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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... lines of plants with various shades of colour . Properly worked out and understood , the pleasure of the parterre becomes one of intellect ; and long may it form a part of our gardens ! Its object is , in some cases , I fear ...
... lines of plants with various shades of colour . Properly worked out and understood , the pleasure of the parterre becomes one of intellect ; and long may it form a part of our gardens ! Its object is , in some cases , I fear ...
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... lines . Of Dahlias a new race of dwarfs has been furnished for comparatively dwarf groups and lines . True , some of these are not such in their individual blooms as would be looked upon by a florist with much com- placency , but they ...
... lines . Of Dahlias a new race of dwarfs has been furnished for comparatively dwarf groups and lines . True , some of these are not such in their individual blooms as would be looked upon by a florist with much com- placency , but they ...
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... lines ? Of these there are T. uvaria and T. grandis , which , if planted alternately , keep up a fine line of bloom for four or five months . The latter begins to bloom when uvaria ceases , and it is frequently fine at Christmas . I ...
... lines ? Of these there are T. uvaria and T. grandis , which , if planted alternately , keep up a fine line of bloom for four or five months . The latter begins to bloom when uvaria ceases , and it is frequently fine at Christmas . I ...
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... lines . And it need scarcely be affirmed , that nearly all of them have been much improved of late years ; so that , beyond any doubt , the flower - gardener of the present has a much more superb fraternity of plants with which to keep ...
... lines . And it need scarcely be affirmed , that nearly all of them have been much improved of late years ; so that , beyond any doubt , the flower - gardener of the present has a much more superb fraternity of plants with which to keep ...
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... lines are generally so well filled up that a couple of cuttings from each plant will not affect the appearance of the garden . In choosing the cuttings , take as many of them round the outside of the beds as can be had . They are ...
... lines are generally so well filled up that a couple of cuttings from each plant will not affect the appearance of the garden . In choosing the cuttings , take as many of them round the outside of the beds as can be had . They are ...
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Handy-Book of the Flower-Garden, being practical directions for the ... David Thomson Visualização integral - 1868 |
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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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