The Horticultural Register, Volume 3J. Paxton, 1834 - Horticulture |
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... flowers have excited in the breast of man , from the earliest ages to the present day , has never been con- fined to any particular class of society or quarter of the globe . Na- ture seems to have distributed them over the whole world ...
... flowers have excited in the breast of man , from the earliest ages to the present day , has never been con- fined to any particular class of society or quarter of the globe . Na- ture seems to have distributed them over the whole world ...
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... flowers at the festivals consecrated to the mother of Christ . The roses of summer are said to fade about the period of St. Mary Magdalen's day . The Passion Flower is said to blossom about Holy Rood day . Allusions to this day being ...
... flowers at the festivals consecrated to the mother of Christ . The roses of summer are said to fade about the period of St. Mary Magdalen's day . The Passion Flower is said to blossom about Holy Rood day . Allusions to this day being ...
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... flowers from May to September , and was brought from the East Indies in 1823. My plant shewed flower in a week or two , and ever since , it has been , with the exception of a week , in a parlour window , and at this moment has eight ...
... flowers from May to September , and was brought from the East Indies in 1823. My plant shewed flower in a week or two , and ever since , it has been , with the exception of a week , in a parlour window , and at this moment has eight ...
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... flower . If you can frame an idea of the figure I have just described , you will understand the dispositions of the flowers in the tribe of umbel- liferous or umbellate plants . Though this regular disposition of the fructification be ...
... flower . If you can frame an idea of the figure I have just described , you will understand the dispositions of the flowers in the tribe of umbel- liferous or umbellate plants . Though this regular disposition of the fructification be ...
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... flower . In the first place , instead of five petals , we find a corolla divided into five parts , but all of one piece . Now the flowers of umbellate plants are not monopetalous , but pentepatalous . There are five sta- mens , but you ...
... flower . In the first place , instead of five petals , we find a corolla divided into five parts , but all of one piece . Now the flowers of umbellate plants are not monopetalous , but pentepatalous . There are five sta- mens , but you ...
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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...
Page 184 - But what are the spots? Many fanciful notions have been broached on this subject, but only one seems to have any degree of physical probability, viz. that they are the dark, or at least comparatively dark, solid body of the sun itself, laid bare to our view by those immense fluctuations in the luminous regions of its atmosphere, to which it appears to be subject.