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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Page 1281
... England . Park Place , near Henley on Thames , is celebrated for its lavender plantations , which occupy between 40 and 50 acres . " The plants are raised from cuttings , which are slipped off and prepared by women in the autumn , and ...
... England . Park Place , near Henley on Thames , is celebrated for its lavender plantations , which occupy between 40 and 50 acres . " The plants are raised from cuttings , which are slipped off and prepared by women in the autumn , and ...
Page 1284
... England , and of orangeries in France , where we have seen it growing about the same height as the Plectranthus fruticosus . 1149 There are several other sorts , from the Canaries , Spain , the Levant , & c . , which will be found enume ...
... England , and of orangeries in France , where we have seen it growing about the same height as the Plectranthus fruticosus . 1149 There are several other sorts , from the Canaries , Spain , the Levant , & c . , which will be found enume ...
Page 1285
... England against a wall . GENUS I. VITEX L. THE CHASTE TREE . Lin . Syst . Didynàmia Angiospermia . Identification . Lin . Gen. , No. 790 .; Reich , No. 853 .; Schreb . , No. 1060 .; Tourn . , t . 373 .; Juss . , 107 .; Gærtn . , t . 56 ...
... England against a wall . GENUS I. VITEX L. THE CHASTE TREE . Lin . Syst . Didynàmia Angiospermia . Identification . Lin . Gen. , No. 790 .; Reich , No. 853 .; Schreb . , No. 1060 .; Tourn . , t . 373 .; Juss . , 107 .; Gærtn . , t . 56 ...
Page 1286
... England , the Verbèna triphýlla ( Aloysia citriodòra ) is that of which the luxuriance is in Guernsey the most remarkable . Its miserable stinted growth , and bare woody stem , are well known to us . In Guernsey it thrives in exposed ...
... England , the Verbèna triphýlla ( Aloysia citriodòra ) is that of which the luxuriance is in Guernsey the most remarkable . Its miserable stinted growth , and bare woody stem , are well known to us . In Guernsey it thrives in exposed ...
Page 1298
... England , and can be had in abundance from France , the species is very generally increased from seeds , and the varieties only raised from layers or cuttings . As an evergreen shrub , not only beau- tiful in itself , but connected with ...
... England , and can be had in abundance from France , the species is very generally increased from seeds , and the varieties only raised from layers or cuttings . As an evergreen shrub , not only beau- tiful in itself , but connected with ...
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