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... Sometimes , indeed , the scathing hand of time has severely marked them , and they are hastening to decay . * There is now before me a work published on Gardening in 1654 , entitled “ The Countryman's Recreation , or the Art of Planting ...
... Sometimes , indeed , the scathing hand of time has severely marked them , and they are hastening to decay . * There is now before me a work published on Gardening in 1654 , entitled “ The Countryman's Recreation , or the Art of Planting ...
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... sometimes bad beyond remedy . The best plan to pursue under such circumstances , is , to remove the soil to the depth of about twenty inches , as the beds are marked out , and fill up again with prepared soil . Two- thirds loam - the ...
... sometimes bad beyond remedy . The best plan to pursue under such circumstances , is , to remove the soil to the depth of about twenty inches , as the beds are marked out , and fill up again with prepared soil . Two- thirds loam - the ...
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... sometimes a single variety to each bed , to obtain masses of well - contrasted colours ; sometimes the varieties are mixed , and the colours blended . Each of these plans is good under particular circumstances ; for we have not always ...
... sometimes a single variety to each bed , to obtain masses of well - contrasted colours ; sometimes the varieties are mixed , and the colours blended . Each of these plans is good under particular circumstances ; for we have not always ...
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... sometimes be heightened by running chains , in curved lines , from arch to arch , covering them with the spare branches of the Roses . For this purpose the Evergreen Roses are perhaps the best , as they are very hardy , and hold their ...
... sometimes be heightened by running chains , in curved lines , from arch to arch , covering them with the spare branches of the Roses . For this purpose the Evergreen Roses are perhaps the best , as they are very hardy , and hold their ...
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... sometimes circumstances are adverse to the cultivation of all kinds , and what must be done then ? This materially alters the aspect of affairs . The cul- tivator should then consider what proportion may be planted to advantage , and ...
... sometimes circumstances are adverse to the cultivation of all kinds , and what must be done then ? This materially alters the aspect of affairs . The cul- tivator should then consider what proportion may be planted to advantage , and ...
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abundant bloomer Autumnal Roses beautiful Rose beds bloom Boursault branching buds carmine centre circumference Climbing Roses compact corymbs cultivation cupped dwarf erect expanded feet flowers blush flowers bright rose flowers brilliant flowers clear flowers crimson flowers dark flowers deep rose flowers flesh colour flowers lilac flowers pale rose flowers rich flowers rosy crimson flowers rosy lilac flowers rosy pink flowers violet flowers white foliage French Rose garden globular growers growth Habit Hybrid Bourbon Hybrid Chinese Hybrid French Hybrid Perpetual Introduced in 1845 kinds Laffay large and double large and full Le Pactole MADAME medium medium size moderate Moss Roses Noisette pendulous perfect petals Pillar Rose plants POMPON pots pretty Rose prickles produced Provence pruning purplish crimson Raised at Angers robust ROSA ROSA CENTIFOLIA Rosarium season seed seed-bearer seedlings semi-double shaded with purple shoots showy Rose small and full soil spotted striped Summer Roses Tea-scented tree varieties vigorous yellow
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Page 18 - O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem By that sweet ornament which truth doth give! The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live. The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the roses, Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly When summer's breath their masked buds discloses; But, for their virtue only is their show, They live unwoo'd and unrespected fade, Die to themselves.
Page 82 - Not a tree, A plant, a leaf, a blossom, but contains A folio volume. We may read, and read, And read again, and still find something new, Something to please, and something to instruct, E'en in the noisome weed.
Page 18 - If I quench thee, thou flaming minister, I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me ; but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume.
Page 18 - The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye, As the perfumed tincture of the roses ; Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly When summer's breath their masked buds discloses ; But, for their virtue* only is their show, They live unwoo'd, and unrespected fade ; Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so ; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made : And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, my verse distils your truth.
Page 120 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her ; 'tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy : for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against...
Page 3 - Come on therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are present: and let us speedily use the creatures like as in youth. Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments : and let no flower of the spring pass by us : Let us crown ourselves with rose-buds, before they be withered.
Page 20 - With falling acorns, that on oaks are bred. But various are the ways to change the state Of plants, to bud, to grafF, t
Page 80 - ... the operation — little thinning required — no necessity to look at the tree for some minutes before one could determine where to begin ; which, in my early attempts, I must confess, I have often done, owing to the interminable interlacings of the shoots. The second and third year the same plan was followed, and the trees are now of handsome form, large and healthy, producing an abundance of good flowers.
Page 80 - ... each shoot should stand free and exposed on every side. It is surprising to see how stout and firm the shoots become, and how the leaves increase in size after summer thinning. The summer kinds submitted to this treatment usually continue their growth by the elongation of the main shoots, the buds on the axils of the leaves remaining dormant ; but, with the autumnals, the buds push forth the entire length of the shoots, and the second flowering is complete. The trees...
Page 17 - See, where she sits upon the grassy green, (O seemly sight !) Yclad in scarlet, like a maiden queen, And ermines white: Upon her head a cremosin coronet, With damask roses and daffadillies set: Bay leaves between, And primroses green, Embellish the sweet violet.