The Horticultural Register, Volume 3J. Paxton, 1834 - Horticulture |
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... common vegetables , as is the case . But it is a very unpleasant thing to have a man digging a whole day at a small plot of ground , which , were it any thing like what it ought to be , might have occupied but a few hours . Besides ...
... common vegetables , as is the case . But it is a very unpleasant thing to have a man digging a whole day at a small plot of ground , which , were it any thing like what it ought to be , might have occupied but a few hours . Besides ...
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... common clover . Seeing so many little flowers assembled , we might be tempted to take the whole for a compound flower , but we should be mistaken , in supposing that an assemblage of many little flowers constitutes a compound one ...
... common clover . Seeing so many little flowers assembled , we might be tempted to take the whole for a compound flower , but we should be mistaken , in supposing that an assemblage of many little flowers constitutes a compound one ...
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... common apples now are only worth six - pence a bushel , common plums , now going out of season , four shillings a bushel , fine gages , & c . have sold at sixteen shillings . I had some English apples and pears this spring which all ...
... common apples now are only worth six - pence a bushel , common plums , now going out of season , four shillings a bushel , fine gages , & c . have sold at sixteen shillings . I had some English apples and pears this spring which all ...
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... common cultivation , yet being equally hardy , cannot fail to be a most acceptable ornament to our gardens and shrubberies.- Bot . Mag . ONAGRARIÆ , or Evening Primrose Tribe . FUCHSIA GLOBOSA , Globe Flowered Fuchsia . - This has been ...
... common cultivation , yet being equally hardy , cannot fail to be a most acceptable ornament to our gardens and shrubberies.- Bot . Mag . ONAGRARIÆ , or Evening Primrose Tribe . FUCHSIA GLOBOSA , Globe Flowered Fuchsia . - This has been ...
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... common cultivated fig , Ficus Carica , and the Sycamore of the Scriptures , F. Sycamorus , whilst the F. religiosa , Banyan Tree , or Sacred Fig of the Hindoos , is one of the many asto- nishing features of Indian vegetation . The ...
... common cultivated fig , Ficus Carica , and the Sycamore of the Scriptures , F. Sycamorus , whilst the F. religiosa , Banyan Tree , or Sacred Fig of the Hindoos , is one of the many asto- nishing features of Indian vegetation . The ...
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Page 130 - And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, "Who shall give us flesh to eat? We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
Page 360 - Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Page 51 - And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air, where it comes and goes like the warbling of music, than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.
Page 50 - I do hold it, in the royal ordering of gardens, there ought to be gardens for all the months in the year; in which severally things of beauty may be then in season.
Page 51 - Then the strawberry leaves dying, with a most excellent cordial smell. Then the flower of the vines : it is a little dust like the dust of a bent, which grows upon the cluster in the first coming forth.
Page 95 - The sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every motion which takes place on the surface of the earth. By its heat are produced all winds, and those disturbances in the electric equilibrium of the atmosphere which give rise to the phenomena of lightning, and probably also to those of terrestrial magnetism and the aurora.
Page 50 - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross...
Page 50 - God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks...
Page 157 - And foorth they passe with pleasure forward led, Joying to heare the birdes sweete harmony, Which, therein shrouded from the tempest dred Seemd in their song to scorne the cruell sky. Much can they praise the trees so straight and hy, The sayling Pine...
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