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 1264
... produced by this plant in a single season , if it were thought desirable to incur a little extra expense . By preparing a large mass of turfy loam well enriched with leaf mould , or thoroughly decomposed manure , and by mixing this mass ...
... produced by this plant in a single season , if it were thought desirable to incur a little extra expense . By preparing a large mass of turfy loam well enriched with leaf mould , or thoroughly decomposed manure , and by mixing this mass ...
Page 1269
... produces egg - shaped fruit , of a deep crimson colour . The fruit are about the size and shape of magnum bonum plums , and ... produced leaves nearly a foot in length , and half a foot in breadth ; giving out , when handled , an odour ...
... produces egg - shaped fruit , of a deep crimson colour . The fruit are about the size and shape of magnum bonum plums , and ... produced leaves nearly a foot in length , and half a foot in breadth ; giving out , when handled , an odour ...
Page 1277
... produced in August and September . B. crispa Royle Illust . , p . 291. , is said to be a highly ornamental shrub , found at moderate elevations in the Himalayas . App . I. Half - hardy ligneous Plants of the Order Scrophulariacea ...
... produced in August and September . B. crispa Royle Illust . , p . 291. , is said to be a highly ornamental shrub , found at moderate elevations in the Himalayas . App . I. Half - hardy ligneous Plants of the Order Scrophulariacea ...
Page 1283
... produced as big as apples , in the same manner as galls are produced upon the oak , and mossy excrescences upon the rose tree . Tournefort says the spikes of flowers of this kind of sage are 1 ft . in length , and that the odour of the ...
... produced as big as apples , in the same manner as galls are produced upon the oak , and mossy excrescences upon the rose tree . Tournefort says the spikes of flowers of this kind of sage are 1 ft . in length , and that the odour of the ...
Page 1285
... produced in spikes at the extremities of the branches , from 7 in . to 15 in . in length . In fine seasons , they appear in September , but in bad autunins not till October ; and then they never ex- pand freely . Its flowers have an ...
... produced in spikes at the extremities of the branches , from 7 in . to 15 in . in length . In fine seasons , they appear in September , but in bad autunins not till October ; and then they never ex- pand freely . Its flowers have an ...
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