Flowers and Gardens: Notes on Plant Beauty

ALFRED TENNYSON amongst Anemone appearance aspect beauty beds bloom blossoms Bluebell bright calyx character cloth gilt extra colour common contrast corolla Cowslip Crown 8vo cultivation curve Daffodil Dead Nettles delicate Dog Rose Dog Violet double flower early effect especially expression exquisite feel foliage Foxglove freshness fulness gain garden Geranium give Globe Flower Grape Hyacinth green Hawthorn HENRY ALFORD highly-cultivated impression inferior instance kind leaf leaves less light look loveliness means Narcissus Nature ness never notice orange pale Pansy Peony perfect perhaps petals pink pistils plants post 8vo Primrose Purple Crocus Rose round scarcely scarlet Scented Violet season seems seen sensuous sepal shape single flowers snow Snowdrop soft sort spathe specimens splendour spring stalk stamens stamens and pistils stem striking summer surface taste thing tint tion trees Tulip vegetable wallflower whilst whole wild flowers withered Yellow Crocus