Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum: Or, The Trees and Shrubs of Britain, Native and Foreign, Hardy and Half-hardy, Pictorially and Botanically Delineated, and Scientifically and Popularly Described; with Their Propagation, Culture, Management, and Uses in the Arts, in Useful and Ornamental Plantations, and in Landscape Gardening; Preceded by a Historical and Geographical Outline of the Trees and Shrubs of Temperate Climates Throughout the World, Volume 3 |
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586. , Mr. Godsall , nursery- man , of Hereford , mentions that he has seen the pavement of an arbour over which a plant of Períploca grć'ca was trained , and in full flower , literally covered with dead house - flies , which appeared ...
586. , Mr. Godsall , nursery- man , of Hereford , mentions that he has seen the pavement of an arbour over which a plant of Períploca grć'ca was trained , and in full flower , literally covered with dead house - flies , which appeared ...
Page 1270
Established plants , in good soil , will make shoots 10 ft . or 12 ft . in length in one season ; and the plant , when trained against a house or high wall , will reach the height of 30 it . or 40 ft . , as may be seen in some courts in ...
Established plants , in good soil , will make shoots 10 ft . or 12 ft . in length in one season ; and the plant , when trained against a house or high wall , will reach the height of 30 it . or 40 ft . , as may be seen in some courts in ...
Page 1282
25. , and our fig.1141 . , is a well - known suffruticose plant , which , though seldom seen above 2 ft . in height , yet , in deep sandy soil , will grow to the height of 5 ft . or 6 ft . , and produce a stem as thick as a man's leg .
25. , and our fig.1141 . , is a well - known suffruticose plant , which , though seldom seen above 2 ft . in height , yet , in deep sandy soil , will grow to the height of 5 ft . or 6 ft . , and produce a stem as thick as a man's leg .
Page 1287
417. , is a native of the Cape of Good Hope , with light blue flowers , which it produces in great profusion throughout the summer ; and , though it is seldom seen above 5 ft . in height in green - houses , yet we have seen it reach the ...
417. , is a native of the Cape of Good Hope , with light blue flowers , which it produces in great profusion throughout the summer ; and , though it is seldom seen above 5 ft . in height in green - houses , yet we have seen it reach the ...
Page 1293
This , and the preceding species , are extremely interesting and beautiful little shrubs , and it is much to be regretted that they are so very seldom seen in collections . Though they require heath soil , and some little time to be ...
This , and the preceding species , are extremely interesting and beautiful little shrubs , and it is much to be regretted that they are so very seldom seen in collections . Though they require heath soil , and some little time to be ...
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Page 1758 - Many were the attempts of the neighbouring youths to get at this eyry : the difficulty whetted their inclinations, and each was ambitious of surmounting the arduous task. But, when they arrived at the swelling, it jutted out so in their way, and was so far beyond their grasp, that the most daring lads were awed, and acknowledged the undertaking to be too hazardous. So the ravens built on, nest upon nest, in perfect security, till the fatal day arrived in which the wood was to be levelled. It was...
Page 1958 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Page 1785 - To-day, my lord of Amiens and myself Did steal behind him, as he lay along Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood...
Page 1513 - For they that led us away captive, required of us then a song, and melody in our heaviness : Sing us one of the songs of Sion. 4 How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land?
Page 1463 - There with fantastic garlands did she come Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples That liberal shepherds give a grosser name. But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them : There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke ; When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook.
Page 1962 - ... easiest mattresses in the world to lay under our quilts instead of straw ; because, besides their tenderness and loose lying together, they continue sweet for seven or eight years long, before which time straw becomes musty and hard.
Page 1829 - Martin• •* vnnt have seen, and our hands touched, we shall declare. There is a small island in Lancashire called the Pile of Foulders, wherein are found the broken pieces of old and bruised ships, some whereof have been cast thither by shipwracke, and also the trunks and bodies with the branches of old and rotten trees...
Page 1463 - In such a night Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew And saw the lion's shadow ere himself And ran dismay'd away. Lor. In such a night Stood Dido with a willow in her hand Upon the wild sea banks and waft her love To come again to Carthage.
Page 1959 - Thrice twenty summers I have seen The sky grow bright, the forest green ; And many a wintry wind have stood In bloomless, fruitless solitude, Since childhood in my pleasant bower First spent its sweet and sportive hour, Since youthful lovers in my shade Their vows of truth and rapture made ; And on my trunk's surviving frame Carved many a long-forgotten name.
Page 1790 - is confessedly the most picturesque tree in itself, and the most accommodating in composition. It refuses no subject, either in natural or in artificial landscape. It is suited to the grandest and may with propriety be introduced into the most pastoral. It adds new dignity to the ruined tower, and the Gothic arch...