Gleanings from French Gardens: Comprising an Account of Such Features of French Horticulture as are Most Worthy of Adoption in British GardensF. Warne and Company, 1868 - 291 Seiten |
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Seite 106 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Seite 3 - Subtropical gardening has taught us that one of the greatest mistakes ever made in the flower garden was the adoption of a few varieties of plants for culture on a vast scale, to the exclusion of interest and variety, and too often of beauty or taste. We have seen how well the pointed, tapering leaves of the Cannas carry the eye upwards ; how refreshing it is to cool the eyes...
Seite 226 - The ground in which this system is pursued being entirely devoted to Asparagus, the stools are placed very much closer together than they are when grown among the vines, say at a distance of about a yard apart. The little trenches are about a foot wide and eight inches below the level of the ground — looking deeper, however, from the soil being piled up.