My Garden Wild: And what I Grew ThereChatto & Windus, 1881 - 291 páginas |
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... Maidenhair Spleenwort . Almost hiding from view the course of the stream which ran down the dell were Lady Ferns , graceful in habit and luxuriant in growth , whilst , in the hollower ground , upon the sloping banks , and far up and ...
... Maidenhair Spleenwort . Almost hiding from view the course of the stream which ran down the dell were Lady Ferns , graceful in habit and luxuriant in growth , whilst , in the hollower ground , upon the sloping banks , and far up and ...
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... Maidenhair ( Adiantum capillus- veneris ) and the Sea Spleenwort ( Asplenium mari- num ) , which , though growing with great luxuriance on several parts of our coasts , will not grow in the open air anywhere inland . But a glass ...
... Maidenhair ( Adiantum capillus- veneris ) and the Sea Spleenwort ( Asplenium mari- num ) , which , though growing with great luxuriance on several parts of our coasts , will not grow in the open air anywhere inland . But a glass ...
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... Maidenhair Spleenwort ( Asplenium adiantum - nigrum ) , and the Common Maidenhair Spleenwort ( Asplenium tricho- manes ) have been recorded each in about ninety - four out of the hundred and twelve botanical districts . Rocky habitats ...
... Maidenhair Spleenwort ( Asplenium adiantum - nigrum ) , and the Common Maidenhair Spleenwort ( Asplenium tricho- manes ) have been recorded each in about ninety - four out of the hundred and twelve botanical districts . Rocky habitats ...
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... Maidenhair Spleenwort were almost invariably those whose root- stocks , though not covered with soil , were half hidden in the darkness of stony crannies . Such positions en- gender a moist atmosphere immediately around the crown of the ...
... Maidenhair Spleenwort were almost invariably those whose root- stocks , though not covered with soil , were half hidden in the darkness of stony crannies . Such positions en- gender a moist atmosphere immediately around the crown of the ...
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... Maiden- hair Spleenwort ( Asplenium trichomanes ) , though small in size - three or four inches in length as ordi- narily seen - at once arrests the eye on wall WHAT FERNS I GREW . 69.
... Maiden- hair Spleenwort ( Asplenium trichomanes ) , though small in size - three or four inches in length as ordi- narily seen - at once arrests the eye on wall WHAT FERNS I GREW . 69.
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abundant amongst banks beautiful BESANT and JAMES blossoms botanical districts branches BRET HARTE Buckler Fern Buttercups calyx CHARLES GIBBON charming cloth extra clumps colour Common corolla Crowfoot Crown 8vo delightful districts except 46 Edition feet Fern-The flowers foot forest fronds garden wild gilt Grass green lane greensward grew ground growing growth habitats hairy Hard Fern hardy Heath hedge hedge-banks height hundred and twelve inches indented JAMES PAYN JAMES RICE JUSTIN MCCARTHY lance-shaped Lastrea leaf leaf-mould leaflets leafy leaves little plant lobes Maidenhair Spleenwort Marsh Meadow moist natural numerous Illustrations oftentimes opposite pairs OUIDA panicle petals pinnæ pinnules placed Polypody Post 8vo pretty purple racemes rachis Ranunculus Recorded in districts rhizomas rock rockery rootlets roots shady shrub shrubbery side soil sometimes species specimens spikelets Spleenwort stems Sweet Tormentil trees tricts twelve botanical districts Violet Vols WALTER BESANT whilst WILKIE COLLINS woodland woods yellow
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