Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working AmateurLongmans, Green, 1904 - 286 páginas |
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... nearly thirty years of gardening ( the earlier part of it in groping ignorance with scant means of help ) , I can remember no part of it that was not full of pleasure and encouragement . For the first steps are steps into a delightful ...
... nearly thirty years of gardening ( the earlier part of it in groping ignorance with scant means of help ) , I can remember no part of it that was not full of pleasure and encouragement . For the first steps are steps into a delightful ...
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... . The nut - trees have grown into such thick clumps that now there must be a vigorous thinning . Each stool has from eight to twelve main stems , the largest of them nearly two inches thick . Some shoot almost JANUARY 9.
... . The nut - trees have grown into such thick clumps that now there must be a vigorous thinning . Each stool has from eight to twelve main stems , the largest of them nearly two inches thick . Some shoot almost JANUARY 9.
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... nearly two inches thick . Some shoot almost upright , but two or three in each stool spread outward , with quite a different habit of growth , branching about in an angular fashion . These are the oldest and thickest . There are also a ...
... nearly two inches thick . Some shoot almost upright , but two or three in each stool spread outward , with quite a different habit of growth , branching about in an angular fashion . These are the oldest and thickest . There are also a ...
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... nearly red where they have seen the sun . Age seems to give them a sort of hard surface and enough of a polish to reflect the sky ; the young leaves that will come next month are almost woolly at first . Grassy tufts show only bleached ...
... nearly red where they have seen the sun . Age seems to give them a sort of hard surface and enough of a polish to reflect the sky ; the young leaves that will come next month are almost woolly at first . Grassy tufts show only bleached ...
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... nearly as bright ; and many of the Megaseas are of a fine bronze red , the ones that colour best being the varieties of the well - known M. crassifolia and M. cordi- folia . Among shrubs , some of the nearly allied genera , popularly ...
... nearly as bright ; and many of the Megaseas are of a fine bronze red , the ones that colour best being the varieties of the well - known M. crassifolia and M. cordi- folia . Among shrubs , some of the nearly allied genera , popularly ...
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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 |
Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working ... Gertrude Jekyll Visualização de excertos - 1983 |
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