Sylva Florifera: The Shrubbery Historically and Botanically Treated: with Observations on the Formation of Ornamental Plantations, and Picturesque Scenery, Volumen 1Longmans, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823 - 333 páginas |
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... common an interesting pleasure ground , and every hedge a pleasing plantation , by the information he has endeavoured to collect respecting the plants that flourish in them . The author has also tried to make his book an agreeable ...
... common an interesting pleasure ground , and every hedge a pleasing plantation , by the information he has endeavoured to collect respecting the plants that flourish in them . The author has also tried to make his book an agreeable ...
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... common law does not en- courage matters of pleasure , which bring " no profit to the Commonwealth . But there may be a park in reputation , erected with- " out lawful warrant ; and the owner of such 66 66 66 66 park may bring his action ...
... common law does not en- courage matters of pleasure , which bring " no profit to the Commonwealth . But there may be a park in reputation , erected with- " out lawful warrant ; and the owner of such 66 66 66 66 park may bring his action ...
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... common field daisy are very ornamental , when planted amongst shrubs ; and the double crimson , white , and variegated kinds , deserve a conspicuous situa- tion for their beauty , as well as for their early flowering . As the lawn forms ...
... common field daisy are very ornamental , when planted amongst shrubs ; and the double crimson , white , and variegated kinds , deserve a conspicuous situa- tion for their beauty , as well as for their early flowering . As the lawn forms ...
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... common acacia , are formed like the blossoms of the pea . These botanists deno- minate papilionacei from papilio , a butterfly , whose shape they are thought to resemble . " In its native soil , the rose acacia grows to the height of ...
... common acacia , are formed like the blossoms of the pea . These botanists deno- minate papilionacei from papilio , a butterfly , whose shape they are thought to resemble . " In its native soil , the rose acacia grows to the height of ...
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... by grafting it on the common acacia ; therefore it thrives in any soil like the parent stock . Care should be taken to rub off all shoots that appear below the graft . 51 ARBOR VITÆ . - THUJA . Natural order , 50 SYLVA FLORIFERA .
... by grafting it on the common acacia ; therefore it thrives in any soil like the parent stock . Care should be taken to rub off all shoots that appear below the graft . 51 ARBOR VITÆ . - THUJA . Natural order , 50 SYLVA FLORIFERA .
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Página 101 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away.
Página 260 - To kings that fear their subjects' treachery? O, yes, it doth; a thousand-fold it doth. And to conclude, — the shepherd's homely curds, His cold thin drink out of his leather bottle, His wonted sleep under a fresh tree's shade, All which secure and sweetly he enjoys...
Página 36 - Ever charming, ever new, When will the landscape tire the view ! The fountain's fall, the river's flow, The woody...
Página 123 - ... mean attire, A matron old, whom we Schoolmistress name: Who boasts unruly brats with birch to tame; They grieven sore in piteous durance pent, Aw'd by the...
Página 236 - The gloomy pine, the poplar blue, The yellow beech, the sable yew, The slender fir, that taper grows, The sturdy oak with broad-spread boughs.
Página 286 - Is there under the heavens a more glorious and refreshing object, of the kind, than an impregnable hedge, of about four hundred feet in length, nine feet high, and five in diameter, which I can...
Página 72 - Not a tree, A plant, a leaf, a blossom, but contains A folio volume. We may read, and read, And read again, and still find something new, Something to please, and something to instruct, E'en in the noisome weed.
Página 129 - But should he hide his face, the astonish'd sun, And all the extinguish'd stars, would, loosening, reel Wide from their spheres, and Chaos come again. And yet was every faltering tongue of man, Almighty Father ! silent in Thy praise, Thy works themselves would raise a general voice, Even in the depth of solitary woods By human foot untrod ; proclaim Thy power, And to the choir celestial Thee resound, The eternal Cause, Support, and End of all...
Página 271 - Or winds begun through hazy skies to blow. At evening a keen eastern breeze arose ; And the descending rain unsullied froze. Soon as the silent shades of night withdrew, The ruddy morn...
Página 217 - No monstrous height, or breadth, or length appear; The whole at once is bold, and regular. Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.