The Florist and Garden Miscellany, Volume 2Chapman and Hall, 1850 - Flower gardening |
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admiration amateur appearance attention Auriculas autumn beautiful bloom blossoms buds bulbs Calceolarias Carnations Carnations and Picotees centre Chauvière Cineraria colour compost crimson cultivation Dahlias Duchess early Epacrids exhibition exhibitors favourite feet floriculture Florist flowers foliage Free bloomer frost Fuchsia garden give green greenhouse greenhouse plants ground grow growers growth hardy Heaths Horticultural hybrid imbricated inches J. T. NEVILLE keep kind Lady leaf-mould light lilac loam manure Messrs month named Number Pansy peat Peckham Pelargonium perfect petals Picotees pink pots present pretty Princess Princess Royal prize produced purple Queen Raiser readers require Richard Cobden roots Roses Sarah Payne scarlet season seed seedlings shade shew shift shoots Slough soil soon species specimens spring stem Stoke Newington striped surface taste tent thing Tiger Flower tion Tulip Turner Tyso varieties Verbena W. H. STORY weather winter yellow
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Page 92 - All things to man's delightful use: the roof Of thickest covert was inwoven shade, Laurel and myrtle, and what higher grew Of firm and fragrant leaf: on either side Acanthus and each odorous bushy shrub Fenced up the verdant wall; each beauteous flower, Iris all hues, roses, and jessamine, Rear'd high their flourish'd heads between, and wrought Mosaic; under-foot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth, with rich inlay Broider'd the ground, more colour'd than with stone Of costliest emblem...
Page 119 - As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Page 130 - Then came faire May, the fayrest mayd on ground, Deckt all with dainties of her season's pryde, And throwing flowres out of her lap around...
Page 120 - I accepted the offer, and immediately found that they had been talking in terms of gardening, and that the kings and generals they had mentioned were only so many tulips, to which the gardeners, according to their usual custom, had given such high titles and appellations of honour.
Page 120 - I heard the voices of two or three persons, who seemed very earnest in discourse. My curiosity was raised when I heard the names of Alexander the Great and Artaxerxes : and as their talk seemed to run on ancient heroes, I concluded there could not be any secret in it; for which reason I thought I might very fairly listen to what they said. After several parallels between great men, which appeared to me altogether groundless and chimerical, I was surprised to hear one say, that he valued the Black...
Page 120 - Those who are conversant in the writings of polite authors, receive an additional entertainment from the country, as it revives in their memories those charming descriptions, with which such authors do frequently abound. I was thinking of the foregoing beautiful simile in Milton, and applying it to myself, when I observed to the windward of me a black cloud falling to the earth in long trails of rain, which made me betake myself for shelter to a house I saw at a little distance from the place where...
Page 91 - It formerly served an apothecary, now dead, as a smoking-room ; and under my feet is a trap-door, which once covered a hole in the ground, where he kept his bottles. At present however it is dedicated to sublimer uses. Having lined it with garden mats, and furnished it with a table and two chairs, here I write all that I write in summer-time, whether to my friends, or to the public.
Page 120 - ... a natural gloss, and stained with such a variety of colours as are not to be equalled in any artificial dyes or tinctures. Sometimes I considered every leaf as an elaborate piece of tissue, in which the threads and fibres were woven together into different configurations, which gave a different colouring to the light as it glanced on the several parts of the surface. Sometimes I considered the whole bed of tulips, according to the notion of the greatest mathematician and philosopher that ever...
Page 121 - ... which are not always the greatest beauties. I have often looked upon it as a piece of happiness, that I have never fallen into any of these fantastical tastes, nor esteemed any thing the more for its being uncommon, and hard to be met with. For this reason, I look upon the whole country in spring-time, as a spacious garden, and make as many visits to a spot of daisies, or a bank of violets, as a florist does to his borders and parterres. There is not a bush in blossom within a mile of me which...
Page 120 - I was wondering to myself from whence they had received this odd intelligence : especially when I heard them mention the names of several other great generals, as the prince of Hesse, and the king of Sweden, who, they said, were both running away. To which they added, what I entirely agreed with them in, that the crown of France was very weak, but that the marshal Pillars still kept his colours.