Handy-Book of the Flower-Garden, being practical directions for the propagation, culture, and arrangement of plants in flower-gardens all the year round. [With illustrations.]W. Blackwood and sons, 1868 - 364 páginas |
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... become mono- tonous , and cease to be a source of exquisite pleasure to the mind ? Lovers of flowers ought to be thankful that the year and the human heart have room for changes . Vulgarity is one of the epithets which have been applied ...
... become mono- tonous , and cease to be a source of exquisite pleasure to the mind ? Lovers of flowers ought to be thankful that the year and the human heart have room for changes . Vulgarity is one of the epithets which have been applied ...
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... become popular for this purpose . As centres , starting - points , panels , vase plants , etc. , surely it is not hopeless to recruit from such ranks . A dozen , a score , forty , fifty , or a hundred such plants , according to the ...
... become popular for this purpose . As centres , starting - points , panels , vase plants , etc. , surely it is not hopeless to recruit from such ranks . A dozen , a score , forty , fifty , or a hundred such plants , according to the ...
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... become conversant with this subject ; and it is my in- tention to show how the harmony and contrast of colours can be easily decided by those who have not hitherto studied the matter . CHAPTER I. REVIEW OF THE PRINCIPAL GENERA MOST ...
... become conversant with this subject ; and it is my in- tention to show how the harmony and contrast of colours can be easily decided by those who have not hitherto studied the matter . CHAPTER I. REVIEW OF THE PRINCIPAL GENERA MOST ...
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... become popular , instead of those that will only thrive in the temperatures of our stoves . A list of such plants , with directions for disposing of them in beds and borders , in ways which , I think , will greatly enhance the interest ...
... become popular , instead of those that will only thrive in the temperatures of our stoves . A list of such plants , with directions for disposing of them in beds and borders , in ways which , I think , will greatly enhance the interest ...
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... sufficient . If inserted thicker , they become drawn , and do not stand the winter so well , nor make such fine plants . As soon as the cuttings are put in , the boxes should be removed at once to the most warn and airy place at.
... sufficient . If inserted thicker , they become drawn , and do not stand the winter so well , nor make such fine plants . As soon as the cuttings are put in , the boxes should be removed at once to the most warn and airy place at.
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Alyssum annuals April Arabis Aubrietia autumn banded beautiful bloom blue Lobelia Blue Pansy bulbs Calceolaria Canna Centaurea Centaurea Ragusina centre Cerastium tomentosum Chrysanthemum Sensation Coleus colour contrast Crimson King Crocus cuttings Dactylis glomerata double dwarf early easily edged with blue effective evergreen Fcap feet feet-June and July flore-pleno flower-garden flowering plants foliage frost Gazania Gazania splendens golden Pelargonium green ground ground-work group of beds grow hardy heat Hedera Iresine Herbstii Japonica June King Verbena Lastræa leaf-mould leaves light lilac loam Lobelia Lobelia speciosa manure mixed borders Narcissus orange panel Perilla pink pots Primula vulgaris propagation Purple King purple Pansy recommended red Daisy require Rhododendron rich soil rock-work roots rose rosy rows scarlet Pelargonium season shade shrubs Silene pendula silver variegated sowing sown spring spring-flowering Stock summer surface Tulip variegated Pelargonium variety Verbena Viola cornuta violet winter yellow Pansy Yucca aloifolia
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