Flowers for the Parlor and GardenJ.E. Tilton & Company, 1863 - 411 páginas |
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... beautiful and interesting . We have said that plants breathed and drank ; and so , as living beings , they have many different modifications of the same organization . What is nourishment and life to some is poison and death to others ...
... beautiful and interesting . We have said that plants breathed and drank ; and so , as living beings , they have many different modifications of the same organization . What is nourishment and life to some is poison and death to others ...
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... beautiful plants are desired ; the latter , where quantity is the object , rather than quality . In a lean - to house , unless it is very wide , the latter is the only method to be adopted ; and if care is used not to crowd the plants ...
... beautiful plants are desired ; the latter , where quantity is the object , rather than quality . In a lean - to house , unless it is very wide , the latter is the only method to be adopted ; and if care is used not to crowd the plants ...
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... beautiful addition to a house , and is easily constructed . We live in the age of bow windows , and by lengthening one of these our conservatory is built . Let the sides and end be of glass ; the sides may be stationary or sliding ...
... beautiful addition to a house , and is easily constructed . We live in the age of bow windows , and by lengthening one of these our conservatory is built . Let the sides and end be of glass ; the sides may be stationary or sliding ...
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... beautiful than some new and rare plant , which presents no symmetry of proportion . We would by no means discourage the taste for new plants ; it is a healthy tendency , but may be carried too far . If we neglect all our old favorites ...
... beautiful than some new and rare plant , which presents no symmetry of proportion . We would by no means discourage the taste for new plants ; it is a healthy tendency , but may be carried too far . If we neglect all our old favorites ...
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... beautiful ; your neighbor has a dozen fine specimen plants , in which Nature , assisted by all the appliances of art and care , has developed a perfection of form , a vigor of growth and foliage , a profusion of flower ; let these all ...
... beautiful ; your neighbor has a dozen fine specimen plants , in which Nature , assisted by all the appliances of art and care , has developed a perfection of form , a vigor of growth and foliage , a profusion of flower ; let these all ...
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autumn Azalea beautiful 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 moss native never open border orange ornamental ornamental plants parlor peat pelargoniums petals Picotee 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 yellow
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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 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...
Página 257 - PROSTRATA. A pretty, free-growing plant, with long, slender stems, clothed with roundish leaves, and bearing small, yellow flowers, of no particular beauty; cultivated more for its freedom of growth than for its flowers. Grows in any light, loamy soil. One of the most serviceable trailers is the plant commonly known as German Ivy (Senecio Scandens) ; it is of most rapid growth, with light green leaves, studded with pellucid dots, and never troubled by insects. As a screen for a window, or covering...
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 233 - He had placed the chrysalis of a moth in some mould in a glass bottle covered with a lid, in order to obtain a perfect specimen of the insect ; after a time a speck or two of vegetation appeared on the surface of the mould, and turned out to be a fern and a grass.
Página 62 - I'll teach thee miracles ! Walk on this heath, And say to the neglected flower, ' Look up, And be thou Beautiful !' If thou hast faith, It will obey thy word.
Página 127 - 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.
Página 127 - 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 colors, which are irregularly placed on each petal. Scarlet Bizarres have that color predominating over the purple or crimson ; but the Pink or Crimson Bizarres have more of these colors than the Scarlet. Scarlet Flakes are simple white grounds, with distinct stripes or ribbons of scarlet. Rose and Purple Flakes have these two colors...
Página 7 - the love of flowers is universal. It is an old melody which first attuned in earliest time, in the golden age of legendary lore, has come down to us, growing more mellow and sweeter as it chimed through the centuries, and now as then echoes in the human heart with a music akin to heaven.
Página 133 - ... descends, and press it gently down to the soil. Do the next in the same manner, and so on until every shoot is layered, then cover them all with the sifted mould, about three quarters of an inch deep, and the process is completed ; then give a slight watering, and the layers require no further care, but watering, until they are rooted, which will be in about a month or six weeks.