The Rose-amateur's Guide: Containing Ample Descriptions of All the Fine Leading Varieties of Roses, Regularly Classed in Their Respective Families : Their History and Mode of Culture |
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... also more mossy . It is an excellent rose for beds ; for if its shoots are pegged to the ground with small hooks , the surface is soon covered with its luxuriant foliage and flowers . For this purpose it is 10 THE MOSS ROSE .
... also more mossy . It is an excellent rose for beds ; for if its shoots are pegged to the ground with small hooks , the surface is soon covered with its luxuriant foliage and flowers . For this purpose it is 10 THE MOSS ROSE .
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... ground colour is pale blush , striped distinctly with dark red and crimson : no other variegated rose approaches it in beauty . Perle des Panachées , with flowers of a pure white , striped with lilac and red , is an acquisi- tion ; and ...
... ground colour is pale blush , striped distinctly with dark red and crimson : no other variegated rose approaches it in beauty . Perle des Panachées , with flowers of a pure white , striped with lilac and red , is an acquisi- tion ; and ...
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... ground , so that they never recovered . Some old specimens of the Double Apple - bearing rose still exist here : one has a stem nearly eighteen inches in circumference . To return from this digression , I have only to recommend General ...
... ground , so that they never recovered . Some old specimens of the Double Apple - bearing rose still exist here : one has a stem nearly eighteen inches in circumference . To return from this digression , I have only to recommend General ...
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... ground : this part may be painted green . If the soil be poor , it should be dug out three feet in depth , and filled up with rotten manure and loam this compost must be laid considerably ( say one foot ) above the surface of the ...
... ground : this part may be painted green . If the soil be poor , it should be dug out three feet in depth , and filled up with rotten manure and loam this compost must be laid considerably ( say one foot ) above the surface of the ...
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... ground , the thicket is hemmed in and choked up by the interlacing boughs that droop with the weight of roses , and load the slow air with their Damask breath . ' In these glowing descriptions the truth , as is frequently the case in ...
... ground , the thicket is hemmed in and choked up by the interlacing boughs that droop with the weight of roses , and load the slow air with their Damask breath . ' In these glowing descriptions the truth , as is frequently the case in ...
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