Talks about Plants, Or, Early Lessons in BotanyGriffith and Farran, 1879 - 288 páginas |
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... APRIL . -0- ' When daisies pied , and violets blue , And lady smocks all silver white , And cuckoo buds of yellow hue , Do paint the meadows with delight . ' SHAKESPEARE . SOME APRIL FLOWERS . VIOLET . PRIMROSE . COWSLIP . 79.
... APRIL . -0- ' When daisies pied , and violets blue , And lady smocks all silver white , And cuckoo buds of yellow hue , Do paint the meadows with delight . ' SHAKESPEARE . SOME APRIL FLOWERS . VIOLET . PRIMROSE . COWSLIP . 79.
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... ladies of the olden time were stiffened by its use . The nearest relations to the hyacinth are the lilies and the tulips . They all belong to the natural order Liliacea . The flowers , you see , grow all along a stalk , making what is ...
... ladies of the olden time were stiffened by its use . The nearest relations to the hyacinth are the lilies and the tulips . They all belong to the natural order Liliacea . The flowers , you see , grow all along a stalk , making what is ...
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... ladies ' when she was a little girl . What is it really ? It is not at all a proper flower , is it ? GRANNY . - Don't you recollect , Harry , the large white flower we have in the drawing- room , which you call the ' Arum lily ...
... ladies ' when she was a little girl . What is it really ? It is not at all a proper flower , is it ? GRANNY . - Don't you recollect , Harry , the large white flower we have in the drawing- room , which you call the ' Arum lily ...
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... ladies , is also an arum , and both belong to the order Araceæ . So do some of our most beautiful greenhouse plants , -the Caladiums , for instance , which have such exquisitely coloured and marked leaves . This wild arum is as curious ...
... ladies , is also an arum , and both belong to the order Araceæ . So do some of our most beautiful greenhouse plants , -the Caladiums , for instance , which have such exquisitely coloured and marked leaves . This wild arum is as curious ...
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... lady , as the spadix is called . HENRY . How do the people who call these flowers such funny names know which is a lord and which a lady ? GRANNY . - That , I think , Harry , is only known to the country children who look for them ...
... lady , as the spadix is called . HENRY . How do the people who call these flowers such funny names know which is a lord and which a lady ? GRANNY . - That , I think , Harry , is only known to the country children who look for them ...
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