Roses, Their History, Development and CultivationLongmans, Green, and Company, 1908 - 336 páginas |
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... single flower , but it now comprises several flowers and leaves of pure gold , with a principal flower at the top ; the flower an emblem of the mortality of the body , the metal the immortality of the soul . The first instance on record ...
... single flower , but it now comprises several flowers and leaves of pure gold , with a principal flower at the top ; the flower an emblem of the mortality of the body , the metal the immortality of the soul . The first instance on record ...
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... the wings of the butterfly , in the first few minutes after its development as the perfect insect , expand and smooth out in all its beauty , so do the petals of the R. canina and other single flower roses . To know the age 14 ROSES.
... the wings of the butterfly , in the first few minutes after its development as the perfect insect , expand and smooth out in all its beauty , so do the petals of the R. canina and other single flower roses . To know the age 14 ROSES.
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Joseph Hardwick Pemberton. and other single flower roses . To know the age of a blossom of a single - flowering variety we must look at the stamens . When the flower is young the stamens are a bright golden yellow , but after a few hours ...
Joseph Hardwick Pemberton. and other single flower roses . To know the age of a blossom of a single - flowering variety we must look at the stamens . When the flower is young the stamens are a bright golden yellow , but after a few hours ...
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... single flowers , being unaware that in Great Britain and Ireland there are at least seven species , and many more sub - species ; Sowerby gives sixteen ! Take three of these , R. canina , R. rubiginosa , and R. arvensis : study them ...
... single flowers , being unaware that in Great Britain and Ireland there are at least seven species , and many more sub - species ; Sowerby gives sixteen ! Take three of these , R. canina , R. rubiginosa , and R. arvensis : study them ...
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Joseph Hardwick Pemberton. ROSA SPINOSISSIMA ( R. pimpinellifolia : The Burnet or Single Scotch Rose ) It should This species obtains its name from the peculiarity and abundance of its prickles . It is the most spiny of all roses , as ...
Joseph Hardwick Pemberton. ROSA SPINOSISSIMA ( R. pimpinellifolia : The Burnet or Single Scotch Rose ) It should This species obtains its name from the peculiarity and abundance of its prickles . It is the most spiny of all roses , as ...
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Página 3 - You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own; What are you when the rose is blown ? So, when my mistress shall be seen In form and beauty of her mind, By virtue first, then choice, a Queen, Tell me, if she were not design'd Th' eclipse and glory of her kind.
Página 6 - Let him that is a true-born gentleman, And stands upon the honour of his birth, If he suppose that I have pleaded truth, From off this brier pluck a white rose with me. Som. Let him that is no coward nor no flatterer, But dare maintain the party of the truth, Pluck a red rose from off this thorn with me.
Página 236 - ... the stigma is in most cases safe from their contact. It will be some days — probably a week or more, if the weather be not sunny — ere the stigma is in a fit condition for fertilisation.
Página 237 - ... too robust a growth, or having too large or too coarse foliage in a plant without these drawbacks, I need not suggest to select, in another species of the same family, a plant of an opposite character and properties — say of dwarf, compact growth, handsome foliage, and free flowering habit ; and if such can be obtained, work with it, making the latter the seed-bearer. Or, if it be desirable to impart the fragrance of a less handsome kind to another more handsome, I would make the cross upon...
Página 113 - ... dry weather. They cake, and present only a small surface to the air ; and the vegetation on them is generally burnt up almost as readily as on sands. The soils that are most efficient in supplying the plant with water by atmospheric absorption are those in which there is a due mixture of sand, finely divided clay, and carbonate of lime, with some animal or vegetable matter ; and which are so loose and light as to be freely permeable to the atmosphere.
Página 90 - Benoist, in the isle, in planting one of these hedges, found amongst his young plants one very different from the others in its shoots and foliage. This induced him to plant it in his garden. It flowered the following year; and, as he anticipated, proved to be of quite a new race, and differing much from the above two roses, which, at the time, were the only sorts known in the island...
Página 236 - ... the separation of these parts, the bursting of the pollen, the maturity of the stigma, and all which a little experience will detect, indicate the proper time for the operation, sunny or cloudy weather always affecting the duration of the period during which it may be successfully performed. As to the proper time and season best adapted for such experiments, a treatise might be written ; but here a few remarks must suffice. As for the season of the year, from early spring to midsummer I would...
Página 234 - ... the operator be possessed of indomitable patience, watchfulness, and perseverance. Having determined on the subjects on which he is to operate, if the plants are in the open ground, he will have them put into pots, and removed under glass, so as to escape the accidents of variable temperature — of wind, rain, and dust, and, above all, of insects. A greenhouse fully exposed to the sun is best adapted for the purpose, at least as regards hardy and proper greenhouse plants. Having got them housed,...
Página 237 - If it is desired to reproduce the larger, finer formed, or higher colored bloom of a plant having a tall, straggling, or too robust a growth, or having too large or too coarse foliage in a plant without these drawbacks, I need not suggest to select, in another species of the same family, a plant of an opposite character and properties — say of dwarf, compact growth, handsome foliage, and free flowering habit ; and if such can be obtained, work with it, making the latter the seed-bearer. Or, if...