The Horticulturist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste, Volume 7Luthur Tucker, 1852 |
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... collection , " leaves you at liberty to furnish what kind of plants you like . I am growing a few greenhouse plants and they may be good -- my neighbor , who has a little more con- venience than me , when competing , may add an exotic ...
... collection , " leaves you at liberty to furnish what kind of plants you like . I am growing a few greenhouse plants and they may be good -- my neighbor , who has a little more con- venience than me , when competing , may add an exotic ...
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... collected in the dark , is beyond my comprehension . The charge was left entirely to himself , from midnight until the rising of the sun , and if all the shepherds in the Forest had been there to have assisted him , they could not have ...
... collected in the dark , is beyond my comprehension . The charge was left entirely to himself , from midnight until the rising of the sun , and if all the shepherds in the Forest had been there to have assisted him , they could not have ...
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... collection of Rhododendron ponticum maximum , and other species ; but we look in vain for out - door Azaleas , Calceolarias , from Chili , or Cacti from Tropical America . As for Myrtles , Pomegranates , Laurels , Jasmines , climbing ...
... collection of Rhododendron ponticum maximum , and other species ; but we look in vain for out - door Azaleas , Calceolarias , from Chili , or Cacti from Tropical America . As for Myrtles , Pomegranates , Laurels , Jasmines , climbing ...
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... collection . Although there are many more florists in St. Petersburgh than in Paris , the collections of the former are much more meagre than those of the latter . Their trade in bouquets , and flowers in pots , is prodigious , far ...
... collection . Although there are many more florists in St. Petersburgh than in Paris , the collections of the former are much more meagre than those of the latter . Their trade in bouquets , and flowers in pots , is prodigious , far ...
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... collections presented , in which were many of the choicest kinds ; and were from Robert Bu- ist's , James Dundas ' , George North's , John Lam- bert's , A. Parker's , and Caleb Cope's grounds ; the collection from the latter consisted ...
... collections presented , in which were many of the choicest kinds ; and were from Robert Bu- ist's , James Dundas ' , George North's , John Lam- bert's , A. Parker's , and Caleb Cope's grounds ; the collection from the latter consisted ...
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Page 281 - For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah : their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter : Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
Page 283 - Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree : and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
Page 416 - The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things. There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Page 279 - I will be as the dew unto Israel : he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.
Page 279 - Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou ? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree. 12 Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen : for I will hasten my word to perform it.
Page 280 - As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
Page 280 - A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Page 25 - Sirrah had been unable to manage, until he came to that commanding situation. But what was our astonishment when we discovered by degrees that not one lamb of the whole flock was wanting ! How he had got all the divisions collected in the dark, is beyond my comprehension. The charge was left entirely to himself from midnight until the rising...
Page 209 - Convince a man against his will, he's of the same opinion still ; ' is that it ? Well, I like your spirit.
Page 281 - He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them ; and frogs, which destroyed them. 46 He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, and their labour unto the locust. 47 He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with frost.