Gardeners' ChronicleHaymarket Publishing, 1900 |
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Página 161 - GARDEN A GARDEN is a lovesome thing, God wot! Rose plot, Fringed pool, Ferned grot — The veriest school Of peace; and yet the fool Contends that God is not — Not God! in gardens! when the eve is cool? Nay, but I have a sign: Tis very sure God walks in mine.
Página 101 - To live one day of parting love? Eternity will not efface Those records dear of transports past; Thy image at our last embrace — Ah, little thought we 'twas our last! Ayr gurgling kissed his pebbled shore, O'erhung with wild woods, thickening green ; The fragrant birch and hawthorn hoar Twined amorous round the raptured scene...
Página ix - The late-past frosts tributes of pleasure bring. Grief melts away Like snow in May, As if there were no such cold thing. Who would have thought my shrivelled heart Could have recovered greenness?
Página 211 - ... that the tissues of the animal body are composed of cells, or of materials derived from cells : — " That there is one universal principle of development for the elementary part of organisms, however different, and that this principle is the formation of cells.
Página ix - And husband nature's riches from expense; They are the lords and owners of their faces, Others but stewards of their excellence. The summer's flower is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die...
Página 163 - Sweet Day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die.
Página 205 - ... inches to a foot deep round such, care being taken to throw the excavated soil into the diseased portion, and not outside it. This method, which was first suggested by Hartig, for the purpose of preventing the spread of subterranean fungi in the German forests, cannot be too strongly commended, especially where the diseased patches are small in area. The amount of success depends entirely on the thoroughness, combined with an intelligent method of carrying out the work. Half attempts invariably...
Página 99 - ... mingled with a little purple ; yet there are some that are yellow and red. This flower grows upon a bush, and is carefully cherished and planted in all gardens belonging to the Grandees, for one of the most choice flowers.
Página 186 - ... whipstock. They were not branched because the roots were very closely crowded together. Their sugar content was abnormally high as a result of their growing so close together, and the conclusions drawn from the form of the roots and their sugar content, as determined in the laboratory, were tainted with error because they did not represent qualities truly acquired, but modifications accidentally imposed by external conditions. Thus these beets which were declared to be of good shape and composition...
Página 164 - ... throughout Europe, and the popularity that they enjoyed shows that the characteristics developed in the various varieties of plants by these skillful and careful gardeners were well fixed, else they could not have reproduced themselves faithfully when cultivated under very different conditions of soil and climate. Vegetable gardeners have been for the most part the creators of European varieties of vegetables (and at the same time of many varieties of flowers, for the two occupations of vegetable...