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... heads of delicate , warm - coloured spray . Has any tree so graceful a way of throwing up its stems as the birch ? They seem to leap and spring into the air , often leaning and curving upward from the very root , sometimes in forms that ...
... heads of delicate , warm - coloured spray . Has any tree so graceful a way of throwing up its stems as the birch ? They seem to leap and spring into the air , often leaning and curving upward from the very root , sometimes in forms that ...
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... finding out that the closed and rather draggled - looking heads would open perfectly in a warm room . The uppermost leaf often confines the flower , and should be taken off B to release it ; the flower does not seem to JANUARY 17.
... finding out that the closed and rather draggled - looking heads would open perfectly in a warm room . The uppermost leaf often confines the flower , and should be taken off B to release it ; the flower does not seem to JANUARY 17.
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... head has its equivalent in the wide - reaching ground- grasp of the root . And it is interesting to see how , in the many different kinds of tree , the same laws are always in force , and the same results occur , and yet by the ...
... head has its equivalent in the wide - reaching ground- grasp of the root . And it is interesting to see how , in the many different kinds of tree , the same laws are always in force , and the same results occur , and yet by the ...
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... head in summer is crowned with a great tangle of Honeysuckle , had that crowned head lying on the ground weighted down by the frozen mass . But when the snow was gone and all the damage could be seen , the Junipers looked worse than ...
... head in summer is crowned with a great tangle of Honeysuckle , had that crowned head lying on the ground weighted down by the frozen mass . But when the snow was gone and all the damage could be seen , the Junipers looked worse than ...
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... head rests on the earth nine feet away , and a circle of its outspread branches has become a wholesome group of young upright growths , while at the place where the stem broke , the half - opened wrench still shows as clearly as on the ...
... head rests on the earth nine feet away , and a circle of its outspread branches has become a wholesome group of young upright growths , while at the place where the stem broke , the half - opened wrench still shows as clearly as on the ...
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Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working ... Gertrude Jekyll Visualização integral - 1914 |
Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working ... Gertrude Jekyll Visualização integral - 1901 |
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