Hedges, Windbreaks, Shelters and Live Fences: A Treatise on the Planting, Growth and Management of Hedge Plants for Country and Suburban Homes

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Orange Judd Company, 1900 - Počet stran: 139
 

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Strana 91 - And what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays : Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten ; Every clod feels a stir of might. An instinct within it that reaches and towers, And, groping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers...
Strana 123 - I care not how men trace their ancestry, To ape or Adam ; let them please their whim ; But I in June am midway to believe A tree among my far progenitors, Such sympathy is mine with all the race, Such mutual recognition vaguely sweet There is between us.
Strana 122 - Life everywhere! on the earth, in the earth, crawling, creeping, burrowing, boring, leaping, running. If the sequestered coolness of the wood tempt us to saunter into its checkered shade, we are saluted by the murmurous din of insects, the twitter of birds, the scrambling of squirrels, the startled rush of unseen beasts, all telling how populous is this seeming solitude. If we pause before a tree, or shrub, or plant, our cursory and half-abstracted glance detects a colony of various inhabitants.
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Strana 72 - ... is moreover, very hardy, and thus presents a combination of choice qualities, of the most strange, attractive, and valuable character. The plant is so entirely original in its forms, that it seems some lone type, the correlations of which are lost or yet to be found. As we look upon it, we...
Strana 121 - Nothing in this world is single, All things by a law divine In one another's being mingle...
Strana 70 - R. filifera aurea. We have known R. filifera for some time as a rare tree, with tesselated, shaggy masses of green thread-like foliage, but Mr. Hogg's new variety offers the same strange mass of foliage, only in this case it is turned into gold — broad, solid, permanent gold. While I am pointing out the golden Retinosporas, which are veritable sunbeams amid other evergreens, let me call your attention to R. obtusa aurea, one of the best and most distinct of all variegated forms. It is free-growing,...

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