A Book about Roses: How to Grow and Show ThemW. Blackwood, 1870 - 314 páginas |
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... light on a midnight train , and ( in my eyes , at any rate ) made summer of that damp and dismal day . Within his portals I found a crowd of other exhibitors , some with Roses in their coats like himself , and some without , for the ...
... light on a midnight train , and ( in my eyes , at any rate ) made summer of that damp and dismal day . Within his portals I found a crowd of other exhibitors , some with Roses in their coats like himself , and some without , for the ...
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... light of these Greeks and Romans was dim and feeble , it revealed to them the supreme beauty of the Rose ; and we shall find , as we pass down the highways of history from their times to our own , that against the Royal Supremacy no ...
... light of these Greeks and Romans was dim and feeble , it revealed to them the supreme beauty of the Rose ; and we shall find , as we pass down the highways of history from their times to our own , that against the Royal Supremacy no ...
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... light to flicker in our grand chandeliers and lamps , all but blew out for ever our rushlights and farthing dips . It was but a gust and a surprise . " It was a moment's fantasy , and as such it has passed . " Those generals , whose ...
... light to flicker in our grand chandeliers and lamps , all but blew out for ever our rushlights and farthing dips . It was but a gust and a surprise . " It was a moment's fantasy , and as such it has passed . " Those generals , whose ...
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... light barren sand called " drift " and " blowaway , " of which the clay farmer said derisively that it might be ploughed with a Dorking cock and a carv- ing - knife ! Mud , we are told in Mortimer's Husbandry , makes an extraordinary ...
... light barren sand called " drift " and " blowaway , " of which the clay farmer said derisively that it might be ploughed with a Dorking cock and a carv- ing - knife ! Mud , we are told in Mortimer's Husbandry , makes an extraordinary ...
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... light , weak , porous loam , with a marly subsoil . The first thing to do with a cold adhesive clay is to drain it , and to drain it well . When water stagnates around the roots of a plant , they cannot receive the air or the warmth ...
... light , weak , porous loam , with a marly subsoil . The first thing to do with a cold adhesive clay is to drain it , and to drain it well . When water stagnates around the roots of a plant , they cannot receive the air or the warmth ...
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admiration Adolphe de Rothschild Æsop amateur Baronne beautiful Blairii bloom Bourbon boxes Brennus Brier bright Charles Lawson Charles Lefebvre charming Cheshunt Climbing Roses colour commend crimson Crystal Palace Devoniensis Dijon Duc de Rohan Duke of Edinburgh exhibition exhibitor eyes fair feet florist flowers large flowers very large foliage fresh frost garden Roses Gaylad Gloire de Dijon glowing graceful ground growth vigorous happy heart honour hope Hybrid China Hybrid Perpetuals inches Jean Goujon Josephine Beauharnais large and full leaves Mademoiselle Mademoiselle Marie Manetti manure Maréchal Niel Margottin moss National Rose-Show never Noisette Nottingham nurseryman Paul perfect perfume petals Pillar Rose planted prize pruned Queen Reine roots Rosa Rosarian Rosarium Rosary Rose-garden Rose-trees royal Sawbridgeworth season selection shoots soil Souvenir specimens summer sweet Tea-scented trees Triomphe varieties Victor Verdier wall winter Wood Yellow young
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Página 206 - LARS PORSENA of Clusium By the Nine Gods he swore That the great house of Tarquin Should suffer wrong no more. By the Nine Gods he swore it, And named a trysting day, And bade his messengers ride forth, East and west and south and north, To summon his array.
Página 175 - We are here among the vast and noble scenes of nature ; we are there among the pitiful shifts of policy : we walk here in the light and open ways of the divine bounty: we grope there in the dark and confused labyrinths of human malice : our senses are here feasted with the clear and genuine taste of their objects ; which are all sophisticated there, and for the most part overwhelmed with their contraries.
Página 176 - The measure of choosing well is, whether a man likes what he has chosen; which, I thank God, has befallen me ; and though, among the follies of my life, building and planting have not been the least, and have cost me more than I have the confidence to own ; yet they have been fully recompensed by the sweetness and satisfaction of this retreat, where, since my resolution taken of never entering again into any public employments, I have passed five years without ever going once to town, though I am...
Página 285 - Come wealth or want, come good or ill, Let young and old accept their part, And bow before the Awful Will, And bear it with an honest heart, Who misses or who wins the prize. — Go, lose or conquer as you can ; But if you fail, or if you rise, Be each, pray God, a gentleman.
Página 1 - He who would have beautiful roses in his garden must have beautiful roses in his heart.
Página 1 - He must have not only the glowing admiration, the enthusiasm, and the passion, but the tenderness, the thoughtfulness, the reverence, the watchfulness of love . . . the cavalier of the Rose has semper fidelis upon his crest and shield.
Página 78 - For nought so vile that on the earth doth live, But to the earth some special good doth give...
Página 175 - ... his philosophy ; and, indeed, no oth'er sort of abode seems to contribute so much to both the tranquillity of mind and indolence of body, which he made his chief ends. The sweetness of...