Handy-Book of the Flower-Garden, being practical directions for the propagation, culture, and arrangement of plants in flower-gardens all the year round. [With illustrations.]W. Blackwood and sons, 1868 - 364 sider |
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Side vii
... AUTUMN DECORATION , Spring treatment of autumn- struck cuttings , Spring propagation , Soil suitable for them , Select list of them , • Wintering Pelargoniums in White , pink , scarlet , and other varieties of plain- leaved Zonale ...
... AUTUMN DECORATION , Spring treatment of autumn- struck cuttings , Spring propagation , Soil suitable for them , Select list of them , • Wintering Pelargoniums in White , pink , scarlet , and other varieties of plain- leaved Zonale ...
Side 7
... autumn shows are principally dependent on permanent herbaceous plants . The argument is consequently not well founded ; neither is it philosophical . Would the charm of our summer and autumn galaxy of bloom not cease to pro- duce those ...
... autumn shows are principally dependent on permanent herbaceous plants . The argument is consequently not well founded ; neither is it philosophical . Would the charm of our summer and autumn galaxy of bloom not cease to pro- duce those ...
Side 9
... autumn flower- gardening , were not approached at any given time . The mixed style was carried out with less regard to any definite expression or effect , and certainly with little or no regard to the laws of colour . Notwithstanding ...
... autumn flower- gardening , were not approached at any given time . The mixed style was carried out with less regard to any definite expression or effect , and certainly with little or no regard to the laws of colour . Notwithstanding ...
Side 10
... autumn , to say nothing of the barrenness - which somewhat unfairly has been charged to the massing system - that prevailed for a consider- able period of the year , formed a very serious objection against it . That this mixed system ...
... autumn , to say nothing of the barrenness - which somewhat unfairly has been charged to the massing system - that prevailed for a consider- able period of the year , formed a very serious objection against it . That this mixed system ...
Side 11
... autumn , and spring , cannot be excelled . Remarks suggestive of Improvement . - Flower - garden- ing has made very considerable progress within the last few years . The improvement is prominent in two dis- tinct features . The plants ...
... autumn , and spring , cannot be excelled . Remarks suggestive of Improvement . - Flower - garden- ing has made very considerable progress within the last few years . The improvement is prominent in two dis- tinct features . The plants ...
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Handy-Book of the Flower-Garden, being practical directions for the ... David Thomson Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1868 |
Handy Book of the Flower-garden: Being Practical Directions for the ... David Thomson Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1868 |
Handy Book of the Flower-garden: Being Practical Directions for the ... David Thomson Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1871 |
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Alyssum annuals April Arabis Aubrietia autumn banded beautiful bloom blue Lobelia Blue Pansy bulbs Calceolaria Canna Centaurea Centaurea Ragusina centre Cerastium tomentosum Chrysanthemum Sensation Coleus colour contrast Crimson King Crocus cuttings Dactylis glomerata double dwarf early easily edged with blue effective evergreen Fcap feet feet-June and July flore-pleno flower-garden flowering plants foliage frost Gazania Gazania splendens golden Pelargonium green ground ground-work group of beds grow hardy heat Hedera Iresine Herbstii Japonica June King Verbena Lastræa leaf-mould leaves light lilac loam Lobelia Lobelia speciosa manure mixed borders Narcissus orange panel Perilla pink pots Primula vulgaris propagation Purple King purple Pansy recommended red Daisy require Rhododendron rich soil rock-work roots rose rosy rows scarlet Pelargonium season shade shrubs Silene pendula silver variegated sowing sown spring spring-flowering Stock summer surface Tulip variegated Pelargonium variety Verbena Viola cornuta violet winter yellow Pansy Yucca aloifolia
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