The Rose-amateur's Guide: Containing Ample Descriptions of All the Fine Leading Varieties of Roses, Regularly Classed in Their Respective Families : Their History and Mode of CultureLongmans, Green, and Company, 1867 - 243 páginas |
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... plant of the Muses . Though she wounds us with her thorns , we gather her with pleasure . What delight to hold this flower consecrated to love , and to breathe its sweet odours ! Ah ! what should we be without the rose ? Our poets sing ...
... plant of the Muses . Though she wounds us with her thorns , we gather her with pleasure . What delight to hold this flower consecrated to love , and to breathe its sweet odours ! Ah ! what should we be without the rose ? Our poets sing ...
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... plants of it were sold at very high prices . Most probably this was not a seedling from the Old Cabbage Rose , as ... plant , which Mr. Richmond willingly gave him . On his next journey , the following year , Mr. Grimwood made him a ...
... plants of it were sold at very high prices . Most probably this was not a seedling from the Old Cabbage Rose , as ... plant , which Mr. Richmond willingly gave him . On his next journey , the following year , Mr. Grimwood made him a ...
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... plants were budded from it , and the variety was fixed , ' as the French florists term it . However this is certainly not fixed ; for it is a most inconstant rose , in some soils producing flowers beautifully striped , in others ...
... plants were budded from it , and the variety was fixed , ' as the French florists term it . However this is certainly not fixed ; for it is a most inconstant rose , in some soils producing flowers beautifully striped , in others ...
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... plants soon become straggling and unsightly . To pro- long their period of flowering , half the shoots may be pruned in October , the remainder at the end of April . In poor soils , they should have annu- ally , in November , a dressing ...
... plants soon become straggling and unsightly . To pro- long their period of flowering , half the shoots may be pruned in October , the remainder at the end of April . In poor soils , they should have annu- ally , in November , a dressing ...
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... plants were stragglers from some garden , as I have never seen this assertion pro- perly authenticated The origin of the Double Moss Rose , like that of the Old Double Yellow Rose ( Rosa sulphurea ) , is therefore left to con- jecture ...
... plants were stragglers from some garden , as I have never seen this assertion pro- perly authenticated The origin of the Double Moss Rose , like that of the Old Double Yellow Rose ( Rosa sulphurea ) , is therefore left to con- jecture ...
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