The Horticultural Register, Volume 3J. Paxton, 1834 - Horticulture |
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... less innocent occupations ; but as age obliges us to retire from public life , the love of flowers and the delight of a garden , return to soothe the latter period of our life . In their growth , from the first tender shoots which rise ...
... less innocent occupations ; but as age obliges us to retire from public life , the love of flowers and the delight of a garden , return to soothe the latter period of our life . In their growth , from the first tender shoots which rise ...
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... less of trouble . Take a 48 sized pot , place moss or chip draining an inch deep in the bottom , fill the pot nearly with a soil of equal parts , heath - mould , sandy - loam , and deca ; ed vegetable soil ; equal parts of these . With ...
... less of trouble . Take a 48 sized pot , place moss or chip draining an inch deep in the bottom , fill the pot nearly with a soil of equal parts , heath - mould , sandy - loam , and deca ; ed vegetable soil ; equal parts of these . With ...
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... less open . Sometimes these rays leave a sort of void in the middle , and in that case are more exactly like the hollow of a basin . Sometimes also this middle is furnished with other rays that are shorter , which rising less obliquely ...
... less open . Sometimes these rays leave a sort of void in the middle , and in that case are more exactly like the hollow of a basin . Sometimes also this middle is furnished with other rays that are shorter , which rising less obliquely ...
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... less than two stigmas or two seeds to a flower . Lastly , the fruit of the elder is a soft berry , and that of the umbe ! - late tribe dry and naked . The elder , then , is not an umbellate plant . If you inspect with more accuracy the ...
... less than two stigmas or two seeds to a flower . Lastly , the fruit of the elder is a soft berry , and that of the umbe ! - late tribe dry and naked . The elder , then , is not an umbellate plant . If you inspect with more accuracy the ...
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... less than two months , have been here a year , and now begin to know something of the climate . You are , of course , aware that the winter is colder and the summer hotter than in England , the spring late and generally wet , and on ...
... less than two months , have been here a year , and now begin to know something of the climate . You are , of course , aware that the winter is colder and the summer hotter than in England , the spring late and generally wet , and on ...
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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.