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 5
... variety be one of the virtues of art , it will be allowed that the present style of flower - gardening has a higher claim to that virtue than any that has preceded it . To decry mixed borders of flowers of various heights and colours ...
... variety be one of the virtues of art , it will be allowed that the present style of flower - gardening has a higher claim to that virtue than any that has preceded it . To decry mixed borders of flowers of various heights and colours ...
Side 7
... variety of beautifully ornamented shrubs where families are resident in winter . systems , as circumstances demand , are now practised , and in these ways the bareness is more effectively re- medied than is possible when the summer and ...
... variety of beautifully ornamented shrubs where families are resident in winter . systems , as circumstances demand , are now practised , and in these ways the bareness is more effectively re- medied than is possible when the summer and ...
Side 11
... variety , and brilliancy and variety of colour , and the art of arrangement has made equal progress . Indeed it has been hinted that some of the sections of plants are scarcely susceptible of much further im- provement ; and as to ...
... variety , and brilliancy and variety of colour , and the art of arrangement has made equal progress . Indeed it has been hinted that some of the sections of plants are scarcely susceptible of much further im- provement ; and as to ...
Side 18
... , cannot be excelled . It is singular that in the way of foliage no very striking improvement has been accomplished . Could we possess a purple or blue variety , with silvery leaves , it would be a 18 REVIEW OF THE PRINCIPAL PLANTS.
... , cannot be excelled . It is singular that in the way of foliage no very striking improvement has been accomplished . Could we possess a purple or blue variety , with silvery leaves , it would be a 18 REVIEW OF THE PRINCIPAL PLANTS.
Side 19
... variety to make them suitable for the smallest and largest beds , while all of them are very suitable for lines . Of Dahlias a new race of dwarfs has been furnished for comparatively dwarf groups and lines . True , some of these are not ...
... variety to make them suitable for the smallest and largest beds , while all of them are very suitable for lines . Of Dahlias a new race of dwarfs has been furnished for comparatively dwarf groups and lines . True , some of these are not ...
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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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