Floricultural Cabinet and Florists' Magazine. ..., Volumes 19-20Whitaker and Company, Ave Maria Lane., 1851 |
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... stove . The flower - stems rise a foot high , each having but one blossom . The tube - formed portion is an inch long , the lower half greenish - yellow , and the other pale - purple ; but the five large - lobed end divisions , properly ...
... stove . The flower - stems rise a foot high , each having but one blossom . The tube - formed portion is an inch long , the lower half greenish - yellow , and the other pale - purple ; but the five large - lobed end divisions , properly ...
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... stove orchideous Epi- phyte from Pernambuca , obtained by John Knowles , Esq . , of Man- chester . The flowers are produced in what is called a many - flowered panicle . They are of a snow - white , with the lips having three yellow ...
... stove orchideous Epi- phyte from Pernambuca , obtained by John Knowles , Esq . , of Man- chester . The flowers are produced in what is called a many - flowered panicle . They are of a snow - white , with the lips having three yellow ...
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... stove - climber , of medium habit . It is an abundant bloomer , each flower being two inches across . Sepals green . The filaments ( termed the rays of the coronet ) are of a bright orange colour when they first expand , but afterwards ...
... stove - climber , of medium habit . It is an abundant bloomer , each flower being two inches across . Sepals green . The filaments ( termed the rays of the coronet ) are of a bright orange colour when they first expand , but afterwards ...
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... stove . GESNERIA HERBERTII . - Large plants , in fine bloom , the flowers of a bright scarlet and rich yellow colours , beautifully spotted inside . The tube is wide , and the front limb fully expanded , which shows the flower fully ...
... stove . GESNERIA HERBERTII . - Large plants , in fine bloom , the flowers of a bright scarlet and rich yellow colours , beautifully spotted inside . The tube is wide , and the front limb fully expanded , which shows the flower fully ...
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... stove ; a neat plant , pro- ducing a profusion of bright orange - coloured flowers , borne in long spikes , which are highly ornamental . The foliage and branches are nearly white : the contrast is strikingly pretty . It is well worth ...
... stove ; a neat plant , pro- ducing a profusion of bright orange - coloured flowers , borne in long spikes , which are highly ornamental . The foliage and branches are nearly white : the contrast is strikingly pretty . It is well worth ...
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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.
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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...