My Garden Wild: And what I Grew ThereChatto & Windus, 1881 - 291 páginas |
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... inch or two into the soil , and then carelessly ' pull up ' what looks like a root - because there is a short length of black rhizoma and one or two fleshy root - fibres at the end of the stipes - are disappointed at the result of ...
... inch or two into the soil , and then carelessly ' pull up ' what looks like a root - because there is a short length of black rhizoma and one or two fleshy root - fibres at the end of the stipes - are disappointed at the result of ...
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... inch or so above the soil— the fronds could be displayed without injury to their bold and symmetrical appearance . As not only in the forks of trees , but on many wall- tops , in the moist crannies of ruined stone - work , and in the ...
... inch or so above the soil— the fronds could be displayed without injury to their bold and symmetrical appearance . As not only in the forks of trees , but on many wall- tops , in the moist crannies of ruined stone - work , and in the ...
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... in such a place , tiny fronds of only an inch or two in length ; but on the tops of old walls where much soil has accumulated , or in the moist forks of trees where there have been similar accretions of 62 MY GARDEN WILD .
... in such a place , tiny fronds of only an inch or two in length ; but on the tops of old walls where much soil has accumulated , or in the moist forks of trees where there have been similar accretions of 62 MY GARDEN WILD .
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... inches ; and in the dankest part of the hedge - bank of a deep Devonshire lane I have found fronds of this attractive plant two feet and a half long . Ranging , as to wideness of distribution , next below the most familiar of the ...
... inches ; and in the dankest part of the hedge - bank of a deep Devonshire lane I have found fronds of this attractive plant two feet and a half long . Ranging , as to wideness of distribution , next below the most familiar of the ...
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... inches long , more commonly an inch long , and , less frequently , three , though in rare instances five or six - must be unknown to very few persons , though its small size renders it ordinarily inconspicuous . Yet it is easily ...
... inches long , more commonly an inch long , and , less frequently , three , though in rare instances five or six - must be unknown to very few persons , though its small size renders it ordinarily inconspicuous . Yet it is easily ...
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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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