Flowers for the Parlor and GardenJ. E. Tilton & Company, 1864 - 411 páginas |
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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 139 - 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 257 - ... 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 for a wall, it is most valuable. It is easily propagated, every joint rooting if placed in the earth. The flowers are strawcolored, and often produced in greatest profusion. The plant is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, and has been introduced many years. It is admirably adapted for baskets. IVY. This plant, in some of its varieties, is probably...
Página 62 - I'll teach thee miracles ! Walk on this heath, And say to the neglected flower, " Look up, And be thou Beautiful!
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. His interest was...
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 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 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 102 - The qualities of a first-class verbena, as laid down by florists, are : roundness of flower, without indenture, notch, or serrature; petals thick, flat, bright and smooth; the plant should be compact, with short, strong joints, either distinctly of a shrubby habit, or a close, ground creeper or climber ; the trusses of bloom, compact, standing out from the foliage, the flowers meeting, but not crowding each other; the foliage should be short, broad, bright, and enough to hide the stalk; in the eyed...
Página 133 - ... 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.