXPLAIN AND ILLUSTRATE THE PHYSIology of Fruit Trees, the Theory and Practice of all Operations connected with the Propagation, Transplanting, Pruning and Training of Orchard and Garden Trees, as Standards, Dwarfs, Pyramids, Espalier, Ac. The Laying out and Arranging different kinds of Orchards and Gardens...
Seite 310 - I know not why the beech delights the glade With boughs extended, and a rounder shade ; Whilst towering firs in conic forms arise, And with a pointed spear divide the skies...
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.