The Herb of the FieldMacmillan, 1887 - 311 páginas |
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... pale gauze robe , deeply cut ; while her boddice was the green receptacle on which they grow . The yellow petticoat is really the nectary or honey- cup ; garden narcissuses and jonquils , which blossom later , have the nectary likewise ...
... pale gauze robe , deeply cut ; while her boddice was the green receptacle on which they grow . The yellow petticoat is really the nectary or honey- cup ; garden narcissuses and jonquils , which blossom later , have the nectary likewise ...
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... pale green , some buff , and some a little shaded with red , and within each of these scales there are some yellow things , eight of them , which yellow things are fast covering your fingers with dust . That dust is pollen , and those ...
... pale green , some buff , and some a little shaded with red , and within each of these scales there are some yellow things , eight of them , which yellow things are fast covering your fingers with dust . That dust is pollen , and those ...
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... pale pink colour , and covered with down ; the leaves all grow directly from the root , without leaf stalks . They have one principal large rib , like a backbone , down the middle , and a number of branches spreading on each side ; and ...
... pale pink colour , and covered with down ; the leaves all grow directly from the root , without leaf stalks . They have one principal large rib , like a backbone , down the middle , and a number of branches spreading on each side ; and ...
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... pale prim- rose , seeming almost to smile out of its quiet retreat , and giving forth a delicious mild fragrance that seems just suitable to its soft , pure , delicate flower . Prime rose means early rose , and in other languages its ...
... pale prim- rose , seeming almost to smile out of its quiet retreat , and giving forth a delicious mild fragrance that seems just suitable to its soft , pure , delicate flower . Prime rose means early rose , and in other languages its ...
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... Primula , which only grows in the north . Now we mention purple primroses , the common regular primrose may be made to turn to an unwholesome - looking pale purple , by being planted in richer soil ; 22 CHAP . THE HERB OF THE FIELD.
... Primula , which only grows in the north . Now we mention purple primroses , the common regular primrose may be made to turn to an unwholesome - looking pale purple , by being planted in richer soil ; 22 CHAP . THE HERB OF THE FIELD.
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Términos y frases comunes
anthers apple autumn bearing beautiful bells bend berries blue blue-bell bogs bracts branches bright brought brown buds bulrush Butterwort called calyx catkins CHAPTER cleft clusters colour corolla cotton cowslip creeping crimson curious cymes daresay dark deep deep purple delicate England English Figwort five petals five stamens fleshy fleur-de-lys four fruit gardens gathered germ grass grown grows wild Guelder rose handsome hanging hard head hedge herbs John's-wort juice kind leaf lilac lily look lovely nectaries never nightshade nosegay orange orchis pale perhaps petals pink pistil plant pollen potatoes pretty purple root rose round scarlet seed seed-vessel sepals shape sheath side silicle slender soft sometimes sort spikes spread spring spurge stalk stamens stem stigma sweet swelling tall teazel thick thing tree TRIBE tuft twisted viper's bugloss white blossoms white flowers whole wood yellow yellow rattle
Pasajes populares
Página 49 - The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.
Página 171 - The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, And all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field : The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: . Because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: Surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: But the word of our God shall stand for ever.
Página 170 - A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous...
Página 45 - Hie away, hie away, Over bank and over brae, Where the copsewood is the greenest, Where the fountains glisten sheenest, Where the lady-fern grows strongest, Where the morning dew lies longest, Where the black-cock sweetest sips it, Where the fairy latest trips it. Hie to haunts right seldom seen, Lovely, lonesome, cool, and green, Over bank and over brae, Hie away, hie away. 'Do the verses he sings...
Página 22 - Two from our birthday ever beards have worn, On other two none ever have appeared, While the fifth brother wears but half a beard.
Página 169 - We have ploughed, we have sowed, We have reaped, we have mowed We have brought home every load, Hip, hip, hip, Harvest home ! and thus, sir, the whole assembly shout
Página 155 - Indeed it has hardly been known in this country for more than a hundred years, and is still considered as one of the rarest of fruits.
Página 137 - A mushroom their table, and on it was laid A water-dock leaf, which a table-cloth made ; The viands were various, to each of their taste, And the Bee brought his honey to crown the repast. There, close on his haunches, so solemn and wise...
Página 85 - Peak of Teneriffe, which I should guess to be one of the most beautiful places in the world. The best oranges for eating that we get come from St. Michael's, a little island of the Azores, but there are many others imported from Spain and Portugal. The red-juiced blood oranges grow in Malta, and the delicious, fragrant little Mandarin orange is chiefly grown at Tangier. To all these places they were first brought in the fourteenth or fifteenth centuries from China, their original birthplace.