Handy Book of the Flower-garden: Being Practical Directions for the Propagation, Culture, and Arrangement of Plants in Flower-gardens All the Year RoundW. Blackwood, 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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... 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 to both systems - to set them up as rivals for ...
... 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 to both systems - to set them up as rivals for ...
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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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14 foot 9 inches Alyssum annuals April Arabis Aubrietia autumn banded beautiful bloom blue Lobelia Blue Pansy bulbs Calceolaria Canna Centaurea Ragusina centre Cerastium Cerastium tomentosum Coleus colour contrast crimson Crocus cuttings Dactylis Dactylis glomerata Daisy double dwarf early easily edged effective evergreen Fcap feet feet-June and July Ferns flore-pleno flower-garden flowering plants foliage foot-June frost Gazania golden Pelargonium ground ground-work group of beds grow growth hardy Iresine Iresine Herbstii June King Verbena Lastræa leaf-mould leaves light lilac lines loam Lobelia Lobelia speciosa manure mixed borders moisture Narcissus orange panel Pelargonium pendula Perilla pink pots Primula vulgaris propagation Purple King recommended require Rhododendron rich soil rock-work roots rose rosy rows sandy soil season seed shaded shrubs Silene pendula sowing sown spring Stock summer surface thrive Tulip variegated Pelargonium varieties Verbena Viola cornuta violet weather winter yellow Pansy Yucca Yucca aloifolia