 ... Gordon's, gardener, at the last house on the left hand at Mile End ; there he showed me a pot of seedlings of the cactus, or great melon thistle, perhaps the first ever raised from seed : but what shows his great knowledge and experience in vegetation...  Hortus Collinsonianus - Seite 5von Lewis Weston Dillwyn - 1843 - 64 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
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...great knowledge and experience in vegetation is his way of raising the finest dusty seeds ; before him, I never knew or heard of any man that could raise the dusty seeds of the kalmias, rhododendrons, or azaleas. These charming hardy shrubs, that excel all others in his care,... | |
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...great knowledge and experience in vegetation is his way of raising the finest dusty seeds ; before him, I never knew or heard of any man that could raise the dusty seeds of the kalmias, rhododendrons, or azaleas. These charming hardy shrubs, that excel all others in his care,... | |
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