Beautiful Flowers and how to Grow ThemT.C. & E.C. Jack, 1922 - 402 páginas |
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Beautiful Flowers and how to Grow Them, Volume 1 Horace John Wright,Walter Page Wright Visualização integral - 1909 |
Beautiful Flowers and how to Grow Them, Volume 1 Horace John Wright,Walter Page Wright Visualização integral - 1909 |
Beautiful Flowers and how to Grow Them, Volume 1 Horace John Wright,Walter Page Wright Visualização integral - 1909 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
amateur Annuals arches Auriculas autumn beautiful beds Begonias bloom bloomer blue bright brilliant buds bulbs Calceolaria Carnations charming Chrysanthemums clumps colour compost conservatory cool Countess Spencer crimson crown cultivation culture cuttings Daffodils Dahlia deep Dorothy Perkins double dwarf early favour favourite feet florists flower gardener foliage frame Geraniums Gladioli glass greenhouse ground grow grower grown growth hardy hardy plants heat herbaceous borders herbaceous plants Hyacinths Hybrid inches Irises latter leaf-mould leaves lilac Lily loam Madame manure moist Nasturtiums orange Orchids Paeonies perennial perfume pergola Phloxes pink popular pots pretty propagated pruning purple raised from seed rockery roots Roses scarlet seedlings shade shoots shows shrubs soil sowing sown species splendid spring stems Stock suburban gardens suitable summer Sweet Pea thrive tubers Tulips varieties vigorous wall Wallflowers weather white flowers winter young plants Zonal
Passagens conhecidas
Página 3 - Will I upon thy party wear this rose: And here I prophesy, — This brawl to-day, Grown to this faction, in the Temple garden, Shall send, between the red rose and the white, A thousand souls to death and deadly night.
Página 4 - And to his robbery had annex'd thy breath ; But, for his theft, in pride of all his growth A vengeful canker eat him up to death. More flowers I noted, yet I none could see But sweet or colour it had stol'n from thee.
Página 2 - Look to the Rose that blows about us — 'Lo, 'Laughing,' she says, 'into the World I blow: 50 'At once the silken Tassel of my purse 'Tear, and its Treasure on the Garden throw.
Página 2 - For, if thou does, hurt is thine honesty ; Considering that no flower is so perfite, So full of virtue, pleasance, and delight, So full of blissful angelic beauty, Imperial birth, honour, and dignity.
Página 114 - That the fervor and faith of a soul can be known, To which time will but make thee more dear: No, the heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close; As the sunflower turns on her god, when he sets, The same look which she turned when he rose.
Página 3 - Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their smells; so that you may walk by a whole row of them, and find nothing of their sweetness; yea, though it be in a morning's dew. Bays, likewise, yield no smell as they grow, rosemary little, nor sweet marjoram; that which, above all others, yields the sweetest smell in the air, is the violet; especially the white double violet, which comes twice a year, about the middle of April, and about Bartholomew-tide.
Página 107 - WELCOME, pale primrose! starting up between Dead matted leaves of ash and oak that strew The every lawn, the wood, and spinney through, Mid creeping moss and ivy's darker green; How much thy presence beautifies the ground! How sweet thy modest unaffected pride Glows on the sunny bank and wood's warm side! And where thy fairy flowers in groups are found...
Página 120 - On which, when glory gilds the glowing west, The parting splendours of the day's decline, With fascination to the heart address'd, So tenderly and beautifully shine, As if reluctant still to leave that hoary shrine.
Página 128 - Man, this is one of the most extraordinary, that he shall go on from day to day, from week to week, from month to month.
Página 114 - And on the crowded spot that pales enclose The white and scarlet Daisy rears in rows, — Training the trailing Peas in bunches neat, Perfuming evening with a luscious sweet, — And Sunflowers planting for their gilded show, That scale the window's lattice ere they blow, Then, sweet to habitants within the sheds, Peep through the diamond panes their golden heads.