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. 1862 Excerpt: ...of colour, but Delphinium formosum is such a rich dark blue, that there might be some dozens in a very moderate-sized garden without detriment to other subjects. Height, about thirty to thirty-six inches. Digitalis.--The garden varieties of this noble flower, which is pretty as a weed, but grows four or six feet high ...
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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. 1862 Excerpt: ...of colour, but Delphinium formosum is such a rich dark blue, that there might be some dozens in a very moderate-sized garden without detriment to other subjects. Height, about thirty to thirty-six inches. Digitalis.--The garden varieties of this noble flower, which is pretty as a weed, but grows four or six feet high as now improved, comprises many shades of colour, from dark purple and red to white, is a favourite for blooming among shrubs, for its spikes of bloom tower above the evergreens, and make a fine show. Columbine.--These are most delicate, and assume many varieties of colour, and some are richly mottled with red and white or purple. Moreover, it is a very graceful plant, growing variously from one to four feet high. Sweet Williams.--Until late years this useful and showy perennial was a common but favourite border-flower, but within the last twenty, an amateur florist of Wycombe set about improving it by encouraging those points of excellence which were considered necessary to attain perfection, and his perseverance was rewarded by a complete success, so that if we could destroy all the old-fashioned sorts, it would appear like another race of flowers. The improved class is even more varied than the old ones; they have dense colours, smooth edges, round flowers, and thick petals. They vary from one to two feet in height, and comprise hundreds of differently marked flowers. Wallflowers.--Everybody is familiar with this spring visitor, and nearly everybody grows it. The German kinds seem to be different from the English, which are always single, while our neighbours' seed produces them semi-double, and the seed saved from them produces the like, but there are double sorts that do not produce seed, and they are far more beautiful. Polyanthus.--One o...
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