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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... general sentiment and usage , and fashion is as tyrannical in the court of flowers as in any other . Whatever can be said either for or against the modern style of grouping plants of one sort and colour 4 THE FLOWER - GARDEN .
... general sentiment and usage , and fashion is as tyrannical in the court of flowers as in any other . Whatever can be said either for or against the modern style of grouping plants of one sort and colour 4 THE FLOWER - GARDEN .
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... sort and colour together in quantities , so as to make each bed a distinct picture , and blend all into a harmonious whole , it must be admitted that the work of the gardener is now much more an art than it was a quarter of a century ...
... sort and colour together in quantities , so as to make each bed a distinct picture , and blend all into a harmonious whole , it must be admitted that the work of the gardener is now much more an art than it was a quarter of a century ...
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... sort . They must give place to a system of grouping in accord- ance with the surroundings . The comparatively shortlived display is one of the arguments which has been often urged against composing our flower - gardens entirely of half ...
... sort . They must give place to a system of grouping in accord- ance with the surroundings . The comparatively shortlived display is one of the arguments which has been often urged against composing our flower - gardens entirely of half ...
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... sort in winter . Many of our perfectly hardy shrubs and trees can be used in a young state with very striking effect , and I hope the training of such in special ways for this purpose will one day be well worth the atten- tion of ...
... sort in winter . Many of our perfectly hardy shrubs and trees can be used in a young state with very striking effect , and I hope the training of such in special ways for this purpose will one day be well worth the atten- tion of ...
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... as it is being discovered that some desirable feature or effect is gained ; and thus , by a sort of mutual concession , the flower - garden will CHAPTER I REVIEW OF THE PRINCIPAL GENERA MOST SUITABLE SUMMER GROUPING, ETC.
... as it is being discovered that some desirable feature or effect is gained ; and thus , by a sort of mutual concession , the flower - garden will CHAPTER I REVIEW OF THE PRINCIPAL GENERA MOST SUITABLE SUMMER GROUPING, ETC.
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Handy-Book of the Flower-Garden, being practical directions for the ... David Thomson Visualização integral - 1868 |
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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