The Rose Fancier's ManualH. Colburn, 1838 - 434 páginas |
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The Book of Roses: Or, The Rose Fancier's Manual Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances) Vista de fragmentos - 1978 |
Términos y frases comunes
Alpine Rose armed base Bengal Rose bracteal leaves Branches bright Buds Burnet-leafed canina centre circumference colour composed of five composed of seven concave convex crimson crooked thorns dark green deep pink Disk double doubly toothed edges five or seven flesh-coloured Floral leaves Flowers Flowerstalks fragrant fringed with glands Fruit glandulous glaucous globular glossy hairy hispid Hundred-leaved Rose lanceolated large or middle-sized Leafstalks light pink lilac lilac-pink middle-sized or small Moss Rose naked narrow nine leaflets Noisette numerous oblong oval oval-lanceolated pale pink Peduncles Petals pubescent reddish regular Rosa Canina Rosa Carolina Rosa Majalis Rosa Rubiginosa Rosa Villosa rose-tree semi-double Sepals seven leaflets seven or nine short Shrub simple simply toothed single slender smooth solitary sometimes species SPECIES III SPECIFIC CHARACTERS Stamens Stipules straight Styles Sub-Varieties Suckers summit thick thornless tinged Tube of calyx unarmed underneath undulated uneven upper surface variety velvety vigorous violet vivid pink yellow
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Página 411 - Oh, Love! what is it in this world of ours Which makes it fatal to be loved? Ah why With cypress branches hast thou wreathed thy bowers, And made thy best interpreter a sigh? As those who dote on odours pluck the flowers, And place them on their breast — but place to die — Thus the frail beings we would fondly cherish Are laid within our bosoms but to perish.
Página 412 - Size of the plates, six inches by four and a half ; engraved by the most distinguished Artists, from drawings made by order of Her late Royal Highness the PRINCESS CHARLOTTE. The following is a brief Descriptive List of the Portraits comprised in this Work...
Página vii - December, their attention and money are appropriated to the improvement of such plants as adorn the flower-garden during the summer season. They care little for any that cannot be brought to perfection in the open air ; and precisely the same motive which promotes the cultivation of the dahlia in England, has brought the rose to greater perfection in France.
Página 8 - Boitard), so sterile in vegetation that in some parts the natives are compelled to feed their horses, sheep, and oxen on dried fish, we find the Rosa rubiginosa, with its pale, solitary, cup-shaped flowers; and in Lapland, blooming almost under the snows of that severe climate, the natives, seeking mosses and lichens for their reindeer, find the Rosa majalis and R.
Página 10 - Howers spring from an ovary in the form of a crest ; and the Rosa arvensis, with large flowers, red and double, in a state of cultivation. The Swiss mountains, and the Alpine chain in general, are rich in native roses. Besides the Field rose, just mentioned, they have the...
Página 411 - In the next place, we must admonish thee, my worthy friend (for perhaps thy heart may be better than thy head), not to condemn a character as a bad one because it is not perfectly a good one. If thou dost delight in these models of perfection, there are books enow written to gratify thy taste; but as we have not, in the course of our conversation, ever happened to meet with any such person, we have not chosen to introduce any such here.
Página 11 - In the southern provinces is found the Rosa eglanteria, whose golden petals are sometimes varied into a rich orange. The Rosa spinosissima grows in the sandy plains of the southern provinces, having white flowers tipped with yellow, which have furnished many beautiful varieties. In the forests of Auvergne and the departments of the Vosges, we find the Rosa cinnamomea, which derives its name from the colour of its branches ; the flowers being small, red, and solitary. The Rosa parvifolia, or Champagne...
Página 5 - Abyssinia, at 10 of latitude. " It is a curious fact, that all the Roses of America, with the exception of the Montezuma and stricta, might be classed under the same species as the European cinnamon Rose. " Asia has to boast a greater variety of species of the rose than the rest of the earth united ; thirty-nine, that, admit of accurate definition, having been already established. Of these the vast empire of China, •where both agriculture and horticulture are arts in high estimation, has a claim...
Página 6 - Rosa sericea, of which the surface of the leaflets has a satin texture, and the flowers are solitary and drooping. " The parched shores of the Gulf of Bengal are covered, during the spring, with a beautiful white rose found also in China and Nepaul. The flowers of the Rosa...
Página 7 - Rosa rubella, of which the petals are sometimes of a deep crimson, but often pale and colourless as the surrounding country. Still further north, flourishes the Rosa acicularis, bearing solitary flowers of a pale red. Ten or twelve other species grow in the Russian provinces of northern Asia ; in particular, the Rosa Kamschatica, bearing solitary flowers of a pinkish white. In Africa, on the borders of the vast desert of Sahara, and...