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Common terms and phrases
Abricot-Tree Anemones Autumn Bark bear beautiful begin Bergamot Branches breadth bulbous Bulbs Cafe call'd Carthusians CHAP Chive Cleft Cold Colour cover cultivate Culture Cyclamens Decoupees deep Dittany Dung Dwarf Endive Eyes fame Fig-Trees Florist Flowers foot high Four Frosts Fruit Fruit-Branches Gard Garden Gardner gather'd Gent Gilliflowers give Graff Grafting green Ground grow half Half-Standard Vine Heat Hot Beds Hyacinths Inches Juice sugary Leaves light Earths likewise Love manner Matrasses Method Mold Month naked Earth never Number Nymph observe Parterres Peach Peach-Trees Pear Pear-Trees Plant Plots Plum Plum-Trees Pots proper Prun'd Pruning Reason Roots Scutcheon Seed shoot Soil sort sown Spring Stalks Stem Stock Suckers Taste ther Three Foot thrive tis planted transplanted Trees Tulips twill Verjuice vex'd Vrsi Wall Water Weeds White Winter Wood Wood-Branches yellow young
Popular passages
Page 446 - Prepar'd the Sacred Rites to pay In. Silence, and with Awe profound. FLORA thrice bow'd, and thus was heard to pray. Jove ! mighty Jove ! whom all adore ; Exert thy Great...
Page 446 - ... heard, And for the grateful work prepar'd. 50 A bufy face the God of Gardens wore ; Vertumnus of the party too, From various fweets th' exhaling fpirits drew ; While, in fulrcaniftcrs, Pomona bore Of richeft fruits a plenteous ftore ; 55 And Vefta promis'd wondrous things to do.
Page 445 - She always pleas'd ; for more than mortal fire Shone in her eyes, and did her charms infpire ; A Dryad bore the beauteous nymph, a Sylvan was her fire. Chafte, wife, devout...
Page 486 - ... way of making them.' The author says there are five ways of making green plots or walks, ' namely by Turfs, by Spanish Clover-Grass, by Hay-Seed, by the Seed of Sainfoin, and by that of Medick Fodder.' Turf he considers the best. Of sainfoin he says : ' Sainfoin has a very pretty Aspect especially when it is in flower. When it arrives at its perfect Maturity we cut it down.
Page 321 - Layers that had not retaken Root within that time, lie in that Condition in the naked Earth all the Winter, and take Root towards the end of March ; which is no fmall Evidence againft fuch as are over-cautious in the Affair of Pinks.
Page 445 - Ye fhining graces of my courtly. train, The caufe of this aflembly know ! In fovereign majefty I reign O'er the gay flowery univerfe below...
Page 447 - The Transformation was compleat ; The Deities with Songs the Queen of Flow'rs did greet : Soft Flutes and tuneful Harps were heard to found ; While now to Heav'n the well-pleas'd Goddefs ffies With her bright Train, and reafcends the Skies.
Page 150 - A Gardner that cultivates Flowers ought to have Baskets by him, to gather the Flowers in upon occasion. This sort of Baskets, shew a Gardiner's Neatness, and the genteel way of his Profession.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Le Jardinier Solitaire |
| Author | François Gentil |
| Publisher | Benj[amin] Tooke, 1706 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Aug 2, 2005 |
| Length | 500 pages |
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