The Horticultural Register, Volume 3J. Paxton, 1834 - Horticulture |
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... cultivated , though alike in flower and foliage . It is called Seedling Ranunculus , and as it is but in few persons ' hands , it is not much known . The method of cultivating it , is to sow the seed in pots or boxes , in April , which ...
... cultivated , though alike in flower and foliage . It is called Seedling Ranunculus , and as it is but in few persons ' hands , it is not much known . The method of cultivating it , is to sow the seed in pots or boxes , in April , which ...
Page 91
... cultivated in this country of late years , form a most delicious vegetable , for about six weeks of the summer season , on which my family regale , preferring it to every other that can be brought to table . The cobs should be plucked ...
... cultivated in this country of late years , form a most delicious vegetable , for about six weeks of the summer season , on which my family regale , preferring it to every other that can be brought to table . The cobs should be plucked ...
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HORTUS WOBURNENSIS , A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF UPWARDS OF 6000 ORNAMENTAL PLANTS , CULTIVATED AT WOBURN ABBEY . With numerous illustrative Plans for the Erection of Forcing - Houses , Green- houses , & c . and an account of their ...
HORTUS WOBURNENSIS , A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF UPWARDS OF 6000 ORNAMENTAL PLANTS , CULTIVATED AT WOBURN ABBEY . With numerous illustrative Plans for the Erection of Forcing - Houses , Green- houses , & c . and an account of their ...
Page 129
... cultivated ; and it comprises numerous designs for the erection of forcing - houses , culinary pits , & c . with an account of the materials best adapted for their erection , and the mode of heating by hot - water pipes , & c .; and ...
... cultivated ; and it comprises numerous designs for the erection of forcing - houses , culinary pits , & c . with an account of the materials best adapted for their erection , and the mode of heating by hot - water pipes , & c .; and ...
Page 132
... cultivated , those under whose management it is to be placed , are earnestly re- commended to have it built so as to have an elevation of about forty - five de- grees ; but in the cultivation of the Cucumber , & c . elevation is ...
... cultivated , those under whose management it is to be placed , are earnestly re- commended to have it built so as to have an elevation of about forty - five de- grees ; but in the cultivation of the Cucumber , & c . elevation is ...
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Page 130 - And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, "Who shall give us flesh to eat? We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
Page 360 - Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Page 51 - And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air, where it comes and goes like the warbling of music, than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.
Page 50 - I do hold it, in the royal ordering of gardens, there ought to be gardens for all the months in the year; in which severally things of beauty may be then in season.
Page 51 - Then the strawberry leaves dying, with a most excellent cordial smell. Then the flower of the vines : it is a little dust like the dust of a bent, which grows upon the cluster in the first coming forth.
Page 95 - The sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every motion which takes place on the surface of the earth. By its heat are produced all winds, and those disturbances in the electric equilibrium of the atmosphere which give rise to the phenomena of lightning, and probably also to those of terrestrial magnetism and the aurora.
Page 50 - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross...
Page 50 - God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks...
Page 157 - And foorth they passe with pleasure forward led, Joying to heare the birdes sweete harmony, Which, therein shrouded from the tempest dred Seemd in their song to scorne the cruell sky. Much can they praise the trees so straight and hy, The sayling Pine...
Page 184 - But what are the spots? Many fanciful notions have been broached on this subject, but only one seems to have any degree of physical probability, viz. that they are the dark, or at least comparatively dark, solid body of the sun itself, laid bare to our view by those immense fluctuations in the luminous regions of its atmosphere, to which it appears to be subject.