Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working AmateurLongmans, Green, 1904 - 286 páginas |
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... perhaps as yet young in gar- dening , cannot tell what to make of it . And yet the two writers are both able gardeners , and both absolutely trustworthy , only they should have said , " In my experi- ence in this place such a plant can ...
... perhaps as yet young in gar- dening , cannot tell what to make of it . And yet the two writers are both able gardeners , and both absolutely trustworthy , only they should have said , " In my experi- ence in this place such a plant can ...
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... Perhaps it is a warm , mossy scent that greets one when passing along the southern side of a hedge - bank ; or it may be in some woodland opening , where the sun has coaxed out the pungent smell of the trailing ground Ivy , whose blue ...
... Perhaps it is a warm , mossy scent that greets one when passing along the southern side of a hedge - bank ; or it may be in some woodland opening , where the sun has coaxed out the pungent smell of the trailing ground Ivy , whose blue ...
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... perhaps twelve feet away . In the case of one of our trees , among a group of laid - down and grown - up branches , one old central trunk has sur- vived . It is now so thick and strong , and has so little top , that it will be likely to ...
... perhaps twelve feet away . In the case of one of our trees , among a group of laid - down and grown - up branches , one old central trunk has sur- vived . It is now so thick and strong , and has so little top , that it will be likely to ...
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... perhaps just because of these unorthodox qualities . And much as I admire the great bouncing beauties that are most justly the pride of their raisers , I hold that this most refined and delicate class of beauty equally deserves faithful ...
... perhaps just because of these unorthodox qualities . And much as I admire the great bouncing beauties that are most justly the pride of their raisers , I hold that this most refined and delicate class of beauty equally deserves faithful ...
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... Perhaps it is still the best or one of the best ways to begin when the bushes are quite young ; for if planted the right distance apart - seven to nine feet - there must be large bare spaces between ; but now that they have filled the ...
... Perhaps it is still the best or one of the best ways to begin when the bushes are quite young ; for if planted the right distance apart - seven to nine feet - there must be large bare spaces between ; but now that they have filled 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 |
Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working ... Gertrude Jekyll Visualização de excertos - 1983 |
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