The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement, Volume 8Longman, Rees, Orome, Brown and Green, Paternoster-Row and and A. and C. Black, Edinburgh, 1832 - Agriculture |
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... excellent Vine Plants . By Mr. T. Rutger , Gardener at Short Grove , Essex - 577 On substituting good Vines , either as to Kind or State of Health , for bad ones , with the least possible Loss of Time . By Mr. Alexander Gordon , late ...
... excellent Vine Plants . By Mr. T. Rutger , Gardener at Short Grove , Essex - 577 On substituting good Vines , either as to Kind or State of Health , for bad ones , with the least possible Loss of Time . By Mr. Alexander Gordon , late ...
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... excellent properties ; the principal of which are , the purity of its white , and the earliness and abundance of its blossoms , which are well displayed above the herbage : its height is about 4 ft . The 2d ( raised in 1830 ) is Miss ...
... excellent properties ; the principal of which are , the purity of its white , and the earliness and abundance of its blossoms , which are well displayed above the herbage : its height is about 4 ft . The 2d ( raised in 1830 ) is Miss ...
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... excellent Narcissineàrum Monogràphia , 3281. STREPTANTHERA . 28007 cùprea Swt . copper - cld CCXXXIX . Irideæ . Norjn.jl Cop C. G. H. 1825. O p.l Sw.fl.gar.2.8.122 " Stigma three - cleft , the segments broadly dilated at the ends ...
... excellent Narcissineàrum Monogràphia , 3281. STREPTANTHERA . 28007 cùprea Swt . copper - cld CCXXXIX . Irideæ . Norjn.jl Cop C. G. H. 1825. O p.l Sw.fl.gar.2.8.122 " Stigma three - cleft , the segments broadly dilated at the ends ...
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... excellent thing for planting tulips with . It did not appear as such to me ; but I requested the per- son to let us go to the nearest gar- den , to try it , in order that I might point out its defects . In the first place , I pressed it ...
... excellent thing for planting tulips with . It did not appear as such to me ; but I requested the per- son to let us go to the nearest gar- den , to try it , in order that I might point out its defects . In the first place , I pressed it ...
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... excellent one for the purpose proposed , and it certainly merits the attention of those who study the exquisite , or what the Ger- mans call the aesthetik , in floriculture . The French have a transplanter , calculated to effect the ...
... excellent one for the purpose proposed , and it certainly merits the attention of those who study the exquisite , or what the Ger- mans call the aesthetik , in floriculture . The French have a transplanter , calculated to effect the ...
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