Flowers for the Parlor and GardenJ.E. Tilton & Company, 1863 - 411 páginas |
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... frames . All the varieties are of the most rapid growth , and are mostly free flowerers ; none are desti- tute of some beauty , while the greater number are remark- able for the combinations of dazzling colors which they afford . The ...
... frames . All the varieties are of the most rapid growth , and are mostly free flowerers ; none are desti- tute of some beauty , while the greater number are remark- able for the combinations of dazzling colors which they afford . The ...
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... frames , like the China and For window gardening , they are not as suitable as those species , yet their beauty renders them worthy of a permanent place , where space can be given , and for green- house and conservatory blooming , they ...
... frames , like the China and For window gardening , they are not as suitable as those species , yet their beauty renders them worthy of a permanent place , where space can be given , and for green- house and conservatory blooming , they ...
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... frame through the winter . If grown in pots , they are much more difficult of management . In the open border , they bloom in June , July , and later , and are an indispensable ornament . We do not recommend the pink as a window flower ...
... frame through the winter . If grown in pots , they are much more difficult of management . In the open border , they bloom in June , July , and later , and are an indispensable ornament . We do not recommend the pink as a window flower ...
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... frame , upon a hard bottom , into which the waste water , when refreshed , cannot soak , but with a very gentle slope , that any water which runs through the pots may run away . In the winter management , the chief object is , to give ...
... frame , upon a hard bottom , into which the waste water , when refreshed , cannot soak , but with a very gentle slope , that any water which runs through the pots may run away . In the winter management , the chief object is , to give ...
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... frame or pit , plenty of air given in mild weather , and shelter from severe frost , when it occurs . Very little water is required during the winter months , and the air in the frames should be as dry as possible . Should damp prevail ...
... frame or pit , plenty of air given in mild weather , and shelter from severe frost , when it occurs . Very little water is required during the winter months , and the air in the frames should be as dry as possible . Should damp prevail ...
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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.