Journal of a Horticultural Tour Through Some Parts of Flanders, Holland, and the North of France, in the Autumn of 1817Bell & Bradfute, 1823 - 575 pagina's |
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Journal of a Horticultural Tour Through Some Parts of Flanders, Holland, and ... Patrick Neill Volledige weergave - 1823 |
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Amsterdam Antwerp appeared apples beautiful beds Beurré Blaikie blanc botanical branches Bruges Brussels bulbs called canal Chasselas chiefly church collection Colmar colour colzat common considerable covered crop cultivated Dutch Edinburgh English excellent extensive feet high flavour florists flowers France French fruit fruit-trees garden Ghent grafted grapes greenhouse ground Haarlem herbaceous Holland horticultural horticulturist hot-houses hyacinths inches Jardin kinds leaves likewise Loddiges mentioned Montreuil nearly nectarines neighbourhood Noisette notice nurseries orangery ornamental ornamental plants palace Paris parterres passed peach-trees peaches pears plants Poire principal procured produced raised remarked Rennet rich riety ripe roots Rotterdam rows scarcely Scotland Scots season seedling seeds seems seen shewed shoots shrubs side situate soil species specimens stem stocks stove succory tion told Tournay trained trees Utrecht variety vegetable village vines walk wall winter wood young
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Pagina 118 - Who calls the council, states the certain day ? Who forms the phalanx, and who points the way ? III.
Pagina 540 - ... light, I am also persuaded, though not equally certain of it from experiment, that there is an attraction of the same nature between the under surface of leaves and the surface of the earth. This I consider as the cause of the phenomenon, I had long observed, that the most fruitful orchards, and the most fertile trees, are those planted on a declivity, and the steeper it is, though not quite a precipice, the more fertile they prove. But I was never satisfied as to the cause of it, till...
Pagina 219 - Amazing race ! deprived of land and laws, A general language, and a public cause ; With a religion none can now obey, With a reproach that none can take aSvay : A people still, whose common ties are gone ; Who, mix'd with every race, are lost in none.
Pagina 151 - I'VE often wish'd that I had clear For life, six hundred pounds a year, A handsome house to lodge a friend, A river at my garden's end, A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land, set out to plant a wood.
Pagina 261 - WHATEVER it was, whether nature or accident, and upon what occasion soever it arrived, the soil of the whole Province of Holland is generally flat, like the sea in a calm, and looks as if, after a long contention between land and water, which it should belong to, it had at length been divided between them...
Pagina 26 - Where the straight walks cross each other at right angles, the centre of the point of intersection is shaped into an oblong parterre, resembling a basket of flowers, and containing showy geraniums in pots, and gaudy flowers of a more hardy kind planted in the earth. Some things are in very bad taste. At every resting-place, some kind of conceit is provided for surprising the visitant : if he sit down, it is ten to one but the: seat is so contrived as to sink under him ; if he enter the grotto, or...
Pagina 249 - ... ....Each alley has its brother, " And half the plat-form just reflects the other.
Pagina 195 - Cor established variegated tulips, as in a kind of betting, regarding the eventual superiority of promising seedling flowers, and in a ruinous competition for the possession of breeders of high merit, from which fine seedlings might be expected. The earlyflowering or spring tulips (such as Due van Thol), when they first came into vogue, and while they continued scarce, were frequently rated at ideal values ; and...
Pagina 195 - ... the anxiety of the amateur florists to excel, frequently, in the midst of such temptations, became the means of involving them in bankruptcy. The greatest rarities were sometimes disposed of by a kind of raffle. At length, the interference of the Dutch government was thought necessary, to restrain this gambling spirit of the votaries of Flora. But those .days have passed away. There is certainly, at this time, no " sumptuary law limiting the price of tulip roots," nor is there any longer the...
Pagina 540 - Dodart first observed that trees pushed their branches in a direction parallel to the surface of the earth. If a tree stands on a steep, it pushes both towards the hill, and towards the declivity ; but on both sides it still preserves its branches parallel to the surface. As there is an attraction between the upper surface of leaves and light> I am also persuaded, though not equally certain of it from experiment, that there is an attraction of the same nature between the under surface of leaves and...