Sylva Florifera: The Shrubbery Historically and Botanically Treated: with Observations on the Formation of Ornamental Plantations, and Picturesque Scenery, Volume 2Longmans, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823 - 333 páginas |
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... and graceful tree , whose yellow pendent blossoms shine more conspi- cuously by the contrast . Its extending branches should wave their golden treasures over the snowy balls of the guelder rose , or 4 SYLVA FLORIFERA .
... and graceful tree , whose yellow pendent blossoms shine more conspi- cuously by the contrast . Its extending branches should wave their golden treasures over the snowy balls of the guelder rose , or 4 SYLVA FLORIFERA .
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... yellow green , being brighter than that of either the orange or lemon ; and as the greater number of evergreen plants are of a dark or bluish green , and many of them with a tint of reddish brown , nothing in point of colour can ...
... yellow green , being brighter than that of either the orange or lemon ; and as the greater number of evergreen plants are of a dark or bluish green , and many of them with a tint of reddish brown , nothing in point of colour can ...
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... yellow green , which harmonises as agreeably with the garnet set spray , as the grey green contrasts with the golden fruit of the ananas . It is no small recommendation to the mezereon , that it holds its flowers for a considerable ...
... yellow green , which harmonises as agreeably with the garnet set spray , as the grey green contrasts with the golden fruit of the ananas . It is no small recommendation to the mezereon , that it holds its flowers for a considerable ...
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... yellow berries , and another with variegated leaves . They are all ripe in Au- raised by seed , sown as soon as gust . The bed or border should be exposed to an eastern aspect ; and the plant thrives best in a light sandy earth that is ...
... yellow berries , and another with variegated leaves . They are all ripe in Au- raised by seed , sown as soon as gust . The bed or border should be exposed to an eastern aspect ; and the plant thrives best in a light sandy earth that is ...
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... yellow colour to their hair , hands , and nails , and that they also dyed their horses ' manes and tails with this powder , to make them gay on festival days . The Italian or evergreen privet , is now generally supplied by our ...
... yellow colour to their hair , hands , and nails , and that they also dyed their horses ' manes and tails with this powder , to make them gay on festival days . The Italian or evergreen privet , is now generally supplied by our ...
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Sylva Florifera: The Shrubbery Historically and Botanically ..., Volume 2 Henry Phillips Visualização completa - 1823 |
Sylva Florifera: The Shrubbery Historically and Botanically ..., Volume 2 Henry Phillips Visualização completa - 1823 |
Sylva Florifera: The Shrubbery Historically and Botanically ..., Volume 2 Henry Phillips Visualização completa - 1823 |
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Página 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.
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Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
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