Familiar Garden Flowers, Figured by F.E. Hulme, and Described by S. Hibberd NEW

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Familiar Garden Flowers, Figured by F.E. Hulme, and Described by S. Hibberd NEW:
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Store Searchsearch Title, ISBN and Author Familiar Garden Flowers, Figured by F.E. Hulme, and Described by S. Hibberd by James Shirley Hibberd

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 Excerpt: ...and the amateur florist may take the hint, and if bent on having splendid fuchsias would do well to make special arrangements with the water company. While waiting to make peace with the purveyors of drink, let him give attention to the growth of radishes, remembering that fuchsias are to be grown in nearly the same way. The splendours of the exhibition fuchsias are well known, but few, even of experienced horticulturists, are familiar with the more distinctive and noble species, such as F. serratifolia, F. corymbiflora, and F. which are unique in their characters as conservatory plants. Of the extreme capabilities of the more vigorous species, we have examples in the Crystal Palace at Sydenham, where several of the pillars are clothed to the very top with fuchsias, the result being a wondrous display of vegetable beauty. In the small greenhouse, F. fidgens is invaluable for its large and handsome leafage and its exquisite long-tubed flowers. THE POPPY. Fapaver somniferum. O more interesting flower is to be found in the garden than the poppy, and a certain few kinds are extravagantly beautiful, though lamentably short-lived. It is essentially a classic flower, having from the most early times had a place of honour on the brow of the divine Ceres: for it was not left for the people of this century to discover that poppies love to grow amongst the corn. Our blazing red poppy, that oftentimes, as we hurry along through the sunshine in a railway train, spreads abroad in sheets, and suggests that we are riding through lakes of blood or seas of fire, according as the lighter the fancy may glorify the common-place fact—this scarlet poppy (Papaver rhteas) is, in some respects, distinct from the classic poppy, for it has an urn-shaped capsule, whereas the classic p...

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ISBN 1158499701
ISBN-13 9781158499700
Title Familiar Garden Flowers, Figured by F.E. Hulme, and Described by S. Hibberd
Author James Shirley Hibberd
Format Paperback
Year 2012
Pages 42
Publisher Rarebooksclub.com
Dimensions7.4 in. x 0.1 in. x 9.7 in.

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