Journal, Volume 3International Garden Club, 1919 |
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... give in more or less detail the nat- ural habitat of the different items for convenience of collectors and others who may desire to secure the plants . UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE LOOKING UP NARRAGANSETT BAY ARMSEA HALL ...
... give in more or less detail the nat- ural habitat of the different items for convenience of collectors and others who may desire to secure the plants . UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE LOOKING UP NARRAGANSETT BAY ARMSEA HALL ...
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... give To that which cannot pass away ; All beauteous things for which we live By laws of time and space decay . But oh , the very reason why I clasp them is because they die . " The presence of these fine plants of rhododendron dates ...
... give To that which cannot pass away ; All beauteous things for which we live By laws of time and space decay . But oh , the very reason why I clasp them is because they die . " The presence of these fine plants of rhododendron dates ...
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... gives the best kinds which must be selected according to the size of the garden and the situation in which they are to be placed . They by no means require to be planted in wet places - in fact , I imagine it is that which kills them in ...
... gives the best kinds which must be selected according to the size of the garden and the situation in which they are to be placed . They by no means require to be planted in wet places - in fact , I imagine it is that which kills them in ...
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... give you , for it used to be a great favourite of mine in past days , before the cheerfulness of old age came upon me . If I ever knew who was the author , I have forgotten it now : La Mélancolie Que me dis - tu , morne vent d'automne ...
... give you , for it used to be a great favourite of mine in past days , before the cheerfulness of old age came upon me . If I ever knew who was the author , I have forgotten it now : La Mélancolie Que me dis - tu , morne vent d'automne ...
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... give form to beautiful things , " therefore art in the garden can be expressed in ways beyond number untrammeled by so - called rules of de- sign . By this I do not mean that there should be an absence of design or plan , or order of ...
... give form to beautiful things , " therefore art in the garden can be expressed in ways beyond number untrammeled by so - called rules of de- sign . By this I do not mean that there should be an absence of design or plan , or order of ...
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Page 37 - You say there is no substance here, One great reality above: Back from that void I shrink in fear And child-like hide myself in love; Show me what angels feel. Till then I cling, a mere weak man, to men. You bid me lift my mean desires From faltering lips and fitful veins To sexless souls, ideal choirs, Unwearied voices, wordless strains; My mind with fonder welcome owns One dear dead friend's remembered tones.
Page 36 - I can forgo, This warm kind world is all I know. You say there is no substance here, One great reality above: Back from that void I shrink in fear, And child-like hide myself in love : Show me what angels feel. Till then, I cling, a mere weak man, to men. You bid me lift my mean desires From faltering lips...
Page 277 - Laying out grounds, as it is called, may be considered as a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting; and its object, like that of all the liberal arts, is, or ought to be, to move the affections under the control of good sense...
Page 118 - 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 327 - That for the purpose of this act the term " nursery stock " shall include all field-grown florists' stock, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, grafts, scions, buds, fruit pits and other seeds of fruit and ornamental trees or shrubs, and other plants and plant products for propagation, except field, vegetable, and flower seeds, bedding plants, and other herbaceous plants, bulbs, and roots.
Page 268 - The principle upon which the Letchworth Park Arboretum is established is that it shall consist of a permanent collection of the various species of the world's timber trees likely to thrive in this northern climate, planted scientifically, to test their value and illustrate the processes of development, so supplying not only knowledge for knowledge's sake, but also knowledge for practical use.
Page 91 - Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight : With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings.
Page 277 - If this be so when we are merely putting together words or colours, how much more ought the feeling to prevail when we are in the midst of the realities of things; of the beauty and harmony, of the joy and happiness of living creatures; of men and children, of birds and beasts, of hills and streams, and trees and flowers; with the changes of night and day, evening and morning, summer and winter; and all their unwearied actions and energies...
Page 37 - Back from that void I shrink in fear, And childlike hide myself in love : Show me what angels feel. Till then, I cling, a mere weak man, to men. You bid me lift my mean desires From faltering lips and fitful veins To sexless souls, ideal quires, Unwearied voices, wordless strains : My mind with fonder welcome owns One dear dead friend's remembered tones. Forsooth the present we must give To that which cannot pass away ; All beauteous things for which we live By laws of time and space decay. But oh,...
Page 327 - America, and other foreign countries and localities, certain injurious insects, including fruit and melon flies (Tephritidae), new to and not heretofore widely distributed within and throughout the United States, which affect and may be carried by fruits and vegetables commercially imported into the United States or brought to the ports of the United States as ships...