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Garden Books, Old and New: Selected, Classified, and with Annotations ... Mary Evans No preview available - 1971 |
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Alfred Alfred Austin Alice Lounsberry Amateur's Book American Appleton architecture Beautiful beginners Birds Boston Botany California Canada Cassell colored plates Country Life Library cultivation Culture Dodd Doubleday Dutton E. A. Bowles edition Edward Eleanor Vere Boyle English Gardens Ernest Henry Wilson Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews Ferns Field Book Flora Flower Garden Francis King Frederick Frederick Law Olmstead fruit Garden Book Garden Flowers GARDEN TREES George Gertrude Jekyll Grace Tabor Grow Handbook Harriet Louise Keeler Horace McFarland Houghton hundred Illustrated introduction John Lane John Macfarlane John Muir John William Harshberger LANDSCAPE ART Landscape Gardening Leonard Barron Liberty Hyde Bailey Lippincott Little Book London Longmans Louisa Yeomans King Macmillan Mare Maurice Maeterlinck McBride Mead Mifflin Company Neltje Blanchan ornamental Philadelphia photographs Practical Garden pseud Putnam Revised and enlarged Robert Rock Garden Rose Rural Manuals Scribner Soils Stokes Trees and Shrubs United Vegetable vols Wild Flowers Wright York
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Page 13 - Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
Page 65 - Being a Short Description of their Character and Habits, a Concise Definition of their Colors, and Incidental References to the Insects which Assist in their Fertilization.
Page 59 - American trees and shrubs: a concise description of the character and color of species common throughout the United States, together with maps showing their general distribution.
Page 67 - Together with shrubs, vines, and various forms of growth found through the Mountains, the Middle District, and the Low Country of the South.
Page 70 - There, held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till With a sad leaden downward cast Thou fix them on the earth as fast. And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet; Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet. And hears the Muses in a ring Aye round about Jove's altar sing; And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens takes his pleasure...
Page 69 - Wild Flowers worth Notice. A Selection from the British Flora of some of our Native Plants which are most attractive for their Beauty, Uses, or Associations. By Mrs. LANKESTER. Illustrated by JE SOWERBY.
Page 30 - A TREATISE, INTENDED TO EXPLAIN AND ILLUSTRATE THE PHYSIology of Fruit Trees, the Theory and Practice of all Operations connected with the Propagation, Transplanting, Pruning and Training of Orchard and Garden Trees, as Standards, Dwarfs, Pyramids, Espalier, &c.
Page 54 - Vines and how to grow them; a manual of climbing plants for flower, foliage and fruit effects, both ornamental and useful, including those shrubs and similar forms that may be used as vines.
Page 34 - Gardening for Pleasure. A guide to the amateur in the fruit, vegetable and flower garden, with full descriptions for the greenhouse, conservatory and window garden.
Page 25 - The importance of careful planning, locating the house, arrangement of walks and drives, construction of walks and drives, lawns and terraces, how to plant a property, laying out a flower garden, architectural features of the garden, rose gardens and hardy borders, wild gardens and rock gardens, planting plans and planting lists.