Journal, Volume 3International Garden Club, 1919 |
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... native of the prairie region of South- eastern Texas is one of the most floriferous species we have under California ... natives of the Mexican Highlands from the region of Chihuahua far beyond the City , and cultivated and even ...
... native of the prairie region of South- eastern Texas is one of the most floriferous species we have under California ... natives of the Mexican Highlands from the region of Chihuahua far beyond the City , and cultivated and even ...
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... native of the region of Chihuahua northward to San Angelo , Texas . Opuntia Wootonii is in my opinion one of the most attractive of any of the flat jointed forms in character of its spination . It is not uncommon to find the spines 5 to ...
... native of the region of Chihuahua northward to San Angelo , Texas . Opuntia Wootonii is in my opinion one of the most attractive of any of the flat jointed forms in character of its spination . It is not uncommon to find the spines 5 to ...
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... native levels of 8,000 to 12,000 feet as one could well imagine . In the Himalayas , all growth is restrained until late in spring , when it is suddenly released for a summer burst , and as suddenly brought to a stop for a long winter's ...
... native levels of 8,000 to 12,000 feet as one could well imagine . In the Himalayas , all growth is restrained until late in spring , when it is suddenly released for a summer burst , and as suddenly brought to a stop for a long winter's ...
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... native vegetation . Let me give a single illustration of possibilities . In the peat bogs of lowland Scotland , northern England and Ireland may be found a slender , little , heathlike plant , four or five inches high , sparsely clad ...
... native vegetation . Let me give a single illustration of possibilities . In the peat bogs of lowland Scotland , northern England and Ireland may be found a slender , little , heathlike plant , four or five inches high , sparsely clad ...
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... native of Germany , and secondly that of the vast series of plants which we find under this heading in catalogues * Residence of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt . IPAL Iris and garden lists only a very small proportion have anything. 101.
... native of Germany , and secondly that of the vast series of plants which we find under this heading in catalogues * Residence of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt . IPAL Iris and garden lists only a very small proportion have anything. 101.
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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,...
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