I hope, in a few years, to see Bourbon roses in every garden, for the " Queen of flowers" boasts no members of her court more beautiful ; their fragrance also is delicate and pleasing, more particularly in the autumn... The rose amateur's guide - Página 67por Thomas Rivers - 1837 - 110 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| William Robert Prince - 1846 - 276 páginas
...be thinned, any weak or useless ones removed, and long shoots shortened to within four or five buds. I hope, in a few years, to see Bourbon roses in every...her court more beautiful ; their fragrance also is delicate and pleasing, more particularly in the autumn ; they ought to occupy a distinguished place... | |
| Francis Parkman - 1866 - 252 páginas
...surpasses it for forcing. The above will serve as favorable examples of the best types of this group. " I hope in a few years to see Bourbon roses in every garden ; for ' the Queen of Flowers ' boasts no member of her court more beautiful. Their fragrance also is delicate an^l pleasing, more particularly... | |
| 1927 - 332 páginas
...Rivers, in his famous Rose Amateur's Guide wrote thus of them : " I hope, in a few years, to see the Bourbon Roses in every garden, for the Queen of Flowers...her court more beautiful ; their fragrance also is delicate and pleasing, more particularly in the autumn." To-day very few survive, but they have, indeed,... | |
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