The Flower Garden: Or Monthly Calendar of Practical Directions for the Culture of FlowersMoore & Payne, 1835 - 180 Seiten |
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Anemones AURICULAS autumn Balsams beautiful beds bloom blossom borders BOTANIC NAME Bouvardia buds bulbous roots bulbs Camellia Carnation Chrysanthemum color Compositæ compost Coreopsis tinctoria covering Crocus cultivated Dahlias DECANDRIA decayed double flowers Evergreens florists flower garden four inches fragrance fresh earth frost Geraniums Gladiolus green-house plants ground grow half-hardy HARDY ANNUALS heat Heaths herbaceous plants Hollyhocks hot-bed Hyacinths inches deep injure Iris Jonquil last month leaves Lily loam LYCHNIS manure Mignonette mild moist moisture MONTHLY CALENDAR mould Narcissus offsets ornamental peat PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA perennial perfection petals Pinks placed Plant cuttings PLANTS IN FLOWER Polyandria Polyanthus preserve propagated purple raised RANUNCULACEÆ Ranunculus removed replanted require rich Roses rotted rotten dung sand scarlet Schizanthus season seed shade sheltered shoots showy shrubs six inches Snowdrop soil sown species spring stakes stem Syngenesia tender Annuals Trachymene Transplant Tulips varieties VENUS'S LOOKING-GLASS Wallflower weather weeds winter yellow
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Seite 150 - A belt of straw and ivy buds, With coral clasps and amber studs : And if these pleasures may thee move...
Seite 103 - Where the bee sucks, there suck I ; In a cowslip's bell I lie; There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly After summer merrily. Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Seite 179 - Were they all to blossom together, there would be at once a promiscuous throng, and at once a total privation. We should scarce have an opportunity of adverting to the dainty qualities of half, and must soon lose the agreeable company of them all. But now, since every species has a separate post to occupy, and a distinct interval for appearing, we can take a leisurely and minute survey of each succeeding set. We can view and review their forms, enter into a more intimate acquaintance with their charming...
Seite 171 - Why does the fond carnation love to shoot A various colour from one parent root ? While the fantastic tulip strives to break In twofold beauty, and a parted streak...
Seite 166 - As these bulbs in every respect resemble buds, except in their being produced under ground, and include the leaves and flower in miniature, which are to be expanded in the ensuing spring. By cautiously cutting in the early spring through the concentric coats of a tulip-root, longitudinally from the top to the base, and taking them off...
Seite 166 - THE bulb of a tulip in every respect resembles buds, except in their being produced under ground, and include the leaves and flower in miniature, which are to be expanded in the ensuing spring. By cautiously cutting in the early spring, through the concentric coats of a tulip root, longitudinally from the top to the base, and taking them off successively, the whole flower of the next summer's tulip is beautifully seen by...
Seite 130 - That joyous time, when pleasures pour Profusely round, and in their shower Hearts open, like the season's rose, — The flow'ret of a hundred leaves, Expanding while the dew-fall flows, And every leaf its balm receives...
Seite 166 - By cautiously cutting in the early spring through the concentric coats of a tulip-root, longitudinally from the top to the base, and taking them off successively, the whole flower of the next summer's tulip is beautifully seen by the naked eye, with its petals, pistil, and...
Seite 52 - ... beds filled in the interior to the full height of the slate. I know an edging of this description made sixteen years ago, which is still in the highest perfection ; at first, the outside of the slate was painted green, which gave a great neatness to the garden ; soon after, an edging of Gentianella was planted at the inside of the slate and close to it, which came into great beauty, and hung over the outside, forming an edging at top of three or four inches wide, requiring very little attention,...
Seite 171 - Class 6. Order 1. — A very splendid and numerous genus, chiefly tropical, and principally indigenous to America and the southern extremity of Africa. Flowers deep red. BEAUTIFUL BUT TIMID. When heaven's high vault condensing clouds deform, Fair Amaryllis flies the incumbent storm, Seeks, with unsteady step the sheltered vale, And turns her blushing beauties from the gale.