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THE jMEMS. FROM I__!!rORLD OF FLOWERS

... arrangement. Flower bouquets were a notable feature in this stand, and one of orange and bronze chrysanthemums, with trails of asparagus fern and smilax, tied together with orange-coloured ribbon, Tbe circular tables of flowers deservedly won the first prize ...

Published: Saturday 02 December 1899
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2174 | Page: 100 | Tags: none

Aug. 27th , 18 !)B.] politi

... seen in every garden. Roses, too, are plentiful, and if one wishes to make a bouquet, one has but to walk a few yards, and Asparagus plumosus nanus can be found growing wild. Pine-apples are almos as cheap as oranges in England, and bananas are ten a penny ...

Published: Saturday 27 August 1898
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1264 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

734 COUNTRY LIFE IiEUCHERA SANGUINEA. I N the . hardy Ao_wer grot~ ps at th~ Temple show of the Royal

... of Asparagus plumosus. The spurred forms are the prettiest, and it is these the purchaser should Get seed selected from a thoroughly good strain, and sow in May or of it, with the Aquilegia foliage as a relief, or the feathery sprays of Asparagus plumosus ...

Published: Saturday 11 June 1898
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3411 | Page: 38 | Tags: none

Dutch Bulbs

... assortment -:> f Double Hollyhocks. so,ooo Clematis and Ampelopsis, and other climbers in great variety. 100,000 Seakale and Asparagus. Extra strong Both are finely in forctng stuff. Both are finely enormous quantities at Tottenham. 10,000 Home=grown Lilies ...

Published: Saturday 21 October 1899
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2306 | Page: 53 | Tags: none

MILITARY MYSTERY

... Potatoes and apples were ~to him “‘filthy roots,” the odour of cabbage turned him sick; but he liked peas, and craved for asparagus, sea kale, peaches, grapes, melons, figs, - custard-apples, and above all mangoes. Coffee was - the only stimulant he could ...

Published: Saturday 01 April 1899
Newspaper: The Regiment
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 757 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

IN AUSTRALIA

... the soft green Asparagus plumosus, decorations. Seed may be sown hue, never becoming wearisome. Hitherto their value for cutting seems to have been overlooked. The flowers, however, arranged with fern fronds or the soft green Asparagus plumosus, make ...

Published: Saturday 01 July 1899
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3755 | Page: 36 | Tags: none

676 for Jerseys, first with a young bull bred by herself, first _and the Blythwood bowl for the best heifer,

... making from rBs. to £r a hundredweight. Old potatoes, of which there are but few left, have advanced in price. Spinach, asparagus, cauliflowers, etc., have all gone up in price to a marked extent. Nor has the advance been confined to marketgarden stuff ...

Published: Saturday 03 June 1899
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3094 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

072 winkle bed, and was coyered with Jine grass and tiny fluffy balls of some salt-loving plant. On this carpet

... cultivated both for flowers, fruit, and vegetables. Besides the flowers, the garden is noted for its apples, piu ms, peas, and asparagus, the latter being of particularly fine flavour. As the garden is surrounded by a moat the rabbits do not at all inJure it ...

Published: Saturday 07 May 1898
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3170 | Page: 36 | Tags: none

WARE'S BULB GUID£

... finest collection in the world. so,ooo Clematis and Ampelopsis, and other climbers in great variety. 100,000 Seakale and Asparagus. E xtra s trong Both are fi nely grown in 10,000 Home-grown Lilies, from the most T hese are exceptionally fine, being of ...

Published: Saturday 28 October 1899
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2751 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

THREEPENCE EACH, AT All RESPECTABLE TOBACCONISTS

... of the ripe mistletoe berries into the crack of an apple tree and propagation is assured. Then, again, if you make a new asparagus bed, or even in some places alter and extend the old one, it means the death of the master of the house, while to cultivate ...

Published: Saturday 09 September 1899
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4860 | Page: 50 | Tags: none

t6UNTRY LIFE By the way, Mecca is not in E o-ypt; but who am I travellers. By the way, Mecca

... developing at the rate of 6in. in about twenty-four hour . The younu shoots are eaten by the Japanese, and said to resemble asparagus. A strong growing and very distinct Bamboo is P. Quilioi, and mention must also be made of the familiar Bambusa Metake, known ...

Published: Saturday 19 February 1898
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3006 | Page: 40 | Tags: none