Flowers for the Parlor and GardenJ.E. Tilton & Company, 1870 - 411 páginas |
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... inch wall of brick or stone , laid in hydraulic cement , to the height of one foot above the surface level ; on this lay a heavy wooden sill , which should be of sea- soned pine , which bears exposure better than other woods . Now for ...
... inch wall of brick or stone , laid in hydraulic cement , to the height of one foot above the surface level ; on this lay a heavy wooden sill , which should be of sea- soned pine , which bears exposure better than other woods . Now for ...
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... inch work , with a suitable cap ; and with a coat of paint given now and then , our green - house will last , without repairing , for many years . A " lean - to " house , built after this plan , would present somewhat the appearance of ...
... inch work , with a suitable cap ; and with a coat of paint given now and then , our green - house will last , without repairing , for many years . A " lean - to " house , built after this plan , would present somewhat the appearance of ...
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... inches square , with a grate at the bottom , on which the fire is made ; the other door , b , opens to an ash pit , of the same size , or perhaps deeper , below the fire . In this ash - pit door there is a small 26 THE GREEN - HOUSE AND ...
... inches square , with a grate at the bottom , on which the fire is made ; the other door , b , opens to an ash pit , of the same size , or perhaps deeper , below the fire . In this ash - pit door there is a small 26 THE GREEN - HOUSE AND ...
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... inches in its course , may be considered a boiler , the only opening to which is at the highest point of the pipe , e , that is , if the pipes run around the house at the end farthest from the boiler , where there is an opening with a ...
... inches in its course , may be considered a boiler , the only opening to which is at the highest point of the pipe , e , that is , if the pipes run around the house at the end farthest from the boiler , where there is an opening with a ...
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... inch deep for at least three feet at the lower end . Set them three feet deep , and ram them well ; they are the back wall of your house . Opposite each of these , and twelve feet from it , set ten cedar posts , six feet long , equally ...
... inch deep for at least three feet at the lower end . Set them three feet deep , and ram them well ; they are the back wall of your house . Opposite each of these , and twelve feet from it , set ten cedar posts , six feet long , equally ...
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Alba autumn Azalea beauty Bloodroot bloom blossoms blue blush branches buds bulbs CALCEOLARIA camellias color common crimson cultivation culture cuttings damp dark deep delicate double drainage early earth favorite feet ferns florists flowering plants Flowers white foliage fragrant frame frost fuchsias geraniums give GLADIOLUS glass green green-house grow grown growth hardy heat heaths herbaceous hot-bed hyacinths inches Ixia June leaf mould leaves Lemon Verbena light lilac Lily loam manure moisture Nasturtium native never open border orange ornamental ornamental plants parlor peat pelargoniums petals pink plenty Portulacca pretty produced profusion pruning pure white purple re-pot require rhododendrons rich loam roots rose rosy sand sashes scarlet season seed seedlings sepals shade shoots showy shrub soil species specimens spring stem stove summer temperature treatment trees variegated varieties verbena Violet Wardian white flowers window plants winter woods
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Página 7 - Neath cloistered boughs, each floral bell that swingeth And tolls its perfume on the passing air, Makes sabbath in the fields, and ever ringeth A call to prayer. Not to the domes where crumbling arch and column Attest the feebleness of mortal hand, But to that fane, most Catholic and solemn, Which God hath...
Página 140 - Bring flowers to the shrine where we kneel in prayer, They are nature's offering, their place is there ! They speak of hope to the fainting heart, With a voice of promise they come and part, They sleep in dust through the wintry hours, They break forth in glory — bring flowers, bright flowers ! THE CRUSADER'S RETURN. "Alas! the mother that him bare, If she had been in presence there, In his wan cheeks and sunburnt hair She had not known her child.
Página 180 - O'er hill, and dale, and desert sod, That man, where'er he walks, may see In every step, the stamp of God ? HYMN IN SEED-TIME.
Página 14 - Ephemeral sages! what instructors hoary For such a world of thought could furnish scope? Each fading calyx a memento mori, Yet fount of hope. • Posthumous glories! angel-like collection! Upraised from seed or bulb interred in earth, Ye are to me a type of resurrection, And second birth. Were I in churchless solitudes remaining, Far from all voice of teachers and divines, My soul would find, in flowers of God's ordaining, Priests, sermons, shrines!
Página 62 - One thing I warn thee: bow no knee to gold; Less innocent it makes the guileless tongue, It turns the feelings prematurely old; And they who keep their best affections young, Best love the Beautiful!
Página 307 - THE grass is wet with shining dews. Their silver bells hang on each tree, While opening flower and bursting bud Breathe incense forth unceasingly; The mavis pipes in greenwood shaw.
Página 127 - The carnation has the marks on its petals, from the centre to the edge, in flakes or stripes of colors, on a white ground. The picotee has a white or yellow ground, the edges of the petals being fringed with various shades of red and purple. Carnations are divided into five classes, namely: 1. Scarlet Bizarres ; 2. Pink or Crimson Bizarres ; 3. Scarlet Flakes ; 4. Rose Flakes ; 5. Purple Flakes. Bizarre is derived from the French, meaning odd or irregular. The flowers in these classes have three...
Página 398 - Oanadepsis, or Bloodroot, is well known as one of our earliest spring flowers. The flowers and leaf proceed from the end of a fleshy root, and all, on being wounded, emit a bright orange-red juice. We copy a good description of the root : " The bud or hybernaculum which terminates the root is composed of successive scales or sheaths, the last of which acquires considerable size as the plant springs up. By dissecting this bud in the summer or autumn, we may discover the embryo leaf and flower of the...
Página 133 - ... commencing the cut just below it; then reach a hooked peg, thrust it into the soil, catching hold by its hook of the layer as it descends, and press it gently down to the soil. Do the next in the same manner, and so on till every shoot is layered ; then cover them all with the sifted mould about three quarters of an inch deep, and that pot or plant is completed. Then give a slight watering, and the layers want no further care till they are rooted, which will be in about a month or six weeks.
Página 117 - Give it sun, and it will be a mass of bloom all winter. A pretty way is to train it up the side and across the window on strings. Do not, however, give it a very large pot, or it will all run to leaves.