The Garden's Story: For Pleasures and Trials of an Amateur GardenerD. Appleton, 1889 - 343 من الصفحات |
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Alpine appear auratum autumn beautiful become bees berries bloodroot bloom blossoms blue border brilliant bulbs Canadense charming cicada climate color common cool cultivation cymes daffodils dark day-lily delicate early favorite fernery ferns fertilization finest floral flower-border flowers foliage fragrant fronds garden genus graceful grasses green ground grow grower grown habit hardy hardy plants honeysuckle hues hybrids Iceland poppy insects Japanese Japanese honeysuckle late latter lawn leaf-mold leaves less lily loam lovely Madonna lily manure midsummer mock-orange moisture Narcissus native natural numerous odor orange Oriental poppies partial shade perennial perfume perianth petals phlox plants poppies primrose purple RICHARD JEFFERIES rieties robust rock-garden rose sandy scarcely scarlet scent season seed showy shrubbery shrubs soil sparrow species spiræas spring stalks summer swamp sweet tall tion trees Trillium varieties violet voice weather Weigelas white flowers wild wind wind-flower winter woods yellow
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الصفحة 328 - And only through the faded leaf The chestnut pattering to the ground : Calm and deep peace on this high wold, And on these dews that drench the furze, And all the silvery gossamers That twinkle into green and gold...
الصفحة 68 - TO fair Fidele's grassy tomb Soft maids and village hinds shall bring Each opening sweet, of earliest bloom, And rifle all the breathing Spring. No wailing ghost shall dare appear To vex with shrieks this quiet grove, But shepherd lads assemble here, And melting virgins own their love. No...
الصفحة 217 - Her tears fell with the dews at even; Her tears fell ere the dews were dried; She could not look on the sweet heaven, Either at morn or eventide.
الصفحة 330 - Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store? Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find Thee sitting careless on a granary floor, Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind...
الصفحة 330 - And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep Steady thy laden head across a brook; Or by a cider-press, with patient look, Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours. Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too, — While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day, And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue; Then in a wailful choir...
الصفحة 255 - You will pardon some obscurities, for there are more secrets in my trade than in most men's, and yet not voluntarily kept, but inseparable from its very nature. I would gladly tell all that I know about it, and never paint " No Admittance
الصفحة 333 - The embattled forests, erewhile armed in gold, Their banners bright with every martial hue, Now stood, like some sad beaten host of old, Withdrawn afar in Time's remotest blue. On...
الصفحة 329 - The swallows all have wing'd across the main ; But here the Autumn melancholy dwells, And sighs her tearful spells Amongst the sunless shadows of the plain. Alone, alone, Upon a mossy stone, She sits and reckons up the dead and gone, With the last leaves for a love-rosary ; Whilst all the...
الصفحة 329 - Where are the blooms of Summer ? — In the west, Blushing their last to the last sunny hours, When the mild Eve by sudden Night is prest Like tearful Proserpine, snatch'd from her flow'rs To a most gloomy breast.
الصفحة 68 - When o'er their boughs the squirrels run, And through their leaves the robins call, And, ripening in the autumn sun, The acorns and the chestnuts fall, Doubt not that she will heed them all. For her the morning choir shall sing Its matins from the branches high, And every minstrel-voice of Spring, That trills beneath the April sky, Shall greet her with its earliest cry. When, turning...