The Villa Gardener: Comprising the Choice of a Suburban Villa Residence; the Laying Out, Planting, and Culture of the Garden and Grounds; and the Management of the Villa Farm, Including the Dairy and Poultry-yard ...W. S. Orr & Company, 1850 - 516 Seiten |
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Seite 12 - The ivy forms au excellent harbour for sparrows and other small birds, which build there in quantities in spring and early in summer, and roost there during winter. In June, as soon as the young birds are fledged, all the cats in the neighbourhood are attracted by them, and take up their abode on the roof of the house every night for several weeks ; the noise and other annoyances occasioned by which we need only allude to. We say nothing of the damp produced by the deciduous creepers and the roses,...
Seite 48 - With these limitations, two areas only seem to. be at all suitable, one on the south and the other on the north side of the main channel, just above Governor's and Castle islands.
Seite 507 - Ranunculus asiaticus, a native of the Levant with tuberous roots, which is rather too tender to endure the winter in the open air without some kind of protection. The wild plant grows naturally in Persia, in meadows which are moist during winter and in the growing season, but dry during great part of summer.
Seite 3 - One of the greatest of all the sources of enjoyment resulting from the possession of a garden is, the endless variety which it produces, either by the perpetual progress of vegetation which is going forward in it to maturity, dormancy, or decay, or by the almost innumerable kinds of plants which may be raised in even the smallest garden. Even the same trees, grown in the same garden, are undergoing perpetual changes throughout the year...
Seite 486 - The air vessel a should contain several gallons, according to the size of the valve, or register, to be opened. When first used, the vessel must be heated sufficiently to expand the internal air ; water is then to be poured in at the top of the cylinder c, so as to give the required motion to the float ; and about half-inch of fine oil must be laid on the top of the water to prevent evaporation.
Seite 508 - Garden, Madrid, who gave the genus the name of Dahlia, in honour of the Swedish professor Dahl. Cavanilles sent a plant of it the same year to the Marchioness of Bute, who was very fond of flowers, and who kept it in the greenhouse. From this species nearly all the varieties known in the gardens have been raised ; as it seeds freely, and varies тегу much when raised from seed.
Seite 3 - Independently, however, of the variety and change resulting from the plants cultivated, every month throughout the year has its particular operations and its products : nay, it would not be too much to say, that during six months of the year a change takes place, and is perceptible, in the plants of a garden, erery day ; and every day has, in consequence, its operations and its products.
Seite 367 - Fishes, says that the tench can breathe when the quantity of oxygen is reduced to the 5000th part of the bulk of the water ; ordinary river water usually containing the 100th part of oxygen. Hence, tench will thrive in deep muddy holes, where no other fish could exist ; though, in this case, they should be kept a week or ten days in clear water, before using for the table, in order that the muddy taste may go off. The tench is covered with a thick slimy matter, which is said to have a healing property...
Seite 224 - This is a full and complete manual of instruction upon the subject of which it treats. Being intended for those who have little or no previous knowledge of gardening, it presents, in a very precise and detailed manner, all that is necessary to be known upon it, and cannot fail to awaken a more general taste for these healthful and pleasant pursuits among the ladies of our country.
Seite 50 - ... them the appearance of being situated on a level, or on a gentle elevation. It is better, in general, to submit to the first evil, rather than to incur another which is greater. What we would recommend, in the case of small suburban houses built on a lower level than the adjoining street, would be to shut out the lower part of the house from the road, by a wall or open fence, so that the relative levels of the house and road might not be observed ; then to scoop out the ground between the house,...