A Book about Roses: How to Grow and Show ThemEdward Arnold, 1892 - 213 páginas |
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... plant an acre of my glebe with Roses . " There you may see a Royal Duchess so surprised out of her normal calmness , that she raises two pale pink gloves in an ecstasy of surprise , and murmurs , " Oh , how lovely ! " over Maréchal Niel ...
... plant an acre of my glebe with Roses . " There you may see a Royal Duchess so surprised out of her normal calmness , that she raises two pale pink gloves in an ecstasy of surprise , and murmurs , " Oh , how lovely ! " over Maréchal Niel ...
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... plant on which they grew . We must pass from the public Rose - show to the private Rose - garden to see in its saddest phase the difference between what is and what ought to be - the feeble harvest of good Roses from the broad acres of ...
... plant on which they grew . We must pass from the public Rose - show to the private Rose - garden to see in its saddest phase the difference between what is and what ought to be - the feeble harvest of good Roses from the broad acres of ...
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... plants , and there were the proprietors , showing me proudly the stems from which such and such favourites were cut , and pointing to various healthy and handsome rose - buds , which , though belonging to junior branches of the family ...
... plants , and there were the proprietors , showing me proudly the stems from which such and such favourites were cut , and pointing to various healthy and handsome rose - buds , which , though belonging to junior branches of the family ...
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... plants , fruits , and vegetables , he had in cultivation several thousand Rose - trees , most of which he had budded , and all of which he had pruned and cared for likewise with his own hands . From his houses he showed beautiful ...
... plants , fruits , and vegetables , he had in cultivation several thousand Rose - trees , most of which he had budded , and all of which he had pruned and cared for likewise with his own hands . From his houses he showed beautiful ...
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... plant in the window . It was a promise of wel- come ; it was a sign that there dwelt within a love and yearning for the beautiful ; it was an invitation for the sower to sow . What tender memories , solaces , and hopes may be brought ...
... plant in the window . It was a promise of wel- come ; it was a sign that there dwelt within a love and yearning for the beautiful ; it was an invitation for the sower to sow . What tender memories , solaces , and hopes may be brought ...
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abundant admirable amateur autumn Banksian Blairii bloom blush Bourbon boxes bricated Brier bright budded carmine Charles Lawson Charles Lefebvre charming Cheshunt Climbing Roses colour Comtesse crimson Crystal Palace Cupped deep Devoniensis Duc de Rohan Ducher Duke of Edinburgh exhibition exhibitor eyes floriculture florist flowers foliage fragrant free-flowering frost garden Gaylad Gloire de Dijon glowing graceful ground grown Guillot Globular happy heart honour Horticultural Hybrid China Hybrid Perpetual Imbricated inches INTRODUCER'S NAME Jamain Lacharme leaves Levet Madame Manetti manure Maréchal Niel Marie Moderate moss never Noisette pale Paul perfect petals pink plants pointed centre prize Provence pruned Queen roots Rosa Rosarian Rosarium Rosary Rose-garden Rose-trees royal Royal Horticultural Society Sawbridgeworth season selection Semi-globular shaded shoots smooth-wooded soil Souvenir specimens St James's Hall summer sweet Teas trees varieties Verdier Vigorous wall winter wood yellow young
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Página 133 - LARS PORSENA of Clusium By the Nine Gods he swore That the great house of Tarquin Should suffer wrong no more. By the Nine Gods he swore it, And named a trysting day, And bade his messengers ride forth, East and west and south and north, To summon his array.
Página 117 - We are here among the vast and noble scenes of nature ; we are there among the pitiful shifts of policy : we walk here in the light and open ways of the divine bounty: we grope there in the dark and confused labyrinths of human malice : our senses are here feasted with the clear and genuine taste of their objects ; which are all sophisticated there, and for the most part overwhelmed with their contraries.
Página 117 - The measure of choosing well is, whether a man likes what he has chosen; which, I thank God, has befallen me ; and though, among the follies of my life, building and planting have not been the least, and have cost me more than I have the confidence to own ; yet they have been fully recompensed by the sweetness and satisfaction of this retreat, where, since my resolution taken of never entering again into any public employments, I have passed five years without ever going once to town, though I am...
Página 185 - Come wealth or want, come good or ill, Let young and old accept their part, And bow before the Awful Will, And bear it with an honest heart, Who misses or who wins the prize. — Go, lose or conquer as you can ; But if you fail, or if you rise, Be each, pray God, a gentleman.
Página 1 - He must have not only the glowing admiration, the enthusiasm, and the passion, but the tenderness, the thoughtfulness, the reverence, the watchfulness of love.
Página 117 - ... his philosophy ; and, indeed, no oth'er sort of abode seems to contribute so much to both the tranquillity of mind and indolence of body, which he made his chief ends. The sweetness of...
Página 116 - ... much innocence, I think it is ill done of men not to take them here where they are so tame and ready at hand, rather than hunt for them in courts and cities, where they are so wild and the chase so troublesome and dangerous.
Página 191 - I have ever seen, heard, or read of. Insects in general come from an egg, — then turn to a caterpillar, which does nothing but eat, — then to a chrysalis, which does nothing but sleep, — then to a perfect beetle or fly, which does nothing but increase its kind. But blights proceed altogether on another system : — the young ones are born exactly like the old ones, but less ; they stick their beaks through the rind, and begin drawing sap when only a day old, and go on quietly sucking away for...
Página 31 - She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Página 72 - By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent...