My Garden Wild: And what I Grew ThereChatto & Windus, 1881 - 291 páginas |
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... up and bringing home my treasures ; but more frequently my pilgrimages could be made alone ; and then , with a small fork and a trowel and a little bag in which to carry my flower or fern roots , I could easily MY GARDEN . 47.
... up and bringing home my treasures ; but more frequently my pilgrimages could be made alone ; and then , with a small fork and a trowel and a little bag in which to carry my flower or fern roots , I could easily MY GARDEN . 47.
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... plant with sufficient soil to pre- vent any disturbance of roots or rootlets ... little the act which it re- presents is understood . There are few persons who do not think they thoroughly understand how to remove a plant 48 MY GARDEN WILD .
... plant with sufficient soil to pre- vent any disturbance of roots or rootlets ... little the act which it re- presents is understood . There are few persons who do not think they thoroughly understand how to remove a plant 48 MY GARDEN WILD .
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... growing fondness on the part of townspeople for gathering , during their periodical holidays , some little root or roots , from country lane or wood , and replanting it in some little corner of the garden ' at home . ' Their fancy is ...
... growing fondness on the part of townspeople for gathering , during their periodical holidays , some little root or roots , from country lane or wood , and replanting it in some little corner of the garden ' at home . ' Their fancy is ...
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... plant is thus roughly removed from its habitat , dis- appointment is caused if it does not thrive in its new sphere . It doubtless involves a little more trouble to remove a plant with its roots embedded , undisturbed , in the soil in ...
... plant is thus roughly removed from its habitat , dis- appointment is caused if it does not thrive in its new sphere . It doubtless involves a little more trouble to remove a plant with its roots embedded , undisturbed , in the soil in ...
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... garden , that a little stream , skirting for a short distance the roadway near my house , suddenly disappeared under an archway of rounded tiles , and reappeared , as it seemed , some little distance away in another part of the district ...
... garden , that a little stream , skirting for a short distance the roadway near my house , suddenly disappeared under an archway of rounded tiles , and reappeared , as it seemed , some little distance away in another part of the district ...
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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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