The Juvenile GardenerHarvey and Darton, 1824 - 129 pages |
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Lady. rity , I need scarcely tell you it has a hard shell and white kernel , of which you have sometimes partaken . The filberts , and other nuts , are so small , and so concealed amongst the leaves , that they are not yet to be seen ...
Lady. rity , I need scarcely tell you it has a hard shell and white kernel , of which you have sometimes partaken . The filberts , and other nuts , are so small , and so concealed amongst the leaves , that they are not yet to be seen ...
Page 75
... shells , peb- bles , or any marine plant they could find , which they collected in their baskets , to examine at leisure at home . One day , a fishing - boat came in ; and as the fisher- men drew the boat upon the sands , the children ...
... shells , peb- bles , or any marine plant they could find , which they collected in their baskets , to examine at leisure at home . One day , a fishing - boat came in ; and as the fisher- men drew the boat upon the sands , the children ...
Page 76
... shells and plants which they had gathered . Agnes fixed upon a plant with a pale green prickly leaf , and delicate flower . " That is the eryngo , or sea - holly , " said her mamma : " it grows in the loose sand , all along this coast ...
... shells and plants which they had gathered . Agnes fixed upon a plant with a pale green prickly leaf , and delicate flower . " That is the eryngo , or sea - holly , " said her mamma : " it grows in the loose sand , all along this coast ...
Page 80
... shells , on ac- count of its beauty and delicacy . Here , Frank , " continued his mother , " is a sea- weed as thick as a rope : you may save this to take home , it will serve as a wea- ther - glass ; for , when the air is dry , so is ...
... shells , on ac- count of its beauty and delicacy . Here , Frank , " continued his mother , " is a sea- weed as thick as a rope : you may save this to take home , it will serve as a wea- ther - glass ; for , when the air is dry , so is ...
Page 81
... shells , they have also many noxious rep- tiles to encounter , which we only know by name . This long , dark blue shell , is called a muscle - shell , and the fish it contains is very good to eat : it is much used for bait to catch ...
... shells , they have also many noxious rep- tiles to encounter , which we only know by name . This long , dark blue shell , is called a muscle - shell , and the fish it contains is very good to eat : it is much used for bait to catch ...
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aconite admire amongst amusement appeared apricot aunt auricula autumn Azalea basket beans beautiful berries birds bloom blossoms botany branches bunches called colour covered currants deadly nightshade delicate delight dried early earth elegant esteemed fish flower-garden flower-roots flower-seeds flowers fragrant Frank and Agnes fruit gathered glass grass green grew ground grow hyacinths kind larkspurs leaf leaves little boys Maclaren mamma medlars mignionette names natives nectarine never nosegay papa and mamma pears peas perfume pink plants pleased pleasure potatoes pots pretty produce promised purple radishes rhododendrons roots rose-trees samphire Seaview seeds seen shells showed showy shrub sister snowdrop soon stalks sugar summer sweet sweet-scented taste tell thing took trees tulips variety vegetable Vernon told walk weather weeds West Indies white flowers wild rose William winter yellow flowers young gardener
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Page 78 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low ! The crows, and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire, — dreadful trade ! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head : The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice ; and yon tall anchoring bark, Diminish'd to her cock ; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight : the murmuring surge, That on th' unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard so high.
Page 52 - Consider the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin: yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Page 1 - Then she sang Handel's song — " What though I trace each herb and flower That decks the morning dew? Did I not own Jehovah's power, How vain were all I knew...
Page 122 - The berries and fruit are somewhat of an oval shape, about the size of a cherry, and of a dark-red color when ripe. Each of these contains two cells, and each cell a single seed, which is the coffee as we see it before it undergoes the process of roasting. — Coffee is an article of but recent introduction.
Page 66 - ... Richmond, at the battle of Bofworth Field ; and to exemplify the atrocity of Richard, I have introduced his Falfe Accufation of Haftings on the one fide, and the Death of the two Young Princes in the Tower on the other. " To contraft with thefe preceding tragical fubjects, I have in the centre reprefented the Marriage of Henry the Seventh, with the Daughter of Edward the Fourth, the Union of the White and Red Rofes ; and on one hand, as an image of peace and happinefs, I have introduced young...