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Familiar Wild Flowers Figured and Described, Volume 1 F. Edward (Frederick Edward) Hulme No preview available - 2012 |
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amongst appear April axils bear beautiful blossoms borage botanical botanists bracts bugle burdock buttercup called calyx Capsule carpels celandine cloth colour comfrey common conspicuous Corolla corymbs cowslip crowfoot daffodil daisy dead-nettle delicate dog-rose feature field-rose five flowering stems flowers foliage found in flower fruit garden genus graceful grass Greek word green ground-ivy grow growth hairy harebell hedge-banks hedgerows hyacinth illustration Inflorescence June Latin word leaf leaflets LESSER CELANDINE lobes lower leaves marsh marigold meadow crane's-bill name is derived noticeable numerous orchis ordinarily be found Ovary ovate ox-eye peduncles Perennial perianth petals petioles plate poppy present plant primrose pure white purple raceme Ranunculus readers resemblance roots seen segments sepals serrate sessile silverweed species specific name specimens spots spring stalks Stamens stigma Style summer sweet violet tint toad-flax umbel upper leaves VERNE'S Vicia sepium waste ground white campion whole plant wild woods writers yellow
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Page 75 - PANSIES, lilies, kingcups, daisies, Let them live upon their praises ; Long as there's a sun that sets, Primroses will have their glory ; Long as there are violets, They will have a place in story : There's a flower that shall be mine, 'Tis the little Celandine.
Page 86 - I'm as great as they, I trow, Since the day I found thee out, Little flower — I'll make a stir Like a sage astronomer. Modest, yet withal an elf, Bold, and lavish of thyself ; Since we needs must first have met I have seen thee, high and low, Thirty years or more and yet, 'Twas a face I did not know ; Thou hast now, go where I may, Fifty greetings in a day.
Page 20 - ... cherries, was manufactured in England at this time, and might have been the forerunner of Maidstone's famous Cherry Brandy, as according to Walter Rowles' " Kentish Chronologer " of 1807, cherries were first planted at Teynham in Kent by Richard Haynes in 1520. Also, Evelyn records that " It was by the plain industry of one, Harris (a fruiterer to Henry VIII) that the fields and environs of about 30 towns in Kent only, were planted with fruit to the universal benefit and general improvement of...
Page 140 - Venus : if the virtues of it make you fall in love with it, (as they will if you be wise) keep a syrup of it to take inwardly, and an ointment and piaster of it to use outwardly, always by you.
Page 54 - I shall only describe the roots, because they are to be used with some discretion. They have each of them a double root within, some of them are round, in others like a hand ; these alter every year by course, when the one riseth and waxeth full, the other waxeth lank and perisheth...
Page 45 - IT is a plant so common, that every one that hath eyes knows it, and he that hath none, cannot read a description, if I should write it.
Page 135 - S-SMOCK. 43 to its relationship with the watercress and other members of the same family, and to the pungent flavour of the plant when employed, as it sometimes is, in salads, the plant having formerly had a great reputation as an antiscorbutic. The plant is still, in many parts of the Continent, largely employed, and big bundles of it may be seen amongst the other vegetables in the public markets. In olden time it was considered a potent remedy in hysteria, epilepsy, and many other diseases ; hence...