Hardy Flowers: Descriptions of Upwards of Thirteen Hundred of the Most Ornamental Species, and Directions for Their Arrangement, Culture, Etc. ... |
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acute alpine alpine plants Alps Aster autumn banks bare banks base beautiful beds blue bracts branches bulbs calyx ciliated colour corolla corymbs cymes deep dense Divi Division and seed Division or seed downy dwarf early summer edges erect Flowers fringes of shrubberies garden glaucous grandiflora green hairs hairy handsome hardy heart-shaped herb herbaceous kind lance-shaped lanceolate late in summer leaflets Leaves Lily linear loam lobes long stalks margins of shrubberies mixed border moist narrow Native North America numerous oblong obovate obtuse ordinary soil oval ovate pale panicle peat perennial petals pinnate plant Primula purple purplish Pyrenees racemes rock rock-garden rockwork root rosettes rough roundish sandy loam sandy soil Seed and division segments Sempervivum sepals serrated sessile shaped showy shrubs Siberia silvery slender slightly smooth species spikes spots spring stalkless stamens stem stem-leaves terminal ternate toothed tufts umbels upper variety violet warm well-drained whitish whorls yellow