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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... object is to illustrate the principles which the Author conceives should guide the flower- gardener in planting . Simplicity instead of intricacy of design has been studied as being compatible with beauty , and most generally applicable ...
... object is to illustrate the principles which the Author conceives should guide the flower- gardener in planting . Simplicity instead of intricacy of design has been studied as being compatible with beauty , and most generally applicable ...
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... objects of nature , and it presents them arranged , harmonized , and contrasted in the most favourable circumstances ; it adds a grace to the magnificent country residence , the moderate villa , and the more humble cottage home ; it ...
... objects of nature , and it presents them arranged , harmonized , and contrasted in the most favourable circumstances ; it adds a grace to the magnificent country residence , the moderate villa , and the more humble cottage home ; it ...
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... objects from unmeaning and embar- rassing variety be one of the virtues of art , it will be allowed that the present style of flower - gardening has a higher claim to that virtue than any that has preceded it ... object to INTRODUCTION . 5.
... objects from unmeaning and embar- rassing variety be one of the virtues of art , it will be allowed that the present style of flower - gardening has a higher claim to that virtue than any that has preceded it ... object to INTRODUCTION . 5.
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David Thomson. It is not , however , a primary object to balance the merits of the old mixed style of flower - gardening against the present popular style of massing . To do so would not only be a fruitless task , but a gross injustice ...
David Thomson. It is not , however , a primary object to balance the merits of the old mixed style of flower - gardening against the present popular style of massing . To do so would not only be a fruitless task , but a gross injustice ...
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... object is , in some cases , I fear , confounded with purely botanical science ; but it is folly to contrast or compare the one with the other . If the first attempts at grouping , with the view to contrast and harmonize their colours ...
... object is , in some cases , I fear , confounded with purely botanical science ; but it is folly to contrast or compare the one with the other . If the first attempts at grouping , with the view to contrast and harmonize their colours ...
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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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