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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... head of Rosa , there appear to be ten distinct sections : these , and a few of their species , we shall enumerate . BOTANICAL GROUPS . 1. Rosa ferox is the type of a series known as Feroces , and so called on account of their fierce as ...
... head of Rosa , there appear to be ten distinct sections : these , and a few of their species , we shall enumerate . BOTANICAL GROUPS . 1. Rosa ferox is the type of a series known as Feroces , and so called on account of their fierce as ...
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... head could serve no useful purpose . One of the oldest varieties of Damask rose is the Red and White Monthly , now rarely seen , but worth remembering , as from it have originated many of our best autumn - blooming roses . La Ville de ...
... head could serve no useful purpose . One of the oldest varieties of Damask rose is the Red and White Monthly , now rarely seen , but worth remembering , as from it have originated many of our best autumn - blooming roses . La Ville de ...
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... head open , and for this purpose all shoots that crowd the centre should be removed by a clean cut to the base . To make the most of these roses , they should be freely but carefully pruned during summer . In the first place , they ...
... head open , and for this purpose all shoots that crowd the centre should be removed by a clean cut to the base . To make the most of these roses , they should be freely but carefully pruned during summer . In the first place , they ...
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... heads if budded on stocks of six to eighteen inches . high . They are wiry in their growth , and usually make long joints . They flower most abundantly ; there are no roses like them in that respect , but the blossoms are only semi ...
... heads if budded on stocks of six to eighteen inches . high . They are wiry in their growth , and usually make long joints . They flower most abundantly ; there are no roses like them in that respect , but the blossoms are only semi ...
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... head when grown as a standard . Its small glossy rich green leaves , and its myriads of small snow - white flowers , render it a general favourite , and that is a miserable collec- tion indeed in which Aimée has no place . Miss Glegg ...
... head when grown as a standard . Its small glossy rich green leaves , and its myriads of small snow - white flowers , render it a general favourite , and that is a miserable collec- tion indeed in which Aimée has no place . Miss Glegg ...
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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...