The Juvenile GardenerHarvey and Darton, 1824 - 129 pages |
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... roses , and tulips , and peas , and cab- bages , and fine fruits , and all kinds of things that grow . " " Then ... rose - trees , they would not bear flowers this summer : then fruit- trees would take up more room than you have to ...
... roses , and tulips , and peas , and cab- bages , and fine fruits , and all kinds of things that grow . " " Then ... rose - trees , they would not bear flowers this summer : then fruit- trees would take up more room than you have to ...
Page 8
... roses and woodbines which grew in the hedges ; and roots of the sweet - scented violet , the yellow primrose , and the cowslip , which grew upon the banks ; and these being all planted , William added a few crocus , snowdrop , and ...
... roses and woodbines which grew in the hedges ; and roots of the sweet - scented violet , the yellow primrose , and the cowslip , which grew upon the banks ; and these being all planted , William added a few crocus , snowdrop , and ...
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... roses and woodbines had not pro- duced him flowers , as well as the seeds which he had sown , and talked of rooting them up , but his papa said : " Have pa- tience , Frank ; wait till next summer , and then you will probably see the ...
... roses and woodbines had not pro- duced him flowers , as well as the seeds which he had sown , and talked of rooting them up , but his papa said : " Have pa- tience , Frank ; wait till next summer , and then you will probably see the ...
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... rose - trees and woodbines full of buds , and the crocuses and snowdrops were al- ready in flower . On one part of his ground he sowed the seeds of early vege- tables ; and when he had finished his own work , he begged his papa to allow ...
... rose - trees and woodbines full of buds , and the crocuses and snowdrops were al- ready in flower . On one part of his ground he sowed the seeds of early vege- tables ; and when he had finished his own work , he begged his papa to allow ...
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... Rose Acacia . The blossoms are formed like a pea - flower : the colours are beautiful . They grow in drooping bunches , amidst their delicately - formed leaves , and the branches are thorny . This ornamental shrub is the double ...
... Rose Acacia . The blossoms are formed like a pea - flower : the colours are beautiful . They grow in drooping bunches , amidst their delicately - formed leaves , and the branches are thorny . This ornamental shrub is the double ...
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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...