My Garden Wild: And what I Grew ThereChatto & Windus, 1881 - 291 páginas |
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... height was reached from which one could look down on a view of blended trees and houses spread below and appearing to nestle in the hollows of a delightful valley , through which flowed , glistening , the waters of a rushing stream ...
... height was reached from which one could look down on a view of blended trees and houses spread below and appearing to nestle in the hollows of a delightful valley , through which flowed , glistening , the waters of a rushing stream ...
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... height of little more than a foot , but in the depths of moist woods it will rise six , eight , ten , and even twelve feet . If the surface - soil be shallow and dry , it becomes a pigmy : if deep , rich , and moist , it assumes grand ...
... height of little more than a foot , but in the depths of moist woods it will rise six , eight , ten , and even twelve feet . If the surface - soil be shallow and dry , it becomes a pigmy : if deep , rich , and moist , it assumes grand ...
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... heights we return again , and again with pleasure , to simpler forms . Yet the Hartstongue , as if wearying of its own simplicity , varies its own normal habit by assuming five hundred variations from the common standard . I never cared ...
... heights we return again , and again with pleasure , to simpler forms . Yet the Hartstongue , as if wearying of its own simplicity , varies its own normal habit by assuming five hundred variations from the common standard . I never cared ...
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... height of four feet , though com- monly the size will be found to be less . Half - evergreen as it is , and especially robust in its habit , I found it did not dislike a little sunlight , so that it could be planted almost anywhere in ...
... height of four feet , though com- monly the size will be found to be less . Half - evergreen as it is , and especially robust in its habit , I found it did not dislike a little sunlight , so that it could be planted almost anywhere in ...
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... water level , but their matted roots could secure an abundance of moisture . The Royal Fern ( Osmunda regalis ) is a truly regal plant , as its name suggests , attaining a height sometimes of twelve feet 82 MY GARDEN WILD .
... water level , but their matted roots could secure an abundance of moisture . The Royal Fern ( Osmunda regalis ) is a truly regal plant , as its name suggests , attaining a height sometimes of twelve feet 82 MY GARDEN WILD .
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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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