Sylva Florifera: The Shrubbery Historically and Botanically Treated: with Observations on the Formation of Ornamental Plantations, and Picturesque Scenery, Volume 2 |
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... raised above five millions of these trees in the year 1796. We have introduced no exotic tree that has so greatly embellished the country in general . Its pale and delicate green , so cheerfully enlivening the dark hue of the fir and ...
... raised above five millions of these trees in the year 1796. We have introduced no exotic tree that has so greatly embellished the country in general . Its pale and delicate green , so cheerfully enlivening the dark hue of the fir and ...
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... raised ; and the wood was found to be uncorrupted . It is said that planks of larch are superior to those of oak for many purposes in ship- building . At Archangel , ships of the line are built of this timber ; and at Venice it is also ...
... raised ; and the wood was found to be uncorrupted . It is said that planks of larch are superior to those of oak for many purposes in ship- building . At Archangel , ships of the line are built of this timber ; and at Venice it is also ...
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... raised from seed produce the finest plants , particularly for standards , as those obtained from cuttings or layers incline more to a ho- rizontal growth , and produce a greater num- ber of lateral branches , but which are also ...
... raised from seed produce the finest plants , particularly for standards , as those obtained from cuttings or layers incline more to a ho- rizontal growth , and produce a greater num- ber of lateral branches , but which are also ...
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... raised from seed are hardier than others that are propagated by layers ; but where it is intended to cover the ground beneath tall trees , we should recommend the plants raised by layers , as they will run on the earth in such ...
... raised from seed are hardier than others that are propagated by layers ; but where it is intended to cover the ground beneath tall trees , we should recommend the plants raised by layers , as they will run on the earth in such ...
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... raised from seed , or produced from suckers of the blue sort . The Chinese lilac was first brought to this country in 1795. It is of a middle stature , between the Persian and the common lilac , and its leaves smaller than the common ...
... raised from seed , or produced from suckers of the blue sort . The Chinese lilac was first brought to this country in 1795. It is of a middle stature , between the Persian and the common lilac , and its leaves smaller than the common ...
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Page 217 - One Spirit — his, Who wore the platted thorns with bleeding brows. Rules universal nature. Not a flower But shows some touch in freckle, streak, or stain, Of his unrivalled pencil.
Page 286 - Of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth; Let's choose executors and talk of wills : And yet not so — for what can we bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground? Our lands, our lives, and all are Bolingbroke's, And nothing can we call our own but death, And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
Page 173 - Will I upon thy party wear this rose: And here I prophesy, — This brawl to-day, Grown to this faction, in the Temple garden, Shall send, between the red rose and the white, A thousand souls to death and deadly night.
Page 174 - Let him that is a true-born gentleman, And stands upon the honour of his birth, If he suppose that I have pleaded truth, From off this brier pluck a white rose with me. Som. Let him that is no coward nor no flatterer, But dare maintain the party of the truth, Pluck a red rose from off this thorn with me.
Page 163 - 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 43 - And of an humbler growth, the other tall, And throwing up into the darkest gloom Of neighbouring cypress or more sable yew Her silver globes, light as the foamy surf That the wind severs from the broken wave ; The lilac, various in array, now white, Now sanguine, and her beauteous head now set With purple spikes pyramidal, as if Studious of ornament, yet unresolved Which hue she most approved, she chose them all...
Page 266 - In genial spring, beneath the quiv'ring shade, Where cooling vapours breathe along the mead, The patient fisher takes his silent stand, Intent, his angle trembling in his hand: With looks unmov'd, he hopes the scaly breed, And eyes the dancing cork, and bending reed.
Page 287 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Page 262 - By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song ; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Page 206 - Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, Here earth and water seem to strive again ! Not, chaos-like, together crush'd and bruis'd, But, as the world, harmoniously confus'd : Where order in variety we see, And where, tho' all things differ, all agree.