The Rose Book: A Practical Treatise on the Culture of the Rose. Comprising the Formation of the Rosarium, the Characters of Species and Varieties, Modes of Propagating, Planting, Pruning, Training and Preparing for Exhibition, and the Management of Roses in All SeasonsGroombridge, 1864 - 288 páginas |
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... allowed abundance of food . Others not so highly coloured , but equally grand in their way , are the following : - Blairii No. 2 , a superb rosy - blush , with magnificent foliage : this makes a fine weeping standard . Blairii No. 1 is ...
... allowed abundance of food . Others not so highly coloured , but equally grand in their way , are the following : - Blairii No. 2 , a superb rosy - blush , with magnificent foliage : this makes a fine weeping standard . Blairii No. 1 is ...
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... allow of the admis- sion of air and light to the centre of the tree . In selecting climbing roses it should be remembered that the Ayrshires are less beautiful than the varieties of Sempervirens , but they are much hardier ; they will ...
... allow of the admis- sion of air and light to the centre of the tree . In selecting climbing roses it should be remembered that the Ayrshires are less beautiful than the varieties of Sempervirens , but they are much hardier ; they will ...
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... allowed upon an average to each shoot ; if these are always cut back to buds placed outwards , the growth will always be of a nature to keep the head open , and for this purpose all shoots that crowd the centre should be removed by a ...
... allowed upon an average to each shoot ; if these are always cut back to buds placed outwards , the growth will always be of a nature to keep the head open , and for this purpose all shoots that crowd the centre should be removed by a ...
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... allow seed to swell and ripen ; to allow dead flowers is an injury , to say nothing of its slovenly appearance . 18. BOURBON ROSES . L. Rosa Bourboniana . F. Rosier de l'Ile Bourbon . -This superb section of autumnal roses deserves the ...
... allow seed to swell and ripen ; to allow dead flowers is an injury , to say nothing of its slovenly appearance . 18. BOURBON ROSES . L. Rosa Bourboniana . F. Rosier de l'Ile Bourbon . -This superb section of autumnal roses deserves the ...
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... allowed to expand . rose , will make a good pillar . and with much of the Noisette character , makes a charming half - standard . Niphetos , pale straw , the buds long and pointed , flower fine when expanded , makes a nice standard ...
... allowed to expand . rose , will make a good pillar . and with much of the Noisette character , makes a charming half - standard . Niphetos , pale straw , the buds long and pointed , flower fine when expanded , makes a nice standard ...
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Términos y frases comunes
abundant amateur autumn Ayrshire Banksian bark beautiful beds bloom blush Bourbon Boursault Brennus brier bright centre China rose clay climbing roses colour Comte de Paris Comtesse crimson cultivator culture Damask deep delicate Dijon dog rose dung dwarf feet flowers foliage fragrant François Arago frost garden Gloire Gloire de Dijon graft ground grow grown hardy head Hybrid Perpetuals inches inserted bud Jacqueminot Jules Margottin knife large and full leaves loam Lord Raglan Louise Manetti manure Moss Moss roses Noisettes nursery perfect pillar roses pink plant pots pretty produce propagating Provence pruning pure white removed require roots Rosa rosarian rosarium rosery roses known Rosier Santenay scion season shaded side-shoots soil Souvenir spring standard stem strong shoots suckers summer superb Tea roses tender tion tree Triomphe varieties vigorous grower wall weather William Griffiths winter wood yellow roses yellow Teas
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Página 62 - There's a bower of roses by BENDEMEER'S§ stream, And the nightingale sings round it all the day long ; In the time of my childhood 'twas like a sweet dream, To sit in the roses and hear the bird's song.
Página 61 - WHO has not heard of the Vale of Cashmere, With its roses the brightest that earth ever gave, Its temples, and grottos, and fountains as clear As the love-lighted eyes that hang over their wave...
Página 62 - There is another of this class, which conveys in a most elegant form a symbolical embodiment of the refining influences of the pure and the beautiful. " A traveler, in passing through a country in Persia, chanced to take into his hand a piece of clay which lay by the way-side ; and, to his surprise, he found it to exhale the most delightful fragrance: * Thou art but a poor piece of clay...
Página 63 - Thou art but a poor piece of clay,' said he, ' an unsightly, unattractive, poor piece of clay : yet how fragrant art thou ! How refreshing ! I admire thee, I love thee ; thou shalt be my companion, I will carry thee in my bosom. But whence hast thou this fragrance...