Floricultural Cabinet and Florists' Magazine. ..., Volumes 19-20Whitaker and Company, Ave Maria Lane., 1851 |
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... plants as put on their gayest dresses at that season must be to all lovers of gardens a thing to hope for , and to admire when obtained . " To effect this , such plants must be grown in pots and be plunged in the beds or borders when ...
... plants as put on their gayest dresses at that season must be to all lovers of gardens a thing to hope for , and to admire when obtained . " To effect this , such plants must be grown in pots and be plunged in the beds or borders when ...
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... plants , to flourish properly , must have a house to them- selves , however small or large it is . A house must be constructed so that all the light be given to it that can be ; and the plants not be far from the glass , from three feet ...
... plants , to flourish properly , must have a house to them- selves , however small or large it is . A house must be constructed so that all the light be given to it that can be ; and the plants not be far from the glass , from three feet ...
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... plants should frequently be examined to have the surface soil loosened . Calceolarias - re - pot seedlings , strike cuttings , & c . Chrysanthemums having now quite ceased blooming , the plants must be placed in a cool pit where they ...
... plants should frequently be examined to have the surface soil loosened . Calceolarias - re - pot seedlings , strike cuttings , & c . Chrysanthemums having now quite ceased blooming , the plants must be placed in a cool pit where they ...
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... plants through winter in a cool pit , just from frost and damp ; or in a cool , somewhat shady place in a greenhouse . Never make a codling of a Calceolaria plant , so that at all times give plenty of air . Re - pot in February into two ...
... plants through winter in a cool pit , just from frost and damp ; or in a cool , somewhat shady place in a greenhouse . Never make a codling of a Calceolaria plant , so that at all times give plenty of air . Re - pot in February into two ...
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... plants in the flower - bed may be divi- ded . Plant out Hollyhocks as soon as possible , and any of the biennial plants . Pink beds : see that the plants remain secure , and stick some whin or fir - tree branches in among the plants ...
... plants in the flower - bed may be divi- ded . Plant out Hollyhocks as soon as possible , and any of the biennial plants . Pink beds : see that the plants remain secure , and stick some whin or fir - tree branches in among the plants ...
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Página 201 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege Through all the years of this our life, to lead From, joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith that all which we behold Is...
Página 188 - All things to man's delightful use. The roof Of thickest covert was inwoven shade, Laurel and myrtle, and what higher grew Of firm and fragrant leaf ; on either side Acanthus, and each odorous bushy shrub, Fenced up the verdant wall ; each beauteous flower, Iris all hues, roses and jessamine, Reared high their flourished heads between, and wrought Mosaic ; underfoot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth, with rich inlay Broidered the ground, more coloured than with stone Of costliest emblem : other creature...
Página 93 - YE field flowers ! the gardens eclipse you, 'tis true, Yet, wildings of Nature, I dote upon you, For ye waft me to summers of old, When the earth teem'd around me with fairy delight, And when daisies and buttercups gladden'd my sight, Like treasures of silver and gold.
Página 190 - 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.
Página 8 - Tis Flora's page: — In every place, In every season, fresh and fair, It opens with perennial grace, And blossoms everywhere. On waste and woodland, rock and plain, Its humble buds unheeded rise; The Rose has but a summer reign, — The Daisy never dies.
Página 48 - Violets, sweet tenants of the shade, In purple's richest pride arrayed, Your errand here fulfil; Go, bid the artist's simple stain Your lustre imitate — in vain — And match your Maker's skill.
Página 211 - ... to maturity they give pleasure, as a harbinger of the renewal of life, a signal of awakening nature, or of a higher promise; to youth, they are expanding being, opening years, hilarity and joy ; and the child, let loose from the house, riots in the flowery mead, and is "Monarch of all he surveys.
Página 131 - A work much called for by the progress which has been made during the last few years in this interesting science.
Página 9 - If stately passions in me burn, And one chance look to thee should turn, I drink out of an humbler urn A lowlier pleasure — The homely sympathy that heeds The common life our nature breeds, A wisdom fitted to the needs Of hearts at leisure.
Página 118 - Thoughtless of beauty, she was Beauty's self, Recluse amid the close-embowering woods. As in the hollow breast of Apennine, Beneath the shelter of encircling hills, A myrtle rises, far from human eye, And breathes its balmy fragrance o'er the wild...