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... feet and a half wide , with intervals of one foot and a half to two feet . These dimensions render them convenient to be weeded , without the plants being trodden or kneeled upon . THE methods of sowing are various ; as DIBBLING ...
... feet and a half wide , with intervals of one foot and a half to two feet . These dimensions render them convenient to be weeded , without the plants being trodden or kneeled upon . THE methods of sowing are various ; as DIBBLING ...
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... feet wide , we shall comprehend the whole variation of distances . CLEANING THE NURSERY is a business which must not , of all others , be neglected : all plants are enemies to each other . If grass and weeds are suffered to prey upon ...
... feet wide , we shall comprehend the whole variation of distances . CLEANING THE NURSERY is a business which must not , of all others , be neglected : all plants are enemies to each other . If grass and weeds are suffered to prey upon ...
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... generally upon the subject →→ For plants under four feet high , the soil ought to receive a double digging , or a summer's fallow ૩૦ PLANTING . Planting out Nursery Plants, Preparing the Ground, The Season of Planting,
... generally upon the subject →→ For plants under four feet high , the soil ought to receive a double digging , or a summer's fallow ૩૦ PLANTING . Planting out Nursery Plants, Preparing the Ground, The Season of Planting,
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... feet deep , and for plants from four to eight feet high , the holes ought to be made from two to four feet diameter : the different strata should be kept separate ; laying the sod on one side of the hole , the corn mold or soil on ...
... feet deep , and for plants from four to eight feet high , the holes ought to be made from two to four feet diameter : the different strata should be kept separate ; laying the sod on one side of the hole , the corn mold or soil on ...
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... feet between the rows and two feet between the plants are con- venient distances ; or , if the intervals be set out exactly a quarter of a rod wide , namely , four feet one inch and a half , and the plants be put in at twenty - four ...
... feet between the rows and two feet between the plants are con- venient distances ; or , if the intervals be set out exactly a quarter of a rod wide , namely , four feet one inch and a half , and the plants be put in at twenty - four ...
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Page 213 - Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene; and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.
Page 212 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran Nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain, Both where the morning sun first warmly smote The open field, and where the unpierced shade Imbrown'd the noontide bowers. Thus was this place A happy rural seat of various view...
Page 217 - It lies on the side of a hill (upon which the house stands), but not very steep. The length of the house, where the best rooms and of most use or pleasure are, lies upon the breadth of the garden; the great parlour...
Page 212 - Upon the rapid current, which, through veins Of porous earth with kindly thirst up-drawn, Rose a fresh fountain, and with many a rill Water'd the garden ; thence united fell Down the steep glade, and met the nether flood, Which from his darksome passage now appears ; And now, divided into four main streams, Runs diverse, wandering many a famous realm And country, whereof here needs no account...
Page 219 - ... shall yet, upon the whole, be very agreeable. Something of this I have seen in some places, but heard more of it from others who have lived much among the Chineses ; a people, whose way of thinking seems to lie as wide of ours in Europe, as their country does.
Page 207 - The tricks of waterworks to wet the unwary, not to refresh the panting spectator, and parterres embroidered in patterns like a petticoat, were but the childish endeavours of fashion and novelty to reconcile greatness to what it had surfeited on. To crown these impotent displays of false taste, the...
Page 227 - At that moment appeared Kent, painter enough to taste the charms of landscape, bold and opinionative enough to dare and to dictate, and born with a genius to strike out a great system from the twilight of imperfect essays.
Page 231 - I do not know whether the disposition of the garden at Rousham, laid out for General Dormer, and in my opinion the most engaging of all Kent's works, was not planned on the model of Mr. POPE'S, at least in the opening and retiring
Page 249 - The bosom of the mountains spreading here into a broad basin, discovers in the midst Grasmere Water ; its margin is hollowed into small bays, with bold eminences, some of rock, some of soft turf, that half conceal and vary the figure of the little lake they command...
Page 220 - European gardens are formally uniform and varied; but with regard to nature it seems as much avoided as in the squares and oblongs and straight lines of our ancestors.