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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... cultivators whose works have just been named . The book to which I have principally referred in the preparation of this work is the Book of Nature , and the best index to that book in my possession is my own garden , wherein I have ...
... cultivators whose works have just been named . The book to which I have principally referred in the preparation of this work is the Book of Nature , and the best index to that book in my possession is my own garden , wherein I have ...
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... either both classed as Teas or both as Noisettes . Never- theless , with many such difficulties to contend with , roses may be classed with tolerable definiteness for the convenience of the cultivator according to their peculiarities of.
... either both classed as Teas or both as Noisettes . Never- theless , with many such difficulties to contend with , roses may be classed with tolerable definiteness for the convenience of the cultivator according to their peculiarities of.
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... cultivator according to their peculiarities of growth and appearance , season of bloom , and floral and physiological affinities , and the classification is worth attempting , both to furnish the rosarian with an intelligible key to the ...
... cultivator according to their peculiarities of growth and appearance , season of bloom , and floral and physiological affinities , and the classification is worth attempting , both to furnish the rosarian with an intelligible key to the ...
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... cultivator should encourage their production ; and if the branches are shortened indiscriminately , the trees will produce a number of strong shoots , and little or no flowering wood at all . In districts too bleak for Banksian roses on ...
... cultivator should encourage their production ; and if the branches are shortened indiscriminately , the trees will produce a number of strong shoots , and little or no flowering wood at all . In districts too bleak for Banksian roses on ...
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... cultivator must take his risk of losses . All the free - growing varieties do remarkably well on briers , and make charming standards ; and all of them— free , shy , and otherwise - do well on their own roots , and make beautiful beds ...
... cultivator must take his risk of losses . All the free - growing varieties do remarkably well on briers , and make charming standards ; and all of them— free , shy , and otherwise - do well on their own roots , and make beautiful beds ...
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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
Pasajes populares
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...