Flora Domestica: Or, The Portable Flower-garden : with Directions for the Treatment of Plants in Pots and Illustrations Trom the Works of the Poets |
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... frequently so cul- tivated ; and such as are most desirable for beauty of form or colour , luxuriance of foliage , sweetness of perfume , or from interesting or poetical associations with their history . In the belief that lovers of ...
... frequently so cul- tivated ; and such as are most desirable for beauty of form or colour , luxuriance of foliage , sweetness of perfume , or from interesting or poetical associations with their history . In the belief that lovers of ...
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... frequent description of parterres and fountains , and his continual allusion to flowers , justify his assertion , —that his garden furnished him with ideas , as well as vegetables and amusement * . ” ” The French poet Ronsard was ...
... frequent description of parterres and fountains , and his continual allusion to flowers , justify his assertion , —that his garden furnished him with ideas , as well as vegetables and amusement * . ” ” The French poet Ronsard was ...
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... frequent reader ) : but one of his chief enjoyments was in sailing , rowing , or float ing in his little boat , upon the river : often he would lie down flat in the boat and read , with his face upwards to the sunshine . In this taste ...
... frequent reader ) : but one of his chief enjoyments was in sailing , rowing , or float ing in his little boat , upon the river : often he would lie down flat in the boat and read , with his face upwards to the sunshine . In this taste ...
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... frequently name their women from them . In Constantinople they are very much neglected . Tournefort remarks , that the Turks take little care of their gardens in general , bestowing their attention almost entirely upon their melons and ...
... frequently name their women from them . In Constantinople they are very much neglected . Tournefort remarks , that the Turks take little care of their gardens in general , bestowing their attention almost entirely upon their melons and ...
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... frequently know with certainty , as from a watch , what hour of the day it is , as well as if the weather will be fine or rainy . Plants of this kind are common on the African hills . The Morca undulata never opens before nine in the ...
... frequently know with certainty , as from a watch , what hour of the day it is , as well as if the weather will be fine or rainy . Plants of this kind are common on the African hills . The Morca undulata never opens before nine in the ...
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Acanthus adorn Amaranth annual plants appear April August Auricula autumn bear the open beautiful bees Ben Jonson bloom blossoms blow blue botanical name bower bright broom buds bulbs called Cape colour common Cowslip crown cultivated cuttings planted daisy DECANDRIA decay delight double flowers earth elegant Europe favourite flowers in June fragrant French fresh frost fruit gardens genus GEORGIC Geranium Gerarde Globe-flower Greek green grows handsome hardy herb Hyacinth inches Italian July kinds ladies laurel leaves Lilac Lily Linnæus Mallow Martyn Marygold Mezereon mild weather moderately moist Motherwort myrtle Narcissus native o'er open air OVID pale PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA perennial plant perfume placed plant poet POLYANDRIA pots purple roots rose round says scent season seeds September shade sheltered shrub soil sown speaks species spring stalks sweet thee thou thrive Thunberg's Travels tree TRIANDRIA varieties violet Virgil white flowers wild winter wood yellow flowers
Popular passages
Page 378 - Go, lovely Rose ! Tell her, that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died.
Page 193 - That very time I saw, (but thou could'st not,) Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal, throned by the west ; And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon ; And the imperial vot'ress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Page 127 - And purple all the ground with vernal flowers. Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose, and the well-attired woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears ; Bid Amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffadillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.
Page xlii - To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I eyed, Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold Have from the forests shook three summers...
Page 196 - For which the shepherds at their festivals Carol her goodness loud in rustic lays, And throw sweet garland wreaths into her stream Of pansies, pinks, and gaudy daffodils.
Page 320 - Thus was this place, A happy rural seat of various view! Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm; Others whose fruit, burnished with golden rind, Hung amiable — Hesperian fables true, If true, here only — and of delicious taste.
Page 97 - Whether we will see or no ; Others, too, of lofty mien ; They have done as worldlings do, Taken praise that should be thine, Little, humble Celandine ! Prophet of delight and mirth...
Page 96 - Has a thought about her nest, Thou wilt come with half a call, Spreading out thy glossy breast Like a careless Prodigal ; Telling tales about the sun When we've little warmth or none. Poets, vain men in their mood, Travel with the multitude : Never heed them : I aver That they all are wanton wooers ; But the thrifty cottager, Who stirs little out of doors, Joys to spy thee near her home : Spring is coming ; thou art come...
Page 418 - Here are sweet peas, on tip-toe for a flight: With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings.
Page 43 - Ixion rests upon his wheel, And the pale spectres dance ; The Furies sink upon their iron beds, And snakes uncurl'd hang listening round their heads.